it gets us here to there

we got a new car...! my honda was about to explode so we hurried up and traded it in and got a 1999 jeep grand cheerokee. jed loves it, and i am having trouble getting over the initial grief of losing my beautiful honda. but i think i'll like it soon. :)

june 20, 2009

the bridal party

my handsome groom :)
the family
us with pastor terry

self explanatory...
me and the F.O.B.



wedding cake
grooms cake the getaway car :)

fiesta

in may my maid of honor katie miller threw me the wedding shower in the whole wide world. we decided on a fiesta theme to bid farewell to my thoroughly mexican name. she did a great job organizing everything and the decorations were great! we had a lot of fun. thanks katie!

humble abode

so in march we bought a used trailer. during our engagement jed and i discussed what we wanted in a "first home" and we both decided we would be content with something small and cheap so that later, once we get a better handle on our student loans, we would have some kids and eventually build the house of our dreams. that's the plan anyway...
so, jed took the role as an active pursuer of our perfect starter home. we decided that the trailer route was the cheapest way to go, assuring pretty low payments. we had many leads, and actually went through the process of applying for a loan to get a very nice new trailer, but after realizing it wasn't going to be as cheap as we thought, we reconsidered. THEN, jed found THE ONE. a used $16,000 trailer. are you thinking "ew"? cuz i thought that too. so i went and looked at it, and it really wasn't that bad. i actually kind of liked it, and now having lived in it... i love it. it's absolutely huge! but the weird thing is that there is no door to the master bedroom...
regardless, we spruced it up since these pictures and i will post those soon, but i think you can get the general idea from these:

update?

it doesn't take a genius to figure out that my newest new year resolutions did not involve keeping up with maintaining a blog. i actually didn't make any resolutions this year, and if i did subconsciously, it was probably to get straight A's in school and to work my butt off to try to have a wedding in march - neither of which happened. let's take a journey through the months, shall we?

january - i can't even begin to remember. i think i possibly started the middle of the month with my internship at the ARC. this mostly involved a lot of filing, learning the hows and whys of the program and helping out with adult basic education (my old job) as much as possible. although i feel my internship could have been more directed toward my major, i still realized how much i enjoy helping people. the simplest nice gesture can make people feel so appreciated. i really love being around the students at the ARC, who help me to understand what life is all about: loving God and loving people.

february - still interning. at this point i was having serious car issues and spent a couple hundred from my ever dwindling student account at LU (from surplus scholarship money) that wasn't being replaced as i had no job. it really sucked. anywho, jed and i went out for valentine's day and hit up our favorite place in the world:

afterwards, we went to see a movie. we wanted to see this:

but ended up seeing this:

which actually wasn't bad. jed and i concluded that guys really do act like pigs, and i reluctantly agreed that most girls are indeed irrational and kind of psycho.

march - our would be wedding month. i think we got a house this month, but i'll go into that later with another update blog. i also finished up my internship.

april - this month mostly consisted of jed and i working for the miller family on the blueberry farm. this involved grading berries, packing them into cups, assuring said cups were the correct weight, packing them in boxes, loading them, then shipping them. it's a pretty intense progress, though it is done in an efficient organized manner, and the millers do a great job with keeping their employees well paid and distracting them from being on the brink of insanity from all the montonousness (admittedly, i had to look up that word in noun form... i thought it was monotonaity).

may - blueberries AND graduation AND bridal showers! more in depth blog to come later.

june - wedding. again, more in depth later.

july - i'm currently working at sonny's. jed and i both received an answer to prayer when the pastor of the church jed leads worship for had lunch with jed and proposed a raise for jed so that he can now consider being actively involved in church ministry his FULL TIME JOB (there are a lot of "jed"s in that sentence). we are so grateful to pastor brian, but mostly to God, because He is not only meeting our financial needs, but giving jed the desire of his heart, just as He promises.

stay tuned for house pictures, graduation pictures, fiesta themed bridal shower pictures, and mostly, wedding pictures. :)

holiday cheer

so i know i have a lot of things to cover, but i'm not going to. :)
i just wanted to share a favorite song of mine that i listen to thousands of times during the holiday season because the lyrics are just so good!
it also just helps to set me in the right mood and reminds me what christmas is really about.
i want to encourage everyone to just keep the right mindset during all of this hussle and bussle because it's just so easy to lose sight of what really matters: God's unspeakable gift and unconditional love.

And with this Christmas wish is missed
The point I could convey
If only I could find the words to say to let You know how much You've touched my life
Because here is where You're finding me, in the exact same place as New Year's eve
And from a lack of my persistency
We're less than half as close as I want to be

And the first time
That You opened Your eyes did You realize that You would be my Savior
And the first breath that left Your lips
Did You know that it would change this world forever

And so this Christmas I'll compare the things I felt in prior years
To what this midnight made so clear
That You have come to meet me here

To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me
In the hope that what You did
That you were born so I might live
To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me

And I, I celebrate the day
That You were born to die
So I could one day pray for You to save my life

i hope everyone had a merry christmas!

2 Corinthians 9:15

my most recent obsessions

I love love love peppermint mochas from Starbucks. they are my favorite part of the Christmas season. Though some may argue that right now is NOT the Christmas season... I definitely go by Starbucks' calendar in this case...



WebMD is possibly the greatest site ever. For whoever doesn't know... I'm pretty much the worst hypochondriac ever... and I'm on this site nearly every day looking up "symptoms". I've discovered that I indeed have Tourette's, and a pinched nerve... pray for me. :)

And FINALLY... the BIGGEST obesession of all issssss (drum roll please):
This song makes me so happy! It makes my day... every day. :)