Many Moments of Marital Bliss

Greetings in the middle of the night family and friends!

Well our good friend, Steve, is paying us a visit this evening. :) It has been WAAAAYYYY too long since he has last stayed over, so its nice to have him around. Im sure you all remember him from the wedding. He was one of our groomsmen. He was Doug's roommate senior year of college. Of course, other than me, he was Doug's best roommate! He has been the best friend to Doug and to me. We like to refer to him as our "wingman." This all stemmed from the convo he referred to in the speech he gave at the reception. We are thankful to have him. If any of you ever end up staying at our house overnight, just know that you are staying in his room. :) Lol.

Well it is that time.... I finally have uploaded almost all of the pictures to facebook. I am attaching a billion links. Just copy and paste them into a new url and you can see almost all of the pictures that Jonilyn Brown took. Jonilyn Brown is truly amazing. At a later date, I am going to be including some vendor information on a post. I need to be honest and say that I was so please with everything and everyone who helped us. :) You have already seen the AMAZING shots that Jacob Atmodjojo took. I am absolutely blown away by both of these photographers. :) I have memories to last me a lifetime.

Speaking of which.... today has been a super nostalgic day! Doug and I woke up very early and headed down to Huntington Beach. The June gloom lasted until about noon. We didnt even realize that we were there that long. We even got a little burnt today! OH NO! But we have been having the best weekend. We came home to our beautiful house. In the later evening Doug lit candles (from our wedding..hehe) and we listened to some classical music. One of the songs on the playlist was Canon in D. Of course, all if these emotions from the wedding came flooding back. As we were sitting in our beautiful bungalow, alone I was thinking "LORD I AM BLESSED!" My mom and I were having about an hour long conversation about the wedding, as she just got back from one of Julia's friend's bridal showers. :) So of course, that triggered the entire thing. A friend from college, Kelly O, is getting married very shortly! I know God is going to do big things in her and her fiance's life! Just reading her blog and her recent post on her bridal shower truly made me thankful for the experience that this wedding brought. But as Doug and I were sitting in our HOME this evening, I was overwhelmed with all of the emotions of the love that God has given us throughout our dating life, and more importantly, through our marriage. God has truly given us an amazing gift. :) So I wanted to title this blog "I wish you LOVE!" A while back my friend Holly Beeley sent out a forward with something to this extent. But as I was sitting near the warm embrace of my incredible husband, surrounded by soft lights, I said a short simple prayer for all of you out there. I asked the Lord to WISH you all LOVE. Especially right now I wish Kelly love. I wish Emma Love. I wish Nano/Lindsay love. :) The first two have a date coming up a lot sooner than Lindsay, but she has a BUSY year ahead of her! :) I wish all of you love out there. Really enjoy every moment of your lives... the good and bad. God has given us a gift. Though not everyone will find that same gift in a spouse, God does offer that love to everyone. I just praise HIM that I am able to experience a glimpse of it with my husband!

I really do wish all of you love! :) Have a wonderful rest of your weekend. :) Doug and I are thankful for all of you and love you all! :) Enjoy the pics (and if you notice the pic of me alone is from BEFORE the wedding! I have so many pics of the before wedding prep! This is at the bridal salon for my first fitting of my dress!!!! OH THE MEMORIES... but I digress). Good night! Sweet dreams!

THE LINKS:: If you want to view these, copy and paste these into a new window at the url spot. These are all the pictures from Jonilyn Brown!

Album Title: The wedding fun continues
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2256790&l=397d6&id=3304510

Album Title: More Wedding- More getting ready and start of ceremony
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2256853&l=bf020&id=3304510

Album Title: More, more more!- More getting ready
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2257392&l=daf58&id=3304510

Album Title: The fun never ends- focus on the ceremony
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2257511&l=c7070&id=3304510

Album Title: More of my faves:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2257533&l=ef8f8&id=3304510

Album Title: The last album
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2257533&l=ef8f8&id=3304510

Hello Family and Friends,

I am please to write to all of you that we have received our pictures from Jonilyn Brown. She is so amazing! I am absolutely in love with the pictures she took. I just cant step away from them! I am going to include some "teasers" of what she took. She certainly did take a lot, so it will take me a while to make a facebook album so you can see all of them, but enjoy this for now! :) I am just so excited!!!!!!!

If any of you are in search of a good photographer, I have both Jonilyn and Jacob's contact info. I have to say honestly, as I was looking at Jonilyn's pictures I felt all of the excitement of the wedding rush back to me! She caught so many of the intimate moments that I loved that day! If you are searching out a GREAT photographer, go for Jonilyn. Thank you Jonilyn for capturing the most important moments of our special day. You have some unbelievable talent and we are blessed to have you! Seriously everyone, I am a big fan of Jonilyn. He pictures get better each time you click on her blog! If you dont believe me, watch over a couple of weeks. You would be AMAZED. I hope some random bride-to-be in the Los Angeles/Orange County area stumbles across this and finds Jonilyn. She is truly a one of a kind photographer. If you click on Jonilyn's name, it will take you directly to her website. I am personally a fan of course blog. Basically, I stalk it everyday to see what she is up to next. If you want to go there, click on Jonilyn Brown. If you prefer to type these in manually, her website is jonilynphotography.com and her blog is jonilynphotographyblog.com. Check her out!

Well this week was a rather "tough" one. While I love my students a lot, the school year seems to be dragging. They are already on vacation, so its like pulling teeth to get them to do the work they NEED to do for the next 8 days! Doug had his finals for his classes at UCI. Needless to say, with this week ending, we are both so happy for the little break that he has from his classes. I miss him when he is gone.

We hope you all enjoy the pictures! Check back periodically. I am going to be adding facebook albums so you can see the entire thing.

Thank you again to EVERYONE who made our wedding day so special. As you can see, I relive it daily! :) We love you all so much, and count ourselves blessed to have you in our lives!

Dear Family and Friends,

We hope this finds you happy and well. Time.... such an abstract concept! Lol. It's hard to believe that it's been 3 months since Doug and I have been married. I feel like March 2nd was so long ago, but in reality, 3 months is so short! We don't have too much to report on this our 3rd month anniversary. Doug and I finally feel like we have some kind of stability. It is such a nice feeling. I do need to interject here what an amazing husband Doug truly is. HE helped me DEEP CLEAN THE HOUSE YESTERDAY! Yesterday was our "spring cleaning" day. Boy am I thankful to him. As lovely as our little bungalow is, it gets SOOO dusty and dirty so quickly. It doesnt matter how many times we sweep or dust, it piles up. So Doug, being my hero, gets down on his hands and knees and scrubs the whole house! Wow.... whoever said that women need to train their husbands need to think twice!

Doug is going to roll his eyes when he reads this. He and I both got this INCREDIBLY adorable e-mail from his mom on our 1 month anniversary wishing us a happy one month marriage anniversary. His reply to me about that was "Oh you women." Lol. Doug isnt too fond of the little anniversaries. I find it humorous to goad him on and say "HAPPY SUCH AND SUCH ANNIVERSARY BABY." This morning when we woke up and had our lovely morning coffee and breakfast I got this HUGE smile on my face and said "HAPPY 3 MONTH ANNIVERSARY!" He had that same adorable face that he has had every time I would say something like that when we were dating. Some things never change. But through it all, the changes, the constants, and time passing by, I can honestly say that I am blessed to have found the love of my life. God is truly smiling upon us. I wish you all the happiness that God has given to us. So HAPPY 3 MONTHS! :) lol. Laugh, smile, live, love.... GOD IS GOOD!

Ps. This picture was from our honeymoon at the cutest little candy shop in Calistoga. It just goes to show how SWEET life is!