What an awesome weekend! Mick and I just returned from my sister's home in Southern California. We left Friday after I got off work and just got back here a bit ago. It was a fun-filled weekend.
Saturday we slept in a bit (something I treasure!) and played with my niece who gets smarter every time I see her. She is three and at the "why?" stage. After I finally got out of my pajamas, Mick went with me to the cemetery where my maternal grandparents are buried. My mom had asked us to go and put flowers on their graves. It was set up beautifully for Memorial Day with flags on the graves of everyone who served in the armed forces, and so my grandparents both had a flag. It was emotional, telling grandma all of the changes in my life since I last saw her. Meeting Mick and getting engaged, getting ready to move away. But that's all sad talk, let's move on... Then we went and met my best friend, Tabatha, and her husband Remy for Hangover 2 and sushi. It was a very fun night.
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| My wedding band. |
Sunday we spent hours at the mall. We had lunch at Johnny Rockets then wandered around, mostly looking for a wedding band for me. We didn't really find anything that worked great with my engagement ring or that I just had to have. So we headed back to the house. Then I was whisked away by my sister BACK to the mall for a marathon shopping trip to find a dress for the engagement party she and my mom are throwing for me and Mick the weekend before we fly out to England. My sister is an awesome person to shop with. She grabs EVERYTHING and just makes you try it on, even if you don't like it. I ended up getting a very cute pink, satin dress that I never would have tried on if she hadn't made me. We also looked at wedding bands at Macy's and found one I liked. Then we had dinner at Taco Bell and headed back to the house where we found Mick and my brother in law playing a third round of The Lady Bug Game with my niece. She wanted to play more after, so I played a game with her. She's so, so smart and I want to spend as much time with her as I can before I leave.
This morning I drug Mick back to Macy's so he could see the ring. We ended up getting it. The photo on top is the one we ended up getting, more or less. I couldn't find a photo of it on Macy's site so I had to find a similar one somewhere else. The second is a photo of it with my engagement ring. I'm still working on figuring how to move photos in a post so be patient with me please!
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| My band and engagement ring. |
After the jewelery store we headed back to the house for a shower and to pack up our stuff. When we walked in the door I got a big hug from my niece and she told me she was going to miss me when we left for Yuma. I told her we'd be back in a few weeks for five whole days, which made her very happy. I haven't had the heart yet to tell her that after that I won't see her until next spring. My sister's boss was having a Memorial Day BBQ so we headed over to their house for about a half hour to just say hello before we hit the road. We grabbed some lunch and off we went! After 6 hours, an accidental detour, spilling gas on my foot and making the car smell we made it home! Not quite ready to start the work week, but it's a busy week with appointments and packing and cleaning, so I might as well get it all started!
Hope you all had a great holiday weekend :)
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