Just an update...

It has been a while since I've posted. What can I say - I've been busy! I'm really doing well though. I'm not stressed about wedding planning or the new job at this point. :) It'll all get done... I did get some good news today... the school officially approved my time off before Christmas break so I'm clear to go on the honeymoon. Of course we'd booked it along with our plane tickets before today, so it's a very good thing that they approved my request for extra time off! ;) Speaking of wedding... for those of you who haven't seen it yet, check out our wedding website http://douglasandcarol.com. It's still a work in progress, but it's there for your viewing pleasure.

Tonight Doug and I had the pleasure of attending a Third Day concert at the Puyallup Fair. I used to work in Puyallup and this was the first time I'd been there since I stopped working at my last job a month and a half ago. This fair just happens once a year, and being that I worked close enough to walk before, I went several times last year. Being back there reminded me of where I was a year ago. It was fun to think - one year ago at this time I had no idea what was ahead. I was enjoying my life as a single girl with a busy social life, but always wondering - at least in the back of my mind - when will the perfect man come to share these times with me? Little did I know at that time that I had to wait less than two months before Douglas would enter my life. I never expected to be at the fair one year later sitting with my fiancee and his family. :) Fun times!
I'll leave you with a fun picture of us from when my parents were in town and we did the Ride the Ducks tour in Seattle... We are enjoying our time together... and we can even be totally goofy together :)

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__Doug and I________My mom and Dad
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The craziness has begun! So my new job has started... The kids start coming next Tuesday. So far my time has been spent in billions of orientation meetings, attempting to organize caseloads, attempting to organize my treatment space, attempting to locate appropriate furniture for my treatment space, unpacking boxes, repacking boxes when the school officials decided they needed my cabinets to be moved to another room, and waiting for the painting to be done so that I can reorganize my treatment space followed by then once again attempting to locate necessary furniture for storing my therapy materials since my original cabinet was taken. Gee this school stuff runs so smoothly. All I can say is that I am quite glad that I won't be expected to start treating kids next week. Instead I'll hopefully be able to get into my office and get organized as well as attempting to create a therapy schedule to see kids sometime when they are not in P.E., music, art, library, computer lab, recess, lunch, math, or reading. I'm not exactly sure what's left after all those times are taken. I guess teachers don't mind their kids missing science lessons or something... But enough about that. It has been rather overwhelming, but all in all I think it will be a good job. I'll let you know in October when things start becoming normal I hope!

The wedding planning is coming along as well. We think we found a church today! So yeay! It looks like we can get married after all! We've been busy getting our mailing lists together too... that is quite the job! But now that we have our venues pretty much secured I can breathe a little easier. Of course our to do next list is growing and growing... but most of that is fun stuff. I'm take a little break this weekend to go have some fun white water rafting! I'll have to tell you about it in the next week or two. :) I hope each of you has a wonderful Labor Day weekend!