Wedding Announcements

I haven't posted for a while (other than MilSpouse and Monday blogs) because I've been really busy!  After moving down here I've had my work cut out of me.  My days have been filled with taking my grandma to Arkansas for doctors visits or Branson for hair appointments, unpacking and repacking my things that I moved in to moms basement, trying to tie up any other loose ends that need to be taken care of, as well as the surprisingly large task of completing wedding announcements for our friends and family.  Although we are getting married in Hawaii and only inviting our parents and although we don't expect gifts or anything of the support, we thought it would be good to send a formal announcement of our engagement.  I thought it would be a good idea to make them all by hand.  This was a fun task to perform, however, I didn't expect it to take the amount of time that it did.  Even though I spent a lot of time on them and quite a bit more money than expected, I was very happy with the finished product.

outside of announcements with sunflower stamp



front of our announcements with our picture on the front



inside of our announcements

After the announcements were sent out I didn't even think about the fact that I might start hearing from the recipients.  I was so happy and overjoyed to hear from all of my friends receiving announcements and also my crazy amazing cousin down in Florida!  My friends are such amazing people and I feel so happy to have their support and love!  Even though many of them already knew about our engagement and wedding, and many of them had never met Levus before, they all offered support and congratulations!  Some asked what and where to send our gifts, which was very surprising and unexpected and one of my good friends (who also happens to have a blog out in the blogosphere) even sent me a picture of our wedding announcement on her fridge, which I feel is a huge honor!



I feel so lucky to have such wonderful friends that support Levus and me.  Because of my many moves and my friends moves I have been living many miles away from a lot of those friends for quite a while, but we have still managed to stayed in contact.  Knowing that my friends will be there for me no matter where in the world we end up living makes me feel a warm fuzzy inside that I didn't know was there.

On Tuesday Levus' family is coming from Kentucky to meet my mother and grandmother, and for the two weeks following we will be going on a road trip up to Wisconsin to meet most of their family and then back down to Kentucky to visit a bit longer before my wedding shower that my future mother-in-law is putting on for me.  I'm excited to be spending time with them and I'm excited to get the opportunity to meet so much of the family that has been so supportive of us so far!  I may not have the chance to get on here too often to update, but I will do my best as I have time!

Aloha! (I'm practicing... just one more month from next Friday till I'm back in Hawaii with my love!)