God's Plan, Not Mine

Are you a planner? I am! People used to make fun of me because I had our wedding planned out last summer! Hey, you can't blame me for wanting to get it done before my last year at EIU...
Well lately, I have been stressing out thinking about this upcoming school year. I am not enrolled in classes (becuase I graduated). So, I am in need of a job. I just wish I knew what God's plan was for me in all of this. I know I did the right thing by going to school to be a teacher. I love everything about teaching and looked forward to everyday I got to see my kiddos. Sometimes I think I know what God has in store for my future, and then it doesn't hold out. I had thought that I had a pretty good chance at getting a teaching job at Effingham. I was in close contact with the person who hires, and then the week they posted the job, she had a baby. SO, needless to say, she couldn't get me "in" when I needed to be. That was really frustrating. So, I brought my resume and things over to their board office anyways, thinking that with my last name being Nuelle they might remember me and give me a look anyways. I never heard anything back from them :( This is REALLY frustrating! I can't get an interview in my own hometown??? I was questioning God asking why I didn't even get an interview. I was mad that I didn't get a call, or a job, there were 3! Everyone says teaching jobs are so hard to find, when one was placed right in front of me, I didn't get a chance to interview for it, UHH!

Well I kind of let that roll off my shoulders and then I had in my head that I wasn't going to waste anymore money applying for jobs because schools only hire either 1. substitues teachers, or 2. PEOPLE THEY KNOW. So I quit sending out my stuff because I don't know anyone from any other schools.
About a week later, I heard a local school was hiring and brought in my stuff. The principal happened to be there that day and I talked to him for 20 minutes. He said he wanted to interview me and he would call me this week to set it up. I have been waiting by the phone since Monday morning at 8am. It's Thursday and it's almost 2pm. I haven't heard back. I'm trying to trust that God knows what is in store for my future, but it's SO hard when I just want this interview so badly. I can't help but hope that is what God wants for me to. So, we'll see.
I'm trusting Him and want His plan for my life anyways, not my plan. Whatever that may be, I pray I am content with it. :)


Dear God,
I'm a planner and I would like to know if I am going to be teaching a class next fall. Please let me know :)

Golf Balls

I have been looking for something part-time to do this summer since I don't have a teaching job. I didn't really want to find anything full-time because I plan on either teaching in the fall if I can, or subbing. So, I started workin the golf ball business. This is one crazy successful business! It started years ago in Arizona. My grandma and grandpa started diving in ponds and lakes at golf courses for used golf balls. They were finding that there are thousands and thousands of used golf balls in the water just waiting to be recycled. So, they started a small business and it has quickly grown! They are now recovering balls in several states by several different crews in each state. My mom and her fiancee have started recovering around the Effingham area. Only we don't dive, we "roll". This is a very weird thing for some people to comprehend. It just seems to easy and too good to be true! While we are on the course rolling for balls, every single golfer has to stop for ten minutes and ask what we are doing. That is very frustrating because it slows us down a lot! But you cant blame for them for being curious!

Okay so here is how it works. There are two golf carts that have wenches on them. The wenches are on the back of the carts. One of the carts holds the roller. When we get to the course we unload the roller and hook up our cables to the roller. Then we drive one of the carts across the other side of the water while the other cart stays put. Then we start our engines and one cart pulls the roller across while the other cart watches for knots in the cable, then the other cart starts rolling. If it is a good course, a few passes and the roller will be full. We stop and pick the balls out of the metal teeth and bag them up. Once we get 2 milk crates, that equals 500 balls, and thats a bag! My best day I worked we got 12 bags, my worst day was 2. So, as you can see, there is a lot of money to be made in the golf ball business. The bags are shipped over to the plant in Arizona where they are cleaned and re-packaged, or made into range balls.

Here is a picture of the roller- pretty full and ready to be unloaded!

Father's Day

Father's Day was a busy day for us. We went to church and then headed over to Jared's Granny and Papa's house. There we had a very tasty meal. We all had ribeyes, twice baked potatoes, corn on the cob, texas toast, and strawberry shortcake. It was yummy but I left there will a belly ache and we were both exhausted. So then Jared and I went home to nap :) I love being able to go home together and nap together, haha! When we got up we went to my dad's house. We sat outside and visited with my family for a few hours and then ate. Dad cooked BBQ pork loin and then we had baked macaroni, green bean casserole, and salad. All in all we had a good day.

I can't describe to you how much I love and appreciate my dad. He has been there for all of us kids during the worst of the worst. Growing up I think I was the daddy's girl. I can't tell you how many times my dad has told us kids he loves us. I won't ever forget the little moments my dad would say, have I told you lately how proud I am of you and that I love you? He never let us forget it. He is a very encouraging, hard working, providing, loving, Godly, comforting, humble, and  tough man. One of my greatest memories of my dad is that we would come home from school and he would already be off work and so excited to see us. When we walked in the door he would have a snack ready on the table for my sisters and I. My favorite snack he usually made was bananas with peanut butter, or grahm crackers with chocolate icing... yum! What I most love about my dad is that he is a Godly man. I can't imagine what our childhood would have been like without the values we were brought up with. Whenever we fought as kids, he made us sit together and hug. That was one way to tick us off, but then we always ended up laughin in the end. I do have to say that sometimes he would go a little overboard with things... We had a nightly bible study after dinner. Most of the time we didn't wanna sit there and hear it, but now looking back I know it was good for us. We would end up laughing and had some of our most memorable conversations during that time. Like the time dad said when we get to heaven God will seperate all of the sheep from the goats. He will put all the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Dad tried explaining to us that the sheep were going to heaven and the goats were going to Hell. The priceless moment was when Kate said, Oh Man! I'm left handed, I have to go to hell?!!!! We also had this book called What Would Jesus Do? I think that was dad's favorite book. We must have read it a million times. There was a song that went with it called I have decided to follow Jesus... I think everytime he heard us arguing he would whistle this song to us to remind us to think "What Would Jesus Do?" These are only a few memories I have of my dad. I love him so much and I know that my kids will one day do the same.

Today, Monday, we are heading to Jared's dad's for Father's Day. I am so excited that he gets to celebrate Father's day with his dad after not having one for so many years. This is a dream come true for Jared and I am so thankful for the answered prayers. This will actually be our second time celebrating with Kenny but last year at this time we had pretty much JUST met him so this year is more special.

I can't wait for Jared to be a dad someday! I know he is going to make such an awesome dad!

Wedding Photography

I LOVED our wedding photography. I am so happy Lauren LaPlante was able to take our pictures. She is so talented! I loved that ours were "different" than others I have seen. She came up with all of the ideas for our photos. That is what I most love. Don't you hate when you go to a photo shoot and the photographer is like okay what do you want to do? That just bugs me! That is their job... they should know poses.. they do it everyday! Well Lauren went beyond our expectations and not only gave us a great deal by giving us all of our pictures on cd's but she brough us props! She brought rain boots, an umbrella, and  a helper who also had a camera! I felt they were able to capture every moment of our special day. I was able to order a 9x12 hardback photobook with 30 pages for only 30 bucks from snapfish. If a photographer was to make that you would be paying hundreds of dollars! The best deal I got was from artscow.com I ordered a 20x16 stretched- wrap around canvas for 35 bucks! THAT IS AN AMAZING DEAL! I know photographers who charge $400 for those suckers! I also ordered 200 of our wedding photos for just 20 bucks. I love online shopping and I love finding great deals! Above is the picture I am using for the canvas. It will look awesome :)

We're Married!

Well, the wedding is over and I'm so sorry I have been away from the blogging world for the last 10 weeks or so! It's been crazy! The wedding was wonderful, everything we hoped for. I can't describe how fast the day went! I wish I could rewind and do it all again, just so I can take in every moment! It started off by waking up early. I remember laying in bed at 5:00 awake. I thought for a second, is today the BIG day?! It didn't take me long to realize that indeed it was! I laid there until my alarm went off at 6:30. That was a very long hour and a half! I got up and showered, then headed to Side Street where all of my girls were meeting! I really wanted to text or call Jared, but I didn't. I wanted the first time we talked or saw each other to be when I walked down the aisle. After we all had our hair done we headed to the church to start getting ready. This part went a little slow, but it didn't take us long to get dressed and put makeup on. We played the waiting game for a bit, then we took pictures. I was so nervous that he was going to see me, or that his friends were going to tell him what I looked like... but they didn't! Before we saw eachother, we each had a little wedding day gift. He surprised me with a dozen red roses in my dressing room, he is so sweet :) He also had a single white rose for every bridesmaid, mother, and sister to us. Thats a lot of roses! I knew that Jason Aldean was playing at the Illinois State Fair this year, and I had wanted to get him tickets. So, I thought this was the perfect opportunity to give them to him... on our wedding day! I wrote out a little letter saying how much I love him and how we've been through a lot together and thats what makes our love so special. I used song titles from Jason Aldean's album to create this letter. It was pretty cute :) At the end I stated how we were going to the concert... It would have been a better surprise if he would have read the letter in chronological order, but no, he read the last line first! UHH! Oh well, he still liked it.

The ceremony was just perfect. I loved the music! That is something I do remember :) The grandparents and parents walked down to Big & Rich "Lost in This Moment" which was sung by Tyler Walls and played by Lindsay Sterchi. It was simply amazing :) Then our wedding party walked down to Canon in D played by Lindsay Sterchi. My song was Bryan Adams "Everything I Do" played by Lindsay again. Then we had Tyler sing again during the unity candle celebration. This was Keith Urban "Only You Could Love Me This Way" I really can't wait to get our wedding video so we can really see and listen to everything again! I think the live music made our day really special... it was the best!

The reception was very fun as well. My sisters gave awesome speeches, along with Matt and Luke as well. I cried and laughed...cried and laughed... they were all so good! Then my dad and I danced to Stephen Curtis Chapman's "Cinderella". The DJ played a messed up version at first, but he found the right one and we were able to continue dancing.. it was sweet :) Jared and his mom danced to "A Mother's Song"... I think she had a hard time giving up her baby boy. We are very lucky that we are able to live in the same town as our family though! I wouldn't change that for anything. I can't wait to have kids and they will be so close to their grandparents, yay free babysitting.. haha!

All in all our day was amazing, I could sit here and write about it for hours. It did rain, but we didn't let that bother us. We took advantage of it and got some awesome pictures.
We have been happily married for a month and 3 days now. We have been to Mexico and back already. It's been awesome! I love my husband!! :) and I love saying he's my husband.. haha!