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Welcome to our blog!

Danny and I decided to keep a blog about what we are doing in our lives back when we were planning our wedding. So many of our friends and family live in other cities, states, countries, (continents!) that we wanted a way to share our lives, wedding planning, and adventures with them. Now that the wedding is over (it was amazing!) we decided to keep the blog going. Please make sure to come visit our website often, and make sure to leave lots of comments!

About Us

Danny

Danny grew up in Danville, CA. He played volleyball throughout high school, and at the University of Oregon where he attended college. He graduated in 2008 with a BA in History and a minor in Business. He now lives in Pleasanton, CA with his beautiful wife and two crazy kitties. He is currently enrolled in a teaching credential program, and will be teaching High School History next year.

He is currently trying to keep the new grass in the backyard alive, learning to BBQ, and starting to play the guitar again.

Stephanie

Stephanie grew up in El Granada, CA (near Half Moon Bay). In 2007 she graduated from Lewis and Clark College, in Portland Oregon, with a BA in Chemistry. In 2008 earned her MS in Chemistry from the University of Oregon. From October 2008 - April 2009 she attended The Professional Culinary Institute in Campbell, California. She is currently enrolled in a teaching credential program, and will be teaching two periods of High School Chemistry as an Intern Teacher this year. She now lives in Pleasanton, CA with her amazing husband and her two silly cats.

She is currently trying to keep her garden alive, teaching herself to quilt, and enjoying moving into her brand new classroom.

Harley and Zoe

Harley and Zoe are the two crazy kitties. Harley is 3 years old, and Zoe is 2 years old.

Harley enjoys eating massive amounts of grass, sleeping, bothering her sister, putting her toys in strange places, and sitting on her daddy's shoulders.

Zoe enjoys talking incessantly, running as fast as she can through the house, climbing the window/sliding door screens, and banging her head into things.

We met in September 2007. Stephanie was starting her Masters Program at the University of Oregon and Danny was starting his senior year there. Stephanie took some summer courses with one of Danny's friends, who promptly adopted her into their group. Unbeknownst to both Danny and Stephanie, their mutual friend was plotting to set them up before they even met! They started dating soon after they met, and have been so happy ever since.

In October 2008, Danny and Stephanie went to Europe together for two weeks. They went to Amsterdam, Vienna, and Prague. It was truely amazing. After two weeks, Stephanie had to go back to the USA to start culinary school. Danny stayed for two extra weeks in Italy to visit some family friends. While he was in Italy he realized that he was seeing all sorts of amazing sites, and visiting all sorts of beautiful places...but he wished he could have been sharing the experiences with Stephanie. It was then that he decided that he never wanted to visit a new place without Stephanie there to share it with. So he decided to ask her to marry him when he got back!

October 23, 2008 was the 1 year, 1 month, and 1 day anniversary of Danny and Stephanie starting to date. Danny took Stephanie up to Coit Tower in San Fransisco for the sunset, got down on one knee and proposed. She said yes! If you want to read more about it click HERE

Danny and Stephanie got married on June 06, 2009 in Warrenton, Oregon in a small brick chuch, and had an amazing outdoor reception at her parents' house.

They are now enjoying fixing up their townhouse and looking forward to whatever big adventure happens to be next.

Merry Christmas!!!

Thursday, January 1, 2009 at 11:25pm Posted in Holidays, Photos

by Stephanie

We had a great Christmas! Here are some random pictures of our little Christmas that we had. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and a great New Year’s!

Here is the front door to our condo and the pretty wreath we have on it right now:

I love welcome mats! I have one for each holiday season, but I think this Christmas one is my favorite. The snow men are so cute!

Our neighbors put Christmas lights on the little bush outside our mutual walkway. They are so pretty!

Our Christmas tree all lit up:

Our Christmas tree with the rest of the living room lights on. You can really tell how many ornaments we crammed on our little tree lol.

We couldn’t find an angel for the top of the tree that didn’t creep me out. They all had really scary faces painted on them! So we ended up with a glitter covered silver star. However, it was way too heavy for the top of our tree so it sat crooked. But it is sparkly at least!

The two Christmas ornaments we got while in Amsterdam this summer. We collect ornaments and refrigerator magnets from all the neat places we go or special things we do during the year.

The ornament we got while in Vienna this summer:

The ornament we got while in Prague this summer.

Danny’s sister (Lindsay) and brother in law (Chris) gave us this ornament at our engagement party. Frogs are supposed to be good luck because they always hop forward, never backwards.

This is one of the ornaments that my Grandma painted for me to put on my miniature Christmas tree that I had when in the dorms my freshman year in college. The ornaments she gave me for that tree are still some of my favorites!

Another one my Grandma painted:

She also gave me a bunch of really tiny angels and snow men to put on my tiny dorm room tree. Every year I think I took them all off, and then I find some still on the tree the next year because they were so tiny they hid from me!

When Danny was little, each kid used to have a miniature Christmas tree in their room that they decorated with their own ornaments. The next couple are from that. This one is a spinner that Danny’s grandma used to put on the tree. If you situate it just right above one of the Christmas lights it will heat up just enough to spin the little silver disk in the middle.

From Danny’s first year at the University of Oregon (Yellow and green are the UO colors). I’m sure glad he decided to go there for school!!!

A little rocking horse ornament from Danny’s first Christmas:

So cute!!!!!!!!!!!

Our stockings above the fireplace. One for me, one for Danny, one for Harley and one for Zoe:

Yay! Santa showed up!

Harley and Zoe each hopped up to their respective stockings immediately! They even started pulling the toys out of the stockings! It was soooooo funny and cute.