Nate's mom got back from her visit to China and stopped in Ann Arbor for a night. Before leaving she gave Nathan this beautiful set of wooden chopsticks and pearl cufflinks. We had a great dinner at Zingermans (where else?) and just enough time before bed to see all of her pictures. China is such an interesting place...hard to believe that Nate's dad lives there!
This past week has been the first of two weeks of Spring Break for Nate. He's spent the time doing what he does best...training, job searching and loving on Sampson. He manages to fit the dishes in as well...nice, right?
Monday went as planned...work, dinner, Y and then relaxing with Nater Gater. While we were relaxing I decided to finish Nate's birthday present. Are you ready for this??? I registered him for the Green Bay Marathon!!!!! He's been training for it since December, but we wanted to wait a bit before we made it official just in case we couldn't work the timing out. The race is on May 17th...that's right...13 days before the wedding...yikes! :) We're super excited and I think my Green Bay fam will do a great job of cheering for Nate as he crosses the finish line in Lambeau Field! (I haven't decided yet what I'm going to be doing on race day. The marathon is not for me right now, the training is quite intense and the stress of an upcoming wedding doesn't jive for me. I'll update once I make up my mind.) Nate running up to 12 miles at once now...that's just KAH-RAZY!!!!
Sooo...Tuesday was a little different. After work Nate picked me up and we quick ran home to pack and hit the road. My boss gave me Wednesday off so I got to join Nate in Cincinnati for some wedding planning. He had planned to go alone unless I could get the day off. And I did! Wahoo! So we hit the road Tuesday night in order to use all of Wednesday for planning.
Here's what we accomplished on Wednesday:
Ordered the boozie-booze (very important!)
Reserved a hospitality suite at the hotel (for the entire weekend so guests can congregate in a large space versus hotel rooms...plus we'll stock it with food and drinks for the weekend and have a brunch there on Sunday morning to say goodbye...pheew...that was a lot of information!)
Found the site for our rehearsal dinner...yum and yeah!
Met with our pastor and finalized some meeting dates, the organist and details regarding our reader and Nathan's family pastor being a part of the ceremony.
Had a tasting with our caterer at the Pohlmeyer's house...and finalized our menu (it's so delicious...can't wait to have it again!)
Completed the design process for our invitations and they were sent to print!
Drove back to Ann Arbor.
Gah...we did so much but we were both SO excited and relieved to have so many of the smaller things finalized!
Thursday it was back to work for me and then we joined Gaucher's for the men's basketball game versus Purdue. I'm not a huge basketball fan, but any excuse to talk to Meg all night and drink Diet Coke is fine by me. We aren't ranked, but Purdue was ranked 16th and we spanked 'em. Go Blue!
While we were there they played a song to get people excited and up and dancing...well it worked and they even projected the people dancing on the big screen. At one point they showed a little boy dancing all silly, he was maybe 11, and then all of a sudden he ripped his coat off and started humping the air. SO crazy! The whole collusium roared with laughter. Nate was instantly saying "what would you do if our kid did that?" First, I'd be in shock, and then I'd kill him.
Last night I joined Meghan at her church. The Rotating Shelter of Ann Arbor was placed at her church for the week. The Rotating Shelter is an organization in Ann Arbor that hosts up to 25 men each night and each week a different church within our community hosts these men at night. During the day they spend time at the homeless shelter of Ann Arbor. Meghan was kind enough to head up the food distribution for these men each night. I got the chance to help her on Friday night and it was quite rewarding. We started setting up around 7:30 after picking up some pizzas, spent time replenishing the coffee, cookies and other items. After cleaning up the food and drinks we got home around 10. After a long Friday I still came home full of guilt for taking advantage of all the blessings in my life and thrilled for each and every one of those blessings. Especially for the family that surrounds and loves me. I always get the most amazing high when I spend time volunteering. It's amazing how inspiring a few hours of simple labor can be. I really need to do it more often. Not only is it obviously helping others, but it reminds me to count my own blessings more often.
Today we spent the day indoors...except for the two plus hours we spent at the Y. Nate had a 12 mile run today so I spent time getting my own workout in. Can't wait to feel my legs in the morning. Oi vey.
So I'm back...a few days, a missed wordless Wednesday and multiple blessings counted later. Happy Saturday everyone...
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Yay! I'm so glad you were able to take one day off and do all of that wedding stuff! Awesome!
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