Summer activities, wedding planning, and job searching

by - Sunday, June 30, 2013

How is tomorrow July 1st already?  This happens every year, but every time it still seems like a surprise.  Summer is my favorite time of year, so it usually makes me a little sad that it slips by so quickly, but this year I'm a little excited.  Every day that passes is one day closer to our wedding, and I can't wait!

Yesterday, we attended our first wedding of the summer.  It was a beautiful wedding and a fun day spent with great friends- congrats to Mandy & Kyle!  Last summer at this time we were at our FIFTH wedding of the season (with several more to go).  It was an honor to celebrate with so many of our friends and family, but this year it's a little relief that don't have so many.  
Last summer was full of uncertainty with not knowing where I was going to live or work after August.  This summer, unfortunately, is a very similar situation.  Ahmed was on the receiving end of a resource action at IBM (fancy way of telling him he was being laid off), and is now in full gear with his job search.  This is not what we had in mind in the months before our wedding, but we are trusting that God has a plan, and have hope that there is a great opportunity somewhere out there for Ahmed.  I am so proud of Ahmed and his positive attitude in such a tough situation. He is pretty amazing :). Since "out there" could be just about anywhere, we have to wait to look for a place to live for after we get married until we know where we will be.  Turns out I'm not done working on patience. :)
Since we haven't spent all of our weekends out of town or at weddings, we have enjoyed some time hiking, biking, grilling, sitting around a fire, bowling, watching movies, cooking new food, and folding wedding invitations (I'm pretty sure folding invitations was Ahmed's favorite activity.  He was so excited, he folded about five of them ;). 
We are very much looking forward to some vacation time with my family over the Fourth this coming week!  Bring on the rest of summer!


Enjoying some ice cream from Flapdoodles, sitting in the same spot where Ahmed proposed :)






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