It's Official...

We are now certified to become husband and wife. To get married in the Catholic Church you must first complete a three step marriage counseling/preparation course. The three steps are:

1. Be dating for a least six months (Trust me, we had this one covered)
2. The FOCUS portion, where basically you take a questionnaire and you answer questions about things you have/will discussed and then compare those answers while talking to a married couple, and
3. Participate in a group marriage preparation course.

Today was our last day of the three step process. We now have our certificate from the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi and are officially ready to get married.

I honestly feel that this process has been extremely helpful and a great learning experience for both of us. There are always going to be those topics that one you don't think to talk about or two, don't want to bring it up. Well this preparation brings out all of those issues and topics and let's you discuss things.

At the beginning of this whole thing, I was honestly dreading the whole experience. I didn't want to talk to someone I didn't know about our life. I didn't want to spend a weekend day sitting in a classroom listening to someone talk about what we should do in order for our marriage to work. Now that the process is over, my feelings are completely different. I would honestly recommend for any of my friends getting married to take some sort of marriage preparation course. It has prepared us for marriage in more ways than I ever imagined.

This doesn't have anything to do with the marriage preparation course, but my sister recommended a book for Lamar and I to read. She received this book as a wedding present from someone and her and Shane read through it and found it to be extremely informational. It is called "Sheet Music" by Dr. Kevin Leman. Lamar and I have started reading this book together and found it very helpful to feel open enough to talk about intimate issues that otherwise not be brought up.

Well I guess that's enough marriage prep talk for now. More on wedding plans later. I can't believe we only have 3 months left. It's getting to be crunch time. Also, we could have really big news this coming week, so I'll keep you updated.

I'm So Excited....

So I was sitting on the couch this evening and heard my phone ding to let me know that I had a missed call. (Since I always have my phone on vibrate, I of course did not hear it). Well Lamar got up to see who it was, and it was none other than Jennifer (one of my lovely bridesmaids!!!) Lamar decided that he was going to call her back and to my surprise, her and her husband, Chad, are thinking about coming to visit this weekend!!!!! I have not seen them since the middle of December, and by all means, it has been WWWWAAAAAAAYYYYYY to long. Needless to say, I am a little giddy right now and am trying to figure out a way to get out of work on Saturday night so we can hang out a few hours more.

Sorry it has been so long since I've written a post, I've been a little preoccupied lately. I can't really say busy, since I'm only working part-time now, I should have plenty of time on my hands. In the extra time I seem to have I have been looking for new jobs. Some might even be excited to know we are thinking about the possibility of coming back to Memphis. It just depends on job opportunities. So everyone keep their eyes and ears open for any possibilities that could arise.

Hopefully, this will be a weekend full of FUN times and I'll have some pictures to share with everyone next week!!!

It was a Success

Well the weekend I had been looking forward to for 2 1/2 weeks finally arrived and it was a COMPLETE success. Not only did we find my dress, but we got the bridesmaid dresses, mom's dress, the material for the flower girls dresses, centerpiece decorations, and a few other details accomplished. I now feel like the whole wedding is coming together. It was such a wonderful feeling just to get my dress ordered. My poor bridesmaids dresses have to be rushed ordered because i waited so long. I'm sorry :( So I took out the options of dresses from the previous post, I would hate for someone (Lamar in particular) to see any of them. I took a couple pictures of the weekend that I will post tonight or tomorrow when I get to my computer so you can see just how busy mom and I were.

Dress shopping....for the final time

So the time has come to finally pick out and order my dress. As I told you previously, I ordered a sample of a dress so I could try it on. I called the store in New Orleans and the dress is there waiting for me to graciously put it on and fall in love!! (Or at least that's what we're hoping is going to happen) This weekend is going to be full of shopping and DIY'ing a bunch of projects that I need to get started on.

So I decided that I would go ahead and put a couple pictures of the dresses that I'm debating on. That way you will get an idea of what I'm looking at.