when my mom and i went shopping yesterday after altering more of my wedding dress, i found the shoes i’m going to wear for the wedding! they were a cheap $35 at target, and i am so excited about them!

i didn’t want to wear anything too fancy and since my dress is already traditional enough, i decided that a good, old-fashioned pair of boots would fit in perfectly for our fun-filled, dance-craze, outdoor, walking-in-the-woods, homestead wedding.

as we were leaving the store, we spotted the grayest frog i’ve ever laid eyes on, sitting on top of a cement column outside the store (in the middle of a concrete jungle). mom and i agreed that he had little chance of living in the middle of a shopping center on a hot day, so we collected him (which he allowed) and put him in… the shoe box, since we had nothing else.

we made a quick trip to the grocery store, with the boots and frog along for the ride, and then took him to my parents’ house and let him go in their back yard. later, we looked up what species he was, and we learned that he was a gray tree frog (hyla versicolor). what a cool guy! they are harmless and very common in our area and throughout much of the united states.

i was super excited to have met him, and to have carried him in my shoe box. somehow, it seems like a very good marriage omen to me! what do you think?

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