It's official!

NOVEMBER 8th, 2008!

wow, 164 days away...

But i need some help! I am having a hard time narrowing down color options...there are so many great options!! Right now we are talking about a charcoal gray with two tones of pink and a white accent...thoughts? We were thinking about sea glass blue/turqoise, but it's real hard to find, and with the kiwi green accent I wanted to do with it i'm having an even harder time! everything is BRIGHT turqoise and green...and i don't think that's totally us...we are more earth tone kinds of people...and i still want a beach twist, so i'm planning to do some white shells no matter what!

Any ideas?

wedding! wedding! wedding!

It's hard to believe i've been engaged for a week...it feels like it just happened, yet it feels like it's been so long. Not sure if that's normal? Either way, there is so much to be done, and i'm SO excited! For someone who is an event planner at heart, this is a wonderful place to be. A bit overwhelming depending on the moment, but fun nonetheless! This weekend we are finalizing our date, which we hope will be on November 8th. Our goal today is to talk to our pastor and see if he will let us fly him out to do the honors. If he can, we are all set!

The wedding is going to be at my Aunt Susie and Uncle Rick's house in Palos Verdes, California. It's not too far from Redondo/Hermosa beach, so i'm already looking into hotel accomodations in those towns (there aren't really hotels in PV). It's also only about 20 minutes south of the airport along Pacific Coast Highway, so it's easy for out of towners to get to - and gorgeous! We are so happy my aunt and uncle are letting us have our special day at their house!! it will be so cool! Start praying now that it doesn't rain!! :) We do realize a november wedding can be a bit unpredictable, but since we've been dating for three years already, we'd rather take the risk than wait until next summer!! :)

We are still going over everything just to be sure...but for now that's where we are. I looked at some wedding dresses yesterday and am starting to get a feel for what i like! SO when my mom comes out here next month i can hopefully buy that puppy! :) It is definitely surreal to be trying on a wedding dress! never done that before! So many "firsts" - i'm trying to enjoy each one!

We're engaged!!!

We're engaged!!! The short version of the story is, I went out to LA to visit some friends for the weekend and we went to a restaurant called Las Brisas for lunch on Saturday. When we arrived we went to look at my friend Shino's new car and take some pictures by the water before we went to our table (i guess it wasn't ready, or at least that was my understanding!). While taking pictures, Andy came up behind me all dressed up in a suit, tapped me on the shoulder then dropped down on his knee! The friends I was there with KNEW he was going to be there, and had coordinated the encounter! All morning they had been texting who i thought was Sandra's fiance or whoever, when part of the time they had been texting ANDY as well keeping him informed on our location! He had flown in that morning, rented a car, and planned the whole thing!


We spent the evening in Huntington beach, and my brother and sister were there with us!


I'll have more pictures soon of both of us looking at the same camera! But look how BEAUTIFUL the day was!! Nothing like a proposal on the beach - my dream location!! :)





Sandra and Maryel, those awesome, sneaky friends had been working with Andy to pull the whole thing together! What great friends! :)