Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Jackson.....

Just married!!
After the ceremony at our mini-reception.
Wow, where to begin, it was an AMAZING weekend. The weather, beaches and company were all awesome! Thank you so much to everyone that traveled so far to see us get married, it would not have been the same without you!
We were married Saturday October 18th, at 5:15 p.m. We could not have asked for better weather to get married in. The only snag was my fault, well two snags...lol...so ummm yeah I got alllllll the way down the dock with my dad and we were sooo close to Dan and I realized I had left my flowers upstairs in the room! :) So my favoritest sissy, Jess, baywatched it across the beach and up to our room. Ummm well while she was there I realized I had also left Dan's ring upstairs too! So, she runs all the way back to us and I politely ask her to run to our room again to get his ring! lol I am sure all the onlookers on the beach and balconies thought I had a SERIOUS case of cold feet because all of this took 7 minutes!! Anyways, we have tons of pics and the ceremony went on snag free after that!
These pics are from Momma Jackson and they are great, we can't WAIT to see what Janalin got!! I will be posting every other day to get a bunch of our pics in from the week!! Yaaaaay us, we are having great times in Jacksonville now!

And we are off.....

               Bye Bye, next time you see pics on here you will see the Jackson family!
        Staying up allllll night putting together invitations is very dangerous!!
So, it's 3:27 a.m., our flight leaves at 6:40 and WE HAVE NOT SLEPT!!! lol We put together our invites for the reception! Yes, you read correctly, can you say king and queen of procrastination!! I am holding up our first completed invite, I am excited, but not excited that it was 8:30 and the first one was done!! lol  Now it's time to get in the shower and get on the road. Be sure to check back to my blog and janalin's.....we will be posting from FLORIDA!!! AAAAHHHH we are so excited!!

Bridal Shower

                   Every bride needs an emergency kit!! Thanks Momma Jackson
                        Mmmm the cakes, thanks Papa Holt!!
              One of our cooking groups!
I finally am posting pics of my pampered chef bridal shower thrown by Mel!! Thanks Mel it was soo much fun! We broke up into groups and cooked some scrumptious dishes! It was a lot of fun and a lot of good food. I have a group shot on my other camera, I will get that on here soon. One of the best parts of the shower was my apron that everyone signed, it's so cute and I LOVE it!! Thanks again Mel and everyone else for coming!!

Our New Home

                      The night we moved in....
          The next day.....only because Momma Jackson is soooo wonderful!
                           The good 'ol U-Haul
I finally have a few minutes to post some pics of the downstairs of our townehome!! It actually looked like a home the next day we moved in because while I was at my last day of clinicals and Dan was sleeping for work that night, Momma Jackson unpacked a ginourmous amount of our boxes and put stuff up for us!!! Thank you Momma Jackson for such a great visit, like always it was too short. Thank you for doing so much work on our first home together. 

I put a pic of the living room, kitchen, dinning area. I will post some of the upstairs later, it is still a mess!! We have not had a lot of time to unpack with the wedding, school, work and such! 

Less then two weeks and we are off to Florida!! I can't believe it and I can't wait!!

Today I hosted a surprise baby shower for Mel and Steve, it was so much fun, pictures to come soon! 

Oh and I had to change my background after seeing everyone else's cool background...do you like?

So many new things going on....

So, where do I start? We moved last thursday...YAAAY! Last friday was my last day of Rad Tech school....DOUBLE YAAAAAY!! Now all I have to do is take my registry, which will be sometime after we get back from Florida (not trying to squeeze that in before Oct 18th!) Everyone pitched in and bought me my graduation present....A NEW CAMERA!!!! I love it, it's a Sony DSLR a200, and I couldn't be happier. I have only had it for a few days and not enough time to really play with it yet, but the above pics are from it. Poor George, he is so sick of my taking his picture he just shuts his eyes!! lol  I have pics of our new place, my bridal shower and my cousin tay cheering....so much to do so little time!! 

Mel---see a brother to a visitor or two of yours!! These freakin spiders are EVERYWHERE!!! I need to look them up, they are grossing me out! Way to big for me to handle! (cool to take pics of!! lol)

Three weeks from today I will be MRS. JACKSON!!!!

30 MORE DAYS.....

Until we get married!! We leave for Florida in 29 days!! We are SOOO excited, I can't believe it is so close already!!! So, just for everyone's knowledge, our reception is going to be on November 22, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. at the Lansing Community Center!! So, mark your calendars, get out your luau clothing and be there!! We are having a fun, relaxed Luau themed reception!! Invitations are going out around the first of October, so be checking your mail!! October can not get here fast enough!

A night out with my Truman Posse....

                       Crazy Cracka (aka Kristi), Jessica and me
        All cute before the dancing and sweating began...that place was packed!
                                        The Cherry Bombs!!

                                       Bubs and Neil
                                   Me, Connie and Crazy Cracka  (aka Kristi)
Friday night was set up by my fabulous clinical instructor Cindy (above with Neil). Neil, Connie and I are all in the same rad class and we are DONE on friday sept 19th!!! The rest of the posse are all rad techs already, some didn't make it in front of the camera or out at all that night! Cindy thought we should all go out and celebrate our upcoming graduation---what a fantastic idea it was!

 She recommended this awesome group called The Cherry Bombs.....wow, they are freakin amazing. They are local to KC and play allll over the metro area. They totally play all old school music, we got to listen to some M.C. Hammer, Fleetwood Mac, Pat Benatar, The Egyptian song....the list goes on. We all new every song and every word to those songs!! So friday night was spent singing our little hearts out and dancing our little booties off. In fact, my Crazy Cracka and I were the FIRST ones on the dance floor and got ourselves some Cherry Bomb stickers smacked (oh and I do mean smacked, that girl had an arm!) on our booties for being the first ones out there. Thanks guys for not only a wonderful night but a great six months!! I am glad I will be just around the corner for the next two years with my ultrasound clinicals, you won't be far at all!!

Shrimpfest is baaaaaack......

Yup, it's that time of year again!! Ever since Bubs got me hooked on it last year, I will NEVER go a year without it!! This year Mel, Steve and Liam joined us!! We had waaaaay too many shrimps, scrumpcious cheesey garlic biscuits and other great stuff from Red Lobster. I don't know when it ends but I really want to go again this year already!! We ended the evening with Bubs and I asking the waitress at the very same time....."when does this end?" Can you tell we love to eat endless shrimps?? :) At least we made Mel, Steve and the waitress laugh!! Thanks for going with us guys, it was fun!