More on Lute... he's BIG!

Coinciding with our move to bump up his breakfast and dinner to two scoops of food a few weeks ago, Lute has exploded into a mess of adorable teenage puppy awkwardness.

As you can see from the pictures, he is mostly legs now-- we're beginning to wonder how much dog we're gotten ourselves into...

A picture commemorating the last time Elizabeth will be able to pick him up

An additional side bonus is that the older he gets, the more unique he is appearing. The Portland Humane Society listed him as 'Australian Shepherd', but I think that was a pure branding play (my marketing knowledge suggests that "other?" doesn't sound too good on adoption papers). We're thinking of sending off for a DNA testing kit. Perhaps we'll have a door prize at the reception for the person who guesses his lineage the closest-- I think he's mainly harbor seal.

Making progress...

This past Saturday, Ian and I ordered our wedding invitation suite. I felt like we were prepared; we had already picked out the invitations that we wanted, we had finalized the wording, and we had the experience of ordering the Save the Dates behind us, so I figured we would be in and out of the stationary store in no time. Boy was I wrong! The processes ended up taking about 2 ½ hours. Just like the rest of the wedding planning, creating our invitations was all about pulling different ideas and details together to make a cohesive and, hopefully, beautiful product. From choosing the fonts, to the font size, to the colors, to the type of paper, to the wording, to the envelope liners, to other details I won’t even bother to mention, the process was surprisingly complex and time consuming. The sales associate helping us was wonderful, very patient and professional, and I can’t imagine what the process would have been like without her. Despite the fact that we were mentally exhausted by the end of it, I think we both enjoyed the experience. In planning the wedding thus far, we have made a lot of decisions, but for the most part we won’t see any of those decisions come together as a whole until the Big Day. The invitations were fun because they are something tangible. Although we won’t actually get the invitations for several more weeks, the fact that they exists in some capacity and have our names on them helps to make it real that we really are getting married, and soon!