Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

things to be thankful for

I got up this morning at 4:45 to head to the gym. I really did not want to go, but told myself "if i want to look really good in my wedding dress in a year, i better get my butt up." After my 2 mile run, I headed home and got ready for work.
As I was driving down 169 I couldn't help but notice the absolutely amazing sunrise the God blessed us with this morning. I couldn't find my camera in my purse so I grabbed my phone to snap the picture. It doesn't do it much justice for how beautiful it was, but wanted to make sure to post it as it really made me thankful for another day of life today.
Hope everyone has a blessed day :)


Sunday, October 18, 2009

Katie & Tom (aka Tomkat) get Hitched!!!!

Friday was a busy day! Brian and I both had to work all day and then it was off to Tom & Katie's wedding. Tom and Katie are friends of ours from the ski team! Their wedding was in Shoreview at St. Odilia Parish. They were married by Fr. Nels Gjengdahl who happens to be a friend of Toms from elementary and high school which was kind of neat! The ceremony was beautiful and Fr. gave a great sermon, one of the best I have heard by a catholic priest in a long time. Katie had some of my most favorite songs in her mass and I was excited to see how happy both her and Tom were!

After the ceremony it was off to the Reception at Dellwood Hills Golf Club in White Bear Lake. This was my first time out at Dellwood but the Ski Otters have a lot of events here and it has turned out to be a pretty popular wedding reception venue. We went to the receiving line upon arrival and then to the bar to get a cocktail. Then it was outside for a group picture of all the people that were at the wedding. The photographer took a picture from up above on the balcony. Hopefully it will turn out good! Then we mingled with our friends for a bit before dinner started. Dinner was good and so were the speeches by the wedding party. Katie and tom had a friend walking around taking pictures of everyone and then printing them out so we could put them in a book and write a note...it was a pretty cool idea!!! Then the dance began. It was 12:30 before we knew it and we were shot and ready to head home!!!

Congrats Katie and Tom - hope you are having fun in St. Marteen!!!