Engagement Pictures MK. 3

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Heather and I, with the help of her family, chose a picture we wanted to send with the wedding invitations.

Our photographer, Cherie, did a great job of getting the changes to the text etc. that we wanted done quickly enough we could order the picture Sunday.

The picture we chose:

It was really quite hard to pick our favorite out of the set.  I am really happy with this one though, and I am excited to have the last thing taken care of so the invitations can go out.

Nearly all of the work for the invitations has been done by Heather’s mom, I don’t want to sound like I am taking credit for any of that… Its just exciting to have that all moving forward, one more thing that had to happen before the wedding almost complete.

-Jordan

Engagement Pictures Taken

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We won’t have access to any of the pictures for a while, but Heather and I had a lot of fun taking engagement pictures over the weekend.

Saturday was every bit as unpleasant as the forecast said it was going to be, so we rescheduled the session to Sunday. The change was our photographers idea, and I have to say it was a really really good move. Sunday was still cold, but without the wind and cloud-cover.

Our photographer is Cherie Phelps, I don’t think we have mentioned that before, she has a neat website here:

< http://www.cphelpsphotography.com/ >

If you look around, you will actually see a number of people from church in the featured pictures.

We started out taking pictures near the Durham Western Heritage Museum. Across the tracks, in the very run down part of the old train station. It made for some really cool backdrops, although being in the shade was really cold. While we were there we encountered another photography session, parents and a toddler.

After the train station, we headed to the old market proper. Let me just say that Cherie is a lot of fun to work with, and I think she got some great shots. We worked our way through the old market area using different areas for backdrops every time we went around a corner. It was such a pretty day, I don’t think we could have asked for a better day visually. The temperature was uncomfortably cold, but the pictures won’t show that and so far neither Heather nor I has gotten a cold :). The other downside to the day was that, being beautiful, every block had a freshly-engaged couple and photographer on it. The traffic wasn’t so bad as to keep us from doing what we wanted, but it did kind of make the whole thing seem a little silly.

Ignoring the cold and other people getting their pictures taken, it was an amazingly fun thing to do. I am sure we will have some fun pictures to show for it soon. Hopefully we can even manage to get one of them in with the invitations, but you will just have to wait and see on that.

-Jordan

One Week Later

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Well I have been 27 for almost a week. I would like to say it hasn’t been any different, but in reality I have had more knee problems in this week than I had all last year.

I suppose that’s not completely fair, I hurt it playing frisbee the Thursday before my birthday. All the same, it hasn’t been the best week for my knee. I had to abandon my workout on the treadmill Tuesday after just a few minutes because things were bad, and getting worse. Fortunately I can still do a stationary bike without causing problems, but I find that really boring.

Beyond my knee, things have been fairly good. I am starting to get used to living in the new apartment. It still feels empty without Heather there, but she came to visit a few times over the week. I think we will manage to survive the next 3 months, but it won’t be our favorite phase of engagement looking back.

Speaking of engagement, Heather and I are suppose to get engagement pictures taken tomorrow. The weather forecast for Saturday has been getting progressively worse as it gets closer. I think right now they are calling for wind, clouds, and cold. By the time we get out to shoot anything it will probably be the winters first freak blizzard. 🙂 Could make for some awesome pictures though!

-Jordan