Christmas slacker... That's ME :)

Merry Christmas. Sorry, I know it's lame to just say that over our blog, but the truth is I just don't have the time to find everyones address and send out cards, so next best thing... You can see it right here. If you would like to become part of our Christmas list, leave a comment with your address and next year I promise to get them out. As always we miss everyone and hope you're doing well.

Christmas in whispers... shhhh

Hey guys and gals!!! How's life going for you? CHad and I have been doing pretty good. We've really begun to get into the Christmas spirit. (It's hard for me to do with no snow and realy no cold) We're about halfway through with Christmas shopping and I'm sure Claire would love to know what we got her... when we figure it out we'll let her know (HELP!)
Other than Christmas shopping, the only other thrilling thing that goes on around here is us getting sick. Haha I bet it's everyones dream to lose their voice right??? yeah it's not that fun, although I did run over to Scott and Claire's house the other day to pick up the humidifier and while I was there Cecelia wanted to play with me. So I sat down and I was talking to her in my very quiet voice (It's all I had left) and she thought I was whispering to her, so everything she said was in a whisper too. It was really cute, and it made my day a little bit better.
Well anywho, when Chad and I do something spectacular, I will be sure to blog about it. Until then, Hope everyone is having a great Christmas season. Love ya all

shopping=love... WHO knew?

I just wanted to add a little post. Not about anything important, because, let's face it, chad and I are just boring people. But I just wanted to say, that I am loving this whole going out of business sale thing. I've needed to add to my closet for some time now, so in order to buy without spending money, I've taken up shopping at Mervyns. I find cute stuff and Chad only has to endure a couple of hours in one store and very little money out of his wallet. (I seemed to have forgotten mine on the last trip hehe) But for any of you who feel the need to shop for clothes, hit it up!!! I didn't buy the whole store out... YET.

Just a little thought...
"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip." Jonathan Carroll

I thought I would share. ENJOY!!!

We're still alive

Hey everyone. I thought now would be a great time to update the blog. Chad and I are doing wonderful. Our house is finally starting to come together. This has been one of the most frustrating things for me. I for some reason, thought that it would take a couple of weeks to get the house situated. By situated, I only mean that We would be completely unpacked and everything would have its place; not that the big "projects" that I'm planning on doing to the house will be done. But anywho, we are finally down to the last couple of boxes of junk and we should have a place for everything in our house.
Other news... We finished our guest bedroom. I love it and as soon as I find where I've misplaced the camera, you guys can see it too. I just love the yellow walls. It's bright and sunny and I think it has a real calming effect. I think it's my favorite place in the house to be.
Chad came to the class Halloween party at work the other day. The kids from my class just love when he comes. Well the truth is, that they love when anyone comes in for a visit, but we won't tell Chad that (he feels special!). We listened to scary stories and ate homemade donuts, courtesy of my kitchen, drank cider, and danced the afternoon away. I can't tell you how much I love my job.
I also had the chance to go to Chad's work open house. It was really fun, they went all out. We ate cotton candy, talked to all of Chad's friends and I toured the place. Mostly, the open house just gave me a chance to harass Chad about his cubicle. He has more pictures of some pretty girl, than he has of me. haha Cecelia looks great hanging all over the walls.
I don't really know what else to say. We love you all and we hope that you are doing great. I'll try to keep this updated, but I feel like Chad and I are pretty boring people.
Oh one last thing. My cute quote from the kids at work. Here's the story. Becky took a day off work the other day, and I was talking to the lead teacher about it. One of the kids looked up from the paper she was coloring and said... "Miss Becky the lunch lady isn't here? Are we still gonna have lunch today?" She was so afraid that lunch was going to be cancelled because there wasn't anyone there to run the cash register. The little things the kids say, are the reasons I go to work everyday and love every minute of it.

the long awaited WEDDING PHOTOS

So I finally found time to add the pictures from the wedding day. At least the ones that our photographer took. I still have plenty of others to go through, thanks to the photography skills of Claire and her brother Harrison. But I'm hoping to have all the pictures up before the end of the week.

Wedding Pictures

PICTURES OF THE WEDDING WILL BE COMING SOON. as soon as I get them back from Claire.

Just a little update

So a little update on our very busy lives. Chad and I are loving married life and we cherish every moment we get to spend together, since they are seemingly few and far between right now. The wedding day was a whirlwind of activity and I wish I could remember more, but it all went by so fast.
We spent our honeymoon in Anahiem. We spent most of our days at Disneyland, taking pictures and eating the tastiest corndogs. Ok I ate the tasty corndogs, Chad does not share my love. We had a chance to ride in the Lilly Belle Car on the railroad. I guess the car isn't open to the public and you have to make special arrangements to ride it, but one of the conductors saw our "just married" pins and invited us in. They gave us a tour of the car, took tons of pictures for us and played the useless information game well we took the tour around Disneyland. I thought Chad had a lot of crazy off the wall information about Disneyland, but he couldn't even keep up with these guys. It was a great adventure and one of our favorite parts of the trip.
We took one night to go out and see the medieval times dinner theater. It was a blast. I can't say I loved the food, but the show was great. We got to cheer for the green knight. He's the bad guy. Woohoo. So while everyone else was booing, we were cheering him on. Sadly he didn't win, but can you expect, he is the bad guy. I loved all the horsemanship and the swordfighting. It was so exciting to watch. I'm really glad that Chad brought up the idea. Oh and don't worry, we went back to the room afterwards and I ate up on leftover pizza from the night before.
We were also lucky enough to go see the best musical ever. Wicked. This was Chad's first time (my third) seeing it. We had a blast and Chad liked it so much that he wants to go see it again when it comes to Arizona next year. We can't wait!!!

Well back to real life. Chad is back to work and I think he's already ready for another vacation.
I started a new job working in the special ed classrooms at one of the elementary schools. It's a ton of work, but totally worth it. The kids are all so sweet and I never get tired of the things they say. The other day, one of the girls asked me if I was married and if I had kids. I told her I was married, but we didn't have any kids yet. I told her we had a dog and that was enough for us right now. She looked at me really serious and said, well you need to have kids, so the dog has someone to play with. It was just really cute.
I think that pretty much sums up life right now. We're working and spending as much time together as we can. What can I say, we're newlyweds, can you expect anything else?

Oh one more thing. I miss you too Claire... Don't worry we'll have more time to spend together really soon.

wedding planning is a breeze

Well things are moving along with the wedding plans. I don't know why people stress out about planning a wedding at all. Maybe I've been incredibly lucky, but I feel like the plans are going pretty smoothly. I'm marking things off my list left and right and I love it. Chad and I have talked and I'd just like to share what we each think is the greatest news so far... Chad would like everyone to know, that there will now be food served at our reception. And I would like to point out, that my favorite thing so far is the fact, that I only had to pay for half of my wedding dress. The family I nanny for payed for the other half. I love them. They're the greatest and just so you all know, I felt that way before they did that. But still. I love the fact that my dress is payed for and I don't have to worry about it.

update for the week

So it's been a few weeks since I wrote. Claire told me I would have tons to write about. She lied. I can't think of anything all that exciting to write. Here's what's been going on with the wedding plans... Chad and I have finally set a date. We chose... August 8th. I know it's about time. Everyone kept asking us when it what going to be and I feel a lot better having a date to tell people now. Other than that, things are moving forward slowly and I'm not too stressed out. We ordered our wedding bands, and put our gift registries together (which was the worst five hours of my life, I HATE SHOPPING) Now onto the next big thing, dress shopping. We're doing that tomorrow. I can't wait. I'm actually pretty excited about this part. Now if only there was somewhere close to home, so we didn't have to drive all over the state looking for my perfect dress.

my prince charming

So I figured that it was about time to start this blog thingy. That and even if I didn't want to, Claire would bug me until I did. So Claire seems to think that I'll have tons to talk about on this thing. I guess I do... Let's see... I'll tell my engagement story. It all began on the night of April 19th. Chad and I were in Disneyland, enjoying the long lines and to-die-for corndogs. Seeing that I've only been to Disneyland a few times, there's a lot I haven't seen. One of those things being Snow White's garden. In the garden there is a wishing well; you know the one that Snow White sings into in the movie and it echoes back. Chad asked if I wanted to make a wish. He gave me a penny and I closed my eyes, wished and tossed it in. Chad asked me what I wished for and I told him, "I can't tell you, it won't come true!" We turned around to look at the Statues of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Chad pulled the ring out of his pocket and asked me to marry him. My wish had come true. Of course I said yes.
So that's the great story of my engagement. So now it's onto planning the wedding. We're not sure when the date is yet. Any ideas about cheap receptions would be greatly appreciated.