Greg Baugues and Rachel Lazelle Got Married

Earlier this week Rachel and I signed a lease on a bi-level coach house near North and Leavitt in Wicker Park.

For the non-Chicagoans, coach houses are smaller secondary structures located behind the primary residence. The name comes from their original purpose: to house horses and carriages (today they would be more appropriately referred to as a “guest house”).

Only 40 days to go. We couldn’t be more excited.

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We’ve probably told you the story about a rock climbing trip with Park Community Church.  And it’s true, the first time we met face-to-face was on a ferry headed into Devil’s Lake, Wisconsin.

But that was not our first encounter.  Our first encounter was in an email chain earlier that week.  Dan Hanson, the trip organizer, sent an email to the five of us who had volunteered to cook for the 40 people coming on the trip.

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