Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving will be the "seven months until" day. I love that it just happens to fall on the 25th this year! Exactly one month until Christmas which will set me just 6 months out from the wedding!! WOO HOO!!

The dress is ordered!

It's funny because back in August I found a dress that I loved and was all ready to buy but my mom wanted me to "sleep on it" a little while and make sure that's what I really wanted. So I did and in the mean time I spent a small fortune on bridal magazines where I looked at a million and a half dresses (yeah there are half dresses, they only come to the knee...) and was pretty sure that I wouldn't love any other dress as much as that one. My only fear was that I didn't think Gavin would love the dress if he saw it in a magazine. Lucky for me I rest assured he would love whatever I wore but I just didn't think that he would expect me to be in that dress. But I talked myself out of all anxiety and on Friday I went back to the store to buy the dress. The only thing is, THE dress was a different dress than the dress I just told you about.

Moments before going back into the dressing room with the dress I thought was the one and a couple others I was trying on "just to be sure" I saw a dress that had me take a back step... I asked my mom what she thought and she loved it. And I was sold. My dress, my dream dress, had just recently come into the store. Turns out my two month wait was the best decision!! I think Gavin will love this dress, too. It is seriously more than a dress that I love, it is the dress of my dreams that I think if I was six years old and in the store I would still pick that one. I promise, it's still a grown up dress though. It's just perfect.

Now that I have the dress I've moved on to looking for bible verses. Right now I'm leaning towards Ephesians 5: 22-33 or Philippians 2:1-5ish. I also love some of the stuff in Song of Solomon. And I really like where Ruth shows her level of commitment (where you go I will go, where you stay I will stay...) but my mom thinks that gets a little too intense so I don't know.

In other news, I'm really excited about the hope of this preschool for next year. I have so many ideas and plans already, and the idea of being able to really put my faith into what I do...ahh, I just love it.

I have a lot to be thankful for this year!! It will also be my first year to host Thanksgiving for my family and Gavin's family. They will all be over at my castle! I hope it all turns out alright, but I know that if it doesn't that it will be alright too. So many blessings to count this year!! God has been so good (and faithful!).