the ship has sailed!

We have finally finished our wedding invitations and got the majority of them in the mail exactly at the 6 week deadline. What a relief! I love them after adding a backing to the invite and polka dot yellow envelope liners. It was a lot of extra work but my sweet hubby-to-be was a great crafting assistant. In fact, on Sunday morning he got up at 6:00am and stamped our return address on every single envelope...and beautifully too!

We are ready for this wedding! There are a few extra details to work out and then it's go time! We're pretty excited for the big day and the combination of sealing the deal forever as well as spending time with so many friends and family in our favorite place.
A lot of our friends have been taking trips and buying fun things lately and we have been bummed to not take part due to saving for a wedding and our house...but looking back I don't know if I'd do it any other way. The wait is going to be so worth it and I think coming home to OUR house is going to feel even better when we can hang a "The Johnsons" sign on the door and wake up each morning as husband and wife. I know I'm going to spend a good part of August 7 crying but it's all going to be big huge happy tears. I'm crazy in love with the boy I will call my husband and I can't wait to make it officially official. We are also BEYOND excited to be at the lake for 2 weeks basking in the sun with family and taking a little break from the stressful side of life.

It's going to be good.

labels and bent rings

I am working on creating labels for our wedding invitations right now. So many of our friends of the moving around every few months age so I am trying to stay on top of the updates. Our invitations are running a bit late so the plan is to create the labels, put them on the envelopes and have everything ready and waiting the day they arrive. It should come as no surprise that they will be late, it is mostly just my life story. I couldn't find the ones I wanted and then finally chose a graphic designer and didn't plan for the amount of time the back and forth edits would take. But they are at the printer now and they will soon be finished and that is all that matters!

I just noticed my engagement ring is really bent, at the diamond part. I have no idea how this happened but I am totally worried now. This ring is supposed to last...um, forever and already I'm having issues. When we went to pick out our wedding bands last month the guy at the store mentioned the white gold color was already starting to wear off my e-ring. In less than a year! My ring is Tacori, it wasn't cheap by any means so I'm a bit surprised...but I guess white gold is just very soft. I didn't want platinum because I thought it was a waste for the same look but now I guess I get it...I just need to be more careful I think. And our wedding bands...ohhhhh how I can't wait to have mine. We both got ones we really love so we are quite anxious for August 7th to get here. We are also getting some special tattoos (very tiny, most unnoticeable) after the wedding and are pretty excited for those as well. Nathan's is indestructable Tungsten and mine is, again, white gold. But oh so beeeeyooteefull!

The sun is finally out and I think summer might be on its way. I have started running and am hoping to stick to it. There is a long street that leads to our house and there are always tons of people running on the sidewalks everytime I drive by. It has pushed me to get out and do the same. Unfortunately I feel guilty going without the dog and he usually ruins my whole workout. He is the worst leash dog ever. He is a male hound and has to stop to smell everything and pee on everything. It is SO frustrating because after most of his stops he takes off running and pulls me with him. I thought he'd get better with more time on a leash but I have been doing this for 2 1/2 years and nothing has changed. I can't leave him though, he knows what it means when I change into shorts and put on shoes and jumps up and down until I take him with me. At least he's getting some exercise too I guess. We are taking him to Doggy Haven Resort tomorrow to test out a new and much more exciting doggy day camp (he usually goes to PetSmart). Pretty sure he is not going to want to leave.