Wedding+life+Colorado+travel=Beautiful

Yea, I have been a failure at blogging. See I normally blog right before I go to sleep, and since I just got married a month ago "other activities" have been taking up that time.
So much has happened in my life the past month, I am married, I have traveled 3/4 of the way across the country, and I now live the farthest I have ever lived from home. Life is beautiful right now, seriously, I have just been shown the past month what God has been doing in my life for the past year, everything that has happened is making sense, I totally feel like I am living what God has been preparing me for, and that is an amazing feeling.
The Wedding.
 It was seriously the most perfect day of my life, people say that, but I seriously mean it. I could totally feel God's presence, and see His hand working in that whole day, everything went exactly according to plan, even though it stressed me out at times that Amy planned most of the wedding, God knew it was exactly what I needed. I wouldn't have been able to enjoy the day if I was focused on all the little details. Note for future brides...don't worry about anything, and the day will go as smoothly as planned :D
The Road Trip.
 Best Honeymoon idea ever, I loved it. I love to travel and see new places and it was the perfect way for me and Andy to spend our honeymoon. We got to experience so much and see so many things that we will most likely never see again, and wouldn't have it we didn't feel like we were supposed to move to Colorado. I love that even when we don't know, God knows exactly what our hearts need, and that is what mine needed.
Colorado
It is absolutely beautiful here!
 A photographers dream place to live:

 Bohdi the dog....he is seriously the goofiest Dog in the world

Friends

I have the most wonderful friends in the whole world, who gave me the most awesome bachelorette party. They all told me there were not coming up until tonight, however, they came last night. I had to go on a scavenger hunt through Saratoga to find them all. Then we went and ate at The Circus Cafe in downtown Saratoga(which was amazing). They had lots of awesome games picked out ,including a "That's what she said" one. Every one started out with 10 pins and every time you set someone up for  a "Thats what she said" joke, you got to take there pin...Alexcia won! We just had such a crazy fun time and I will definitely remember that night for the rest of my life. God is so awesome to put such wonderful people in my life. They are all such amazing girls and I am so excited for them to be apart of my day tomorrow and I know, although we may not see each other for awhile after this, that we will all be friends for a lifetime.
Seriously, I could not have even wished for a better bachelorette party! Thank you all so much!
Also I am getting married tomorrow!! I can not believe it is only a day away! I am so excited!

Moving...no it's not a depressing one.

I feel like I have been blogging lately about all the sad things about me moving...and I think it is time for me to stop being negative, move on, and explain that I am actually very, very excited to move!
I can't wait for Andy and I to be able to start our whole new life together. It is a very freeing feeling to be able to let everything go here and just trust God in this whole adventure. I know that this whole thing is going to strengthen my relationship with the Lord so much and that makes me so more excited then absolutely anything!
I am really stoked to see the country...at least parts of it. I really haven't been many places outside of New York other than Vermont(which doesn't count because I live on the border), Massachusetts, Virginia, and Florida(and the states in between which really doesn't count because we only drove through them). I absolutely love road trips! I get this beautiful nostalgic feeling about being American when I drive around it!
Oh yeah and I am excited about my awesome husband to be! He is going to be such a great husband! I love him so much, he is going to be such a great spiritual leader in our home and he just loves me for me, all my crazyness included, I seriously can not wait to share the rest of my life with him! Woot Woot!

Oh boy! I suddenly have a new found motivation to pack!

PI DAY!

Also I forgot it was Pi Day today and didn't get to wear my lambda Pi shirt! Much sadness!

Josh and Justin

Okay so I know I promised a long time ago that I was not going to go on and on about how much I am going to miss Depot any more!

I lied...

I went to dinner with Josh and Justin tonight, sorta as a last hurrah before I leave and it hit me that after I leave it is probably un-likely I will ever see them again...and if I do it won't be for at least a year! And yes I am so excited to go! I cannot stress that fact enough but these two guys have been a big part of my life the last year and a half. I seriously do not know what I am going to do at work not seeing them every single day! Seriously they are pretty much the reason I like where I work as much as I do! I am going to miss them so much! That is really all I can say about it, I honestly can not put it into any other words than that. They mean a lot to me and it's really going to be so weird for me to go to work and them just not be there.
Who will I play key races with, listen to really awesome songs, who's girlfriend is going to hate me, who is going to tell me everything I am not supposed to know, who am I going to be able to pick on for eating with toothpicks and always ordering cheese fries, have very pointless committee meetings with, yell at whoever the "Nancy" is in my new store, make up new nicknames for me, and who is just simply going to make me look forward to go to work every single day?

Rules for when I leave(did you really expect anything less?)
Please don't forget about me guys and if you don't keep in touch...I'll beat you up( yes you can insert funny short joke here, or man joke?).
My locker is not to be taken over by some weird person and shall remain in our column of lockers!
Also at least one of you is to call me at least once a week to update me on all the store doings and drama...preferably that about Nancy(or Kerry).
And you need to start planning a road trip to come visit me now....tell Charlene she just has to approve it!
You're not allowed to quit The First Committee!(No exceptions Joshua!)
Please tell Paul to "shove-it" at least once(preferably as he is leaving to go to Pittsfield, not realizing how much more Pittsfield sucks, I suppose he will fit in perfectly)
Justin Andrew-You are not allowed to take my flower sun or my "Heatha" off the cashier board...seriously Josh will tell me if you do!
Joshua Wayne(haha)- You need to tell me if Justin ever removes my flower sun off the board!!


I Seriously will miss you guys more than I think you know!

Friends

My friend Tim, who I used to work with but moved to New York City,  called me last night just to catch up on each others life and we talked about moving and how crazy life has been and normal things you would talk to a friend about that has moved far away. Then as we were chatting away he said "you know, you are like my closest friend that I know absolutely nothing about" I thought that is so true! See we really only knew each other about 6 weeks before he got his job in the city, but we keep in contact better than I do with some of the people that I used to see every single day, and he said the same thing. So we sat there and just talked about why it is that certain people stay close throughout our lives and how others just sort of dissipate and how that could happen. There are people that I called my best friends that I barely talk to anymore, not just from college, but from high school, middle school, and so on. It really made me think about how much people change over time, and there are some people who stick around through those changes and others do not. Maybe it's not even because they don't want to, maybe sub-consciously we give some people the opportunity to be there for us and we don't give that same opportunity to others. I really wonder why that is. It makes me wonder what will happen with all the friends I have here. How sad it is that there is maybe going to be one or two that I really keep in close contact to and the others will just sort of fade out.
I guess I really won't know until I leave.
Reality is weird.

Small Town America

I am absolutely exhausted yet wide awake at the same time. I really hate when this happens. Which is why I don't drink caffeine, however, I really, really needed a Coke on my drive home from Canton today or I was simply going to fall asleep.

I love road trips. I love exploring places I have never been, seeing all the interesting sites and just experiencing the culture of the country we live in. Today's was especially nostalgic. As I was driving to Canton I was listening to a podcast about Route 66 and how it helped bring America together and how it is very sad that there is a giant expressway right next to it and most people choose the expressway over venturing through little towns. As I was driving and feeling depressed that America has lost it's pride and everyone is just focused on getting where they have to go, not the journey it takes to get there. As this thought was passing through my head, I saw an overpass cluttered with old, beat-up American flags, and then I passed another, and almost every overpass I drove under was covered with tattered American flags. I have not been able to get that image out of my head all day. It made me think about how much American culture there is in the state of Massachusetts. Almost every person who lives there, has pride in where he/she lives. They root for a baseball team that never wins, they can't pronounce the letter R and they are proud of it! It made sense to me that the Rebels who through the Tea into the Boston Harbor(or Harbah), were from Boston. If there was going to be any people in America who were going to say "stick it" to whomever, it would be Boston(mostly because this was before Texas was around)./The whole road trip made me feel very American. From listening to stories about Route 66, to seeing tattered American flags still flying high, driving through the small towns wondering what sort of culture I could discover. To going to a meeting full of people who are employed by a company that celebrates Capitalism. I then realized it made a lot of sense to have the Regional Store Support Center of the New England Region in Massachusetts, because if any thing could get you pumped up about selling things in a flat economy, it is a short man with a Boston Accent telling inspiring stories about how customer service leads to sale, in a quaint, All-American town.

This whole adventure today made me very excited to take the Road Trip out to Colorado because, there have to be thousands of places like Canton, Massachusetts. Where American culture just flows out of, a place where you can not just pass through because you feel the need to stop at that small diner and have a piece of Apple Pie. Somewhere, where people are not afraid to say God because churches still influence their community. A place that reminds people what America is about, reminds them there are still thousand of Soldiers fighting overseas everyday to keep us safe. Somewhere that still believes in the hope and innovation that formed our Country. In New York, we just simply do not have a lot of that left and it is comforting to know that America has not lost it's spirit. That even though times are tough for just about everyone in the country. There will always be small town rapport that can bring us back together again.

I hope everyone, at least once, gets to visit a town like that.