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So its been a while since Kasi and I have been on here.  Its one of those things that can slip your mind easily if you are not thinking about it.  Hopefully this will be a new beginning here to keep all of you updated with what is going on in Kansas.  After the wedding Kasi and I honeymooned in Hawaii which is one of the coolest place on Earth.  After that we came back to the real world and continued the day to day life.  I started looking for a house which took some time because Kasi and I had different opinions on what we wanted.  After about 3 months and what seemed like 3 dozen houses we finally settled on one in west Olathe.  Work for the both of us is going fine.  I got promoted back in September to Assistant Safety Officer for my company.  We hosted Thanksgiving for the first time at the new house and had my family over.  Kasi's dad flew in from Vegas which was great because we have not seen him since the wedding.  We are looking forward to Christmas and the house is all decorated inside.  Kasi's mom is coming to visit during Christmas.  Hopefully I can keep this updated more and maybe convince Kasi to post some stuff as well. 

Kevin

Last Week Being Single!

This is it!  We've finally made it to the week of the wedding!  We can't believe it's finally here!
Everything is pretty much done.  A couple little things here and there, but the nightmares have begun.  Every night for the past three night's, Kasi has been having one nightmare after another about the wedding.  Thank goodness they are only dreams.  :)

After the wedding we will be heading to Hawaii for our honeymoon and we can't wait!  Neither of us have ever been there and we've heard so many wonderful things about it!

Looking forward to seeing everyone and to finally be done with the planning and preparations. 

27 Days!

I can't believe we are on the final countdown!  It has gone by so fast and now I'm mixed on being so happy to be done with planning yet sad to be done as well. 
We only have a few more  details left.  Now it's all the little things to make sure are all in line.

We can't wait to see so many of our friends and family!!

65 Days!

It's getting closer and closer and time seems to be flying!  We have a flower shop confirmed, the napkins and bubbles are ordered, the guest list RSVP's are coming in the mail everyday.  It's so exciting!  We're doing our best to enjoy every minute and remember everything we are feeling!

Just a few more details to pin down and we'll be set. This weekend Kasi will have her first shower and she's absolutely thrilled! It's a wonderful feeling knowing you have friends and family who love you so much!
We are blessed with the most amazing friends and families!

We can't wait to see all of you!

75 days and Wedding Info Updates!

We finally have the rest of the invitations (for those who provided us with addresses) going out in the mail today.  Slight delay between all the groups due to waiting on getting my paycheck!  WOOHOO!  Yay for steady income!  :)

So far we have 17 responses back!  It's so exciting receiving them in the mail, and so quickly!  Thank you for your prompt responses!  It really makes our planning so much easier.

As a reminder, here are the details and hotel/car rental information for the wedding.
We are so excited and can't wait to see everyone!

Rental Car Discount
Hertz- Call 1-800-654-2240 and mention the discount CV number 047z0001
http://www.hotelplanner.com/Rental-Car-Reservations/index.cfm


Church Information:
Ceremony begins at 3pm
Northside Christian Church
5114 Old Pike Rd
Kansas City, MO 64118


Reception Information:
Free tours of the museum and planes begin at 4:15 and continue until 7:15
Hors d'oeuvres begin at 4:30 with a buffet style dinner at 5:30.  
Airline History Museum (located next to the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport)
201 NW Lou Holland Dr
Kansas City, MO


Hotel Blocks for Reames/Orr Wedding
Hyatt Regency Crown Center 
$99 a night
2345 McGee ST
Kansas City, MO
http://resweb.passkey.com/go/reamesorrwedding
You can also call them at 888-421-1442.
Garage parking is apprx. $14 a night
(located in the Crown Center Plaza downtown, 2 miles from our reception site)

Candlewood Suites
15490 South Rogers Rd.
Olathe, KS
$59.00 per night
877-226-3539
(30 miles from the reception site)
http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/cw/1/en/hotel/MKCEE?hotelCode=MKCEE 


Registries
We are registered at the following:
Kohl's - http://www.kohls.com/upgrade/gift_registry/kohlsgrw_home.jsp
Target - http://www.target.com/registry/landing?ref=nav_registries  
Bed, Bath, and Beyond - http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/regHome.asp?order_num=-1&
The Pampered Chef - # 217508, https://www.pamperedchef.com/registry/public/weddingRegistryHome.tpc

Wedding Invitations

We have sent out about 60 invites so far with 140 to follow this weekend.  Thank you so much to my dear friend and Bridesmaid, Serena for creating this unique invitations for us.  They match the them of our wedding perfectly!

We can't wait to start receiving RSVP's and get an actual count of who will be joining us!  So please get those postcards return quickly.  :D

3 months out!!!

Well acutally we are about 95 day out from the wedding but hey whose counting. As the days keep getting closer more items are getting checked out on the punch list. We have met with the caterer at the Airline History Musuem, Kasi got the flowers picked out, the invitations should be in the mail in about a week and the cake is picked out. If you are flying into Kansas City there are still plenty of rooms still reserved at the hotels that we have picked out. Things are starting to get exciting.

OK so for those of you that have been following Kasi's Facebook over the last couple of days know that we have had a little kink in the works regarding the wedding. The church that we had hoped could not come to an agreement with us using the church. So since I had some downtime on my last rotation I cruised the internet in search of another one from Jacksonville. I sent Kasi the list of churches that I found and she picked one and called them. Today we went and visited the church and liked it better than the first one. So with a deposit we have secured a church clearing the way for the last major obstacle on the wedding planning. I have updated the church information below.

For those of you who may be reading this, here are some details of the wedding:
Date: May 29, 2010
Place: North Side Christian Church; Kansas City
Reception: Airline History Museum

Rehearsal Dinner for the wedding party: Friday night at Kevin's house
Sunday Brunch for all out of town guests who would like a final farewell. :D Sunday morning at the Hyatt.

Additionally, here is a link for our hotels.
http://ReamesOrrWedding.HotelPlanner.com

Hotel & Rental Car Information

Hello friends and family!

Here are a list of the hotels we are in the midst of signing contracts with. (Some of my contacts there are out of town until Monday so I am just waiting to get the contracts from them). We will have links to these hotels as soon as possible.

We also have a discount with Hertz for rental cars: Call 1-800-654-2240 and mention the discount CV number 047z0001
http://www.hotelplanner.com/Rental-Car-Reservations/index.cfm

Church Information:
back to the drawing board

Reception Information:
Airline History Museum (located next to the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport)
201 NW Lou Holland Dr
Kansas City, MO

Hotel Blocks for Reames/Orr Wedding

Hyatt Regency Crown Center - contract has been signed
$99 a night
2345 McGee ST
Kansas City, MO
https://resweb.passkey.com/go/reamesorrwedding
You can also call them at 888-421-1442.
(located in the Crown Center Plaza downtown, 2 miles from our reception site)

Holiday Inn KC Northeast - pending contract
$89 a night
7333 NE Parvin Rd
Kansas City, MO
(located next to Worlds of Fun, 6 miles from our reception site

Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel - They never sent us a contract. But the price and hotel are good.
$60 a night
7301 NW Tiffany Spring Rd
Kansas City, MO
(located next to the KCI airport, 10 miles from our reception site)

Here is a link to the first two hotels for you to book.
http://ReamesOrrWedding.HotelPlanner.com

Bye, bye 2009; hello 2010

Well 2009 is coming to and end in about 3 hours so I figured that I would catch you up on what has happened the last year between the two of us. There is not that much so bare with me. First I finished up helicopter school in February and then quickly moved back to KC to start my flying job in March. In June I asked Kasi to marry me and she said yes but it took awhile to get the actual word cause she could not stop crying. Then Kasi quit her job and moved in KC to be with me and start her photography business. We celebrated Thanksgiving with my family and Kasi's mom came in to town to celebrate that with us as well. Christmas was also with my family and Kasi got to see how we celebrate even though it was a couple of days late because of the snow. As for tonight the two of us went out for a date since those are already getting to few. As for 2010 on what that may bring. Well the wedding is in May quickly followed by a honeymoon. I think the wedding will keep us pretty busy for the first part of the year. After the wedding I am looking forward to finishing out the year with Kasi as my wife.

Registry

We've had a lot of people asking so we thought we'd post where we are registered.

Right now we are registered at Kohl's and are partially registered (Kasi went online at night and picked a few things to start the registry) at Target and Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

6 months to the Wedding!

The plans are underway and coming along nicely! Our wedding party is set and I'm SO excited! I never dreamed about my wedding day but after college, I planned who I would have stand with me on this special day. Today, that plan is finally complete and I couldn't be more excited! Hattie, Serena, Maria, Amber, and Nicole. The girls who have been the most loyal friends I could ever ask for and who have been there for me through thick and thin and helped shape me into the person I am today. I love these girls! Thank you for the honor of standing with me for the most important day of my life. WOOHOO!!!!

We are still sending out our Save-the-Date cards (we've been a little slow there.) But they are coming! It's amazing how many people are in my family. I love that! I think Kevin and I will keep our family small, however. :) As I was writing down everyone in my family, it just warmed my heart to think of how many people are out there that love me. Although they have to, we are related. :) Now we have the pleasure of bringing our families together and I CAN'T WAIT for everyone that we have known and loved over the years to be together in one room! I'm almost more excited about that and of course, our Honeymoon nights! Come on, I'm only human. :)

For those of you who may be reading this, here are some details of the wedding:
Date: May 29, 2010
Place: First Christian Church of North Kansas City
Reception: Airline History Museum

Rehearsal Dinner for the wedding party and out of town family: Friday night at Kevin's house
Sunday Brunch for all out of town guests or better known as a Reames Brunch. :) Sunday morning at the hotel. (The hotel will be determined soon)

We will do our best to keep everyone updated on the details as we go along.

A warm November

Well in Kansas City we are experiencing a warm November so far this month and next week looks pretty much the same. Kasi has been in KC now for a month and she is right back in step from when she left. For those of you that do not know her photography business is up and running. Check out her website at www.reamesphotography.com So if you need pictures let her know. She will travel. So I only go out on one rotation between now and Thanksgiving. I lucked out and got a training week on Thanksgiving. I then will go out one more time before Christmas and then I will be off for the rest of the year. I love this job.

All moved in!!

Well Kasi and I moved all her stuff to Kansas City last Friday and everything went surprisingly well. The only problem that we had was the rain. It rained while we packed the moving van, it rained while we drove through Illinois, and it rained while we drove through Iowa. We traded the rain for high winds in Missouri but arrived in Olathe without any problems. After unloading the van on Saturday we took in a NASCAR race on Sunday. I have been to the truck races but this was both ours first experience with the Sprint series. Thanks Uncle Bill and Mike for the tickets. While the race was boring (no crashes) Kasi got excited about all the free stuff. Between the two of us we came away with two hats, a pair of headphones, posters, work gloves and several other things. Over all we had a great day just a little sun burnt. So over the next few weeks we are going to do some hanging out around the house and do some rearranging in my room so we can get both of our clothes in the same room.

E-Session Photos

We have photos!! Thank you to Kim Shaw for taking these photos for us!

Do you think we enjoyed Oshkosh

Fun week ahead

Well the coming week will is going to be really fun. How you may ask? Well that is why you are here reading this. Kasi is coming to Kansas City this week to hang out with me. Starting Saturday we begin the official process of planning a wedding. First stop is the reception location. Then on Monday we are looking a church. All the while we are looking for everything else that is involved with a wedding. That takes place while she is here. Thursday I begin the process of introducing her to my little addiction called airplanes. To do that I am taking her to the Experimental Aircraft Association Convention called Airventure or better know as Oshkosh. We will be spending Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the show which will be barely enough time to do everything. As an added bonus Saturday night we will get to see Jeff Dunham. After that it is back to the grid as my nearly two months off will be over as I return to flying. No worries as I have been getting paid all this time.

We're Engaged!

Kevin and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary on Friday and we can hardly believe how quickly that year flew by! To celebrate, I drove down to KC for the weekend to spend it with Kevin and his family.
We had a great weekend planned of dinners and visiting with friends and family, including a fun morning at a Photo Safari. This was a group of photographers going about KC capturing creative shots to submit at the end of the Safari for voting. Little did I know, this Safari would literally change my life! :)
Kevin, his sister Janelle and I started out on our Safari going to several locations around downtown KC. Our last stop was to Antioch Park. As we had been doing, we got out and all went our separate ways to capture the park on film. After short time, I caught back up with Kevin who was out on a rock path across the pond and Janelle was over on a bridge. Kevin called me over requesting I photograph something in the water. When I looked, I saw nothing and turned to ask him what. Upon turning back, Kevin had dropped to one knee and was holding a box with the most amazing ring gleaming back at me. TOTAL SHOCK! I couldn't believe it and just like a girl, tears began rolling down my face. (I couldn't help it!) :)
Kevin asked me to be his wife and after several minutes of me crying from joy and just plain being speechless and in shock, I finally answered with a YES!
The whole event was captured on camera by Janelle, which is so perfect! I've always been the one photographing or helping set up, engagements, and now, it was my turn.

Looking back over the past year and just before meeting Kevin, it's completely amazing to see how my life and our lives together have changed. God is so amazing!
Looking ahead, we have a new chapter to begin. Lots of time will be spent on wedding planning (can't wait to register!!!!) and building a future together. Oh, and one tiny little detail, working on getting back to KC. Everything will work out in the right timing, but it sure would be great to do all this preparing and planning together in the same state.

Kevin,
You have completely changed my life and I'm so thankful for the day you came into my world. Every talk we have, every moment we share together, I fall deeper and deeper in love with you. I can't wait to spend my life with you.
I love you. xoxox to infinity and beyond!

So I am waiting in the hotel for the rental car company to bring us a new car. My boss and I went out to the car this morning and the back right tire was flat. So I am sitting here for the next two hours waiting for a new car to get here. Well I am back in Florida this time with my new job and I have money. A situation that I am not use to. I am on my second rotation and just finished my first six days off in a row and it was wonderful. I spent the entire time in Chicago with Kasi and we got to spend much needed time together. With her being able to work out of her apartment we got to spend many hours together alone which is something that has not happended in a while. Yes we enjoy hanging out with family and friends but it is nice to be together without having to be anywhere. The two of us got to do some traditional dating like going to the movies and dinner something else that we have been lacking in. This past weekend we went over and visited Kasi's friends Maria and Tim. They were very gracious in letting us stay with them and provided good company to be around.

Busy as always

I am finally out of Florida. Kasi came down to Florida the last week in March and helped me move the remaining stuff back home. However, we decieded to do some tourist stuff while we where there. We went over to Walt Disney's Hollywood studios and hung out there for the day. The best part was waiting in line for the Toy Story Midway Mania which is a 3D interactive game. The wait was well worth it. The following day we went to the beach and both got a sunburn which helped me get rid of the farmers tan I had. The last thing that we did was go over to the Kennedy Space Center and toured that. All I can say is the Apollo rockets are huge. After that we packed up the trailer and moved out. After I dropped off some stuff at Kasi's apartment I headed back to Kansas City. Well last weekend Kasi came to Kansas City to visit me only a week after we were in a car for two whole days. I guess she really really loves me.