Engagement Photos Part 3

Last Christmas Apart

This is the last year we will be spending Christmas apart. I am trying to make every moment of it last. Not in a bad way, but this is the last year where I can go see my family for a week at Christmas. I know next year, we both won't have that much vacation time, and as we will be married we will want to not only spend the holiday together, but split our time between his family and mine. I am going to be in Oklahoma for a week and am so excited. I hope to put together lots of puzzles, play dominoes and cards, and make some great sweets. I'm sure he is looking forward to his time at the house, watching whatever he wants on tv, being lazy, and not picking up the house for one week. I am already preparing myself that when I get home I will have to clean my house from top to bottom. As we don't live together D likes to stay there when I am gone to "watch" the house. I am really convinced it's for the garage, food, and DVR.

In the christmas spirit here is a picture of our gingerbread houses we made with some awesome friends. The girl's is on the left and the boy's is on the right. I know ours is the best :)

More Engagement Photos!

Here are some more photos J edited for us. I cannot decide what I am going to print for the house! So many choices. I love them all!!

Nebraska

As I have mentioned we went to Bassett for Thanksgiving. Bassett's population is a whopping 618 people. It is very cold there and they even had snow on the ground while we were there. It wasn't much, just a dusting that was left from the snow a week before. While there we got a full tour of the town... We saw the grocery store, pizza parlor, post office, library, gas station and variety store. That pretty much sums up the town of Bassett. It is VERY small. It is one of those towns where you can leave your car running while in the grocery store and it will be okay. I enjoyed our visit (and lots of wine), but decided a small town is NOT for me. I can't imagine not being able to go to a movie or target without it being a 2+ drive!

Since there is not much to do in Bassett I put together a lot of puzzles, they watched football, we went on car rides, and I got to look at a lot of scrapbooks. It was so nice to see pictures of Derek's family. I feel like I know the extended family even though I have not met all of them :).

Here are some pictures of D I saw while looking through scrapbooks.

Isn't he just the cutest?! I have no doubt that if we are blessed enough to have a baby or two they will 

be just a cute as he is. 

And here is a picture of their house with all the lights on it. 

Our Trip

Thanksgiving was great. It was very low key. We had dinner at 1:00 with just Derek's grandparents. We opened a bottle of wine and we took naps around 3:00 :) Here are some action shots from Thanksgiving.

Derek carved the turkey, and did a fantastic job. Look at the little name tags Allie made for our spots for dinner. Aren't they so cute?!

And she made this awesome cranberry salad. The bottom was jello salad and the top was cranberry. She even gave me the recipe and little pans so I can make it at Christmas for my grandparents. I think they would love it!

Road Trip

D and I survived our first real road trip. We drove to Bassett Nebraska, which is 9.5 hours away. Derek and I have VERY different opinions of a road trip. I was looking forward to fun times singing songs, play road games, and talking. He on the other hand wanted to listen to books on CDs the WHOLE time and NOT talk at all. I mean when I tried to talk to him when the book was playing, he did not like it and told me to be quiet. That is extremely boring to me, I need to be entertained. I was driving on the way there in the dark, on roads I have never driven on, and had to listen to a book.... NOT entertaining or fun. He also does NOT speed while driving on road trips. It makes no sense to me because in town he is a crazy driver, but while on the highway he just went the speed limit. Not even 1 speed over. When I was driving and was wanting to go faster (come on we were on the road so long going faster would have shortened the trip even a little) he got onto me to slow down. NOT cool. But in the end we survived :). Our first road trip was all in all okay.

Nebraska Here We Come!!!!!!!

Derek and I are going to Bassett Nebraska for Thanksgiving. We are going to see his grandparents. From my understanding Bassett is north of Lincoln. Stay tuned for our fun adventure as we make a 9.5 hour car trip together.

Our Wedding Website

While I just wanted to keep everyone posted on the Blog with all the details of our wedding and fun times we have up until then. Derek was NOT okay with that. He hates the idea of me blogging (he will get over it), but was okay with a wedding website. It is still in the works, but I wanted to share the link with you.

Here is the link to our website: http://www.theknot.com/wedding/Derek-and-Alissa

Like I said it isn't completely done yet, and I need Derek's input on a few things. But on this website you can see all the details about the wedding and where we will register. I also am going to try and be hip and let people RSVP online.

Engagement Pictures

Here is a preview of the awesome engagement photos that my BFF took for us!

Of all the places we went, the trees were the best at her house!

And my favorite!! 

They turned out so great and Derek was such a great sport about taking the pictures!