The Say yes to the dress feeling

I always figured it'd be very easy to find my wedding dress. I'd always been the type of person like liked the first thing I tried on. But as I've come to find out shopping for probably the most important garment you'll ever wear can be a little daunting. It's not like a prom dress that docent really matter, this is the only dress you get. I went to a few store the other week when I was in Indiana and I went to two more today. Maybe I'm putting too much pressure on the"idea" of a wedding dress. I'm still waiting to have that"say yes to the dress" moment like I've been waiting for and it hasn't happened yet. Perhaps not everyone has that moment, but shouldn't it feel like you don't ever want to take the dress off? Ive found plenty of dresses that I think are beautiful but none that have pushed me over the edge. I don't know if I'm just being unreasonable in my thinking but i want to have that "say yes" moment and think every bride should.
I think I'm putting too much pressure on my self,the moment will come and maybe ive already found the dress I just need to wait until I'm in the proper mindset to fully enjoy the experience.

Inspiration

In honor of valentines day and love I've been doing some searching in the Internet for wedding ideas. I know I'm probably way behind on this but I just descovered EtsY.com and I'm find so many thing I want for the wedding! I've kinda been jumbled about wedding colors/theme but these items have inspired me to make a final decision








I really love Tiffany blue but didn't want to incorporate it in the wedding because I feel it's a cliche color. But pairing it with the blush and taupe give it a great new life. I love the idea of the lace and rhinestones and I'd love to add some pearls into it as well.
Yay inspiration!
Happy valentines everyone!

Engagement and puppy training

Well for those who didn't know, Dustin asked me to marry him on New Years Eve and along with the proposal came a new addition. Chloe is our new little beagle puppy. I was so excited and happy for both the engagement and the puppy. She is a little ball of energy who does not like to be put in her kennel and loves to sit on your lap. It's so neat to see her little personality develop and mess around with her. Today she turns 3 months and I can't believe how big she's gotten Justin the few weeks we've had her. I want her to stay small forever, but becoming potty trained would be a plus.
Dustin and I havent done too much in regards to planning our wedding. We've brainstormed ideas and talked about tentative plans but nothing detonate yet. I'm surprised in how calm I am about it right now. I always thought I'd be out picking a dress right after I got engaged. But I've always been a procrastinator so that might work against me in this wedding planning. Right now I'm just happy to be engaged and want to take time to enjoy that part of our relationship. A lot of couples rush straight into planning and dont take the time to enjoy this period in the relationship.
We did go to a bridal convention today and plan on going to one tomorrow in Oklahoma city. Dustin is just beyond thrilled about it (insert sarcasm). But it's good for us to go and get ideas. I have a general idea in my mind of what I want the wedding to be like but we've got time to figure it out.

2010 was quite a year...

Well 2010 was quite a year, a lot happened between Dustin and I

In febuary dusin found out he was going ti Oklahoma State University for graduate school and to work with the cowboy football team. It was a change of plans from what we originally thought but we were going to make the best of it.

In march we flew out to Oklahoma for the first time and checked out the place. Stillwater was a lot smaller then Phoenix but a college town. We found places to live and got acquainted with the place

In may both Dustin and I graduated from college. I graduated with a degree in history and public policy and a minor in religious studies from Arizona State and Dustin graduated from Purdue with a degree in Sports medicine..
We then left for St. Thomas a few weekns later to have one big vacation before we'd leave for Oklahoma.

In June Dustin moved from Indiana to oklahoma and in July I joined him out there.

Septemper October and November consisted of getting used to this new place, meeting new people and OSU football games!
Oklahoma state went 11-2 this year and Dustin was happy to be apart of it.

In December Dustin got to go home for a little but and we started planning for Christmas. I went home for Christmas and Dustin went with the football team to San Antonio for the Alamo bowl against Arizona

He was back by New Years eve and we decided to just spend it in together since we had dent seen each other for awhile.

And as 2010 came to an end, Dustin asked me the most important thing of all

"Will you marry me?"

Merry Christmas from Oklahoma!

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM GINA AND DUSTIN!

Aparently it gets cold in certain parts of the country...

So i can't say fall has "snuck up" on me because it wasn't like it slowly began to get cold, all of a sudden one day i walked out to my car and there was frost (frozen water for all you arizona folks) on my car. At first i tried doing all i knew how to do...turn on my windshield wipers. When that only proved to scrap over the ice and not take it off, i resorted to a dumb plan B, wipe the ice off with my hand...nope that didn't work either and only suceeded to make my hands freezing. So finially i remembered my dad had given me an ice pick and said "someday you'll need this" well this someday was today. So i ran back to my apartment grabbed my ice pick and attempted to do something I never thought i'd ever do.
Now I've been told its only going to get colder here and while I like the change of the seasons, i don't think i'm prepared for it. I did an inventory of my "winter wear" the other day and it just isn't quite up to Oklahoma par. Heck in AZ we wear flip flops through winter!
So i went out and bought socks, gloves a coat, but i still don't know how I'm going to do this whole cold weather thing.
Ah well it's all part of the adventure.....

I'm terrible...

I really have become quite terrible at updating. Its not that I have nothing to talk about, its just I remember at the wrong times that i need to update.
Well its still football season which means Dustin's still super busy and seeming to get busier now since the Cowboys are UnDEFEATED! It's awesome becuase they thought they would never do this well and their projected to go to a bowl game. The Insight Bowl is in the running which would be AWESOME becuase its in Tempe and it'd be great to go back there and show everyone my old stomping ground.
Homecomming is this weekend and aparently its a pretty big deal (just like every other game here). SO that should be fun.
Ok enough about football (even though that seems to be determining my life lately).
My Mom came the other weekend and stayed for about 5 days. It was nice to have her here and have someone from home. It did make me miss home a lil but I'm content being here and even though everyday is an adjustment I'm happy and thankful for the new experiences (and being with Dustin!)
And in other news.....my little Buggie is no more...I have officially gotten rid of the bug and purchased a new car. I had to think about it for about a month and a half but I finially decided on a black 2 door cobalt. It nice to have a car thats reliable and new but it was a little bittersweet saying goodbye to the bug. I've yelled at it many of times, but we've been though a lot together. But my new car is nice..i even went and bought some car wax and cleaner and took it to the car wash today. SO hopefully I can keep up this routine.
Well hopefully it wont be another month before the next update and I'm sure more even will be happening...