Priceless Pictures: August 2005

Thanksgiving!

First of all, a very Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! We are so thankful for you all. God has blessed us with family, friends, health, education, and eachother! :) Today we were able to spend time with both of our families which was such a blessing (having two Thanksgiving dinners was awesome!!). We can't thank God enough for all He has truly blessed us with and are so thankful for His direction at this point in our lives. It's fun being engaged this Thanksgiving - our first and only engaged Thanksgiving! It's also crazy to think that next Thanksgiving we will be married! Now our favorite holiday is on its way: Christmas! Before we know it, it will be 2010 which is wedding year!

God bless you all!

Our attempt at Thanksgiving pictures: 

~~Katie & Josh

Priceless Pictures: December 2005

Our First Gingerbread House! It's a beach theme :)

Mushy Memories: Two Cards

Something Josh has always does that melts my heart is for our anniversaries and my birthday's (and sometimes other celebrations) he gives me two cards. One of the cards is a funny one and the second card is romantic. I think it just sums up Josh for me, because he is always making me laugh and yet is always making me feel like the most loved woman in the world! I got permission from him to share one of my favorite excerpts from a birthday card:

"When you read this you need to lean over and kiss Josh. THE END"

No Shave November

Josh decided to participate in No Shave November with some of the guys from his work. At first I didn't like the idea but was glad he was getting out the urge to do it before we're married ;). BUT, I was wrong and I think it looks really good! Maybe by the end of the month it'll be a little more out of control, but for now it's working for him. Anyway, thought the people who don't see Josh regularly would enjoy seeing a picture of the progress.

Priceless Pictures: July 2005

The Story of My Wedding Dress

Well, after Josh proposed I started my search for dresses online and got a few ideas of what I liked. One of the first dresses I picked out was from David's Bridal. Life was so busy that I wasn't able to go dress shopping till a few months after getting engaged. I went back online often to look at that dress and one day I noticed it happened to be on sale, so soon after my sister and I decided to go try it on. We went to a store in Grand Rapids and I told them the dress I wanted to try on, but was informed that the reason it was on sale was because it was being discontinued and they no longer had any in their store but they could check other stores in Michigan. So the lady checked on her computer and then said, "Do you know where Novi is? Because they have the dress in white and a size 2 at that store." My jaw almost dropped and I told her that my family lives minutes away from Novi. The only downfall was that their dresses can only be put on hold for 24 hours and I wouldn't be able to get back to the east side until the following weekend and chances are it would be gone. So I decided to try on some dresses and see if there were any others that I liked. I ended up finding three which all had a different characteristics that I liked. So my sister took pictures of the dresses and I pondered over the pictures for the next few days. The original dress then popped back into my mind so I decided to look at it online. As I was reading the description, I realized that the original dress had all three of the characteristics that I had liked from the three that I had tried on. So, needless to say I was determined to at least try the dress on because it seemed so perfect. I called the Novi store on a Tuesday and said I wouldn't be able to be there to try it on until Friday. The lady told me that she couldn't put it on hold for that long but if she were me, she would just call every 24 hours and put it back on hold. I asked her if that was an appropriate thing to do and she said, "you're a bride you can do WHATEVER you want!!!" So I did. I was able to head home Thursday night and then went first thing Friday morning to try the dress on. IT WAS PERFECT - everything I wanted and even more beautiful than the online picture. It fit pretty well (of course I have to get it shortened...) and was white which I wanted (as opposed to ivory)! I loved it so much and so did my family! So the VERY first dress I found back in July ended up being the dress of my dreams!

Priceless Pictures: October 2004

I'm going to start an ongoing, hopefully weekly post, called
Priceless Pictures because when it comes to
pictures, we have TONS!

~~Katie