Updates :)

Hello!

It's Sunday, and I just finished working on an Exegesis Paper. Its late afternoon and I'm about to go and make dinner for me and Michael before we go to see a Movie: G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra. Michael has been waiting to see this movie forever, so we're gonna go see that tonight :)

This weekend has been lots of fun though! On Friday evening my roommate, Laura (who is a fantastic photographer), went with us to take some preliminary engagement shots here in Longview! It was SO much fun! We walked around and smiled and laughed for about an hour and a half- how could that be anything but fun?

As for the wedding updates, last week Michael and I went home to visit my parents and while we were there we spent a copious amount of time trying to determine where our ceremony and reception are going to be held. This was a much more difficult experience then I anticipated, but it was so neat to see how God worked every detail out!

We had looked at a few different churches and venues in the Granbury area (my hometown), and had decided on a church, but still couldn't find a reception spot. So, Sunday Michael drove back to Longview, but I stayed at home with my parents (since I had a fall break of two days off from school) and decided to make use of my time! Monday I got started on calling around, and I think I spent 6 hours on the phone ALL DAY LONG talking with different venues. If it wasn't one thing it was something else: they weren't available on the date we wanted- or any other date within a month of the one we had chosen- they couldn't accommodate our number of guests, they were too far away, or they were ugly! One place was booked up through November of 2010! People are crazy!

By the end of that day, I had reached my wits end. I stopped and took a minute to pray and I just told God that I could not get this done! I had tried all day long and nothing was easy and nothing was falling into place, and I was just going to trust him to make it clear where he wanted us to be.

After that I took a break from searching. The next morning before me, Mom, and Sarah, headed out to Longview to bring me back to school we went and looked at Pecan Plantation. I was praying that it would be available on May 15^th like we were hoping. They were available and I LOVED the location spot! It offered everything Michael and I had been hoping to have for our reception!

I was feeling SO thankful and SO relieved. Then, we got hit again :) This time it was the church. The administrative assistant at the church we had looked at and were planning on booking called to tell me that the children’s ministry director had mistakenly not reserved the Sanctuary for that weekend to set up the props and rehearse for the children’s musical Sunday, May 16^th. So, the church that we thought we had suddenly was gone!

Still, it was SO neat the way God arranged things. While on the phone with the one lady at the original church, I was reminded of another church in Glen Rose that I liked, and so I called them and sure enough they were free for May 15^th and the cost to use this church is significantly less than the cost of the other church!

It was SO amazing to see God work everything out once I chose to let it all go and trust Him completely!

So, whew, that has been the crazy week we’ve been through! Taking the pictures with Laura was a nice conclusion, though, and I’ve posted some of the pictures so you can see!

Also, though it is still in progress, Michael and I have posted our wedding website:

http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/MichaelSkeen&KatieReed so feel free to check it out!

Blessing on your week,

Michael and Katie

“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or imagine according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:20-21