100th Visitor

In a little over a week we have had over 100 visitors to the webpage. My goal is to have it over 1,000 by the time of the wedding. If we don't get that high, Joo Lin will be sad! Don't make Joo Lin sad!

Wedding Sealing

Here our the times for the certain temple related events.

December 10th -- 1 pm -- Endowments
December 17th -- noon -- Sealing

If you would like to come please email me back at J.Kelley.Rice@gmail.com or RSVP through the website for those events. Currently, I do not have the endowments session as a RSVP but I will within the next couple of days.

Canby Cougars Football

Congratulations to Tdawg and Evan for winning their medal game on saturday 19-0.

Invitations Update

We dropped off our invitations today with our friend that is going to be printing them for us. We picked up another box from the Paperzone this weekend. We have a total of 200 that are getting printed out. That is crazy. We know that we wont have that many people at the reception but we know that we have to send them off to all of our friends and family friends.

We saved some extra money at the Paperzone store this weekend too. We went to pick up one more box of them but we ended up buying two more boxes. They were having a sale and if you bought this plastic bag for $3 and filled it up with stuff you would save an extra 20 percent off the total. So we are planning on taking back two boxes to the store in Salem. So to make a long story short we are getting a box of invitation card stock for free. Saving money is great!

We are planning on getting the printed invitations back on Thursday and we are planning on sending out the first batch of invitations out on Saturday. So people should be getting them next week.

We are also planning on adding a picture to the invitation too. We weren't going to do it at first but Joo Lin really wants to do so. What Joo Lin wants, Joo Lin gets. We are having a friend of ours take some nice photos of us this coming week and then we are going to get those developed and printed out by Thursday or Friday.

So we have a busy week ahead of us. It should be fun though.

Invitation Preview...NOT

We have decided that everyone will have to wait to see what the invitations will look like once they get them in the mail. SORRY!

Atleast you should have something to look forward to in the next couple of weeks.

Wedding Website

The official Kelley and Joo Lin wedding website is now online. To visit this website please go to the following link

http://www.KelleyandJooLinForever.com

ENJOY!

Congratulations Mommy!!!

For some odd reason my mother wasn't able to view the wedding blog before but now she can!!!

I am really excited that she can see this now even though she still has no clue what a blog is.

HI MOM, I LOVE YOU!

Gift Registries

Joo Lin and I are now registered at Target and Bed Bath and Beyond. We think that these will be the only two places that we will be registered but if we add something else we will keep you posted. We hit up Bed Bath and Beyond pretty good but we weren't quite sure what we were suppose to do at Target. Are we suppose to register for the same sort of stuff at both or should we just have bedding and stuff like that at one and then kitchen stuff at the other??? It was confusing and hopefully we will get that worked out and make the approiate changes.

I will be posting the web links to access the registry's online once they are up and running. It takes a day or two to get them up and running online.

Invitations

We were talking with one of our friends yesterday and as a wedding present they are going to print out our wedding invitations. So the plan for invitations is to get what we want on them figured out and then we are going to drop them off next weekend while we are up in Portland and then it should take two days to have them all printed. This is exciting for us because we are getting to the point were we are trying to safe money and every bit helps.

B of M challenge

As many of you know, the President of our church (President Gordon B. Hinckley) has challenged us to complete the Book of Mormon by the end of this year.

Joo Lin and I are excited to say that we are attempting to complete this task together. Joo Lin has calculated that we need to read atleast seven pages a night to be able to complete it by the end of this year.

This is something that we know will greatly impact our lives and we believe that we will be blessed when we do read the Book of Mormon.

Rumor has it...

...that Kelley no longer work at the Target DC. Well, this is correct.

I had an opportunity for another position and I decided that it would be best to not pass it up. Although having that I can drive a fork lift on my resume is impressive, I thought that I would gain more experience at this new position.

They are paying me the same, if not more. We have not negotiated the terms of the deal yet. Plus I will have my weekends off to attend OSU football games and to hang out with Joo Lin more. That way she won't feel to stressed come the wedding. They are also working around my school schedule which makes it even better. Oh, I don't have to work the graveyard shift either. And I don't have to worry about getting hurt as often. The list of Target injuries/sorenesses/aches will stop growing too.

I started on Wednesday and so far I like it. I have a great mentor who is teaching me a lot of information. Hopefully it won't be an overload of new stuff on top of schooling.

The only bad part about this new job is that I won't be as active as I was with Target. I have dropped over two pant sizes while working their and I almost have the gut completely gone. I will have to make an extra effort to go work out now which has always been tough but I plan on keeping the weight off.

The best part of this new position is that I am working with Joo Lin again. FOR REAL!!! I accepted a position to be an administrative assistant with the Clair Company. I have goals of becoming their IT dude on top of that.

I will keep you posted on how the training goes.

Invitations Card Stock

We bought our invitation card stock tonight from the Paper Zone. I think everyone will like them. They are very simple but very elegant. They have hearts around the borders. I will scan a sample blank one to show everyone what they look like before we take them in to get printed.

The reason we are doing the blank cards and printing them is because we are attempting to be thrifty. Hopefully that works outs. We are finding that everything is more expensive than we thought and any way to save a penny will help.

Congrats Tdawg

Rumor has it that Tdawg (Trevin) intercepted the football in last weeks football game and ran it back for a Touchdown!!! Congratulations Tdawg, you are a stud!

Also, great job Trevin and Amanda on your walk-athon! I am glad that we didn't pledge per lap.

Major Planning Session

Joo Lin and I are having a major wedding planning session tomorrow (Thursday) night. We are hoping to get some of the following items accomplished.

Invitations
Website
Wedding Cake
Wedding day schedule
Day before Wedding schedule
Updated Budget
Bachelor Party Day planned

This is all that I can think of. If you talk to us within the next couple of days please ask us how we are doing to make sure we aren't slacking off.

Update

Sorry for not posting any updates lately. Things have been chaotic with work and school the past few weeks. I am also finally coming down from the birthday festivities too.

Currently we are working on the website for the wedding. I think you will all like it and I will post the URL link to it shortly. We need to get it up to our standard before we post it out.

We are also working on the invitations. We realize that we need to get these out ASAP so everyone can start planning for it.

That is it for now. 65 DAYS!!!!

First Wedding Present

We got our first wedding present today (10/5/2005). It was from Myrna Epperson, not sure what it is but as soon as my mother leaves I will find out. She is sitting next to me while I type this. She just hit me and told me that I couldn't open it until after the wedding.

Kelley's Bday

Happy Birthday Kelley! 28 years old and still kicking!