So, the wedding plans are underway! And pretty much finished to be completely honest! I don't know what all the stress is about planning a wedding... maybe I just got lucky, but it hasn't been that bad for me at all. The hardest parts have been 1) Getting the guest list/invitation list put together, and 2) Finding someone to make a cake. I don't know why, but people seem to think that it is OK to charge a person (a young, poor, college student to be exact) $515 dollars for a cake!!! It's ridiculous. Other than those two things, it's been fairly simple to plan. I'm super excited!After Brandon and I got engaged we went and talked to my biological father so that Brandon could ask him if he could marry me. He asked my mom before he proposed. My dad was really supportive and happy for us, which made me so happy. He talked to Brandon for a while, then talked to me. After we were done talking we went and sat outside all together. Dad told us that he had something he'd like to "propose" to us. He told us that he still owned the little cabin that I used to live in with him on the weekends when I was little. He said that he used to rent it out to a friend, but he kind of trashed the place, so Dad kicked him out. Dad told us that we could live in the cabin if we took care of it. He'd pay all the expenses for major repairs that needed to be made, and we'd just have to do the labor. He wouldn't charge us rent, we only h
ad to pay the bills. Obviously, we were both stoked about this. The next day we went down and looked at the house and we both felt so good about it and wanted to live there. We prayed about it for a week and we feel it is the right thing for us to do!!! So there it is! Brandon and I have our first house! We're so excited. We've started cleaning it up and it has turned out to be a pretty big project. But that's ok. It's totally worth it.
On August 4th, the day before Brandon's birthday, we had planned to go down to the house and clean. I went down early and cleaned most of the kitchen (and let me tell you, that was a HUGE project!!!!) and set some stuff up for his birthday. Jace and Tanya have an old table that is super cute, but they don't want it and don't use it, so they gave it to us! Jace brought the table down, I had made a cake, wrapped some presents, bought a bottle of Martinelli's sparking cider, balloons, and dishes, and Tanya sent down a picture for us! The first picture in our house! I picked up Brandon from the Layton train station and we went and got burgers at the burger stop by our house. We took them home, and I asked him to open the door because I had "hurt my thumb" (which I really had, but it worked perfectly). He opened the door and stepped in. He was so surprised by the birthday display! The look on his face was so priceless. I love him so much.
We enjoyed our burgers in our new house; our first meal there EVER! Then he opened h
is gifts and we sang happy birthday and ate cake. After, we took the balloons outside and made wishes on them. He's the best man I know. He is so thoughtful, and his first wish proved that. He wished that he would "be the husband his wife deserves." Oh I love that man. After the balloons we popped open our bottle of Martinelli's and made a toast! A toast to our engagement, our house, our love, and our future. It was perfect.
I love Brandon Garside! And I don't care who knows it! 108 Days till we get married!!!!!
