Holiday time!

 Our first Christmas as a married couple!! After the Christmas Eve family festivities at Grandma and Gradpa Stepien's house, Gary and I went home and celebrated our first Christmas together being married. Check out our first tree! :)

The girls at Grandma's house!

The entire Stepien Clan.

My hubby building a fire to keep us warm!

Yay for the start of summer!

I absolutely love when the weather gets nice out and we can get outside.


Nice fish Gary!

Honeymoon

We had a wonderful time on our honeymoon. We stayed at a beautiful resort in Riveria Maya. It was a great way to unwind after a few stressful months of wedding planning. We had all these plans to go zip lining and hiking, but we enjoyed relaxing by the ocean so much that we never got around to it. I guess we'll have to go back again. :)

Gary thought it would be funny to take a picture by the huge plant!

Wedding Slideshow!

Our photographer put this slideshow together for us with a little sneak peak of the pictures. Enjoy!

We're Married!!

Thank you to all of our family and friends for celebrating with us on our special day. We had such a wonderful time with all of you. Here are a few previews from our photographer.

Getting Ready...

The Ceremony...

Reception...

Rehearsal Dinner is tonight.

We're all set for our practice run tonight. We'll start at church and then make our way to Josephine's for dinner.

Sarting to get a little nervous...... :)

Wedding Shower

Here are a few pictures from my bridal shower. Thank you to all my bridesmaids and family for putting this together for Gary and I, we got so many wonderful gifts. The girls pitched in and bought us a table and chairs for our new patio. We're both so excited to finally be able to sit out and enjoy our backyard.

The wedding party, plus my mom.

 We could NOT get the cork out of the champaign. We tried everthing, but it wouldn't budge.

We finally got it! It flew across the fence and hit a car on the other side.

Haha, funny Lu. It is a long running joke in our family to give these underwear along with a bra (not pictured) as gifts whenever someone has a birthday, graduation, Christmas, or as you can see wedding shower. The bra was bought at a rummage sale for 25 cents as a joke, and ever since as been traded among us. I believe the big sparkly undies got added in at Kathy's wedding shower.....

Aunt Frankie, Lu, Mom, Grandma, Kathy, and God-daughter Cassie