One year...

T-minus 365 days...

On April 3 of this year, I got engaged to one of the greatest guys in the world. Jacob and I have been dating for almost four and a half years now. We met at the grocery store we both worked in through school. I was 19 when we went on our first date (a local haunted trail on Halloween night, 2004) and 20 when I called him my boyfriend. We've had our share of ups and downs and even did the long-distance relationship when Jacob lived in Alabama for work in 2007-early 2008. But through it all, he has been my source of support and strength and my best friend.

Five months of our engagement have already flown by, and I am seriously caught up in the whirlwind that is planning a wedding. It is insanity! I never realized how time consuming and overwhelming the entire situation could potentially be. Luckily, we set a date pretty far into the future (September 2010) and I have gotten the major things for the wedding booked and ready to go (ceremony and reception sites, caterer, photographer, minister, etc.)...but there is still a long way to go to make this the perfect day! Piecing it all together will take some serious thought and planning.

And this is where I plan to document that journey. This blog is more for myself, so that I may take some time to document my engagement period (and the planning process) and truly grasp all that is going on around me. As the wise Ferris Bueller once said, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." And I certainly do not want to look around in 6 or 12 months and wonder where the time went!

In 365 days, I will be Kristin Kelly. I'm really excited!! So much to do, but so much fun to have along the way!