Archive for July, 2008
Three Months
Hello People. It’s Matt. Long time no read.
Lisa and I have been together for one year as of last Saturday. A lot of things have happened to me over the course of that year; I moved twice. I was promoted at work. I saw the Smokey Mountains. I went to Knoxville. I watched and learned about Ultimate Frisbee. I went to Asheville. I saw the Biltmore. I ate at Rafferty’s for the first (and hopefully the last time) in my life. I started going to Christ Presbyterian Church. I met a LOT of people and made a lot of friends. I learned about weimaraners. I played with a weimaraner. I cleaned up after, yelled at, was bitten/scratched/tackled by, and danced around with a weimaraner.
I also learned a lot of things. I found a lot of love in my life that I hadn’t seen before.
It was, after all of that, a very humbling year. And every second of it was because of Lisa. I can’t imagine any other person that I would rather spend the rest of my life with. After her, and her family, and all of their generosity and love, and going to church with her, and spending nearly every waking moment of every day with her, I can honestly look back at the last year and feel overwhelmed with the anticipation of every moment of the next year, and the one after that.
Last night I wrestled with the sprinkler in the back yard, soaked my pantleg, sprayed the dog, assembled a spreader, and spread pesticide in the yard. I’m pretty close to being fully domesticated I think. Hopefully the yard will still be green and living when I get home from work today.
Two become One
The last two weeks have been quite the whirlwind, so I’ll start at the beginning.
The weekend of June 27th (following a week of packing and cleaning at Matt’s house), we flew up to Cleveland, OH. Both of our Dads came to the airport to pick us up in Matt’s dad’s new Monster (FJ Cruiser, I think, is it’s actual name). It was my parent’s first time visiting Berea, OH, and seeing where Matt’s family lives. There was much Wii playing, eating, chatting, churching, etc…, had by all.
The main purpose of this convergence of the Wohlgemuths on the Pusti’s Ohio home was the very first bridal shower for Matt and me. I met aunts, family friends, cousins, and neighbors. It was a girly get together that was both fun and a bit overwhelming. I loved meeting everyone, the generosity and kindness that they all greeted me with was incredible.
The following day I attended my first Catholic Mass with both of our families sharing a pew. Afterwards I got my bootie kicked by Jilly at Mario Kart, and we ate lunch at the restaurant where we’ll be having the Ohio Reception after the wedding!
It was a wonderful trip.
The next two days in Nashville were spent working and moving Matthew into our new “bungalow,” as my grandma calls it. E-X-H-A-U-S-T-I-N-G. But thanks to all of the church friends and college friends that came out and helped us move it all, and enjoyed some spaghetti afterwards!
On the third day….we flew to Philadelphia. My grandparents live there, it is where my father grew up. Matt had never been to Philly, so my parents and I showed him around the historic sites. We saw the Liberty Bell, toured Independence Hall & the Betsy Ross house, threw pennies on Ben Franklin’s grave site, sat in William Penn’s pew at Christ Church, etc… For lunch, we all got Philly cheese steaks in honor of Matt’s first taste of the Philly tradition. Matt and I went back downtown alone the next day and met up with his friend Laura. She is doing her residency at a few hospitals in town, so we had lunch with her and her friend. We then fought off hoards of people for some all-you-can-eat ice cream at Penn’s Landing. We paid $5 each. We just ate one small scoop of ice cream. The fight for that tiny little cup just wasn’t worth it. We split up from his friends and proceeded to walk towards center city. It is fun wandering around between the sky scrapers & tall buildings.
The following day Matt met the rest of my family, Uncle Ronnie & his girlfriend and Little (Cousin) Ronnie, his baby, Nicholas, and his girlfriend, Crystal.
We flew home at the crack of dawn on Sunday morning. John and Chandler picked us up from the airport. They were taking care of Stormy while we were gone. They’re the best!
So, all in all, we survived! We had a great time.
Back to wedding planning.
