Nutmeg: A New Life!

Well Hellooo!

Typical me I haven't posted in almost a year.

Well, I'm sitting at barns and noble with my......Husband!!!!! :)

And don't have much else to do so I thought I'd update this.... Well first of all of course! I got married! :) This summer, June 30th at 1:00 pm I became Mrs. Lee Person. :) Yays!

So caught up, (this is gonna be unorganized)

The Job:

Last winter I did end up working at Petunia's Bistro all winter, within two weeks of working there I became the cafe manager which was a really good learning experience and looks good on my resume, it went pretty well but we were very short staffed, I worked by myself three days a week and two days a week I worked with my friend Theresa, but I was repeated told no about hiring more people, so we dealt with it.

skip forwards to January I was off in McCarthy with the Person's when the owners wife got upset I wasn't there to fix the problems of not having enough workers. So she decided that she would like to be the cafe manager. = got stressful, then she didn't want to be the manager anymore = got stressful, made me be = got stressful, then got another person to be = got x2 stressful. = I quite in May because I was getting married in two months and didn't want to deal with the stress in our first few months of marriage.

The Move-Out:

In December, I moved out to a small dry cabin that my sister's in-laws owned, that was easy to afford and offered the warmth needed for the winter time with a small propane space heater.

Which did occasionally run out in the middle of the night, then my memory foam mattress would actually freeze and get super hard and then I'd wake up and be like were are my toes? Do I still have them? Who's taken my toes? I can't feel my toes! ....oh...the propane is empty...MEH! *Head lamp, coat, rolling heavy propane tank bottle thingy around, jumping off stairs to put my weight on wrench to twist the nozzle off so I could screw the new tank in and warm back up. hehe, I liked the experience of providing for myself for a little while. (Although it was more convenient when the propane ran out when Lee was visiting, he's a little stronger then me :P ) but it was really good for me to live by myself for a wile. Lee would take me to work every morning and bring me home from work in the winter time, and then once it got warmer and he started work again at the Truss Company, he would pick me up and then drop me off at his work and I would ride my bike to work every morning. Once I quite working there I had around a month and a half jobless and I rode my bike to town almost every day and made choice for myself what I was going to do that day and were I was going to go and how I was going to get there, it was super exciting. :) I had so much fun and got in great shape. :) it was great. My favorite things were (and still are) to ride my bike to barns and noble and relax around the fire place or to ride my bike to this small river front park and lay on the grass and read or listen to my music. :)

The Proposal:

On my birthday, February 17th. Lee came to work mid day and dropped off red carnations (one of my favorites) for me, later the same day he came back with one flower for my hair, So he came and picked me up after work and we went to Lavelles for dinner, we got BBQ piggy ribs and deep fried howleebutt. :) After dinner we went up the highway for what seemed a really long time actually and then parked and layed on the truck roof to watch the norther lights which were supposed to be high activity that night, only it was rather cloudy so we just cuddled and peered at fluffy dim stars, well we were getting cold so lee went to the truck to get some "hot chocolate" he had been secretly storing behind the truck seat, and then handed them to me to set on the truck well I did and then I turned around to see what he was up too when I found him looking excited staring up at me from one knee, holding a ring box with a quite beautiful engagement ring, he proposed, I said "mm....heh...yes...heh....yes..." he put the ring on my finger, we kissed and huggled and such we continued star gazing :) for a long time and and giggled and planned together. :) I started planning about a month later, because I didn't think it would take that long. Ha!

Mom and Dad Person and I went to anchorage about a month before ( I think? ) the wedding to get my wedding dress and get a new snowmachine for Dave.

The best part:

The Wedding:

The wedding was in June, it was the perfect day it was bright and sunny but also like dark blue skies with big fluffy clouds here and there it was cool enough that we weren't sweaty, well I wasn't anyways. :) The wedding was beautiful it was typical us, it was out-doorsy, one of our favorite pastors married us, who also did our marriage counseling so that was special. :) and we took pictures with a giraffe. How could it get better? Oh yes, our friends and family were all there to watch and love on us, a bunch of our guy friends cranked us homemade ice-cream that mom and dad Person mixed up for us. That was delicious. :) - The wedding went smoothly and everything worked out, it was beautiful! Because Lee's whole family and our wedding party made everything perfect for us so we didn't have to worry about much at all. His Grandma was here and aunts who made beautiful decorations and flowers for me and my bridal party, My sister was here, she was my matron of honor she spent the days before the wedding helping me get me, and everything else I needed to do ready. I don't even know who all did what but it turned out perfectly. :) It was the best wedding we could have ever had. After the wedding we took the train to anchorage which was a all day trip one way, it was exciting and beautiful. Neither of us had ever been on a train, and always wanted too so it was special, We didn't even get motion sickness. :)

The highlight of the honey-moon was getting to go to a Kaladi brothers cafe' and have amazing espresso drinks! Oooo wait, thats not what I meant!

The honey moon was amazing. :) it was relaxing but fun we went to the zoo and water park :) Lee took me to the Museum of Anchorage that had like five levels. :) and tons of old art, the third level was a exhibit sponsored by the Smithsonian Museum on native culture and artifacts.

We both really enjoyed that. :) We took our bikes on the train and rode around down town anchorage too. :)

The New Job:

The day after we got back from our honey moon I had two job interviews, Mo-jo-To-Go espresso hut, and Brueggers Bagels. I got both jobs but only kept one. I worked at Mo-JO for two days but they wanted me to be the manager and I didn't want too, so I left and just stayed at Brueggers Bagel shop, which is actually really fun and nice. I've been working there for almost three months now. I really like it, And I don't have to manage anyone! :)

Current time:

Now we've been married going on three months, and its been a blast so far. its great to get to go out late and do stuff and not have to drop each other off every night and not have boundaries about where you can go and how long you should stay there, Its nice to get to start out going to social events together, like church. :) I love making dinner every night and then getting to enjoy it together. Its wonderful to finish every day by falling asleep together and start every day by waking up together.

We are currently planning to be moving to Wisconsin in about three weeks were we hope to stay for at least about five years.

Tootles. = )