Wednesday, October 11, 2006

OK Lis, Here You Go!


Lis asked me to start up a blog, so here I am. Now just a forewarning there many be huge chunks of time that you don't get an update from me, but hey at least I made it to the list:)

This is Bryan & I at our reception in May. We were married March 11th in Kauai Hawaii. My Uncle Paul married us. We had absolutely no details ready other than the rings, vows, license and pastor when we arrived. It was PERFECT! We drove around the island Friday the 10th searching for a beach to get married on. We found a beautiful beach and decided on a time. We had about 30 guests. The morning of the big day we thought it would be fun to drive out and watch the sun rise on our beach. Well, it was raining so hard that we weren't able to even get to the beach let alone watch the sun rise. We had a bit of a panic attack. I know you are all thinking that Kauai is known for its rain bursts. This is different folks. These are record breaking rain falls. We drove back to my Mom's condo where I proceeded to wake her from a perfectly peaceful sleep with my "Mom! What are we going to do??? I mean the condo is nice and all but why fly all the way to Hawaii just to get married indoors? Of course she was calm and as always super optomistic. "Just wait hon, there are still about 5 hours until the scheduled time and we can always postpone the time." Well sure enough the rain stopped and the sun came out for about 4 hours and we were able to have our wedding on the beach we chose. We were bare foot, I wore a simple white dress and he wore shorts and a white shirt. Some day I'll figure out how to get them to my blog to show you a bit. After the wedding it started to rain again and didn't let up the whole trip. I'm talking people's houses were being washed out to sea. Some folks even lost their lives. It was crazy!! But what an adventure! Plus I feel like God performed a miracle for our wedding day by letting the sun shine. We were able to get married, take pictures and have snacks on the beach before it started to rain again. THANK YOU JESUS! I mean I'm about as mellow as they come and I have to admit I was a touch nervous.

We were going to stay another week on the North Shore of the island but on our way to our hotel the main highway washed out and we weren't able to get there. We flew out to Oahu that day and stayed a couple of days there instead. We ran into Chris and Sarah over there at Diamond Head and were able to hang out with them and do some snorkling. I look back on the wedding and honeymoon and couldn't be happier with how things turned out. We had such an adventure over there that you just couldn't make this stuff up. We laugh about it a lot and made the best out of a very wet honeymoon. At least we are used to being wet, being from Washington and all:) Well, that's quite enough from me for now.


P.S. This is our dog Duke. He is awesome! He just learned how to chill. Yep, I say Duke chill and he lays down on his side.