I took a half day off of work because of a doctor's appointment, so I thought I'd update everyone on what we're doing. What a great day to have off, too...it's almost 80 and beautiful outside!
We're heading to New Orleans in a little over a week. Cody, Jean (his mom), and I are spending the week of spring break in New Orleans. We are both excited to get away for awhile. It's been a long time since I was there. I was in college and we didn't really get to see many of the sights.
We've set a date for the wedding and booked the church and reception site. Who knew how expensive a wedding would be! We will be getting married at my church here in Overland Park. We priced several reception sites and I was astounded by how much it would cost. We finally decided on the VFW which was much more reasonably priced than anything else we looked at by far. We have been getting prices for photographers...WOW! This is one of the most important expenses (in my opinion) so I want a good photographer but they are asking for a lot. Cody and I have both had mild freak-outs over the costs, but we're getting it all figured out. We are thinking about taking a 4 day cruise for our honeymoon, then maybe staying an extra night or two in Miami. I feel good about the progress we've made in planning. We've only been engaged for a couple of weeks.
The plan has always been for us to buy a house this summer, but Susan just emailed me a listing that is too good of a deal to pass up. We are going to look at the house tonight with Brandilyn (Cody's cousin's wife--a real estate agent). I don't know what we'll do if we like it...we don't want to buy the first house we look at, but we also don't want to pass up a steal (if we like it) just to look around some more. I'm super excited to go look at the house!
