We're Back!

We made it home safely from our honeymoon extravaganza. We nearly ran into Santa on our way home Christmas Eve. Luckily our pilot was experienced at dodging reindeer from past experiences.

Here is a picture from our honeymoon. Don't worry, It is G rated.

1 MORE DAY!

16 hours and 45 minutes till I am married! How cool is that? I never thought that this day would come but I guess it is coming quicker than I thought.

Things are going smoothly so far. We have our rehearsal dinner tonight and that should be a great time had by all.

I picked up my tux yesterday and, Dang I look hot it in. Hopefully it still fits tomorrow.

This will be my last post until after the honeymoon. Hopefully I survive.

Bachelor Party

The Bachelor Party was a success. No one went to jail and no one froze to death at the game. Thanks for everyone who made it to this event and sharing a special day with me. It was awesome.

Temple Endowments

Joo Lin and I had a wonderful time at the temple this past Saturday. It was an amazing session at the temple and we thank everyone who made it out to the temple to be with us on this special day. Thanks!

5 days and 4 hours and 59 minutes!!!

Reception

The wedding reception will be at 6 pm on Saturday, December 17th. We will be having the ring ceremony at 6:15 pm and we will be eating shortly after that. If you need directions please go to the wedding website (www.kelleyandjoolinforever.com).

We are also registered at the following places. Bed, Bath, and Beyond and Target. Just put in our names at the stores or you can access the the registrys at the website that was mentioned above.

Temple Sealing

Just a reminder that we are getting sealed next saturday (December 17th) at noon at the Portland Temple. If you haven't RSVPed for that event you still have time to do so. Go to the wedding website, www.kelleyandjoolinforever.com or email me at december17@kelleyandjoolinforever.com if you would like to attend this portion of our wedding.

TEMPLE

Joo Lin and I are going to the temple today to get our endowments!!!! What a huge step to getting married that we are taking. One more week until the big day!

Joo Lin's Bridal Shower

Joo Lin had her last bridal shower on Friday. She had a great turn out as 20 or so people showed up for it. She would love to thank everyone that showed up. Special thanks to Dori for making her look like a cheap hooker.

Marriage License

Joo Lin and I got our marriage license yesterday. It looks like they will allow us to get married now. Lucky us!

Marriage License

Joo Lin and I are getting our marriage license on Friday. Well, we are turning in the paper work for the license. It should take three business days to get the actual license. I guess there is no turning back after this. :)

Almost December

It's almost December and that means that I will be getting married shortly. 16 days and 21 hours and 35 minutes according to my count.

Plans for the wedding are going well. We are figuring out the logistics of the reception and ring ceremony.

Plans for the Bachelor party are going well. I purchased eight tickets yesterday and these are the people that will be attending.

James Butts
Ryan Andrews
Scott Morris
Shane McDaniel
Greg Knips
Josh Woodall
Brian Bullard

It should be a wild and crazy time but don't tell Joo Lin that.

Also Joo Lin is having her last Bridal Shower this Friday.

Joo Lin Quiz

There is a Joo Lin quiz on the website. Check it out to see how well you know Joo Lin.

Fine China

Joo Lin and I went to Bed Bath and Beyond yesterday and picked out our China that we liked. You can go to the gift registry and check it out if you like. Not sure if people still buy this for people but we thought that we would register for it anyway.

First RSVP

We got our first RSVP yesterday from our group of people that we sent out invitations to. How exciting is that? Very exciting if you ask me. Hopefully they keep flowing in.

Invitations Mailed

We mailed the first batch of invitations today. So people should be getting them within the next few days or so. I am excited for everyone to get them. I think they turned out really nice.

We are close to running out of invitations so we are getting some more printed out. That will put the number at close to 250 invitaitons.

Thanks again to Dale for robbing Fred Meyers and getting us cheap stamps with the coupon books. I am not sure what we are going to do with 20 $1.50 off dog food coupons. Maybe we will send them with the Thank You cards after the wedding.

Wedding Website Update

The wedding website is almost 100% complete. Joo Lin and I updated a view of the remaining links to it and we added a special thank you section to it. We started working on the the family/friend section and that is almost complete. Joo Lin needs to write up stuff about her family and then it should be finished. I need to write up some stuff on the sisters too. I think there are few small pages to finish too but we want to have it complete shortly after we send out the invitations.

Congratulations Dale!!!

Congratulations Dale for finally figuring out how to get on to the wedding website. He even RSVP'ed to the wedding. So far we have four of them and we havent even sent out the invitations yet.

Target Gift Registry

We completed registering at Target on Saturday. We went a little over board but I think we covered a lot of our basic items. It took over two hours to complete and by the time we were done we added over 100 items to it. So if you don't have any clue what to get us for our wedding presents, go to Target or their website and you should have plenty of options.

Invitations

We are getting our invitations a few days later than what we expected. We are going to get them on Tuesday and hopefully we can get our first batch sent out Wednesday. We still need to get tissue paper for them since we are adding our picture in them.

We had some problems with our pictures at Costco so we had to resubmit our order today. They should be ready tomorrow evening, all 200 of them. Hopefully we send out 200 invitations so that we don't have left overs. If we do have left overs, they will make nice christmas presents.

Bachelor Party

I have created a website with some information about my bachelor party. I am trying to get a rough count of who is going so that we can get seats together.

http://oregonstate.edu/~riceja/BachelorParty/bachelor.html

I am planning on celebrating at the Seahawks - 49ers football game on December 11th. It should be fun. Tentatively we are going to drive up Saturday afternoon/night and I am hoping that we can crash at a friends house up there. We will see if that works out and I will keep everyone posted.