Happy 2nd Birthday Wally!

Baby Indy!

After 9 months of waiting, baby Indy made her entrance into the world at 8:17 pm on August 30, 2010 (Katie's actual due date!)

Wedding Update

Since Jeremy proposed, I've been looking at wedding related stuff (well, I did that before, but this time I'm serious about it). We have managed to make a few decisions already...the most important ones of course:

Date: August 11, 2012

Colors: Hot pink and spring green

Font: Finehand

We've also decided what our invitations will look like.

You may wonder why the date is over two years away. Here is our reasoning:

1. It is on a Saturday

2. I will have graduated from school and hopefully will have had a job for about a year which means (minimal) job security.

3. I thought it would be cool to have my parent's anniversary be August 9, my brother's be August 10 and ours would be August 11. Why is this so cool? There are three chances for a milestone anniversary and what is a better way to celebrate than all of us going on a cruise or a big trip?

4. It will also be easier on the my parents (mainly) to save for a wedding rather than putting a bunch of money on a credit card.

5. If Jeremy and I plan on being together forever (which we do), what is two years in the grand scheme of things? We are definitely committed so waiting two years to make things legal isn't a huge deal.

6. It's our decision and we'll do it when we want.

Anyway, that's all of the updates I have for now. I'm always looking for advice or ideas so let me know!

School Update

Better late than never right? Well, I finished Spring quarter with all A's (hey, an A- is still an A) and I am taking 2 summer classes. One of the classes is online "business and labor relations" which isn't a challenge, but still required for a degree. The other "class" I'm taking is cooperative education where I spend time each week at an internship and write on the discussion board what happened that week or answer a question related to work. I'm only required to take 1 credit which is 30 hours...yes, 3 hours a week. I got an amazing internship in Administrative Technology at Highline and I generally spend between 6 and 10 hours a week there.

I absolutely love my internship! Not only are my co-workers awesome and I'll walk in the door and everybody makes sure to tell you there is some sort of baked good in the break room, but I'm actually putting what I learned in school to use. My teacher told us the first quarter I was in school that we would do IP addressing out our ears...that is so true! I've also done a lot of things that I haven't learned in class and it's really cool. I learned how to image the new iMacs and get them ready for delivery to the faculty. Since I am the only intern (out of 2) that knows how to do it, my supervisor made a comment that I have "job security." I won't get all boring with details of exactly what I do, but I enjoy it.

Since I have the internship at the school, I'll be "working" there until I graduate (I'm only getting credit this quarter because it's required, I don't want to pay to work). Hopefully I'll not only gain lots of experience, but make some good contacts and have some references for when I actually look for a job.

How It Happened

Since Jeremy and I have been going to school, we've pretty much stayed home every night studying and if we went out to diner, it was usually fast food or Applebees if we were feeling fancy. So at work on Saturday Jeremy called me to see if I wanted to actually go somewhere for the weekend. I said ok and we decided to go to Seattle that night, have a nice dinner somewhere, stay at a hotel and the next morning go to the Woodland Park Zoo (we've been trying to go for the last year).

I got home from work, packed and got all gussied up because we only knew we were going to have a nice dinner. Jeremy made reservations at the Mediterranean Inn in Queen Anne. We got to the hotel around 8:30 and we watched some of the Mariner's game before Jeremy thought we could go check out the rooftop terrace at the hotel since dinner at the Melting Pot wasn't until 9:45.

When we got up to the roof, I started taking pictures of the Seattle skyline and Elliot Bay. I was looking at the Space Needle when Jeremy tapped me on the shoulder and said "Kitty." As I turned around to look at him, he was pulling something out of his pocket and started to get down on one knee as he said "I had something else planned, but will you marry me?"

I just stared at him like he was talking Swahili with my mouth open. He's still down on one knee with the ring box opened and said "are you gonna answer?" I squeaked out a little "yes" and he got up and hugged me. I was in total shock! Of course I started crying and I was shaking while I was putting the ring on (Jeremy had just gotten in back from Kay, he already had it sized for me).

After the mushy I love you's, hugs and kisses, we went back to the room so I could fix my makeup. I took a picture message and sent it to my mom, who texted me back so quickly that she misspelled words. I called her and told her the whole story and Jeremy called his mom at the same time to tell her that he did it. After I talked to mom, I called Anna because she has a vested interest in Jeremy and I and since I was in shock, she thought something was wrong. I told her everything and she was super excited. Then I forwarded the picture message to a few more people and changed my status on facebook (that's how you know it's real).

End of important details.

I'm Engaged!

My first post about this will be a short story of pictures. When it's not 2:30 am, I will post more words.

Before

The view right before I turned around to see

The ring!

Hoppy Belated Easter!