Its been awhile since I've actually posted any information into what is actually going on.... It seems that everyone including myself is in transition. Most people I know are in a place of new beginnings, or ending which is the new beginning of something else......
I'm actually blessed to have so many of you at such different places - beginning cooking school or ministry school, having little ones, planning weddings, navigating job changes or career changes, new relationships and ending worn out ones.....the list goes on and on. With so much transition I'm reminded that life isn't lived in the momentous occasions. Though we mark our lives by them, real hard-core daily living is characterized by transition or the moments between the milestones.
I feel as if I'm in a really weird place right now. Kind of like limbo. I'm moving from one platform to another with a clear vision of where I've been, no safety net below, one rope holding me on, support people all around but not able to help a whole lot. I cannot stay where I am and I'm not quite to the other platform. I'm somewhere in between. Its jerky, its wobbling, at any given moment I could scream, laugh or cry. I'm holding onto my Rope for dear life and waiting to jump.
So where am I at in this process? I'm still very unsure of the path laid before me, I'm feeling out maternity leave, adjusting to a new boss, Brian began a new job today, just started teaching a new yoga class, I'm 10 weeks away from delivering a new little person into the world, physically moving into the house over the next 14 days......where does the list end? everything that could be new or changing is! Including my waistline!
(for all of you that are dying to know I've only gained like 20 lbs so far.) They have me on track to put on 30lbs during the entire pregnancy....we'll see)
water baby
climber
yep that's an arm...strong climbing arms
introducing:
Logan Keith MacIntosh
Foot
5 reasons....
these are my 5 reasons why this might be a good thing.
5 of the 10 reasons i have to run to pee every half hour = someone loves kicking my bladder.
5 reasons why i'm kept up at night.
5 reasons we're ripping out memories at my grandmother's to create new ones
5 reasons why i've gained 7 pounds and am ok with it.
5 reasons why my diet now consists of red meat, fruity pebbles and pickles (i.e. Brian's favorite foods)
5 reasons i'm ok with giving up mountain biking and climbing for a year
5 reasons to toally change our lives.
5 of the 10 reasons i have to run to pee every half hour = someone loves kicking my bladder.
5 reasons why i'm kept up at night.
5 reasons we're ripping out memories at my grandmother's to create new ones
5 reasons why i've gained 7 pounds and am ok with it.
5 reasons why my diet now consists of red meat, fruity pebbles and pickles (i.e. Brian's favorite foods)
5 reasons i'm ok with giving up mountain biking and climbing for a year
5 reasons to toally change our lives.
ever after....
the wedding story
Because so many have made requests and so many have not heard:
(wrote Dec. 2006)
This is the somewhat edited verson of the wedding story. The whole account would be too massive to record. One day it will be though, maybe then I'll send our story to Oprah. We had the worst wedding and honeymoon. There I said it. You may not believe the story I am about to tell, but I just had to write. Recently Brian and I watched a couple on Rachael Ray tell their story about how their truck was stolen before their honeymoon. We were like, "Is that it?!" We had not one but many unfortunate events occur during our wedding AND honeymoon....
We hired wedding planners to plan our wedding on the coast of North Carolina. The planners, a couple in their late 50's, took off with our money 4 weeks before the wedding! The whole fiasco became a police investigation! The day we discovered nothing was accomplished for our wedding our photographer also bailed. (Love you Rachel! For good reason, God knew what He was doing then! She ended up coordinating the whole affiar.) Since the invitations were already out, we decided to go ahead with the date.
We planned our wedding in 4 weeks! We found a new baker, photographer, decorations, transportation, ceremony site, caterer (me + whole foods).....So much was done at the last minute. The day before the ceremony Brian got a lead on the evil planners and took off with his pose (groomsmen) to track them down, in hopes of retreiving our money, leaving my bridesmaids, myself and family to set-up for the entire reception, ceremony site and cook the rehearsal dinner!
The following day (the wedding day) we awoke to sideways rain, some of the worst storms April had ever seen across the country and on the coast. No barefoot wedding on the beach for us. A miracle occured at the last minute; we were given a 30 minute window between storms. We had the wedding outside in the drizzle, not on the beach but on the lawn/dunes. From there things ran smoother thanks to our families and friends serving and cleaning the entire reception!
The following day we left for the honeymoon. We traveled to Arizona, planning to road trip it in a Jeep and camp in the Grand Canyon at Havasu Falls.....things never go as planned...
We nearly spent our first night in the airport because we forgot the credit card used to reserve the car. Several days later, half way to the Grand Canyon, trouble caught up with us again.... Our second day in beautiful Sedona, AZ we both fell ill. We ended up in the ER with extreme cases of food poisoning! We managed to make it to the Grand Canyon days later, looked over the side, then headed back towards Pheonix. We packed all our new camping equipment and never used a bit of it. The story does not end there.....
The next morning I was somehow locked in our hotel room at Arcosanti (an italian architectural commune). It nearly caused us to miss our flight home. Between being locked in the room and the flight we also managed to track down a REI & Advanced Auto Parts to buy supplies to patch a 4 inch rip in the rented Jeep's cloth cover! (I must say we have skills)
Once home from our horrible honeymoon and disaster filled wedding we were anything but happy newlyweds. To add to it all we later found out that our insurance did not cover our stay in the ER, we were left with thousands in medical bills from our honeymoon.
I promise every bit of this is true, our advice is "Don't have a wedding!" We may develop more humor about the situation once we finish paying for it......The whole event could so be a made-for-tv-drama/comedy! At least we have an awesome story to tell the grandchildren one day!
(see pictures from the wedding and honeymoon on facebook)
(wrote Dec. 2006)
This is the somewhat edited verson of the wedding story. The whole account would be too massive to record. One day it will be though, maybe then I'll send our story to Oprah. We had the worst wedding and honeymoon. There I said it. You may not believe the story I am about to tell, but I just had to write. Recently Brian and I watched a couple on Rachael Ray tell their story about how their truck was stolen before their honeymoon. We were like, "Is that it?!" We had not one but many unfortunate events occur during our wedding AND honeymoon....
We hired wedding planners to plan our wedding on the coast of North Carolina. The planners, a couple in their late 50's, took off with our money 4 weeks before the wedding! The whole fiasco became a police investigation! The day we discovered nothing was accomplished for our wedding our photographer also bailed. (Love you Rachel! For good reason, God knew what He was doing then! She ended up coordinating the whole affiar.) Since the invitations were already out, we decided to go ahead with the date.
We planned our wedding in 4 weeks! We found a new baker, photographer, decorations, transportation, ceremony site, caterer (me + whole foods).....So much was done at the last minute. The day before the ceremony Brian got a lead on the evil planners and took off with his pose (groomsmen) to track them down, in hopes of retreiving our money, leaving my bridesmaids, myself and family to set-up for the entire reception, ceremony site and cook the rehearsal dinner!
The following day (the wedding day) we awoke to sideways rain, some of the worst storms April had ever seen across the country and on the coast. No barefoot wedding on the beach for us. A miracle occured at the last minute; we were given a 30 minute window between storms. We had the wedding outside in the drizzle, not on the beach but on the lawn/dunes. From there things ran smoother thanks to our families and friends serving and cleaning the entire reception!
The following day we left for the honeymoon. We traveled to Arizona, planning to road trip it in a Jeep and camp in the Grand Canyon at Havasu Falls.....things never go as planned...
We nearly spent our first night in the airport because we forgot the credit card used to reserve the car. Several days later, half way to the Grand Canyon, trouble caught up with us again.... Our second day in beautiful Sedona, AZ we both fell ill. We ended up in the ER with extreme cases of food poisoning! We managed to make it to the Grand Canyon days later, looked over the side, then headed back towards Pheonix. We packed all our new camping equipment and never used a bit of it. The story does not end there.....
The next morning I was somehow locked in our hotel room at Arcosanti (an italian architectural commune). It nearly caused us to miss our flight home. Between being locked in the room and the flight we also managed to track down a REI & Advanced Auto Parts to buy supplies to patch a 4 inch rip in the rented Jeep's cloth cover! (I must say we have skills)
Once home from our horrible honeymoon and disaster filled wedding we were anything but happy newlyweds. To add to it all we later found out that our insurance did not cover our stay in the ER, we were left with thousands in medical bills from our honeymoon.
I promise every bit of this is true, our advice is "Don't have a wedding!" We may develop more humor about the situation once we finish paying for it......The whole event could so be a made-for-tv-drama/comedy! At least we have an awesome story to tell the grandchildren one day!
(see pictures from the wedding and honeymoon on facebook)
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