Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Home!
In the middle of wedding planning/prep we decided it was a good time to start looking for a house. On day one of the search we fell for a little place about 4 blocks from Nathan and Marika's. I can't believe how fast these things can move. We played the offer/counter offer game and are now buying a house! We will be closing on October 7th! That's next freakin Friday! I can't believe it! Who wants to pack and move us? I feel like we just did this...oh wait...we did.
Monday, August 29, 2011
55 days
Only 55 days until I marry Adam Montoya!
Last night I had my 10 year high school reunion. We got together with some old friends John Bell and Irena Murphy for dinner before the reunion. It was nice to get to see them again and to have a little one on one time. John and I had seen about a year ago when he was in town, but I hadn't seen Irena since 2003. We had the normal catch up conversation, and they each asked how long Adam and I have been together and how we met.
This led me into my most favorite, cutest love story ever! Adam and I met for the first time at Rocky Mountain Mennonite Camp the summer before 5th grade. It was towards the end of the week, and while we might have noticed each other we hadn't talked. My friend Cristina and I were standing in line at the Trading Post (the little hut where you can buy snacks and shirts, etc.) in front of two cute boys. We started talking and flirting in our 5th grade way and learned the boys were named Adam and Steve. Adam was from Cheraw, CO and Steve was from La Junta, CO. Like I said it was the end of the week so we didn't have much time to build on the friendship at that point. Just like every other weeks end at camp all the campers exchanged addresses so we could write letters. Email wasn't an option back in those days.
Adam and I wrote back and forth. We were each pretty quick to respond. I loved him in my child like way. I have one picture of him from camp. On the back is written Adam and Steve. Around Adam's name is a big heart! We got to see each other occasionally. He had orthodontist appointments in Colorado Springs sometimes and we also met up at the Relief Sale in Rocky Ford one year. Sometime in Middle School we stopped writing and lost track of one another. Neither one of us remember why we stopped writing but for some reason I had the feeling I had made him mad. I would think about him from time to time and wonder if I should write him again, but didn't know if he wanted to hear from me.
Life went on. We each graduated high school on 2001 and went on to college. My first year of college I went to Hesston College in Hesston Kansas. I learned years later that Adam was very close to also going to Hesston on a basketball scholarship, but he decided to stay in Colorado. We had different college experiences and different relationships. I got married in 2005. In 2008 I divorced and decided it was time to leave Kansas and move home again.
I was a very broken person when I moved back to Colorado. I needed my family and my friends. After a difficult time of closing people off when I needed them most I was able to begin healing and reconnecting with some of the most important people in my life. It was the best decision I could make moving home. It was a new beginning! Just a matter of weeks after I settled into my C. Springs apartment I was online and decided to check my old email that I hadn't looked at for quite some time. There was a notice for a message sent by Adam to my "MySpace" account. At first I was slightly irritated not knowing which Adam it was from. I opened the email and there was a picture and the name Adam Montoya.
I wrote back immediately. He had just written the message earlier that day. He had recently began a job in Colorado Springs and was commuting from Pueblo. He said on his drive to work he wondered what ever happened to his old friend Lauren Gillis. He found me! I was so excited about the possibility of getting together with him and re-meeting him and starting our friendship over again! I needed friends! We met after work one day and it was very natural and comfortable hanging out together. I began going to Pueblo to hang out with Adam and his brother Scot and sometimes their brother Rob and his son. I was having the best time! I remember telling those boys how important they were to me and how perfect the timing was that they came into my life. It kept feeling like there was an important reason things happened as they did.
Hardly a day went by that we didn't text or talk. We saw each other weekly if not more often. I tried to resist my feeling for a while but it was worthless. I was falling hard for him. Eventually we admitted it to each other and our friendship became an official relationship.
I have never been so happy. Adam Montoya is my best friend. We have such honest conversations about what we want in life. We have so much fun together. We communicate so well. We don't agree on everything but we're able to talk through it. He is kindhearted and loves my friends and family. He is patient with me and supportive of me. Not to mention is he sooooo good looking! :) I love him. My heart is happy knowing the love we have for each other.
While marriage is a formality and the rest of our lives has already begun I am so thrilled for the formality of it all and the party we get to throw. I can't wait for the next 55 days to pass! I love you Adam!
Last night I had my 10 year high school reunion. We got together with some old friends John Bell and Irena Murphy for dinner before the reunion. It was nice to get to see them again and to have a little one on one time. John and I had seen about a year ago when he was in town, but I hadn't seen Irena since 2003. We had the normal catch up conversation, and they each asked how long Adam and I have been together and how we met.
This led me into my most favorite, cutest love story ever! Adam and I met for the first time at Rocky Mountain Mennonite Camp the summer before 5th grade. It was towards the end of the week, and while we might have noticed each other we hadn't talked. My friend Cristina and I were standing in line at the Trading Post (the little hut where you can buy snacks and shirts, etc.) in front of two cute boys. We started talking and flirting in our 5th grade way and learned the boys were named Adam and Steve. Adam was from Cheraw, CO and Steve was from La Junta, CO. Like I said it was the end of the week so we didn't have much time to build on the friendship at that point. Just like every other weeks end at camp all the campers exchanged addresses so we could write letters. Email wasn't an option back in those days.
Adam and I wrote back and forth. We were each pretty quick to respond. I loved him in my child like way. I have one picture of him from camp. On the back is written Adam and Steve. Around Adam's name is a big heart! We got to see each other occasionally. He had orthodontist appointments in Colorado Springs sometimes and we also met up at the Relief Sale in Rocky Ford one year. Sometime in Middle School we stopped writing and lost track of one another. Neither one of us remember why we stopped writing but for some reason I had the feeling I had made him mad. I would think about him from time to time and wonder if I should write him again, but didn't know if he wanted to hear from me.
Life went on. We each graduated high school on 2001 and went on to college. My first year of college I went to Hesston College in Hesston Kansas. I learned years later that Adam was very close to also going to Hesston on a basketball scholarship, but he decided to stay in Colorado. We had different college experiences and different relationships. I got married in 2005. In 2008 I divorced and decided it was time to leave Kansas and move home again.
I was a very broken person when I moved back to Colorado. I needed my family and my friends. After a difficult time of closing people off when I needed them most I was able to begin healing and reconnecting with some of the most important people in my life. It was the best decision I could make moving home. It was a new beginning! Just a matter of weeks after I settled into my C. Springs apartment I was online and decided to check my old email that I hadn't looked at for quite some time. There was a notice for a message sent by Adam to my "MySpace" account. At first I was slightly irritated not knowing which Adam it was from. I opened the email and there was a picture and the name Adam Montoya.
I wrote back immediately. He had just written the message earlier that day. He had recently began a job in Colorado Springs and was commuting from Pueblo. He said on his drive to work he wondered what ever happened to his old friend Lauren Gillis. He found me! I was so excited about the possibility of getting together with him and re-meeting him and starting our friendship over again! I needed friends! We met after work one day and it was very natural and comfortable hanging out together. I began going to Pueblo to hang out with Adam and his brother Scot and sometimes their brother Rob and his son. I was having the best time! I remember telling those boys how important they were to me and how perfect the timing was that they came into my life. It kept feeling like there was an important reason things happened as they did.
Hardly a day went by that we didn't text or talk. We saw each other weekly if not more often. I tried to resist my feeling for a while but it was worthless. I was falling hard for him. Eventually we admitted it to each other and our friendship became an official relationship.
I have never been so happy. Adam Montoya is my best friend. We have such honest conversations about what we want in life. We have so much fun together. We communicate so well. We don't agree on everything but we're able to talk through it. He is kindhearted and loves my friends and family. He is patient with me and supportive of me. Not to mention is he sooooo good looking! :) I love him. My heart is happy knowing the love we have for each other.
While marriage is a formality and the rest of our lives has already begun I am so thrilled for the formality of it all and the party we get to throw. I can't wait for the next 55 days to pass! I love you Adam!
Monday, August 15, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
It's been 64 days since my last post. In order to bring you up to speed on our lives I will share 64 things that have happened since then.
1. We picked a day to get married! It's October 22nd!
2. DHS moved to a new building location.
3. Adam turned 28.
4. At my eye appointment I learned that my vision stayed the same since last year. That's the first time I can ever remember that happening.
5. We flipped the calendar from March to April.
6. I went to a really cool training on Interviewing Skills. (Like for the kids I interview for my job.)
7. Adam and I stayed in a Motel 6.
8. We discovered a delicious Mexican restaurant with fantastic margaritas just down the street.
9. I got to pick up my college friend Jared Hawkley from the airport in Colorado Springs and hang out and take him up to camp.
10. We went to church on Easter Sunday.
11. We ate Indian food.
12. I met Adam's friend Cody and we watched him race his dirt bike.
13. I had the most cases open at one time then I have ever had.
14. Jack turned 1!
15. I got to pick up Jared from camp.
16. We had pizza at Joe and Leah's house. Tina, Joe, Jared, Nathan, Joe, Leah, Adam and myself.
17. I flipped the calendar from April to May.
18. We worked.
19. Adam traded his dirt bike and some cash for a newer fancier dirt bike.
20. We decided to move in with Nathan, Marika & Jack at the end of our lease.
21. I cut my hair and put lots of blonde in it!
22. I flew to North Carolina for a Nate & Ola's wedding and got to see all kids of wonderful people!
23. I shared a room with Amanda.
24. I missed my flight from Detroit to Denver and was re-routed to Salt Lake City then to Denver.
25. I got to sit first class on the way yo SLC.
26. I told my mom happy mother's day.
27. I applied for a position in the Adult Protection unit. (no word yet.)
28. We started packing and moving.
29. I bought my wedding dress.
30. I tried a new recipe.
31. We got Noodles declawed.
32. Adam's uncle passed away.
33. We went to Monument, KS for the funeral.
34. I bought two new pairs of shoes.
35. We RSVP'd to two weddings in June.
36. I finished reading The Help.
37. I got a spray tan.
38. I dressed up for the Mother Daughter Tea at church.
39. We evaded the rapture.
40. We rode the Ramblin Express Casino Shuttle to Cripple Creek.
41. I won $150 on a penny slot in Cripple Creek!
42. "Band Camp" scheduled their first gig since the restructure.
43. We picked the reception site.
44. I finished Unaccustomed Earth.
45. I went out to lunch with my dad.
46. We went grocery shopping.
47. I read my friend's blogs.
48. I skyped with Sara and got to see her lil boy Nolan!
49. I erased my calendar from my phone. That's where I keep everything. :(
50. I ordered a rain coat online.
51. Adam bought new plastics and stickers for his dirt bike.
52. I went shopping with my mom.
53. I bid on retro kitchen canisters on ebay and lost.
54. I took a shower every day.
55. We got a couples massage.
56. I went to bed at 9:00 p.m. one night.
57. We ate delicious carrot cake made by Mindy.
58. We tried Pita Pit and loved it!
59. I got Noodles to sit on my lap for 30 minutes!
60. We booked a fancy suite for the wedding night.
61. I've changed my mind on reception decor about 20 times.
62. Adam rode his dirt bike with his buddies in Erie.
63. We went to Red Lobster to celebrate Grandma's birthday!
64. I'm on episode 98 of 100 of Nip/Tuck. I really need to finish that show!
It was a little more difficult than I thought it would be. You can probably tell when I was running low on things to share. Such an exciting life we lead! We already have lots planned for the summer. Too bad I accidentally erased my calendar. I'm not sure I remember when its all supposed to happen.
1. We picked a day to get married! It's October 22nd!
2. DHS moved to a new building location.
3. Adam turned 28.
4. At my eye appointment I learned that my vision stayed the same since last year. That's the first time I can ever remember that happening.
5. We flipped the calendar from March to April.
6. I went to a really cool training on Interviewing Skills. (Like for the kids I interview for my job.)
7. Adam and I stayed in a Motel 6.
8. We discovered a delicious Mexican restaurant with fantastic margaritas just down the street.
9. I got to pick up my college friend Jared Hawkley from the airport in Colorado Springs and hang out and take him up to camp.
10. We went to church on Easter Sunday.
11. We ate Indian food.
12. I met Adam's friend Cody and we watched him race his dirt bike.
13. I had the most cases open at one time then I have ever had.
14. Jack turned 1!
15. I got to pick up Jared from camp.
16. We had pizza at Joe and Leah's house. Tina, Joe, Jared, Nathan, Joe, Leah, Adam and myself.
17. I flipped the calendar from April to May.
18. We worked.
19. Adam traded his dirt bike and some cash for a newer fancier dirt bike.
20. We decided to move in with Nathan, Marika & Jack at the end of our lease.
21. I cut my hair and put lots of blonde in it!
22. I flew to North Carolina for a Nate & Ola's wedding and got to see all kids of wonderful people!
23. I shared a room with Amanda.
24. I missed my flight from Detroit to Denver and was re-routed to Salt Lake City then to Denver.
25. I got to sit first class on the way yo SLC.
26. I told my mom happy mother's day.
27. I applied for a position in the Adult Protection unit. (no word yet.)
28. We started packing and moving.
29. I bought my wedding dress.
30. I tried a new recipe.
31. We got Noodles declawed.
32. Adam's uncle passed away.
33. We went to Monument, KS for the funeral.
34. I bought two new pairs of shoes.
35. We RSVP'd to two weddings in June.
36. I finished reading The Help.
37. I got a spray tan.
38. I dressed up for the Mother Daughter Tea at church.
39. We evaded the rapture.
40. We rode the Ramblin Express Casino Shuttle to Cripple Creek.
41. I won $150 on a penny slot in Cripple Creek!
42. "Band Camp" scheduled their first gig since the restructure.
43. We picked the reception site.
44. I finished Unaccustomed Earth.
45. I went out to lunch with my dad.
46. We went grocery shopping.
47. I read my friend's blogs.
48. I skyped with Sara and got to see her lil boy Nolan!
49. I erased my calendar from my phone. That's where I keep everything. :(
50. I ordered a rain coat online.
51. Adam bought new plastics and stickers for his dirt bike.
52. I went shopping with my mom.
53. I bid on retro kitchen canisters on ebay and lost.
54. I took a shower every day.
55. We got a couples massage.
56. I went to bed at 9:00 p.m. one night.
57. We ate delicious carrot cake made by Mindy.
58. We tried Pita Pit and loved it!
59. I got Noodles to sit on my lap for 30 minutes!
60. We booked a fancy suite for the wedding night.
61. I've changed my mind on reception decor about 20 times.
62. Adam rode his dirt bike with his buddies in Erie.
63. We went to Red Lobster to celebrate Grandma's birthday!
64. I'm on episode 98 of 100 of Nip/Tuck. I really need to finish that show!
It was a little more difficult than I thought it would be. You can probably tell when I was running low on things to share. Such an exciting life we lead! We already have lots planned for the summer. Too bad I accidentally erased my calendar. I'm not sure I remember when its all supposed to happen.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Vegas
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| In Caesars Palace by the fountain |
My next trip to Vegas was in 2006 with my wild and crazy (and wonderful) girlfriends. We were
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| The night time view from the top of the Stratosphere |
I already knew this time was going to be different. For starters the company was different. Adam and I went with my future father-in-law, future brothers-in-law and their girlfriends. Another difference is I'm older. It's amazing how much life can change between the ages of 21 and
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| After lunch at The Top of the World Cafe |
We flew out of Colorado Springs on Monday evening. After we made it to our hotel (Stratosphere) and got a little settled in we ate at Roxy's Diner at the Stratosphere. The other kids decided to go out exploring. Adam and I went to bed.
Tuesday Adam, Pops (his dad) and I went to the hotel buffet then to Caesars Palace and did some
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| Daytime view |
On Wednesday Adam, his brother Scot, girlfriend Jamie and I went to The Top of The World Cafe for lunch (which doubled as breakfast.) We got to see the neat view of Vegas from up there as the restaurant slowly rotated to show the 360 degree
view! Next we headed downtown to Freemont St. It was fun seeing all the old places and old signs. Adam and his dad are experienced Vegas go-er's and they have their favorite hot spots to go on Freemont. We headed back to the hotel to get fancied up for Rob's birthday dinner at the Rio's Seafood Buffet. It was sooooo delicious! We had a great time together talking and eating way too much. I think there was an unspoken competition between Adam and Scot on who could fill their baskets with crab, lobster and shrimp shells the highest. I think Scot won. We stayed out for a bit that night and did some more exploring. We walked the strip and went into several different places. While we were in Bally's we crossed paths with Jeffery Graber, a friend from Bethel! I had seen on facebook that he said he was coming and made a comment, jokingly, about us maybe crossing paths. That's exactly what happened.Thursday was our last full day there. We started the day
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| Live statue |
After our time and the pool we headed to Excalibur decked out in St. Patty's green where we purchased tickets for The Tournament of Kings, a dinner show. We hung out around Excalibur until the time of the show. We were again presented with way too much delicious
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| Toasting at the California |
On Friday after sleeping in, it didn't leave us time for much more before we caught the shuttle to the airport. Brother Rob, girlfriend Naomi, Adam and I made one last trip up to the
I was completely exhausted that night and on Saturday. I made myself get out of bed about 11:30 a.m. If I didn't keep moving I was pretty sure I would go back to bed, so I took Adam lunch. Yes, the poor guy had to work the day after we got back. I was so glad I had the weekend to recover! I got all of the laundry done on Sunday and felt like the home was ready for the start of the new week even if my mind and body weren't.
I think I'm finally getting back to my sleep schedule. Now I have to start thinking of all those things I kept putting off until "after Vegas." It's after Vegas now. Time to get busy!
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| Outside Circus Circus |
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| Waiting to fly home |
Sunday, March 20, 2011
The best chalk board note ever!
I didn't find it until the next evening. Adam wasn't even home. So I had to ask if it was for real or if he was just being silly. It was for real! He asked when he got home! We're pretty excited!
(Don't ask about the nickname BaBa. I'm not sure we have a clear explanation.)
Monday, January 17, 2011
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