Wedding Weekend

Here's a link to some pictures from this weekend, and a short update! We left early Thursday morning and stopped in Middlebury to pick up my grandma Carolyn, then went down to Fort Wayne. We spent most of the day at the church, then went to my aunt and uncle's house to practice with my cousin Heidi for the wedding. We stayed there for dinner, then went back to my parent's. Friday, we were at the church pretty much all day, getting everything ready and then having the rehearsal dinner. I went with the bridesmaids and we spent the night at Lisa's house (one of the bridesmaids) and all the guys went to Dustin's. Saturday was WEDDING DAY! The wedding was BEAUTIFUL!!! We all had fun at the reception, I finally learned the Cotton Eyed Joe and attempted to learn the Electric Slide. We tried to watch a movie at my parent's house that night, but we were all so exhausted, we were out within the first 20 minutes! Sunday, we had a quick lunch at Jesse's parent's, then Julie, Aubrey, Mary and I went to a bridal shower for two of Jesse's cousins! Jesse then went to a shootout/reunion with some of the people he used to hang out with in youth group, and I just spent some time with my parents, relaxing and watching a movie. We finally got back to Chicago right around midnight our time! Here's the link, it's to my facebook album:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=54960&id=758115416

Sorry!

I can't believe we haven't posted in over a month! This summer absolutely flew by, and now Jesse's back in school! The last few weeks before school started, he was working like 50+ hours a week because it was just him and his friend Erik working! He started school again on August 27th. I'll let him tell you about his classes and especially about his PCM for this year...a lot more interesting than the YMCA was last year!!!

On August 26th, we helped our friends Craig and Danielle pack up a moving truck and sent them off to Maine! Over their anniversary (July 22), they started talking about moving away, and in about a month, they were gone! He decided that he doesn't want to be a pastor, and that's obviously something that your heart has to be in, and so instead of wasting the time and money here, they moved back to Danielle's family in Maine! God really opened doors for them there, just like He did for us when we moved here! It's so weird going to work without her!!! Funny story...when we were helping them move, I noticed their goldfish on their counter and asked "how are you going to move your fish?" and they said "we weren't going to"!!! They were going to flush it!!! So we rescued it, and now we have a pet, Craig and Danielle named her Shaniqua! It's so funny, the thing begs for food whenever you look at it!

We also made some new friends! Our friends Erik and Sarah introduced us to a new couple, Tim and Sheli. Every Sunday night, they guys have been having game night, so us girls get together and have girl's night! We watch movies, we've made jewelry, I cut Sheli's hair...it's just so fun!

Things have been REALLY good at the salon for the last two weeks, and this week, I actually broke $1000 in services, which is a first for me! A good, steady week is usually around $700, just to give you an idea! I am going to Salon Leader training for 4 days next week, which I have mixed feelings about. I know I am nowhere near ready to be Salon Leader yet, but the idea of it is just to give me the training and knowledge, as I can use it in my current position. However, the last two weeks have just been so good that I don't want to miss out on another good week at the salon, not to mention, losing Danielle a few weeks ago means that we are understaffed when someone is gone! Hopefully, we will hire one or two people soon. Also, we just had the annual ice cream social for SWF, which kicks off the school year! I am on activities this year, which basically just means that me, Leeanne, and our friend Tonya are going to be the brains behind all the fun activities that we do at SWF this year! I'm excited!

Well, Jesse will be home next weekend for Dustin's bachelor party and to practice with the other instrumentalists for the wedding while all the girls are here for Krista's bachelorette party...so it will be a fun, busy weekend! The 22nd is Dustin and Krista's wedding (and Mary's birthday!), so we will be home that weekend, and I'll try to post some pictures from the wedding when we get home! I'll tell Jesse to post sometime this week and tell you all about his classes and PCM for this semester...have a good weekend!!!