Engaged! Now, How to Plan a Wedding?

Oh my goodness, are we really engaged?  Am I really engaged?  I could never have imagined my wildest dream would come true.  The love of my life has asked me to marry him.  I, of course, said YES!

Jerry and I started dating in July of 2011.  We actually met long before our first date.  I attended the annual Halloween party hosted by Liz and her roommates (before Jerry was one of them).  Our good friend Julie said to me, "Megan you have to meet Indiana Jones, you'd just love him!"  Well, that night I did not meet Indiana Jones, but two years later Julie convinced me to join a slow pitch softball league, and who happened to be on the team?  The one and only, Indiana Jones!!

How we got engaged, you ask?  Jerry and I had been talking for months about making a trip to Portland, Maine for a delicious seafood dinner and a special night out.  We decided we'd try just before Christmas.  Dinner reservations were booked, we even had a back-up plan for Boston, if we could not make the stand-by list to Portland.  

Weather had not been kind to many states the days prior to our departure date.  Flights had been cancelled and delayed - so many that the flight we were aiming for was over booked and the stand-by list was a mile long.  Portland, Maine was not going to happen.  So we waited for Boston.  Boston was not in the cards either.  Back home it was!

Jerry was planning ahead and booked a back-up to our back-up plan.  Reservations at Catch 35 in Chicago, we still were going to be able to enjoy that delicious seafood dinner we were hoping for! So he said he'd pick me up at 5.

Jerry arrives with a Whole Foods bag.  I'm thinking to myself, why on earth does he have this giant Whole Foods bag, we're going to dinner?!  He said he had an early Christmas gift for me. Christmas gift?  It isn't Christmas, I'm not opening anything, silly...  Well he said I had to.  So I open the present to find a wood box, he said open it!  I open the box to find a jewelry box inside.  Jerry asked if I  knew what it was.  I did not - the box was slightly larger than a typical ring box (or what I thought a typical ring box would look like) so I wasn't thinking he was going to propose!  And then he did!  Down on one knee, he asked and I said yes!  I couldn't believe it - I still can't believe it.  We're engaged!!  This really just happened?!

Apparently Jerry knew this was going to go his way - he pulled out a bottle of champagne from the Whole Foods bag (no wonder it was so large!) to celebrate.  And, girls, for those of you wondering - yes he did ask my dad.

WE'RE ENGAGED!!!!!!

December 22, 2012

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Celebrate people, young and old

Typically every year I make a birthday cake for a cousin of mine.  Well, cousin once removed, or second cousin.  What is a child of your first cousin?  Family trees can be confusing. 

She celebrated her third birthday this year, which means Disney themes are in high demand.  Who am I kidding, I would love a Little Mermaid cake, you never outgrow Disney.  However, they do seem slightly more appropriate when you aren’t approaching 30.

Speaking of 30, I also have the great pleasure of living in the same city as my older sister.  I have so much fun every year planning her birthday festivities, including the cake!  This year she requested a winter themed cake, fitting for December.  All white with clear sugar crystals.  Done.