Did I mention...

that I live in Scotland and that I have a new blog? Sorry folks, I just got really tired of looking at the same photo all the time. Life is great here; it rains all the time, gets dark at 4:30 (soon to be 3:00), is freezing cold, and I never get phone calls. But really, Scotland is amazing and we just found a secret website with train tickets that are really cheap so we can visit London on the weekends. That's all for now. Cheers!

For Joe

Is it a terrible thing when you go on your honeymoon and then every time you turn around you remember something you did or said to a roommate? Well, either way it happened and I thought I'd share some thoughts with ya'll. So Kristen and I went up to Midway, Utah to spend a few days before she headed out to Scotland. While we were there we stopped by Swiss Days to see the festivities and enjoy the food. Well, that was a lie because we didn't eat any of the food there.

So of course we had this sweet sign pointing out where everything was in relation to us. Naturally I looked for Taipei first but there was nothing to be found. Then I saw Moscow and realized that was where my buddy was staying that week.

Kristen was a little more successful in finding a city that she had been to though. She will be in Amsterdam sometime today, which will be close to Paris, though I do realize it is in a totally different country. And I might add that my wife is pretty much the coolest thing since sliced bread. I'm a big fan of being married, for all of those people who were wondering. Still find it hard to believe that I'm no longer single, especially since I'm living alone again, but that's another story.

And of course we found the book "A Train to Potevka." I remember that was a big deal when we were living in Taiwan. All of the teachers made it through the book and we enjoyed it until we got to the end. It turns into a love story during the last few chapters and I thought it fitting that I take this picture. Of course one of the authors standing next to us asked us why I did this and I made up some stupid answer. She then tried to sell us on some of her books and gave us some bookmarks. We walked down a few stalls and Kristen then proceeded to empty my hands of the bookmarks. And so you see that Taiwan is still alive and well in the heart of GreenTaiwan.

I'm no longer a menace to society

So I got married last week and we decided to make life a little easier and start a new blog. The address is steveandkristenadams.blogspot.com. So go ahead and add that to your list and pray that we start posting things soon.

This is how I feel

I'm getting married in about two weeks and hence I don't really make the time to blog. Getting married is really exciting but really there isn't a whole lot of exciting things to blog about. We stuffed wedding announcements a few weeks ago, which didn't take as long as I thought it would. This weeks project was putting together a slideshow of our lives and let me tell you, that was quite the experience. Everytime I tried renaming the pictures they decided to reorder themselves. So it appeared that I was graduating immediately after I got out of diapers. But it got fixed and we were able to move along. The outfits and the flowers have been ordered and so has the guestbook. About the only thing we have left to worry about is the visa problem. Kristen should get hers soon and we're hoping that mine won't take too long. But even with all of the wedding stuff to worry about and the little things that keep popping up I'm still excited to marry the girl I love. And in case you couldn't tell by the photo, I'm happy. However ask me how I feel two weeks after the wedding and I'll probably be miserable, but only because my wife will have left me for graduate school. For now I'm content.

My excuse for not blogging

So lately I haven't made any time to blog and I'd like to make a confession. I have a crush on a really beautiful girl and she seems to be taking up all of my time. I don't mind spending my time with her but it tends to cut back on my time to do other things, blogging included. So today when I got off work an hour earlier than I expected to I decided that I should head to the library and attempt to compensate for my lack of blogging.

As it turns out I am getting married to the beautiful girl that I have a crush on and we have to take care of about one million things before we get married and start the process of moving to Scotland. One of the assignments prior to the wedding which we had this week was taking groomals. This is the modern-day equivalent of bridals, except that I get to show up and stand in. I must say that I'm quite excited to be getting married to such a beautiful bride and it was fun taking photos. No need to share the details, just know that we had a good time. As part of the preparation we had to create a bouquet and boutonniere.

So I learned how to prepare flowers and how uncreative I am when given the task of creating a bouquet. Kristen did a wonderful job and I basically sat there and watched her work. I tried to be helpful but I think I was mostly a distraction. We got through it though and the second set of pictures has now been completed. I wasn't quite as nervous taking these pictures. During the first set I was super worried about messing them up somehow. You can tell how nervous I was in the first set of photos and I am happy to report that the second set turned out much better. I'd like to post a few but I would rather surprise people later on. So maybe Kristen will blog about it later, or you'll just have to show up to our home in Scotland sometime in the next year.

Second place isn't that bad

This is another old post I found. This was back in the day when I worked for the YMCA. I was supposed to post this at the end of September, again I'm just a little behind. So just keep reading.

So yesterday Kristen and I went on an adventure through the canyons, as I talked about in a previous post. She told me she was going to blog about it but I didn't think it would happen so quickly. She did such a good job that I decided to forego the blogging of the event and just send you over to her blog instead.

Things to be grateful for...

I started this post around Thansgiving and never finished it or posted it. So hopefully you can figure out what I'm thankful and just pretend like I'm 3 months early instead of 9 months late. Well I guess I'm 15 months early since Thansgiving won't be celebrated in Scotland. Oh well!