We're Married!

On June 14, 2009 Matt and I got married!!!! I am now Mrs. Wegescheide :) Thanks to Aunt Karen, here are some pictures from the wedding. The weather was great and everything went smoothly. It was an awesome day!!!

Notice how everyone is praying, but me and Matt are looking at each other...cute



Wedding vows
I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride!
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Wegescheide


Me and my bridesmaids- Amanda, Taylor, Aliscia
Matt and the groomsmen- Chris, Ray, Jason
The bridal party...minus the flower girl and ring bearer
The Saber and Wegescheide families

No more pictures please!! It was a long day and we were exhausted!

Thank you to everyone who made our wedding day so special!!!!!

It's almost here!

Remember over 400 days ago when Matt proposed on the Caribbean cruise?!

Well...the wedding is almost here!!!!!! There are only 11 days left until we get married! Can you believe it?! I just wanted to do a little update blog since I haven't posted much lately. I am busy with last minute wedding plans and work (Hence, not much time to post on the blog). Matt is currently living in what will be our apartment once we get married. We are having fun moving all the stuff into it and making it our own. Both of us work 5 or 6 days a week as servers (Bob Evans for me, and Matt is at Buffalo Wild Wings). We are busy people! We can't wait for the wedding and the honeymoon to Hawaii 2 weeks later :)

See you all in 11 days!!!!!!!!!!

DONE!!!!!!!!!!!

I am officially a CMU graduate!!!!!!!!!!

On Saturday, May 9, 2009 I graduated from Central Michigan University with a Bachelors degree in Elementary Education. It took me 5 years and a whole lot of hard work, but I made it! I even graduated with honors...Magna Cum Laude...the second highest honor (3.79-3.89 GPA- mine was a 3.82)

The family! The CMU Seal

I finally graduated!!

I loved CMU and I made a lot of new friends along the way! Although it was a great experience, I am happy to be done and ready to move on to the next step in my life. :)

My Wedding Shower!!!!

This weekend was my wedding shower and it was a lot of fun!! There was a ton of work that went into planning the shower by my mom and the Oglesby women and it turned out wonderful! Many people showed up, we ate lots of food, played games, and opened presents. It was a great time!

Thanks to everyone who helped out with the shower and to everyone who attended!!! Matt and I appreciate all the love and support!!!!!!

...but they are so cute!!!

It was a sad day for me...

I went through all 160 of my stuffed animals and parted with 3/4 of them. I sat in the living room and made 3 piles: 1 for the stuffed animals who were old and dirty, 1 for the stuffed animals to give to foster children in the their easter baskets (mom heard about it on the radio), and 1 for the stuffed animals I am keeping.

I am a sentimental kinda person, so as I was going through them, I could remember most of my stuffed animals names and where I got them from. This is what made it so hard for me to get rid of them...but I did it!

Here is the throw away box of stuffed animals...

Here are the stuffed animals that were like new that I am donating to foster children. They will be placed in children's easter baskets :)

And this is my keep pile!!! I kept about 40 out of 160. If you know me, you know that that's pretty good, since I didn't want to get rid of any of them in the first place!

Here I am, dragging the box of old stuffed animals to the end of the driveway... *sigh* I guess it had to happen soon or later!

Back in Kindergarten!

So once again, I am very delayed in posting this, but I am a busy person these days and kinda forget that I even have a blog!

Anyway, two Fridays ago was my last day student teaching in first grade. The kids all made me cards and a big poster with their names and pictures on it. They were all super cute! Then we had a little goodbye party and ate pieces of those huge cookies and some ice cream. It was cool and really sweet of my teacher to do all that. Every time I see the kids in the hall, I get lots of hugs...it's good to know that I made an impact on them and that they enjoyed my teaching :)

Last week was the first of my eight weeks in kindergarten. The kids do an every other day program so I actually have TWO kindergarten classes. It's fun, but it was a lot to get used to and a lot of names to learn! I think I have almost all their names down now though. I have less planning to do in kindergarten because I repeat lessons twice a week, so that is nice. I am able to get home a lot earlier than I was when I was in first grade. I do miss first grade, but I am enjoying kindergarten a lot too!

I really wish I could show you some of the pictures I have of the kids in my classes, but I can't post them on the internet. I am working on two cool bulletin boards right now though, so once I have pictures of those, I can show you at least something :)

Anyway, that's pretty much my life right now.

Oh, and by the way, here is a wedding update:
Did I happen to mention that Uncle Ken is going to be the pastor for our wedding now...cause he is! And we finally registered for our wedding shower at Kohls and Target. We ALSO booked our honeymoon...to Hawaii!!!! We are doing a 7 night cruise that hops the islands. Matt and I are super stoked! We are in the double digits for the countdown to our wedding now too...only 96 days left!

Double Layer Mocha Cheesecake!

On Valentine's Day, I wanted to make fiance Matt something special. Since he loves cheesecake, I whipped out my new cookbook (thanks to the Wegescheide family) and picked out a homemade cheesecake recipe. Matt loves coffee, and he loves cheesecake, so what better than a double layer mocha cheesecake!!!

Using my baking skills to piece together the cheesecake...the cookbook told me it should take 30 minutes to prepare and 45 minutes to cook...

It took me THREE hours to complete the cheesecake!!!!!!!!
When it was finally ready, we sliced it up to see how it tasted
Since I didn't realize that it needed to be refrigerated over night, it was kinda mushy at first. We still tasted it, then left it to chill till the next day :) Needless to say, it was pretty tasty and well worth the 3 hours!
On Valentine's Day, Matt surprised me up at work with some flowers! Isn't he sweet?!
I love you Matt!!! Happy Valentine's Day!

As of February 23, there is only 111 days until our wedding :)