He asked my daddy!

Welcome back!

...they dated for a short time again (about a day) and Jennifer told Dana she was ready to marry him. Dana asked her daddy for permission and his blessing. Her daddy gave Dana the go ahead.

And now I'm planning a wedding.

It's been fun trying to juggle school, Dana, and reception planning. The Lord must have known what I was going to need to do this semester when I was planning my school schedule. I have a fairly light load compared to last semester and what a blessing it's been.

I have my ring, dress, and shoes. I've decided to wear ones that I already have. I'm excited to be wearing flats! We're going to have the dress hemmed so I won't need to wear heels. My feet will be thanking me. I'm not putting pictures of the dress up because Dana can't see it yet. :-)

My mom has been super supportive-really great. She picked out the table cloths set-up already and everything. Things are coming along quite nicely. We already have an apartment as well as a honeymoon.

This week: Invitations.

I need to get the invitations done and out! We have engagement pictures. They were taken by Torsten Bangerter (Picture shown above. To see more of his work: http://torstenbangerter.smugmug.com/, http://tbangphoto.blogspot.com/) We also have wedding photographer Kim Whigman with James Erick Photograhpy (http://www.jameserickphotography.com/)

I feel like we've done so much but there seems so much more to do! I'll be glad when the planning is finished.

Come back soon! I hope to have another update next week. For sure there will be in 2 weeks.

How it happened...And it did happen

Welcome everyone to the first post of our blog! There have been lots of questions about how Dana and I happened. So...It's story time.

Once upon a time there was this really confused girl name Jennifer Bowman. She had a missionary coming home and she wanted to give him a chance. She had nearly made up her mind and thought her decision was concrete when she started to spend time with the missionary.

The semester before her missionary came home she had been dating a boy named Dana Weston. He made her laugh and they became best friends

She told Dana that she wanted to see how things went with the missionary that was coming home. Dana was very patient with Jennifer and still dated her even after she had told him about the missionary.

The day the missionary came home he proposed to her and she said yes. That night though she was having second thoughts. A lot of doubts went through her mind. She really liked the missionary but something didn't seem right.

Jennifer spent the next two weeks with the missionary. They drove from Eugene, Oregon down through Fresno, California back up to Salt Lake City, Utah. The two of them spent a lot of time talking and Jennifer did a lot of thinking but she couldn't settle on the thought of marrying him - even as good of a boy as he was.

She finally made a decision about what to do. Jennifer decided to make no decision. School was her next step. They drove to Rexburg with the understanding that they would no longer be an item when he left.

Jennifer needed to return some totes she had borrowed from Dana so she texted him. From that day on the spent all the time together that they could. In the first couple of days they played with the football, went shooting, conoeing, went on a walk. In a few days Jennifer decided that she was ready to date him again. She no longer felt confused after a couple of days with him. Dana was ok with dating again so they did.

To be continued......