It's been a year!

Well, we have now been in Atlanta for a year. This is very hard to believe. It is amazing how settled we feel and how much Atlanta is now home. A year ago I would have never told you this. It was a rough start at first. I still remember pulling into our first little apartment and opening the door to start to unload the trailer to find that the landlord turned off our electricity. It was 90 degrees and super humid and we were exhausted from the drive. All we wanted to do was lay on floor of an air conditioned apartment. Instead, we put on our headlamps while we unloaded the trailer and it was miserable. (we didn't get out electricity on for 3 days!) And this was just the start of bad luck as many of you know. The job I had lined up fell through the day I was to start, I got in a bad car accident and then to top it off, our landlord, 2 months into our lease, decided to claim bankruptcy and we were forced to move again with a few days.

Since those first few rocky months, God has been so good and has blessed us tremendously. We found a great little house in an awesome neighborhood, I have started my own business, we have gotten involved in a amazing church, have met some great friends and life is good! It is funny to see sometimes the path God takes you on to get somewhere. I wouldn't change our experience so far for anything.

We hope you are all well and we would love some visitors to our great city! We even have an air mattress for visitors :) Talk about luxury! Anyways, we love and miss you all and can't believe we have been gone for a year!

Erin

A little fact about Decatur and a funny story!

Being in a big city has been very interesting to both Paul and I. I think when we moved here we pictured very much conservative, white, southern city. We were clearly wrong in this prediction. We are the minority here. Atlanta is such a diverse city with so many different cultures and backgrounds. Last Friday night made us remember how different of a world we live from Durango. We wanted to go out for a drink. Everything was packed except for one little bar. So, we went and immediately realized we had walked in to a lesbian bar. There was a Melissa Etheridge sing-a-like on stage with all sorts of same sex couples. There was not a single man there. Talk about awkward. But, we had already had walked in and we clearly couldn't just walk out so, we held our heads high and sat a table with nothing but "Girls Coming Out" and "Pride" magazines everywhere. We ordered our drink and had a good time and had a huge laugh after leaving the bar. Decatur, the suburb of Atlanta we live in has one fact many of you may not know. Decatur has one of the highest percentage of gays in the entire US! We have neighbors in every directions whom are same sex couples. A nick name for the area is "Dick-Hater". Crazy huh? Here is a link to Wikipedia's explanation of Decatur. Just wanted to share a little bit of our new little world we live in down here in ATL!

Paul and Erin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decatur,_Georgia

My webpage needs some love!

So I am getting a little nervous. I haven't really had anyone call me in a few weeks about planning their wedding. My hits have gone way down. So each of you should go there a couple times at random to help me move up from like 1,000,000 to like maybe 999,999 on google. I have recently put up some new testimonies if you would like to look at them. I am still really hoping and praying that this business will take of for me. Please lift it up to the Big Guy if you get a chance. I really feel as though it is a great and rewarding thing. Hope you are all well!
Love,
Erin
www.itsallinthedetailseventandweddingplanning.com