Belleque-Rogers Wedding

We made the 8 hour drive on Thursday/Friday to Montana for a wedding. Our friends Kris & Thomas' wedding was Friday night. We've both know Kris since she was itty-bitty. I think both Hubby and I babysat her and her brothers at one point. She met Thomas when she was living in Oregon. He is perfect for her.

Last night was the wedding. We gathered at the church that we all grew up in on a 90 degree evening. The wedding was beautiful and the reception (a lot cooler outside) was just as beautiful and lots of fun! There was sweets and dancing and sparklers.

Nick could NOT get the screen to go up after the slide show,
when he finally did get it there was applause. :)

Kris looked so beautiful!!!

Lighting the unity candle.

So much love

"You may now kiss the bride."

They couldn't get out of there fast enough! Married at last!

Listening to toasts

Cutting the cake

They were nice to each other with the cake

Asher was excited to dance!

They're so cute!!!

Father-Daughter dance

First Dance

Kris danced with all of her brothers. This dance was with Andrew.

This was with Nick, the older brother.

And Sam, the goof ball.

Sparklers were the favors.

We lit the sparklers in the parking lot.

They were trying to NOT catch Kris' dress on fire. :)

The bouquet toss

Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Rogers! :)

Wedding Weekend

We are in Montana for the weekend. Our friend Kristine got married last night. It was a joyous occasion with lots of wet eyes and laughter. I'll post photos later. We're off to play games with Hubby's family!

3 YEARS!!!!!!

On this day, 3 years ago, I walked down the aisle in a white sparkly dress to "Never Saw Blue Like That" by Shawn Colvin sang by Kris & Cindy. I cried, my dad cried. Hubby stood there with a huge grin on his face. My bridesmaids all looked beautiful, some smiling some crying, all happy for me. :) Pastor Paul talked about loving Jesus and loving each other. We light our unity candles and prayed together while Dawn sang "Be Thou My Vision." And at the end of the ceremony we ran out dancing to "I'm a Believer" from Shrek (Ed Murphy's version). I had just married the man of my dreams, my one true love. And we're still going strong three years later. Yay for us!!! :)

My Master Reverend

Hubby was dubbed "Reverend" Sunday night in his ordination service. I'm so proud of all the hard work he has put in to get his masters in divinity and now to be ordained.

Congratulations Hubby!!!!

Amazing Race Portland

Saturday we joined Mosaic Church in an Urban Camp event, Amazing Race. A & I were joined by Adria. We started at 8:30 and raced till 5:30. The Barracuda divas were out at 8th place while Team Spartacus (Hubby, Z & Mark) got 5th place.

It was run much like the Amazing Race TV show. We raced all over Portland with teams eliminated when they didn't beat other teams in the 5 legs throughout the day. We visited PGE park, the International Rose Test Garden, Saturday Market, Rocky Butte, and ended at Mt Tabor.

Our team was the last to the 3rd pit stop at the Rose Garden, but the Red Hots took pity on our parking situation and let us take their place. We did get out on the next leg but A was excited because she got to kayak as a challenge right after that.

We were all sore and bruised after running all day, but we all agreed we had a great time!

The Barracuda Divas!!!

A got to paddle on the Willamette and kicked butt at this challenge.

The flamingo had to travel with us through some of the challenges and has now taken up residence on Z&A's bookcase.

The last 5 teams had to find a dog bone in the sand...they never did.

One of the last challenges was bouldering, where one team member had to make their way on the wall from one point to another.

Congratulations to the Yellow team for 1st place. And congrats to Team Spartacus for accomplishing your goal, beating us. :)

Olympic Opening Ceremonies

It is the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremonies...and I am amazed. They have such grace and poise. I love to watch the nations walk through the stadium. Seeing the pride on the athletes faces and seeing just how amazed they are to be there themselves. It's just amazing.

The other thing watching this reminds me of is the last time I watched the opening ceremonies...two years ago. The 2006 Winter Olympics we were watching with Z & A (again). Being winter I was going to have tea...little did I know the amount of pain it would cause. :) Z had heated up the water and fixed my cup. He was handing it over the back of the couch to me and I thought I had it and told him so. I did not have it. It dropped out of my hands and HOT tea spilled all over my leg. I don't think I've ever moved so fast. I was wearing jeans and the hot liquid was not leaving my skin. I danced and tried to pull the fabric away from my leg, at the same time everyone was telling me to just strip. :) Once I got my pants off (not in front of everyone) my was very burned. It blistered and was pretty nasty for a while. I still give Z a hard time for burning me, though it was totally not his fault. :)

I hope you are enjoying the Olympics as much as I am. As Z was saying earlier, "Protest governments, or the evil of governments, but not the work the PEOPLE have put into these competitions." Enjoy the world in one place.

Week in Review

Sunday: packing.

Monday: packing.

Tuesday: we got an e-mail from the church in Mass stating that the other canidate can't be there till the 6th, so they do not have a decision for us as of yet. Which then commenced the panic of figuring out where we were living for the next two weeks.

Tuesday night: small group helped us empty our apartment into a storage unit. They all came ready and willing to work their tails off. And were truely a huge blessing to Hubby and I.

Wednesday: I could barely make it out of bed. I looked around the empty apartment from the air bed and just started to cry. The waiting and unknown finally caught up with me, as did the exahustion of the contant stress of the last week. I did make it to work and was welcomed with open arms and the assurance that I could keep my job until a decision was made on our part. "That's the way we roll," stated my boss. What a God send.

Wednesday evening: Kimmy and Leonard joined Hubby and I in cleaning and gutting the rest of the apartment. We got it just about all done with their help. It probably would have taken another week with just the two of us if they hadn't been there.

Thursday: After work was the anuall softball game against our sister campus. We all put in a huge effort and had fun with little avail. We got slaughtered! A lot to a little is all I'll say. In the craziness of the week, this was the first and really only thing I got pictures of. :)

Corbetto was one of the few runs our team got in. Yay!

The hand off of the trophy was a little difficult for TCV to handle.

But we really did have a blast and a lot of laughs.

After the game, Hubby and I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned...and then crashed at Z & A'a at midnight.

Friday: We officially become homeless. Mike did the walk through with the manager of our apartment and handed over the keys. We are now "homeless" and Z & A officially have new roommates. :)

Friday night: We headed out to Lost Lake for a camping trip. Little did we know just how long it would take us. We took a few wrong turns and ended up lost. When we stopped to ask a couple of police men where we should be going, the just laughed...like it's called Lost Lake for a reason. We did pull into camp about 10:00 pm in the pouring rain.

Saturday: We spent the day trying to stay warm around the fire. I inhailed enough camp fire smoke to give me a lasting husky voice. A couple of us tried to find a warm spot on the lake shore to relax but the wind wasn't having any of it. We gave up and retreated back to the fire. Hubby and I headed back to town about 7:20 w/ the excuse of church early the next morning. We felt sorry for the poor suckers stuck out in the cold another night. ;) We came home to sunshine, a hot shower and warm bed. And the diva who welcomed us at the window with calls of greetings.

Welcome to our new digs.

Our sleeping quarters may be a little small,
but it's sleeping quarters and it comes with friends.

Thanks Diva for opening your home and sharing your people. :)