It has been exactly 3 months since Jason purposed and we are getting married in 6 days!

Planning this wedding has been so wonderful and great.  With experience in planning weddings and other events, I have always dreamed of planning my own wedding, and it has been so much better than I ever thought it would be!  The main reason it is so great is because I get to plan it all with my bff, Jason!

The living room and kitchen table are full of wedding packages and supplies!  Sometimes I wonder how it is all going to get finished but have been reminded that God is in control.  Thank goodness!

My Little Wedding Planning Helper!

The boxes in the Living Room

Hundreds of Little Chairs…

A lot has happened in the three months we have been engaged!  I have a new job, and a new place!  I moved in to what will eventually be me and Jason’s first home and with the help of Peanut, we have been keeping it warm until Jason moves in after the wedding.

We celebrated our first holidays together!  We went to visit my dad’s side of the family near Cleveland, Ohio for Thanksgiving.  Jason got to experience the 12 hour drive with my dad, mom, and me.  Peanut had to stay home for this trip.

Christmas was great!  Jason and I realized how blessed we are to have both our immediate families live so close to one another.  We were able to go to church with both of our families on Christmas Eve and then go out to dinner with my family and back to Adel to open gifts.  Christmas morning we were at the Rude’s.  It was a great time to relax with the family, open gifts, and watch movies.  Christmas night we went back to Adel, where we ate dinner and Hailee talked us through Toy Story 3.

Jason and Hailee (and cat.)

Heather and Me

Little Brody man’s first Christmas!

In between Christmas and New Year’s, Jason and I got the opportunity to go to a church conference in Omaha called Faithwalkers.  We got to spend time with our friends and learned so much!

With all this going on, we have still managed to plan our wedding and we are both so excited to see our friends and family and celebrate with them in 6 days!

Jason asked, and I said yes!

Last Friday night, Jason took me out to dinner.  After dinner, we got in the car and he drove to a spot were we usually hang out during our dates.  It is outside near my apartment and has a pond, a really pretty bridge, fountains, and nice places to sit.  It was a little cold that night so when we pulled up, I asked Jason if we were going to go outside.  He said yes, that it was going to start getting colder soon and we weren’t going to be able to go there much longer.

When we got out of the car and started walking towards the pond, this is what I saw… (the blurry pictures are due to the fact that both Jason and I were really pumped about being engaged!)

To me, the lights looked like part of the landscaping and so I said to Jason, “Wow, it looks like they lit up our path!”  He responded with a slow, “ya…”  As we got closer, I noticed the lights were little tea lights and there were rose petals laid out on the sidewalk.  That is when I knew.  I froze for a bit and Jason told me all these wonderful things about why he loves me, then he told me we had to keep going!

The next thing I saw was more candles and glow sticks spelling out…

“I think you’re great” is the first thing that Jason said to me when he told me that he wanted to date me.  It was so funny to see it written out with glow sticks!

Again, we had to keep moving and up ahead I could see more candles and glow sticks.

This time they spelled out “I love you.”  On either side of the message there were glow sticks sticking out of the ground.  They were to represent fireworks.  Jason knows that I LOVE fireworks!

Jason then got down on one knee and asked me to marry him!  I said yes!

We spent some time just the two of us being excited that we were engaged (and taking really great pictures) and then Jason asked me if I would like to go to Perkins to get some pie.  Of course I wanted to get some pie!

On our way to Perkins I called my mom to tell her the good news, she said that her and my dad were waiting for the call and were going to meet us!  When we walked in, Jason told the waitress there would be 10-14 people!  He had invited our friends and families to come out and celebrate with us!  It was wonderful to be able to see everyone and share our good news!