Here's our Wedding Announcement - the ribbon is a bit squished in the scanner. . .the background is looking off the coast in Long Beach, CA near the Aquarium. . .
Long Beach is where fell in love, right here sitting on this pier by the Aquarium between the boats. We sat on the dock, dangling our feet below talking and eating frozen yogurt in the misty rain (which neither of us noticed until we stood up and saw the dry spots from where we had been sitting). It was that fateful night on this impromptu journey that we fell in love and Delvin woke up in the middle of that night realizing he had just found his wife. I realized it 3 days later.
July 10, 1999 was a busy day - instead of getting my hair done at some salon I decided to save money and do it myself. I love this pic - me doing my niece Amy's hair and my sister-in-law, Cheri, doing my hair in our hotel room. Although I do love this pic and that memory I always tell brides-to-be to spend the money and get your hair and makeup done!
We were married in the San Diego Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was a gorgeous location and the ceremony was equally as beautiful! Below are the guests with us during the ceremony and waiting for us outside of the temple!
Our wedding party was a bit un-traditional I guess you could say - Delvin's little brother, Junior, and my nephew, Jeff were the groomsmen and my nieces Amy, Claire, & Dansil (not pictured - she was just done with the day and the "itchy" dress) were the bridesmaids.
When we were married I had been living with and caring for my 100 year old grandmother - Nana wasn't physically able to attend the wedding so we made it a point of going to see her before the reception began all dressed up. Nana was the funniest during our courtship - we would have the same conversation over and over again:
Nana: "What's his name?"
Me:"Delvin Tapusoa"
Nana: "Tapusoa? Tapusoa? What nationality is that?"
Me: "Samoan"
Nana: "Oh - you're marrying a darky are ya?"
(pause for laughter and shaking of heads)
Nana: "What does he do?"
Me: "He's a plumber"
Nana: (laughing) "He'll sure plumber you!" (more laughter)
(Julie's face turning beet red)
What a riot she was!!!!! She loved Delvin - she would hold his hands and comment over and over on how strong they were!
Nana passed away 4 days after we returned from our honeymoon. What a joy she was!
Cutting and feeding the cake was fun! One of my favorite moments because I was finally able to pull a fast one on Delvin! Top is me begging him to be nice during the cake feeding - to not get the dress dirty - the dress that my sister and I worked so many hours making!!!!!! I don't remember what the laughing one was all about, but I love the pic! He was so nice and polite and didn't make a mess and I pulled away and smashed it into his face!!! Ha ha - I finally tricked you - you big tease!!!!!!!!
Continuing on during the reception, Delvin's Mom sang the Hawaiian Wedding song while his Auntie danced it. Afterward, Delvin's cousins, who have a Polynesian Dance group, put on quite a show!!! It gave the evening a sweet Polynesian flair!
Another of Delvin's Aunties made all the food and it was Delicious - I wish I could've eaten more!!! The one miserable moment of the evening was enduring the Money Dance! Delvin had specifically asked to NOT have that dance done, he really didn't want it, but they did it anyway. Delvin got pretty angry about it and after watching his Uncles pick me up and start dancing around with me on their shoulders he demanded they put me down, grabbed me tight and held me close telling me how much he hated it until it was over. A few weeks later we found out that all the money we had given to his Aunt for the catering she had put into dollar bills for the money dance. She didn't know he had requested not to have it and she was the one who insisted it happen. That made us feel better!!
It was a great day overall - we drove off the Blue Jay and stayed in our family cabin for three days before flying off to Alaska for an amazing honeymoon!
Our 10 years have been pretty eventful to say the least. . . a very scary pregnancy, a move from California to Washington, 8 surgeries, renovating our first home, raising 2 (soon to be 3) awesome kids, and so much more - it has been a hard, but great road that I pray continues for the rest of our lives and eternity!!
I love you Delvin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No the baby didn't arrive early, but we had a surprise addition to our home!! Tama is a puppy we found two weeks ago wandering around all day and could not leave him in the cold over night so we brought him in. We looked for his owner via craigslist, vet scan for a ID chip, newpaper lost and found and fliers and never found his owner. However, we did find 3 siblings that others in our area had also found and none of them had any success in finding the owner either. . .looks like the litter was dumped :(
Mason is pretty rough with Tama usually, but on this occasion he felt he needed to teach Tama about being a dog, so he read him a book - Clifford the Big Red Dog - of course!!! (I love the pointing fingers like he's trying to teach Tama he's a dog like Clifford - so funny!)
Aidan is awesome with Tama - he takes him in the back yard to play every day after school and does not even care when he has to pick up the "unpleasantries" Tama leaves around the house sometimes!!! 
Mason was so cute - he insisted that I take what he wanted to share with me. . .funny kid!!
Under his Monkey costume he wore his "Skeleton" that a friend from work gave me. . .he is in love with his "kelton jammies" They glow in the dark and he thinks that is the greatest!!!
