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54 Days…

In 54 days, our house went from this…..To this…..

I’m really actually surprised that Quadrant did so well building our house. Everything that we picked out was correct (flooring, counter tops, lighting, etc) and they were EXACTLY on schedule the entire time. From day 1 to day 54 there were no hangups, no – non work days and they didn’t miss a beat with anything and even really worked with us scheduling all our appointments and walk-throughs and we’re so pleased with the work they did.

We moved in 2 weeks ago with the help of friends and family and are still getting settled. Everyday we work on unpacking/organizing more boxes and donating more stuff to needy. We love it, it seems like it’s the first time in almost 2 years where I’m not feeling like I’m in limbo waiting for something and living out of a suitcase/backpack and it’s a great feeling. We’ve been enjoying home cooked meals together at the dinner table every night, we have a cup of coffee in the morning before we head out to work or church sometimes, have a permanent place to hang our clothes and put our shower stuff and we have more time to spend together with one another. We still feel too busy, like we haven’t had much down time to relax and just be in our new home, but we have fun working together to get projects done and get stuff organized.

Thank you to all of you who helped us move and those who have been praying for us, we’ve seen so many answered prayers with our jobs, our home, our families and so many other things going on in our lives, we’re truly blessed.

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Wedding Song

I have a video I want to post on here of a song sung at our wedding but I’m not technologically advanced enough to figure out how to even get the video from the dvd onto my computer or how to edit it to get just the part I want. But I figured I’d post the lyrics here anyways because Bo and I listen to this song pretty much everyday. It’s funny, we’ll be driving down the road with the radio on and play this song over and over and over again BELTING it out loudly and I can’t even imagine how it sounds to the surrounding vehicles. I don’t even want to imagine….

It’s called “Everything” by Lifehouse. You can utube it to see a video if you want but it’s MUCH better hearing our friend sing it. Hopefully I can figure out how to get the video on here sometime too.

Find Me Here
Speak To Me
I want to feel you
I need to hear you
You are the light
That’s leading me
To the place where I find peace again.

You are the strength, that keeps me walking.
You are the hope, that keeps me trusting.
You are the light to my soul.
You are my purpose…you’re everything.

How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

You calm the storms, and you give me rest.
You hold me in your hands, you won’t let me fall.
You steal my heart, and you take my breath away.
Would you take me in? Take me deeper now?

How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?
And how can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

Cause you’re all I want, You’re all I need
You’re everything,everything
You’re all I want your all I need
You’re everything, everything.
You’re all I want you’re all I need.
You’re everything, everything
You’re all I want you’re all I need, you’re everything, everything.

And How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?
How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

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September 14th

Here’s a picture of our house taken on Friday (9/12). The house is ALMOST done, they have the yard to put in out front and some minor touch up work to do inside and we’re supposed to be moving in THIS FRIDAY! WOO HOO!! (anyone want to help move friday night or saturday morning???)

We haven’t closed yet, we’re supposed to on Tuesday morning but we both have yet to get the time approved off work… the closing process has been a bit of a hassle but that’s ok, we’re just taking it as it comes and doing our best to accomodate what we need to.

We’ve been married for almost 2 months now and we’re still waiting to start our life together. We’ve been doing well since returning from the honeymoon, spent some of our time at my parents house and some at his moms house and a lot of time house sitting for friends and strangers who have been on vacation. We’re both working full time (though i’m only “on call” so it’s not guaranteed except for the next 5 weeks) and are busy most weeknights as well. Between both of our accountability partners we meet with, bible study, drill at the fire department for me, Bo working on various computers for a ton of people, we both get home pretty late after work and are exhausted at the end of the day. At least after this week we’ll actually have our own “home” to rest in. I’m really looking forward to not living out of a suitcase anymore and packing around my shower bag with me wherever I go. It’s actually been quite a long time since I’ve had a home.

Anyways, that’s all for now. Just wanted to update you. Quadrant did great with our house, they have a 54 day schedule they work on from start to finish and they haven’t missed a beat with our house, it’s going to close EXACTLY 54 days from day 1 as long as all goes well with the paperwork. It’s been a pretty amazing process to watch.

I’ll try to write more soon.

Warmly,
Bo & Kari

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The latest…

Well not too much has gone on since we returned home from our honeymoon. Bo went back to work full time the week after we got home and I finally got a job that I started this Monday. I will be a medical receptionist for a local medical clinic working in the pediatrics unit, ENT and the family practice offices. I’m enjoying it so far but it’s only been training. I’m looking forward to making money again and having contact with so many people each day. Plus it’s Mon-Fri from 8-5 so it’s not like shift work, no nights, holidays, weekends, etc. It’s an “on call” position but they give 2 weeks scheduling notice and say they work their on call’s as much as they want to be worked so I’m hoping I can get at least 4 days per week to help out with the bills. My goal is to get either a permanent part time or full time position so I can get benefits as well and not have to pay out of pocket for them.

We have been staying with my parents while we wait for our house to finish which is coming along very well. We just found out we have to go through the entire loan process again though since we’re both at new jobs since we qualified the first time. We’re bringing in a lot more money than we were last time which is great, but I don’t have any proof of that yet since I haven’t been paid yet and won’t receive a paycheck until after we’re supposed to have all of our paperwork turned in so we’re praying that won’t cause any hiccups with the closing process.

We’re house sitting for some friends now and having a great time being out on our own and only having to be considerate of each other. ha. We get to go camping with some friends this weekend which we’re really looking forward to as well, we’ve only been camping together once so far.

I JUST finished the thank you notes for the wedding (I THINK) so I’m really excited about that, it’s been quite a project because we have so many people to thank. I believe we kept good records of everything so I’m praying I didn’t miss anything going through it all.

That’s about it for now.
Bo & Kari

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More Honeymoon Pictures

Here are the professional pictures we purchased while on the cruise ship.
I just got the chance to get them scanned. Hope you enjoy them!

And 1 more my mom took after we got home… celebrating being back home with our leftover sparkling cider from the wedding!
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Wedding Pictures !!!

Here are just a FEW of our wedding photos. We have about 600 total and they are all amazing! Everything was perfect, the pastor had a wonderful ceremony, 2 of our friends read scripture, 2 other friends sang songs, we lit the unity candle, took communion and praised Jesus for the covenant of marriage. I couldn’t have asked for a better wedding, we’re so blessed and thankful for how the day went, our honeymoon and our lives together so far.
We got married July 19th at Lake Sawyer Christian Church in Black Diamond where we’ve been members for a few years. It was perfect. We left for our honeymoon from the reception that night to catch a red eye flight to New York to board our cruise ship which left the following afternoon. The cruise ship departed from New York on July 20th and we cruised to the Eastern Caribbean for 8 days. We returned to New York on July 28th and stayed in Times Square until July 31st in a lovely hotel. We returned home late the night of July 31st and have been recovering from our honeymoon ever since. We’re staying at my parents house right now as our house isn’t scheduled to be complete until September 19th but we’ve got 4 weeks of house sitting to do from now until then so hopefully it will go quickly.
Bo went back to work on Monday (today) and I start my new job in 2 weeks. That gives me 2 weeks to get the thank you cards all completed and sent out. We honestly have so much to say to people and so many thanks to give it seems like an insurmountable task right now but even if i can complete just a few per day we’ll get the job done. There are just so many thanks to give and so many personal things i want to say to people it may take me a while. Please forgive me for the time it may take to get all the thank you’s out. I’ll blog again soon with more stories and pictures, i just wanted to give you a small glimpse of our wedding day here. We hope you enjoy the pictures! There will be more loaded somewhere sometime, we’ll let you know when!
My wedding dress
Bo and I just before we got to see each other for the first time

Bo’s first look at me

My first look at Bo


The entire wedding party

The best man and best woman (and our maid of honor and best man)


Our parents


Chloe (Kari’s niece)


Isabelle (Bo’s niece)


Flower girls making it up the aisle


dad walking me down the aisle


dad giving me away

saying our prayers


at the head table for the reception


our sparkling cider glasses
The best mans toast


Our wedding cake


The first cut


Us with our Pastor


ready for the honeymoon!!!

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Wedding Pictures !!!

Here are a few of our favorites, of course there are hundreds more I will load on the internet somewhere so you can see more pictures but here are our top few of the wedding.

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Still Honeymooning…


Hello! We’re still on our honeymoon and having a BLAST! We left from the wedding reception last saturday the 19th to the airport and caught a red eye flight to New York. We arrived in New York at 6am Sunday morning and went to the cruise terminal to see how early we could get on the ship. We finally got on at about noon. We were TIRED. Our suite was fantastic, huge and comfortable, lots of room, a nice bathroom, lots of storage space so we unpacked everything, showered and took a nap! We cruised from New York to San Juan Puerto Rico, St Thomas and Grand Turk. We got off the ship at every port to have some land time and play. We walked all around San Juan and went to Senor Frogs and a casino then got back on the ship, at St Thomas we went Snuba diving which is similar to Scuba diving but you’re attached to an air tank that floats on the surface and you can go 30-40′ below water. We had a blast walking around on the ocean floor in a coral reef looking at all the little critters that live down there. We went deep sea fishing at Grand Turk and everyone on the boat made a catch that day! We’ve had so much fun, it’s sad to think it will be coming to an end soon.

We’re now back in New York until Thursday. The Westin Hotel is beautiful and our room is so comfortable. We’re going to walk around town tonight (we’re IN Times Square) then tomorrow we’re going to a show on Broadway and Wednesday we’re heading out to Staten Island for Dominic’s Pizza and to visit Bo’s friends that live out there. I’ll get to try Porgies for the first time ever also….

We come home Thursday evening and have the weekend to recuperate from all our vacationing. We will need a vacation from our vacation just to catch back up!

We haven’t seen any wedding pictures yet (except the 1 world race one posted on facebook) and we can’t wait to see them but that means i don’t have any to post here yet. Hopefully we’ll get the pictures this weekend after we get home.

Here are just a few of our honeymoon pictures you can see now though.

Much love!
Bo and Kari