Moving
Yes, dear friends, it's time to move from Classic Blogger to Beta. I'm only 3 years behind. You may find my new blog at:
Tango Kilo PapaYou'll also notice you need to be approved to read this blog. Leave a comment with your e-mail (I'll delete it after I contact you) if you would like to be added as a reader to my new venture. This blog will be deleted within a month, or less.
Labels: beta, blogging
Posted by TKP at 3:42 AM
You Know You Want One
If you want your Official Jennifer Thweatt-Bates Fan Club Superhero Mug, just let me know so you can get it in time to drink coffee as black as JTB's soul on her upcoming July 20 birthday.
Labels: coffee, fan club, JTB
Posted by TKP at 8:28 PM
Oh, the amazing organic sheer genius of
Erin Woolsey's Photos.
{Sigh} You must visit to experience it yourself.
Posted by TKP at 7:36 PM
Trusting
Wow. The past week has been a whirlwind of changes, prayers, and blessings in our lives. Last Friday, John was laid off his job (where he had just been given a raise a few weeks previous). It was a shock for both of us. So, after reviewing the options we decided to get married on Monday, June 8th (with the blessing of our parents, and, incidentally, two months exactly before our August ceremony) so that John could be put on my insurance through my job at Gap. We got married in the back yard of our dear friends,
Eric and Lauran, with our closest friends in attendance. Lauran read a wedding blessing written by
Shauna Niequist, who, I am convinced, is beyond amazing as a persorn, author, and speaker. I even got Hannah, this adorable girl from our church and daughter and niece of good friends of ours, to be a last minute flower girl! See the wonderful, barely planned celebration yourself:
This last picture is of all of our friends who will be in our wedding party in August and were at our impromptu June ceremony. You guys are wonderful and we love you so much!
This week was spent madly moving into our new apartment. It was both wonderful and revealing to see our friends come help us move both of our stuff from our old houses. We learned a lot about friends who really show up and come through when you most need it. On Wednesday I went in for a job interview for a new school:
Trinity Classical School, a private Christian, university and classical model school. On Thursday I received the news that I am going to be a first grade teacher come August (don't worry, it's a week after our wedding in Iowa) !!!!!!!
John and I are still processing the craziness of the past week. Most of all, we have been driven to prayer and reliance on trusting God through whatever happens.
P.S. For those of you who are curious, we are still having a ceremony in Iowa. My invitations by
Carrie at The Event Messenger came in the mail. They are stunning! This Photo Booth picture doesn't do it justice and I will have our photographer,
Erin get some good shots later, but here is the front:
Labels: marriage, transitions
Posted by TKP at 9:13 PM
Brave New World
This past weekend John commented that four months (the time until our wedding) is the same amount of time that has already passed this year. In other words, time is racing by. Yikes, so much to do still! It's both an exciting and nervous time. On Saturday I bought our plane tickets for August and it really started to sink in that We. Are. Getting. Married. Soon! I think I understand now what our friend Lauran meant when she referred to 'the light at the end of the tunnel' in anticipating marriage. 125 days and counting!
Well, I do have a lot to do, but I also have some great things lined up. First,
Our Wedding Website is up and running and I continue to update it with information, so check on it about once a week. We have a
Wedding Registry at Bed Bath & Beyond and area also asking for gift cards to
IKEA. I have the AMAZING Erin Woolsey of
ee photography lined up to shoot my bridals and our wedding in Iowa. Erin was actually the whole reason why we chose August 8, because she had such a busy schedule when we asked her back in, oh December or January and it was one date we could book her. Yay, I'm so excited!!!
I'm also totally psyched about our custom made wedding invitations by Carrie at
The Event Messenger. I love that she is going to address and mail the invitations; that saves so much time and stress for me!
For our wedding bands we are having a custom made set by Gustav at
Simply Wood Rings, an amazing eco-conscience wood jewelry company. You should check out his picture gallery. His work is breathtaking and gorgeous. John and I had a difficult time narrowing down which design we liked best; there were so many awesome ones!
Another major part of my life now is eating healthy and getting in shape. I've been working out at the gym this past month and it feels so great. I went five days last week and I had so much energy and felt way more positive and confident. My roommates have noticed that I'm less mopey and just happier since I've started exercising. I'm really glad that I'm doing this. To me it's way more than just getting in shape for the wedding-it's a lifestyle habit that I am going to cultivate forever.
Better get some sleep soon. Goodnight blogland....
Labels: fitness, Wedding
Posted by TKP at 10:04 PM
The two shall become three.
Special thanks to Sloan Bane for making such a fantastic ring! You can see her hand modeling the ring in the third picture.
Labels: Love, Wedding
Posted by TKP at 9:53 PM
Advent Prayer
I keep coming back to Nouwen for comforting prayers whenever I feel I can't express prayers myself. This one has been very comforting for me during Advent this year. Be blessed by it.
O Lord, how hard it is to accept your way. You come to me as a small, powerless child born away from home. You live for me as a stranger in your own land. You die for me as a criminal outside the walls of the city, rejected by your own people, misunderstood by your friends, and feeling abandoned by your God.
As I prepare to celebrate your birth, I am trying to feel loved, accepted, and at home in this world, and I am trying to overcome the feelings of alienation and separation which continue to assail me. But I wonder now if my deep sense of homelessness does not bring me closer to you than my occasional feelings of belonging. Where do I truly celebrate your birth: in a cozy home or in a unfamiliar house, among welcoming friends or among unknown strangers, with feelings of well-being or with feelings of loneliness?
I do not have to run away from those experiences that are closest to yours. Just as you do not belong to his world, so I do not belong to this world. Every time I feel this way I have an occasion to be grateful and to embrace you better and taste more fully your joy and peace.
Come, Lord Jesus, and be with me where I feel poorest. I trust that this is the place where you will find your manger and bring your light. Come, Lord Jesus, come. Amen
--Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak
Posted by TKP at 1:03 PM
