We got our wedding photos :D

We had the most perfect wedding day we could have ever hoped for, for us it was just magical. We had so much fun celebrating our love for each other and being with our friends and family for the day. From the very beginning of the day to the very end, we loved it. The day was so pact that it went by so fast and there were some moments we just wish we could go back and enjoy for a little longer, people that we could have spoken to for a little longer, dances we could have danced for a little longer and food that we definitely could have eaten all over again! It really was such a magical day and we are so happy that we had such a wonderful photographer to capture this for us, take a look at some of our photos below.

Dan's dress (brought & altered from Bridal Perfection)

The brides shoes (found original online for £290, brought these for £32, BARGAIN!) I loved them and not one blister..

The best Father of the Bride there ever was. Love you Dad x

One of my beautiful nieces - Daisy x

"DEREM" - Cheeky little T x

One of our favourite moments of the day - when we got to see each other! 

The beautiful bridesmaids leading me down the isle. 

The decor - Christmas, checkers and the perfect guest book (handmade by the talented cousin, Zoe)

Our very own hot chocolate stand, lebkuchen, cinnamon whirls, syrups, cookies and chocolate sprinkles, it was delicious.

Our wonderful guests, thank you all for coming.

The loveliest Mother of the Groom xx

Husband and Wife after just being sealed together for time and all eternity.

The Temple is the most wonderful place in the entire world, what a special time we had there. 

The beautiful Isabelle (brides little helper!) xx

What a handsome bunch...

The coolest best man a wedding has ever seen.

The best twins ever!

Adam, the coolest littlest brother :p

The best friends a bride could ever need.  

The reception...magical. 

The cutest wedding cake ever - vanilla sponge with jam and cream filing covered in soft icing. Thank you Mrs Baker and Dan for the little bride and groom, very cute and clever! 

The traditional cut the cake photo :)

Our first dance - The Luckiest  (Ben Folds) - one of our favourites. 

As you can see, we really did have the best day ever, and we are so grateful and feel very blessed, we really are. Almost four months on and we are absolutely loving married life, we are so happy and excited that we get to share the rest of our lives together as Mr & Mrs Field.

One last photo....

Thank you to everyone that made our day amazing, we really appreciated your attendance, help, love and support. Thank you for your generosity and for making the beginning of our happy ever after perfect. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you all!xx

TICKETS ARE BOOKED!

Woo! It is finally official, on the 20th June 2014 we will be on our way to Nairobi to start our Nasio Trust adventure; climbing Kilimanjaro and volunteering in the local daycare centres to help build schools and shelters for young children that have been orphaned as a result of HIV'S. We thought The Nasio Trust was an amazing charity and really wanted to support a charity that doesn't get a lot of attention but does lots of AMAZING work, if you would like to check out some of the other work the Nasio Trust do, click here to visit their website, or watch the video below... it will make you laugh and cry...

The flights are actually booked now, it feels so great as in January 2013 when we decided to attempt this challenge, we wanted it to do it in the following September (2013), a rather ambitious goal, we nearly made it with our fundraising target and were going to put the rest of the money towards it from our own savings, but then we got engaged...and needed the money for the wedding so we had to postpone it, now, thanks to kind donations and sponsorship we finally have enough to do it and we have booked our tickets!!  The target was to raise £5,900 together and check out our running total...Our Page

We are really thankful to everyone that has helped us get this far, we really couldn't have done it without you all, your money really will be changing the life of little ones in desperate need of care and will definitely be pushing us to our own physical and emotional boundaries. We are trying to work hard towards raising the rest of the money and getting ourselves in shape for the climb and we are having lots of fun doing so. We can't quite believe how quickly it is coming around now, only 123 days!

It is so exciting, Dan is a little apprehensive just because of the complete LARGE scale of this challenge and Seb is a little worried because he STILL has a knee injury and physio doesn't seem to be helping :( Regardless of whether we make it to the top or not, all the money will be going to the charity and it will be one of the most rewarding experiences for us both but we are hoping and praying that Seb's knee will be better by then so we can give it our best efforts to conquer Kilimanjaro. We will definitely keep you posted about this in June.

Thanks for stopping by!

Dan & Seb

Ich Liebe Deutsch

For a while last year, Seb and I said it would be really cool for him to teach me German but we just never really had the time and as we only got to see each other for weekends, studying German wasn't very high on our list of things to do... This year however, although things are getting very busy, we have been able to spend some time doing this, and it is great! We sit down in the evening together and have a German lesson.

Seb ist die Besten Lehrer (is the best teacher) and I am slowly but surely learning some German, it is lots of fun and I am excited to learn more and more so that I will eventually be able to have a fluent conversation in German without having to refer to my vocab or homework book.

Seb really gets into the role as a teacher, he gets out his whiteboard, stands at the front of the classroom, I mean our little spare room, and even puts on his new glasses to feel more like a teacher...his words...Check out his new glasses, I think he looks really smart...

He wasn't very happy about having to wear glasses for the first time in his life but he is getting use to them now.

I am grateful to have such an intelligent and patient husband that can and is willing to teach me German, laugh at my mistakes before correcting them and lets me switch to Italian when I can understand what he says but don't know how to reply. :) Thanks a lot Seb!

Glory Glory

Glory Glory Man United, Glory Glory Man United, Glory Glory Man United  oops, well err Sunderland.

After a week of Seb telling me ALL about how REALLY important the Man United V Sunderland match we were going to see is and how EXCITED he was for us, I still couldn't really share his enthusiasm for our little trip out. I saw this picture on Facebook and thought it completely summed up my feelings about football.

I had never been to a football match before and could have quite happily remained in that state. I have no real passion for football, in case you haven't already noticed? We were going with one of Seb's work friends (Sam) and his wife (Tanya) and I knew that Tanya really was as excited as me, which was actually very little... Of course, I was excited to hang out with Seb and some friends and to do something I knew meant a lot to Seb but just not really for the match itself. So anyway, the day finally arrived and off we went to Manchester. When we arrived in Manchester, I did start to get a little more in the spirit of it as everywhere you looked there were 'fellow' supporters having fun and getting excited for the game, the atmosphere was really good. It was interesting to see how one sport can bring so many different types of people together. Anyway, getting a little more excited by this point, we headed for the stadium arriving in our seats just as the game kicked off.

It was actually pretty cool watching the match, we were right by the away fans and they were making a lot of noise, with their loud chants and songs it was hard to stop your hands and feet from following suit. It was rather educational going to see Man U play, I learnt the off side rule, rules about the points (like why they won the match but actually lost...!?!) and even that Ronaldo hasn't played for Man U for 7 years now...woops! I also learnt that actually going to watch a match is better than watching it on TV purely because there is no commentator, you can just sit back and watch the ball be passed from player to player rather than hearing somebody tell you everything you are seeing. Besides, Tanya's commentating was much better than what you hear on the TV, "Why didn't that one with green shoes just kick it the other one with green shoes?" "what was he thinking, why did he just pass it to the other team?" We were definitely on the same level.

The first  half of the game was good, Man U scored, this is when I learnt that when YOUR team scores, you have to jump up and look really happy and excited, I mean as happy and as excited as you could ever possibly be, you look at the person next to you, a complete stranger if that be the case and gaze into one another eyes whilst smiling and jumping up and down, really it is quite nice, you feel like you could hug everyone there. Its like what you would imagine the Utah bubble to be like. ;) However, this all changed quite dramatically in the second half when Sunderland started to dominate a little more and the game got 'tense'.  Now its like sitting with a the grumpiest men in the world that if you dare look at or speak to, you will just get the frowning eyebrows cast upon you... that's when you know the match is getting serious, real serious.

So the whistle is blown, 1 - 0 to Man U, I thought that was the end, we could go home content that WE had WON until I looked around and saw that the tense, angry, frowning men were back and the game was starting again...they had won 1 - 0 but this meant they were drawing because of a previous match... so 30 minutes later and the mood was getting tenser and tenser and tenser and tenser. Then, in the final half of extra time, Sunderland score! MINUTES before the end of the game. If the game ends now, United are out! The Sunderland fans were ecstatic and were not afraid to let us know about it. I kept hearing from Seb "if we don't score now, then we are out, out for good, it will all be over!!"  The angry Man U supporters were loosing hope until in the final minute....about 10 seconds before the whistle went.... they scored! SCORE! Phew! Peace and happiness restored once more to the fans. Sort of.....because...

....penalties started and eventually Sunderland won. What an anticlimax that was. Upon leaving Seb said, "If only we had won, I could have been so happy right now." I really didn't know how much the game had meant to him or the other thousands of men who, on the way back to the car park all became Alex Ferguson, the MAN himself, with their wise words and their 'if only's'. Suddenly everyone knew how to manage football teams and "could have squeezed a win out of the players, because that's what Ferguson would have done."...Poor guys. I did actually really feel for them. I wanted Man U to win just because everyone was so happy and then so...unhappy. It was like witnessing a mother buying a child an ice-cream, the child receiving the ice-cream in the happiest, most grateful way possible, only for the dog walking beside him take one big slobbery bite, taking the whole ice-cream and just leaving the cone for the deflated little one.

Little by little the boys' moods started to lift and we could enjoy the journey home together. It is a shame, it was such a good night out and really did change my perspective of football. Yes, yes, OK I would go again...but no Seb, "we can't buy a season ticket.....yes, even if they're 'only' £534..."

Thanks for a really great night out guys, it was fun, so sorry for your loss but hey, you win some you lose some eh?

Mushy Peas & Gravy

What do you write when you first start writing a blog? This is the question we are asking ourselves right now. It's been just over a month since we got married, and just under since we left good ol' Ashford to migrate northwards....yes, to the land where chips are served with gravy, where there's a meat pie shop on every corner and where everyone calls you "duck" or "lovey". Yes...the NORTH. Although it sounds terrifying, it's actually been quite pleasant.We're happy to discover that gravy doesn't flow out of the taps instead of water as we had previously thought and that more than mushy peas are sold in the supermarkets and there are actually lots of really nice country parks. We went on a really nice walk to Yarrow Valley Country Park yesterday which is right by our house. It was really nice. Here are some photos.

We are happy in our new little apartment, we finally get to live together! Woo! :D We've been settling in quite nicely.  It's been a lot more work than we had expected...the whole moving into a new apartment lark. We keep discovering that we need various things, right in the moment when we would need them. Have you ever tried peeling potatoes with scissors, cheese knives or a bread knife? We wouldn't recommend it. It's worse than an hour at the gym! But as we slowly accumulate more and more household items, our apartment is becoming more and more of a home. Not that it's all about household items mind you. It's about a lot more than that.

We are really happy that we get to spend so much time together. It's great, starting and finishing the day with the one you love. After over a year of having to be 300 miles apart and seeing each other only every 3 weeks or so, and even then only for a few days, being able to always be together is brilliant. We can do all the little things together that we were so excited to do for so long. Things like going running together, cooking together, shopping, studying, just being in the room together when we are both doing separate things. It is so fun! 

Seb has been very busy with work at the MTC and university. There is a new group of missionaries in and they are just starting to learn German, which is always a laugh. Uni is also busy and requires a lot of time, which is a bit annoying when we just want to hang out together all the time. People laugh when he says he is bitter about the fact that he has to get up early for uni because we can't be together but it's a serious matter, we want to spend every second together! 

We like our ward. It's really nice. We like all the people. Dan was called as the faith in God assistant last week. She's really happy about it. At church yesterday it was basically the Dan & Seb show. During sacrament meeting, we gave the opening and closing prayers, both were asked to share our testimonies and Dan had to stand up for her calling. Then she woke up to a text this morning asking her to give a talk next week so...watch out Chorley 1, there's more to come.

True to our selves, we're busy planning lots of fun things to do this year such as multiple day hikes in the Lakes, going to Italy, Switzerland, France and some other countries, and our Kilimanjaro trip. We actually booked the tickets to Kenya a few days ago so...that one is definitely happening now. We're really excited and there will be much more to come about all that.

So yes, we're happy. We're healthy. We are loving life! If you belong to the group of people who we would miss if we didn't see for a while.....we miss you.

Stay tuned. We'll be updating at least once a week so, if you want to see what's going on in our lives, you know where to come.

.....to this blog....in case you were actually still wondering.

Dan & Seb :D