A Day in My Life

Happy New Year to all of you and welcome to 2009. I’m happy to be here in the new year and I hope you are too. I decided to follow the lead of Austin and post a year end wrap-up. However, I’m going to take the chronological approach. Here goes nothing:

January was filled with a lot of Broomball. I played on two teams; one in the Minneapolis City League and one in the newly established Twin Cities Church Broomball League. Fortunately, we were able to play for quite a long time last season.

February brought the wedding of one of my best friends from High School, Mike Wallin. I was a groomsman in his wedding which was a lot of fun. During this month, I also helped out a bit on Austin’s campaign. Unfortunately this year, he was forced to stop short of the election. Here’s looking to 2010!

On February 29, I proposed to Bethany! Fortunately for me, she said yes. That sparked my activities between then an October 4th.

In April, Bethany’s grandmother past away. We made the trip up to Eureka, SD for the funeral.

My brother Tyler graduated from Bethel in May. Also, my brother Daniel graduated from St. Francis High School. Daniel is going to Bethel this year while Tyler is working at ACR Homes this year and will be going to George Fox University in the fall.

In June, my good friends Emily Nelson and Bjorn Larson were married down in Topeka, Kansas. Bethany was a bridesmaid and I serenaded everyone with my trumpet during the ceremony.

July took me up to Trout Lake Camp for a weekend for my home churches annual retreat. We did a lot of boating and playing outside. Also, throughout the summer, Bethany and I were in a Crown Financial small group through our church. We had a great time in the group and learned a lot!

Now I’ll jump ahead to October, because not much else happened last summer. I had my bachelor party where we played some Broomball and had some apps at Applebees. Then on October 4, 2008, I was married to my beautiful bride, Bethany. We went to sunny California on our honeymoon.

We went to visit Bethany’s sister Erika and her husband Eric in St. Louis in November. We were able to see some of the town and hang out with them for a couple of days.

We were able to use a free hotel night we built up on the honeymoon for a night in the Hyatt in Minneapolis. Right before Christmas, Bethany got the flu which forced her to call in sick for the days leading up to Christmas. On the positive side, she was able to come out to my parents house on Christmas day. The following day, we went down to Betany’s sisters house in Edgerton, MN. We were down there with her whole family, minus one, through the 28th. We were able to meet and spend some time with their new baby, Abram.

I know were now out of months for the year, I just need to add this in since I’m so proud. In fantasy football this year, I took the consolation trophy in my Bethel Jazz league, took fourth in my work league, and took the championship in Austin’s League! My best year in fantasy yet!

That should catch us up to the present. Thanks for making it all the way through this long post. One of my resolutions this year is to post more often to the blog. I’m off to a good start already. May you be blessed in this new year!

Marry Christmas everyone! Obviously I’m a day early, but who wants to post on Christmas anyway? Alas, I am one of the people that has to work on Christmas Eve. It is extremely boring around here today. There was something to do for about one hour so far, and since then, nothing. Thankfully I am leaving early today so I am not late to church this afternoon. This Christmas, I volunteered to be in our Christmas Eve choir. This is the first time in my life I’ve been in a real choir. It is quite fun. And just so I don’t feel that out of place, I am playing the trumpet on one of the songs. I still can’t get over the fact that I’m singing in a choir.

Bethany has been sick the last couple of days. She was suppose to work yesterday and today. Since all of her patients have no immune systems, it is good that she didn’t go in. On one hand, it is no fun to be sick. But on the other, she is able to go to church with me tonight. It would have been pretty depressing to have to go to the Christmas Eve service alone tonight. So I am grateful for that. I just hope she gets better soon.

We are heading done to Bethany’s sister’s house in south-western MN on Friday for two nights. Her parents and her other sister from St. Louis will also be there so it will be one full house. What is really exciting is that her oldest sister just had her baby a couple weeks ago so we get to see little baby Abram for the first time. That should be a great time. In my opinion, five kids is just a couple too many for me. Wait wait wait, one would be too many for me right now!

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope that Santa is good to you all this year!

I know that a lot of people have been wondering where we went for our honeymoon. I do have to say that the secret did remain safe with me just like I planned. Can I get a drum roll please… We went to San Francisco and to Napa Valley!! That’s right, sunny California. It’s hard to beat weather that is 75 and sunny every day! So, now for the second thing that people have been asking me for, and that is the pictures from our trip. I just finished putting them all online for you all to view. Along with this, I also am starting a new picture hosting service. I think it should be much easier for me and provide you with a better viewing experience. I am switching everything over to Shutterfly. To go right to the pictures of our honeymoon, click here. I hope you all enjoy our pictures. We sure enjoyed taking them!

That’s right, as of right now, Bethany and my wedding has started! It is now 3:30 on Saturday, October 4th. As you could imagine, we are both so excited we can hardly handle it. If you are reading this, you were probably there so thanks for coming once again. We really enjoyed seeing all of you. WE’RE MARRIED!!!

Take some time out of your day today to remember those lost in one of the greatest tragedies in American history. Take a look at these video’s to help you remember the scope of the tragedy.

You’ve probably heard that Jerry Seinfeld is the new spokesman of Microsoft. Take a look at the first of their advertisements. Quite funny I have to say:

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As any good blogger would do, I have now added a countdown to the wedding on the main page of my blog. Please visit to anxiously wait with us for it to tick down to zero!