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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Home Pictures

 
Whew! I finally took some pictures of me and Katie’s new home to share. It has been a whirlwhind week but filled with good things, including marriage preparation which continues to be a blast and being invited and saying yes to participate in a pilot initiative for helping strengthen couples’ marriages!
 
Here are the [...]

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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

Home…

 
“…where my thoughts escapin’–Home,
where my music’s playin’–Home,
where my love lies waitin’, silently for me”
 
That one’s for my mom, who likes Simon and Garfunkel a lot.
 
Katie and I closed on our house yesterday! It went great–the sellers actually settled at the same time, so we got to meet them and get to [...]

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Friday, July 21st, 2006

Senator Hutchison’s Sad Vote

 
One of our Texas senators, Kay Bailey Hutchison, has voted to fund human embryonic stem cell research (ESCR).
 
I was disappointed when I found this out, though I had known her positions on such matters were not in accord with the dignity of the human person. I emailed her expressing my disappointment and hope she [...]

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Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Fr. David Jaeger on Israel and Lebanon

 
Fr. Jaeger has been the Vatican’s chief negotiator with Israeli authorities as well as a peacemaker in Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He has given an interview a few days ago about the current situation which you can find here.
 
The cool thing is, Fr. Jaeger often visits Austin and stays at St. Louis parish, which is where [...]

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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

“Whole” Lotta Memories

 
During these remaining months before we enter the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, Our Lord is very much helping me to transition into this new vocation. I’m very clearly being led from the life of a single, professional young woman into that of a wife and mother (Please God :)!) It has been a [...]

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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Gratias!

 
Devin and I will wed in a little under three months, please God. We have both journeyed long and far to reach this doorstep of the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. We have waited, hoping against hope at times, to give the total gift of ourselves to the other who is “flesh of our [...]

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Monday, July 17th, 2006

Weekend with the REB

 
Katie and I spent the weekend in Dallas visiting Robert, who will be my best man at me and Katie’s wedding, please God.
 
We had a great trip, including praying the Rosary together in the car and me prank calling Katie’s friends. I put on my Texas country accent and left a voicemail on her [...]

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Friday, July 14th, 2006

Wedding Countdown

 
Just for fun, I added a live countdown timer to my personal website’s homepage that shows how many days, hours, minutes, and seconds are left until me and Katie’s wedding and the start of our marriage in Christ!

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Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Make Us One in Love

 
Devin and I enjoyed our second marriage preparation session with the Heberts last night. It was so great! Devin couldn’t help cracking up at the antics of the little Heberts, who were so curious and eager to participate in our meeting that they received a few reprimands for eavesdropping. They are [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Catholic Life, Love and War, Saints and Angels, Theology of the Body by Katie
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

Natural Family Planning Begins

 
Wow, life moves rapidly! Katie and I went to our first Natural Family Planning (NFP) class, which my diocese requires for marriage preparation.
 
I have learned that there are (at least?) two different NFP systems: Couple to Couple League, which uses the sympto-thermal method (mucus plus temperature) and the Creighton Model, which uses just [...]

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Monday, July 10th, 2006

Zidane Gets Adidas Golden Ball Award?

 
I just read about this, and it’s pretty disgusting. Zidane is a soccer player on the French team which just finished 2nd in the World Cup.
 
Zidane lost all my respect in the final game when he head-butted an Italian player in the chest in extra time and got red-carded. It was a low-class [...]

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Saturday, July 8th, 2006

T-minus 3 months

 
…until me and Katie are married, please God!
 
We spent a blessed day together today. I went into work and squashed a bug while Katie looked up home decorating websites. Then I worked on building a fence with my roommates because the old one had fallen down while Katie read and talked with her [...]

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Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Shall We Dance!

 
Devin and I had the pleasure yesterday of watching a local dance troupe perform various Mexican ballets. They were really well trained and danced beautifully! After the ballet, we began to discuss the Catholic-ness of dancing. Truly, if life manifests theology, which I believe it does, for better or worse, then we [...]

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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

A Blessed Day…

 
…of wedding planning with Katie. I picked out the tuxedos today with my best man, Robert. I also met with our mortage broker and signed the papers for getting the loan, and then Katie and I met some friends for lunch at Freebirds, a Texas A&M original eatery.
 
Then Katie and I went to [...]

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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

More Prayers Answered for Our House

 
The inspection of the house Katie and I just put under contract revealed it was severely hail-damaged–we had two bad hailstorms here in Austin earlier this year–and it needed to be replaced. The cost would be several thousand dollars.
 
I was doubtful that the seller would pay for it, but hopeful, and so [...]

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