Steven got the job at Brinks!!! We are so excited about this new opportunity! He starts training right after we get back from the honeymoon. It is such a blessing that he was able to find a second job in this economy, and before our wedding. God is so good!!

The wedding is in three days and things are crazy! But it's all coming together ... slowly but surely we're getting everything done. The biggest thing hanging over me right now is the programs which I still have not had a chance to take over to Kinko's. If I can swing it then I'm going to take them tonight right before closing and have my mom pick them up tomorrow while I'm at work. It seems like the easiest solution to me. 

Saturday was so much fun, the girls and I had a blast! I love dressing up and hardly get to do it anymore so it was exciting to do so. 

This week is going to be crazy ... actually, I think it already is! I am working till Thursday (taking Friday off) and Steven's working all week long. In addition to work we have to:

• Last night we went to have dinner with my parents and we're going back over for dinner on Thursday. 
• Tonight we have dance lessons. 
• Steven's grandparents are coming into town today (last I heard) so I can only imagine that we'll have to do something with them Wednesday night. 
• Friday I am spending a few hours at the spa for (what will be) a much needed massage, manicure and pedicure. 
• Then I'm going to the church to help my mom and Mrs. Volker get everything set up for the wedding, reception, and rehearsal dinner. 
• The rehearsal is Friday night and dinner is right after that. 
  
• Saturday is the wedding and that requires a whole different list!

Sometime in the midst of all of that we have to find time to:

• Practice our dance for the wedding.
  
• Get the programs printed and cut.
  
• Clean the apartment because I can not stand to leave my house dirty when I go on a trip.
  
• Pack for the honeymoon.
  
• Make sure that all the travel arrangements are in order.
  
• Write out some more thank you cards for the gifts we've received thus far.
  
• Make out a schedule for the day of the wedding.
  
• Pay the bills.
  
• Get my ring polished. 
  

I'll tell you what ... that is a heck of a lot of stuff and not a lot of time! I am just going to pray that God puts some extra time into my day cause that's the only way everything is going to get finished! 

My piano came yesterday! I played around with it for like an hour before having to go and run errands. I love it! Steven likes it too, it teaches him to play ... sort of. It fits perfectly under the ledge between the kitchen and living room. The apartment is really starting to feel more like a home every day. 

Only ten days left until the wedding! I am to the point now where I just want it to get here! I am so excited about getting to see all of my friends and family and marrying the best man in the whole world!

Steven's Bachelor party is tonight (I think...) and then my party is Saturday with all the girls! Good times!

BIG weekend!! 

Saturday was spent running errands while Steven was at work and then all my begging and pleading finally paid off! Steven called after work and said "let's go piano shopping." I was super stoked and couldn't believe that he was willing to go look at pianos. We got to the store and turns out they were having a sale, lucky me! Since we live in an apartment we have to have a keyboard ... and anyone who knows me knows that I am a purist when it comes to pianos and genuinely loath keyboards ... which basically means that I have to have a very expensive, as close as you can get to looking, feeling, and sounding like a real piano ... digital piano (notice the term was not "keyboard"). Anyway, so I played on the basic digital pianos and just wasn't to happy with them so we moved up to the base model of the top of the line digital pianos. LOVED it! It was no real piano, but it was the best digital sound that I've heard. AND it has hundreds of songs on it that Steven can play along with, so we BOTH can use it! AMAZING! I totally wasn't expecting Steven to let me get anything but he did!! It's coming tomorrow and I totally can't wait! It's the first piano that's ever belonged to me personally!! I'm so excited that he could get me nothing for Christmas and I wouldn't care! 

As if that wasn't enough for my weekend, my bridal portraits were on Sunday. I went to have my hair done and the girl did a wonderful job but oddly the curl fell out of my hair after about an hour. I don't know why it happened but it did. But my sister saved the day, she re-curled it and put some of her products in it and it managed to stay in through the portraits. Yay for sisters!! We took my portraits in both downtown Wake Forest and at the Seminary. It was soo much fun! I can't wait to look at them!  

My dress is finally finished!!!! I'm supposed to have it tomorrow!!! I'm so excited and can't wait to see it! My photographer called today and had an opening for this Sunday to do my bridal portraits, so ... once again ... I changed the date. Sunday is supposed to be gorgeous and the leaves are just amazing right now. Funny how God works things out in the strangest of ways sometimes.

What a crazy month it has been! Seventeen days until the wedding and we are more excited than ever. My dress still isn't here but everything else has come together quite nicely. No other problems thus far so that's great! 

Steven got a new job on Monday. He'll be working part time for Brinks (the armored truck company, not the home security company). He has to do this 90 day probation period and then after that we'll see if he gets a raise or gets to go full time. This whole thing is only temporary anyway until the Army allows him to switch to active duty. But it helps us out right now financially so we're pretty excited. He's planning on working at Shell still on the days that he isn't at Brinks, hopefully we like this new arrangement. He's also pretty stoked about getting to drive the trucks...of course! 

Work has been crazy stressful. It's one of those weeks when everybody needs something from you and all at the same time, with short deadlines... yeah. It's also partly that everyone knows I'm going to be gone for a week at the end of the month (honeymoon!!!) and so they want me to finish it all before I leave. Let's just say it's going to be a long two and a half weeks!