It's been quite a while since I last updated this thing. I just about gave up on the whole idea but now that the wedding and honeymoon are over I have a little more time for myself. A little!
The wedding turned out beautiful! It was all worth the months of stress and planning and it was so nice to be able to share such a special day with all of our friends and family. Marc turned out to be quite the disco dancer at the reception! I don't think I will soon (or ever!) forget the garter show he put on. And it was quite a show indeed! So much in fact, that his mom came and whacked him on the back afterward and his brother told him he had some explaining to do to his two kids trembling in the corner! LOL! It was hilarious, we just wish we had it on film! We can't even remember the song that was played. I think I have blocked part of it out as a coping mechanism for the trauma of being center of attention for a day, but again, it was all worth it in the end and we couldn't thank our family and friends more for the wonderful memories of that night!
The honeymoon was equally amazing. We spent 5 days at the Westin in Maui. Absolutely beautiful!! We went whale watching and spent a lot of time around Lahaina admiring the Banyan Tree and browsing all the fun little tourist shops. It was extremely windy the entire time (25-35 mph winds with 50 mph gusts!) so our snorkling trip to Molokini Crater got cancelled which was a bit of a bummer, but I was also very nervous to be out on the water in those kind of winds since I got sick the last 45 minutes of whale watching. I had never been sea sick before, and I do not ever plan on being sick again! It's aweful! It's a constant total body whirlwind that does NOT go away until you take a few steps on level ground. Due to the wind, we also chickened out on driving the Road to Hana ourselves. We really didn't want to be the front page of the newspaper, "Local Newlyweds get blown off of Maui cliff", so we decided there will definitely be a "next time" and we will do it then. Preferably not in March which is apparently known for trade winds. This is an extremely brief summary of our stay, but we had a great time and met some fun people. An ER Doctor and his partner "Coco" vacationing with the newly and much happier divorced ER nurse, fun group! Another newlywed couple from LA and then the strangely similar couple from Chandler, AZ! We went to the Old Lahaina Luau (awesome show and great spread!) and met a couple from Chandler who have been together as long as us, got married the same day, were staying at the same resort, 2 floors and one room number apart (754 and 553), AND....they work at Target Financial. How strange this small world can be! And speaking of small world, I ran into a co-worker at the Maui airport and we took the same flight home! We had no idea the other was there! But other than the wind, the weather was gorgeous. The wind actually was kind of nice because we were able to get a lot of tanning in without overheating! We plan to go back in a couple years, probably with the kids, but I'd also love toplan something with the entire family. I've always wanted to take a huge trip like that so hopefully we can get something in the works!
Baby Update!
Today I am 13 weeks and 3 days! We just had out NT scan yesterday so we got some good pictures of the little bean. I will upload them soon. Baby is measuring exactly on schedule and looks great. Heart rate was 154. We got a glimpse of the gender (barely) but the tech wouldn't zoom in so I am not convinced at all at what we did or did not see. I will just have to wait a few more looooong weeks to find out for sure!
Maddison Update!
Maddison is having her 4th birthday party tomorrow! ::sniff sniff:: She is getting a CD/Cassette player and 2 CD's from up. (And of course, tons of Gymboree!) I am sure my little singer will be very excited about her gift! 4 might seem young for such a gift, but if she's not singing she is dancing, and if she is not dancing she must be asleep! She is very musically inclined which is exciting, but so was I at that age and I can't carry a tune to save my life now. Hopefully she was blessed with a better singing voice than I was!
About Me
- Marc and Nikki
- Hello! Welcome to the Strick Family Blog. A little bit about us: Marc and I met online 7 years ago when he moved from Indiana to Arizona to attend ASU. We lost touch a few times over a 5 year period but found each other again on Myspace back in 2007 when I was living in Texas for a short period of time with my then 14 month old daughter Maddison. Once I came back I finally agreed to meet him (5 years later!) so we had some frappucino's from Starbuck's and watched Chuck and Larry in theatres for a first date. After about a month or so of courtship I introduced him to my daughter who fell in love with him just as I did and basically the rest is history! Marc proposed on my birthday in 2009 on a beach on Coronado Island in San Diego and we soon began planning a wedding for March 27th, 2010. Marc had been very excited to add a little one to the family for over a year so we decided to start trying in January and first time was the charm! We had a beautiful wedding and honeymooned in Maui for a week. We are now enjoying married life and we are all excited about the arrival of Maddison's little sister on October 19th, 2010!
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