Wedding Info (Lowe's gift cards, registry, travel, hotel)

hi everyone! well, if you are visiting us here at barnardelsberger central, you're probably looking for wedding information :) first off- we are SO excited to have you there for our sweet day! if you haven't RSVPd yet, would you kindly pop it in the mail today? we just need it two weeks before the wedding (march 15th) to give a head count to the reception hall. thanks :)

GIFTS

before you read one more thing, if you absolutely HATE shopping from a registry, or really don't want to take the time to do it... we have a little something called The Remodel Fund that you can give to :) shane bought a house last summer, and we are in the process now of fixing it up... the bones of it are beautiful (we'll have to post pictures soon) but it needs some major updating. for example? stove top from 1975. dishwasher that only THINKS about washing dishes, but just steams and then quits. a washer and dryer that love to make towels smell like mildew and then leave them soaking wet after drying for 3 hours. and then there's the favorite leather-and-velvet covered walls in different rooms of the house... yeah... major painting going on. you get the point. :) so, if you want to give to the Fund, we would love that more than anything! :)

WE WOULD ABSOLUTELY LOVE A LOWE'S GIFT CARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are registered at:

Target -- just go to www.target.com, click on Gift Registries, then search by bride's name (Beth Adelsberger) and it should come up. It will say "Shane Barnard, Beth Adelsberger, March 29, 2008, Ohio"

Crate & Barrel -- go to www.crateandbarrel.com, click on Gift Registry, it will say "search by registrant name", type in "Adelsberger" and "Be" for first name, and it should come up. Just go to "view registry"

If you don't have time to browse through a registry, you also have the option of buying a gift card at either site- target.com or crateandbarrel.com :)

TRAVEL

for some of you, the trip to xenia will be a bit of a trek. if you're flying into ohio, the closest airport to xenia is the dayton international airport (www.daytonairport.com). however, you may find cheaper flights going into columbus (www.port-columbus.com) ... especially if you're going the southwest airlines route. columbus is a little over an hour away from xenia. dayton is under 30 minutes away.

LODGING

there is a holiday inn in xenia... we are currently blocking rooms under our name, we'll keep you updated on that :) but, let's face it, there isn't much going on in xenia, so that's where all of you out-of-towners will be staying, if you so choose.

directions from holiday inn to collier chapel:

1) start out going south on west church street toward n. west street .18 mi
2) turn right onto west main st/us-35

directions from dayton airport to holiday inn:

1) start out going southwest on terminal drive 1.12 mi
2) terminal drive becomes dayton international airport access rd 1.73 mi
3) merge onto I-70E via the exit on the left toward columbus 1.62 mi
4) merge onto I-75S via exit 33a toward dayton 6.27 mi
5) take the keowee st exit, exit 55, toward leo street .18 mi
6) turn slight left onto keowee st 1.99 mi
7) merge onto US-35E toward xenia 11.56 mi
8) take US-35 BR E toward xenia 2.64 mi
9) turn left onto w church street .18 mi

total distance= 27.29 mi driving time= 36 minutes

directions from columbus airport to holiday inn:

1) start out going west on international gateway toward sawyer road 1.88 mi
2) merge onto I-670W toward columbus 9.36 mi
3) I-670W becomes I-70W 16.02 mi
4) take the US-42 exit, exit 79, toward london .33 mi
5) turn left onto US-42 S 28.32 mi
6) turn left onto north main street/US-42/OH-72 .14 mi
7) turn right onto west xenia ave/US-42. continue to follow US-42. 7.46 mi
8) turn right onto east church street .57 mi

total distance= 64.09 mi driving time= 1 hours, 24 minutes

if you prefer getting your directions elsewhere, feel free!
one last thing-- you can go to legacycenter.org and see pictures of the chapel and reception hall (just click on anything that says "schindler banquet center" or "collier chapel") or get a better feel of where it's at.
we're excited to see y'all very soon! love, beth & shane

mississippi photo shoot:)

me and my bride to be on the west coast

Gettin sick, cell phones, & Turkey Bowl Day

Hello from the bustling metropolis of Lancaster, Pennsylvania! :)

Had a day off today on my tour... only four more shows to go. It seems so surreal that it's about to end. The Lord has been SO faithful through these two months- I couldn't even begin to put into words all that He's accomplished! He has placed such a heavy call for discipline and obedience and surrender on both Shane and I in this season... it's pretty overwhelming (and, might I add, intimidating) when you hear Him say that, but He has been our help. Awesome times to be a part of, let me tell ya.

And Shane... sweet, sweet, poor Shane... they finished their three month long hardcore tour last night in Austin, and wouldn't you know it, he's SICK! The first real breather he's had in months, and he spent 5 hours of the first day of it in the doctors office... and I guess he has bronchitis. :( Bless his heart. These are the days when I ESPECIALLY hate cell phones. I just wish I could run to the grocery and get soup for him and run and get his medicine... yeah... bummer. The good part is that it's only SEVEN days until we get to see each other! We played in Phoenix on the same night a little over two weeks ago, and then it just didn't make sense routing wise to meet up anywhere else before Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving... mmm... my heart gets warm at the mention of it :) It's our family's favorite holiday. My mom's side comes to our house (she has 7 siblings, and about 5 come + kids and grandkids, which = a lot of people) and, true to German-family form, eats, talks, eats, laughs, eats, cries, eats, plays, eats, fights, eats, eats, eats, sleeps, eats all day long. SO fun. Shane and his sweet mama are coming up... it's gonna be such a blast. It's tradition that after lunch, all of my uncles and guy cousins go outside (no matter the weather) and play football... aka, The Turkey Bowl. Shane's going to enjoy that. :)

Oh! And some wedding info: I got to be home for a few days last week, and Mama and I went to the chapel/reception hall one morning and got almost everything squared away! It REALLY sunk in, ya know? When we walked through the chapel, I literally... squealed :) My heart is so GLAD! And THEN... my dress came in a month and a half early, so I got to pick that up too! I'm excited I'll get to show it to Margie (Shane's mom) when she's at the house.

Alright.. well, hope y'all are good. Be praying for Shane's recovery... and the Lord's voice in this forced time of rest. Love you all!

Beth

Here it begins...

Well friends, Shane nor I felt like this season of our life would be made official until we... had a blog. :)

And, to be honest, I had to have SOMETHING to occupy my time since I'm not going to see Shane until Thanksgiving. It's been SUCH a blessing this fall for us to get to see each other as much as we have... I've had a ton of breaks on my tour and have flown out to meet him on the road... we both ended up having shows in Phoenix last night and then parted ways. It's so strange... and sweet... I don't feel like myself without him now. :)

So, we're both just busy finishing up our separate fall tours while TRYING to make some headway on wedding plans! In about two days it will only be five months until that sweet, sweet day when "Barnardelsberger" becomes... just... Barnard. :)

Alright, well, I picked a bad time to try and write a blog... I gotta go run to Target and grab some bus food. But, more soon! And more pictures... and wedding info... and funny stories... and... and... everything else that is bloggish.