New Harmony

We visited New Harmony today to be corny and celebrate our engagement day. We had a snack picnic by the lake and watched turtles for awhile, which was very relaxing. After our picnic we rented old school bicycles and rode around town. We finally saw the roofless church and the labyrinth. Since the weather was so nice we took the bikes on a random trail and ended up at the Wabash river.

The weather was amazing. It was nice to be able and spend some time with just each other! We had a lot of fun just riding around town and being "tourists". :)

1 month and 5k

It's a sure sign we are settling into married life when the highlight of our Friday night was going to Bed Bath and Beyond and picking out curtains for the living room. It's been a month today and things are going great. We couldn't be happier! :)

Nathan survived band camp and is gearing up to start competitions. He's really excited about the show this year. I'm sure they will be fantastic like always.

On Saturday I ran my first 5K. I did a lot better than I thought, finishing in 30 minutes. I'm almost half way through my half marathon training....I hope I survive!

wedding pictures

The wedding pictures are now up and ready to view. Lvonne Bennette was our photographer and we think she did an amazing job!

www.weddingsbylvonne.com

Back home

We would like to thank all of our amazing friends and family for helping to make our wedding and reception absolutely perfect, a day we will never forget.

We survived our first out of country vacation! The honeymoon like the wedding was just perfect! We got a complementary upgrade when we arrived at the Sandals resort. We got a room with room service and our own private pool! We had the best time! It was nice to turn our cell phones off (even though it drove Nate crazy after awhile) and just focus on starting our new relationship together.

We did learn a few things about the people and island of Antigua:

1. the people there don't drive on the right or left side of the road but down the middle until a car comes and they swirve violently to the left to miss the on coming cars

2. there are no snakes, poisious spiders or monkeys on the island

3. the only two fast food resturants they have are KFC and Subway

4. there are only 87,000 people on the island

5. everyone drives really nice cars!

So far we have had the perfect marriage, nothing but sunshine and rainbows. I'm sure we'll hit rocky spots just like everyone does but Team Embrey has been officially formed and is here to stay!

Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Embrey

Happy Birthday Nathan!

Nathan celebrated his 26th birthday today! We started celebrating by going to get our marriage certificate this morning, then Nathan had lunch with his good friend Nick. For dinner my parents and sister came over for dinner.

The wedding has crept up on us and is only eleven days away! There is still a lot to do, but it's mainly small things. We are both starting to get really excited. I think we are really excited about the honeymoon, we are both really ready for a vacation!

oh a little bit of everything

We haven't made a post lately due to a million things going on. We have completed and sent out the invitations though and have started receiving response cards back. Mostly we have been working on the little things. We didn't realize how much stuff there was still left to do! Nathan's newest task is putting together a backdrop for the cake and wedding party table. Trying to put together two very different ideas and opinions is proving a little difficult. No worries though, we'll get it figured out. 

We had our bachelor and bachelorette party's a couple weeks ago. We both had a lot of fun. We are both the grateful to have such great friends and family! 

Nathan's friend, Nick, was able to snag free tickets to two Cardinal's games. So we went to St.Louis over the weekend to watch the games and see my friend Ali. It was nice to get away from the stress of wedding planning even just for a day :) 

More engagment pictures

Last week we had another set of engagment pictures. I really wanted outdoor pictures back in October but it was raining the day of our session so our photographer agreed to do another session for us. And since Nathan loves getting his picture taken so much we took her up on the offer! Some of them look really goofy. It was really, really windy that day and was about to rain any moment. Check out the link... http://www.weddingsbylvonne.com/mp_client/pictures.asp?action=viewphotos&eventid=26475&categories=no&keywords2=no&eventgroup=

We also got all the invitations sent out this week! It's getting closer!!