We hope we can finally start to enjoy our home and family! It’s been a busy few years. Tonight is the first night we really did not have anything to do but read, watch tv or surf the web. I must admit that it is nice. The girls are getting up at five in the morning to register for college classes and off we go starting a whole new chapter. We hope they get the classes they want and of course we hope that Shelby can carry her full ride all the way! Shari of course has a good job that has tuition reimbursement so we only need to loan her money until she gets her check from work to cover tuition. We are very lucky and hope to stay that way. As far as marriage, nothing has changed except of course Michael is getting me to watch all those HBO mini series that he always watched while I was at cheerleading practice. They are all very interesting and I can’t wait to be caught up so I can be ready for the fall new episodes.
I uploaded the wedding ceremony to YouTube tonight. The stiff onshore breeze made it difficult for the audio, but if you listen close enough, you can make out the minister’s words, as well as my and Lisa’s vows. The video, though, really gives you a sense of how great our wedding was.
It was for Lisa and I a perfect ceremony, the words were lovely and timeless, and the beach location was more than we hoped for and imagined. I look at that clear blue water and pure white sand and wish I could be back there right now. We’ve promised ourselves that we’ll try to make it back every five years or so, just to relive this wonderful moment in our lives.
I added a couple of new links to our honeymoon photos this week, Bahamas 2008 and Ouray 2008.
Over the course of two weeks our honeymoon took us to Cocoa Beach, the Bahamas, Disney World, a July 4th Isotopes game, and the surprise for Lisa, Ouray, Colorado.
The Ouray trip was strictly Lisa and me, and as you can see from the photo above at Cascade Falls, it was absolutely stunning. It was a blast swimming in some of the most beautiful waters in the world one week, then hiking in and around 14,000′ mountains in mid-summer the next week. It was unforgettable.
Check it out, there are tons of photos from all of our adventures (except Disney World… we learned our lesson last time that lugging a camera around four theme parks is a huge pain, so we opted out this trip).
While we’re still trying to locate a cocktail dress and a blazer, we just finished sending out thank you cards we created through Shutterfly, took advantage of Costco’s amazing photo print service and ordered some gorgeous wedding prints from the digital originals, and started preparations to create our very own wedding coffee book (via MyPublisher). So yeah, we’re still busy!
Marriage is a very good thing! I am happier now than I ever thought I could be. The trip was perfect and the wedding was a dream! We have no complaints other than the part about some of our clothes did not come home with us! Not sure at this point if they are on a Carnival Cruise or lost in an airport somewhere either. We thought we might have down time after July 4, however it seems that we are busy as usual with trying to put the house together, going back to work and picking out pictures! It is lots of fun and wonderful doing these things with your life partner for sure!!
Dear Lisa: I can honestly say I’m happier now than I have ever been in my entire life, baby. To say that marriage does not change you is quite untrue, as I love you now more than I ever have, and it grows stronger every single day. (Everything else, though, feels and stays the same!)
We’ve been back about a week and a half now, but I still can’t get back into my normal routine. It was such a wonderful vacation/wedding/honeymoon, I really want to be back at a Bahamian beach or Colorado mountain right now!
The day of June 24th was just absolutely perfect, the ceremony and everything leading up to it and afterward was everything Lisa and I hoped it would be. Our wedding coordinator in Nassau, Anne Marie Williams of Weddings In The Bahamas, did a spectacular job for us, I couldn’t recommend her enough to anyone looking to have a destination wedding in the Bahamas. Just fabulous.
There is a lot more to say about our two weeks away that Lisa and I will surely write about in the coming weeks here on the website. A cruise to the Bahamas, two days in Cocoa Beach, another two in Disney World, plus three extraordinary days in Ouray, Colorado… wow, how does one summarize that. In between name changes, insurance updates, and picking pictures to hang, just to name a few, we’ll get to it eventually.
In the meantime, we’ve posted photos of the ceremony (courtesy of Vincent Vaughan of Bahamas Wedding Images) at Google and will update the Our Travelogues section to the left as we sift through over 1000 digital photos. I’ll also be figuring out how to edit video since we have some of the ceremony as well.
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