SNOW!

"The winter storm that has paralyzed Spokane set a record for the amount of snow dumped in a 24- hour period. The National Weather Service recorded 17 inches of snow at Spokane International Airport in the 24 hours that ended at 4 a.m., 4 inches more than the record of 13 inches set in 1984 - records have been kept since 1881. More than 3 inches of additional snow had fallen on the city since 4 a.m., driving the total to more than 20 inches." On Thursday morning there was so much snow that I couldn't make it to work, and school was cancelled for Justin. It was fun being snowed in for one day, but we were soon ready for the snow to be gone.

One nice thing about renting is that we never had to shovel anything off of our sidewalk or driveway because our manager did, but we didn't get out of shoveling snow off of our cars!!!

Christmas

We decided to carry on Justin's family tradition by buying each other a Christmas ornament every year. The ornament would represent something memorable that happened during the year.

My ornament to Justin was two precious moments ice skating together, since that is one of our favorite activities to do together, and we spent quite a few dates ice skating and getting to know one another better.
Justin gave me an ornament representing our wedding along with the date we were sealed. It was really sweet that he personalized it. We both loved our ornaments, and buying and exchanging them was one of our Christmas highlights. We needed somewhere to put our new ornaments, but we thought that getting a real Christmas tree is a lot of work and buying one cost a lot of money, so we settled for this dollar store tree. It was perfect! Whatever ornaments couldn't fit on the tree, sat around the tree. We spent Thanksgiving with the Butterfields and Christmas with the Wagners. We are so blessed to be apart of two wonderful families!

It's been a while. . .

So it's been a while since we last posted, and we have heard that many of you look at our page hoping that something exciting has happened to us besides a Halloween party. We have also had someone question how our marriage was going because nothing new has been posted, but Justin's response to that was, "things are going really well!. . . that's why we haven't posted." We haven't really gotten in to blogging yet, but for all of our friends and family, we will attempt to catch you up since Halloween.

Halloween of 2008

We decided that for our first Halloween together we needed to go all out. That means carving a pumpkin, dressing up, and partying late into the night. So we worked hard together to carve our pumpkin. (Thanks Mark for the idea on the pumpkin design). Then we dressed up as secret agents. (Notice Justin's official earpiece, which was what inspired our costumes).

Then we went to a Halloween dinner and costume party at our friends, Marcus and Jenny's house. We had a great themed meal, ate a ton of sweets, and played a rousing game of Apples to Apples late into the night. Halloween of 2008 was a complete success!

Whip Cream Fight

Well let's just say that Steph and I are a little crazy. We have been doing creative dates and so Steph blind folded me and drove me around the valley to get me lost so that I wouldn't know the destination and then took me for a walk in a forested area where we proceeded to have a whip cream fight. Here are the pics:

Our Wedding Videos

Here is our wedding video that Micah Brown put together for us! We absolutely love it! We hope you will enjoy it as well!

And here is a short section we like to call "Crazy Wagners". Just watch it...you will understand the title. (assuming you don't already know that we are crazy!)

Here is a short section from the ring ceremony and many candid shots of many who attended.

And in this video we explain how we met, dated and got engaged!

If you would like to have videos like these of your own, check out Micah's website and get in contact with him!

http://www.easystreetfilms.com/

Final Announcement!

Well we would like to thank all of you that casted your vote for the invitation pictures, and now we present to you the final draft that was mass printed and mass mailed today!

So relating this to the polls everybody took, number 16 took the cake as the main picture, and on the back numbers 3, 11 and 21 were used. Now hopefully you can remember what you voted on! Hope you enjoy!