Bjorken anyone?

Here is a slideshow of our weekend!

The goal this weekend was to make more space for Leah to move in. The first trick was moving all the stuff out of the linen closet and into this deck box (waterproof of course).

It looked so comfortable Matthew decided to take a nap.

Look at all our stuff. We'll check on it now and then to make sure no one stolen anything.

Now our Bjorken enters the story. To increase the storage in the bathroom we visited IKEA to look for a cabinet. (Bjorken is swedish for cabinet)

After a couple hours searching the bathroom, kitchen and closet sections we didn't find anything. Feeling frustrated we started along the winding path back to the car.

Coming around a final bend towards the exit we ran into an entire section of bathroom cabinets! We picked one out and went home to hang it.


A couple hours later we had a new cabinet. The top is a seperate section with a lock for all the more dangerous drugs.

Then we had dinner and moved on to unpacking some of the boxes Leah brought over.

After pulling all of the books out of the boxes Leah was daring Matthew to tell her to throw some of them out.

Luckily it all fit with room to spare so all was well.

We also bought a Skype phone in case both our cell phones get lost or die. Send us an email for the number.

Too much excitement

So much excitment-much more fun than last week.

1- Picture of the flower engagement tart thing as promised

2-RED SHOES!!!!!

We went to a wedding for one of our Portland friends this week - (Mazal Tov Stephanie and Dan!!). Well 2 hours before the wedding Leah decided she needed new shoes to wear with the dress. (Matthew already had dress shoes...) Off to Target we went and 20 minutes later emerged with two pairs of shoes!

Fabulous picture of Matthew and Leah in Happy Valley for the wedding

5-One of Leah's classes is done and work is lowing down a little for Matthew
Now the fun can begin. We may have some substantial planning updates coming up soon

6-Happenings
Matthew set us up with a website on the knot.com - It is kind of ridiculous and a pain to set up so bear with us. It will probably be useful eventually - in the meantime it is: http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/Matthew Letts&LeahPentelnik
Matthew also decided to tell his friends we are engaged - so maybe they are checking our site out now too - welcome! We are also starting to look at ketubah quotes because a lot of the planning for the wedding can come from our thoughts on what the ketubah will look like.

7 - The poll expired and "no pet" won.... how sad. We'll get a new one up soon.

Boringness abounds

Nothing too exciting has happened this week. Matthew spent the week in San jose and Leah spent the week writing papers. The end is in sight for the semester with more classes for both of us just around the corner.

One plan for freedom is planning for Leah's parent's visit and going through ALL the pictures from the last year to put in the photoalbums. So much planning.

One exciting development is engagement cards. They are so pretty and we are getting quite a few. One of the cards is from Leah's Bubby and Zayde and it came with sunkist throwing candies! How cute.

Last weekend Gayle and Leah hosted a cheesecake party. We (well Gayle really) made a salad and all the girls brought cheesecake - one of our best last hoorah ideas EVER before the move. Rebecca brought Matthew and Leah an iceing tart. We ate it! - Picture to come soon once they are uploaded...

In other news 2 boxes of Leah's books have been moved over to the condo and now need to be unpacked. Once some papers are turned in Wednesday hopefully there will be some time to move a few more boxes of trivial stuff next week.

We are also going to Stephanie and Dan's wedding this weekend, pictures next week. Maybe Leah and Gayle will finally get a picture of each other.

MOST importantly, Matthew has just run out to get donuts.

PICTURES GALORE - and even some videos

That's right as the title says we have pictures, but before you get to see them here are the updates.
1 - People are starting to give Leah bridal magazines so she is now happily procrasitnating looking at pretty dresses
2 - Matthew is packing to go out of town for a week on a business trip to San Jose where it is warm.
3- Matthew's Tae Kwon Do 3rd Degree testing was today. He thinks he broke his toe. Leah played photographer.

4- Happy Anniversary Peter and Laurie - Their 29th Anniversary is this week.

And now......the pictures

Look they are doing forms and the pictures are in focus!

More forms and a picture at the very end.

And now the picture we have all been waiting for....

THE RING!!

There is probably one that actually shows the setting but this one was edited all pretty.

Finally we have a video of Matthew and Christine's Sai form.

More videos can be found here!

USWC - 3D Testing - Mr. Letts/Mr. Aryal Sparring

USWC - 3D Testing - Mrs. Taft Powerbreak

USWC - 3D Testing - Mrs. Taft Weapon Form

USWC - 3D Testing - Mrs. Taft/Mrs. Webb Sparring

USWC - 3D Testing - Mr. Letts Powerbreak

USWC - 3D Testing - Mr. Letts/Mrs. Webb Sai Form

USWC - 3D Testing - Letts/Haller Sparring

USWC - 3D Testing - Mr. Letts 4 Station Board Break

USWC - 3D Testing - Letts/Lagrow Sparring

USWC - 3D Testing - Mr. Haller's Weapon Form

USWC - 3D Testing - Mrs. Webb 4 Station break

USWC - 3D Testing - 2 on 1 Sparring

USWC - 3D testing - BaSai

Welcome

Well it took all night and a few frustrations (and spelling errors...) but welcome to our blog!

As we get started on our crazy life together, we will try to keep you updated on things like moving in, wedding plans and other blissful chaos.