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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.

Wedding Recap – Getting Ready Part 3

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

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!