Merry Christmas! We have a fiber optic angel. :)

I have tried three times to post new pictures to the blog. The blog has rejected me and I am over it. So, no new pictures. I really would love to have solely a picture blog, I am not much into writing...so I will make a list:
Of the highlights:
-Evan put up awesome white lights on our house
-My favorite uncle and his family are moving back to KC!
-I got to spend time with Megan and Elli this week!
-Christmas is in one month
-We are getting our tree on Sunday
-We are going to have three thanksgiving meals when this week is over:)

Merry Christmas!

Halloween!

Tinker Bell!
Evan Pan And Tinker Bell

Edward Scissor Hands and A Little Princess

Zach and Kristen! :)

Where's Waldo

We had some friends over for Halloween and everyone dressed up!:)

Birthday Weekend in St. Louis

Evan and I in the arch! I was a little concerned because people kept coughing and I thought I was going to get the swine flu...
On the Budweiser tour...the clydesdales had stained glass windows in their barn...posh

Missouri River...lookin good in the shades

Next to our free parking right by the river...I was worried the car would roll into the lake-it did not:)

Happy Birthday Sweetie!~

Pumpkins!

So much has happened lately! Here is a little picture update!

So I haven't posted in such a long time! But we are still alive and doing well. We have been decorating and hanging pictures up like mad and our house looks more like our own. I will take some pictures this weekend and put them up...but meg, you should put some up of your apartment:) I want to see it too! Or e-mail them to me:)
Yesterday we had a rough situation...we tried to move our awesome eclectic gold couch into our office, which we want to paint the walls purple or navy and make it kinda retro...but after many attempts and gouging the wall pretty good, we have decided it does not fit. I still want to see if it will go through the front window. :) We'll keep you updated.
Love you guys.
michaela

Our house!

We bought a house today. Signed the papers, gave them every ounce of our money, gave them every important and personal number they could ever want and we could not be happier! :)

Blabbing

Well, I don't update that often because really we don't have much new:) We don't have kids or any pets...so we are kinda boring. We move in a week which is really exciting! Friday is the big closing day. :) Only a few more days in our little cottage which is good. It is nice to have an end to things. We have loved living there but are ready to move on, use our wedding gifts, decorate and "nest", or maybe that is just me...:) I wonder how much Evan really is excited about decorating:)
I am at work today and we are pretty slow. Which is a theme these days. I am glad for the healthy babies...but it makes my job pretty boring. It is sad to wish for sick babies...to all you mommies it sounds wrong. I know, us NICU nurses are a little odd.
What else is new? Well we have been garage saleing (which I still cannot figure out how to spell that word) and finding some good deals. And our thank yous from the wedding are almost done. So don't worry, I did not forget your gift:)
We finished all the harry potter movies up to date and are going to read the last book before it comes out.
Most recent awesome thing I have done: I returned some library books to the Johnson County Library that really belonged to our church library..so that was pretty cool... I am still trying to track them down. So if you go to the library and try to check out 'Christy', don't, or maybe just call me:)
There are a lot of movies out/coming out that I want to see: Holmes, the new Katherine heigl movie, New Moon(I know, I admitted it:), and the Time Travellers Wife.
So, next week if you are bored come over and help me unpack! In my new house!
Love you all,
The Wrights

July

Well it is almost mid July and that makes Evan and I so excited because we get our new house on the 31st! Life has been good...lots of working...wishing we could both stay home and never work again:) maybe we should start buying lottery tickets:)
I can't wait to get into our house, decorate, set up my kitchen and think about furniture ideas...
Not much else is going on, but I will make a list of the highlights from the Wrights so far:
*Lemon meringue pie
*Living in a cottage
*our new life group on Wednesday nights
*thinking about our new house
*getting really into the Harry Potter movies...we are on the 4th one:)
*Marko and Polo-the two dogs we house sit
*All our friends' new babies: Avery, Elli and Piper
*Smores in the microwave...sometimes we eat more than our share in one sitting:)

Life is sweet.:)

Our House!

Guess what? WE bought a house! Evan and I are homeowners!:) We are so excited to move in. We don't actually get the house until July 31, but we are getting closer!
Our first month of marriage has been wonderful. June 3 was a big day: our one month anniversary, the day we bought a house and the day we got our wedding pictures back! If anyone has not seen them you can go to gingerootphoto.com and click on proofs and then Evan and Michaela:)
Saturday is my birthday and I am so excited to spend the day with Evan. This is our first Saturday since we have been married that one of us is not working or has some big plans. So fun!
Well, I don't have a lot to say, but wanted to give an update.
Love you all!
Michaela

Married to Mr. Wright :)

Hello all! I am writing you for my first time as Mrs. Evan Wright! We are doing very well and are so happy! Our honeymoon was amazing. Evan surprised me and took me to the Dominican Republic for nine days. I highly recommend it! :) We are back to real life, back to work and looking for a house. Life is sweet and we are loving being married. The wedding was perfect to us and we have so many wonderful memories. We have the best friends and family that made this time so special. We cannot wait to get our pictures back to see all that happened that day that we missed-I think we were both in a happy daze:)
We love you all!
Love,
Evan and Michaela

Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the King. 1 Peter 2:17

I am overwhelmed with excitement about being married to Michaela!
I'm ready and waiting with eager anticipation for our wedding day!
I'm very tired and ready for a vacation.
Lately, I think our lives have revolved around that one monumental day...May the 3rd. Two weekends ago I had my bachelor party with the boys and we packed and moved a bunch of Michaela's stuff in preparation for moving.
Last weekend Michaela had a bachelorette party and we had a couples shower in Wellsville and we packed and moved the rest of Michaela's things.
And this next weekend we have another couples shower and I'm packing and moving some of my things while Michaela is at work.
And all the weekdays in between are filled with long, busy workdays and RSVP cards or lack thereof and thinking a lot about being married and searching for the perfect ties for me & my merry men and writing thank you notes for our awesome gifts and looking at potential decoration arrangements and thinking a lot about being married and packing suitcases for leaving town after the wedding and talking with Mr. DJ, Miss Florist, Mrs. Photography and more. I think Michaela and I both have blurry vision right now because, the earth may be spinning on it's axis as normal, but the world we live in is spinning on a different axis at a much faster pace.
Three things keep us steady and grounded and wild with excitement.
1) Our love for each other grows every single day and I heard a sweet sappy country song that told me our love will grow exponentially so that we'll look back on this time and think about how we thought we loved each other so much, but it's only a small hint at the greater love we will share years from now.
2) Friends and family have been such a blessing. We have been amazed by people we don't even know offering help or lending what they have. And I look at our families and even extended family when we are with them and I think, "They are not mine anymore, and they are not hers anymore, this is OUR family."
3) Prayer. When I pray about the wedding or for our marriage, I’m always encouraged. Even when I feel like I’m not doing the fiancé thing correctly and I don’t know how to be a husband and head of a family, I still feel a calming presence and I keep hearing a truth spoken that doesn’t come from within me: “you are about to open up a vast expanse of possibilities; the best is yet to come.”

You stay classy bloggers. And thanks for stopping by.
Evan

25 days

Good morning. I haven't updated in a while and thought I would check in. We are down to final dress fittings, putting programs together and deciding on vows! I cannot believe it. When Evan asked me to marry him in October I thought May seemed so far off...and now it seems so close. :) Soon I will be Evans' wife, and I will have a husband. What a fun time of life!

We're GETTING MARRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
42 days:)

Ready For Spring

Good morning! Today marks 62 days until the big day! Evan and I are getting so excited. Planning is coming along well and I just cannot believe that we only have two months left. We are still working on finding somewhere to live. Which is really exciting!
This month I have my first Bridal shower and I am really excited! I cannot wait to set up our house. And to live with Evan :)

Last weekend my Mom was hurt pretty badly and ended up with 54 stitches...so please pray for her. We are praying for no scarring!

Love you all. I better get back to work. The babies are hungry! :)

Weekends! I prefer the Weekends!

Ahoy bloggers! I think that mostly means Megan and Alli, but I'm sure there are other beautiful people that read our blog as well. This is Evan bringing some male persepctive to things so don't be surprised to hear things like "basektball" or "tron" or "transformers." Over the past several weeks I have had to work 6 days each week, but I believe today is my last day of working on the weekend so I am stoked about that idea and really hope that turns out to be the case. Especially since I really don't have enough to do to keep me busy on the weekend so I get bored and end up posting on our blog. Michaela has been super daughter this weekend helping her parents out all day yesterday and much of today also. How lucky do you have to be to have a girl like her as your only daughter. Come to think of it, how lucky can I be to have a girl like Michaela as my wife. But I'm here and Michaela is there and we're getting married. In 70 days!

I use Julian dates every day in my job, which means that I always know what day of the year it is (today is the 53rd day of the year). That comes in handy for pretending I'm smart (I can tell you in usually less than 10 seconds how many days until your birthday), pretending I'm obsessive compulsive (counting down every day until Christmas), or realizing how fast days go by sometimes. So now I'm realizing that it's nearly March and that is exciting for many reasons. Allow me to listophy them for you.
1) Conference tournaments are a couple weeks away
2) The dance is 3 1/2 weeks away
3) All our friends and family will be receiving invitations in their mailboxes soon
4) Soon it will be inside 2 months until being married to Michaela
5) I love vacations and the most exciting one I've ever dared to embark upon is 10 weeks away
6) I usually don't mind cold weather, but I am VERY ready for Spring
7) Yet to be determined, but I'm hopeful and I like a list of seven rather than 6

Mondays, oh I hate Mondays. They make me so steamed. Weekends! I prefer the weekends!
Make it a great day, Monday or weekend or some other day, regardless.

Valentines!

Hello blog world. I am still recovering from Jason sending the wrong girl home on the bachelor tonight...I know, I have very important things to be worried about.

Well tomorrow is our one year anniversary round two! Evan and I started dating again last year on Feb. 17! Who knew that one phone call, bo lings Sunday brunch and the nelson could lead us to where we are :) Well, I always hoped for it!

We have 76 days until the wedding and I am getting very excited!

Guess what today is? My first dress fitting! I am so excited. I have been wearing my shoes around the house to break them in and see if they make the cut. I can't wait to see my dress when it fits me perfectly!

Also, another reason why today is so great is that I am watching Gilmore Girls on the couch and knitting my scarf. I love the Gilmore Girls and I am on the last season getting ready to watch the final episode. A little emotional not gonna lie.

Everything is going so well....we are still working on perfecting our invitations and I am starting to think about cakes...

Yesterday was our three month mark! 88 days!

*These pictures are from last May when Evan and I went to visit Meg and Daniel in Boston. I had no idea that at this time next year we will be married!

This is for you Jewel! (per her request for more blog updates) :)

Getting up this morning was rough...Monday mornings always are. My Unit at work is remodeling and so we are squished into a smaller temporary room. All we talk about at work is swatches, organizational options, more swatches and who has the best mullet/mustache on the worker dude crew.
We have been slow at work lately, which means more wedding planning and updating of the registries for me! :)
This morning marks 90 days! I think during the next few weeks Evan and I will be counting down the days with corresponding music from that era...so this week is the 90's...feel free to join in. The more backstreet boys, Brittany and Dave Matthews we can get the better!
This weekend Evan and I met with our DJ and planned out the reception, which was so much fun. So if you have any song requests make them known!
I am waiting for an example of our invitation before we can order them. I am getting very excited. I know the task of addresssing will be daunting...so if you want to help :) Julie? Love you!
Well, that is all I can think of...till next time.

92 days!

Life has been going on as usual. I noticed I have not updated in a while. :) Evan has been so busy at work...they are trying to make them slaves to the workplace! He works so hard and never has a bad attitude about it.

We have 99 days until May 3! We are getting so excited. Planning details like what shoes I will wear, what our cake will look like, how to decorate the church and how to invite our guests! I love the springtime and I think this anticipation will make the spring even better. Sometimes January and February seem long so it is so fun to have something to hope and plan for.

We are looking for somewhere to live, which is both exciting and daunting. I am hoping for a really small, cute house I can decorate.

Also loving having babies in the club. Little Elinor and Averie are so fun. I love having the girls!

Here are some pictures of our night! Averie was not into the camera :) Little Eli just soaked it all in and slept :) And Carson...well...he was all about the camera as well!

Carson, Averie and Elinor

Evan and I had the pleasure to go to Brandon and Julies' house on Sunday and spend the evening holding and loving on their babies! Daniel and Megan made it as well with beautiful Elinor! We had a great time. Crazy to think that we are still friends after all these years. And now we are engaged, married and having babies! I love it.

Evan and I are continuing our countdown...May 3 can't get here soon enough! What is it honey about 110 days?

Welcome to Blogworld

Please welcome Evan and I to blogworld. :) There will be more pictures and stories to come.