100 days!

LET THE COUNTDOWNS BEGIN!!!

We are 100 days away from our wedding day!!!

Here we come October 3rd!!

Psalm 90:12 "So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom."

Wedding dress..

I went wedding dress shopping with my mom today!! And... I found the one!! It's beautiful, and amazing, and I can't wait to wear it for my (almost) husband!!!
It was so fun though, walking into the bridal store with my mom, and picking out dresses off the racks to try on. We spent three hours in the store, but ended up with the dress and made lots of good mother-daughter memories. Trying on wedding gowns is one of those things I imagined as a little girl and I have always dreamed of the day I would go with my mom to find that perfect dress. And today was it!
I would love to post a picture of my mom and I from today, but I'm wearing the dress and Mitch isn't allowed to see it so I guess you will all have to wait until our wedding :D

More Pictures!

We got all our pictures today from Lydia. Here are some of our other favorites!

Stay tuned. We're getting close to pinning down a date!

--mitch

the ring

Allie's favorite

so, was I surprised?

So a lot of people have been asking me how I was surprised if there were so many hints..

First, I think the Lord made me dense that day so I would miss particularly obvious things. Or maybe I am just always that slow..

Also though, I guess a big hint probably would have been Mitch singing outside my window in the morning. I was suspicious after that, because the Filipino song was very "lovey" and romantic and we have a "no love, no romantic" rule (because it just tempts me to be discontent in our courtship). But Mitch and I talked after he came inside because I told him I thought he was being kinda insensitive.. and he apologized for being confusing and not recognizing that that would be hard for me. So that's what really threw me off. If he didn't apologize I probably would have been suspicious all day.

And Praise God I was surprised, I think that makes it 100,000 times better :)

Story time!! "The Engagement"

Saturday, June 13, 2009.

7:52am, My phone rings (and wakes me up). It's Mitch. He is asking me to print out the email he sent me, and to look out my window when I'm finished. He is outside in my front yard with a goofy little grin and his guitar. He starts out my day with a Filipino love song called "Harana" which means "Serenade." The email was the English translation of the song he was playing and singing, so I would understand. And it was so cute.
Next, we went to Federal Hill in Baltimore where we went on our first real date 14 months ago.
We picked up food from Quizno's and drove around UMBC because it had been a long time since we had been there.
Then we went to the Washington National Cathedral where we ate our picnic lunch and then read "Tales of the Kingdom."
In the middle of our story, Mitch told me he wrote a song for me and wanted to play it now. Still oblivious of what is to come, I happily agreed to hear it.
He wrote the cutest, sweetest, "said everything I need to say", song and then set his guitar down, pulled a ring out of his pocket and got down on one knee. He told me he loved me (for the first time!) and asked me to be his wife. I said "Yes!"
Wow!! I still can't believe it actually happened. But here's the best part.. Lydia Hartnett captured the entire thing on camera.
You can see some of the pictures here.