Pictures from our Engaged Encounter Retreat

This was the sunrise on Sunday morning.


Andrew and I taking a picture together even though we were frozen.

Just Andrew.

Just me in front of the Atlantic Ocean in January.

The hotel we were staying at on Virginia Beach.

A little of Everything...

I had not posted a blog in a while so I thought it was about time for an update. My computer had been at the tech. center for awhile. Andrew and I had to go to and Engaged Encounter retreat on the last weekend in January. I tried to go in thinking of the experience as a vacation since we were staying at an oceanfront hotel on Virginia Beach, but that is hard to do when you have almost every minute of your day dictated to you. Thus I was not really thinking that the weekend would be worth anything except torture from the ocean and indoor pools that I could not enjoy. In the end, even though the weekend was long with early mornings and late nights it was not as bad as I had expected. After all, Andrew and I were spending the entire weekend together. We learned a few new things about each other and our self. So that is important. I think it made us closer if that is possible.

I went and talked to a local florist about arrangements for the wedding. I know she does good work overall. I am still worried about the arrangements meeting my expectations. She sent me a proposal for the job and I accepted and sent her the deposit. I am having white and a two tone red rose with baby's breath for the bouquets. I am going to do silk flowers for the bouquets, corsages, and boutonnieres. Then the arrangements for the church are real flowers.

This past weekend, Andrew and I moved some trees that were small out of the site where we are going to be building our house. The guy is supposed to be coming soon to start work on the footers. Plus we are getting the blueprints this week.

We have an education recruiting day here at College next week but I am seriously worried about getting a job after graduation. What if I can't find anything close to our house? I told Andrew that I guess I might have to work at Lowe's and substitute teach as much as I can to make money. But that really scares me. I really want a job even though a REAL job at teaching is scary in itself right now. Well that is enough for now.