Megan and Jonah WHOOOO???

My goodness its been a while. Let me give you a quick update and work on being better.

I don't know where I left off.

* We're engaged, we will send you to our wedding website for all the details on that.
* Jonahs writing a wrestling column for Inside Pulse and he is amazing! He has quite a following!
*I was promoted to assistant manager at work. I'm really excelling and holding my own.
*We have been able to really visit our families by bus- very affordable.

So I figured I could use this place to talk about our wedding and planning.

So after going to our wedding website, which Jonah is writing amazingly, you can check out this blog and watch me pull out my hair out.

Let us start with this, my first appointment.
On February 12, Mom and I will be heading to Kleinfelds in New York to try on wedding dresses (see "Say yes to the dress" we wont be on it). This is truly a rite of passage and we are both very excited. My wonderful Fiance wanted to join us but I had to put my foot down and say no way. Tradition doesn't allow it. We're excited. I have some ideas but am really open to see what they have for me.

We will go to see Daddy-o for his birthday and make a trip to The Little Retreat. Now that we would like to marry there we need to look at it in that light. This place has TONS of meaning to us. We fell in love there and we couldn't think of a better place to promise our lives to each other with God, family, and friends by our side. Plus we got one heck of a deal. Lucky us. Truly a gift from God.

We also need to have a meet and greet for our families. They haven't met yet and we are excited to introduce everyone to one another. We will be heading to Maryland first to meet Jonahs maternal grandparents and aunt and uncle (plus cousins). This will happen in February at some point.

We will make more appointments soon but we want to sit down with our families and see what is important to them. Can't be too selfish.

Ta ta for now.
Love!

Lots to look forward to until...

Busy Season starts in September and ends in February. These are months in which we will be unable to ask for time off of work. Until that time we have planned a few things that we hoping the memories hold us over until February.

On the books we have Christmas in July. This was to be held in Erie and we are (were) really looking forward to it. We barely get to see our families and this would be a nice, one day adventure. That's right, I wouldn't be able to take time off for it. Our manager is taking her vacation that week so we were planning on flying in on Saturday and flying out on Sunday. But Jonah has never been to Erie before and I was really looking forward to showing him where I grew up. Not sure if its still on but we are crossing our fingers. This is this coming weekend.

The we have a visit from Mandy. She is coming back to the states to become legal while in Spain, she needs a visa. She is planning on staying with us for a week. We are excited. Jonah has never met Mandy before. We are concerned because she is allergic to cats and we have 3 with LOTS OF HAIR. By the time all is said and done she might be staying in a hostel. Also we work all. the. time!! We'll never see her. Shes promised that shes great at keeping herself entertained.

Jonah and I have gathered up whatever vacation time we have accumulated and we will attempt to use it mid august. He and I need some time away just for us. We need out of the city and some time to pamper our romance. I think in all we will have 2-3 days off of work and use a weekend. We haven't made plans yet because we don't know exactly how much time I have. But that is something we are hoping to use to build and strengthen our relationship before busy season were we hardly see each other and we are over worked and exhausted.

Anyone know where we can find seeds to plant a money tree? We're apartment hunting and all the beautiful ones near midtown are expensive.

XoXo!
M

No, we were not kidnapped.

Wow are you busy when you have to be an adult. Blogging is something I thought of often but I barely have time these days to spend time cuddling with my Love.

Let play quick catch up. May was nice but stress from work gets the best of Jonah and I and then it affects our home life into June. June was tough. I got a promotion to team lead and it not only brought along a raise but more hours. It seems that busy season hours began for me without it being busy season. The life lesson here is that adjustent is the name of the game.

May and June went by so fast. Here are some photos. Pictures tell a thousand stories. Hopefully this does it...

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Toes in the grass

Our Saturday was beautiful. We went to Central Park and spent the day.

We finally explored the majority of the famous park in our "back yard". Perfect weather, so much so that I fell asleep toes in grass, head on Jonahs chest. To nap outside was magical. Its been a really long time since I was able to sleep outside or feel grass between my toes.

What a beautiful and inexpensive day. We will be doing this again soon!!

Princess of Brooklyn

We were walking home from the subway after work tonight and we heard loud meowing from the bushes. Jonah said it wasn't ours so don't worry about it but my curiosity got the better of me. So I started calling, "Kitty, Kitty" and sure enough... it was our princess. We were scared to death! We rushed up the stairs not knowing what we would find. Thank God, nothing. The two cats were fine. We weren't robbed. Everything was good.

No idea how Princess got out. All windows were closed. We can only imagine that she snuck out with one of us today on our way to work, went down 3 flights of stairs and out the front door into the bushes. Scary.

The other two are still growling at her. She smells different and has street cred now. But God is smiling on us and our family! We are so blessed.

We Love Sundays (and sundaes!)

Budgeting in the city.
That's what has been on our mind. We have a lot coming up in the next few years and its come to or attention that living in the city and having a savings account seems impossible. We are comfortable. Nothings wrong. But the plan is to spend one more year in the city and then off to the outskirts and become commuters.

Commuters. Not so bad. We would like to get married and start a family eventually. We want to have a yard for our family. Even if its a small one, it needs to be one that we can afford. Here, in the city we love, we will not be able to afford one anytime soon. If I have my way we will move someplace else cool before settling into family life but we'll see.

We tried to see a Tribeca film fest film. Sadly, it was sold out. But we're determined to catch it next year. We wanted to see this film called "The Infidel".http://www.tribecafilm.com/tribecafilm/Infidel.html

Well, now that we have done the grocery shopping at 4 different stores, taken our laundry to be done, cooked dinner and lunch for a week, and cleaned the house I think I will finally sit down and enjoy some TV or something.

XoXo!
M

The Flair

The Flair is the name of our new Hoover vacuum cleaner. Jonah went to Mr. Vacuum to make this purchase, came home and put it together. We then prepared to turn it on with childlike excitement. It worked, of course.

This may seem like an everyday, mundane event but to us it was thrilling. We don't generally buy new, expensive things. Most things we buy are used or on sale so to get something new that was costly was such a wonderful feeling.

For Jonah he admitted that he was slightly embarrassed at how excited he was over this event. He always thought that people that got excited about these things were old and lame and now... he's one of them. He has graduated into a new phase in life. The Flair phase, as I have chosen to lovingly name it.

Ah to be an adult.

XoXo!
M