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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 with a BA in History and a minor in Business. He now lives in Pleasanton, CA with his beautiful wife, two crazy kitties, and silly puppy. He is currently teaching high school Economics, AP Economics and World Geography.

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). 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 teaching high school Chemistry and AP Chemistry. She now lives in Pleasanton, CA with her amazing husband, two crazy cats, and silly puppy

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.

Us

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.

Wedding Recap – Getting Ready Part 3

Sunday, August 2, 2009 at 10:46am Posted in Our Wedding, Photos of Our Wedding, Wedding Recap

by Stephanie
Here are some more pictures of getting ready before the wedding!

This is my mom putting my dad’s boutonniere on. He looks like he is thinking that this whole wedding thing is totally insane lol. Which it was! While we were all getting ready there were tons of people in the house running all over the place lol.

This is Danny calling the guys trying to find out where on earth they were. They were late as always lol. They were all supposed to be there getting ready a while ago. Luckily it doesn’t take guys that long to get ready! The guys actually ended up having tons of extra time before the wedding so they went around with the photographer and took a ton of really fun pictures. I’m still a little jealous that they had time to take some fun pictures. Us girls took so long getting ready that we didn’t have a chance to get any good, fun, pictures together before the wedding. It’s ok though, there was no way on earth I was going to wake up before 6am on the day of my wedding just to get some extra pictures lol. Yup…the girls started getting ready at 6am…there were 8 of us getting our hair/makeup done by only two people!

Waiting for something, but at least there is coffee now!

Danny’s brother, the best man, pinning on his boutonniere.

The guys starting to get ready.

Me, still in my batman pj’s and flannel shirt, with my hair and makeup all finished.

Look! My hair had curls in it! They didn’t stay in for much longer than the ceremony, but that is ok. Everyone saw me with my hair nice and done for a little while at least! It started to sprinkle right after the ceremony for a few minutes, so needless to say, the curls fell out quite a bit. Plus, we danced a ton and were playing games until midnight…lol.

Carla put a little more hairspray in, and then put in my two hair facinators. They were so pretty. They had some lace, crystal beads, and synthetic pearls. They were one of my favorite touches. I still wear them sometimes!

I love this picture. It is glowing which is exactly what I felt like.

So pretty!

Last minute make up touches.

Next time, pictures of the girls getting dressed! That means, pictures of me getting in my wedding dress! :-D

And they lived happily ever after…

by Stephanie

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Wedding Recap – Getting Ready Part 2

Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 9:52pm Posted in Our Wedding, Photos of Our Wedding, Wedding Recap

by Stephanie
Danny and I had agreed to get each other a wedding present to be exchanged on the day of our wedding. We debated back and forth about whether or not to give them to each other before the ceremony, or after the ceremony. The issue was that we decided NOT to see each other until the doors opened at the church and I started walking down the isle (which made logistics for the actual wedding day really complicated! But it was TOTALLY worth it). So if we exchanged gifts before the wedding then we would be opening the gifts without the other one there. We decided that it would be a nice idea to exchange the gifts in the morning while getting ready because it would be a little break from the chaos where we can take a moment to open the present and just think about each other for a minute.

So in the morning I totally forgot to wrap the present! So had one of the bridesmaids wrap it for me while I was getting my hair and makeup done (Julie wrapped it I think…pretty much everything is a blur so I’m not really sure who did it lol). We all thought it would be fun if Danny and I both opened our gifts at exactly the same time even though we were two floors apart (Danny downstairs, me upstairs) in my parents house.

So Julie ran up and down the stairs to figure out the timing! It was so funny and fun. So here are some pictures of us opening our gifts:

This is me writing Danny a real quick note explaining that his gift would get engraved at a later date, when I could find a place to do it. We had agreed not to write each other letters like some people do because we knew we weren’t going to have time to write something that would be as meaningful as we would have wanted it to be. So I cheated a little bit! Big deal! I just wanted him to know what the engraving was supposed to say! And I threw in “I love you” and a couple mushy things lol.
This is me starting to open up my present:


It was an absolutely AMAZING necklace. It was white gold with diamonds and came from the same design line as my wedding ring set. At this point I had still not decided if I was going to wear by great grandma’s set of pearls, my mom’s set of pearls, or a necklace of my other great grandma’s. As soon as I saw the necklace from Danny I knew it was what I was meant to wear that day. It went perfectly with my dress. It was so amazing. I wear it almost every day now.

These are pictures from the store’s website that I blew up in photoshop:

Here is Julie giving Danny his present!

Danny opening it up and realizing that I had cheated by writing him a note :-)

This is a picture from the Skagen website of the watch I got Danny.
We both ended up wearing our gifts on our wedding day which is pretty special. I wear my necklace all the time and Danny wears his watch all the time. It is really neat that we got each other something that we can wear everyday to remind us of our wedding day.
And they lived happily ever after…

by Stephanie

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Wedding Recap – Getting Ready Part 1

Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 11:20am Posted in Our Wedding, Photos of Our Wedding, Wedding Recap

by Stephanie
So I haven’t really posted anything about the wedding because I wanted to wait until I had some pictures to show you guys. I also admit I was a little overwhelmed with where to start, and how much there is to recap! It was a long day!

So I figure what I will do is just start at the beginning of the photos and go in chronological order. Anything that gets left out (like details from the planning I never wrote about, or details from the wedding that I dont have pictures for) I will write about at the end in whatever random order I think of them!

I am going to do the recap in little mini segments. Instead of posting all my favorite pictures from “getting ready” I am going to post about 5 to 10 at a time. This is mostly because I don’t have huge chunks of time to sit around and upload pictures lol, but also so that you have more manageable sized posts to read. It just means you are going to have to keep coming back!

I am also going to do the recap with all the professional photos first, and then I will go back and do some posts with some of the great pictures our friends and family took during the day. Doing it that way will make it a little easier for me to organize all the photos.

So here we go!

Since all the bridesmaids, me, my mom, and my sister were all getting our hair and makeup done we had to start pretty early. We were up by 6:30am getting our hair and makeup started.

The woman who did it all is from Half Moon Bay and has been doing my hair since I was a sophomore in high school! She flew up from Half Moon Bay to Oregon with one of her assistants to do it.

Here are some fun pictures from that:

This was the color of my hair for the wedding. I LOVED it. My dress was a very pale ivory so the red highlights looked amazing next to the dress.

Yes, that is right. Instead of wearing one of those little “Future Mrs. Farmer” or “Bride to Be” tops like most people wear while getting ready for their wedding I wore my batman pajama bottoms and a flannel shirt! I figured if I had to wake up at 6:30 in the morning then I was going to wear something comfy! Danny laughed soooo much when he saw these pictures. He got a kick out of the Batman PJs.
This is me seeing the flowers for the first time. They were beautiful. I know it was my wedding and all, but they really were the most beautiful bouquets and boutonnieres I had ever seen. They were so different and detailed! There will be close up pictures of them later on.

Well that is it for now! I should be less busy over the next couple days and weeks so I am going to try to post more regularly so come back to the website soon!
And they lived happily ever after…

by Stephanie

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We are alive I promise!

Friday, July 3, 2009 at 12:22am Posted in Our Wedding, Photos of Our Wedding, Wedding Recap

by Stephanie
Hey everyone! So we are married!!!!! We are also back from our honeymoon as of a couple weeks now. Sorry I haven’t posted anything from the wedding yet. Two days after we got back from the wedding I started my credential program at CSU East Bay Hayward, so needless to say I have been super busy.

We are almost done winding down from all the wedding craziness. We have been working on fixing up our condo (Danny is installing new light fixtures as I am typing actually!) and we have been working on trying to keep our garden alive during the heat wave. I promise I will start writing posts about the wedding, although I can’t promise how often I will get to do so.

Here are a couple teaser pictures though! These were done by my friend Sean. He took so many great pictures. I will be posting mostly pictures by him, and by some other friends and family members. It takes about two months to get the professional photos back but I know you don’t want to wait that long to see at least some pictures!

Once I have some more time I will start from the beginning of the day and try to go through in some sort of chronological order, but for now here are some pictures of the beginning of the ceremony.

When Danny first saw me when the doors opened up:

Me starting to walk down the isle:
And they lived happily ever after…

by Stephanie

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Bathroom Baskets

Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 11:08pm Posted in Our Wedding, Photos

by Stephanie
I have been to a couple weddings that had little baskets in the bathrooms filled with all sorts of things that may come in handy. I usually end up needing to use a band aid, or a hair tie or something. It is one of those little things that I always thought was so helpful so we put together our bathroom baskets for the three bathrooms at my parents’ house. Here are some pictures of what our baskets/trays look like and then a list of what is in the trays.

Q-tips
Band aids
Hair ties
Bobby pins
Comb
Tums
Aleave
Neosporin
Nail clippers
Oil absorbing sheets
Warm Vanilla Sugar body spray
Warm Vanilla Sugar body lotion
Nail file
Hair spray
Eucerin body lotion
Dr. Scholles Miracle Shield blister prevention stick
Clear nail polish (great for runs in your nylons!)
Sun screen
Apple scented hand sanitizer
Regular hand sanitizer
Wet ones
Shout stain removing wipes
Sewing kit
Lint roller
Listerine
Cups for listerine (or aleave)
Mint and Cinnamon gum
Mint and cinnamon breath strips
Dental floss
Single use “finger toothbrushes”
Paper hand towels
Kleenex

What do you think? Did we forget anything that might come in handy?

And yes, that is our mattress in the middle of the living room lol. We are sleeping downstairs since Harley is locked in our bedroom. When we had the bed in there she kept trying to jump onto the bed which was totally not allowed by the vet…so we have been exiled to the living room lol.
And they lived happily ever after…

by Stephanie

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