Merry be-lated Christmas!

Hope everyone's Christmas was a good one! It was nice to be stress-free for a while and to relax and enjoy time with friends and family! Andy was home and it was nice to see him! He's back to S.F. now until New years Eve (Summer is with him and we are dog sitting) Then he goes back to S.F. on Jan. 3rd and will be shipped off to Kuwait sometime after the 3rd for about 9 months, or so they say. Please pray for him and his troop and our family.

wedding update:

we got the Bridal shower invites (the manteca shower) sent out in the first week of December and the shower is the 9th of January. It's coming up soon. Crystal, My Matron of Honor (megan is my Maid of Honor--my sister) made the invitations and they were really cute. I will take a picture and post on here later. I don't want to give away what she's making for favors, but its something to hold some chocolate kisses in and they are very cute!
I got all the wedding invitations printed up, and all the response cards printed up. I am going to print the address on the envelopes, I've done one already. This way no one's hands will be aching later. I bought some paper to use to make some place cards. We aren't going to have place cards for everyone just make a few that will say "reserved for the brides family" or grooms family or something like that. Again trying to prevent aching hands. I'm going to try to get all invitations sent out soon, hopefully by the first week of the year. I'm still gathering all the addresses. There aren't many that I'm missing. Tomorrow I will print up all the envelopes. I still need to figure out how to put together the directions insert. Dad wrote up some driving directions to the venue coming from different areas and he was a bit long winded (He wrote a whole page!) so I need to edit that! We bought some return address labels so hopefully those will come fast, we will need those before we can send the invitations out!

Don't think I mentioned it before, but we booked our honeymoon! we are going to go on a 2 week cruise to Hawaii with a stop to Mexico on one of the last days. It is a Princess Cruise and Aunt Char says that Uncle George loves Princess. Hopefully we will too! Russell ordered his Passport and should recieve it in Febuary. I already have one from when I went the cruise to Alaska with my parents, megan, and Aunt Char. We will be leaving on our honeymoon the very next day. We board the boat between 1-3pm. The boat leaves from LA, so we will be leaving after the wedding and driving at least part way or possibly the whole way and sleeping in in the morning. We've already discussed it and he's driving so it depends on when and where he stops.

All my bridesmaids now have there dresses and shoes, I finally picked out some shoes for my girls! I bought a sash/bow thing for the flowergirl, the color I wanted wasn't in the store so I had to order it, and it will come in at the end of Febuary. I Still need to get a flower girl dress. I was told a store to look at for the flowergirl dress that I will be looking at later on.

The Napa shower will be on Febuary 6th at Aunt Char's house and next time Char comes to manteca Megan and I will help her do the invitations.

On one of my wedding websites it has a countdown of how many days I have left, and I have 74 days left. That doesn't seem like that many days..its getting really close! I still have a lot to do, but today I feel like I got a lot done. So for now I am satisfied.