In one year since I last posted (well, over a year…) SO much has happened to me!

I lost my job at Erie High School, but that was quite alright with me.  The principal is not the most ethical person to work for and I was happy to leave.  As a result, I got hired at Niwot High School which is super awesome.  The students are great and the teachers are wonderful.  I have grown so much working there.

Jon and I got to go to Disney World in Florida in June and Mt. Rushmore in July.  His friends as well as family also came by in the summer.  I took a math class through the district to complete my induction process.  It was pretty fun and very interesting.   It was weird, though, taking it with ALL the Erie math teachers- by accident.

Then, in October this year, I went Breckenridge for a nice get-away weekend and came back engaged.  Jon and I had a wedding website we set up that had a count-down, our story and the proposal story (which I’ll re-post here because it’s awesome!), as well as regular wedding info.  It was the coolest site and I was so proud of Jon!  We also used the website to be a little unconventional with our RSVP’s.  On the back of the invitations we sent out, we gave everyone a code and instructions on how to RSVP.  They would go to the site and type their code.  Then, it would tell them who all was invited in their party and they  could uncheck anyone not able to come.  Then, they’d submit and it was done!  Jon had all the info in electronic form and we didn’t have to deal with any paper or things being lost in the mail!  It was super sweet.

Jon and I got to go home for Thanksgiving and see our families for the first time since being engaged.  We also started looking at facilities to hold the wedding.  In December, we went home for my cousin’s wedding which was very nice.  Since I had finals to give and grade, I went back and forth a bit with Jamie’s wedding and Christmas.

February was kind of busy.  I went home for one long weekend (had a day off school) for a wedding shower.  It was great.  Katie, Sarah, and my mom put together a wonderful party.  Getting my gifts back was a fun task and luckily we were able to return some of the big-bulky items in IL and repurchase them in CO.  Then, the last weekend of February Jon and I got to go back to Disney World by chance.  That make three trips for me to Disney in 13 months- crazy!  We thought it would be a nice break from wedding planning but it ended up backing things up more!

We got married on March 27, 2010 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glen Ellyn, IL.  We had just under 100 people there and it was so much fun.  The only problem we had was that the DJ we originally hired sent his guy to the wrong CrownePlaza- in Springfield (which is 3-4 hours away).  We found a replacement and everything went so well.  I’ll have to do another post about the wedding and honeymoon.

I’ve moved the important things to Jon’s place now.  We still have my apartment, and will until we move in the next 6 weeks or so.  It’s fun. I like living with him so far.  It’s fun to be home finally.  For a while now, I’ve had to go home and the end of the night, but now I AM home.  I like feeling safe too.  We’re figuring out how to merge our stuff- but so far it’s been ok.

That’s what I have been up to.  Last post- single, this post I am all the way to married!  Quite exciting.