Anyone Out There???

OK so everyone keeps telling us that you are reading our blog....but we still don't get ANY comments!  Ya'll need to start leaving some comments for us because just like you enjoy reading our blog (or so everyone says) we like to read your comments so PLEASE LEAVE THEM!!!  Man we sound pathetic begging for comments...but oh well!  If you need help learning how to leave them just let us know!  You can also leave us comments and sign our wedding guest book as well.  The site for that is www.theknot.com/ourwedding/AnnaClute&JamesBrown

Oh yeah on a brighter note I thought I would let everyone know that we found out this week that James passed his test for the praxis so he is all set for teaching now...way to go babe!  Hope everyone is having a great break.  We are going to be going to Market Square in downtown Knoxville tomorrow night for New Years and then will return home on Tuesday.  We got a new camera cord today so we will be able to post some pics when we get back!  Hope everyone has a safe new years and we look forward to reading all the comments we are going to get in 2008!  

Happy Holidays!

Just wanted to write a quick note to say happy holidays to all! We have been working very hard at getting the house in order and thanks to a few of our great friends helping out it looks pretty good so far! We feel pretty good about it all and finally have internet installed and the security system in and now we will just have to wait for DirecTV so James can get back into watching all of his Sunday ticket football!
We are leaving today on a trip for the holidays, we will spend most of it in Tennessee and then be going up to Illinois for a few days to visit my Grandpa and some family on my Dad's side! We'll definitely be very busy but are excited to see family because we haven't seen them since our October break.
Also on a wedding note we FINALLY have all of our stuff together for our Save the date cards(or STDs as Melissa likes to call them) and will be sending them out on Monday along with a belated holiday letter with our new address and all so be on the lookout for that!
We hope everyone has a very safe and fun holiday and LEAVE US COMMENTS to let us know how you are doing! haha!

What's new on the home front...

Well James and I are pretty excited to announce that it looks like we will soon officially be home owners! As many of you know we have been looking at a house for a few weeks now in downtown Monroe and we went this evening to write up a contract on the house! We are set to close on December 17th, what a wonderful Christmas present for us! We are also now officially taking applications for a moving crew as well...doesn't take much, just a smile and a hungry belly for some pizza after the move!

It is a very quaint little house that was built in 1940 and definitely has a lot of character to it. It is 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom with a den and a nice size living room so it's just enough room for us for a first home! It was for sale by owner (who were also first time sellers) so needless to say we all learned a lot along the way and it looks like we made a few new friends as well! One of the best parts is that we are going to be a lot closer to work (like within 2 miles) and also we get to live near some of our good friends!

The living room and fireplace...we hope to get gas logs in there sometime!

The dining room looking into the kitchen

Our green apple kitchen!

A.J.'s new home...a nice fenced in back yard!

Man Law

When mama bear is away little bear and daddy bear will play. Not really but it at least sounded good and made me feel like I run the show. Anna is away for a conference at school from Sunday afternoon until Tuesday evening. I am not sure what AJ and I will do.

Here are some things that need to be done and they are not very exciting, before the fun can start.

1. Start packing

2. Research windows

3. Lesson plan

4. AJ does not know it but I am becoming Pavlov on his bad self, and he is going to be in studious training these few days.

After a few of these things get done then I can engage full man power law and watch some serious hardcore football action, and play the Wii.

The great feeling of man law in full force.

I have not posted about our last trip to Jekyll Island, and that is long overdue.

We got quite a bit done on the tripe. We were able to select a florist for the wedding, along with a DJ, and book the chapel and the reception hall, a swell as the menu for the reception.quite a lot of work and we did not have a lot of time for other stuff. We also have all the rooms that we are going to use for people to stay in picked out as well.

Below are some pictures of our trip.

It was a great view from our room.





Woman law though is even more powerful than man law.





Nothing however is stronger than true love not even man law or woman law.

Gotta love "turkey day!"

Well lets see where to start this one. It has been a very busy week! Even though there were only two days of school with the kids they were definitely very packed full of activity. Yesterday we had a work day at school and were both able to get a lot done on our rooms which was nice. After that we had a little mishap when we went out to Five Guys for lunch and I went in the bathroom to wash my hands and when I was coming out I hit my ring on the door and bent the band so my diamond was now sitting on its side instead up standing upright. So we then had to make a quick trip out to southpark where we got the band and to make along story short I am ringless for the next week. Along with the topics of rings and the wedding we got a LOT done the other weekend when we went to Jekyll and are excited about the plans for the wedding. James will be updating soon with the pics and to tell you more about our trip!

Today is good ole Thanksgiving and we are going to spend the day at Shelly and Gary's house hanging out with them and eating some turkey of course! This is our 2nd Thanksgiving together and we definitey have had a lot to be thankful for in the last year. I am VERY thankful for the fact that James was able to move out here and that we have learned so many new things about each other after living together. I look forward to seeing where we will be at as man and wife by our 3rd Thanksgiving next year! I'm also very thankful for our health and the fact that (besides a few colds here and there) we have been lucky enough to stay away from any sickness. Last but of course not least I am thankful for my family and the way that they have been there for me in everything that I do in my life...many of you have heard me say how truly lucky I think I am for the family that I have and how wonderful they are. I have to admit that part of me is sad that I don't get to see Mom and Dad and Eric this year but I know it's hard with them all so far away! Which by the way if you haven't checked out Mom's blog of the trip you definitely should at clute.blogspot.com because it is very neat!

Well I guess I will close this out so that we can get ready to head out for the day. I hope that everyone has a truly blessed and wonderful Thanksgivng and that you all find some great deals shopping tomorrow (yes, James and I are heading out at 1am for his first "black Friday" experience)! We will update later with some pictures from today as we seem to have lost the cord to our camera when AJ decided to eat it for dinner the other night! Ahhh the joys of puppies!

Yes we are still "Bloggers"...

James did a great job getting this shot just at the right moment...pretty cool, huh?

OK so I do realize that it has been quite some time since our last post and I do apologize for that. A lot has been going on in the last few weeks so I'm not quite sure where to begin. I guess I will start off with some promised pictures from Michigan! We went up for Kelly & Justin's wedding and had a great time hanging out with them and enjoying the unseasonably warm weather...poor Kelly was hoping for a cool fall wedding day...whoops! Here are a few pictures from their wedding that James took:

Justin getting ready to sweep Kelly off her feet!

James and I stopped to take our picture by the lake as well!

We also spent some time up in Muskegon visiting some friends and had a little free time while they were at work to introduce A.J. to the Lake Michigan Beaches! We had a great time there and he actually went in the lake some too! After that we took a long drive to go over to the East side of the state where I grew up and I got to show James my old house and we visited a Cider mill and also got to have lunch with my brother. It was such a short but fun trip, I really miss everyone up there but can't wait to see them all down in our neck of the woods for the wedding!

Our family picture by Lake Michigan!

Man he is like a little fish!

One last picture on our trip at the historic Parshalville Cider Mill!

The Bless Back Project

Well James and I have had a very busy weekend so far. Yesterday we spent the day taking care of our "car issue" that we have had for the last few months. It was something that had put a lot of stress on both of us and we are very happy that we finally got things figured out. We had been praying about what to do and it was all taken care of yesterday. We ended up turning in all THREE of the cars to the Hyundai dealer and were given a horse and buggy to ride home on (haha James wanted me to put that)...no but we did turn in all three cars and ended up with a new Hyundai Sonata that is basically like the one we had but has more options on it...you must come try it out and we will even turn on your "Butt Warmer!" It was a hard choice for us to get rid of the other cars but we are very happy with our decision!

Ok now about the title of this post. Our friend Debbie has been asking us for months to go to church with her. We finally went with her today to Elevation church here in Charlotte. We have both commented that it was a VERY different experience then we were used to at church. It was pretty much like a rock concert first thing on a Sunday morning. It was definitely different but a very powerful church to say the least. We were extra blessed by having gone on this particular Sunday. The pastor decided rather then to do a collection he would give out a collection for the people to go do God's work with and to give to help someone in our community. James and I each got an envelope to open and have decided to pray about what God wants us to do with the money. We are VERY excited about the whole idea of the project and look forward to seeing what everyone does with the money. The church has asked us all to post on a website what we do with the money so if you want to check that out then the website address is www.blessbackproject.com . I have always heard about things like this happening on Oprah and stuff but never thought I would get to be a part of it!

Hope everyone has a blessed rest of the weekend and we will be posting soon with pics of the new car and from our trip to Michigan...back to school tomorrow, oh boy!

Hometown Hero Update!

The hometown heros, "nominators", and the Keffer Hyundai staff

The winners and manager at the Hyundai dealer.

James and I are working on figuring out our car "situation" as many of you know and today he was looking at Keffer Hyundai's website and found out that they FINALLY update it with stuff from the hometown hero contest so check it out and see a video from the awards ceremony and some pictures! The link is http://www.kefferhyundai.com/ there is a video clip when you get on the webpage and you can also click on the red and white hometown hero link on the bottom of the page!

We will try to update again in the next few days to add some pics from our Michigan trip!

Cane Creek

OK so I guess we will oficially do one more post before we leave for our trip! Yesterday James and I went to Cane Creek with Brian, Melissa, Tara, and Matt where we were able to enjoy a beautiful fall day full of hiking, friendship, and even a little swimming for the pups! After spending a few hours there, Matt and Tara invited us all over for a good ole southern BBQ where Tara even made sure to get some "slaw" for the burgers...funny how soon you learn the southern lingo! We also got to break in their new fire pit and roast some marshmallows...the campfire was accompanied by lots of laughs and even a few camp songs, yep some of us never grow up!



Today James and I also got to go to church and see Matt and Tara become members of our church, what a great day for them! After that we came back home and did some cleaning and packing, oh boy! AJ kept himself busy with one of the pumpkins that Mom bought for my class last time I was in Tennessee...gonna be hard to pry him away from that thing so I can give it to the kids!



Well I must run and finish up the packing for our trip but just thought this weekend was worthy of one more post before we go! Well the pictures wouldn't upload that I wanted to put on so i'll have to try and add them later!

A.J.'s First Grooming!

Well today was a big milestone in AJ's life...we took him to Petsmart for his first official grooming visit. He didn't need to get a hair cut but he got a bath and his ears checked and his toe nails clipped. While going in we made some new friends with a couple that were fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars...always great to meet strangers in Petsmart and invite them over to watch football...haha! Anyways we dropped AJ off and went for a walk to grab dinner while he got worked on. When we picked him up he got a great report and looked like a star! James picked out a nice orange bandanna for him to wear so he could support the UT Vols! Here are a couple pics of his new do and also so pics from him getting his first treat tonight...it was really very entertaining!

AJ taking his first treat!

Trying to dig a hole under the kitchen table and hide it!

Couldn't get it under the table to why not bury it next to the TV?

Well he wasn't successful with digging a hold for the treat so he decided to eat it under the coffee table instead...yum yum!

I also thought that I would include a picture of the flowers that I came home to last weekend. I went with Shelly over to see our family in TN and when I came back it seems that James had gone to Costco and picked me up some purple daisies! Shelly and I had been talking most of the trip back about the wedding and ideas for colors and when I saw the flowers I thought it might be neat to do the colors purple, green, and yellow...what do you think?!?! Oh yeah and as far as the wedding goes it might be a bit of a delay in getting out the save the date cards. We have hit a small bump in the road and are trying to decide what to do about it, to make a long story short we may be switching our date to July 3rd or switching the place we have the reception so just keep both days open for us!

A good inspiration for wedding colors?

Well I hope everyone has a great weekend and James and I are taking off for TN and Michigan on Monday to go visit family and friends and also to go to Kelly's wedding so it may be a bit before we post again but I promise lots of great pics on the next post! Keep in touch and ya'll better start leaving us some comments or we are going to think no one loves us anymore!

A Quick Update

Well looking at everyones blog right now I realize that it has been a while since we have updated ours! Things have been so crazy these past few weeks with James' new job and trying to keep on top of grad school that I guess we have just let the blog slip! Sorry about that! Let's see I am in Tennessee right now visiting family with my cousin Shelly and we have had a nice relaxing time. I got to go yesterday to David's Bridal and try some gowns on for Mom which was a lot of fun. Last night we all ordered pizza for dinner and took it out on a long boat ride with the family which is always interesting! It was great to be able to catch up with everyone again though.

James has been working hard around the house trying to get us caught back up there. He has also been learning as he goes about the joys of report cards and PEPs because we have parent teacher conferences coming up this week. I know it has been stressful for him and a lot to learn but not a day goes by where someone doesn't come up to me at school and tell me how great he is with the kids and what a wonderful fiance I have...and I have to agree that I"m a pretty lucky lady!

We also worked a little on wedding plans this weekend when I was here with my Mom and Shelly. We are going to be getting our save the date cards out soon so keep your eye out for those! I have been so relaxed about the wedding plans but I think it is time to try to get a few things done...maybe I will be inspired after going to Kelly's wedding next month and hopefully will get a few things decided.

Well I guess I will close this off so that I can go get things packed up for Shelly and I to get on the road. I hope everyone is doing well and has a great week! Leave us some comments to let us know how you all are doing!

Booms Day!

The UT stadium is right by the water and makes a great pic from the boat!

Well last weekend for Labor Day we decided to head over to Tennessee for the weekend for their annual Boomsday festival. Boomsday is the celebration that they have in Knoxville every year to kick off the University of Tennessee football season. The whole town is covered in bright orange, oh boy! I know that my favorite part of the weekend every year is getting to see the fireworks display which is the largest in N. America!

Tara, Melissa and I had a great girls weekend that was very relaxing and had fun getting pedicures and doing some shopping...James was also lucky enough to get to ride in the car with us for 5hours so that he could go home and spend the weekend with his family! We had a great time getting to do some swimming and relaxing on Mom and Dad's new boat and of course had to have a few margaritas! James also enjoyed getting to spend some time with his family and see his brother and their family when they were visiting from Mississippi. Here are some of the pics that we took while we were gone.

Melissa and I relaxing in the water while Tara did some relaxing on the dock!

The captains of "Out and About"...Mom & Dad's new pride and joy!

Natalie and Brady enjoying the view from up front!

Don't our toes look great? A pedicure is a necessity during a girls weekend!

Meslissa checking out one of the painted bears downtown...thought it was a cute pic!

New beginnings

I realize we have not posted to our blog in like weeks. Shame on us. Trying to do better.

A lot has happened since we last posted. I am no longer a pusher of the TV. I am with more joy and anticipation the new fourth grade teacher at BHES. Good ole BHES. The school as most of you know is in Monroe. It is not a bad school. It is designated as a school of the arts, alongside being classified as a magnet school for the arts. I am pondering how I might get to participate in the school having such a great honor. Hmmmm, I think the kids should take a photography class, or something like that as an elective or something maybe down the road. Just a thought but may be a good after school thing every once in a while.

It is exciting being the new fourth grade teacher. It is a whole new world. Everything has changed so fast. I look forward to the many joys and challenges that teacher will provide. I do know that i have to work on getting my alarm clock working. It is hard getting up at 5 when all you have known is long retail hours at night.

Anyway that is a good thing though, because I have been able to spend more time with Anna. I look forward to the things we will now be able to do with our extra time together.

Thanks for reading, and checking in.

The Newest Addition...

Well sorry it has been so long since we updated but it definitely has been a crazy week! First i'll start off with our newest addition to our family as you see here. Everyone has been asking for pictures and this is the only one I could get before my battery died on my camera....ahhh! Well we got our little friend on Wednesday of this week from a friend of mine at work. Needless to say that James was caught off guard (but very happy) when he got my phone call that morning asking if I could bring home a puppy! We are still debating on a name and have it narrowed down to either Jekyll (we are getting married on Jekyll Island) or A.J. (Anna & James...mom came up with that one) so PLEASE help us out and let us know what you think! He was just over 4 weeks old when we got him and only weighed 2.3lbs on his first trip to the vet! So far he has been a really great and playful pup and has been a star student in potty training 101...lets hope he keeps up the good work!

That has definitely been the most exciting part of our week. I started grad school on Wednesday night this week and really think I am going to like both of my classes. James left for Fayetville on Thursday and is going to be gone for 10 days to help open a new HHGregg store there so hopefully it will be worth the trip. It has been very strange for me to not have him here after living together for a while but atleast I have Jekyll/A.J. to keep me company!

Hometown Hero...

Well let me first start this one off by saying that I really do think that I have the most wonderful and caring future husband that I could ever ask for! If any of you haven't heard, James entered me in a little contest this past weekend and below is a picture of my prize! It was sposered by a local radio station and by the Hyundai dealership. The contest was called "hometown heros" and James wrote a 150 word essay about why I was his hero and how I have made a difference in the community...I have yet to get to read the actual essay but the parts I have heard were incredibly sweet! Anyways to make a long story short we were called to go to the Hyundai dealer this past Saturday along with 95 other finalists and out of that group we were chosen as one of the 4 winners! It was REALLY an amazing experience to be in a room with all kinds of awesome people from many different walks of life who have all made a difference somehow in our community. I was chosen along with two firemen and a police officer. We were all then given a set of keys and got to push the button on the keys to see what our new car looked like! The one that James and I won is a Sonata and it is kind of a tan/green color. We get the car for one year and basically just get a free lease on it which is amazing! I definitely think this is God's way of helping us out right now because we have been worried about some things coming up in the near future but with this we are going to be able to sell one of our cars and get rid of a car payment...HOORAY!!!! Well here are some pics of the new car that we took, they are also supposed to put them up on the radio's website which is http://www.kiss951.com/ and as soon as they are up there I will try to put them on here as well! Also if you live in the area check out the Charlotte Observer because they are supposed to do a story on it this coming weekend. Well if you couldn't tell we basically had a fantastic weekend and are really feeling blessed for everything that we have!

The "natural khaki" (I think it looks more light green in the light) Sonata at it's new home!

Some of our great friends helping celebrate after a long day of painting!

"The Purple Ball of Fury"

James made me title this one the purple ball of fury...maybe you can tell why from the pic. See he got upset with me after the last post for leaving this picture out so I had to come back and add it. He wanted everyone to see him with the little purple ball that he used last night. The thing he might not tell you about it is that it was the same ball that all the GIRLS were using...haha!

Ok so maybe the start of this post was a little mean...he didn't like me saying that he used a ball like the girls...so let me close this post by saying what a great guy he is and how much I love and care about him. I enjoy being with him every day (well maybe we have a few bad moments here and there) and can't wait to be his wife!

Great Weekend So Far...

Well it's only Saturday night and it seems like so much has happened this weekend that I don't know where to start! Lets see...yesterday was my first day of school with my new class and I have to say it went pretty well. I think I will have a few challenging students this year but overall it should be OK! I ended up with 21 students and 15 of them are hispanic so it should be interesting!


Last night we went out with a bunch of friends to surprise Matt for his birthday! We went out to eat at Monterrey since we all love Mexican so much and then began the bowling tournament! We played two games that were guys vs. girls and if i'm not mistaken I think that the girls won, right ladies?!?! I have to admit that we all felt a little old after the night was over since we were yawning like crazy by 11pm...oh well we still made it past midnight, yup we are WILD! Here are a few pics from the evening last night:

Matty sporting his new pink gardening gloves from Erin & Travis!

The winning team...Hiney, Lil E, Rosebud, and Cluto!

Kinda cute, aren't they? Yep we are lucky ladies!

Hiney flipping up her collar on her shirt for the winning bowl!

As you can tell we had a lot of fun last night. Today James went to work and I also went to work for a while at Bath and Body. After that I went over to Brian and Melissa's new house to help them do some painting. We got a few rooms done and it is looking better every day! James and I have also been looking into buying a house in their neighborhood that is the same floor plan so it has been fun working on their home and thinking of what we could do to our possible new home! I'm going to add on a few pictures from the painting and then call it quits for the night...hope everyone has a great weekend!

There's Melissa painting like a pro!

Brian getting the paint on nice and thick! haha!

Yeah...i'm pretty much a great painter!

Can't forget good old Ruthie the guard dog cheking out the sleeping space in her new home!

Sure is hot

I just started thinking that it is very hot outside. I thought that it would be a good way to cool off today by uploading pictures of me and Anna in cool situations.

These are random pictures and are as follows:

The picture of us wrestling the snowball of course came on our trip to Chicago in Feb. That was a good trip, and got to meet some of her good friends. I also got to eat multiple times at yummy pizza places with satisfied my man hunger for pizza.

This next picture was taken of us on our white rafting trip recently. This was a good trip as well, and I wont mention what happened on this said trip, but I am sure if you ask Anna she will tell you all about it:P I am her hero:)

Anyway just wanted to post and say hi. Always worried about being put on blog probation again. Everyone have a great day thanks for looking.

weekend update

I have made a terrible observation first off. This observation is that the weekend always go by too fast. It was a good weekend however.
Firday we went out to see the Simpsons movie with some friends. It was pretty good and its pretty darn amazing to learn with spidey pig can do.
Saturday I had to go to work which is never much fun, but got off early at 6 which is nice. Anna spent the day with Tara and had fun times including zumba and the wedding mall. Anna and myself went out on a great little date night for pizza and a movie on Saturday night. That turned out to be fun.

Sunday we got up and went to church. It was a good lesson and focused on honoring your father and mother. It put a lot of good things into perspective and always things that we need to be mindful of. After church we went out to eat again with friends. We then went to the store hung out and fun stuff like that. We were honored guests at the house of Krumps. That was good times as well. Nothing quite like grilling out. Tasty tasty.
We are now sitting at home after watching the rest of our chic flick movie for this evening. It is now getting late and we both have to get up early tommorrow.
Hope everyone has a good night and thanks for checking it out.
James and Anna.

p.s. happy birthday Larry. That was part of the houseof Krumps.

Oh What A Week...

Ok so this pictures has nothing to do with the post...I just think posts are more fun with a picture to go along! This is us when we went to Chicago in February to meet up with some of our Michigan buddies...what a good time!

Well we are officially "back to school" this week and it has been a tiring one for sure. I have been at school all week getting things ready for the kids to start coming. James spent the day there yesterday as well and was a GREAT help with getting the room ready...he even did bulliton boards and helped out in Melissa's room across the hall...don't think he is going to get into the building business anytime soon but atleast he wasn't the one who had to get the termites out of her room, oh boy!

We also went out last night and looked at some home sites and began to think about the possiblity of building a home instead of buying. It is really exciting to be able to think about watching the house go up and to be able to personalize our own home. It is definitely a tough decision but hopefully we will be able to pray about it and come up with the right answer. We will keep you posted on what happens with that! After our house hunt we went out and had a great dinner at Hops restaurant since we were dissapointed to find out that Johnny Carino's (where I had been begging James to take me for months) shut down a few weeks ago...guess it wasn't meant to be!

Also wanted to let everyone know that we have officially decided on doing a Jekyll Island wedding on the 4th of July in 2008. We were happy and surprised to find out that a wedding there is actually cheaper then in Knoxville! Feel free to check out the website for the island at www.jekyllisland.com and click on the weddings link to see the church we are going to get married in, Faith Chapel!

Well I must run so I can get enough sleep to be able to keep up with our Kindergartners in the morning. We hope everyone has a safe and happy weekend and be sure to leave us some comments to let us know how all is going in your lives as well!

meaning of Jeg

I am suprised no one has asked what JEG means. The first time I told Anna I loved her, I gave her a pewter key chain withe JEG spelled out on it. The mission was for her to figure out what it meant. I did not tell her the language or anything like that. I believe that telling someone you love them for the first time is a very special thing. It is also something that I will always remember and be grateful for. To make a long story short, she found out what it meant, and didnt really say antying back to me. I was driving over to NC the next day to see her. She hid things around her house in Easter Eggs.( It was around Easter). It was the best Easter Egg hunt I ever have been on. That is when she told me in our own Norweigan language that she loved me to.
Hard to believe that it has almost been a year and a half ago. I thank God all the time for her. I really do love and cherish her. I know sometimes it is easy to take people for granted, and I know I do not tell her enough how much I love and care for her. i hope she always remembers, and never forgets how much I do.

Our Engagement Party!

Here we are getting ready to have some tacos...oh boy!

Hopefully this is not what i'll look like after the wedding cake!

Well last Sunday James and I had a great time at our engagement party! It was hosted at Matt and Tara's house and Melissa also helped out a ton. We had a WONDERFUL time being able to see all of our friends together and we really feel like we are blessed to be surrounded by such wonderful people. The party had a "Mexican American" theme to it with our taco bar for dinner. They decided to decorate in red, white, and blue since James and I will be getting married around the July 4th holiday...great idea guys!

The pictures that are shown here are stolen from Brian and Melissa's page and hopefully I will be able to get a few more up when I find the cord to my camera...gotta love the never ending battle of unpacking!

Back by popular demand!

OK so I was informed today by Matt and Tara that we have been put on "Blog Probation" because we haven't updated in a while...let me just say that was are very sorry and will do our best to keep up to date on our postings! Give us some slack, we are new at this! So here goes...read on and keep checking back and we will do our best to keep you entertained!

Whoops!

I had a big ole post wrote up,and then I accidentally deleted it. That kinda sux. What does not suck though is getting married. It is fun, full of choices. What color tux do I get, do I wear the pimp hat, what kind of food, who is coming, who is paying, and so on and so on. Something else to talk about is the beautiful beast of a tv that is now on the wall. Pictures will be coming soon. it is beautiful but not even anywhere near beautiful as Anna.

The Wedding!

We are well on our way to getting our wedding plans started. Right now we are tentatively planning the wedding for July 3rd, 2008. It is going to be a small ceremony and reception in Knoxville, TN. We would like to have a "2nd reception" when we get back to Charlotte as well! Check back for updates!

The wedding plans continue. Anna is in TN, while I am here in NC working.
I believe she has found a few spots for the wedding. A side note today is our 15th month anniv. since we have been a couple. That is very exciting in itself. Let alone planning for a wedding. Any tips or suggestions you all have out there let us know.
James

p.s. HMM some reason it will not let me title this post.

Here we go...

Well seems how neither of us have ever done this whole "blog" thing we thought we would give it a try. Mainly wanted to be able to keep everyone up to date on the wedding plans and thought it would be a fun way to keep in touch! Please check back every now and then and see our updates and feel free to shoot me an email if you have any tips on doing this!