It was raining...INSIDE!!

Since it has been wet and rainy outside, the boys have been tracking in mud all over the house. So I decided tonight that I was going to vacuum the living room and sweep and mop the kitchen. It was going flawlessly. The living room had been vacuumed, I swept up the mud and hair from the kitchen and I had our brand new mop all ready to go. I filled up the kitchen sink with water and Pine Sol, started mopping, and then heard a dripping in the basement. I ran downstairs and saw water practically raining out of a pipe in the ceiling. I threw a bucket under it and came back upstairs to find water pouring out of the cabinet under our kitchen sink. Luckily, I already had the mop out, so it was easy to clean up. I'm not really sure what's wrong with the sink/drain and Aaron won't be home until late tonight, so it will remain a mystery. Unfortunately, that means I couldn't do dishes tonight. Oh well!! :-D

Our wedding pictures are up!! Our wedding pictures are up!!

My husband and my brother both love the movie "The Jerk" and often quote it. Most commonly quoted is: Navin R. Johnson: The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! Harry Hartounian: Boy, I wish I could get that excited about nothing. Navin R. Johnson: Nothing? Are you kidding? Page 73 - Johnson, Navin R.! I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in print - that makes people. I'm in print! Things are going to start happening to me now. I've heard this so often that this is the "tune" to which I say "Our wedding pictures are up!! We're somebody's now!! Millions of people will look at these pictures..." Ok, so that's a bit of an exageration, but that's what I was thinking in all of my giddi-ness.

You can view all ~800 of them here, by searching for our event. Your best bet is to type in "Rule" and then we are one of only two events to show up. The pictures are split into categories for easier viewing. You don't really have to look at all 800, but they're pretty wonderful, so you'll probably want to!!

A Lesson on Pronunciation

My wonderful husband has taught me a great trick on explaining to people how to pronounce our last name. The spelling is still tricky (refer to prior blog entry), but I feel like I have a chance when trying to explain the pronunciation. So here goes. Pay attention!!

Mortvedt: "More" not less and "Tweet" like a bird, "More-Tweet"

I think it's funny how few people even want to attempt to pronounce it, especially if they've never heard it. When I was at the bank changing things around today, the banker asked me what the origin of "it" was and just pointed at the name instead of trying to say it.

I love being Mrs. "More-Tweet"!!

Post-Wedding To-Do's

Wow. It's hard to believe that Aaron and I got married last month already!! (Haha, I know, it's only been 4 days, but it was last month. And we're huge dorks!!) But now that "it's all over" everyone keeps asking what we'll do to keep busy. I haven't rambled off the list for everyone, but as I think about it, I realize that we almost have more to do Post-Wedding than we did in the year-long preparation. I think we were so concerned about not getting things done and overloading ourselves that we sort of "under-loaded" ourselves. So, things to do following the wedding...

1) Our marriage license arrived today, so the name change process must begin. Driver's license, SS card, the university, work, bank accounts...

2) We need to re-do our bedroom. Our furniture is falling apart, so that needs to be replaced, and our new linens introduce a new color scheme, so the walls need to be painted.

3) We've also been putting off painting the living room until things "calm down" after the wedding.

4) Go through all the cabinets in the kitchen and decide what stays and what goes. Aaron just told me last night that we have a deep fat fryer, which I had no idea about after 2 years together!! If that's the extent of the surprises though, I think we're doing okay!!

5) Look through all of Aaron's "stuff" that his parents found in their basement.

6) Organize everything for our garage sale that we WILL have next Spring.

7) Figure out what to do with all of our wedding decorations and try to reclaim our house!!

8) Write thank-you notes to everyone who helped us celebrate our day!!

9) 3 weeks from today we'll be going out to Ohio for 5 days to visit some of my family for Thanksgiving. Aaron's birthday and finals week follow shortly after that. Then it's Christmas time with 5 or 6 family Christmas' this year.

I don't think we need to worry about getting bored!! I'm guessing that there will always be something to keep us busy.