We're Married!! 9 days and going strong!!

Samuel & Heather Openshaw

October 11, 2008

Jennie (Sam's sister), was the official photographer at our wedding, and she is still editing our pictures, a preview of our wedding pictures can be found at her website (Sawyers Family News). I will put more wedding and reception pictures on our webiste when we get them! Also, I know a lot of people had cameras at our wedding, so if you did take any pictures, we would love to have them!! So, until then, here are some pictures from Oahu, Hawaii!!

House Progress

Here are some more pictures! Enjoy!

Our new address will be 1368 E. Shari St. This is our living room window.

Front View. Garage is on the left, and master bedroom is on top of it. The tiles just got put up on the roof two days ago.

Sam and Mark standing in the entrance to the house.

Stairs in the house. Right above the stairs is the loft, and below the stairs is the formal dining and living room.

Back of the house. They have started putting the foam ( I think that's what it is called) up on the back.

View from the loft.

New House

We have recently purchased our first house in Queen Creek, Arizona. The house is located in Pecan Creek South, a new subdivision in Queen Creek. We are super excited about it and can't wait for it to be built. We go out weekly to see the progress, hopefully it will be done sometime in October, just in time for the holidays. After it is built, it will be a 2000 square feet 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bath with a loft. My favorite part of the house is the stairs that are in it, which are not built yet so hopefully in the next couple of months I will be able to post pictures of them. Here are some pictures of the property.




This is a picture of the foundation that got poured two weeks ago. I was standing in the middle of our front yard. The cement in the very front of the picture will be the entry way to our house.



This was taken in the middle of our backyard. The houses across the street will be our neighbors. We will have one neighbor on the right side of our house (looking at this angle) and the other side is a landscaped area.






We went out a week later and this is what we found! Our house has started to be framed!
I can't get this picture to delete, any hints would be greatly appreciated. :)
This is the entrance to our new home. I will try to keep everyone updated with the progress of the house. We try to go out their once a week to check on it, so hopefully new pictures of it further along will be done soon!

4th of July

4th of July= Roping in Mormon Lake!!!

For the 4th we went to Mormon Lake, Arizona (near Flagstaff)with my Dad's family to camp and rope. Here are some pictures from weekend.

Sam and "Blackie" waiting to rope.

Little David was the only winner in the Page camp. He placed in the number 11 roping.

This is an example of me trying to be a professional photographer , as you can see, I need a lot of practice. Notice the mud in the arena, it rained and even hailed on us a couple of hours before this run.

Notice that all the "action" pictures are of David. I forgot to charge my camera, so it died within the first couple of hours of our camping trip, which left me with no time to take pictures on anyone else. :(. Also, the camera I am using is brand new, and I haven't quite figured out all the settings, so please excuse the picture color and quality.

Here is a picture of my dad and Raphael. Please excuse my Dad's USC hat, he doesn't want to get his good University of Arizona hat wet.

Alex and Tipling watching by the catchpen. They were my carpool buddies up to the roping.

I just wanted to take a nice little brother picture, and out of the 8 I took, this is the best one. :).

Brayden Trinity Page

Wedding Update

So I'm sure you all know that Sam & I are getting married on October 11, 2008 in Parker, so I figured I give you an update on our wedding planning. Please watch for our save the date cards, hopefully I will get them out soon! I have had the cards for a week and a half now, and still haven't got them out. I am trying to get the last bit of mailing addresses together before I send them. Our friend Tracy McMurphy designed them, and we absolutely love them. She has started her own company/website that you should check out http://www.dreamdesignsbythm.com/. She also designed my graduation announcement and it's actually posted on her website. Anyway, I have also created a wedding website for Sam & myself. The address is http://pageandopenshaw.weddings.com/. It has our story, wedding details, and some pictures on it. Here are some "engagement pictures" we took at the golf course in Parker that didn't make it to our save the date cards.

Isn't the sunset pretty? I think my Grandpa took this one.

The wedding dress is picked out. I absolutely love it. I found it at Arizona Bridal Warehouse in Mesa, but found it cheaper online in Georgia, so I ordered it and it should be here in September.

Our colors are burnt orange and brown. We want our wedding to have a fall theme/feeling, so the bridesmaid dresses and suits are going to be brown, and the flower girl dress is going to be burnt orange. As for the decorations, we will see. All I have so far is a bunch of wheat hanging upside down in my dads garage :) (thanks dad) for centerpieces and such, the rest still has to be decided.

We have decided to go to Hawaii for our honeymoon! We are going to go to Oahu, so if you know on any restaurants, site seeing, etc. that can't be missed, please let us know!

And I think that's pretty much all I have done! Not bad for only 81 days left right? :) We have a lot of work ahead, but I'm not worried because I know things will just fall into place.