Friday, May 09, 2008

The ceremony....

They say that most brides put a lot of time into their reception and little on their ceremony. Well I think I spent more time on the ceremony than anything and it was well worth it. The mothers and grandmothers came into Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone) and the Bridesmaids and Groomsmen came into Unfailing Love. The selections were sung by Erin Mattox who has a beautiful voice. I came into Canon in D and was escorted by Terry Carter my old youth miniwster. Scott Kindig met us at the altar and told the stories of how we met and the lives that had impacted us. Scott prayed a prayer of blessing over us and joined our two lives. He talked about the fact that a a cord of three strands are not easily broken and what those three strands are made of (our faith in christ, our love for each other and home and the third was our service to the Body of Christ.) Jason Britt took over next after a reading from our friend Heather Heap and talked about the importance of vows and rings. We exchanged the vows that I wrote for us and our rings. I got a little nervous about the rings, but after a quick glance at Jennifer got it right. :) Our friend Stacey Burgess read what she had wrote for us and it was amazing. I actually remember most of it. Then after a precious prayer from Dustin we were led by Chad in our first communion as husband and wife. Chad did an incredible job. One of the most precious and memorable moments from the ceremony came when Chad asked us to turn around and see the people gathered to love on us. It really calmed us both down and was a great way to take in all the faces that were there. After communion and Give Us Clean Hands, we were pronounced husband and wife. We marched down the aisle to Sign, Sealed, Delivered I'm yours, which most everyone loved. It was a great ceremony that I know we will look back on throughout the years, glad that we planned it so carefully and made it a symbol of us.





Tell Me Why...

The mee-maws are the best. Because they come in and get the job done and make it all about you on your special day...and even the night before. These are the pictures from the bracelet being handed down and the Judson girls singing. It was so good they got an encore!!!








Saturday, April 26, 2008

So I do care about the grade on that paper

And it was a good one. Highest in the class actually. It's amazing how much better you do when it's your money paying for the degree and getting that piece of paper means a substantial pay raise for you.

One week to go. Holy Cow...I can't believe that this time next week, I will be getting my hair done for my wedding. That's crazy!!

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Cheers!!

So I love the show Cheers!!

I mean I really love it.

So I decided to look up the lyrics to the theme song and here are the lyrics that never aired....

Making your way in the world today
Takes everything you've got;
Taking a break from all your worries
Sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?

All those night when you've got no lights,
The check is in the mail;
And your little angel
Hung the cat up by it's tail;
And your third fiance didn't show;

Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
You want to be where you can see,
Our troubles are all the same;
You want to be where everybody knows your name.

Roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee's dead;
The morning's looking bright;
And your shrink ran off to Europe,
And didn't even write;
And your husband wants to be a girl;

Be glad there's one place in the world
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
You want to go where people know,
People are all the same;
You want to go where everybody knows your name.

Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came...

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Party Time

The big paper is done. It was actually done yesterday, a day befor it was due. Praise Jesus it's all over. I don't even care about the grade. It's over.

So now I can move onto the fact that...

I GET MARRIED IN 16 DAYS!

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Writing

I've been writing a lot lately...

1. A paper on the benefits of single sex education for women. Yeah...tore that one up. Why wouldn't I? I went to an all woman's school. AND...it was a reflective paper at that. Grade 9 out of 10.

2. A paper on ethical issues in education. In other words...why women think it's appropriate to sleep with little boys half their age. No comment Brandon on how you are 4 years younger than me...it's not the same.

3. A paper on collaboration and inclusion. Blah blah blah...don't want to write it, the teacher is going to tear me up on it. Don't want to write it. Due next Thursday. Don't want to write it.

4. Thank you notes...a whole lot of....thank you for the cookie sheets.

5. AND MOST IMPORTANT. OUR VOWS. They don't mention pink shorts, toliet seats, or obeying anything he says...but they are us, and amazing.

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

April Showers....Bring May Flowers

First off that's a great song by Sugar Land if you haven't heard it.

We have the first of our two showers done. They were amazing. The first one was at Ivy Creek Baptist Church which is his home church. His WHOLE family goes there, both sides. The shower was put on by Debbie Bowen (the lady that set us up) and a whole bunch of other ladies at the church. We got so much kitchen stuff. I have no clue how I would ever use 13 cookie sheets but we got them.

The second shower was put on by our new church Celebration. It was INCREDIBLE. The cake was the most amazing part. I want it to be our wedding cake to be honest with you and I'm checking into that. It is made with our colors and looks like a package...incredible I tell you.

We are almost a month away. I'm excited, scared and overwhelmed at the same time. I only have 3 of 4 papers left and two presentations in that month. What in the world was I thinking taking classes on top of everything else? But in a month it will all be over with and I'll say that I survived.

Ivy Creek





Celebration Shower





Easter

This was our first Easter together. It was so great. There are some fun pictures of Brandon and his dad. I will leave it to your imagination what he is doing to his dad. Christie (his best friend's soon to be wife) and I made fun eggs at the family egg coloring day! His mom bought my Easter dress. Just a warning: you'll see this dress often over the next few weeks. You'll get over it.




Ski Trip






Our first trip with the Celebration Teenagers. It was fun...even losing Tyler for most of the day. We found him....no worries!

Monday, March 10, 2008

I'm with Heather

I would give anything to be back on a swing, surrounded by amazing conversation, great friends, and a safety that I've never really felt since.

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Our house...is a very very very fine house...

She's a keeper! Our new house is a fun little house. We are renting it from a friend of Brandon's parents. It has the smallest bathroom ever known to man, and a scary door that leads outside (no worries, we are getting that one taken care of). Lots of closets, 2 bedrooms (one with big windows), amazing hard woods with lots of character, a decent size kitchen and living room, a car port, huge front and side yard, a white porch perfect for a swing or rockers, green paint, a john deere colored mail box, and a huge laundry room (that I wish I could trade for a bigger bathroom). Come visit after May 3rd, which is only in 58 more days!





Picture Post! The Nova...it's his dad's!




Friday, February 29, 2008

Top 10 Reasons for Being an Episcopalian

10. NO snake handling
9. You can believe in dinosaurs
8. Male and female, God created them; male and female we ordain them.
7. You don't have to check your brain at the door.
6. Pew aerobics
5. Church year is color-coded.
4. Free wine with communion.
3. All of the pageantry, none of the guilt.
2. You don't have to know how to swim to get baptized.
1. No matter what you believe, there's bound to be at least

Jesus ask for your heart, not your mind. God takes all kinds and so do we.

Join us for worship in St.Mary's Chapel every Wednesday night @ 5:00
(The little grey buildings near "O" House)


This made me laugh at school last night!

Thursday, February 21, 2008

I have no cute title...

This will probably be a very random and boring post, but hey...at least it is something.

We are getting closer and closer to the wedding date. 71 days to be exact now. It seems like it's been forever since September, and yet the time has flown by too. We are getting excited about our showers and even more excited about moving into our rental house soon. Brandon will move in in April and I will join him after the wedding. It's a cute little green house with 2 bedrooms, a decent kitchen, pretty big living room and the SMALLEST bathroom ever known to man. I can't wait to get OUR stuff in there and start living with this man.

My job is going ok, the kids are really tough this semester. It's amazing how different their generation is from ours. It really blows my mind sometimes.

Grad school is going well and keeping me busier than I want to be. The class I am in right now is good, but really tough and has a lot of work due. But this too shall pass and soon it will be over with and the paycheck that comes with it will be nice.

Brandon starts a new job next week and he is really looking forward to it.

So...we begin the countdown. It's ten weeks till we get married and we both can't wait.

Hope all is well in your lives. Hope to see you all sooner than later.

Love, Christy

Friday, January 18, 2008

The little things...

So i've decided in my 27 years of wisdom that sometimes it's the tiny little things that make us feel better about ourselves.

For instance....today I waxed my own eyebrows. Yes really I did them myself, but i've gotten pretty good at being able to tell how much to put on the stick and when to pull it off.

But it was like I got a complete make over.

Sure my hair still looks as crappy and flat as it did this morning....and we know being from New Hope that flat is equal to a sin.

I'm still the same fat butt that I was this morning and probably a little bigger after the oatmeal creme pie I just ate.

I'm still the same sorry person I was this morning when I woke up after being mean this past week to Brandon or as he put it...in a pissy mood.

I'm still the same lazy butt who hasn't cleaned out her car in a week, hasn't done her alternative assignment in her class because we didn't go because it snowed, and who's house looks like the welfare department would come and take her kids if she had any.

Nope, I'm still all those things, but somehow waxing my eyebrows made me feel better, neater, nicer, thinner, more energetic, prettier and just all around better.

Maybe I'll go shave my legs, that might do wonders...

P.S. I hope that one day the large group of unfortunate pictures of myself is a wedding present!

Monday, January 14, 2008

Time flies by....

When you are having fun, and thank God even sometimes when you are not. We are down to 110 days to go and things are getting crazy. On our plate we have the task of finding somewhere to live, the new youth ministry that we just took over, my grad school classes, wedding stuff (which includes addressing invitations), another ministry that I am apart of, and Brandon trying to not quit his job that he hates before May 3rd. So getting through this semester live and still engaged will be a huge task, but I have a feeling we'll make it work.