Sarah and Matthew

February 2009

Oh WOW!

Sarah - February 25th

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Okay, so I am updating with some more honeymoon features. Planning the honeymoon has pretty much been my favorite part so far.

Just this morning I a hotel that looks absolutely perfect. It's the The Tubkaak Krabi Boutique Resort in the Krabi part of Thailand. We are looking around Krabi in particular because that is where those big rocks jut out of the water and really the main reason why we are going to Thailand instead of Fiji or the Maldives.

Look at the swank pictures below. The cheapest room is very reasonable and still seems to have everything we want. I'm really excited about the possibility of staying here!
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Filed under: Honeymoon, Thailand, Planning
Comments (1)
shannon - 5:03pm 3/29

breathtaking! looks very romantic... can you bring Jeff and I back a daughter .lol

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Sarah - February 2nd

Our budget for the wedding has been recently shrunk by my calculations. We have recently experienced a series of car issues that will probably dip considerably into our money plans. The first event was an old guy in a gold Cadillac pulling out in front of Matthew while he was going almost 40 down a busy four lane undivided highway. The result is the picture below. Not so good. But, thankfully Matt wasn't hurt past a bruise and some soreness in his back for a couple of days.
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So the next day, with only my car to take to the Dells for a family gathering, we packed up and hoped that my "squirrel" would make it to the Dells. It didn't but thankfully we started having the engine problems in front of auto repair shop. We limped it the fifty feet to the shop and three hours and two hundred dollars later, it was fixed.
Or, so we thought.
This weekend, we had to cancel all of our weekend plans due to my car again having sympathetic pains to Matt's totaled car. Saturday it wasn't happy at sixty miles an hour down the highway, so we went back home before getting barely on the highway. Sunday I turned it on and it was making growling noises, so I didn't drive it at all. This morning it flat-out wouldn't start. I should mention that on two different occasions when Matt's car was in the repair shop, mine also broke down at the same time. One of the times, it actually left Matt stranded for hours before my family came to the rescue and towed it since I was at home an hour away without any car. Hence, my comment of sympathetic pains on the behalf of my car for Matt's car. I might be funny if it wasn't happening to us.
With one car that has to be replaced and another that probably won't make it another six months, the financial forecast looks to be a bit grim. Yes, we were spoiled with neither of us having car payments in the last year. Now, we are going to have a minimum of one car payment. And, I may have to find a junker to temporarily replace mine if it kicks the can. Such drama...

Filed under: funny, Planning, Budget