Back in the good ol' USA

Well we're back! I'm still sort of "recovering" from the trip. I can't seem to sleep past about 4 or 5am yet. But that will pass soon I'm sure. Last night we had the whole family over to the Rosens house for dinner and to show off all our pictures and everything. It was so much fun! My parents and Aunt Shirley and Uncle George were there with Daniel's parents too. I love that our families get along so well. We are in Phoenix until next Monday when we'll fly back to Denver.

So besides recovering from our life-changing trip, now I am obsessed with getting a dog. I kind of have been for months, but now it's like all I think about. Every dog I see I want! I am so excited that in one week, we will have our very own brand new puppy!

Yesterday I got my hair cut and I'm not very happy with it. I asked for layers, so she gave me lots of layers. The shortest layer is a good 6 inches shorter than the longest layer. So it's almost like tiered in the back. Yuck. I have discovered that putting the top half up eliminates the "tiered" look, so I guess until it grows out I'll be wearing it up a lot. Or until I can learn to be happy with it.

This morning my Dad took out me and Daniel for breakfast. It was really nice. Then Daniel and I went shopping for clothes. Daniel shrunk all his clothes about 6 months ago and has been putting up with them ever since. I am sooo happy that he finally got some new clothes. I think his whole wardrobe was looking a little shabby. We got him a pair of jeans, two shorts, and 3 polos for $85! Yay Kohl's! We also looked for me, but all I ended up with was one pair of jeans. I finally got a pair of skinny jeans. I like them a lot, but everything else didn't look right. I've been in sort of a shopping slump the past few months. I have no motivation to go shopping and when I do I feel like I can't find anything I like. Which I guess is sort of a blessing. Except it makes me depressed when I do go shopping. It's not that I think I'm fat, or ugly, or anything like that. I just don't like anything.

So tonight we're having dinner with my parents and we'll probably spend the evening with Daniel's parents. It's really hard to balance the two families. To be honest, I enjoy spending time with Daniel's parents more. They are more interested in chatting with us and they are so encouraging and positive and excited for us all the time. I'm sure my parents are too, but they don't show it as much. We are sleeping at my parents house now though to help keep it even. They redid a ton of the house, so I don't have a bedroom here anymore. My bedroom is now my mom's office, and the old guest room is now my dad's office. Nicole's room is sort of both of our bedroom because they moved my bed into her room. It's kind of cute, it looks like the room we would have shared growing up. The guest room is now in my dad's old office/mom's sewing room. It was nice that they set it all up for us and are letting us share a bed and a room now. I guess since we're engaged, everyone feels okay with us together.

Tomorrow is my mom's day off so we're going to see Julie and Julia. Then on Friday I have an eye doctor appointment and Sarah is coming over for dinner! I am so excited to see her, it's been a while since we've hung out. We have so much to catch up on. And on Saturday we are going to see Harry Potter 6 with Daniel's parents and the Rosens are having a dinner party with a ton of our mutual friends. On Sunday it's church, and Monday morning we fly back to Denver. I am so excited to go home and spend more time in our new house and get a PUPPY!!!

This is seriously the best time of our lives. I feel like we are living a fairy tale. It's almost not fair to the rest of the world that our life is so amazing. :-)