More Wedding

We wrote our own vows and this is where I got really emotional.





















































































































































































So beautiful. Everytime I look at her I think she gets prettier and prettier.

At this part in the ceremony we took sand from underneath each other's feet and poured them together in a traditional Hawaiian shell....No not really, it was just a shell but it was to signify our paths becoming one now. It was a really nice part.

The j0ke was that I (Courtney) scooped up a tiny amount of sand compared to Mike's big handful. The sand signified our pasts and I'm laughing because he has a much bigger past than mine! ;)

So I had to dig a bit deeper and add some more sand to mine to even things out!

My dad and Simone sent us a beautiful arrangement of orchids that arrived on our wedding day, so I used one of the branches of cymbidium as my bouquet.

We got a hand carved(really) wooden dish and had in inscribed with the date, so I can always remember our anniversary, and brought the sand home. We also got 2 hand carved turtles. One for Aidan and one for Rowan. They sit in the sand.

When we first got to the island, Courtney saw horses on the side of the road and wanted to stop and pet them. They were pretty far into a field and behind a fence so I voted no and she made me promise that if we saw horses close enough to pet, that we had to stop. Ok thats fair. On the way to get married she was praying for a sign that this was the right path in life. We turned down the dirt road to the beach and ran into these guys...




















Pretty good start...



Then hiked down to "secret spot"










































And this is the spot we had chose the day before

I like the black rock against our white. Its really different then what I had pictured Kauai being. Its like a forest that runs right into the beach.

This is hilarious but I had such a problem with this lady's name and now I can't remember it again. Courtney will have to edit this later but this post is going up.

LOL Mike, it was Julie :)

Very serious

Very beautiful

This was just about half of the ceremony. Its not done yet so I will post more soon.

Thank you very much my dear husband for doing such a beautiful job with this :O)

Baby Belly Monday on Tuesday

We can't

forget about these so we are taking a quick break from Hawaii just for today. Here we are at 28 weeks. Her belly is so great. Its just coming straight out the front. SO cute!!