Cherry Blossoms and a Sneak Peek at Our Wedding Location

So beautiful!  I am so blessed to have a friend whose family owns this amazing place and is willing to let Adam and I get married there!

Gorgeous!

Summer in March?

Enjoying the sunshine!

Well, with the weather that way it has been lately, it would seem that here in Southwest Ohio, spring has sprung...but realizing that I have to wonder, with it being 75-80 degrees all of this week, and a good portion of last week, did we completely skip over spring and go straight in to summer?  And really, where was winter?  It almost seems like we went straight from fall into spring...though a slightly depressing spring since everything was still dead rather than green and blooming.  I'm not complaining about that!  I do not like the cold, snowy winter season, so I am completely okay with skipping that, and since we do have the green and blooming gorgeousness of spring, I am quite okay with this weather.  In fact, I have very much been enjoying it!  My only concern is that if we're having summer in March, what is the weather going to look like in our usual summer months (most specifically, what is it going to look like on say, July 7th...since that just so happens to be the day of my wedding, and it's outdoors...?)?  Oh well, no point in worrying about that just yet.  I'm going to enjoy every moment of this amazing weather while I can!

Oops...It's been a while...but here are some pictures to make up for it!

It Does Not Feel Like January...And I Am Completely Okay With That!

Cardinal

Happiest Day of My Life Thus Far

So, I haven't posted in way too long...but I have some very happy and exciting news to share with the world!  On December 26, my wonderful boyfriend and I went to the zoo for the day and to see the Festival of Lights that night.  The zoo is a special place for us, since he took me there for my birthday, which also happens to be when he told me he loves me for the first time.  Penguins also have a special place in our relationship (somehow I don't think anyone could, or would, truly understand even if I explained...we're just strange), and they are Adam's favorite animal.  Anyway, we were at the zoo the day after Christmas and were just hanging around and watching the penguins in the bird house when eventually there was no one else there but the two of us.  At that point, he asked me if I remember why penguins are his favorite.  I said yes and he asked me why.  I told him that it's because they mate fore life.  He then told me that he wants to spend the rest of his life with me, got down on one knee, pulled out a ring, and asked me to marry him!!!!!!!!!!!!  Of course I said "YES!"

He did a WONDERFUL job finding the most perfect ring ever!

Later that night.  We HAD to get a picture by the penguin lights!

The penguins that we were watching when Adam asked me to marry him :-)

I am now very happily engaged to the love of my life and wedding planning so far is going amazingly well.  It's been less than a week and I've already found and bought my dress, we've set a date, we have a location for both the wedding and the reception, we've decided on and asked our entire bridal party, and we're well into the process of planning our honeymoon!  We're moving full steam ahead and I CANNOT wait until July 7th!