Showers of Blessing

Last night was the bridal shower. It was so fun! I was really blessed by the sweetness and generosity of my family here. The girls decorated the room sooo nicely too! They had different wedding dresses displayed on sewing manequins, as well as some victorian decorations. It was an ice cream social - and there was lots of socializing. :) Thanks everyone - you all are amazing.

Finally an Update!

Songs have been picked out for the ceremony. Yay! :) Now I need to burn the to a CD so the sound guy can use it. Oh, and they need to be in the right order. I can see it now - I walk down the aisle to the song we're supposed to leave on. That's okay, I love all the songs we picked. :)

Josh has been really sweet and helping with stuff. We had a bubble wrapping race. I won. But to be fair, I have been doing it a little longer than Jimmy. I will say he was a pro at mint ball rolling - I was amazed. :)

I get my dress next Saturday!!! I'm soo excited. After the first week I bought the dress I was afraid I wouldn't like it anymore - but the next time I saw it I was relieved to find it was just as pretty.

Josh moves in to our apartment next week hopefully! The aparment managment has been doing some work on it, but it should be done by then. It will be so fun to set it up. The Lord provided a two bedroom apartment on the ground floor. It's near the pool too. Hooray!

In other new...pizza sounds really good.

The Cliffs of Insanity

Today was normal. Mostly.

I went with my sister to get a drink from downstairs. Like I said, it was normal. We past a tour in the gallery. That was normal as well. They seemed nice, like everyone else who tours the building.

So we got downstairs and I got some ddp (diet dr. pepper - yes i like it, sorry terri!). I popped the tab and then I had a volcano on my hands. Thankfully there was a cup nearby with ice so no permanent damage was done. Well, the table may have a permanent mark where a tiney bit spilt but the tables are weather stained anyway!

We walked up stairs again and noticed the nice tour was still there in the gallery right in our path. No problem, this is normal. We got to the 3rd step and I started tripping on my stupid flip-flops. Katie grabbed my arm to keep me from falling - but it was the arm with the hand that was holding my drink! It sort of became a fountain and I confess I squeaked. Out loud.

We beat a hasty retreat to the downstairs bathroom where I snatched some paper towels to mop up the mess. Katie stayed behind, mortified that she was related to me. It took two trips to clean up the mess, though it wasn't that bad. I think the funniest thing was seeing ice chips on the stairs.

Well we got it cleaned up, Katie didn't dis-own me (thank you Kates), and I still had some drink leftover. I love happy endings. :)

ps. I'm naming those stairs the Cliffs of Insanity.

The Story - Christy's Side

I figured I better start writting my side of our story before I put it off too long and never actually do it. :) Here goes:

The first time I met Josh was at an intern meeting August 3 years ago. All I remember thinking about him was that he was a nice guy and quiet, which I liked, but only in a passing thought. I pretty much didn't have him in my radar for a really long time. I thought I liked someone else so most of my aspirations marriage-wise were elsewhere. ;) Way to sneak up on me, Josh. hehe Serves me right for asking God to suprise me. :D

We became friends as he worked with one of my close friends and I ate lunch with her almost every day back then. He didn't know many people at the time so he ate with her, too. I felt bad for him being in girl company, so I tried to include him in the conversations or make sure we didn't talk about stuff that was too girly. He didn't say much usually, but he would turn red if I teased him. o:)

After a couple months we all were friends (a group of us hung out all the time). I thought things were more fun when Josh was around, but I just attributed it to him being a nice guy and all.

I was getting ready to leave for India and not come back for a year, so I was quite busy packing and finalizing details. For some reason I ended up doing lots of things with Josh that last week. I had suspicions that maybe he liked me, especially after my mom and dad both thought so and my mom asked me. He also knew to the day how long I was going to be gone. I was pretty upset and felt like Josh was ruining all my plans. I didn't like him like that at all! We were just friends that's it. haha

So after I left for India I didn't talk to him much at all. He perplexed me by sending a postcard, cd's and letters. I could almost always count on him to start conversations over instant messaging whenever online. I tried to talk to him without making him think I liked him - but that turned out to just be mean. Poor guy! I can't believe he stuck through all this to marry me.

So he wrote me an email late in the year asking if he had done anything that offended me since he noticed some tension between us. "That's right there's tension!" I was thinking... So I replied and let him know my concerns, making sure he knew I had no desire for anything beyond friendship. That ensued a lot of conversation back and forth so we could still be friends and not stay at odds.

I prayed a lot about this and finally just gave up my will to the Lord. I just wanted what He had in mind. He could have all I was hanging onto. That gave me a lot more peace. hehe

I came home for Christmas break and during that time the Lord showed me that I really did like Josh after all - I had simply assigned all these nice dreams and desires onto another person, when in actually that was Josh the whole time. It made a lot more sense to me after looking back on all our times together. I was soooo happy! I got to tell him a few days later after keeping him in suspence. hehe o:)

We started courting/dating and we did a lot of correspondence and phone calls over thousands of miles. He went to India for a year after I got back, so you can imagine the stress factor. We learned a lot through that time, though. I was so happy to have him home again in April!

In June, while sitting on a bench in a beautiful garden Josh asked me to marry him. I was so suprised and happy I had to ask him if he was serious - which he was. I told him yes I would. :)

And It's Out of There!!!

I sent the invitations out today. I feel so accomplished. hooray! One of my co-workers walked by with hers and was saying "I just don't know if I can make it...." *grin*

I'm so excited we get to share this special occasion with the family I've become a part of here in the ministry. They each are very special. I'm also excited that I can see my relatives from near and far! :D The weird thing is, I shall become an Aunt to 14 nieces and nephews automatically after getting married. Fun stuff!

In other news, I went to lunch with Josh yesterday and was feeling a little strange. Not because I was with Josh - but 'cause I was wearing a Punjabi (India dress) and not "normal" clothes. I was filling up our cups with water when I heard someone behind me talking to Josh. He was asking about us because he and his daughter noticed me wearing the Punjabi. He was from India and was sooo happy to see me wearing it. It was kind of cute. He kept grinning and saying how it was so nice and that his daughter thought so too. She was quietly smiling the whole time. How sweet of them. :)