I found my wedding dress!!!!!

As I am sure you deduced from the heading of the post, I found my wedding dress!!!! It was a bit scary making such a large and final purchase, but I know this is the dress for me. I am also very grateful that my family was there (the girls of course!) and my neice and nephew. No important decision can be made with out the approval of Katie and Jack!!! And here is the dress.....

Just kidding!!! One, Tom isn't allowed to see it until I walk down the aisle. And, two, really!?! If you honestly think I would buy something like this let alone try it on, you don't know me at all. hehe


Last weekend my maid of honor came down from Seattle to make sure she was present at the first (and what turned out to be the final) dress shopping experience. Funny story....kind of! :-)


The night Kristine came down to visit she stayed the night at our house. Little did she know she would be kept up until 3:30 in the am discussing wedding stuff. I haven't had a lot of opportunity to talk to anyone besides Tom about the wedding so this was one of the first official times I had done this. Okay, Ashley, get to the point. Well, as I was showing her some options on the website for David's Bridal I pulled up a dress. There were certain things about it that didn't win my heart over so I nixed that one. The next day when we were browsing the dress options she saw the same said dress. I wasn't jumping up and down to try it on, but it was Kristine that said "why not!?!" Thank goodness for my sister because I probably woulndn't have tried it on otherwise. The cool part to the story is that is the dress I ended up getting! Small world!!! Thanks, Kristi. YOU ROCK!!!!!

I didn't know right away as others have told me would be the case. I had to try it on 3 times to feel 100% confident that it was the right dress and it felt like me. It does feel like me and it is on order and will hopefully be here in a couple of months. It's crazy how long it takes and this is apparently the off season.

Later that day we met up with the boys for some lunch and eventually dinner at Red Robin. The only unfortunate result of us all being around each other is everybody, the following week, starting getting really sick. I love my family very much and was saddened to hear they were not feeling well, had to call in sick to work and some of them ended up going to the doctor for a check up. So far, I have tried to do status checks to at least know how people are feeling. At this point I think only a couple of people are still sick. Luckily, I escaped the clutches of the bug and had some minor throat issues. My voice is still iffy from day to day because of talking all day long for work, so we will see. Best wishes to everyone to stay well or get better.

That is all for now. Talk to you again soon!

XOXO