12 More Days & A Sneak Peak

I have twelve days left as a single lady.

Well, wait. Let's backtrack...

I was at work a few days ago (I believe it was Thursday) and a customer came to the cutting counter with bolts and bolts of fabric. Things were pretty slow, so I decided to step in and help Sue cut for her until another customer needed some help. This lady was so excited!

Her: "Oh, my! I've never had two cutters before!"
Sue: "She's a good kid."
Me: Brushing it off as no big deal
Sue: "Well, I can't say that too much longer. Pretty soon I will have to say she's a good married kid!"
Me: "Sixteen days!"

Approximately 5 1/2 months became 100 days, became 2 months, became next month, became a month from the day, became THIS month, became 20 days.

20 days became 16.

And now we are down to twelve days.

We looked at the apartment yesterday. There are definitely a few things we will get to look back on and laugh at about our first place (i.e. the porch light that won't stay upright, thus hanging upside down).

Here is a small sneak peak!

This is part of the kitchen.

This is Jason. I think he's gonna be the best part of the apartment :)
Er...this is a view of the front door and living room from the kitchen.

This is Josh.
Friend. Neighbor. Apartment manager.
He is showing off the fireplace in the living room.

And this is what I plan to be doing tomorrow...
It's time to start packing up!

Exciting Week

Hello Everyone!!!

Now that I've posted on here, I think I've gotten myself into trouble. I guess I proved that I can figure out how to post something and now Courtney knows it and asked me to write this one.

Anyway, the other day we got a phone call from Western Oregon University. This is super exciting news because they told us that we got the apartment that we have been wanting to get. It is the on campus married student housing. They are two bedroom units right next to school so Courtney will be able to just walk to class instead of driving 20 minutes each way. It will only lengthen my commute by about ten minutes because all of the extra distance is highway mileage. Even better we already know several people that live in the same apartments, including the manager and his wife. It will be super close to church as well. We will be able to walk on nice Sundays if we so choose.

Then Tuesday evening we got how we wanted the ring ceremony to go all figured out. It should go really well. We send out a thank you again to Bobby for officiating that for us. It will work out real well I think.

The best part of these apartments though is that they are very reasonably priced and EVERYTHING is included. Water, electricity, garbage, sewer, cable, internet, everything. You can tell the school is really trying to put the students in a position to succeed and not have them worrying about a whole bunch of other stuff. Lots of time for Courtney to study without some of the normal cares of moving out for the first time.

Also, we have been getting lots of things ordered for the new place. The mattress is on its way. The bed frame and sofa as well. We already have a small dinette set. It really helps for me to have the employee discount at the furniture store. We can actually start off with some pretty decent to good stuff instead of scouring craigslist for stuff that is in halfway decent shape and used already. I like my job. It has been affording us nice opportunities. I digress.

Lastly, this afternoon we went to the KROC Center and tasted the food to decide what we want at the reception. I don't want to spill the beans on just what it will be though. I'll let everyone find out at the reception itself. I suppose if Courtney wants to let you know ahead of time she can override me though. It would suffice to say that it will be AMAZING and I hope everyone will get to come try it. A word about the chef, dude can cook.

We can really see everything start to come together and the wedding is going to be stunning. I am very grateful for all the work that everyone has put into it so far, and for Jim and Pam's willingness to give their little angel the wedding of her dreams.

Don't forget to RSVP on the website. The link is somewhere on this blog.

Can't wait to see you there.

Jason Baguley