The Olsen Family Journal » Our Wedding

5 Years of Marriage

kristen — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:56:53 +0000

5 years have passed since we started on an incredible lifelong journey together.

Anniversary & New Home

kristen — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:37:23 +0000

Last weekend was our 1st anniversary. We got to relax and just enjoy spending time together. It was a great time to reflect and reminisce about the past year and the wedding. We had a great time looking at all of the photos again and remembering how much fun we had with everyone being there to celebrate. Thank you everyone for making it such a wonderful day.

On other news, we’ve started the home buying process and are purchasing a new home which should be complete on January 31st, 2008. It is a really nice town-home with 3 bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths in a really cute community at the south end of Atascadero (for those of you not on the Central Coast, that is only about 15 minutes north of San Luis Obispo). It has a really big back yard that overlooks a dry creek, and a two car garage. We’re really excited and are looking forward to when we can move in! Photos of the model home (backyard is much smaller than what ours will be).

Just In Case You Were Interested

Joe — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:09:12 +0000

Here are our wedding vows and the seven things we liked about each other.

Joe:
I take you, Kristen, to be my wife, before God who brought us together; to love and protect you even as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it, to lead you and cleanse you with the washing of water by the Word. That through His grace we might grow together into the likeness of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

Kristen:
I take you, Joe, to be my husband, before God who brought us together, to love you, respect you, honor you, to submit myself to you in all things, and to follow you as you follow God. That through His grace we might grow together into the likeness of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

Seven things I love about Kristen:
Attention to detail
Geek
Cute
Support she gives others
Patience she gives me
Knowledge of the Word
Constantly Seeking God’s Will

The seven things I love about Joe (in order):
7. The way he wraps his arms around me and says “Mine” – And continues to like the seagulls on Finding Nemo
6. When he laughs and says jokes – He always knows how to make me smile
5. How he loves others – He desires to have a home that is welcome to guests
4. The way that he looks at me – He makes me feel like I’m all he ever wanted
3. When he directs time in the Bible – God always shows me something new through him
2. How he leads us in musical worship – His love for God is really evident
1. The way that he prays – I can really see his heart for God

~Joe

Wedding Photos Are Up!

kristen — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:14:22 +0000

Joe and I have finally finished going through the 1200 photos from our wonderful photographer Janelle. There are some really wonderful ones, and it’s so great to see how much fun everyone was having.

If you want to get a print of any of the photos, click on the link near the photo that says “Add Photo to Cart”, and then once you are done adding all of the pictures, click on the shopping cart icon on the left. From there you can select to download as a zip file to print on your printer, or choose one of the two online printing companies to get nice prints sent to your door.

We hope that these photos bring back fond memories for you just as it did for us.

~Kristen

Wedding Day

Joe — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:45:12 +0000

So as people have been fond of saying, things went off with a hitch. So it finally happened, we are married. I finally got my ring which I had been looking forward to and got to have some Linn’s cake once more. We actually had a lot of fun during our reception and I don’t think it could have possibly gone any better. Thanks to everyone that was able to make it and sorry for those of you that couldn’t. When we get back and get our wedding photos we will be sure to post them all for you guys to look at.

- Joe