Happy Hunger Games!

I am sooo excited for the Hunger Games movie! I read the books over the past few months (there are 3 of them) and LOVED them. I would really recommend them to anyone to read. I read the first one, which is what the movie is about, while we were on our honeymoon, and that's all I really wanted to do when we had down time during the days while we were laying by the pool. Such a good book to go along with our amazing honeymoon :)

Trent and I are actually taking the day off tomorrow to go see it! Kinda crazy, but at least we're not going at midnight tonight! We bought our tickets online, so we have them for sure, now it's a matter of getting there to get a good seat. You wouldn't think that it wouldn't be sold out at the 11:30 showing on a Friday (shouldn't those people be at work anyways! haha) but I guess you never know.

We're meeting Trent's parents and his sister and her husband so we can all see it together. I'm anxious to see what everyone thinks of it. I really hope that it isn't a let down and I hope that it does the book justice. I've heard really good reviews about it, so I hope that stands true! I even read a review that says the movie is better than the book... (I actually didn't read the whole review because I didn't want it to spoil too much for me, but it very plainly said that!) So we shall see... I really don't think that it will be a disappointment at all.

If you haven't read the book yet, I definitely think you should very soon! 

Can't wait for tomorrow! Happy Hunger Games Day, everyone!

The Ultimate Wedding Week: Rehearsal

Day 2 of The Ultimate Wedding Week Link Party.

The day all about the rehearsal was hosted by Jill at a charmed life.

Visit her blog to check out other brides' writings about their Wedding Rehearsals.

The day of our rehearsal started with a little get together at my parents' house with all of the girls in the wedding. We ate a little and I gave them all their gifts and hung out for a little while before heading to the hotel to change and get to the rehearsal at the church.

My gifts to all the girls

With Taylor, our flower girl and my new niece,
at my parents' house the day before the wedding

The rehearsal started at 5:30 on Saturday, May 28. We all went through the ceremony a few times and had a chance to ask any questions we wanted to ask. It was short and sweet and I think everything went smoothly!

Our friends Rachael and Bailey

My brother and Trent's sister

Our friends Josh and Lauren

Friend, Lee and my cousin, Jocelyn

Best man, Trent's dad, and MOH, my sister

 

Our adorable ring bearer and flower girl

The whole wedding party at rehearsal

Me and my dad

The rehearsal dinner took place at Cronk's cafe in Denison. Nothing fancy, but it was very nice. We had a buffet style supper and all got to see the slideshow of pictures that my Uncle Nick put together for us. You can check out that slideshow (here). We all took a few pictures and hung out for a while and then we parted ways, all heading to where we were going to stay for the night. And just like that, the day before our wedding was over... All that was left was to wake up the next morning and get ready for our wedding!!


Both of our families.

Me giving our ring bearer, John Paul, his gift for being in our wedding.

Me with my siblings

Cousins.

Trent and I with our ring bearer and flower girl

Me with my beautiful bridesmaids

Us with the ring bearer.
He was LOVING this!

Trent and I with my sister

My two best friends!
Classic!

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Our Engagement Pictures

The Ultimate Wedding Week: Engagement Pictures

I came across this blog, a charmed life, today. And Jill, the blogger, is hosting The Ultimate Wedding Week Link Party. I am a day behind (today was the rehearsal), so hopefully I can get caught up (doubtful since I do have a slightly big test coming up in less than 2 weeks), but I wanted to join in regardless. I will get it all written down even if I don't do it "on time" I guess. I never have blogged about our wedding and I do want to write down some things so I have the pictures and words all in one place so I can remember them when I'm old.

The engagement picture day was hosted by Just a Touch of Gray. So head over there to check out lots of other brides' engagement pictures.

So on to our engagement pictures... 

Trent and I got engaged on September 18, 2010. It was a rainy day and we had planned to go hiking that day at the church camp where he had gone when he was little near Dayton, Iowa. We got to a cliff that overlooked a very beautiful little creek and trees called "The Top of the World" and Trent wanted to take my picture by the sign that overlooked the trees below. He got the camera (and the ring) out of the backpack I was wearing and took my picture. Then, when I went up to take the camera from him to take his picture, he instead hugged me and told me he loved me and a bunch of really nice stuff (I kind of blacked out at this moment for a little bit because I realized what was coming) and then got down on his knee and asked me to marry him. It was such an amazing and happy moment. 

"Top of the World"

Pre "Will you marry me?"

We're Engaged!!!

So happy!

He also surprised me with meeting our parents for lunch and then we spent the rest of the day driving around and telling all of our family the good news and began talking about our future together.

We took our engagement pictures about a month later in downtown Omaha. It was a fun day. Our photographer was really fun to work with (even though he's lacked in some other areas) and got some really good pictures. Here are some of my favorites! (Beware: lots of kissing ahead..)

A House for Us!

UPDATE: We didn't end up getting this house. The house didn't appraise for the price we had agreed on and the sellers wouldn't come down to that price, so we walked away. It's okay though because we ended up in what I think is a better house in a better neighborhood! :) But feel free to read about the house that was almost ours!

I am so excited to say that Trent and I bought a house!! 

We have known for a while that with Trent's job change, we were going to be moving and most likely going to be buying a house, so we started casually looking about 5 months ago. Then, when his job was approved officially about a month ago, we were ready to look for real.

We looked at a total of about 20 houses. Some were instant no's and others had potential. We made an offer on one house a few weeks ago but the sellers decided that they weren't sure if they wanted to sell their house, so we decided we weren't going to wait around for them to make up their minds and kept looking. I was sad about that, but in the end, really know that everything happens for a reason and can now very much tell that that house wasn't OUR house. (Especially after seeing our house now)

So, about a week and 9 or so houses later, we came across this beauty, which I am proud to call OURS!!

I do have to say that I wasn't in love with it when we first saw it just because I didn't have very high expectations going in, but as we walked through the house, there wasn't really anything that I didn't like. I just went into it with the frame of mind that I wasn't going to like it... Turns out, that the house is perfect. 

We close on the house in May and I can't wait until we get to move in and make the house our own! I am so excited to decorate and have people over and eventually add to our family in our house.  It's so exciting to think about all of the memories we are going to make in our new home!