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!