May 17

So we're finally married. Wooo-hoo!!! We thought the day would never come.

But come it did---and brought the sunshine with it. We were so sure it would rain (since that's what the weather had been predicting), but we saw nothing but blue skies all afternoon. What a wedding present. ;)

There was some wind, however, and that made for quite an adventure with the centerpieces. Our solution? Duct tape.

I wore flip flops and Steven wore fancy pants shiny tuxedo shoes. Mariah did my hair (lots of curls in a twisty bun thing); Steven did his own. Our colors were green and brown, and our two cakes were delicious!! (One was a white cake with raspberry filling; the other was a yellow cake with nutella in the middle!! Yum.)


ps. That's my mom's dress.


I don't think anybody cried at the ceremony, though I honestly wasn't paying attention to much. The sealer gave some good advice: he told Steven when I ask him to do something I mean now; and he told me to cook yummy food for him. We're off to a great start. :)

After the cake, a dance, and lots of "Hi!! How are you's?!" we left promptly at 4:30pm to start our drive down to Virginia Beach. It rained some, but we didn't mind.

Now we're pretty settled into our new apartment, and sometimes we act like adults. Steven works on his dissertation proposal, and I take the bus to the university where I pretend to know what I'm doing in the Physics department. We have a kitchen table, a couch, and a stir crazy. What more could we want? :)


Luci and Steven Jones



Raking up all the grass that Seth and my dad had to mow the day before. (It hadn't been done in a while and was totally up to a tall person's knees.):

Seth and Grandma.
So cute.

My HANDSOME husband.

Skipping town.