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162.25 down…137.75 to go

I sent craig pics of the house we are getting married at and this is what he sent back to me. It made me laugh cause it is so true and exactly how i feel.

“To be truthful, I wouldn’t mind
getting married to you next to a homeless guy’s burn
barrel down an alley in New York. hehe. Cause that would
mean that I am out of here and finally marrying the
girl of my dreams. Don’t get it misconstrued, I like
the idea of getting married at your uncle’s house, but
as long as I am with you, I’m perfectly satisfied.”

Hopefully he won’t hurt me for posting this on my blog. I love you Craig Nathen!

I sent craig pics of the house we are getting married at and this is what he sent back to me. It made me laugh cause it is so true and exactly how i feel.

“To be truthful, I wouldn’t mind
getting married to you next to a homeless guy’s burn
barrel down an alley in New York. hehe. Cause that would
mean that I am out of here and finally marrying the
girl of my dreams. Don’t get it misconstrued, I like
the idea of getting married at your uncle’s house, but
as long as I am with you, I’m perfectly satisfied.”

Hopefully he won’t hurt me for posting this on my blog. I love you Craig Nathen!

My aunt and uncle sent pics of their new grandbaby (my cousin Amy had her baby–Gabriel Quincy) and these pictures were mixed in with it. I remember when I though that barn was huge. Pshha! Can I tell you how excited I am? The driveway is going to be circular for guest and then they have one that leads back up to their garage. I’m either going to have the ceremony on the front steps or over to the left where that big tree is overlooking the pond and come out the front door to walk down the aisle. My mom said they had the caterer out there the other day getting ideas. I’m so ready! I can’t wait for him to be home. I can’t wait to marry him.

My aunt and uncle sent pics of their new grandbaby (my cousin Amy had her baby–Gabriel Quincy) and these pictures were mixed in with it. I remember when I though that barn was huge. Pshha! Can I tell you how excited I am? The driveway is going to be circular for guest and then they have one that leads back up to their garage. I’m either going to have the ceremony on the front steps or over to the left where that big tree is overlooking the pond and come out the front door to walk down the aisle. My mom said they had the caterer out there the other day getting ideas. I’m so ready! I can’t wait for him to be home. I can’t wait to marry him.

I have been blessed
And I feel like I’ve found my way
I thank God for all i’ve been given
At the end of every day

I have been blessed
With so much more than i deserve
To be here with the ones
That love me
To love them so much it hurts
I have been blessed

Across a crowded room,
I know you know what i’m thinking
By the way i look at you
And when we’re lying in the quiet and
No words have to be said
I think to myself, i think to myself
This love is a beautiful gift

I have been blessed
With so much more than i deserve
To be here with the ones
That love me
To love them so much it hurts
I have been blessed

~Martina McBride

I have been blessed
And I feel like I’ve found my way
I thank God for all i’ve been given
At the end of every day

I have been blessed
With so much more than i deserve
To be here with the ones
That love me
To love them so much it hurts
I have been blessed

Across a crowded room,
I know you know what i’m thinking
By the way i look at you
And when we’re lying in the quiet and
No words have to be said
I think to myself, i think to myself
This love is a beautiful gift

I have been blessed
With so much more than i deserve
To be here with the ones
That love me
To love them so much it hurts
I have been blessed

~Martina McBride

so this past weekend was really good. i just feel like they go by too fast, which i guess overall is a good thing. the faster the days go by the faster january will get here. rumsfeld extended the tour for some of the troops and when craig and i talked about it my stomach sank. but it still gets him back home in january. i was thinking it’d be extended by months. 7 to 10 days we can deal with whew. but they seem pretty set on trying to not have to keep everyone over there longer than a year. which is how it should be. i will never understand why army has to be over there for sometimes over a year when the others only go over there for 7 month deployments. but that’s the army for you i suppose.

saturday i went to jamies to watch the tech game. it was fun. i’ve missed her like whoa! i brought all my wedding stuff over to show her. i looked at a calendar the other day and april really is not that far away. i really gotta get on this planning thing. my dress came in last week. i of course tried it on with my veil. hehe i love it!

so craig has kinda been stressin about what will happen after the military. pretty much how i stress about what will happen post-college. a few months ago i was freaked but now i’m just so excited for this next chapter. we talked a lot about it this weekend and i met my dad for dinner with my fam the other night so i talked to my dad about it some too. and we talked about us buying the house i grew up in. my brother pretty much trashed it when he lived there and its an older house so its needed some “updating” and fixing up. but craig knows a lot about that so we are seroiusly considering it. i ran it by him last night and then when i talked to him this afternoon he said he had been thinking about it a lot. he already has all these plans for it. i went through old pictures of my childhood to find ones with the house in the background to send to him. i think it would be awesome to spend our first few years of marriage in the house i grew up in. he’s been thinking about all the manly projects he’d want to do around the house (ie pressure washing and finishing the basement) and i was thinking about how i will decorate it. i know we have a year and things may change or fall in or laps that we didn’t expect but it makes me happy that instead of stressing about what’s going to happen next (especially over in Iraq) he can concentrate on a plan to look forward to and not have to worry about it. it hadn’t bothered me too much though. that’s just one of the things i love about him, i know that whatever happens and whatever we decide he’s going to do whatever he can to take care of me. we’ll take care of each other and that’s the best feeling in the world.

i got to see my sister on saturday night at dinner with my family. we decided to get together for dinner next friday and i’m gonna go out early and go by her work to get the car seat from her and pick sam up from day care. so i can take him back the house a few hours and watch him before scott and her get off work to go out to dinner. i can’t wait. i love that kid, he’s precious.

ok off to study some more for corrections. my brain is not in school mode this semester. grey’s anatomy starts again tonight so i gotta get some studying done before it.

night!

so this past weekend was really good. i just feel like they go by too fast, which i guess overall is a good thing. the faster the days go by the faster january will get here. rumsfeld extended the tour for some of the troops and when craig and i talked about it my stomach sank. but it still gets him back home in january. i was thinking it’d be extended by months. 7 to 10 days we can deal with whew. but they seem pretty set on trying to not have to keep everyone over there longer than a year. which is how it should be. i will never understand why army has to be over there for sometimes over a year when the others only go over there for 7 month deployments. but that’s the army for you i suppose.

saturday i went to jamies to watch the tech game. it was fun. i’ve missed her like whoa! i brought all my wedding stuff over to show her. i looked at a calendar the other day and april really is not that far away. i really gotta get on this planning thing. my dress came in last week. i of course tried it on with my veil. hehe i love it!

so craig has kinda been stressin about what will happen after the military. pretty much how i stress about what will happen post-college. a few months ago i was freaked but now i’m just so excited for this next chapter. we talked a lot about it this weekend and i met my dad for dinner with my fam the other night so i talked to my dad about it some too. and we talked about us buying the house i grew up in. my brother pretty much trashed it when he lived there and its an older house so its needed some “updating” and fixing up. but craig knows a lot about that so we are seroiusly considering it. i ran it by him last night and then when i talked to him this afternoon he said he had been thinking about it a lot. he already has all these plans for it. i went through old pictures of my childhood to find ones with the house in the background to send to him. i think it would be awesome to spend our first few years of marriage in the house i grew up in. he’s been thinking about all the manly projects he’d want to do around the house (ie pressure washing and finishing the basement) and i was thinking about how i will decorate it. i know we have a year and things may change or fall in or laps that we didn’t expect but it makes me happy that instead of stressing about what’s going to happen next (especially over in Iraq) he can concentrate on a plan to look forward to and not have to worry about it. it hadn’t bothered me too much though. that’s just one of the things i love about him, i know that whatever happens and whatever we decide he’s going to do whatever he can to take care of me. we’ll take care of each other and that’s the best feeling in the world.

i got to see my sister on saturday night at dinner with my family. we decided to get together for dinner next friday and i’m gonna go out early and go by her work to get the car seat from her and pick sam up from day care. so i can take him back the house a few hours and watch him before scott and her get off work to go out to dinner. i can’t wait. i love that kid, he’s precious.

ok off to study some more for corrections. my brain is not in school mode this semester. grey’s anatomy starts again tonight so i gotta get some studying done before it.

night!