Vegas is already sounding good....

Being engaged for all of 28 days and I can honestly say its fun, but frustrating at times. Me being a worrier/liking to plan things in advance it's been hard to accept "wait" as an answer. (I was the kid who wanted to start planning my next birthday party the day after my last one). I'm giving my parents 5 months to plan a wedding when most of my sisters did about 4 (aside from Cheriss), so they are far from anxious to do too much. If it all went my way, we'd have skirts picked out for my sister, all vendors booked, food decided, colors determined and centerpieces in the making...Thus far we have

DJ booked

Stake Center/LA Temple reserved officially for June 12 @ 11:30 AM.

We still have plenty of time. I accept that. But sometimes, when I get frustrated with all of the decisions, choices and disagreements between my idea of simplicity and what's "expected" my brother in law Javier comes to mind with his infamous saying "Lets dump it all and go to Vegas"...its always a challenge when we drive to Payson...hmm stay on the freeway and be there in about 4 hours, or go see Mom and Dad....

The current battle is photography. We have some really great offers on the table, we just need to wiegh the pros and cons seriously. Tonight we counseled with my parents over the phone and as usual, I hoped to come away with a set answer and plan, it was once again going back to the drawing board to do more research. I've decided I much prefer to spend an evening driving around with Mark to look at options for apartments and look online and still have nothing but numbers written down, than planning a wedding. Finding housing is somehwat stressful, but much more fun for some reason. I'm really looking forward to moving away from the college scene a little bit. We're pretty excited to make a tiny little apartment into a cute little home for ourselves while we finish up school together for a year and then I get to put Mark through school for a few years.

I figure tonight was the first of many times where my fiance/husband will teach me some computer skills. Tonight he taught me how to do a screenshot! Wow...impressive I know! He is definitely without a doubt fabulous to have around. I dont think my sanity would be the same if he were still 700 miles away.

He's such a good sport with wedding planning too. I feel bad as it feels like sometimes that's all we talk about. So I made a deal. The 12th of every month is another month survived, and one less till we're married (yippee!). So the 12th of every month, we plan to go out and do something. Doesn't matter what the only rule is for that one evening/afternoon/day, ABSOLUTELY NO WEDDING PLANS or mention of the wedding can be made. Mark said he didn't mind too much but I told him by March he and I will both be grateful for that one day a month where we're forced to just go back to being young, in love and have fun. Not that that's a problem at ALL for us hehe. But still, just a day to focus on us without dresses, flowers, decorations and family to worry about. It's my monthly sanity check until the wedding/honeymoon.