Wow!  Almost 1 year later and I decide to make an entry.  Life has gone by so fast with a wedding and being a newly wed and work and school and etc.  Life is crazy, busy and great!  I have been planning to upload wedding photos, but my computer at home is too slow!  I am at school today and I thought, what better time, these computers are fast.  It still didn't work, I guess the pictures are too large and I don't know what else to do!?!  I will try to get some pictures out to you all.

Brandon and I are almost ready for Christmas.  I have about half my shopping done and we have our house decorated!  For those of you who don't know, we live in a tiny studio appartment (and I mean tiny).  My mom and dad-in-law got us a tree for our first Christmas together.  It is about 3 feet tall and soooooo beautiful.  We have it sitting on our table and it takes up quite a bit of space, considering what little we have.  I love it though.  We were able to get an ornament for each of our favorite sports teams, exciting huh?  Well it is to me!  Go 49ers and Go Kings!  I know the Kings arn't doing well, but we fans have to stick by them.  Maybe I can get a picture of our tree, if nothing else on here for you all.

We will be spending Christmas morning by ourselves at our place and then going to Grass Valley for Christmas dinner.  Then, we will be going to Oregon to spend the New Year Celebration with our other side of the family (my side)!  What fun!!  Anyway, Merry Christmas (if I don't make it back on here again for a while) and Happy New Year!  May God bless you all and keep you safe this holiday!

HEY IT IS ALMOST CHRISTMAS, THE DAY THE BIRTH OF THE LORD JESUS IS CELEBRATED!  Isn't that exciting?  I am excited.

So much has been going on, it is crazy.  I graduated on Friday.  It was nice, my parents drove down to celebrate with me...and...to my suprise, Brandon came down with them as a surprise.  They didn't leave Medford until about midnight.  At about 5:30 on Friday morning, I was awoke by a knock on the door and when I pulled the blinds, IT WAS BRANDON!  I was so happy.  We all thought he would have to work, but the big guy gave him two days off to come and be with me on my special day.  Brandon is really good about making me feel special. 

Anyway, so I am driving up to Oregon tomarrow to celebrate Christmas with my family and my fiance.  I have never been able to celebrate with all of them together before, so I am excited.  I will be driving back down on the 26th because I have jury duty on the 27th.  What a drag, huh?  Jury duty during Christmas break and even worse, two days after Christmas.

Ah, well, I have to cater my bosses New Years Party again this year anyway.  The nice thing about that is that her party only lasts until 9pm, so it doesn't take my entire evening up.

Well, have a Merry Christmas, and drive safely wherever you may be going!  Oh, and if there is snow, throw a snowball for me, it has been too long since I have had a snowball fight.

I did a lot of thinking today about my life.  Things never seem to go easy.  It seems that I always take the long road and it takes me five times longer to get where it takes others to get so quickly.  It is frusterating sometimes, but then I realize...God knows what He is doing even when I don't understand.

I am graduating tomarrow and that is exciting, but now I want to move on to the next thing in my life, marrying the man of my dreams.  We don't have long, but instead of us moving closer to each other, like most couples do, we are now farther apart than we have ever been.  We are now 5 hours apart.  I have become so dependent on him in my life, that I have a lot of open space without him close.  That is okay though, because God is strengthening us now, I can feel it!

Now, I will have so much free time after graduation and all, so hey, lets hang out!

Wow!  I can't believe it.  I am graduating in just 2 days.  I almost started to think I was never going to be finished.    I am so glad, this semester has been so busy for me and I just want time for myself.  Finally I can start going to my Cell Group on Wednesday nights again also.

My life isn't going to slow down much...  as some of you may know, I am getting married on June 3rd, 2006.  I put one of our engagement photos on to share with you all.  Brandon is such a wonderful guy and I am so excited to get to spend the rest of my life with him!  He is such a blessing to me.  The next six months are going to be full of Wedding planning.  Brandon and I are getting married in Medford, Oregon at the church I grew up in.  We have our photographer and our wonderful wedding party.  We are in the midst of picking out our wedding cake style, actually we will do that over Christmas Break.  We still have to pick out the bouquets and such.  There are probably so many other things left to do that we haven't even thought of yet. 

Please pray for us as we prepare for our life together!

Other than that, Brandon is living up in Oregon right now with my family working at Harry & David Corporation.  I miss having him close by (we've always been about 1 hour apart), but he will be able to get some bills paid off quickly with the holiday work.  And, WE GET TO SPEND CHRISTMAS TOGETHER.  I will be driving up to my parents house on Tuesday!  Brandon's parents will miss him, and I feel badly for them, but he will be working right through the holiday and won't have more than Christmas Day off probably.

Anyway, God Bless and Have a good evening!