February & Boccee!

February is here and almost March!

We can't hardly believe it's March almost...it feels like Christmas was just here and we just got engaged. Regardless, we power through each month just waiting for Spring like you all are.

Lot of wedding planning has been done and our Save the Dates are going out this next week so keep an eye out for it! Some of the fun things we're looking to do have been booked and now we just are finalizing catering and reception site details. I will admit I go in spurts of planning then I come down real quick. I've learned that planning a wedding is the complete opposite of planning a construction job, weddings come with emotion and construction is a start and finish process. Ask my Mom, I wasn't liking how this all goes, but have learned that patience is still not my virtue and will work on that with our Pastor who by the way is named Mark too!

So as I said our Pastor, yes we've met with Pastor Mark of the United Methodist Church and enjoyed what he calls learning ways to grow in our relationship. Just after our first meeting it was surreal how we're talking to "our officiant" for "our wedding". I hope our relationship survey goes well, however just prior to our meeting Mark and I discovered our main issues and feel ready to tackle them. Having Pastor Mark in our lives to help us grow I think we're both ready for that guidance and doing it together as a team.

Other wedding info to share is that we've booked Mark's Grooms Dinner at the Gasthaus Bavarian Hunter for Thursday, July 22nd, 2010. This is a fun place to hold the Rehearsal Dinner as we love German Beer and a pretty scenery, so this should be a great event to kick off our wedding weekend. But other than that we're gearing up our Mark's Groomsman and Ushers for getting them fitted and miscellaneous things.

It's funny how you would think wedding planning is our #1 project its more like #3. Right now we've had our house in construction mode. We're finishing ceilings in the lower level in the back room, kitchen, dining room, and office. We've had a Taper at he house finishing our walls and ceilings in all those rooms as well. Now comes painting in all and bathroom tonight. This is been a prolonged process as our Engagement happened, Christmas, and then awaiting our Tax Returns. But after the flood I will say it was much needed after living in the house for five years it needed some sprucing up.

The second important subject my Zumba classes. They're building up in size in town for my Semi-Private classes I had to move to another location! This is very exciting as I have been still under full time hours and have lots of goals to obtain before we get married and just after. So wish me luck at this additional studio, STUDIO CATES!!

We will be posting pictures of our latest & greatest moments it's going to be a great Spring! We're heading up to Grand Marais the first weekend in March to visit my Aunt & Uncle. Snowshoeing, great conversation, and snow should be a great getaway for us!

Hugs to you all and we have strong prayers for Mark's Grandfather Jerry Thompson this week, we'll keep you posted on his results of his tests!

Mark & Sara