It's true. It has OFFICIALLY arrived in stores and now has made it's entrance into our home....

THE LITTLE MERMAID!! YIPEE!!! John suprised Livie and myself with it last night and now we are the proud owners of the all-new digitally restored platinum 2-disk special edition Little Mermaid CD, complete with a special wrist-band lip gloss!! I know you are all jealous. If you ask nicely I MAY let you come over and watch it. (only if you sing along to the songs with me.)
What an awesome suprise that was, TOTALLY unexpected. We love you Johnny.

Earlier last evening I went with Amber (my newly-engaged sister-in-law) to look at wedding dresses. It was SO much fun seeing her light up when just the right one was slipped over her head and she looked in the mirror knowing it was the the right one. She asked me later if watching her made me want to try on wedding dresses and without thinking my immediate response was: "no."
I'm finding it hard to explain why-the only way I can describe it is that Yes, it was an absolute blast doing all that back when I was engaged and preparing for the wedding and everything. But I wouldn't wish ever to go back to all that anxiety and craziness surrounding the planning of your own wedding. It was fun, but I'm glad it's over with. It's awesome to do it once. Just once. But then what comes after is even better! I LOVE the marital unit that John and I have become. The wedding lasts all but one day, but the marriage lasts a life time and it is this never-ending journey of discovering who eachother is, and discovering new ways to fall in love all over again! I feel I am constantly striving to be the best possible mate to John that I can be. But thats the way it SHOULD be. Because I know he is doing the same for me.

I think one of the greatest things about not being newlyweds anymore is that our communication with eachother is SO much stronger. We let eachother know exactly what we need from one another-and we understand the importance of keeping the line of communication open. OK, by NO means are we first-class communicators, we will probably be trying to get eachother to 'open up' til we are 83, but it is good to know that we love and trust eachother enough to be honest about it.

Ok, so all that said, no more weddings for this girl, but I do expect PLENTY more hubby-lovin' in the years to come haha!!