Will blog soon. Dreading the 800+ mile trip! AHH! It'll be good.

So much has happened! I'm married, still living in Texas and... married! I'll explain.. I flew out to California on April 13th. Danielle and Mom greeted me at the airport. Danielle was wearing these awesome very "Los Angeles" glasses and looked amazing. I was so nervous coming off the plane, but I was also so excited to see her. I was really glad Mom was able to drive us so we could spend some time together. I knew the next couple of days were going to be nuts. The next day we met up with Danielle's Dad. He took us in his van and drove us all around the Central Coast doing this that and the other. We got our marriage license, talked with the photographer, had lunch with him and met with Chris. I'm sure we did other things, but that's what I remember. After we met with Chris for our pre-marital counsling (which went very well), we headed off to Mom's house for dinner with everyone. Danielle's whole family was there, Clay (my best man) showed up and we had a great time. Just as Clay and Latecia (our friend who Danielle stayed with and co-ordinated the wedding) showed up Clay and I took of to the bachelor party. I hung out with my groomsmen, Jeff, Chris, Justin, and Clay at Jeff's house. We played poker and had a great time. Everyone arrived home safetly and it was totally fun. The 15th we arrived at Camp San Luis to setup for the wedding. This was the most stressful day. Thankfully we had Action House interns and staff there to help us out. There must have been at least 20 people there from Action House to help us. Danielle's whole family was there, my Mom helped, the Berk's show up and Justin helped out as well. We spent the afternoon setting up and moving tables and chairs. We then re-setup and moved them all again and again until we got it right. We place napkins, cups, plates, silverware, candles and a whole lot more as well. Finally, we moved to the chapel. A smaller number of people helped in the chapel, which was good since it would have been chaos with everyone. Danielle did an amazing job setting up the chapel. She arranged the candles in such a way that blew my socks off (and everyone at the wedding, too). We finished just in time for Chris to arrive for rehersal. Chris was my youth pastor from back in the day. I also want to mention that Latecia was amazing through the whole process. She was so kind and understanding as all the craziness was going on. She did such an amazing job. The rehersal went very well. Everyone was really patient and it went smoothly My Dad and Becki showed up all the way from Santa Maria and I really appreciated that. It was great to see all my groomsmen there and to hang out with them. After the rehersal we all went to Player's Restaurant in Atascadero for the rehersal dinner. Danielle and I didn't show up until a little later because we had some transportation situations at the camp. When we did arrive everyone gave us a warm welcome. Danielle didn't feel very well after such a stressful day so we got her out of there pretty quickly. Before we left, Danielle's parents gave us some presents. They gave me a picture frame so we could put wedding pictures in my office. Danielle's Grandmother gave Danielle her wedding ring set from when she was married. Danielle was so suprised and it was really touching. Her Grandmother was so sweet. I made sure we thanked everyone for coming out to help. One last thing about the 15th, Glen at Player's totally hooked us up. We had the rehersal dinner and he gave us free pitchers of soda. He even laid out cheese plates and extras we didn't even ask for! Not only that, but he gave us an amazing rate for the food at the wedding. Glen really treated us well. The next day was the wedding. I'll write about that tomorrow. Until then, everything is going very well. We are getting settled still and I think it's going well. I'm so glad and blessed to have met Danielle. I'm glad I'll be spending the rest of my life falling futher in love with her. More later.

Will post tomorrow (05/06/05)