Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Lookin Fly Mr. Lipscomb

Thats right folks,
The gentlemen of this wedding party officially have their "Dress to Kill" outfits picked out for August 23, 2008. Pretty much the Lipscomb (and Lipscomb to be) wedding party is going to look super fly. Not only have us gentlemen picked out some serious awesome suits, my wonderful fiance and her bridesmaids picked out a beautiful dress for them to wear. I have heard rumor that my ladies wedding dress is pretty kickin as well although I am not aloud to hear the details of this dress.

178 days from now Amanda and I will be husband and wife. I have never been more excited about something in my entire life. We are going to have an amazing life together. God has been so faithful to show us the way and lead us down the path He has for our life together....it has been an amazing journey.

Keep us in your prayers as we are finishing up the planning for the actual day. We are both getting over different bugs as well...been sick for a couple of weeks now...and we are both ready to be feeling better.

Thats all for now!
-DJ

Sunday, February 24, 2008

The Countdown Begins!

So today marks our less than 6 months countdown! It is amazing that we are already at this point. Time has moved so quickly!

We are so glad to be through January and most of February because they were some of the hardest months of our lives, but we are so much closer than we've ever been.

Yesterday we really cracked down on our wedding planning. We've figured almost everything out. I will say that DJ has been the greatest. Without him, the wedding planning wouldn't get done! Sometimes I get so overwhelmed by all of the planning that I want to quit, but DJ pushes me to get through it. He can even remember the dress number for my bridesmaids in an emergency! I think its safe to say I have the best fiance ever!

Well, that's about it. I hope everyone is doing well. We love you guys!

-Amanda

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Wearing A Little Thin

I went to bed feeling like a defeated and not so great fiance, I woke up with a stiff neck as if I had been in a car wreck, and I was once again reminded that this part of my life is not over yet. My mom and I talked about how waking up through all of this mess is pretty hard to do. You fall asleep and things are bad, you wake up not knowing if things had been bad when you were asleep, and that reminds you about everything that is going on all over again.

I think I can safely and honestly tell you all that we are pretty beat up right now. In fact it feels good to just say it. We are struggling to make it through all of this. Amanda and I both have jobs (well currently I have two), we are trying to spend time at the hospital, we are trying to spend time with family, and somewhere in there we have to spend some time just being together....and it is really hard to do all of that.

For some reason I always end up confessing a lot in these blogs. Writing is great therapy and I need to do more of it. Yeah so confessing...I am not doing a good job of balancing my life out right now. It is effecting my sanity, but more importantly Amanda and I's relationship. We knew very well that these next few months were going to be tough. We knew a lot of our time would have to be sacrificed. But I dont think you can ever prepare for your world to be pulled out from under you. So, this is my apology to Amanda as it is a chance for me to be honest and say...We need some prayer and some encouragement. It is so easy to just let all of the bad take over all of the good.

Okay, now that I have been a little selfish I would like to say that my dad is doing pretty good. I get really anxious when he is okay though because I always assume something else is going to happen. But I saw him last night and he is doing well.

We are all so ready for him to be home and to moving on with the next stages.

Man, even sitting here now I just feel so stupid for some of the things that have come out of my mouth lately to Amanda....Im so sorry. If this whole deal has taught us anything it is that God has us together for a purpose and we need each other. I know we are pretty worn down right now but we have to keep pushing forward.

*sorry this was more of a journal post....I was in need to put my thoughts on paper*