PLEASE HELP US OUT

Hi Everyone!

Well Kevin and I have done a crazy thing! We entered into a wedding in a week! This is a contest in which you win a wedding that is entirely paid for by a Colorado radio station, News Channel 5 and a local businesses. We are so lucky to have been chosen as one of the top 5 contestants and now we need your help! If you go to http://www.kissfmcolorado.com/pages/weddinginaweek.html and vote at http://www.bigcountry979.com/pages/wedding_in_a_week.html you can vote for us and see a piece of my essay that I wrote. We are couple # 1. We feel so blessed to have you all in our lives and to be given an opprotunity to get married a little sooner. Please know if we win this we will be getting married on Friday January 29th. I hope that we can do this and plan an evening wedding so you all can attend.
Thank you so much for your love, support and vote!
Love and Hugs,
Jenn and Kevin
P.S. You can send this too your friends and family too - any votes help!

Jackalope Jump Time Again

Hi Everyone!

I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and a wonderful start to the New Year. I just wanted to remind everyone that with the Holidays over the Jackalope Jump is fast approaching. I know that some of you have said that you would jump or come support so with that said let me give you a little info.

~To donate or have friends and family donate you can go to www.firstgiving.com/teammia and donate on-line or you can do it in person to one of the team members or me personally.
~To join Team Mia and create your own donation page you can go to www.firstgiving.com/teammia and on the right side it says join this team click on it and then click join now and set up your page. If you do not want to do this but still want to join please contact me and we can set you up with a paper sign up sheet to collect donations.
~Please remember you DO NOT actually have to get wet to join the team or collect donations or email the link along to friends and family memebers or to wear pink / your Team Mia shirt on Fridays in February! Also we always need photpgraphers, towel holders and cheerers at the event!!!

I am so thankful for all of you who want to not only help out the Laramie Special Olympic athletes, but who also are helping keep the memory of the Mia alive. Please remember Fridays in February are Team Mia month if you have a team shirt please wear it or please wear some sort of pink. Alos if you have any questions please let me know and I should have donation sheets with me as of Tuesday January 5th if you would like one!

Thank you all again for your awesomeness!

Lots of hugs and smiles ~ Jenn

Merry Christmas!

With Christmas almost upon us, I just wanted to wish everyone a wonderful and Merry Christmas. This time of year I am so thankful for the blessings of friends and family that has been given to me by God and I am so reminded of his love. I hope where ever this message finds you that you are celebrating with friends and family and can feel our Savior's love! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

What more could I ask for than a Saturday filled with sledding with friends and cheering on the Pokes. It is great fun cheering for my team even though I am proud and a little sad to annouce as of the new year I will be the newest CSU student in the family. I have for a long time been seeking a masters and we are so blessed that I found it close to Kev at the CSU Occupational Therapy Department! I hope that I can update the blog more to bring more news about the wedding and more school things. We are excited to say that as of today the Save the Dates have been placed in the mail. I hope this finds everyone happy and getting ready to celebrate an awesome Holiday Season with friends and family!

Now I know I had promised pics of the engagemtn party but sadly they are not on my camera so I have to wait for others to send them to me. But I thought to celebrate the start of college football this upcoming weekend I would post one of my favorite engagement pictures!

This week although the first week of school was the best. I couldn't have asked for better students or for them to fall into our routine as quickly as they have. I feel so blessed to work with such amazing people as I do at The Open School and feel as if I have found a home there.

I think Kev and I have found once again our weekend routine of traveling to each other and trying to squeeze every last minute out of the weekends wherever we end up. We have also found that with fall we are busier than ever whether that be trying to go to our teams games, volunteering for Special Olympics or attending a friend's party or wedding.

It always seems as the seasons change so do our schedules but I am thankful that we are both rooted by our love of each other and our faith. Hopefully there will be more pics soon!

Nebraska, Classroom, Teaching and Parties

I can't believe that we are back in the season where our life seems to go so fast that it takes my breath away somedays. This last week Jessie and I spent time with Teresa, Brian and their sweet girl (which I will post pictures of as soon as I steal them from Jessie). We also went wedding dress shopping, saw Codi get married to Dale (pictures are forthcoming) and now it is back to my disaster of a classroom which looks like bulletin boarder expoloded in it and lesson plans. It seems that summer is never long enough and I worry that I didn't get enough done with the wedding to be less stressed this year as I push teaching to the forefront and wedding the the back. However I have to admit the dorkyness in me is very excited to be setting up my classroom and praying for those kids who I get to teach in less than a month! I hope everyone is enjoying the last bit of summer. This weekend is Kev and I's engagement party so that the bridal party can get to know each other so I will post later pictures of this fun event!

The Start of Life's Crazy Adventure!

Well I know that life throws us curves and that a lot of friends and family are spread from a few minutes away to hours away. So I thought that I could share things about Kevin and I's life with this blog. I hope that this gives everyone insight into us and to our lives. I am so excited to share upcoming wedding news with you all!