10 and a half months

And we will be married!
It seems so far, but we've already been engaged for 4 months - it seems like doing anything extra during the school year takes lots of effort, and that includes planning a wedding.
Below is our list of wedding to dos over Christmas (supposed to be break :) )
- Meet with cake person to decide on design and flavors
- Get engagement photos taken
- Buy dress (hopefully!)
- Look at bridesmaids dresses (and actually start asking people to be in the wedding...)
- Finalize guest list with families
- Finish save the date cards so they can be sent in February
- Meet with pastor Austin to go over ceremony - we're writing it ourselves - hopefully he's okay with this!

All of this because we will not be back together until July, 3 months before the wedding - too late to do any of the above things.
And yet, for the most part, life continues day to day like normal.
Instead of stressing out, I tell myself that this is the way it should be - focus on life - a little on the wedding - but mostly on life...

It's Official

Today in the mail arrived a very tangible reminder of the fact that we are getting married.
Invitations.
Not samples, or someone else's invitations - ours. A big box of them. Envelopes. Reply cards.
And a piece of paper (150 of them actually) that says, in writing, that we will be married in 354 days (or something like that).

Most of the time life continues as normal. I work 70-80 hour weeks, Cliff generously cooks, cleans, and listens to my frequent melt downs about how busy I am (and takes care of me when I get sick, which seems to be happening a lot lately). We hang out with the dogs, play Wii, and sometimes remember that we are getting married and should be planning a wedding :)
I guess this is how it should be.
Preparing for marriage - and all that is to come.....not just the wedding...right?