Ask and You Shall Receive

This post is for Karin who suggested that I put some pics up, and I agree! I love looking at people's pics when I read their blogs, 'cause it feels like I know them better. So here are my nearest and dearest. It's a bit picture heavy, but I'm sure you all won't mind. :)


The two that started it all, my Mom and Dad. My Mom never wants to take a normal pic, 'cause she thinks she's ugly (but I don't) so she'd rather be ugly on purpose than to be ugly on accident... weird I know, but I sorta know what she means. I think this picture is cute anyway. :)


This one is Jordon and my two brothers, Chapin and Derrick, in that order. This is their GQ pose... they wish!


Jordon and me! And nooo we did not purposely match that day, oops! I tied his tie too, cool, eh?


Last but not least, my best friend Roxana who actually took all these pictures.

All of the pics are from Grandpa's funeral. Roxana went camera happy and I'm glad she did, cause she got some really great shots. :)

I showed you mine, now you show me yours! :)

Believe it or Not

Believe it or not...

I started my Christmas shopping! Shopping online ROCKS. It's so leizurely, and you can find so much funky stuff, and you don't have to go anywhere! My first purchase for Christmas is for my dad. He looovess Hershey bars, and LOOOVVEES S'mores. So lucky for me that I found this on Urban Outfitters' website, www.urbanoutfitters.com. They have some very cool, funky stuff.

I feel so proud to have started shopping already, yay! It really is the only way I can afford Christmas though. I hate charging gifts.

Deja Vu!

Jordon got offered a management position in Salem. He would be making way too much for us to say no. But the commute would be HORRIBLE for him.

Soooo.... here we go again, the whole to move or not to move dilemma. The good thing is that I'd be really close to my two brothers who are going to school in Monmouth. And still not too far away from Mom and Dad. (An hour, at a non-rush hour.) The bad news is that I don't really want to move, and that Salem SUCKS! Sure, it's our state capitol, but it's got a serious drug/meth problem and I highly doubt there are any decent yarn shops down there. Plus, I'd have to quit my job, (which is fine with me, quite frankly,) but I'd know NO one. Jordon would be working longer hours, and I'd have no friends or family, just my brothers as company. And they barely count. Poker parties aren't my thing.

I am more excited than I sound, though. I hate that money is such a driving force in our lives, but man, he'd be making literally double what he's making now, and a chance at a maximum $1000 bonus each month! Good will come of it. But moving sucks.

On a happy note, my mom and I did go check out a wedding/reception site, and I am IN LOVE!!! I haven't been this excited about the wedding, since... well, ever! I love Jordon and I love all that marriage represents, but I'm not a big wedding person, so I haven't done ANY planning in the year we've been engaged. Now, though, that is changing. This place is just perfect. It was a church-turned-art gallery which is definately us. Jordon wanted a traditional, spiritual place to get married in, and I wanted an atmospheric, beautiful, unique place to get married in. I am absolutely thrilled my mom discovered this place! I'll try to post pics ASAP. This blog just maaay turn into a wedding planning blog, so buckle up, folks!