Whew, where did the time go! Seriously it seems like just yesterday I was writing 2 months down, 7 months to go! So it was no surprise when I got the same e-mail from my good friend “The Knot” saying “4 months to go, this month book your honeymoon!” and instead of that sinking feeling with panic that said “holy shit we are getting married” it was more of a “yeaaaaaaaaa buddy we got this, we are getting married bitches” feeling! It’s nice to feel ahead of the game. Honeymoon, pssshhh on it, well at least today.

It’s funny I only have two gears these days. I am either in complete freak out mode that nothing is getting done and we are so behind, aren’t doing enough, saving enough, planning enough or I am totally cool and collected like yea we got this. Both extremes are very real (poor Colt) and I don’t know when or why they switch but I certainly like the latter one better. Today marks the day that we should have all the reply cards back but of course we are still missing quite a few. It’s funny because when we first started making our list I promised myself I wouldn’t get upset or disappointed when people said they couldn’t come (after my sister’s wedding I already had a good idea on what to expect). But even with all the “pep talks” I gave myself I guess some things you can’t control or avoid. My sister keeps reminding me that even though it makes me feel really sad right now it isn’t going to matter on the day of and I love her for that. My mom also told me that Joey might not be able to come and that was a night full of tears even though I really do understand. I just can’t imagine my day without him, my sweet sweet brother. I guess I always knew these things would come up but of course I didn’t want to believe it. I was originally going to sit here and blog about how sad and disappointed I am about those who aren’t coming, but as I was driving home from work I thought about how happy and grateful I am to all the people that will be here and quickly realized that was all that really mattered, the “missing out” can do just that.

We found out today that Kellie (Colt’s Mom) & Ashley booked the families (Austin, Tristyn, Steve and G-Ma’s) tickets to Maui and they will all be here for a week before the wedding. We couldn’t be more excited for them and us! It’s going to be so awesome to have both of our immediate families together for the week. We also got a card today with a HUGE gift inside. Mark (Colt’s Dad) and Jen (Colt’s Dad’s girlfriend) decided that they were going to pay for our DJ and photographer as their wedding present to us. We honestly cannot even express the amount of gratitude we feel for such an enormous gift but we do know there will never be enough thank you’s to cover it. We are so blessed to have such amazing people in our lives that are committed to supporting us, our happiness and this very special day.

Besides waiting on the rest of our reply cards and now sending out our DJ and photographer checks (whoo hoo!) we are in full Vegas bachelor/bachelorette mode. I got my PARTY dress yesterday in the mail (finally). I pulled up after work and anxiously scanned the carport to see if I had any boxes waiting. (I got my passport last week but I am still waiting on 2 pairs of shoes a dress and about 15 reply cards, so yes I am always anxiously rushing home in hopes to find something, anything!). But just like every other day this week.. NOTHING! Ugh, so I started getting my stuff together to get out of the car and that’s when I heard a beeping noise behind me. As I looked up I saw a big FedEx truck in my rear view mirror! I was so excited I leaped out of the car and the driver happily handed me a large box. I couldn’t get in the house fast enough! I knew it was my dress and I was dying to see if it would fit (if it didn’t it was going to be a long weekend of whining, pouting and last minute panic shopping). I ripped it open, stripped down and put it on! Man oh man did it fit like a glove! (Party Rocker in the HOUSEEEEEEEE tonight) I picture texted the maids and then quickly ran over to Anu’s to model it off.