You want me to write an entry in the blog? Gotcha.

Sorry for the inside joke, it couldn’t be helped. I figured that just building this site for us is probably not good enough. I should probably also make a post or two myself, right? Right.

It seems like it was just yesterday that Jenny and I went for a sunrise hike up at Cloudland Canyon on a hot summer morning. Yet here I sit on a bitterly cold winter afternoon with fifty eight days to go. Wow, time flies when you’re having fun!! February 3rd seemed ages away that morning at Cloudland. However, with all the planning, John and Megan’s wedding, Jenny’s new job, my new job, and everything else that has happened these past few months, time has really flown by.

Time has flown by and Jenny has been amazing. I knew she was a very organized person. I knew that all her “ducks were in a row.� I had no clue how straight that row was until I saw her start to plan this wedding. I would expect that someone planning a wedding would be lucky to have most of her hair by the wedding date; I’d expect someone planning a wedding to be constantly stressed out. Except for two small incidents, Jenny has taken it all in stride (see The Flower Lady and Church Saga below).

So what’s been going on lately? Well we had our first wedding shower at Jenny’s office. Her co-workers are a great bunch of people who threw it for us. What’s great is that they had never met me, and only known Jenny for a couple months. We were very excited and had a great time. Thanks a bunch to all of those folks!

Something Jenny hasn’t mentioned yet is that we’ve been going through a pre-marital counseling course offered by North Point Church. We have just one week left of it, and it’s been interesting so far. We weren’t quite sure what to expect before starting, but I think we’ve both gotten a little bit out of it.

I can tell that the counseling is really meant for a couple who is younger than Jenny and I. One thing our couple keeps saying to us is that they are amazed at how “in tune� with ourselves we are. I think I can speak for Jenny on this, but by not getting married in our early twenties we really gave ourselves time to grow and learn more about who we are. I remember my mom telling me she was glad I was waiting whenever the subject came up. That has really helped Jenny and me with some of the relationship basics (i.e. communication) that may not come as natural to other people.

The counseling has been mostly fun, a little uncomfortable at times, but we are both very glad to have gone through it. While we seemed to already know most of the things talked about, we did learn a few new tricks. For one thing, our mentor couple recommended that we read The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. Jenny picked it up for us during one of our bookstore trips, so I decided to read through a few pages one night. Once I picked it up, I couldn’t put it down. If you haven’t read it and you are the slightest bit curious, read it! Anyhow, that has definitely helped us, as well as another little trick we learned. Ask us about the inside joke I mentioned above and we’ll be happy to tell you all about it.

We have a shower coming up this weekend at John and Megan’s place, and we are looking forward to that one quite a bit. This is a “couple’s shower� which means that John, Tim, and me will be playing on the Xbox 360 a good bit. Hah!

Well, that’s all I have for now. Thanks for reading this far, stay tuned for more!