through good times and bad

Allen and I have had quite a few ruff patches since we started dating. 10 months before we began dating, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. 6 months after we started dating I was diagnosed with epilepsy. But he looked past all that and saw me. He went to doctors appointments with me, sat with me through the seizures, medication changes, drove me wherever when i couldn't drive. He truly is my prince charming that God sent me.

Tomorrow is my seven year MRI. Tomorrow is also the corresponding appointment, which usually never happens on the same day. Seven years since my parents were told that I (their oldest daughter) had a brain tumor that needed to be removed. May 13 was the day my mother was told there was something in my brain. June 11, surgery day. I still get antsy every year. Although i know the routine of it all i still have the worst anxiety about it. 

a mark off the list

51 days and counting. I knew it would go by fast but not as fast as it has gone so far. Saturday, we will have been engaged 6 months. That's 182 days that have gone by. Progress has been made since Saturday.

Met with the caterer on Monday. Reception planned. Food decided. Cake finally picked if I don't change my mind again for like the 20th time. Invitation envelopes addressed but not stuffed yet. Hopefully going to get part of that accomplished today. 

Wedding shower #1 was a bust. Well it was a couples shower. Then it rained and rained and rained. So all the activities that went along with the shower were to be canceled too. I, well we, just made the executive decision to cancel it. Allen's coworkers still came over, well a 3 of them, and we grilled out. We were both pretty bummed but it was a nice evening.

What's left on the list?

56 days in counting.

Things are starting to slow down yet speed up in an instance. All but 1 of the bridesmaids dresses are in (my sister's being the one left). Luckily hers doesn't need to be hemmed like two of the others.

Allen and I are doing well. We have our days when I am so stressed and he is stressed. one of us says something that sets the other off. Example: wedding rings are not picked or ordered. But in the end the love is all that matters.