fast forward.

sooo. a few weekends ago, jared and i had a cake-tasting. mama, donna, jared and i met with this woman in albermarle who was just delighted to be working with us. she handed us some books to look through while she got the samples together. unfortunately i happened to pick the album that had cakes she must have made 30 years ago. talk about lace and shoulder pads. so i grabbed the more modern album and began to collect ideas. i described to her what i wanted and here is my armature sketch of what my dream cake may look like:

it's gonna be vanilla on the top and bottom layers and chocolate in the middle. i'm pretty excited. and we also ordered a "groom's cake" (against jared's insistence that he "didn't want one")hah. it's going to be way cute to go with our luau theme of the rehearsal dinner.

the following weekend, christina and i reluctantly went to david's bridal. i'm all about trying on dresses but i'm a little hesitant when they make you sign your life away at the door, which is exactly what happened. well they didn't take my life, but close. i guess they don't want just anyone trying on dresses. anyhoo, i'm down to two dresses that i really like. and after i made a pretend appointment to "bring my mom back with me" we left. (but not before we tried on tiaras!).

well then jared came to visit this weekend and even more wedding-ness hit me. we met with my dear friends will and amy bell who do photography for fun. they took some really cute pictures of jared and i out at this park that had beautiful big trees. in the midst of the picture taking jared and i came to one big conclusion:

we cannot dance. and this is a big problem. well not a BIG problem when you consider the world and all, but y'all we can't dance! maybe on his own jared can dance. and maybe on my own i can dance (when no one's around!). but in one of the photos amy told us to slow dance like we will at the wedding and it was just a big mess of awkward stiffness and... boo. we need a dance-makeover! does that exist? what can i do to unstick the glue on my shoes when music plays and other human beings are around?! gosh, i sure hope that come next july, we wont be looking like fools on the dance floor. let's work on that.

but anyways, picture taking was great and there are some definite goodies. i just have to wait for amy to get them back to me on a disk. and then jared and i got to spend a lot of time this weekend talking about our expectations when we're married. it just boggles my mind that this is really happening and come next year i'll be living with jared in our house.

i'm doing my best not to fast forward through this next year. i have the tendency to get really excited about things to come and i end up missing out on the time in-between. so once more, here is to my twenty-first year and all that it has to offer!