We have begun to send out the save-the-date cards for our big day, hopefully you’ve already seen our smiling faces in the mail :)
As the postcard indicates, we are having a Friday wedding (July 30th). The ceremony will take place in the afternoon at English Lutheran Church in La Crosse, WI. The reception will follow at Stoney Creek Inn in Onalaska, which is also conveniently the same place where we have a block of rooms reserved for guests. Check out the website here: http://www.stoneycreekinn.com/locations/index.cfm/LaCrosse. When reserving a room just mention the Schneider/Vyn wedding.
We'll continue to add more information as the wedding planning progresses. If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me: r_vyn@hotmail.com
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
A Bittersweet beginning to 2010
On a more serious note, the beginning of this year was bittersweet. Within 24 hours I heard the news of both the passing of my Aunt MaryAnn and the birth of my nephew, Brenan. I returned to Ontario for a short, but very meaningful, trip. It was very sad to see our aunt pass away at such a young age, and leaving behind a young family that I had the great fortune of growing up alongside. Words can’t describe many of the emotions and difficulties that now rise up for my uncle and cousins, but we continue to pray that God will sustain them. Witnessing both death and new life in such a short time span is a strange combination of emotions to encounter – joy and sorrow don’t often come as a package deal. But it was beautiful to be able to hold a 5lb bundle of joy, and to feel his hiccups shake his whole body! Brenan was an eager one to come out – he arrived a month early, but thankfully both mother and child are healthy. Now Rich and Tara have the tough decision of how to divide up their 12 months maternity/paternity leave :)
Once again...
Surprise, surprise... I'm doing a lousy job of holding up my end of the bargaining in the wedding planning - it's been over a month since my last post, and certainly not for lack of things to write about!
Without further delay, here's a quick re-cap of our lives since the last post:
Shortly after moving into the new house we were able to host Amanda's family for Christmas. We shared a very atypical Christmas day, dawning paint brushes, rollers and my old high school t-shirts instead of... um... well whatever people would typically dawn for this festive day. With 14 hands hard at work we were able to finish all but one room of the main floor. Any self-respecting Dutchman can recognize the value of family labour. We did offer in return an afternoon of snowshoeing in the Rocky Mountains, which provided some great scenery for next year's Christmas card :)
The New Year was much more eventful than we would have preferred. Having gotten my top two wisdom teeth removed that morning, we decided to have a low-key evening with our friends Adam and Megan. We celebrated the New Year along with the East Coast, and I was ready to cash in my chips by 10:30pm local time (lame, I know!). Before going to bed I took a vicodin - not so much for the pain, but just so I could sleep comfortably through the night... well, that didn't happen! I woke up around 2am to go to the bathroom and ended up passing out twice in the bathroom. The second time I didn't come to for a bit. When I did, Amanda had already dialed 9-1-1. Anyway, the long and short of it was I got an ambulance ride (for fear that I might pass out on the way to the ER again) and spent two hours in the ER just to have them tell me I was dehydrated - oh, and did I mention that I drank 5-6 glasses of water that evening! I'm not a doctor, but if one drinks that much, AND gets up in the middle of the night to relieve one's bladder, the likely scenario isn't dehydration - but like I said, I'm not a doctor. Anyway, I've since recovered and am waking up to the reality of insurance bills - who knew EKGs and labs could cost so much? I really shouldn't complain too much though - I am very fortunate to have my health, and not to mention a beautiful fiancee who strives to maintain it... was that too cheesy?
Without further delay, here's a quick re-cap of our lives since the last post:
Shortly after moving into the new house we were able to host Amanda's family for Christmas. We shared a very atypical Christmas day, dawning paint brushes, rollers and my old high school t-shirts instead of... um... well whatever people would typically dawn for this festive day. With 14 hands hard at work we were able to finish all but one room of the main floor. Any self-respecting Dutchman can recognize the value of family labour. We did offer in return an afternoon of snowshoeing in the Rocky Mountains, which provided some great scenery for next year's Christmas card :)
The New Year was much more eventful than we would have preferred. Having gotten my top two wisdom teeth removed that morning, we decided to have a low-key evening with our friends Adam and Megan. We celebrated the New Year along with the East Coast, and I was ready to cash in my chips by 10:30pm local time (lame, I know!). Before going to bed I took a vicodin - not so much for the pain, but just so I could sleep comfortably through the night... well, that didn't happen! I woke up around 2am to go to the bathroom and ended up passing out twice in the bathroom. The second time I didn't come to for a bit. When I did, Amanda had already dialed 9-1-1. Anyway, the long and short of it was I got an ambulance ride (for fear that I might pass out on the way to the ER again) and spent two hours in the ER just to have them tell me I was dehydrated - oh, and did I mention that I drank 5-6 glasses of water that evening! I'm not a doctor, but if one drinks that much, AND gets up in the middle of the night to relieve one's bladder, the likely scenario isn't dehydration - but like I said, I'm not a doctor. Anyway, I've since recovered and am waking up to the reality of insurance bills - who knew EKGs and labs could cost so much? I really shouldn't complain too much though - I am very fortunate to have my health, and not to mention a beautiful fiancee who strives to maintain it... was that too cheesy?
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