Hello All!
Not sure if you read this, but most likely not since we haven't posted much!
Let's keep it short and sweet with this blog.
Our lives have changed for the better and only because well I will give it up to Zumba for real this time! Not only did attending my world-convention did I realize man, positivity does create a sense of security, and love! But also time apart does make the heart grow fonder. Needless to say our first year of marriage wasn't what we planned, but now more than ever united we stand!
I always thought when life hands you lemons you duh make some lemonade, but now I know it really is more than that. The juice is always worth the squeeze...remember that quote...or as Mark would say write that down!
Right now, I won't elaborate too much because, I don' have time ha... but what I know is this...THANK YOU to those who all have truly supported our marriage this past year because if it weren't for you our confidence wouldn't exist.
Shout-Outs:
#1 Mom and Dad truly you have showed us what marriage is all about and your support has made a world of differnce in our lives, thank you!
#2 Momma Holly the confidence you continually give towards us shows us we can do anything! Thank you Lord I do have the best mother-in-law ever!
#3 Mr. Schultz, Laura L. , and Samantha my sister aka sister in law! Your our best friends, you have been there every step of the way and true people like you we'll never take for granted, thank you for your continued support, and fun this past year we couldn't have done it without you!
#4 Who should really be #1 but hey its okay right...to Mark my husband I <3 you and all that we've been through since the day we met. I've never regretted a moment because I knew I was destined to be with someone great, but never saw myself as much until I met you. I could thank you for so many things, but mostly loving me and all of me is more than any words could express!! Just watch out though the combination of our DNA will make a huge mark in this world and can't wait till its our time!
#5 Family: To my Grandma Ross, Aunts, Uncles, and cousins! No words could say how lucky we are to have your support! To the Dukes Carl & Gary you've kept us laughing and on our toes, we can't wait for our future adventures as a family!! To my cousins a far the examples of being an "adult", even miles away shows us with a strong-will we can overcome many obstacles.
Aww before it gets too mooshy we're celebrating our honeymoon & 1 year anniversary this week, we can't wait to share the stories soon!
Much <3!
Mark & Sara M.R. Thompson
Monday, July 18, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
7 Months, New Year, and no more excuses!
Welcome back to our blog! Actually, I should say that to myself welcome back to your blog!! Our last post seems forever ago, but will be honest in saying our feelings hadn't changed much until the start of the New Year. The hardships we had isn't exactly how you'd think you'd tell the world that's where we stood our first six months of marriage. However, it feels good saying it out loud finally. Theirs not secret that supposedly your first year of marriage is the hardest, but I refuse to be that statistic. with that said...moved on to bigger and better things together! With that said, our careers have been what has helped us gain our focus when things were hard. At the end of 2010, I parted with Crowe Construction Management in order to fulfill my life long dream of owning my own business and becoming a parent (someday). Mark continues to do well in his 4Th year apprenticeship program as an Electrician and yes, still working!! Snowboarding seemed to be the best way for Mark to relieve stress this winter. Watching your husband (yes, I now use that word a lot) go through what he did this last year was heartbreaking. Even though while he snowboarded his stress off while I attended multiple Zumbathon's this winter, we both found peace within our passions again. Zumba saved me from all things good and bad at the end of last year. Isn't it amazing how you grow and learn with just doing your favorite past time, the healing power it has I can't even describe. Recently, well in the last two months we've had some loss and also concerns for families health. We lost my Godmother Dorene Karlson passed away at 66. Right now I'm still grieving this loss, but she was able to be at the wedding last year so I was so grateful to see her looking well and enjoying herself with my Godfather Karl. She will be missed greatly... My Grandmother Clara Mae had a stroke at her home and has been residing in Stillwater at a nursing home so she is being taken care. We hope she can finish her rehabilitation and return home :) soon! It's April, we're now gearing up for Summer (in our heads) and making plans for "the best summer ever". Not only do we believe we deserve to rid all bad and enjoy all good, its going to be a busy one again too! We're eager to get up to the cabin for our first trip for a long weekend to also see Samantha graduate from college!! Blog, I promise you that we will not wait this long again to share what is new with us and how life is treating us. To the next six months may you all be blessed, happy & healthy, and enjoying the Spring weather!! Mark & Sara Thompson aka The Thompson's
Thursday, October 7, 2010
"Get out of the net your not a fish" - Rodney Dangerfield 'Lady Bugs'
This picture describes a lot of how Mark and I have been since our last post....We kind of want to kick something, look & feel angry, and also feel a little stuck in a net!
Now on the positive side of the photo were determined, strong, and full of poise like Sam is in this picture!
This October we're going to leave all unfinished business behind to move forward....
It starts this weekend with fun events!!
Thanks dear sister for letting us use your awesome photo as an example of our feelings :)
Today I have the best feeling and couldn't be more proud of my sister! It's her last season and she's going out like a rockstar, check it!
http://www.bsubeavers.com/news/default/115/3437/
Sam,
Your brother-in-law and I are so proud of you and can't wait to cheer you and your team on to more victories!! LETS GO BSU BEAVERS!
Mark & Sara
Friday, September 17, 2010
A Cloud is Lifted!
September is here already, we didn't know?!
All,
All,
Please know that due to unforseen circumstances we have not been our usual selves the past...well month or so.
However, thanks to our traditional lifestyle we press on as we've always done. Life never hands you a lemon unless you can make some lemonade out of it....so squeeze away or be squeezed!!
TWO WORDS: Family & Friends, we love you and thank you for supporting us as always!
Lots has happened, but we will wait until after we celebrate new beginnings at Oktoberfest this weekend, we'll have lots to update you on so stay tuned!
Much Love,
Mark & Sara
However, thanks to our traditional lifestyle we press on as we've always done. Life never hands you a lemon unless you can make some lemonade out of it....so squeeze away or be squeezed!!
TWO WORDS: Family & Friends, we love you and thank you for supporting us as always!
Lots has happened, but we will wait until after we celebrate new beginnings at Oktoberfest this weekend, we'll have lots to update you on so stay tuned!
Much Love,
Mark & Sara
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Summer & Married!
Thank you all who came to enjoy our wedding day with us! It couldn't have been more perfect and to our family and friends, thank you for supporting us with this monumental step in our lives.
We can't call out our favorite highlight of the evening, but like most, the fireworks and dancing seemed to be the hit of the night. We only have so many pictures floating around of this day because everyone said they were just having too much fun instead of taking photos. We agreed!
It has been now three weeks and lots have happened and also not :( One is thank you notes, our bad truly, we had to sort through our goodies and our mission is to complete that on our way up north to the Velasquez family reunion this Saturday!
We did enjoy a few days after the wedding up north outside Duluth at Black Bear Casino. We love that place and gambling, I ended up being the bread winner that weekend (it helped pay rent at the studio I'm at :) We took our first wild ride together as husband and wife on our first day, we road on the new Alpine Slide at Spirit Mountain! It was awesome and its was a beautiful day with the quite the view coming up the slide, see pictures below. We dined in Duluth twice enjoying two very different places, but with Lake Superior as our view. We enjoyed indulging and took up suggestions from my cousin's wife, Muggs for one of the tasty places.
Even though we have not taken our official honeymoon we've made plans to travel to Europe next year just as summer begins. We're looking to start in Amsterdam, stop in Germany to visit my cousin and her family, Italy, Monaco, Spain (Barcelona), France (Paris), and last London, England. Mark hasn't traveled internationally and I have, but not to all of these countries, and I cannot wait to travel together for two weeks!!
Our main concentration on our honeymoon is staying cities with less tourist attractions (though we may stay in one or two). We both enjoy watching travel shows together when we watch T.V. and now that we've seen some places off the map, were ready to indulge in the european culture. To prepare for our excursion Mark and I said Spanish is our next mission. For one its my native language and it is secondary in the states now, so we will take courses to improve our speaking skills.
Now that its near fall we're gearing up for football season and no #4 will not be discussed here ;)We've been hopeful that our Vikings season will be as glorious as it was last year! Its nice to be settled down a little more now as we were both pretty anxious with the post-wedding blues for the last few weeks. Right now were just anxious for our photos, as you saw we had two photographers, and I'm sure they have their work cut out for them with over 2,000 pictures taken!
We hope your enjoying this fall-like weather and give us a call we'd love to see our family and friends after this great celebration!
Love & Hugs,
Mark & Sara
We can't call out our favorite highlight of the evening, but like most, the fireworks and dancing seemed to be the hit of the night. We only have so many pictures floating around of this day because everyone said they were just having too much fun instead of taking photos. We agreed!
It has been now three weeks and lots have happened and also not :( One is thank you notes, our bad truly, we had to sort through our goodies and our mission is to complete that on our way up north to the Velasquez family reunion this Saturday!
We did enjoy a few days after the wedding up north outside Duluth at Black Bear Casino. We love that place and gambling, I ended up being the bread winner that weekend (it helped pay rent at the studio I'm at :) We took our first wild ride together as husband and wife on our first day, we road on the new Alpine Slide at Spirit Mountain! It was awesome and its was a beautiful day with the quite the view coming up the slide, see pictures below. We dined in Duluth twice enjoying two very different places, but with Lake Superior as our view. We enjoyed indulging and took up suggestions from my cousin's wife, Muggs for one of the tasty places.
Even though we have not taken our official honeymoon we've made plans to travel to Europe next year just as summer begins. We're looking to start in Amsterdam, stop in Germany to visit my cousin and her family, Italy, Monaco, Spain (Barcelona), France (Paris), and last London, England. Mark hasn't traveled internationally and I have, but not to all of these countries, and I cannot wait to travel together for two weeks!!
Our main concentration on our honeymoon is staying cities with less tourist attractions (though we may stay in one or two). We both enjoy watching travel shows together when we watch T.V. and now that we've seen some places off the map, were ready to indulge in the european culture. To prepare for our excursion Mark and I said Spanish is our next mission. For one its my native language and it is secondary in the states now, so we will take courses to improve our speaking skills.
Now that its near fall we're gearing up for football season and no #4 will not be discussed here ;)We've been hopeful that our Vikings season will be as glorious as it was last year! Its nice to be settled down a little more now as we were both pretty anxious with the post-wedding blues for the last few weeks. Right now were just anxious for our photos, as you saw we had two photographers, and I'm sure they have their work cut out for them with over 2,000 pictures taken!
We hope your enjoying this fall-like weather and give us a call we'd love to see our family and friends after this great celebration!
Love & Hugs,
Mark & Sara
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
May was here, we think, and now June!
Today our wedding calendar says we're at 44 days until the wedding!
Some details of the wedding have changed, no worries nothing that would effect our guests :p but we're happy to be moving forward with things.
It's only been a little over three weeks since we attended Jerry's services. As Grandma Ozzie put it while visiting this past weekend...
"This too shall pass..."
A loss of a Grandparent is something I'm familiar with, but watching someone else especially your soon to be husband go through losing a loved one is just as hard. Mark could use some prayers for him right now to overcome the heartache he's been feeling. We acknowledge that right now we must try to overcome sad feelings and put forth a happy faces towards our wedding, but we will admit we have heartache and its not easy to do this but we will do our best :)
On a brighter note Mark and I both got to enjoy a little retreat away from our chaotic last few months over Memorial Day weekend. Mark went up to the cabin with his Mom and my parents. They all enjoyed a weekend of fishing, wedding planning, and relaxing :) they all sounded so refreshed after. Samantha, my friend Lindsay, and I enjoyed our vacation in Daytona Beach & Orlando, Florida. We soaked up the sun, enjoyed delicious meals, relaxed while indulging in mojitos poolside, enjoyed a spectacular view of the Daytona Beach coastline for dinner one evening, and played in the Disney Pleasure Island Market Place.
After returning from our retreats we learn that life still has those challenges awaiting us when we get home. Sometimes with facing our challenges we find ourselves growing more and feeling like we're headed towards a better place. Mark and I are a good team and always get reminded of that during a tough time, sometimes we just need to be reminded of that.
After we visited Ozzie this last weekend we accomplished our wedding ceremony details and got help from her on scriptures too :) thank you Ozzie! It was helpful to have her insight onto some details we hadn't finished. After our visit their we stopped in Hayward to visit my cousin, wife, and the newest member to our Johnson family...Lilja! Right way she took to Mark and loved his Twins sweatshirt and bright Twins hat! I've never seen anything like that from a baby and yes I have pictures!
This weekend were headed to the cabin together, FINALLY! We'll have a few friends and the DUKES with us this weekend for a much needed good time at Fairview! Not all of our pals that were invited could make it, but truthfully less chaos the better for us right now.
Last but not least, I'm excited to say all of my cousins with the exception of one from the Johnson side will be coming to the wedding! Two from Seattle (Ruth & John) and the other (Aran) from Colorado! I couldn't be more excited to have my family all be in one place!
Ah...June 2010 we'll never forget!
Hugs to you all and PS checkout our wedding website and send us a message, we'd love to hear from you!
Mark & Sara
aka
The Future Thompson's!
Some details of the wedding have changed, no worries nothing that would effect our guests :p but we're happy to be moving forward with things.
It's only been a little over three weeks since we attended Jerry's services. As Grandma Ozzie put it while visiting this past weekend...
"This too shall pass..."
A loss of a Grandparent is something I'm familiar with, but watching someone else especially your soon to be husband go through losing a loved one is just as hard. Mark could use some prayers for him right now to overcome the heartache he's been feeling. We acknowledge that right now we must try to overcome sad feelings and put forth a happy faces towards our wedding, but we will admit we have heartache and its not easy to do this but we will do our best :)
On a brighter note Mark and I both got to enjoy a little retreat away from our chaotic last few months over Memorial Day weekend. Mark went up to the cabin with his Mom and my parents. They all enjoyed a weekend of fishing, wedding planning, and relaxing :) they all sounded so refreshed after. Samantha, my friend Lindsay, and I enjoyed our vacation in Daytona Beach & Orlando, Florida. We soaked up the sun, enjoyed delicious meals, relaxed while indulging in mojitos poolside, enjoyed a spectacular view of the Daytona Beach coastline for dinner one evening, and played in the Disney Pleasure Island Market Place.
After returning from our retreats we learn that life still has those challenges awaiting us when we get home. Sometimes with facing our challenges we find ourselves growing more and feeling like we're headed towards a better place. Mark and I are a good team and always get reminded of that during a tough time, sometimes we just need to be reminded of that.
After we visited Ozzie this last weekend we accomplished our wedding ceremony details and got help from her on scriptures too :) thank you Ozzie! It was helpful to have her insight onto some details we hadn't finished. After our visit their we stopped in Hayward to visit my cousin, wife, and the newest member to our Johnson family...Lilja! Right way she took to Mark and loved his Twins sweatshirt and bright Twins hat! I've never seen anything like that from a baby and yes I have pictures!
This weekend were headed to the cabin together, FINALLY! We'll have a few friends and the DUKES with us this weekend for a much needed good time at Fairview! Not all of our pals that were invited could make it, but truthfully less chaos the better for us right now.
Last but not least, I'm excited to say all of my cousins with the exception of one from the Johnson side will be coming to the wedding! Two from Seattle (Ruth & John) and the other (Aran) from Colorado! I couldn't be more excited to have my family all be in one place!
Ah...June 2010 we'll never forget!
Hugs to you all and PS checkout our wedding website and send us a message, we'd love to hear from you!
Mark & Sara
aka
The Future Thompson's!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
May...2010
Hello all,
Early Thursday morning Mark's Grandfather, Jerry Thompson passed away surrounded by his family in Chisago. We're saddened by how fast this went for Jerry, but know Mark spent some great days with him since this began.
We we're able to spend Wednesday evening with Grandpa Jerry and was so glad we had the opportunity to be with the family.
We love you all and thank your kind wishes for Mark and I. It really makes us so grateful to have support and love during this time.
We do have information on the funeral services for Jerry.
Please go to: www.bradshawfuneral.com
Go under Obituaries and look for "Gerald Thompson, Sr."
If you would like to send a memorial you can do so thru this site.
Much <3,
Mark and Sara
Early Thursday morning Mark's Grandfather, Jerry Thompson passed away surrounded by his family in Chisago. We're saddened by how fast this went for Jerry, but know Mark spent some great days with him since this began.
We we're able to spend Wednesday evening with Grandpa Jerry and was so glad we had the opportunity to be with the family.
We love you all and thank your kind wishes for Mark and I. It really makes us so grateful to have support and love during this time.
We do have information on the funeral services for Jerry.
Please go to: www.bradshawfuneral.com
Go under Obituaries and look for "Gerald Thompson, Sr."
If you would like to send a memorial you can do so thru this site.
Much <3,
Mark and Sara
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