Engagement Party September 24, 2006

Time to celebrate! Invite the friends, Invite the Family and open the champagne, because we're getting married!! Greg's family hosted and put on a wonderful engagement party to celebrate our good news! The party was at Tom and Jennifer's house put on with the help of Kim and Genie! Thanks everyone for an awesome celebration! You love us too well!

Eric, Genie, Ginger and Bree

The home of Eric, Genie, and Ginger: beautiful tulip tree in full bloom in their front yard.

Bree's out front at her place to rest her head on all her pillows.

Greg's Aunt Genie and Uncle Eric have invited Bree into their home until Greg and Bree get married. They are so amazing! I (bree) feel so loved by Greg's family and feel quite welcomed to this huge city whom all I know is Greg's family.  Great start to living in the city thus far. I (Greg) am so happy that my family has opened their home and their hearts to my fiance and that they'll get to know Bree and Bree will get to know them throughout the next year! yea for Eric and Genie!

Do you know the way to San Jose?

One of Bree's favorite places...the yard at home in Biggs.

Biggs or San Jose? 

Beautiful town of Biggs.... Bree's hometown. 1500 friends, pre-schoolers graduating 12th grade with their same classmates, our 10 acre ranch with horses, pigs, cattle, views of the smallest mountain range in the world, The Buttes, harvest moons and so much more. Islands of rice fields, lakes, heat, sports, 1 tiny post office, library, Double H with 1 gas pump, 1 bar-The Pheasant Club, 4 Churches, Grien's market, my dad's office and dirt roads... not much more the small farming town. 

Or, the slightly larger 974,000 folks in Greg's hometown of San Jose. Theatres, Sharks, Downtown, Great Bear Coffee in LG, artwork, architecture, small shops, Santana Row, Starbucks on every corner, bookstores, ethnic foods, mountain biking, great temperature, busyness. 

San Jose it is! We made a choice to settle down in San Jose. Greg has been blessed with a job that challenges him and allows him to use his Cal Poly engineering degree and project management skills. Bree has taken on the amazing challenge of San Jose Young Life that only God can orchestrate and direct. We are leaning in close to the Lord as we are both in positions that are much larger than us.  We're thankful that God has brought us to places that we can use our gifts and serve in areas that bring us great joy and fulfillment in our calling in life.