Not the wedding, but everything in between

Getting on the plane in Denver. We were TIRED!


Mom and Dad on the plane.


After we got to Portland we went to the waterfront. Here we're waiting for the light rail.


Mom and Aunt Ann on the light rail.


Mom, Grandpa and Dad.


On a bridge on the waterfront. Jeff, Aunt Ann, Grandpa and Mom.


Resting after a nice day.


We all went to Grandpa's for a BBQ. Cade and Patsy and Jim and Jennifer and Hannah met us there. (Cade, Patsy and Jim drove. First to Boise from Montrose to pick Cade up, then to Portland. YUCK!)



Cade and Jeff playing frisbee.


"Great Grandpa" playing with Cade.


Aunt Ann joined in!


And "Granny Smalberger" :)


"Grandpa Smalberger" tried to make Hannah happy.


But Grandma Schurz is the one who succeeded. Here Jennifer is reading a book that Cade wrote about his dad.


THE COAST! See how nice and sunny it isn't?!




We took a drive to Ecola State Park.



Jennifer, Hannah and Grandpa Schurz.


Jeff exploring the rocks for sea creatures.


Found one! A sea anenome. (or however you spell that!)


Dad skipping rocks in the ocean.




Cade's birthday party. He turned 10 on May 20th so we celebrated all together!


Grandma and Granddad.





Aunt Ann helped get this awesome dragon ice-cream cake all the way from Portland to Cannon Beach.


Uncle Scott with the wierd beard and Aunt Brandy.


The Wedding Day. Mom is pressing Jeff's shirt.


Grandma is steaming his pants.

And that's all I have of the day! I need people to send me photos ASAP!

The next day it was sunny. Of course! But it was actually colder than the wedding day. So everything turned out perfectly.





Look at his hand. Doesn't the ring look good?! YES!



Jennifer wrote "Jeff loves Terri 6-11-08" in the sand. So cute!



Another trip to Ecola State Park.







Crazy Cade got all the way in the water. It was freezing! I'm pretty sure his entire body was numb.






Our last night. S'mores by the campfire.





Cade and Jeff going back home at DIA.


And now we're Mr. and Mrs. Schurz! I can't believe it. It was a perfect week. I wouldn't have changed anything! Stay tuned for actual wedding pictures.

Mr. and Mrs. Schurz!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a beautiful day and a beautiful ceremony and WE'RE MARRIED! Pics to come :)

One Day!

We made it to the beach yesterday! It's rainy and windy and freezing. But it's still pretty and we're having a nice time. inside. Oh well. Tomorrow we're getting married!!!!!!!! Hopefully I'll be able to post pictures sometime this weekend. Love you all!

T and J :)

Our Home!

I'm so excited about our home. Jeff bought this place and it needed a LOT of work. He has done an amazing job--from putting in wood floors, to painting, to remodeling the bathroom. And now I shove all my stuff in here and change it! But he is sweet enough to tell me he likes the changes or additions I've made. I hope so! I LOVE our "new" home!

Our bedroom




The "deskroom" as the Smalberger's call it. Or, as normal people would say, the office :)



The bathroom


The hallway looking from the bedrooms to the living room


Cade's bedroom



The kitchen


The Kitchen (looking from the living room)



The living room (looking from the kitchen)


The living room (looking from the hallway)


The living room (looking from the front door)


Dad and Jeff under the house doing plumbing for the 2nd time! (I caught them off guard!)

No Time! No Time! (or, Pipes, Tears, Moving and a Missing cat)

Well this has been quite the weekend! I thought I had moved enough of my stuff little by little into Jeff’s house to make it MUCH easier on my actual moving day, which was Saturday. That’s what I get for thinking! But let me start from the beginning. Jeff is putting in a 2nd bathroom. YAY! J It will even be off the master bedroom. DOUBLE YAY! Well, the first big job was the plumbing. Dad and Jeff worked on that after Dad got off of work on Friday. They worked ALL DAY while mom and I moved a load over from my house. Oh, and let me tell you that mom and I stood in the corner of the staircase at my old house with my box springs wedged between us trying to figure out HOW ON EARTH the stupid thing ever got downstairs because we couldn’t for the life of us get it moved upstairs. After about 25 minutes we finally gave up and gave in and left the thing there until the following day when Dad and Jeff would help us finish up. So Mom and I arrive with a load of stuff and Jeff’s only to find the guys are having a really hard time and are still under the house and are muddier than anything I’ve ever seen! Poor guys! L Not only that, but after a full day of work and being crowded and cramped and damp and muddy they tried turning on the water and the pipes just fell apart. Who knows why?! We were some unhappy campers that night. With no water. So we tried to make the best of it and be optimistic, all the while dreading the next day when we’d have to move more stuff and get back under the house. Thankfully my brother has learned a TON at his maintenance job and when he called to say he couldn’t come help (drat!), he DID give some great advice about some more expensive plumbing pieces that you don’t have to Sauder. A couple of hours later the guy emerged from the basement and everything worked with no leaks! PHEW! Now if only they didn’t emerge into what looked like a tornado of my STUFF. Well, I’ve been on my own for 5 years. I have STUFF. I tried to put as much of it away as possible before I was too worn out. And lucky Jeff escaped to Denver to have some guy time with his friend Adam. Then, last night after I went to bed I decided I wanted to bring my cat Clarence into the room to sleep with me. Only I couldn’t find him. Anywhere. We’ve been letting him into the back yard when we can watch him, but we had brought him back in when it got dark last night. So I put on some pants and we’re off looking for him. Poor Jeff probably didn’t know what to do with me. I was tired, sore, and now my kitty was lost. I was a mess. We never found him. But never fear! I got up at about 1:30 this morning and he was just sleeping away on the window ledge as if he’d never left. THAT DARN CAT! We left the back door open so that if he found his way home he could get inside. I guess that’s what he did. So now I guess I won’t go into a panic if he ever wanders off again. This morning I woke up to a clean, organized house with a cat at home and I went to the gym before work. What a weekend! Who knew getting ready for a wedding would include THIS?! We leave on Saturday. WOOHOO!!!!!