WE TIED THE KNOT

Yea!! The day finally came... and went (so quickly)!! We have now been married for (let me think, Joey's better at this than I am) 25 days. Wow, that went by quickly.



The wedding was wonderful. All I could want and more, thanks to my matron of honor, Pam. She planned the whole thing. I hope to have some pictures up soon.



Our honeymoon in Big Bear Lake was so nice and relaxing. We spent 5 nights at the Sleepy Forest Resort. We had nice woodland trails in the area to go on walks. We went to a zoo/animal park for a few hours one day. We went on some drives. We also did a lot of resting, definitely needed after the busyness of the wedding.



Our honeymoon in Kauai was fabulous!! My mom and step-dad blessed us with the use of their time share for 7 nights. Kauai is such a beautiful island. It rained everyday a little, but we didn't mind. They actually receive around 430 inches of rain a year, that's what makes it so lush and green.

Wedding and Honeymoon

No, you didn't miss an August update on this blog. We just decided to place an arbitrary August date on it so we can keep it a little bit more organized. It is of course now October. Anyway, we are hoping to post some pictures of our wedding and honeymoon in the near future, but we are having computer problems and so we are not sure when we will be able to get to them. In the meanwhile, I will share a little bit about our wedding. We of course got married at 11:00am Saturday, July 26th. It was a really nice wedding, but I don't think neither of us remember much about it because we were so nervous. Also we concluded that brides get cheated out of their own weddings because a lot of things happen before they walk down the aisle and thus aren't able to see. (So any of you future brides should keep that in mind before you stress too much over every perfect detail - my humble opinion). Our wedding took place at Heather's home church - the Sanctuary - here in Santa Clarita. Anyway, the wedding went off without a hitch - no body fainted, died, or tried to stop the wedding. Pastor Marty did a good job of keeping it light humored enough to make us feel comfortable, without taking away from the "dignity" of it. We are both thankful for his help in that matter.

Later we went to Studio City for our reception. Word to the wise - newlywed couples should eat ALL of their food before they begin visiting other folks, otherwise they can never finish. We had been warned of this, and so we ate about half of our food, but we probably should have been a little bit more diligent. Even so, it was a fun time celebrating with family and friends and with people both of us hardly knew.

As many of you know, that due to mission agency guidelines, I had to resign from the mission organization I was working with. The bright side to this was that we got to have a 2 week honeymoon. Our first week, we went to Big Bear Lake here in Southern California. It is a ski resort town high in the mountains. Of course it was too warm for snow, but it was still very peaceful and relaxing. Later, as a gift from Heather's mom and step-dad Bruce, we got to go to Hawaii and stay a week in their time share on the beautiful garden island of Kauai. We had a blast in both locations.

Heather's step-dad, dad, brother Scott, Joey's dad, and brother Jerry

Heather with step-dad, mom and dad

Heather with Summer, Renee and Pam

Less than 4 days!!!

We have less than four days until the wedding! I can't believe how quickly time has passed. Joey arrived here on July 17. We had a meeting with the bridesmaids, a couple with family and then an open house for friends. We have been busy trying to get everything done. Tomorrow we hope to pick up our rings. Then on Thursday we pick up his family from LAX. Friday we have some final parties and the rehearsal. Then Saturday we're getting married!! Yea!!