Another year is here...

Happy New Year everyone! 

May you all be blessed with a very happy and healthy 2009! 

Love to you all! 

Love, Stephanie and Jeremy 

From snow to the beach....

I flew back to FL this afternoon and will be packing up this week to move back to KC! Jeremy will be flying in on New Years Eve as we are having a big New Years bash at my brother and Joshua's and then will be heading back to the Midwest on Friday with Maverick and Graham. When I left KC this morning it had been snowing and was in the 20's and when I arrived in FL, the temps were in the 80's! So, needless to say, I wanted to take advantage of the beautiful weather and headed to the beach to enjoy one last time of watching Maverick play ball in the ocean. Even though he has been struggling more the past couple of weeks, he came to life when we arrived on the beach. He would not stop going after the tennis ball and it was so awesome to watch him enjoy playing ball and running around again. 

Our First Christmas!

Jeremy and I were so blessed to have a wonderful Christmas with our family. Unfortunately, we could not see everyone over the holiday, but we were thankful to see a lot of our friends and family over Christmas. We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with my in-laws and then my mom and stepdad came down to my in-laws house to spend the afternoon with us as well. We had a very nice visit with everyone and were thrilled to all be together. As you can see, Nate sure enjoyed his 2nd Christmas! He definitely got into unwrapping his gifts and wanted to try everything out as soon as it was unwrapped. However, he was not very interested in sitting on Santa's lap when Santa stopped by the house! So, Aunt Stephanie had to show him that sitting on Santa's lap was not scary!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

We wish you all a wonderful and special day!

Love, Jeremy and Stephanie

Straight from the North Pole...

...Santa's little reindeer!

May the true meaning of the season be celebrated 

as we give thanks for the birth of Jesus. 

We wish everyone a wonderful and blessed Christmas!

Love, Jeremy, Stephanie, Maverick and Graham (the reindeer)

My feelings exactly....

Jeremy found this image and it is perfectly suited to the Midwest winter weather! Oh, how exciting it is going to be to live among snow again! (I am totally being sarcastic...)

66 degrees difference

I haven't blogged in a week so I thought I would jump on and say a little something here! As most of you know I came back to FL for a couple of weeks after the wedding so I could start packing and finish up some things with work. The good thing is that I am in 78 degree weather while my poor hubby is in 12 degree weather, but that is the only pro with being states apart right now! We are missing each other like crazy and he is still living in boxes in our new place because he said that he is not sure where anything is supposed to go! haha! I will be heading back to KS next week however and am looking forward to being there for Christmas. I hope all of you are having a wonderful, stress-free holiday season and I wish everyone warm and happy hearts no matter where you are living! :)

Kids say the darndest things.....

So, the cutest thing happened today at the Y. I was getting ready to teach my kids class and one of my favorite kiddos (he is 4 years old) marched right up to me with the most serious and sweetest look and said.....

"I thought I was going to marry you!"

His mom looked at me and said, "I just told him the news that you had gotten married and he was so upset!"

An end to a fabulous and fun day!

The boxer shorts are a little bit of an inside joke! The boys received all of those from my in-laws and the girls and I received THONGS! Yes, as most of you had seen, we DID have a pair of thongs on our Target registry and it WAS on purpose! Totally an inside joke (and too long to try and explain!), and obviously one that will never be lived down! 

Dance with me!

The bottom picture is me dancing with my brother, but the other three pictures are Jeremy giving me quite the lap dance! He was going in for the garter but put on quite the show to get it! It was pretty funny! 

More reception pictures!

Top picture: Jeremy and my grandpa being silly during the Dollar Dance!

Second picture: Mr. and Mrs. Dulin!

Third picture: Making it official with Stefan as we sign our marriage certificate!

Last picture: Joshua and my long-time friend and bridesmaid, Faith. Unfortunately, Joshua was not in a lot of the wedding pictures because he was BEHIND the camera! He was a wonderful photographer!

Cutting of the cake

Yes, those are salt and pepper shakers on the top of our wedding cake! (You have to see the movie Fireproof to appreciate the symbolism!) Our cake matched the colors of our wedding with the brown and red and Jeremy had a KC Royals grooms cake which turned out really awesome as well. He was very sweet and no one ended up with a cake mask afterwards!

Picture-taking poses

Jeremy and I had THE MOST AMAZING wedding party EVER! We had so much fun and were thankful to those who were there to stand up with us. That is my brother in the middle of the first picture making a silly face and again standing with my friend, Faith, in the second picture! Isn't he so handsome in that brown tux?!

The KIDS of the wedding!

My 'nephew', Hudson was our Bible Bearer and wore a KC Royals jersey, Bella (one of Jeremy's friends little girl) was our flower girl, and Nate, our nephew, was our ring bearer. He is with us in the last picture sporting a Cardinals jersey! Thankfully they all went down the aisle okay, but only Bella stood at the front with us! She was a star and we are sure that she is practicing to be a professional flower girl! 

THE HAIR....

The day started out early as we had to be at the salon at 7:00 a.m! Due to our wedding starting at 11:00, we had to get moving early! The girls and I had a lot of fun getting our hair done. Evan, Courtney's husband, made a bagel run for us and we watched as SNOW started falling! Gotta love the Midwest weather, it had been in the 50's and bright and sunny just a day or two before the big day but the snow started that Saturday morning and did NOT stop all day! It kept coming down and it was so pretty! 

Rehearsal Night

Everyone joined together on Friday night for our rehearsal dinner at the Majestic Comedy Club! We had about 25 family and friends come together for a very fun night of comedy, laughs, and good food! The pictures are as follows:

Top picture: This was the headliner comic Mark Cordes. He is from Arizona (YEAH!!!) and was absolutely FABULOUS! He made us laugh so hard and Jeremy and I even got called out during the show! It was a very funny and memorable show!

Second picture: Yes, I am double-fisting the drinks there! Haha! Joshua had ordered my infamous favorite Cosmo drink and I had no idea that Jeremy had ordered me one in the bar as well! So, I could not let good drinks go to waste! I actually do not drink a lot, but they were sure tasty!

Third picture: Yep, that is my MOTHER! Before the show started she decided to jump on stage and give us a little show herself! We were rolling in our seats....and she hadn't even had any drinks!!

Last picture: This is me and my friend, Stefan. We met when we both lived out in AZ. He is a pastor for LifeChurch.tv. We became inseparable friends out there and have maintained our friendship since we both moved away (he is now in OK). He came to KC to officiate the wedding and it was so good to see him and for him to meet Jeremy! 

All in all, our rehearsal dinner was a blast!

Kick off to the wedding!

Jeremy and I spent the night at my mom's on Thanksgiving and worked hard all evening organizing everything for the wedding. Scott (thankfully) tried on his tux and found out that his pants were high waters! We got a big laugh out of it but mom had to let the hem out so they would fit him okay for Saturday! We got up bright and early on Friday morning and headed into KC! 

one picture out of 700!

Here is just a glimpse of our day! Joshua took over 700 photographs this past weekend and we are so excited to see them all! I will definitely add more to the blog once we get them!

A Wonderful Wedding Weekend!

I wish I had pictures to share, but I will soon! We had such an amazing weekend, God truly blessed us with a beautiful day! However, they say that it is good luck if it rains on your wedding, but what does it mean if it SNOWS on your wedding?! haha! Gotta love the Midwest weather, it was in the 50's and sunny just a day or two before the wedding and then it snowed all day on Saturday! It was gorgeous though, it just made the day extra special. My friend, and former pastor, Stefan did an awesome job officiating and we were blessed with a very personal and fun ceremony and reception. We could not have asked for a better day. Thank you to all of you who were able to attend, it was wonderful to have you there to celebrate with us! Stay tuned for pictures!