Excitement!

Thank you to my wonderful friend Kate Granlund, I am about 98% done with the save-the-date cards! Over my lunch break today I think I am going to go over the list one more time, make last minute changes, and then put them in a mail box!! That will feel amazing to have them out of my hands.

Kate and I had a fun girls night eating ice cream, watching our Frankie and Annette beach party DVDs, and addressing save the dates! It felt like back when we were at Bethel staying up late doing homework and watching FRIENDS together... oh the great college memories!

I am also super excited about a new young adult LifeGroup that Dustin and I are helping to start! We will be co-leading with Greg & Amber Linz at their house... we are meeting with them tonight to talk about it. Names, structure, events, etc. This will be a branch off of U30 because we grew too big! How fun!

Merry Christmas... & Invitation Update!

Mery Christmas and almost Happy New Year everyone! I cannot believe how fast December has flown by.... at this moment, there are 173 days left until the big wedding day! I am looking at my January calendar right now, and on the 31st, there will only be 140 days left! I can't wait til the end of January. 140 days seems like not a lot!

I had a great Christmas celebration this year. On Christmas Eve, all the Bauman side came over to my parents house to celebrate, always good to catch up with family. My cousin Katie is also getting married (one month after me) so it was so great to talk about everything and share ideas. Christmas Day morning we had christmas with my mom, dad, brother, and Dustin. We opened gifts after breakfast. My parents got us matching beach towels for our honeymoon! So cute! Later that afternoon we went to my aunt and uncles house for the Haar christmas, which is ALWAYS a good time. THEN, we went to Dustin's house for the May christmas. That was also fun! I have to admit that I am glad Christmas is over now though.

The day after Christmas, mom and I went to Epitome Papers at the Galleria in Edina to look for invitations. I THINK WE FINALLY FOUND SOME! A very wonderful lady named Jana helped us look through about 20 books! I cannot believe how many beautiful (and expensive) invitations there are to choose from! We finally found something that will work for us though. Its a really nice thick invitation that is letterpessed, so it looks super elegant! Its going to be simple, but it has a french print envelope liner which makes it super awesome. The letters are going to be navy, with a dark grey/black envelope liner. It looks awesome!

I also got the save the dates in the mail (which also turned out awesome!) so i'm jsut waiting to get all the addresses from the guest list so we can send them out! Yay! I am so close to checking off more things on my giant list!

Off To Print...and Christmas Shop!

I ordered the save the date postcards, I chose the first design. I think it turned out nice, now I just want to see how it looks on a printed card! Can't wait. It should be here in about 10-14 days or so.

Tonight Dustin and I are going Christmas shopping here at the Rosedale Mall.... getting gifts for the families and also for us. My grandparents gave us each some money to spend and then wrap it up and open in front of them on Christmas Eve :-) They are so cute.

Dustin said he wants to pick out some new board shorts for the honeymoon.... I want a new suit too, but I 'm not going to show it to my grandparents and entire family! Ha! I'll probably pick out a sweater like usual. I love sweaters. Its a good thing today is payday!

Later tonight the plan is to RELAX and watch a movie or something. I am in the mood to watch Home Alone. Its been a while since i've seen that one!

PS. 190 days to go!

Save The Dates

Right now I am NOT at the U30 (under age 30) Christmas party. Boo. Dustin is there right now along with a lot of our friends. Why am I not there? Because I had a work meeting from 7 to 8pm tonight. At least I got to take the call from home. I am still bummed that I had to miss out though.

I am taking advantage of my time though. Right now i'm trying to upload my save the date design to Vista Print... which doesn't seem to be working too well at the moment. It keeps saying that it uploaded successfully, yet the preview will not show up! Ugh. Anyways, I created the design in Photoshop, using one of the photos our photographer was kind enough to supply me with. I made a monogram type thing and put some other information on it.

Let me know what you think... I may have goofed up the size... One of them has a blue frame and the other is a dark grey. I think I like the dark grey a bit more because it matches better. Well, now that I am looking at it from far away, I actually might like the blue one better... it stands out a bit more . Hummm... choices, choices.