lesley June 24th, 2008
As you all know, Lucas and I just returned home from our wedding weekend in Las Vegas! Some of you were there and some of you watched from home even! No matter who you are, we thank you for your love and support. This post is to let everyone know that we have updated our wedding website to reflect our return and share details about our wonderful weekend. We also have uploaded a big bundle of photos (and even a little video clip or two), accessible from links on the updated wedding website.
In case you’ve forgotten the link:
http://wedding.lookatusgo.net
The photos can be accessed directly at this link:
http://www.lookatusgo.net/gallery/index2.php?d=content/Lucas%20and%20Lesley/Our%20Wedding/
Note that the photos you’ll see initially are the ones from our personal digital camera only plus the photos we received from the photographer at the chapel after the ceremony. As we receive photos from others in attendance, we’ll add them to the page. We’re planning to set up an FTP server so that those of you with digital photos to share can login and upload/download at your convenience all in one central location to make it easy for everyone to get a copy of every photo they want. The photos on the site have been resized, so if you want the full-resolution version, just let me know.
We are still waiting for the DVD version of the actual ceremony to be mailed to us from the chapel. Once that arrives we will make that available to you online for viewing and I’ll send out another email to let you know that it’s ready. Until then, we have strung together some little video clips we took with our camera of our adventures in Las Vegas into a little 5 and a half minute video that you can watch at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZcO1G5yVQE
Be sure to click the link that says Watch in High Quality just underneath the video so that you can get the most out of it ;)
Once again, thank you so much for your love and support and enjoy all of the photos and video! We are planning to update the look of the HTML gallery a bit in the next few days, so don’t be surprised if you see some little changes here and there. That won’t affect the images available to view there, and of course, as we receive digital photos from others you’ll see new photos pop up on that page to see. Stay tuned for another post once we have the DVD of the ceremony ready for view, too!
love,
Lucas & Lesley Karpiuk
oliver June 15th, 2008
my little brother winston and i are getting ready to go on vacation. mama and dad are going to las vegas to get married and the entire family and their close friends will be there. but do we get to go? of course not! but that’s ok, mama told us all about the doggie resort that we’re going to instead. she says we’ll have a room together with our own separate beds and that we’ll get to play with lots of other doggies. she warned us that we better be good or else they’ll know, because our room is equipped with webcams and they can check in on us anytime. i’m sure they’ll be too busy enjoying las vegas together all married and stuff to have time to login and see what we’re up to, but i won’t tell winston that.
speaking of webcams, the chapel where mama and dad are getting married has a free webcam broadcast service so you can watch the ceremony online from home. Just go to the chapel’s website and click the large link at the top of the page that says “view live webcast” at the time of the wedding. it’ll be at 2:00pm pacific time, so for our friends here in calgary that’s 3:00pm and for our friends in indiana that’s 5:00pm. you will need the latest version of windows media player installed because the link will attempt to launch it when you click. i dunno much about computer details beyond working this blog, but if you send mama and dad an email they can help you out with any questions you might have. i hope to bribe the doggie resort workers to let winston and i watch. i’m sure between my big brown eyes and winston’s cute little puppy features they’ll just have to give in.
lesley June 5th, 2008
Wow, we’re down to a mere 2 weeks until our upcoming Viva Las Vegas Wedding Extravaganza! I just recently updated a few details on our wedding page about our plans during the day on the Saturday we’re there: we are renting a car (along with a few other people who are renting vehicles) and going to drive out to the Hoover Dam and the west side of the Grand Canyon for the afternoon since they’re not too far. And we’re not renting just any car…we’ve booked a Lotus from Dream Car Rentals! While it’s not a Neon SRT-4 (*swoon*), it’ll still be a fun and memorable drive nonetheless. If you’re one of the many people that will be in attendance in Vegas, be sure to let us know if you’re interested in making the drive with us, (though you’ll have to rent your own vehicle, the Lotus is only a 2-seater!) and don’t forget to check out any last minute details on our wedding page before the trip.
For those of you not able to attend, you’ll be missed! But don’t worry, there will be plenty of photos and even video of the ceremony to share when we get back. It’s even rumoured that you’ll be able to watch the ceremony live on the chapel’s website, (Just click the “View Live Webcast” link at the top of the page during the time of the ceremony), but I’m still looking into that. We for sure will take home a DVD of the ceremony with us that weekend, so you can expect either a copy or a digitally accessible version sometime after we return from our fabulous wedding weekend.
Beyond that, getting ready for the wedding is pretty much the only thing going on right now and occupying a lot of our spare time. What’s scary is that we’re pretty much done with everything, so I don’t know why I still feel like I should be running around like a chicken with its head cut off. If we can manage to finish up all of the tiny details we’ve got left AND not forget or leave anything behind (that’s the key) when we leave for Vegas, I’ll be amazed, haha.
To some of you– see you in Vegas! To everyone else, we’ll see you when we get back! Viva Las Vegas, baby!
-The Soon to Be Mrs. Karpiuk ;)
lesley May 17th, 2008
Today is my one year anniversary being an official Canadian Permanent Resident! And as of June 6, I will have lived here for two full years :) That’s a lot of maple syrup and igloos, eh? I’ve loved every minute of it.
Hope everyone is having a fabulous long weekend. :) Only 33 days until the wedding! Are YOU ready for Vegas?
winston April 4th, 2008
i’m new to this whole blogging thing, but oliver tells me that it’s a piece of cake. he says the hardest part is finding time to sneak onto the computer when mama and dad are gone. thankfully oliver is a great big brother and has helped me out of my crate while the parental units are away today so i can try my paw at composing my very first blog entry. not bad for a 13 week old puppy, huh?
i guess i start by updating the world with what’s been going on in our happy little family lately. well, i got to meet my grandma for the first time last week. mama says she flew all the way from indiana to visit us. i don’t understand all of the details, but i think she was delayed on her way here. something about airplane delays in chicago, whatever that means. she arrived and gave me treats and presents and hugged on me all weekend, so that was awesome! i couldn’t stand it when she gave oliver attention, though. i mean, he already got to sleep on her bed all weekend and everything! mama and grandma went with aunt michelle and they bought a wedding dress and some shoes over the weekend. i don’t know what a wedding is, but it involves mama and dad and they’re making invitations this weekend. the online version of the invitation will be posted on their updated wedding website then. mama was very happy with the dress she bought, and she showed me pictures of it and i got to sniff the shoes. it’s too bad she put them away up in the top of their closet; they would’ve been nice shoes for teething on.
i have my second set of puppy shots at the vet tonight. i like the vet because i get to ride in the car with oliver and there’s so many neat new smells to sniff when we get there. the girls at the desk fawn all over my cuteness and i like my veterinarian. she is very nice, even though she gives more treats to oliver than to me. i guess i’ll get more treats when i’m big and strong like him. even oliver gets shots tonight because he is overdue on his vax… erm… vaccinations? thank goodness for spell check. anyway, i am a brave little boy and don’t even whimper when the vet gives me shots. i guess oliver is brave, too, even though he doesn’t like going to the vet. just not as brave as me because i’m indestructible!
this blogging thing really isn’t that hard. i just hope it’s as easy for oliver to get me back in the crate as it was to get me out, or we may have some explaining to do.
