Diamonds and Cupcakes

So yesterday was my first day of my P90X series....don don donnnnn...scarry, but i am highly motivated to stay with it. I was supposed to start on Tuesday but the gods of heaven struck down my cable and we had no electricity for a couple days.

After the whole mess of trying to get home from Dallas and having a lay over in Houston, then to Lubbock where we were unable to land because of fog. We promptly flew to our emergency airport which just so happened to be DFW....i was kinda relieved thinking i could spend another night with Irby. NO. they wouldnt let us off the plane and DFW would only allow us to refuel and go back! to Houston!....what kind of place is this? were all americans, let us off this horrible plane already! So i ended up staying a night at my parents house, getting up the next morning and waiting in the airport for a new flight.....
note to self : do not fly continental to dallas EVER again!

However, i wasn't exactly ready to get back to Lubbock and start school again. I had such a good time in Lubbock with Irby its always such a hard time to come back.  A lot of new plans were discussed, BIG plans. New jobs, new accounts, new living plans, like a whole new life to begin. It really is excited talking about all these future plans, especially when it is with someone you cannot see your life without. He seriously is my better half.
Anyways we looked at engagement rings as you know, and i think we really come up with one that would be different from the rest, without going so custom it would cost an actual arm. lol
Walking in to the Dallas galleria i thought ok this place would be sooo easy to find , of course, it wasnt. I actually had to call while standing in the Galleria and get turn by turn directions (take in mind i also have never been in the Dallas Galleria, shocking i know.)
First thing i hear is this European/British accent "Diamond Doctor how may i help you"
Very startling, but after the directions she gives me to tower one of the galleria, we enter this office area that was like those buildings where every office door is a different business. But our door it doesnt have a handle..just a note saying "press the green button" haha all matrix and like....it gets better.
Press the green button and the same European woman asks how may she help us, nervously i explain that we are there to look at engagement rings, and she says she will buzz us in. Now, think of MIB when Will Smith goes to the agency for the first time and its all weird and modern inside and hes not quite sure where he is. So then we find us standing in the tiny room with two chairs, a table with a phone on it, and a old lady working behind a glass door intently on some jewelry. We stood there for a couple minutes and i decide to sit, and the phone rings with the same lady speaking afterwords saying shell buzz us in the second door. Now were in a tiny hallway and going through our third buzzed door. Thinking i will be greeted by this European woman, but instead by huge counters full of diamonds and jewelry, and then out comes a guy, again with the European accent.
By now i am feeling very much like a part of the FBI or CIA but this guy lets me try on a million rings over and over again until i find exactly what i really want.
The final band i decide on is their contemporary white gold v shaped band

 

And originally i had thought i would pick out a pear shaped center stone, for its originality and vintage appeal, but when i tried on ever center stone with this band the Marque diamond just fit so beautifully. It was still a vintage shape and echoed the v shapes in the band, it was soo pretty. Marque is also the same stone cut my mom has in her ring.  

                                       

i think it is gorgeous, so well will have to see how everything pans out. 

We also met a man who owned a antique shop in the historic Denton square who knows a friend who owns a few lofts. We are going to try to look into those because it would be a really nice place for us to live and have a place of our own. IM SO EXCITED! : ))

Dallas trip could not be complete without a Sprinkles trip!

Milk, cupcakes, and my man make me soo happy!