I'm Getting Married!

So Spring Break was eventful...I'm engaged! Some of my closest girl friends and I took a trip to Big Bend Ranch State Park for a long weekend. Monday morning, the day we were going to drive home, I awoke to someone playing Dane and my favorite song on the guitar. I crawled out of my tent, as the sun was coming up, and my friend Daniel was playing and singing, and Dane's roommate Sean, along with Kelli, Heather, and Kristen were all taking pictures. And there was Dane, standing a few feet away with a blanket to wrap around me since it was so cold. So, in the middle of the desert, just as the sun came up, he dropped to one knee and asked me to marry him. I love this man!

As far as planning goes, thanks to mom, we accomplished a lot of major steps toward the wedding within our first week of engagement. We set our date for January 8, 2011. From there, we booked a reception site, a ceremony site, bought my wedding dress, picked out the bridesmaid dress and groomsmen attire, and decided on my wedding colors. Now we can relax a little with the planning since we still have half a semester left of school. Whew!

it's been awhile...

So I admit I have not kept up with this site for quite some time, so apologies, but now having said that I'll just jump right in to what is currently going on instead of covering what has happened between my last post and now.

Spring semester is always the busiest, for whatever reason. It just consistently feels more overwhelming than the fall, but I find that the business of it keeps me motivated to get so much more done, and I tend to enjoy it more for that.

This has not been the best semester for finances in the least. I've cut out a few things due to the overwhelming costs, but praise be to God, I finally received my financial aid for this semester and felt an immediate relief of this financial burden I've had. God is good!

In other news, I've begun making designs for a friends band. I've been working a lot with watercolor and ink and am having an absolute blast creating different designs. They needed help coming up with the name, so I made samples with various titles I came up with. So here's what I've come up with so far...

I'll post more art as it comes. I have a few more designs already but need to scan and edit them still.