the Mr. and Mrs.

Well, hello there! Thanks again for visiting the blog. We'll try to be good bloggers since it's a great way to keep in touch.

So a little bit about us...

We actually met on a missions trip in Mexico with our high school church youth group in 1999. Our friendship grew over the next year and a half and then officially became a couple on December 30, 2000. Erin went off to UCLA and we made it through a year of long distance, including the four months Levi was in Guatemala, before Levi decided to move to Los Angeles. Through our time in LA, we both began to make our faith in Jesus the most important part of our lives and our relationship. We got engaged in 2005 and married on July 1, 2006. We continued to live in West LA, where Levi finished up his degree at CSUN and Erin got to fulfill a dream job working as a counselor at UCLA. The next year solidified Levi's desire to become a teacher as he worked at Fairburn Elementary and Groza Learning Center. He applied to the teacher credential programs at CSUN and Sac State, letting God show us what part of California to live in. Through the timing of the decisions, we accepted the program at Sac State and moved 400 miles north to Roseville. We found out later that he had been accepted to CSUN as well, but it was clear that we were meant to spend the year up here. Levi had a great time with the program and Erin got experience teaching that she would not have had in LA. And now we're off to Africa!

Information You Never Knew You Cared About:

Name:	Levi	Erin
Birthday:	Apr	May
Birth Order:	Complicated. Youngest (Dad's family), Only (biological), Oldest (Mom's family)	Youngest, with Tendencies of Only
Siblings:	4 sisters, 1 brother	2 sisters, 2 brothers
Myers Briggs Personality:	ESTJ (Extrovert Sensing Thinking Judging)	INTJ (Introvert Intuitive Thinking Judging)
Method of reading:	Books on Tape	A book a day is my dream
Rural Credentials:	Legit - Farm life in Humboldt County, Cranberry bogging on grandparent's farm every vacation	Observer - Cows in the field next door, turkeys roosting on the driveway
City Proof:	Street ball with the homies	Red carpet movie premiere
Claim to Fame:	Basketball Player #1 in Underclassman (sadly uncredited on imdb)	Spelling Bee champ
Sporting activities:	Full contact sports: Rugby, wrestling, basketball	Non-contact sports: Yoga, pilates, volleyball
What I miss about TV:	ESPN	Friends reruns, Food Network
iPod playlist:	Sermons, books, Pearl Jam, Guns N Roses, Techno (like Moby)	Everything but techno (like Moby) and opera
Pandora stations:	Coldplay, Cake, Weezer	Alanis, Feist, Coldplay
Movies I will watch more than once:	Braveheart, Boondock Saints, Legends of the Fall.	Every movie I like
Authors I'll Read Everything They Scribe:	Tim Keller, Malcolm Gladwell, Theodor Geisel	Madeleine L'Engle, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien
Ideal sleep per day:	7 hours	10 hours
Dessert Philosophy:	Just give me more dinner, unless it's creme brulee.	Dessert is an essential part of every day