What a Wonderful Weekend

Trent and I had a great weekend with his family. We took off on Friday after work for his parents' house to spend the weekend there. Saturday morning, the girls, Trent's mom, sister, aunt, cousin, and myself, spent most of the day at a huge craft fair in Ankeny. There were many great booths with beautiful crafts made by different people. Unfortunately (maybe), I didn't buy anything, but I was majorly tempted to make a purchase as we passed a booth that had one-of-a-kind purses. I just keep reminding myself that I didn't NEED it, no matter how nice it was :) There were also a few booths that had some crafts that were similar to a few things I am planning on making for the wedding. So it was great to be able to see those things up close and made me even more excited to get going on the DIY part of our wedding! Us girls had a really great day. It was a lot of fun to bond with my future in-laws and I am so grateful to be included in the tradition of going to the event now.

Saturday night, we were back at Jan and Chuck's house for supper and watching a heartbreaking loss by the Cyclones. :( Right before supper, I took the opportunity to ask Trent's 3 year old niece if she would do us the honor of being the flower girl in our wedding. I had a book that I read to her that was all about a flower girl in a wedding and it had a little pouch of practice flowers in the back of the book. She told us that she'd love to be in our wedding and then we took some time for her to practice dropping petals on the ground and then, when she was done, I would follow her and walk on the petals just like we will on the real wedding day. I think she had a good time with that. When we sat down for supper, she told me that Trent was going to be the groom, I was going to be the bride, and she was going to drop flowers. Which is very true! :)

The next step in the wedding preparation process is to go shopping with my bridesmaids and get their dresses picked out. Which I'm really excited about! All of my attendants are beautiful, so it won't be hard at all to find something that will look great on them all!

That's all for now! Chow!