Since my last post, I've turned 25. My birthday was a lot better this year than last. I closed the night before it (even though me and the manager were there at midnight). Mike had flowers sent to work for me . He also got me the Edge t-shirt I wanted. We ended up loading up on ice cream and sharing it with the people we work with. They were so buzzed from the sugar (it was an ice cream cake) that everything was getting done early.

Mike and I are back at the Old Man's. Sean (Sparky) is living with us now. The living situation over here is better than it has been with Sean here considering what the last people that were over here were like. The house is being kept clean and nothing has came up missing. The only thing that Mike doesn't like is that with all 3 of our work schedules, I'm able to talk to Sean more than him at times. That should be changing soon since Mike and I actually have a Friday night off together this week. The last time we had that was when he was on vacation back in March. No wonder all 3 of us were happy to get a new GM at work.

My mind's drawing a blank now. I guess that's what happens when you close the night before and have to be back at work at 10 AM .

I'm going to be Pamela Ann (Larson) Estep. That's kind of scary but not at the same time. The funny thing is that Mike's getting remarried before his ex-wife is (and she left him). I already have my dress picked out and my bridesmaids' dress picked out.

  *This is just the type of dress, not the colors*

I'm not going to be posting a picture of my dress yet since Mike is subscribed to this blog. Everybody knows that it's bad luck to see the bride's dress before the wedding . Beeper hates me because she doesn't like the dress that I picked out that much but I think it makes her look good. Now she can do the same when she has the ceremony wedding :-p.

It's pretty bad that the only reason I'm doing this is that part of my dad's family are interested in going to a ceremony. Mike and I came up with a place where we can have the wedding and the reception at the same place. That's the nice part since we're doing it all on a Friday night. My photographer and videographer are also free (gotta love friends and family).

The funny thing is that my future mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and I are more interested for Mike to tell the guy he asked to be his groomsman (Josh) that he'd be walking down the aisle and dancing with my future sister-in-law (Christina...the one in the brown dress). Josh has had this thing for Christina for quite some time. We'll see how everything goes with that.

Another interesting thing is that Christina and Mike are going to try and convince my future mother-in-law to wear a "mother's" dress since most of family is dressing up. She also didn't wear one for Mike's first wedding so I think Mike would enjoy seeing his mom dressed up. We'll see how that goes too.

I think the scarier thing is that this wedding will be coming together around Christmas time...then everything will sink in.

Lately I've been thinking about something. Mike asked me to marry him a little before Christmas. We're thinking of late April or early May 2012 for the date.

I know almost every girl has their dream wedding but lately I've been thinking what the big deal is. I do have that idea for my dream wedding but a decent part of me just wants to blow it out of the water and save it for renewing our vows. Keeping it simple would be doing the courthouse deal and doing the reception at a park. Mike brought up the idea of having Jimmy John's for catering awhile ago. For those who've never had Jimmy John's, it's really awesome.

My train of thought has been thrown off...I'll be back later.