What a tease...

For those who are dying to see pics of our wedding - here's a teaser for you! Curt, one of our photographers sent us just a few pics and this one is AMAZING!!

I will post more when we are back home and relay the details of the day!

Until then - ENJOY!

Love, Michaela

Honeymoon Update

So we're on day 3 (we got here late Tuesday night so it could be considered day 4) of our Hawaiian Honeymoon and we're still in Kauai. Today is actually our last full day here and we leave tomorrow afternoon for Maui!!

Here are a few pics from our trip so far. (I'll put the rest up on Photobucket when we get back home to Seattle.)

We went on a VERY cool helicopter tour of the island of Kauai on Wednesday and saw sooo many waterfalls!! It was one of the coolest things I've ever done!!

Tim and I inside the helicopter while up in the air!!

View of the Marriott Resort we're staying at from the helicopter.

Tim driving our rental car - a Jeep Wrangler!! So fun to cruise around the island in a convertible!
After breakfast each morning, we go for a walk down the beach and just enjoy being together in such a beautiful place.

Drawing in the sand on one of our walks.

Having dinner at Duke's Canoe Club on Wednesday night.

Swimming in the pool at the resort on Thursday afternoon.

Having dinner Thursday night at Cafe Portofino (an Italian restaruant.) Thanks Renee for dinner!!

We're getting ready right now to go on an ATV tour and we even get to go swimming at a waterfall!! I will post about that later.

Miss you all!

Love, Michaela

We Did It!!!

We finally got married this past Saturday!! Boy am I glad that it's all over - HA! The stress of all the planning is finally gone and life can go back to what can be as close to normal as possible. (Maybe I'll even post more often now!!)

I don't have any pictures yet from the wedding. I'm actually dying to see some but no one has posted any yet on MySpace or Facebook or on their blogs!!! AHHH!!

We're actually leaving for Hawaii in just over 12 hours and the plan is to blog about our trip for those of you who may be interested to know what we're up to. So far we're booked to take a helicopter ride and ATV tour on Kauai and go to a luau on Maui. We're also hoping to go ziplining, horseback riding and snorkeling too!

Anyway, better go to bed so that I can get up and pack in the morning!

Bringing in the New Year

For the third year in a row, we headed over to our friend Dave's house (across the street) for a New Year's Eve party. Everyone gets all dressed up and dances the night away! It's always a blast!

Here are a couple of pictures from the night:

Me, Rebekah, Jess & Holly

Alex, Jamie, Dave, Steve, Tim & Ian

Krystina & Nick

Rhys, Steve & Ian

The Jell-O shots! Made by Tim & me

Rebekah, Meegan, Carmen, Krystina & me

Jim & Christina

Dancing before midnight

Me & my lil sis, Tori

Tim & Tori

Jess, Dave, Stella & Rebekah

Me, Jess & Rebekah dancing

The kiss at midnight!

Rebekah & Tim being cheezy! This is my fav pic of the night!

Rebekah all tuckered out after a fun night

Rhys getting a groove on with the ladies!

Puzzling

So we have been acting like an old retired couple lately and have been putting together puzzles. It's actually pretty relaxing and mind stimulating at the same time!

It actually all started while we were up at my parents' cabin a weekend or two before Thanksgiving. Tim, my sister Tori and I got up there before my parents and my brother, Brandon, so we decided to work on the puzzle that my mom and Tori had already started before. I was hooked!

We left before we were able to finish the puzzle but we made a lot of progress! On the way home, Tim and I stopped at Fred Meyer to pick up a few for our house.

Here are pictures of the ones that we have done so far:

We did this one the week after Thanksgiving. Turkey anyone?
Turkey Puzzle

Hollywood Land

A Day at the Beach

We borrowed this one from my sister Dani's boyfriend's parents. This was a hard one!
Match Puzzle

If you look close on each one, you might notice that we don't have any of the pieces for any of the puzzles so far! The first 3 were ones that were brand new and we opened right then and there! Oh well!

I'm working on another one right now and will post pictures when it's done.

Love, Michaela

A Night at Waldo's

Last night we went down to Waldo's Bar & Grill in Kirkland to see my dad's band play. He plays the drums in The About Face Band.

Some pictures from the show:

These ones are during my dad's solo:

Some of our friends joined us down there too!

Dave & Rebekah
Rebekah, Jess & Holly
Steve & Ian

Jamie and Rhys were also there but I didn't get them in any pictures.

I was also able to get some video of the show, although my videography isn't the best....

They have another show this coming Friday at The Raging River Club & Cafe in Fall City. Not sure yet if we're going to go or not. But it was fun last night!

Love, Michaela

Our Last Christmas Before We're Married!

So this Christmas was a busy one for us! Tim's parents came up from San Diego for their first Christmas up here in Seattle!

Tim's dad, Herb, came in on Wednesday night, the 19th and Tim's mom, Kitti, came in on Christmas Eve since she had to work (she's a florist).

Christmas morning the 4 of us got up early to open presents amongst ourselves. Santa sure was good to us this year!

Our Christmas Tree overflowing with presents!

Stockings hanging over the fireplace

Tim gave me some great gifts! He gave me a pair of Ugg boots! YAY! And he also gave me a heart necklace from Tiffany's and diamond studded earrings!!! I also got a hair dryer that straightens and the newest Harry Potter movie, Tim gives me one each year! He also gave me a gift card to Victoria's Secret so that I can buy some clothes online. (He's afraid to buy clothes for me haha!)
I got a bunch of different cookie cutters from Tim's parents too.

I gave Tim some really nice North Face black snow/hiking boots, a silver iPod Nano (the 2nd generation one), a pair of Lucky Brand jeans and a ton of other little things. (I tend to go a bit overboard at Christmas time!)

After we had our presents, we headed up to my parents cabin at Snoqualmie Pass at Alpental. It was a full house up there with lots of snow!

This was everyone up there: Tim, myself, Tim' parents - Herb & Kitti, my parents - Brad & Dana, my siblings - Dani, Brandon & Tori, my aunt (my dad's sister) - Deborah, my sister Dani's boyfriend - Tyler, my sister Dani's friend - Nadine and of course my parents' dog Calvin.

We opened presents from each other and from Santa. Santa was especially good to us up here too! I got a rolling case full of scrapbooking tools and supplies, a digital photo frame that is huge and a bunch of new clothes for work. Tim got a new sleeping bag made for cold weather for when he goes camping and he got a tent that attaches to the back of his jeep.

The best part was when Tim opened his present from my brother and my brother opened his present from us. We kind of played a little trick on my brother with his present. We got a big box and filled it with a bunch of newspaper and put a bottle of Bacon Salt in there. We did this because the present we really got him was so hyped up by everyone for over a month before that we wanted to see what his reaction would be to something so small and mediocre.

Here's a picture of my brother opening the Bacon Salt.

The real present we gave my brother was a signed football by the 2006 Seattle Seahawks team. He was really surprised!

Here are the pictures of Tim opening his present from Brandon.

A HUGE Red Bull drink cooler! HAHA!

After presents we had a great omlette breakfast made by my parents.

My parents cooking the omlettes.

Clockwise from left: Nadine, Tyler, Kitti, Herb, Tim and me eating breakfast.

Tori and Brandon at breakfast.

Tori and me at breakfast.

Tim and me at breakfast.

After breakfast my Uncle Marc (my dad's oldest brother) and his daughter, my cousin, Jennifer, came up to the cabin. They were planning on staying for dinner but it started to snow and everyone headed down the mountain except my parents, my sister Tori, my brother Brandon and my Aunt Deb.

A picture of the Bean girl cousins!
Tori, me, Dani and Jen

On our way down the mountain it snowed pretty much the whole way home! Snow on Christmas!!!! How exciting that was for us! Especially for Tim's parents who had never had a white Christmas before!

We got home an rested for awhile before we headed over to Tim's sister's house for Christmas dinner. Tim's sister, Renee, lives 4 houses behind us!

Renee's boyfriend, Dirk had his mom, Linda, stepdad, Gary and brothers, Rhys and Ian over. Linda, Gary and Ian live in Australia and Rhys lives in England. Talk about an international family!

We had a nice turkey dinner with them and then opened even more presents! (Sorry I didn't get any pictures during this part of our day)

I had made stockings for all of them and had put in those metal puzzles in each one where you try to separate pieces. Well they turned out to be the hit of the night! We spent the rest of the evening trying to figure out those funny little puzzles!

All in all it was a VERY busy and full day but it was great! What a happy Christmas for us!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas day as well!

Love, Michaela