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Because Mike Loves Squirrels So Much

 

Have a wonderful weekend y’all!

The Wedding Album Part 1

 

Mike and I decided it was time to get married. So we did. In like 3 days. We were heading down to the courthouse anyway, to get our tags for the new car. The office to get your marriage license was in the same building, so seeing as it is so difficult for Mike to get away from the office anyway, we jumped. And boy was it a heck of a jump. Our license was good forever, but we decided to just do it. 3 days, Jenna and I put this thing together. It was fabulous and everything Mike and I had ever wanted. We couldn’t be happier.

 

We did this totally Tracey style. I mean it was, “My Big Fat Goodwill Wedding”. It was so sweet and relaxed and beautiful. I was barefoot and we got almost all of our clothes at Goodwill. My dress, his shirt, pants and shoes; his tie came from the Salvation Army. I borrowed the white shrug I wore from Jenna. The head band was my biggest outfit expense at $10. Or maybe my hair color. It cost $10 plus a few extra bucks for the application brush and such. Anyway, enough chit chat, here are the pictures!Mr. & Mrs. Goedken

The Ceremony

Wedding Party

From Left to Right: Jenna Alatorre, myself, Mike, and Jake.

Rev. Ben Richardson

Mike & Jake, his brother and Best Man.

My cousin Jeremy & myself

Me & Jake

Steven, myself & Teresa Goedken

 

Teresa, Mike’s mom, being mischievous.

Steven and Teresa have been married 41 happy years.

Mike and his parents.

 

The entire wedding party and guests. This is it folks 8 people plus Rev. Ben, who took this picture. A special thanks to Vernon Alatorre who held the phone so my mother could listen to the ceremony from Tennessee. Also a special thanks to Jeremy Shepherd who spent his saved flier miles to be at the ceremony and he brought his equipment to film it. Thank you both!

 

Jenna is owed a huge thank you as well, but her efforts deserve their own post. 

More pictures to come.

Our Song

  This song describes the first half of our relationship.

 "Set The Fire To The Third Bar"
(feat. Martha Wainwright)

I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from 'A' to where you'd be
It's only finger-lengths that I see
I touch the place where I'd find your face
My fingers in creases of distant dark places

I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science

Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms

After I have travelled so far
We'd set the fire to the third bar
We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can't keep in

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
and I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms

A New Car and a Forgotten Salad

Man it has been a whirlwind of a couple of weeks! I apologize for being silent. There has been so much going on, that if I didn’t write in the 5 minutes I had time to, it didn’t get done. So, you finally get an update!

If you will remember, a couple of weeks ago we did the Salad Days link up with Lulu’s Whimsy and Abounding Joy. I didn’t get my last salad posted or even made for that matter. I wanted to share it with you because I went to the trouble of buying the ingredients and taking a picture. Plus, Cass and Randi deserve the link backs.


I wanted to make a Cookie Salad for my final recipe. I had come across it a few weeks back, on Pinterest and thought it was a bizarre and interesting recipe. I looked over the ingredients and seriously had my doubts about how good it would be. But I am an experimental person, so I went for it and bought all the things. Then life happened. And we bought a car. And the ingredients are still on the pantry shelf. Maybe one day. If any of you out there wish to make this salad and report back, I will feature your write up on this blog. Willing to accept a challenge? Send an email with your write up, with or without pictures to: Goedken2010@gmail.com. 

So, we bought a car! I am so very happy with the purchase. We looked for a car for 7 weeks before we found this one. Now that we have, it is everything we could have hoped for. The only thing I wish it has and doesn’t is cruise control. Oh well. I’ll let the pictures do the talking.

It has been a wonderful, but stressful couple of weeks. As you already know, Mike and I finally jumped into marriage and we couldn’t be happier. I was going to include it in this post, but it really deserves it’s own write up, plus pictures!

I Married My Heart’s Heart

 

Update Post

I apologize for going a week with out making a post, but I have been OMG BUSY! I am checking in to let you know that I will be making a post soon. In the next couple of days if I have the time. But soon.

 

I hope that you, my lovelies, have a wonderful holiday weekend! I love you all.