The last time many of you have probably seen Emily was her graduation party in 2005... although I have been fortunate enough to see many of you somewhere in between that time.

Well, since I graduated, I've attended two different colleges: Normandale and Minneapolis Community and Technical College. My third college I am starting only ten days before the wedding: St Kates. St Kates has been my dream school and I am really excited to finally have the chance to go there. (And with a FULL RIDE my first year! YAY!) My major is Social Work, and it probably won't be changing ever again. I plan on earning my Bachelor's, and immediately beginning the MSW program.

I've held many a job putting myself through school. First off, I work for a non-profit Eastside Neighborhood Services. I work in a public housing development in Southeast Minneapolis (about a one minute drive from the church we are getting married in). I am the assistant in an after school program ESNS runs and I really enjoy working with the immigrant and low-income populations that live there. We do a lot of remedial academic work because many of our students are ESL, but we also do character development, enriching activities, service learning, and field trips.

Since that is a seasonal school year job, in the summers I work for the YMCA of St. Paul in their day camp program.

Ryan and I are also caretakers at our apartment building, which can be a lot of work but the free rent is worth it!

Other than that, I enjoy reading, writing, concerts, art shows, theater, the circus, cooking, camping, playing piano, and being outside. We also got our first cat together, whose name is Tillie, so it's been fun getting to know her as well!