Christmas is upon us

So is snow and ice! St. Vincent's had a snow day yesterday! Sometimes I wonder if I want snow days as much as the kids do... I had no idea that could have been the case when I was a kid. I really thought my teachers wanted nothing more than to be at school each and every day.

Joe and I are headed to his parents for this afternoon to trim the tree and hang out with Pete and his parents. Tomorrow after Mass we drive to Lafayette to celebrate Eric's graduation and have dinner with Jill's family. We'll be in Noblesville for Christmas, yay! Then it's back to Peoria to celebrate with Joe's family. Being married means so many more people to love and celebrate with... we are so blessed.

Tigue side Christmas '08 family picture:

We had so much fun being together, playing games and eating!

Wedding Pictures

Anyone that is interested in seeing pictures from the wedding try the photographers website. http://www.pictage.com/540612
We bought the rights to all the pictures so I'll have them forever to make copies from... yay!

post-Honeymoon, Halloween and House-hunting

I feel as if right after we got back from our honeymoon we hit the ground running. We have been working very hard with our respective jobs and schooling. I got into my classroom and began teaching in September, it's extremely challenging.

We were able to go to King's Island with Eric and Jill in October. We planned it for Joe's b-day. So he got to be in Noblesville for cake and ice cream :) For halloween I dressed up as Peyton Manning at school. (much to the chagrin of my students who are bears fans) Then Joe and I dressed up as Chuck and Sarah from the TV show "Chuck" on NBC Monday nights. We were able to attend a friend's Halloween party which was so much fun.

We also got to go to South Bend for an ND game - the Pitt game, which was the longest game ever played in the ND stadium. Rock on, but would have been better if we had won. Justin, Joe's friends for... um, years, was at that game with his gf so we were able to meet her and visit for awhile before heading to the game. We did the game trip in one day, so we were very tired on the way home but made it in time to congratulate Courtney and Amy on their new home at their housewarming party.

Nov. 5th was Confirmation at SVdP which means it's my students being confirmed and as DRE I'm also getting things ready for the parish as well. God bless my secretary, she took care of lots of small things for me like nametags and programs. One sacrament down for the year, 2 to go!

One last comment before I go. We're looking into houses in the Peoria area and it's been quite fun. Joe and I will go and look at houses, pick our favorite and then decide we need to wait to get a house for awhile longer. It's an exciting process and will continue to be for awhile!

Ok, the procrastinating has to stop- back to grading papers... :(

thanks to facebook

How great was it that one of our photographers was an aquaintance from high school? Well, let's just say that I get a sneak peek via facebook of some amazing pics that she took. I'm posting a few here, and will hopefully add to them as we see more. They are a bit smaller due to their copy and pasting from facebook, but I thought you might like them nonetheless. ~R

Old Wedding Website

If you need to get to our old wedding website (white and blue with info about wedding day), it can be found at http://theknot.com/ourwedding/rachelwack&josephtigue

View from where we ate lunch everyday on our honeymoon.

The beginning...

This is the first post. Just trying to get the blog setup so we can share photos and updates about our new lives as a married couple!!