I found my dress!!!

I went to David's Bridal on Friday with my mom and my aunt and grandma who were in town from Colorado. We were just going to look at picking out a color for the wedding... no plans to even try on dresses. After we had picked a color, my mom suggested that I try on a few dresses just for fun. I started looking through the dresses and the first one I saw was VERY poofy! My mom rolled her eyes and told me to go ahead and try it on... her expectations weren't very high. As soon as I walked out of the fitting room, everyone's jaws literally dropped... it was PERFECT!!! It fits me like a GLOVE! I won't have to have ANY alterations done to it at ALL! So before deciding for SURE that this was the one, we tried on a few other dresses... just to be sure. Every single dress was, "Nope... the first one was it." So after swooshing around in the dress and literally glowing, I finally decided that yes, I needed to put the deposit down on the dress. I just wasn't going to find anything that even compared to that one. AND the dress was only $449! A TON of the other ones that we were looking at were $700-$800! I couldn't believe how cheap it was for how detailed and GORGEOUS it was! And THEN I talked to Joe today and told him that I was just waiting for my tax money to come in so that I could pay the rest of it and take the dress home. Unfortunately, I wasn't 100% certain that my taxes would come in before I had to leave on Wednesday. So he gave the go-ahead to use his money to pay for the dress and put the money back as soon as my taxes came in! WOOHOO!!! So I'm going in with my mom tomorrow to try the dress on one final time and then take it home! I am SO excited! :) :) And to top it ALL off.... I put my first wedding dress on Craigs List just to see if there's any chance it would sell at all. Quite frankly, I just wanted to get rid of it... I didn't really care how much it sold for. And I got an e-mail from a lady saying that she will pay me $500 for the dress!! All I have to do is mail it to her in Texas!!! So basically.... she paid for my wedding dress! It all worked out so perfect... I couldn't even believe it. :) :)

Saying Goodbye....... again

Well, I had to take Joe to the airport today. Just thinking about it brings me to tears. He was so quiet the entire ride to the airport. I guess the reality of it all really hit him and he was really depressed. I am so worried about him. He encountered hostile fire just 2 weeks before he came home on leave and I'm so afraid that it's going to keep happening. Now that he's put a ring on my finger, I'm so worried that he'll never make it to the wedding. I know that I can't let myself think that way because it will just get me permanently depressed.... but it's still so hard. The kids took the goodbye a LOT better than I did.... I think it's because they don't understand that not only is he gone, but he's also not in a safe location. It's probably best that they don't know EVERYTHING. But since I obviously do, it just makes it so hard to let him go. When he woke up this morning and put on his uniform, I about cried right there. All I want in this life is for him to come home SAFE. Nothing else really matters at this point. So please keep him (and the kids and I too) in your prayers... we all really need it.