Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Hello family and friends!

So, I am assuming that you're here because you saw the link on our wedding website to this blog. Yay! Shoot, now I actually have to keep up with it! I am sorry I haven't done a better job, we are just so busy!!!

All of a sudden it was two months until the wedding, my to do list was 4 pages long and I don't have any time for anything!!! There was such a long wait in there and now it's all creeping up faster than we planned for!

So, here we are, at the end of January with our wedding almost just two months away. So much has happened it's going to be hard to post it all here! My students are watching An Inconvenient Truth as part of our environmental unit at school, so I thought I'd use this time to catch you up on what we've been doing.

Ian and I got back from Italy and resumed life as normal. My sub did absolutely nothing I told him to do, so we played catch up for two weeks when I got back to school. I resumed teaching yoga one day a week after school, and had about 30 students stay after each week to take yoga. It has been a wonderful experience and I'm hoping to get my yoga teacher certification this summer. I've also been busy at school taking over the recycling program and getting teachers to start recycling. It's the year 2009 people, what is wrong with us? It has been slow going but now I have each of my classes assigned to groups and rooms, and every Thursday we collect recycling. Everyone seems to be into it, and maybe the next step could be getting blue bins in the lunch area for cans and bottles . . . hopefully.

Ian finished his Master's Degree at ASU before Christmas. He worked so hard for years to get it done, and now he has his Special Education Master's Degree. I am so proud of him, he has done so well working full time and going to school. Hopefully after the wedding we can relax a bit and enjoy just being at home with nothing else to do! We had a party for him at Applebee's and he got a new Mac laptop which he tells me every day how much he loves.

Christmas and New Years came and went and we got a chance to ride the new Phoenix light rail train with my Dad. It was super fun and one day they will have lines all over the city, we can't wait!

Oh no, I'm already running out of steam . . . I've got to keep writing . . . don't want to lose my momentum . . .

We bought a new treadmill after Christmas because ours broke and we have been furiously working out for the wedding. Ian has even started to go to yoga once week with me! We have still managed to make time for all of our friends, and I have seen my ladies a whole bunch lately and I love it! Christine, Jenny and Christie have been busy planning my shower, and my mom and I got together on Sunday to stuff and address the wedding invites. They will be out to you by February 7th! Woooooo!

Ooooo, something else exciting happened. We originally wanted these photographers for our wedding that we couldn't afford, so we ended up working with someone else in their company with less experience. It turns out that they ended up no longer working with this person, so now we have Chris and Tammie shooting our engagement and wedding photos - the people we originally wanted! I am so excited to shoot engagement photos with them this Saturday, I just don't know where to go! We were thinking ASU or Falcon Field . . . we will see what we decide by then. If you want to check out their site, they are amazing!!! http://www.largophotography.com

So, all the big wedding stuff is taken care of and paid for, except for the caterer's final count. I just hope I can get all the little stuff done by the wedding! I just can't wait until the music starts and I walk down the aisle, that is when I know my job is done, and it's time to just relax and have fun!

I have to teach now so I will say goodbye but hope to post more later. I will also put up some recent pics for you to see what we've been up to! Lots of love to you all!

Allison :)