picking a wedding date

For a calendar-minded girl marrying a calendar-challenged guy, this is the hardest decision to make!!!

I keep thinking that we need to pick a date -- and settle on it -- for the following reasons:
1. we need to ask our pastor to set aside the date (and he's the busiest person I know)
2. my out-of-town friends and family need to make travel arrangements
3. my boss needs to know when to start looking for my replacement
4. I have to sell my house and get ready for the move to Florida
5. I NEED TO START PLANNING!!!!!!!!

He just wants us to move to Florida as soon as possible. He also would like the whole thing to just 'happen' without muss or fuss. And he has other things on his mind right now that he feels he needs to work out first (like the move to Florida, where we're going to live, where he's going to work -- all good things, true). But, I feel that we could be further along in our Florida planning, if we knew when we were going to get married. He says Florida first, wedding date to follow. It makes more sense to me the other way around. Aren't we quite a pair?!

Back to Reality

this past week, i have been off of work and i am off again today. tomorrow means going back to reality.

i didn't get as much done as i would have liked, but this was probably the best holiday season that i have had in a long, long time. i got to see Christopher almost every day for the last week and a half. what a treat!! usually, we are both so busy with work, that we only get to see each other 1-2 times each week.

plus, my honey proposed on December 23!!!! i know i told our story in my last blog and said that we are getting married in the spring. and we are. he just hadn't officially popped the question, yet.

it was really sweet -- and i totally didn't see it coming. we were just watching a movie (Independence Day) and relaxing. there is a scene in the movie where Will Smith's character is getting married and he says, "I'm sorry. I should have done this a long time ago." and Christopher comes over and kneels down in front of me and says, "I have a question to ask you. I have been calling you my fiance for too long without asking you if you will marry me. So, will you marry me?"

i cried -- and said YES!!!! i'm so blessed to have him in my life and so grateful!!!