Mel & Eric Teders

This weekend my friend Mel married the love of her life, Eric. I was blessed enough to be there the night they met and be in their wedding and celebrate with them. It was a beautiful wedding and we wish them many many many many years of happiness!

Mel and her dad

THE kissBuddies!

Mel and her nephew :)

My hubby and I

Wedding Pictures and Video

For those of you who have been waiting as anxiously as I have for the wedding pictures from the photographer and the highlight video from the videographer here are the links to both

The video is http://www.primaverastudios.com/index.html#/leanneandryan/

and the pictures are on Chelsie's Blog at http://www.chelsiekrafka.com/blog/

There will be more pictures but here are the ones we can see as of now. Enjoy!

Who Knew?!?!?!

1. Who knew that watching the sun rise each morning on the way to work would become one of my FAVORITE parts of the day?

2. Who knew that moving from an OLD school building into a brand NEW one would bring so many new challenges and opportunities all at the same time?

3. Who knew that a summer could CREEP by so slowly and FLY by so fast all at the same time?

4. Who knew that lasagna needs TWO jars of sauce?

5. Who knew that one awesome man could snore SO LOUD?

6. Who knew that a one stall garage could clear out one WHOLE room in our apartment and still have room for my car?

7. Who knew that we could make so many trips to TARGET to get 'one more thing?'

8. Who knew that a weekend with NOTHING planned could be so productive and relaxing?

9. Who knew that when your cell phone dies at 4:37AM it BEEPS really loud every 5 minutes until you find out where the noise is coming from, find the phone and plug it in?

10. Who knew that God would provide so many awesome surprises in such a short time and answer some prayers that have been LONG standing?

Wedding and Honeymoon

I don't have a ton of pictures to post but here are the few I do have. Everything went great even with the tornado warning :0)

Me with my beautiful flowers!


Ryan and I after our ceremony

Our Fabulous wedding party!



The view from our room at the hotel on our honeymoon.
We had so much fun and now we are back to reality and I am work work working on getting my classroom ready and at the same time trying to get our apartment together. It is a process but it will get there eventually! Thanks to everyone who made our big day as special as it was!

Life at the White House

9 days away from the wedding and things are coming together! My mom is fixing my dress for the rehearsal dinner, we are in the middle of programs and placecards, we got the tile from home depot, and Aimee and I found some time to go to the twins game. . . Here is my photojournal from the week Mom wanted Aimee and I to "hop in"

She needed a strap perfect!

LOVE the subway mini mascots

Aimee and I with my mom's souvenier :) The twistie tie from our kettle corn

Quotes of the game
"Aimee did you bring any money with you?"
. . . no verbal response, just a smile!

"Mom, Cole won't share his balls with me!"

Not gonna lie, I might not blog for a few weeks. . . a few things going on around here. Hopefully the next time I do will be with wedding pictures! Thanks in advance to everyone who is helping out with one thing or another, Especially my mom's friends, you guys are great!

Showers!

Two weeks ago Ryan's Aunt Shari, and sisters Kim and Kari hosted a shower for me in Henning. It was fun, especially the drive up with my sisters in the car! (It is kind of hard to concentrate once they get going!) Katie wanted to constantly know how much longer and when we would be there, Aimee worked on Katie's friendship bracelet, and Danielle just laughed at all of it! They snapped some great pictures, met Toooooobeeeee the dog, and Ryan took dad to Zorbaz. It was a really fun time. Here are all of the girls at the shower!

This weekend our friends Karen and Bonnie hosted a Minnesota Twins tailgate themed shower. There were burgers, brats, hotdogs, popcorn, nachos, peanuts, beer, friends and fun. We even got to sit on the tailgate of my dad's truck and open our gifts. We were blessed to have a beautiful Minnesota summer night

My family with Nannie and Papa.Kids with Grandma P.My SiblingsRyan's Grandma & Grandpa bought us our own life jackets for fishing!Every good teacher has one!!

We are less than a month away and really excited for everyone to come back for our wedding!! Dress fitting this week, finishing up programs, thank you notes, and place cards. Have a great week!

Favorites!

So my sister did a favorites post and it inspired me to do one as well :) Here are some of my favorites from this summer so far!
1. This one is three favorites all in one: our Engagement Pictures, The MN Twins, and Our Wedding Shower with these sweet invites!

2. My friends little babies: The pic is of Anna but Wyatt is super cute too!

3. Reading and Jodi Picoult books.

4. Fishing with Ryan's Grandpa (Who would have ever thought!)

5. Making the slideshow for our wedding with fun pics like those

6. Hanging out with my sister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7. My new software that I got to make this cool picture :)

Here is to one month from tomorrow!