This weekend Randy and I will be going to Sioux Falls for a fun filled weekend of bonding. One of the requirements of being married in the Catholic Church is to participate in marriage counseling. The first step is a compatibility test. So a few months ago we met with several other couples and took the test. Once a week for the last month, we have been going over our test results with our priest.
Step 2 is a group session. We had our choice of 1 hour a week for 8 weeks on Thursday nights or a weekend retreat. With Randy’s traveling once a month, we knew that he would most likely be gone for one of those classes and we would be out of luck. If you don’t complete the counseling session in full, they will not marry you.
So we will be getting packed up and have to be in Sioux Falls by 8 am Saturday morning. The weekend consists of different training sessions to cover the topics of us as individuals, us as a couple, us in relationship to others. Snack breaks, lunch, and dinner will be provided, and Saturday goes until 10 pm. Then we start bright and early again Sunday morning 8 am. Sunday isn’t quite as long, we only go until 3 pm.
I will report back next week and let everyone know how we did.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
House Projects
There are a few projects around our house that have been put on the back burner since, well we moved in. Not anyone’s fault, just have continued to put them off. For instance the countertops in our house our concrete. Not just one piece of concrete, but several that the seems have to be caulked together. After about a week after install, the caulk started pulling apart from the countertops. Now, a friend of ours did the install so we weren’t going to call and complain, and after building the house, figured it was something we could tackle. 1 ½ years later, it is finally complete! Randy was on the road a couple weeks ago and I pulled out the old stuff and sealed it up good. Go me!
So this weekend, after a headed discussion on how we had “nothing to do” we started Friday night and worked until Monday. We cleaned out the garage and started taping and texturing. We called in reinforcements…Josh…as he just got done tape and texturing his entire basement. He had all the tools so we got started. If anyone is thinking this might be a good career change…think again. This job sucks! It takes for ever, hard on your back, and working on the ceiling, forget it. I keep reminding myself that it will all be worth it in the end. Since we are having the rehearsal dinner at the house, the garage is our backup plan if for some reason it decides to rain in August. Another couple nights of work and it will be ready for primer and paint.
That wasn’t all. We have had landscaping lights in our storage shed since we moved in. Last year after the yard was planted, we worked on our landscaping. Another career change that I wouldn’t recommend! Once we finished up with planting and moving rocks, we didn’t want to install landscaping lights, and they were put on the back burner as another one of those someday projects. Now we didn’t buy just solar landscaping lights that just stick in the ground and your done. Oh no we bought the lights that need electricity to run. Sunday we started early, put everything together and got going. We laid out the lights and started playing in the rocks. Each light had to hook to the wire and ran to the next light and the next light, and then hooked up to the electrical box. It was a long day, but by 9:00 pm everything turned on like it was suppose to and we had another project crossed off the list!
Not only did we get the garage started and landscaping lights installed, we also put a walk way down from out cement pad to the patio in the back of the house, finished painting the trim on our storage shed in the backyard and worked on laundry piles – even after the dryer took a crap.
We need more 3 day weekends!
So this weekend, after a headed discussion on how we had “nothing to do” we started Friday night and worked until Monday. We cleaned out the garage and started taping and texturing. We called in reinforcements…Josh…as he just got done tape and texturing his entire basement. He had all the tools so we got started. If anyone is thinking this might be a good career change…think again. This job sucks! It takes for ever, hard on your back, and working on the ceiling, forget it. I keep reminding myself that it will all be worth it in the end. Since we are having the rehearsal dinner at the house, the garage is our backup plan if for some reason it decides to rain in August. Another couple nights of work and it will be ready for primer and paint.
That wasn’t all. We have had landscaping lights in our storage shed since we moved in. Last year after the yard was planted, we worked on our landscaping. Another career change that I wouldn’t recommend! Once we finished up with planting and moving rocks, we didn’t want to install landscaping lights, and they were put on the back burner as another one of those someday projects. Now we didn’t buy just solar landscaping lights that just stick in the ground and your done. Oh no we bought the lights that need electricity to run. Sunday we started early, put everything together and got going. We laid out the lights and started playing in the rocks. Each light had to hook to the wire and ran to the next light and the next light, and then hooked up to the electrical box. It was a long day, but by 9:00 pm everything turned on like it was suppose to and we had another project crossed off the list!
Not only did we get the garage started and landscaping lights installed, we also put a walk way down from out cement pad to the patio in the back of the house, finished painting the trim on our storage shed in the backyard and worked on laundry piles – even after the dryer took a crap.
We need more 3 day weekends!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The gym is working!
So this weekend I made a trip to Sioux Falls to pick up a couple things, bum around, and try on my dress. I have been at the gym for 5 weeks now and figured it as to be helping, right?
Oh ya it is! The dress doesn’t fit perfect…yet. But it is so much better than 5 weeks ago. I set up an appointment for my first fitting – June 23 – which gives me another 5 weeks to workout. Hopefully it fits even better by then.
Oh ya it is! The dress doesn’t fit perfect…yet. But it is so much better than 5 weeks ago. I set up an appointment for my first fitting – June 23 – which gives me another 5 weeks to workout. Hopefully it fits even better by then.
Guest List
Our latest project has been to finalize the guest list. We started one shortly after we got engaged and have been adding to it ever since. I have been feeling some pressure on getting invitations order and want the guest list pretty well figured out before that happens.
A few people that I have talked to said that 8 weeks is sort of the deadline to have invites out by. Ok, so 3 weeks to make them, they will have to be assembled and address. Yep, I need to get those ordered. I have some ideas and Randy isn’t too concerned with what I pick, its just getting them picked and getting them ordered.
I am hoping with in the next week or so, I can get something picked and get them ordered. Just one more thing I need to get checked off my to do list.
A few people that I have talked to said that 8 weeks is sort of the deadline to have invites out by. Ok, so 3 weeks to make them, they will have to be assembled and address. Yep, I need to get those ordered. I have some ideas and Randy isn’t too concerned with what I pick, its just getting them picked and getting them ordered.
I am hoping with in the next week or so, I can get something picked and get them ordered. Just one more thing I need to get checked off my to do list.
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