Our Trip to the North Shore & Canada

We left for our honeymoon on Sunday night. My parents were gracious enough to stay at our house and take care of their grand-dogs while we were away. Our first stop was the Bungalow in Emily. One of our favorite restaurants. We arrived at Teteegouche State park at midnight. The next day we drove to Grand Marais where we did a little shopping then decided to push onto Canada to see my Grandpa and Uncle who were unable to come to our wedding. We arrived at the fishing camp at 6:00 and enjoyed visiting with them for a bit. We set up our tent in the pouring rain and dined on beer and venison summer sausage by candle light....I mean flash light. Before leaving Canada we stopped at Kakabekah Falls. Back in Minnesota we decided that our luck was pretty good and played the slots at Grand Portage Casino. Gambling Sucks. we lost our 10 dollars right away. We toured the Grand Portage National Monument and headed for Temperance State Park where we camped for our last night.

Now how cool is this?





The old logging roads that take us to our fishing camp in Canada. The fall colors were amazing.



My dear Grandpa K

How romantic that Sean was willing to deface property at a provincial park to declare his love for me! He's called me Goosey forever.


Kahakebekah Falls

A little photographic fun.

Ingredients:

Night Time

Tripod

10 Second Exposure

Red Flash Light

Patience

Our Wedding Day-September 22, 2007

It finally came. After 367 days of engagement, our wedding arrived. A year ago I read the farmers almanac and it stated September 2007 was going to be wetter than normal. While this was true, September 22 was the most glorious day of the month. Truly we had the best Saturday of September. Our morning started off with getting our hair done by J.Ameilas Salon and Spa Owner Joannie and her assistant Megan. The girls did a fantstic job on each of our hair "doos". After having grown my hair out for 18 months, I was glad I decided to have my hair down and curly. I jumped into my dress and was strapped in by my Annie and Maggie. They did a great job on a not so easy dress. Our PHENOMONAL photographer and I walked behind the barn where Sean would see me in my dress for the first time. After a few moments, I was greeted by our dogs, Maggie & Gus, and finally Sean. He looked amazing and I felt so pretty. We had such a fun time with our photographer, doing not so typical shots in the barn, and phesant coop. At 3:30 our guests started arriving and I watched from inside the house at all the people who drove so far to celebrate our marriage with us. At 4:00 we were ready to roll. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" began to play and I was just moments away from being a wife. Having my dad walk me down the aisle was a dream come true, as the summer we had at the Mayo Clinic was one non of us would ever want to repeat. With so much calm, he walked me past 220 people who have left indelible marks on our lives. Getting married was something I always hoped for and in earlier years doubted would happen. I felt PERFECT standing beside Sean. In all my dreams I couldn't have hoped for a more wonderful man to be with. Our ceremony was so memorable. Our pastor touched our hearts and helped guide us to a long and meaningful realationship with Christ through our sessions of counseling and during our marriage ceremony. We so enjoyed having our dogs present for our wedding as well. Playing "Home to You" during our wedding was a song that represents our life word for word. "hangin' out in our old sweatshirts, you let me complain about a hard days work, I don't know what I did to deserve to get to come home to you." With a kiss and an introduction as Mr. & Mrs. Anderson, we were married! Uncle John & Rick took us and our bridal party on a boat ride across Upper Whitefish right after our ceremony. We got a chance to take some great photos with our photographer and share a bottle of champange. Onto our party......

Every detail of our day was executed flawlessly and for that we thank our parents, family and friends who helped in countless ways. Each and every vendor did an outstanding job for us. Our jeweler, caterer, photographer, DJ, florist, baker, and hair dresser provided us with their professional services and have in us, extemely satisfied customers. Words just simply can't express the happiness our wedding day brought us. Something that perfect is larger than ourselves. We have been blessed and we hope that each and everyone who is in our life knows how much your presence at our wedding meant to us.

Making a wedding...

There were so many people who worked for months to make our wedding celebration a success. There were daily phone calls and emails to our moms, there were laughs, and tears, and lists, and payments.... Here is just a glimpse of the morning of September 22nd....The list of names that we need to thank is much too long to list on our blog. So many friends and family members came 3, 4, even 5 days early to help decorate, organize, cook, clean, pick up, drop off, hang, haul, and smile with us as we counted the hours till our wedding ceremony. We can't say "thank you" enough.