christmas!

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these are the pictures from our first christmas together as husband and wife. we spent christmas eve celebrating with my immediate family (my parents, brother, sisters and their kiddos), and christmas day with my extended family who came up to visit from the waco area. we had lots of fun, food and plenty of presents and really enjoyed getting to spend some time with the whole family without worrying about planning a wedding! merry christmas from the kings!

christmas festivities

here are some pictures that show us getting ready for christmas this year. lexi started off the celebration with an edible christmas card from a friend and fellow lab-owner that i work with (thanks, ryan!) she LOVED it. the other pictures are from our annual cookie bake (or "cookie fest" as my nephew calls it) where we get together and bake all sorts of cookies for christmas. this year it also coincided with my dad's arrival home from the phillipines (he works over there for weeks at a time, then is home for a while before going back!). more pictures to come soon!

wedding pictures!

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for those of you who have been waiting...they're finally here!
our wonderful photographer, steve colwill, has finished the slideshows for the entire wedding day (preparation, ceremony, portraits and the reception). the photos are available in a gallery form (still shots) or as a slideshow. if you do the slideshow, make sure you have your speakers on! the gallery does include all the pictures, so there are some in there that aren't in the slideshows. if the link above doesn't work, you can type in www.poeticexposure.com/jessica_and_matt/wedding_gallery

thank you to everyone who made our wedding day so special, we hope you enjoy the photos!

from the bride

here are some pics that i took on the wedding day. the first few are of the girls getting ready at my mom's house (hair, makeup, etc.), the few after that are of us getting ready at the ceremony site, mostly before the photographers arrived, there are also a couple from right after the wedding, too. of course, everything else you'll have to see in the wedding slideshow from the photographer :)

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wedding preparations

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here are the pictures from the days before the wedding. the first pictures are of the bachelor/bachelorette party. we were slightly untraditional and had a co-ed party to begin with at my parent's house where we watched the cowboys game and had beer, margaritas and pizza. then the guys and girls went their separate ways: matt and his gang to a bar in addison and me and the girls to pete's piano bar.
the rest of the pictures are from the rehearsal dinner that was held at heritage ranch, the wedding site. and i promise pictures of the honeymoon are coming soon...there's a bunch of them!