Photos (Getting Ready)...

Getting Ready...

Some of the boys!

My something blue :)

Some of the girls!

My dress!

November 7, 2009: Wedding Day

So, here I am a little over 8 months later finally blogging about our wedding! Everything went incredibly smooth, we had a wonderful weekend surrounded by our friends and family.

Clayton and I both headed to Waco the Wednesday before our wedding. Before leaving I had informed my students that I would be gone for a week and a half (keep in mind I taught in a middle school Autism unit) because I was getting married and going to the beach. I got several interesting questions about me being gone, but my favorites were:

Is there a pool there?
Are you going to come back pregnant (I about died when Christian asked that)?

Do I have to call you Mrs. Young when you get back, because I like Ms. Goertz better?

When we arrived to Waco we met with our photographer (Rebecca Cash) to go over last minute details. On Thursday I put together the gifts for the wedding party. That evening several family members got to town and my parents had a cook out, then everyone pitched in to help me tie bows on the wedding programs (I think there were around 400...about 3/4 of the way through Adrienne and I had to make a trip to Walmart looking for more ribbon at about 10 pm....we bought all the cream ribbon we could find...it was a LONG night). Friday we put together bags to go to the hotels for our out of town guests, went to the country club and tied MORE bows, this time on chairs. Thanks again to all the family and friends who helped with that, couldn't have done it with out y'all. I do remember uncle Johnny telling me that I was not allowed to ask him to tie anymore bows...haha...such a sweet guy! After that Megan, Lara, and I went to get our nails done....then it was off to the bridal lunch at Sironia...and then the rehersal at Nelson's! Friday was one crazy day....but fun!

Saturday... the BIG day! We started off at La Bella Visage were everyone got their hair and make up done. Then everyone met at St. Paul's for photos...then it was off to St. Louis for the wedding!! I will be posting photos next!

Long time since last blog!!

So it has been way too long since my last blog and I have a lot of updates!! In one of my last post I wrote about looking for houses....well we decided not to buy because I decided to go to grad school full time. I am going to TCU and pursuing a masters in school counseling and possibly child life as well. I was offered at TA position at TCU which was very hard to pass up. This means I have to go to school full time and in turn I work 8 hours a week for a professor and TCU will then pay my tuition. I will be done with school in December of 2011 or Spring 2012, it depends on if I decide to do a double masters. Since we will now be living off of one salary it was not so smart for us to buy a house right now!
I took a summer session in June (2 classes) and that kept me EXTREMELY busy, it was very strange to be in school again and to be the student, not the teacher! I really enjoyed it and met some great people. I do not start back at school until August 23rd, so I am excited that I have a nice break!
I am goin to try and do some more updates later this week.....such as our wedding and honeymoon, my sisters wedding, and random things we have been doing in the DFW!!

New Orleans Trip

Mississippi River

The adult beverage (looks gross, but very yummy!)

CAFE DU MONDE!!

Siblings and In-laws :-)

I am so behind on blogging, spring is flying by!

Over my Spring Break Clayton and I went to New Orleans for a few days to visit my sister and brother-in-law. We drove which was fun and tiring! We left on a Wednesday night after Clayton got off of work and drove to Shreveport. The next morning we woke up really early and drove the rest of the way to New Orleans. While we were there we ate a lot of great food and enjoyed romaing around New Orleans. It was a fairly crowded because the basketball tournmant was going on.

Things we did:

* Ate at Cafe DuMonde EVERY DAY which was AWESOME!

* Went to the aquarium

* Visited the WWII museum (probably would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't just had a rather large adult beverage....)

* Watched the filming of the Green Lantern (they were filming across the street from Allison and Patrick's place!)

* Walked A LOT, probably 8 miles

* Bought a painting from a local artist in Jackson Square

Favorite memory from the trip: Clayton was "attacked" by a drunk, "homeless" guy in Jackson Square and asked for a dollar for a beer. Clayton told him he had no money. The "homeless" guy porceeded to ask him how old he was, Clayton said twenty, the guy acted shocked and argued that he was at least thirty. THEN the guy pulls a twenty dollar bill out of his pocket and said I bet you twenty dollars you are not...I thought this was hillarious...

My brother-in-law (Patrick, Allison's husband) said that he tells the homeless people if they lead him to the place where you can get a beer for a dollar that he will buy them more than one beer...I thought that was a good line!

We drove back Sunday, and encountered a heavy snow storm in East Texas which was weird! We had a great time in NOLA and are sad that the next time we go to New Orleans we won't have our excellent tour guides (Allison and Patrick) since they are moving to Waco at the end of May...BUT we are much more excited to have them back in Texas!!

I will try to update more later this week....

House Hunting

About a month ago Clayton and I started searching for a house. Our rent goes up at the end of June and we have made the big decision to buy a house. This is a huge deal and makes us both nervous!! We think we may have possibly found a house in the Benbrook area, but have not decided on the offer we want to go in at. I will keep y'all posted....

We not only had a busy weekend house hunting, but Clayton's parents came in town too! They have not been to the Fort since we got married...needless to say we ate a lot of great food and enjoyed their company :-) They came along on the house hunt and gave us some advice which we really appreciated. We look forward to their next visit!

One more thing.... my bestie Lara came into town Thursday on her way to Dallas. Thursday night we (Clayton, Jason- Clayton's brother, Lara, and me) went ot Blue Mesa and had some yummy food and margaritas. Lara came to school with me Friday and she observed my kiddos, hopefully we didn't scare her off!

We had a fabulous weekend and I am very much looking forward to Spring Break!!! Clayton and I will be going to visit my sister, Allison, and her husband, Patrick, in New Orleans. I am very excited since I have not seen them since their wedding over two months ago :-)

Dr. Roland Goertz (one awesome father!)

So I must do a little bragging in this post....sorry if you do not like this. I am not one to brag but find it necessary to do in some circumstances.

My father, who is a family physician, went to The White House today and not only met the president and shook his hand, but he also was on national TV!! I was so proud! I know many of you are thinking how in the world did he get to do this...well, it starts with a lot of hard work and determination. Ever since I can remember my dad has been extremely active in the Texas Academy of Family Physicians which lead into being an active member of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). This past year he ran to be president and won. Now, that he is involved in AAFP he has had a lot of really cool opportunities, one of which was meeting the president today! Here is the link, he is on the left side.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2010/03/03/bts.obama.health.care.long.cnn

I have recently decided to start blogging. I love reading what everyone else is up to and thought it would be fun to start my own! I hope to document the things Clayton and I are up to and use this as a way to reflect on our journey together as husband and wife :-)

I will write more this weekend!