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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Housing and/or Wedding Fund

Hey everyone! As many of you already know, I am engaged and going to be married in June 2nd, '07. She's an amazing girl and I couldn't be happier with my relationship situation. God has blessed us both with supportive families and a good community of common friends.

Right now we are both trying to work out everything at different schools. It's a little tough but not terrible. She will move down to Kimberly this December. We will then both attend the College of Southern Idaho.

I am going to be renting a house soon in Twin Falls. I will live in it (maybe alone) and be there until Lynlea moves in after we are married. We are most likely going to stay in Idaho until we get our degrees then take off for Kentucky. We think this will work out the best for both of us.

Right now we are both in tight financial situations. It's going to tough here in about a month. We both want to make sure it all works out so we are doing what we can to raise money both in and outside of our workplaces.

I have created a PayPal donation button over on the left side of my page. I wanted to put that over both as an active practice of learning how to accept things from others and also as a way to make things a little easier for Lynlea and I. If you feel like you could help us out, we would appreciate it so very much! We are trying to think of everything we can do to start off our new life together. A house seems like a good place to start.

Thank you very much for reading. Pray about it and do whatever God leads you to.

Grace and Peace

posted by -mike- at 7:08 PM

 

1 Comments:

Kyle said...

You're going to have to finish your undergrad at Georgetown College if you're going to not suck.

I'm just sayin.'

8:20 AM  

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