My First Bridal Shower Experence!!! :)

Ok, so last Saturday (March 21) I had the privilege of having my wonderful sister Ashley and my beautiful sister in law Shelly throw me a awesome bridal shower here in Utah. This was tons of fun with great food and just a really good experience every bride should have! We played 2 games, Bridal Bingo, this is where the guests guess what is in the brides presents and as she opens them you cross off the ones you guessed till you get 4 in a row and shout BINGO!!! The other game was "who knows who better". This game was very funny and lots of fun. My sister Ashley filmed Joe answering a series of questions about himself and if I got the answer wrong then I was given a piece of gum to chew and then she filmed him answering a series of questions about me and if he got them wrong then the guest got to draw on my lovely face! ( hence the pictures below) This was a lot of fun and was great to see a lot of my friends and family. I want to give a special thanks to all that could make it and made that day so amazing and fun for me & Thank you all for all you generous gifts Joe and I appreciate them more then you know! :)
Thank you
Chalee drawing on my face because Joe Got an answer wrong:
Guests enjoying the answers Joe is giving on t.v.:

Guest sign in table and the generous gift pile:
Alisha, Chalee, Megan and Jen gave us the cookie sheets that Joe and I debated about for like an hour in the store when we were registering yay:
My Lovely decorated face: Guest Pic #2 enjoying each other:

Our Engagement Photos

Last week we finally took our engagement photos and we love how they turned out, however it was a freezing, extremely bright, and horribly windy day so it made taking these kinds of pictures difficult, but our photographer ( my sister in law Shelly Gardner www.memoriescapturedbyshelly.com) did an amazing job and lucky we had a bunch that we absolutely love. The pictures have a modern feel to them that is totally us. (Thus, all the bright colored lively backgrounds.) We definitely didn't realize how difficult of a choice it is to pick the one that will go in our invitations, but i think we finally made our decision, which one do you think it will be?! ha-ha but here are a few pictures that we love!!!

RING!!!

MY BEAUTIFUL SHINY RING!!!!!!!!!!
(My wedding band will be coming soon then we will get them sottered (don't know if that is how you spell it :/) together before the wedding!)

We are ENGAGED!!!!!

YUP!!! Thats right you heard it correct... we are engaged!! After 2 1/2 years of dating we are finally tying the knot on May 22, 2009! Joe proposed on Jan 1, 2009 while we saw the lights on temple square (salt lake city) for the last time (before they took them down till next Christmas) in a beautiful horse drawn carriage ride! He was so cute about it and it was a wonderful way to be proposed to that we will never forget!
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For those of you who don't know- Joe and I first met on June 20th 2006 while he was playing tennis with some friends of ours. We clicked right away and also discovered we are form the same home town (Poway) and our families have known each other for a long time but since there is a 4 year age difference between us, we never crossed paths till I moved to Utah to go to school. We then began to date right away casually and then seriously and now almost 3 years down the road we are getting married! yay
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We are very EXCITED and can't wait till May 22, 2009 to begin our eternity of life together.... (oh ya... and our amazing honeymoon vacation) ;)