Fall is Near!

Fall is definitely near because there are many signs: shorter days, cooler temperatures, leaves turning yellow, school starting and the best one of all: Pumpkin Spice Latte at Starbucks!!! I have not enjoyed this delicious drink yet but I will soon. Perhaps after my first paycheck. No, I did not get the job at Buckle-they actually have very poor management so I am glad I'm not working there. I have a profile on Care.com and a mother contacted me to watch her 10-month old daughter for about 30 hours a week. I have to do an interview but I am sure this is the job God wants for me. Kids have been a part of my life for...well, my entire life! Chris kept saying how I can make a huge impact on this child and the family-kind of crazy to think about! :) Please be praying that this is the job for me!!


I started my math class today and received my textbook-perfect timing! I am excited for the semester to start but also nervous since math is not my strong subject. But since it is the only class I am taking I can devote all my time to this one awful subject. I am feeling more confident than not, so I guess that's a good thing! 


Chris and I are super excited to go to our 4th Annual Harrington Camping Trip! We are going with Chris' parents: Mindy and Dave and his sister and brother-in-law: Bethany and Alex! There will be good food and lots of fun games. Chris and I have an aspen tree that we carved our names into in 2007 and each year since we have added: 08, 09, and this year we will add: Wed on 7.30.10. This tree is very special to us!!


Today is marks the one month anniversary of Chris and I getting married! Time has flown by!! We have started brainstorming fun things to do in the summer together. Next year we want to go hiking in the Grand Canyon with my best friend Apryl and her boyfriend, Benjamin. The year after that we want to go on an Alaskan cruise! Eventually we will go to Ireland but all of this will happen before we decide to have kids! Oh and we also thought of how we are going to break the news to everyone WHEN we are pregnant. No... we are not pregnant yet and have no desire to be yet! :)


Well, Chris is about to ride his bike to work today and I need to do some studying so we can enjoy our vacation this weekend! Thank you for reading!




-The Harrington's

Life Lately...

Chris and I have been receiving packages in the mail lately: a rice cooker, an apple slicer and a cake platter-even our internet!! It's quite exciting to receive mail with "Bri and Chris Harrington" on the front. Bri has received both her social security card and driver's license with her new name on it-how exciting! We were also excited to receive our rice cooker and it was so nice to have rice again-I'm so Asian! We made 4 cups of rice which lasted us for about 4 bowls of rice-each! We have also received a cake platter as a wedding present from some friends-I was very happy about that because now we have a cake platter for the delicious Harrington Chocolate Birthday Cake! My birthday is a little over 3 months away so we had to be prepared. ;)

Life in Greeley continues to be exciting. We visited a new church Saturday night: Christ Community Church. Smaller than Woodmen and a bit different but we loved the sermon. The pastor, Alan Kraft talked about us being the Bride and making herself ready for when Jesus comes back. It was so relevant to Chris and I since we just got married (almost a month ago!)-we related to the sermon very well! After the service we went to the Guest Center (The Gathering Place) and met the lead pastor, Alan! He got to know us a bit and I mentioned working in Children's Ministries at Woodmen Valley and took us upstairs to see their Children's area! Let me just say, my jaw literally dropped and was amazed at the area! The entire upstairs was devoted to elementary kiddos: slides, games, a stage with awesome lights, a very energetic team who you can tell loves kids (and debriefs with each other at the end of the day), they had it all! The funny thing was is that the director wanted to pick my brain about Woodmen when I wanted to pick his about their ministry! Everything looked so fun and kid welcoming. I hope to get involved soon... :)

In our down time when it is so hot outside (or smelly... ;) ), Chris and I like to play Sequence. Since I finally understood the game I have been beating him! It is now my favorite game! The students of UNC are here in Greeley and you can definitely tell by their driving and by the empty shelves at Wal-Mart of the cheap food. Oh well, it's good to have some more people around our age and hopefully we can get connected with them soon through Young Life or Christ Community. :)

Tomorrow we are going to go hiking on the westside of Loveland and then next weekend we are going camping with Chris' family! Can't wait to finally enjoy the mountains and the outdoors!!!!

Continue to pray for us:
Bri-finding a job and starting school on Monday
Chris: continuing to do well at his job and finding some friends (for both of us!)
And just that we will continue to grow together as a married couple in God's story!

What's New?!

Hello Dear Readers!

We hope this blog will help you keep up with us! We didn't want to just get married, move away and never speak to or see any of you again! :) We are currently sitting in Chris' car in the Border's parking lot on their free wifi-we sound so poor! We should be getting internet within a week though-yay! We are all settled into our apartment here in Greeley and have been getting settled into this new city! The past two days we have been visiting government offices to get Bri's name changed officially to Harrington. She misses her short last name of Lo, but is excited to officially be a Harrington! Thankfully we didn't have to wait long at either place!
The people here in Greeley are very nice and are not afraid to talk to you and ask for a favor. Very different from Colorado Springs. Greeley has about 300,000 less people than the Springs and rarely has traffic, which is nice. It is A LOT hotter here though but we're getting used to it. :)

We hope you are all doing well and are enjoying much cooler weather than us (depending on where you live, Springs people *cough cough!*)

Until the next post... Much Love, Chris and Bri Harrington!