Casey's Birthday Shrine!!!

It's my dear friend Casey's b-day today. She is 21!!! Whoop. Casey, I hope you had a wonderful day. This was the first year in 3 years that I haven't been there to see you turn another year older. When I first met you, your freshman year, you were just a lil' seventeen year old!!!
Hope to see you soon and you can come see my new place. There is lots of room for ninja-ing.
Love ya! Love Brie.

I Should Write About My Weekend, but I Did This Instead.....

A-Z about me

A-Age: 22.5

B-Bed size: um, I think twin, however, my gran/gramps boughted Chris and I a QWEEN!!!!! for when we're married of course!

C-Chore you hate: Putting dishes away out of the diswasher, ugh.

D-Dessert you love: Mmm...chococlate icecream

E-Essential start your day item: I dunno, should be reading the bible, but I don't always do that in the morning, I need to work on that.

F-Favorite actor(s): Dunno...can't think right now.

G-Gold or Silver: gold.

H-Height: 5'5"

I-Instruments you play: piano, and just sold my saxophone! tear, but a nice little boy got it, so that's good.

J-Job title: Registered Nurse

K-Keeping track of your day: Mostly my brain with a lil' help from my calender.

L-Living arrangements: Home, with Dad, Mom, Gavin, and Brice (who's now at school), but soon, like in October, my new home, with my future husband!

M-Mom's name: Jacqueline Kay

N-Not liking right now: Umm..let's just stay positive

O-Overnight hospital stay other than birth: nope, haha, funny question.

P-People you want to meet: Family members that died before I was born, Chris' Dad, Jesus....

Q-Quote you like: aside from bible verses......um....maybe "freedom doesn't come free" that's a good one to remember, in terms of war and what Jesus did for us.

R-Right or left handed: Right

S-Siblings: Bricicle-iceicle and Gav-master

T-Time you woke up today: 9:30 for churchy church.

U-Unique habit: Hmm...I dunno, I'm sure I have one though.

V-Vegetable you hate: radish, celery, onions!

W-Worst habit: biting nails, although, I don't do it so much now.

X-X-rays you've had: never man.

Y-Yummy food you can make: um, cookies?

Z-Zodiac sign: Aquarias ("the water carrier", ha, how weird is that)

IT'S MY BABY'S BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS!!!

Today, September 6th 2006, Christopher A. Lewis is 22 years old, around 4:00 pm that is.

I really really love Chris' birthday because I'm really very glad he was born. I like thinking about how God planned for both Chris and I to be born and for us to meet about 18 years later and fall in love :) I think that that was a marvelous plan God thought up.

~Lord, thank you so much for the life of my fiance Chris. He is an amazing person and follower of you! He has a beautiful heart and an absolutely wonderful personality and I am so thankful for him! I pray that you continue to bless his life and to be so very present in him~

Next time Chris has a b-day, we'll be married!!!

Happy Birthday honey, I hope you have a wonderful day and know how much I love you and how awesome you are!

Luv, Brianna

Big Honkin' News

MMMkay,
Here are three new exciting things:

#1. God willing, Chris and I shall spend 7 days at a resort in the Riviara Maya (on the same penisula as Cancun, Mexico) on our honeymoon! I cannot express my excitement in words, ahhhhhhh.........turquiose oceans....

#2. Today was my last orientation day at work, come Monday, I'm a "real" nurse.

#3. Chris and I are the proud owners of a cute townhome in NW Roch. We won't be occupying it for some time, but we're gonna start paintin' and such. We wanna show it to you, so just ask.

I'm super sleepy, but I thought I should give you these updates. whoooooot.

Our resort....












Right outside the building....













There ya have it.......

I heart PHCA.

Hello all.

Well, I just got back from my 5 day vacation at my favorite place on earth: Pine Haven Christian Assembly. I went there as a camper from 4th through 11th grade every summer. However, our church also gets to spend a week at PHCA every summer during a week when there is no scheduled camp. I was lucky enough to be able to get a few days off this week to go up to camp with my parents and the rest of the crew that has been going up on this week ever since I can remember.

Oh my goodness, it was so much fun. The days fly by. We swam, skiied, kayaked, worked on wedding invitations, went into town (Park Rapids), and just hung outside in the beautiful weather by the beautiful lake (Long lake). I love the feeling of being at camp. I think anyone who went there as a camper or who has spent time there has the same feeling. There's no place like it and I'm sad to not still be there.

The only bummer was that Chris still hasn't been able to come see my camp! Maybe next year!
This year a few new people came, like Jill's cool friend Maggie, and then there were the people that always come, yip yip. But, none of my cousins/brothers came except Jill! They all had school/work/sports, blah!

Here are some lovely pictures I got off the website, cuz mine are not on my computer, of my favorite place!!!!!!

Oh Pine Haven, how I love thee....

THE DINING HALL













ONE OF THE GIRL'S CABINS/TEATHER BALL













LONG LAKE!!! (I got baptised in there!!!)

Pine Haven

Hey everyone. I'm at my favorite place ever!!!!

A Party For Me!

Yippe, Cara Marie had a bridal shower for me and my Rochie-ville friends!!! We had yummie food such as fondue, pickle-hams, brie cheese, and bread with olive oil. Fun fun. We played games and I had to do Chris trivia, I did pretty good. I was fun to see so many of my friends and I got wonderful presents from all of them. Thank you to all of you! I had a blast. Look at the pictures from my party below :)

Cara is a biter. 

Brita and I. 

Bein' silly. 

Jill, Kellie, Heather, Brie, Kelsey, Brita, Cara, and Danae. Casey, Megan, and Katie not in the picture. 

Megan and I with fondue and sparking apple juice  

the fondue table, yum yum. 

I got a cook book! 

Heather, Kellie, and Megan. 

Brie cheese! 

Kelsey and Heather trying out the bread and olive oil 

I Feel "Special"

It all started tonight at about 9:15 pm.

This isn't a huge exciting story, but it's a funny one, and maybe you had to be there...

Jill, Kellie, and I decided to go to a movie tonight. Jill looked up the time for the movie (9:20pm) and so I hung out the girls' house until it was time to go. I saw their beautifully decorated new room and talked to my auntie Julie and the girls. Then, before we knew it, it was time to go to the theatre. We left too late and got there with like 5 mins. to spare. By the time we got tickets and popcorn and such, it was pretty much 9:20, so we're like oh well, we'll just miss previews. However, when we got into the theatre, previews hadn't even started, so we were excited to have not missed a thing. We also noticed that we were the only ones in the theatre.

We got to chit-chatting and suddenly realized, about 10 mintues later, that the movie had not yet started. We just thought it was running late and kept on talking. About 5 mins. after that, I thought maybe we were in the wrong theatre. So, Jill went to check to make sure about that. As she was checking, Kellie checked her ticket stub. She comes to discover that the movie is not at 9:20, it is at 10:30!!!! We were like, oh wow, no way.

I am sitting there wondering why no one said anything. The ticket seller lady didn't find it strange that we were an hour early, neither did the ticket ripper guy, and he watched us go right into the theatre! They were probably like, wow, I guess they really wanna make sure they get a seat.

Then, as we're discussing what to do, a cleaner guy comes in the theatre. I felt the need to tell him what happened, while Kellie and Jill are giggling. I thought I should tell him, since I figured he was wondering what in the world we were doing in there. However, as I am explaining things to him, he just looked down, as if he couldn't hear me, and left! It was extremely akward, yet very funny.

We decided to go to Hy-Vee for a while. As we were leaving Chateau, I explained to two of the workers standing near-by what had happened. I wanted to make sure it was ok we came back and could bring our food and pop back in. They just looked at me like I was the biggest freak ever. They did not even crack a smile or grin at all at this crazy story. They were like stone-faced and just sorta nodded. Wow, people at Chateau should get sense of humor. Haha. This just made us three laugh even harder.

So, we went to Hy-Vee and came back to the movie with no problems. The theatre was packed, we thought it was funny that earlier we thought we'd be the only one's at the movie.......oh dear....how crazy.

Kellie and I are blaming Jill for this, haha, poor Jill. But it was funny. We felt super cool.

That is my story and now I must sleep. Goodnight.

Anti-blogger

Hello, I have been an anti-blogger lately. It's because I'm so busy. I'm not complaining, it's just true. If I had anytime to blog, it would be when I'm going to bed, and I would rather go to bed, so that's that. However, I am done with work for the week and have 3 days off so here ya go.

WORK:
I just finished my 3rd week on the floor. It's so crazy. I am a real nurse responsible for real patients. I am with a nurse preceptor until September, so I am learning all day long from her. I have gotten pretty good at the complicated massive online Mayo charting system, it's insane, but very organized. I am also pretty good at giving meds and ok at hooking up IVs, but need more practice there. I am responsible for assessing patients and noticing changes in them. Based on changes, good or bad, I have the responsibility to make changes in their plans of care. I am slowly getting the hang of things, but I realize that there is a ton a don't know. Pretty much everything I do is new to me and I am confused about it. Luckily my preceptor is patient and good at explaining things to me and letting me do things on my own. I have never been on an orthopedics floor before this job. It's a lot different from other floors in that most of the patient cannot walk or even move at all, since they just had hip surgery, broke spinal bones, or broke three bones and lost a leg, etc. So, it's a lot of lifting people and using co-workers for help. It's cool that there is such good team work on our floor. So, that's a little summary of my new working life. I got a paycheck and it's nice, pretty much equal to what I made in 6 weeks last summer, haha.

FINDING A HOME:
I have also been quite busy in this area. Chris and I have found a realtor (my old piano teacher) and she is awesome!!! First we looked at houses. Then we decided that the houses in our preferred price range mostly need a lot of fixing up, and we're not too excited about buying a place that instantly needs to be fixed. All houses in our range are old, old, old with sick old basements. Blah. So, now we're on the search for a townhome. We like the idea of buying something, if we can. We have looked at a bunch and have narrowed it down to a couple. We're going to look at them again tomorrow. The cool thing about townhomes is that we can get one much cheaper than a house, but they're acutally nicer. They probably don't increase as much in value over time as a house, but what can ya do.

WEDDING STUFF:
Um, I have a lot left to do in this area. I am going to try to do my registry this week. I have so much running through my head of all the wedding stuff to plan. It'll take a while....oof dah.

Welp, I think mom and are now going to Bed Bath and Beyond to do a little preliminary look at what I should register for. Also, she just announced to me that it's supposed to be 100 degrees on Mondy, wow. That should be nice. I'll have my own personal sauna in my car, fun fun.

I hope you all are having good summers! Hopefullly I'll see you soon!
Love, Brie

Oh, so fun.....

Chris brought me flowers, just for fun. I was so excited, I love flowers. He picked them out one by one and made the arrangement himself :) Thanks Chris, I love you. :)