Just an update...

I am back from my week in Virginia Beach with Derek. It's tough, of course, to be away, but it feels good knowing that we will be living together permanently very soon. We found our apartment and our move in date is July 20th. We are in the process of taking care of a lot of busy work...name changes, moving paperwork, job applications, etc. It's keeping me very busy, which is good, as there's just not much to do in Wabash.

Our wedding pictures are up on the website...www.emily.lifepics.com Go to recent events and click on our link. You can view them as a guest without having to sign in. I have all the CDs and the copyrights of the photos, so we can now print off whatever ones we want. Our photographer was great! He is from Seymour, IN and comes highly recommended from us! He is wonderful and very affordable!

Derek finishes his school on the 25th and is traveling up bycar to stay with me for a few days. Then, we will be road tripping together to NC where we will hopefully meet up with the Birks-Kilman family for a day or so, and then head to Derek's parents and spend the holiday with them. Can't wait to see Derek again!

A Few Random Photos

Here are some photos that my aunt took over the weekend. The reason I have these few is because she took them and then my cousin, Andy, loaded them onto our new iPad they got us...SO AWESOME!!!! Here are just a few...more to come later.


My new brother-in-law, Jamie, and my new, adorable neice, Riley!


Myself, Derek, and another new brother-in-law, Zach at the rehearsal dinner


Riley and me...what a ham!


Some of us at Applebees after the reception...cousin Andy, his beautiful girlfriend, Audrey, me, Derek, and cousin Susan. So good to see family again!


Brother-in-law, Zach...apparently no one else wanted to look at the camera.


A little dark, but a good photo of my new father-in-law, Chad, and me. What an awesome guy!

The Knot Has Been Tied!

Well, June 5th has come and gone and it was a great weekend! It was so wonderful not only for Derek and my family to get together, but to also have all of my other friends and family in the same place on the same day! Talk about a great time...I just wish we would have had more time to spend with them.

It rained on and off all morning on Saturday, but I've heard that's supposed to be considered good luck! I am very happy that we ended up doing the ceremony inside. We were able to get a lot of outdoor photos as well, so that made me happy!

I'm spending this week in Virginia Beach with Derek. I wouldn't call it a honeymoon, because he is still in class everyday and I'm hanging out on my own at the beach. However our condo is right on the beach and there are plenty of things to do, so I can't complain. Not to mention the weather is amazing!

I will have photos posted soon for everyone to see. Our photographer did a fantastic job and is such a great guy! Comes highly recommended from us!

Derek and I are going to look at a potential apartment tonight and hopefully fill out an application for this place. We are planning to live here for roughly 6 months and hopefully find a house to buy before the end of the calendar year (which is when we think Derek may be shipping out for the first time). Hopefully that goes well!