i'm going crazy crazy crazy crazy thinkin' bout you lately

Ah...hearing Matt on the phone with Barry and Chele tonight is cracking me up!

"Keep it a secret"  "Its easy to keep a secret from Sarah, she goes to sleep at 9"


We'll show you a secret. 

Dangit Barry...asking Matt if it was a wedding...sneaky sneaky.

you are the only one...my everything...and for you this song I sing

 So, we have set a date!  July 30th.  Well...we set it in hopes that Amy and Barry could come.  So Matt called them first, to see if they could make it.  (Sorry Amy...I know it wasn't the BEST time. )  The date was the most FRUSTRATING thing to set.  OMG 

I really wanted to do it when everyone was out of school...lol...meaning...me, Amy, Scott, Louby and Chele.  And we didn't want it toooo close to the grand wedding happening in October...so yeah.

Anyway, so now that the date is kinnda figured out.  Tomorrow I am calling a couple places in Houston to see if they have availabilities on that day/night.  Whatever might be open.  There is this one place I am realllllly hoping for.  I will post more tomorrow when I find out the details. 

Wish me luck....oh wait...

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ALSO...he called my dad tonight to ask his permission to marry me.  (I was at the grocery store when he did this) 

When I come home, I say "did you get a hold of anyone?"  he nods yes.

He is playing a video game so of course...no talking occurs.  AND I am on pins and needles to know the details.  Finally after lots of "tell me"s and "what happened"s I say "please pause the game and tell me!"

"He just said, I asked...he said yes...your mom said yes...that's it...its private...that's all you need to know"

GRRRRRRRRR

So now I have to wait until the day of the wedding to find out!!!!  Hoping the dad can remember...
(you better remember dad...cause I wanna hear it over and over again)

ps:  I am on theknot.com...and I made a to-do list...I have 61 things to do...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA 

let the fun begin!

my heart was wrapped up in clovers the night I looked at you

A couple of weekends ago he and I decide to go look at rings.  We had looked online and done our 4 Cs research...but there was still a lot to figure out.

We went to a place in the mall and really didn't see anything that "struck our fancy"

I have gone back in forth with wanting an Emerald cut diamond and round cut.  I was POSITIVE I wanted Emerald cut.  I was soon to find out the down-sides of the Emerald cut.  (expensive, you can see right through it, 1-carat does not look very big hehe)

After learning all that I was so lost on picking a ring.

The next morning, I woke up and realized...It doesn't matter.  At the end of the day, I want to marry HIM...annndddd that's pretty much all I care about.  Once I figured that out, the rest has been a little easy.

So this past weekend...June 12th 2010.  We went to a jewelery store to look at rings. 

He and I went back a forth with what we liked and didn't like on our way up the elevator:
-No halos
-no channels*sp
-no princess cut
-no baskets
-side stones or solitaires only

We looked at 2 cases and FOUND IT.  Well..sort-of. 
I was looking at a solitaire and He found one he liked better.  Once I saw the one he picked, I fell in love.  Honestly, I fell in love with him again...but of course I loved the ring.  (Something about a man picking out a ring...mmmhmm.)

Last Summer...

Well, I meant to start this blog LAST summer...but I didn't.

Last summer he says "We should do a surprise wedding when we get married"

That's the day I wanted to start the blog. So instead...I am starting it today.

Enjoy our journey on getting engaged without ANYONE else knowing...and planning a surprise wedding.