Day of Fun and Surprises

Well, yesterday was certainly productive. Very full! But not exhausting. Of course, I say that, and at this moment Brett is one and half hours past when he said he would get up from his nap. But it definitely could have been worse!

I guess our errands technically began Friday night. We had a goal for Saturday of creating at least one wedding registry. We are planning to register at a few stores, two at least, but it is definitely time to get that taken care of. The wedding is less than 4 months away and the Save The Dates will be going out this week (I hope... I am still a few addresses short, and we are still waiting on pictures from our photographer). So Friday night we went and walked around Target getting ideas of what we liked and needed so that the registry process would be a little simpler. 

Saturday, we started the day with a quick errand by the new apartment complex. They needed a copy of a pay stub from each of us to keep on file. The man who we had been interacting with so far was not there, but the girl who met was very nice! She told us that we could come sign the lease any time, so we will probably go ahead and do that before Christmas just to get it out of the way and make our moving day a little smoother.

Then we went for a quick lunch at a place that I had never been, but Brett had visited for lunch a couple of times. If you haven't been to Firehouse Subs, I recommend checking it out. Particularly if you are a fan of meatball subs. My turkey was tasty, but Brett's meatball – seriously yumm!

The errand that we ran after lunch was certainly our most amusing of the day. We went to Men's Warehouse to look at tuxedos and get an idea of what the men in our wedding will be wearing. This is probably the part of yesterday that Brett and I will always remember, but I already know it's not a story that tells as well as it was experienced. We told the story twice today, and it's not as funny if you weren't there. But I'll give you a quick summary. 

We were greeted when we walked in and shown where to wait for someone to come talk tuxedos with us. After 10 minutes or so, a young man came and sat at the desk with us. He was 12. Okay, not 12, but in all seriousness, I'm pretty sure this was a high school kid. How can he know anything about tuxedos when he hasn't even been to prom yet? Basically it was the least helpful conversation I have ever had with a salesperson. He could have won a "Salesman of the Day" award if, and only if, it was opposite day. The two lines that won him the award were "All of our suits are made of wool... and that's bad." and "This is my favorite suit. It's $129 but it should cost $300. Just kidding."

I know it's not funny when you just read it, but when we drove away from the store, after 5 minutes of chit chat with Skippy the wonder salesman, we were roaring with laughter! We giggled about it all day and are still throwing out our favorite line... "and that's bad."

Aww, the memories.

Okay, moving on. After Men's Warehouse we drove to Macy's. The dishes that we would like to register for are there and there were some things, like shower curtains and bathroom accessories, that didn't wow me at Target so we wanted to look around. Well, after looking around 15 minutes or so, Brett was kind of ready to go. We saw some things that we liked but, for whatever reason, probably the Y chromosome, he wasn't quite ready to start the process at that moment.

Before we left the mall we went by Helzberg and picked up his wedding ring. It is sitting safely in my room, ready and waiting for the big day! So that's one big thing to check off the list.

We needed a break after that. We came back to Brett's and while he played some Prince of Persia, I balanced my checkbook and then watched him play. I was thinking he was done for the day. We had had some giggles and a bit of drama at the jewelry store (not a story worth telling) and he seemed kind of kaput. But he assured me that he was up for Target because he knew that I wanted to get a registry done. So we drove back to Target and spent a really fun hour with a scanner and a list, and registered for all sorts of fun and necessary items. Some things cost more than I thought they would, and I am a little worried that people will look at our registry and think that we are being extravagant. But I promise! We picked the cheapest set of red utensils that Target had!

I just got online and viewed our registry. Woohoo! I also made a couple of changes to it. There were a few items that didn't get deleted and one that got left off. Two of the items that didn't get deleted were items that, when we scanned them, showed up with the wrong product because they were scanned upside down or at a weird angle. Guess what showed up instead of the items we were scanning? A 56 count pack of Huggies diapers and an Evenflo carrier. Haha! What? I can name about 20 people, including Brett, who would have a heart attack if they pulled up our wedding registry and saw baby items on there. So I just took care of that, and all is well.

We are going to register at Macy's on Wednesday night and then decide if we need another registry after that.

When we were done with our day we went to dinner and ran into 3 of my favorite people in the whole world. My sisters! I walked in and said "Oh, there's Laura! Oh, and Jenna! OH! And Melanie!!!" It was great to run into them!

Now we are off to the church Christmas concert. I am excited! It's going to be a great show!