Just for you, Tracey

My future cousin, Tracey Perkins (yes, she's white!), asked about my bridesmaid dresses and flower girl dresses since her daughter, Cayla is in the wedding. I know that my bridesmaids want to see the dresses also so I'm going to try to post a picture from David's Bridal on here. If not, I'm going to the Bridal Extravaganza this weekend and then to David's so I can take some pictures there.

Bridesmaids Card

Bridal Party

Here is a run down of our current bridal party. We have not finished asking everyone yet. It's hard getting in touch with everyone when we are all in different places.

Maids of Honor: Jamie and Jill (my sisters)

Best Men: Luke and Jake (Nick's brothers)

Bridesmaids: Alicea Pohler, Debbie Patek, Shelley Winkenwerder, Dawn Raab, Leslie Beach, Sarah Beth Groover, Jenna Popp, and one that has not been asked yet. (will post your name later :)

Flower girls: Emery Goerig, Kyleigh Schafer, and Micayla Perkins (all are Nick's cousins)

Ring Bearer: Jacob Spann (my 2nd cousin)

Groomsmen: Ross Spann, Ryan Spann, Jason Ward, Joe Mask and four that have not been asked yet. (will post names later)

Junior Groomsmen: Jaace Chumchal (my brother)

Junior Bridesmaid: Courtney Schafer

Yes, we have a big bridal party, but each and every person is special to us in some way or another and it was so hard to make the final decision. The list still could have gone on, but I had to stop somewhere!!

So, Saturday at Desi's wedding I asked Alicea, Debbie, and Shelley...three of my closest running buddies to be in the wedding. I brought them outside and gave them there baggies. It was AWESOME! They were in tears as they read their cards and of course we had a huge group hug. I love these crazy girls and I CANNOT WAIT TIL THE BACHELORETTE PARTY!!!

(below is a horrible picture some random guy took for us!)

Half Moon Holidays Weekend

This past Saturday, 7-7-07, was our annual Half Moon Holidays celebration. We've had SO much rain lately that they had to move it to town. Friday night Nick and I got into Shiner at about 6:45. We had to pick Sophie up from Jamie in Hallettsville because she had rehearsal for Desi's wedding. Sophie was sick so we took her straight home. Then we went to Dad's office where they were going to hold the cookoff. It was a great opportunity for us to ask my cousin, Ryan, to be in the wedding. Ryan was actually Nick's friend before I knew Nick. Ryan and Ross invited Nick to Bocktoberfest so I owe it all to them that I found the man of my dreams! We asked Ryan and he seemed pretty excited about being in the wedding.

Saturday morning we watched the parade and hung out at the cookoff for a while and then headed home to get ready for Desi's wedding. The wedding was GREAT! I finally got to hang out with three of my greatest friends since our engagement. I knew Alicea, Debbie, and Shelly would be at the wedding so I had to try to convince the girls to come outside with me so that I could ask them to be in the wedding.

I made these super cute cards for my bridesmaids. I put them in a brown bag with a bottle of wine. I didn't want to just call up my friends and ask them to be in the wedding and I thought that this was a very cute and a much more personal, special way of asking.

THE dress

Just like every other bride, the first dress I tried on was THE dress. After Nick and I settled on March 29th as the date rather than December 29th I needed figure out what colors to go with. I am not big into the springy colors so I was a little worried. I had an idea of what I wanted the bridesmaid dresses to look like, but no color. Well, Sarah Beth (Jake's girlfriend and bridesmaid) and I were going to go shopping in Sugar Land. There's a David's Bridal right down the road so I just wanted to pop in to see what kind of dresses they had. She encouraged me to just try a dress on. I was hesitant because Mom, Nick's Mom, Jamie and Jill weren't there, but I figured that I would not find a dress anyway. No harm in trying a few on, right? WRONG! The first one I tried on was the one! I called Jamie to come to Sugar Land right away to see it. She left work early and came over. The lady proceeded to tell me that the sale they were having was ending that evening! Ugh! Of course it was ending. I called Mom and told her she needed to come over ASAP. I called Mrs. Popp to see if she could come see as well. Jamie, Sarah Beth, and I drove back to Wharton, picked up Mrs. Popp and drove to East Bernard to pick up Mom. We all rode to Sugar Land from East Bernard together. I tried on several dresses that were not the one. Then tried on THE dress...they all agreed that it was FABULOUS! Jamie (sister and Maid of Honor) tried on several bridesmaid dresses. There was one that looked GREAT! It's a dress that all of my bridesmaids will be so comfortable in. And I'm sure they will all LOVE me for it! :) The colors we finally decided on are persimmon (deep orangish), brown, and ivory.

The next day

The next day (Wednesday) I had a hair appointment at 7:00am and a job interview in Eagle Lake at 1:00pm. I interviewed for the job and scheduled a second interview. Everyone seemed super nice and down to earth there. We postponed our moving out of apartments until that Friday. That evening Nick had another tractor to deliver to Brenham. The ride was nice because we were by ourselves and we got to talk about all that is to come and the prior evening.

The rest of the engagement evening

Nick and I wanted to call everyone to tell them we were engaged, but we wanted to tell our family first. How could we pull this off in a matter of a few hours? Well....we did it! We called Nick's parents and told them to meet us in East Bernard at our favorite Mexican restaurant, Los Amigos. We told them my parents were in Victoria and wanted to come eat with us. We called my parents and told them that I got a job and we wanted them to come celebrate with us. Everyone was to meet us there around 7:30pm. Nick and I had a few hours to burn in the meantime. We couldn't go home because his family would know and we wanted everyone to find out at the same time. I was DYING to tell someone. Nick wouldn't let me call anyone because our parents had to be the first to know. Ok, I understood that. Try to keep a girl from telling SOMEONE that she just got engaged. We ran into Wal-Mart because I got an itch to get a t-shirt and some iron-on letters and make a shirt that said "Future Mrs. Popp." We bought all of the goods, even an iron, to run to their farm to make the shirt. While we were checking out I had to tell the checkout girl that I just got engaged! So, some stranger was the first one to know, but I couldn't keep it in. I walked through the aisles gazing at my gorgeous rock....I flashed my ring in every mirror or silver plated shelf I passed by so I could see what it looked like on my finger. We went to the barn, sooo hot, to make the shirt. It was NOT working! We decided to quit trying and go to the restaurant.

We walked, very casually, into the restaurant. Gave my parents a hug and kiss and sat down next to my mom and kinda caddie cornered to Mrs. Popp. Mom noticed the ring right away. She looked at me, smiled, and said "What's THAT?" I just smiled and Nick's mom didn't know what was going on. Mrs. Popp asked several time, "What's what?" Then she figured it out and flew out of her chair. Of course, everyone was ecstatic on our WONDERFUL news! I tried calling Jamie but she was at a play. Luke and Jenna were on their honeymoon, but Nick still called them and filled them in. I went through my phone and called anyone and everyone that evening. Well, not really....it was late by the time I could start calling everyone so I called those that I knew were up. I continued calling the next day....