Bride and Groom cutting the groom’s cake.
Tim and Kerri (Tim’s old roommate)
David and Adrienne
Off to our honeymoon! 

Nancy and Jerry (Tim’s parents)
Ruby and Mark
Maggie, Dan and Ruby
Kym and Tim 

Tim and I have been married for 8 days now and we’re LOVING it! The wedding was wonderful. It went by fast for me, as I was warned it might be a blur. I can’t wait to get the wedding pictures so I can see what actually happened at our wedding! No major bloopers for the wedding. The honeymoon was wonderful! We went to Eureka Springs, AR. I recommend that for a vacation spot. Lots to do and really nice weather. The lake was great. Tim and I got to do a LOT of stuff. We were able to fit in about 2 activities a day. We went on a tour of a cavern, rented a jet ski, went canoeing, swam in the lake many times, went on a 2 1/2 mile hiking trail up and down the steep hills, I got to engenier a train for a little bit…got to accelerate it and pull the horn, walked around the historic district, and saw the Passion Play.

I’ll post wedding pictures when I get them.

The wedding week just got a little more exciting. We no longer have a standing mail box. We have one of those heavy duty brick mail boxes…or at least it’s suppose to be heavy duty. However strong it was, it was no match for a teenage girl searching in her car for a cell phone. The mail box is broken into two major parts with a few bricks here and there and the base out of the ground. The mail box didn’t seem to slow her down and she got herself lodged into our neighbor’s tree where is was inbetween the house and the tree. Front of the car in the tree trunk and the back of her Jeep almost in the neighbor’s bushes. I couldn’t have done that if I tried! Come to find out it’s her 4th wreck and her family is members at our church. Her mom was talking to my mom a bit and said, “Of all the houses we hit our preacher’s. At least it was only one preacher’s house.” Which actually, the yard she ended up into (our neighbor) is another preacher in town. At least she ran into probably the most forgiving people’s property she could have.

I came home after knowing our mailbox was hit, but didn’t think I’d not even see part of our mail box from the end of the road. I found it pretty humorous…we’ve got the wedding Saturday and company coming in. So no time to worry about the mail box. I’m just amazed how she could’ve done that. Have ya’ll seen the previews for whatever movie where Will Farrell is born a speed racer and tries to drive blindfolded? I thought of that move while looking at what she did. It could’ve been a lot worst. The girl is physically okay. I assume she’s in pretty big trouble with her parents. And she doesn’t have a car any more. It’s totaled.

To add some humor . . . the mail man still put our mail in the mail box! Yup, laying in our yard on it’s side and he puts it in! I wonder if he’ll pick up mail if I stick some in there and raise the flag. I wonder if he’d notice. He had to of had a sense of humor to have to get out of the truck and instead of taking it to the door and ringing the door bell just go ahead and put it in a ran over brick mail box.

So this weekend when people are trying to find out house you can’t see the address of our house any more, just look for the house without a mailbox!

The wedding is VERY soon now! Yesterday my family went to pick up my great grandma Z, who was able to fly in for the wedding. I am so amazed by her. She will be 90 in August and is still going strong. Such a woman of faith too! I’m excited that she’s able to be here for my wedding. I am also excited to get to take a generation picture with me and my mom and my gma M and my great gma Z.

Tomorrow I leave to go to Dallas and Tim will be coming out here when his family flies in, then I’ll be back in town Friday morning. I’ve gotta work out plans with my dad today and see if I’ll be taking a van full of my things and wedding presents or if we’ll wait. I’ll probably end up taking a van full ’cause I think my family is ready to get their dinning room back to looking like a dinning room instead of a bridal room.

The wedding still hasn’t sunk in completely. I’m thinking it will when the rest of my family and Tim’s family gets in town and we have the rehersal. I’m really ready to take the honeymoon and get to relax for once this summer. I’ve been working on trying to find a job, and have yet to take a day’s break from it. I called schools on Monday and even had a principal call me for an interview. And then yesterday the principal at the school I student taught at called me for an interview and we ended up doing a phone interview with her and the assistant principal. I’ll find out next week what they decide for their 4th grade classroom. She said she’ll just leave a message on my phone for me to check whenever I get a chance.

So hopefully the job hunt will hold still for the next 3 days and I’ll keep my phone off during the honeymoon. That way I can concentrate on getting everything ready and in order for the wedding and give a week to Tim.

Yup! Super excited! Lots to do! Prayers are welcome.

Have you ever gotten so anxious that you can’t wait for something to happen, but you don’t want to do anything to prepare for it? Thats the kind of mood I’m in right now. I’m ready for the wedding to be here and have all the fun part, but I don’t want to do any of the work that has to be done between now and then.

I’ve been saying for a few days now that I’ll start going through my room and clean stuff out and get things boxed up for my classroom and things boxed up for the apartment. I still haven’t even started looking at one thing yet.

But! I did take mine and Tim’s rings to the jewlers here in town and got the edges of our rings roughed up, and got my ring cleaned again. At first they said it couldn’t be done since the edges on our wedding bands are so tiny, but the lady took our rings to the back to the guy who does the work and he was able to put a stone finish on the edges of our bands. Now theres a contrast in the metal from the high polish center and the stone finish edges. I like our rings a lot now. And I think Tim will be a lot happier with them also. Since the store wasn’t sure if they could do it or not, and it didn’t take very long for them to stone finish the edges they did it free of charge. And they cleaned my engagement ring and told me to come back next Friday to have it cleaned again so it’s really sparkly for pictures.

So that’s my productive moment for the day. Maybe a little later I’ll start going through the things in my room . . .