Around the World in (less than) 80 days!

Well, we survived the Christmas season! We temporarily set aside wedding planning, and focused on Christmas. Kevin and I celebrated Christmas four times this year! First with his immediate family in Michigan, then Kevin's dad's family in Michigan, then MY immediate family in La Crescent, then in Milwaukee with MY dad's family. Plus I got to see my friend Ryan (an usher) and my friend Jessica (a bridesmaid), and Caitlyn, Lee, and Savannah (maid of honor, assistant to the flower girl, flower girl), AND I went to the movies and saw Les Miserables!

If you're tired after just reading that, try adding in Christmas shopping, two airplane rides, a couple of doctors visits for pleurisy, an oil change, and getting my passport.

Needless to say, it was QUITE interesting around here for a few weeks.

There were a million small things that just made me smile.

Christi and Mike's bunny Cricket stayed with my mom and dad while they (and we) were in Michigan. Clover and Cricket managed not to fight, due mostly to Cricket's new and improved bunny castle complete with babygate-like walls. Cricket the amazing 3-legged bunny is something like 13 years old now and still kicking (so to speak), as well as still a bit feisty. I don't know what 13 is in bunny years, but read that as a REALLY OLD BUNNY. Clover missed me while I was in Michigan and made sure to show me so when we got home, but after the obligatory ignoring me, she couldn't get enough attention from me! So sweet. I missed her too, but playing with Cindy's kitty and a couple dogs helped...

Mike and Kevin set up wireless for my parents. That's right, my parents finally have wifi. A secure network and everything. Somewhere, there's a joke. Something like "How long does it take two computer engineers to set up wifi?" And the answer is half the evening. In the end, something quite simple was not quite right and was seemingly easily fixed. It just needed to be thought of. I am quite proud of both of them for being very patient and working together well to set everything up. My parents have been considering wifi since...last Christmas, at least. Push came to shove, though. Push being a free wireless adapter, and shove being my mom getting her very first laptop. Yay!

Kevin surprised me (a tiny bit early) with diamond earrings for Christmas. He is such a sweetie! He also got me an external harddrive to back up my slightly old PC. It goes really well with my new monitor and ram from last year. :-D He manages to mix the easy stuff (anything electronic) with the romantic (DIAMOND EARRINGS!) very well. Double kudos to him!

Ok, ok, enough about Christmas (which was amazing). You're here to read about a wedding. There will be a wedding in LESS THAN 80 DAYS! 79, to be exact. According to the famous novel, you can go around the world in 80 days, so surely we can finish all the details for the wedding in that amount of time!

We have our entire bridal party picked out now (ushers were the last bit), we have special music picked out, and we're ironing out the little details. Appetizers, for example. Also, food for the bridal party while getting ready. Hair appointments. The bridesmaids are getting their fittings done. Also, my dress came in.

My dress came in.

WOOOOT. I can't wait to put it on again. Exciting! Soon, soon, soon. I need to make appointments to get MY fittings done.

I need to figure out my jewelry for the wedding. I need to find a dress for Savannah. I'm sure there are a dozen more details that are slipping my mind right now. Soon soon soon, I get married!