Get outa here with that nonsense!

Passports. I thought that was it. It was all we needed for our honeymoon. A passport. The travel agent even said you'll have to get a passport. BUT when I went to get all the info we needed, it asked if we were applying for a passport card or a passport book. Hmm? A passport. Don't you just have an option for passport. Call me sheltered, but I am not familiar with the whole passport process. I know you have to apply and pay and get your picture made and show proof that you are who you say you are. BUT the card and the book just threw me for a loop! I'll have to investigate more, I suppose. Unless, you know the answer? :o)

adding 1 more to list

Make that 7 people I know who are engaged!

WHOA!

So on a wedding planning note. I bought part of our wedding favors today!! I'm so excited. It was just what I wanted. I was a little hesistant but thanks to my mother-in-law to be and her encouragement " Buy them Buy them" , I got em'! Yippee!! So one more thing down, only 34592375834259 more things to go! (you know I'm dramatic) I'm telling you, our big, fun party (wedding) will be all planned and done by December and then we're just going to be waiting on the date! haha Hope not!! Just thought I would share in my excitement!!

Good Golly, Miss Molly!

Did you know that...........

June 20, 2009 is the longest day of the year next year?! :o) Go Figure!

There are 266 days until our wedding which is 8 months and 3 weeks and 3 days? ( I have a counter, I did not sit here and add up all the days, silly goose! )

There are only 95 days left in the year?

Since Brendan and I have gotten engaged, 6 of our (not all mutual) friends have gotten engaged? We are going to be quite busy next year.

Distance

I'm feeling a little sad. I really miss Brendan when I'm here in Florence. It's still hard to leave every weekend knowing that I won't see him all week. It's a little worse this week because not only can I see my fiance but I can barely even hold a conversation with him! He's having to work all night and when he's not working- I am! I applaud all you ladies who have fellas in the military, or are police officers or fire fighters. I know their work schedule leaves you feeling the way I do tonight. Sorry, I know I'm being a baby. I just miss Brendan.

Hotels

It stinks! It stinks that my little hometown does not have any decent hotels and our out of town guests have to stay in Florence. Granted, Florence is not that bad of a drive from Dillon (all of 30 minutes). BUT maybe it's a good thing our guests have to stay in Florence because if they were bored in Dillon, the only place they could go would be South of the Border (seriously, if you've seen one pink flamingo, you've seen South of the Border) or the ever so wonderful, NEW Super Wal Mart which is cool, but you know.....it's Wal Mart! At least in Florence, they'd be able to go to the movies, to the mall, out to dinner. I'm trying to be optimisic! :o) So I just got a call from Hilton Garden Inn in Florence and I have 15 rooms blocked! They are 99 + tax per night. (It also has a bar in the hotel!) I was really hoping we could do the rehearsal dinner there but when I inquired about the rooms available, she said they were all booked up! :o( This makes for one sad Jenn! I was really hoping for HGI! Oh well! She said that we should really try to find something soon though because things are getting booked fast. She said basically, all of June and July are booked! So Hurry home Lisa, we've gotta book a place! :o) Hurry home, not only for that reason, but also because we miss you!!

FYI- I'm going to block out rooms at another hotel too. Just not sure which one. I'm debating on the Marriot Courtyard or the Marriot Spring Hill.

Friends

As I sit here, I can't help but to feel so lucky. Not only do I have an amazing man in life but I also have the most amazing friends. The best of friends. Brendan and I feel so lucky to be surrounded by such caring, humorous, warm, and loving friends. Our friends do such incredible things for us whether its listening to our problems, lending a hand, or whatever it may be. When we got engaged, they even through us a dinner! They were almost as excited for us as I was. (I was pretty tough to beat in the excitement department.) I just wanted to let our friends know how truly grateful and blessed we are to have them in our lives! We love you tremendously and you mean the world to us!

Engaged!

3 months into the engagement and I am JUST now starting this blog. Am I even a dork for blogging?! I've never really been one to blog, so if I'm sucking at this, feel free to tell me! (only in a nice way..I'm not good with bluntness)

So rewind to June 7 which was the day. THE DAY! The day when my very best friend asked me to marry him. Granted, I had been going on and on (to the point where I just figured it never would happen) about getting engaged. I've known for so long that Brendan was the guy that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. It was just frustrating that a lot of my friends were getting married and engaged and here I was without a doubt in my mind that Brendan was who I was supposed to marry and he was taking his sweet time! That's besides the point. The point is, is that he asked and I said yes, and he's my fairy tale, my happily ever after. Danielle used to tell me that I need to stop comparing every relationship to fairy tales but with Brendan, it is a fairy tale or at least I certainly feel as if I am in one. Everything is right when it comes to me and him. It's the EASIEST relationship I've ever been in. Not to say that we don't have our quarrels. Come on, do you seriously not know me and how moody I can be?! When I say easiest, I mean natural. Everything just seems like-it's supposed to be. Not to be cliche' but it does!

Ohh yea, you may be wondering how he proposed. Right?! Well,I am going to copy and paste here from our wedding website. : Brendan came to Jenn's hometown of Dillon and was going to help her pack up her classroom the following day and put together a bookshelf. He had also told her that he wanted to go with her mother to look at rings. After everything was done in her classroom (it was the last day of school for teachers). Brendan asked Jenn to close her classroom door. He then told her that she needed to call her mother to tell her that they did not need to go look at rings today. Jenn said okay and asked why. Brendan responded that he already had a ring. Then he got on his knee and proposed in the place Jenn loves best-her classroom! Jenn was definitely surprised and speechless. Brendan had to remind her that he needed an answer and of course Jenn said YES! An announcement was made on the intercom to the entire school 'Brendan and Jenn are engaged!'

So here we are. ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED! Seriously, I don't think I've stopped smiling since he asked. He's got to know how incredibly happy he makes me!

Planning: Wedding planning is SOOOOOOO much fun!! I have done quite a bit in the 3 short months that we've been engaged! We've got the church booked, the reception hall, the cake lady, the caterer, the photographer, had our engagement pictures done, hired a dj,picked our save the dates, and most important- found THE dress and purchased it!

Okay, so I am going to hopefully update soon! As for now, I've got to go get ready for some Carolina football!! GO COCKS!

--Jenn