Tamara Shannon

Quick wedding planning update: ....and that's all I have.  We're still looking into reception halls, photographers etc., but we're only 4 months out, this should be cake!  Oh yeah, and we need cakes...yay! This week has been beyond busy for the both of us.  Things at work are so busy, and then not to mention all of the Christmas protocol--buying presents, company parties/gift exchanges, church activities and of course, in our efforts to push SA to #1 fattest city, making a ridiculous amount of desserts.   As you may have noticed most of those 'activities' are primarily directed towards me, but Brent still manages to claim he too is busy.  I am too busy to argue, so I've learned to just roll with it. :) As usual, I have postponed my Christmas shopping to days before Dec. 25th.  For me, if I'm not rushing, stressing and forcing my way through crowded malls filled with very determined mothers it's simply NOT Christmas.   Brent and I had quite a time today s

As Mrs. Brent Shannon elect, I figured it was time to assume my duties as such and blog!  As you all know Brent and I recently got engaged (November 20th) in the beautiful NYC!  This is my first blog and I'm having to share it, yay marriage (only kidding, I'm very excited)...a step up from facebook I guess, but everyone has to grow up sometime. OUR STORY....(from my perspective, mostly) Brent and I actually met about 4 years ago at a church dance in austin.  It's funny how I still remember meeting him and talking to him and even what we talked about (how texas tech was lame etc.).  This brief encounter never amounted to anything though; I was with someone else at the dance (sort of, we won't open that can-o-worms) and he never asked for my number. Looking back though, it's probably for the best I was only 19 and Brent was 26.  He did, however, leave an impression on me...I was reading in my journal and out of curiosity starting looking for a date around the time we