Joy and Tony

Shoreline Village in Long Beach

2010-07-02T19:55:00.001-07:00

Right next to the Aquariam of the Pacific and Queen Mary they have a shopping center called Shoreline Village. We had so much fun that Tony wants to make another trip just to Long Beach.

Huntington Beach Pier!

2010-07-02T19:50:00.001-07:00

We ate breakfast at Ruby's and then watched some volleyball on the beach. I dared Tony to climb the rock thing and he was the only one that would. I missed the picture of him ringing the bell so he actually went back up for the picture!

Joy loves sushi!!

2010-07-02T19:43:00.001-07:00

Tony is so sweet, he took me to this sushi place in Redlands. They have private booths! How romantic! The servers even knock on the door before serving you! It is so awesome!!

We love the moutains!!

2010-07-02T19:37:00.001-07:00

We love driving up the mountains by our house! As you can see we had a bunch of fun taking these pics!

2009-11-23T08:11:00.000-08:00

IN-N-OUT in UTAH!!

Yep its finally here and there will be 3 others very soon!

This is the interesting part, we were just driving by to see the hundreds of people lined up for a mile down the street, then WHO DID I SEE? Yep you guessed it ELTON! He is a neighbor from Cali that used to live down the street and for years everytime we went to In-N-Out we would chat with him! Of all of the places to see him, we see him outside of new In-N-Out in Utah!!

2009-09-29T11:23:00.000-07:00

OUR TRIP TO OGDEN!

Okay yes I realize it is only 20 min drive from Bountiful, but it was a lot of fun! They had a bike race so we didn't want to get out and walk around. Besides Tony didn't want to be late for work. I am so glad we could do something together on a Saturday.

I don't why I am so goofy, but I love this sign. It reminds me of Route 66 in California and the history that is behind that. I remember a song about getting your kicks on Route 66.

I thought this was so awesome. An Egyptian theatre!

PIONEER HISTORY in OGDEN!

They have these cool painted horses all over Ogden! These were done one year to celebrate Pioneer Day!

We took a little drive into the hills and look the Mountains are literally right in their backyard!

2009-09-29T11:09:00.000-07:00

Joy works in the Airport at HMSHost. She loves to decorate for birthdays, anniversary's with the company or any other type of parties!

The HR Dept gave Johnathan a submarine burthday card and Joy decorated his desk. He is so much fun to work with!!!

2009-09-18T12:34:00.000-07:00

WEEKEND with the PARENTS!!!

I am so happy that my parents came out to Utah to bring my desk! They also took several trips to D.I. and Layton where my bro & sisters live and to Draper to pick up our new Futon from Tony's Parents!

My mom and my baby sister Noel

Tony is showing us his muscles at Kurt's house

Both Mom's at the Claudio's home in Draper, Utah

Of course my mom had to test out our vacuum...haha!

2009-09-18T12:25:00.001-07:00

OUR NEW QUEEN SIZE BED!!!

I am so excited that we finally got a queensize bed! We absolutely love it!

2009-09-08T07:59:00.000-07:00

BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR NOEL!!!

Kurt, Glory and I went. Tony had to work on Labor Day! We were so sad he couldn't come but we all want to go bowling one Saturday when all of us can make it at the same time.

Okay I totally wanted to have streamers and decorate for the party but Noel just didn't want me to go all out so I just got her these balloons and some cookies for her party and she wanted a target gift card so all of us gave her that and Kurt gave her this Encore game that we used to play growing up. It is a game where you have to think of songs...It is pretty fun!

I totally didn't plan it, but I wore Red, White and Blue!

This cat was on top of the wall! Kurt held his hands out to jump to him but I didn't get this picture in time! Darn...

2009-09-08T07:27:00.000-07:00

DATE NIGHT!

Saturday night Tony & I went to Gardener Village. It is so cute! They have these little cottages that sell all different kinds of things from home made chocolates, Quilting store, Christmas Store just to name a few. We usually spend all day here but it was fun just to come for a few hours.

The scenery is so beautiful and a lot of couples come here for their wedding photos. I just didn't want anything with snow in it since our reception in California was a Beach theme

I love how many things all over Utah you will see the beehive symbolizing "the Beehive State"

We went to the movies afterwards and the Soccor game got right as we were entering the theatre and a ton of people were walking and I yelled out the window "WHO WON?" They said the USA! This game was the USA against El Salvador to see who will be in some championships. I should have asked to type this part he would have said it better. Tony said out of the whole world they decided to have this game here!

2009-07-22T18:00:00.000-07:00

OUR WEDDING DAY!!!
June 20, 2009
(the same day as Joy's grandparents were married in the Salt Lake City, Utah temple June 20, 1950)

We are so excited to go inside to be married!

If anyone tells you that the SLC temple rushes you through the temple because of so many wedding tell them they are wrong. Everyone made us feel like it was OUR day and it was so special! I know my Grandma was there in spirit.

This is everyone that came to the Temple! We are so lucky that so many people love us!

This is the princess pose that everyone does. Even people come in street clothes on Saturday to take a picture in here. I was really worried that I couldn't make it up here because you have to climb up there! Tony wanted this picture so bad because he grew up in Utah and that is what everyone does. So Sam was right there and he helped me get up there. What are best friends for! Then he helped Tony get up there too! So funny...

THIS ONE'S FOR THE GIRLS!

I have seen this picture in so many idea books for scrapbooking that I wanted it in my scrapbook too!

My best friend Sam! We met when I was 18 yrs right out of highschool and we hit it off right away and the rest is history...Thank you is just not enough! Sam you are the best friend anyone could have ever wished for thank you for everything!!!

My sisters Star and Glory. What can I say, my sister, my friends! You guys are awesome...

Joy's siblings: Noel & Paul, Kurt, Glory, Star.

Tony's Family: Ines (cousin), Andrew & Tara (siblings)

This is a cute Picture of Joy's Family with Grandpa

Dad, Joy and Grandpa

THE RINGS...

OUR RINGS

JOY'S PARENTS RINGS

2009-07-22T14:16:00.000-07:00

Our Utah reception in Bountiful!

We had so much fun...Of couse we have to be as silly as we can!

Tony's Family and Friends

Tony and his Best friend Kendrick Cantrell.

Thank you so much for traveling so far Kendrick!

Tony's Nephew, Little Tony and his wife Nalanie.

Tony's cousin, Ines and her husband Brad.

I love these pics of Emmit, Tony's Nephew. He did this dance and our photographer took these pics. They are so cute!

JOY's Family and Friends

Sam and his brother Joe. We had way too much fun with them! You will find out why if you scroll down...and see our car!

Sam played the piano for a little bit I forgot how beautiful he plays! I want to put this picture up in our home.

My mission companion, Amy (Sister Jensen) She lives in Idaho and is married and has a cute little girl that said all night, "Is that the princess" How cute is that!!!

Noel & Paul and Hillaury & Carlos

My sister Glory and me!

This is such a cute picture of Noel and Paul (my baby sister)

My 2 cousins Kirsten and Chas. They are 18 and 17 yrs old. I love how tall they are!!

Billings Family

We are so thrilled that some of our family from my Grandma's side that we only see at Family reunions could come because of the reception in Utah! I never thought we would be able to see them at my wedding! I am so thankful that they came.

Glen and Val Leary (My grandma's sister, Aunt Louise kids)

Jerry and Carol (My grandma's brother, Quinter's kids)

The 2 Glory's! (my sister Glory and Glorie is Aunt Louise's daughter)

Glorie, Aunt Louise, Ed (Louise's son), and Kay (My grandma's sister Blanche's daughter)

Stevenson Clan

My grandpa's siblings...We all are so thrilled that they could come to our reception! I am so glad it was in Utah so that they could come since they live in Utah

My Grandpa's brother, Uncle Gib & Aunt Marilyn, his sister, Aunt Nancy & Uncle Floyd. (My grandpa is the handsome man in the middle next to me!)

Uncle Ray and Aunt June are on the left side of me and their daughter Aunt Maren then on the right is Grandpa and My mom's sister Aunt Evaun. (They came to the Cali reception but I wanted to include them on this page)

THE CAR!!!

Thanks to Sam Mayo (Yes I know who you are) He lead this car decorating brigade. The person that ratted you out was a little 6 yr old, in my primary class. Then I was told that Sam raided the kitchen and all of a sudden this happened! It was a lot of fun driving down the freeway and all of these cars were honking at us it was very cool! Later Tony told me that there were 60 weddings in the SLC temple that same day...not including Friday!

2009-07-22T14:02:00.000-07:00

BENIHANA!!

Seriously! Did you expect anything differently? Of course I am all about Benihana's and it is a place where Joy can have her sushi and all of you non sushi lovers can have "normal" food. Hahaha! Some of you know how hard it was to have our wedding day lunch there. Thank you to Tara and Andrew and Joy's friend Sam for coming! You guys truely made this a special occasion.

We love waiting to be seated at Benihana's! Tara and Andrew, my favorite Brother and sister in Laws and their kids Cassie and Emmit. Thanks again for coming!

Can't wait to get some sushi in my belly!

2009-07-22T13:50:00.000-07:00

JOY and TONY in Redlands, California

We were so excited to go to the temple for the first time together (other than getting married) with Joy's parents in the Redlands Temple. When this temple was built it meant so much to Joy because it was so exciting to have a temple so close and in the same city. We didn't even have to go to LA just to go to the temple! Exciting times

We almost got killed taking this picture but I am so glad my parents were good sports about it. This picture will probably enlarge and put in our home.

This was way fun! I love palm tree's. This is what I miss most about California...well and the beach!

Ahhh we love taking pictures together!

2009-07-22T13:39:00.001-07:00

TONY at JOY's mother's Childcare in California

You would never know this by looking at this picture but he woke up 2 minutes before this ran upstairs and sat down by these kids put on the finger puppets and made up a story. It was so funny! He didn't even care about his picture being taken. We had so much fun with these kids!

This was so fun after this we got ready and went to old town Riverside to see Mission Inn and some museums. When you grow up in Cali that isn't what you would call fun to go to Riverside but this was the day after Michael Jackson died and we didn't want to be anywhere close to LA area! We really did have a lot of fun and learned things I never knew. Tony loves doing things like this that are exploring and learning about different cities.

2009-07-20T13:44:00.000-07:00

California Reception Jun 27th 6pm-8pm

Redlands, Ca Pioneer building

The happy couple

After 2 receptions and tons of pics I am still smiling :)

Here's the Claudio's! I am so happy they came to the California reception.

The OWEN family plus a few grandkids!

Joy's siblings! I was so happy that Glory and Kurt came down to Cali. They both live in Layton, Utah. It was such a wonderful end to a great princess fairytale week!

Michelle and her Daughter Alexis are Joy's friends from Cali. She is so glad they could come! Alexis made out with a ton of shells from the reception! Thank you for coming Michelle!

Joy's parents and Grandma Josie (Dad's mom) This picture is so cute!

We are thrilled Taylor Davis was able to play the piano at our reception. Joy remembers walking Taylor to Thrifty's with Kyle Wright when they were 4 years old. Everyone at the reception said they he plays amazingly! They are so right!

Joy's Family on her mom's side (Uncle Ray/Aunt June, Maren, Grandpa and Aunt Evaun)

We are so happy that so many extended family could come.

Bonnie Norby and Suzan on the left and on the right are the Adams girls: Katie, Cathy and Heather Adams. I was joking with my mom that if no one showed up and only the Adams did we would have a great party! Thanks for coming guys! Heather is getting married soon to her fiance on the left of her also. Exciting times!

This is some of the Redlands ward that came! Bea Fitzgerald, the Sheffers, Katie (I still remember falling off your bed when you were painting your room), and the Dodds

I think this picture is absolutely so beautiful of my Grandma Josie. She has the heart of a saint. She gives and gives to us Owen kids. When my mom married into her family, Grandma Josie's real name is Joy and it was confusing because of 2 Joy names, and she decided to change her name just for me so we wouldn't be confused. All of her other Grandkids call her Grandma Joy.

This is Brother and Sister Reader from Joy's ward she grew up in when she lived with her Grandparents in Alta Loma, Ca which is part of Rancho Cucamonga where her Grandma Jocie lives also. I was so happy they were able to come to the reception!

Looks like someone likes his new brother in law! We both have so much fun hanging out with Kurt. I am so happy Kurt can put up with both of us being so silly :)

Michelle, Alexis, Joy, Suzan and Sylvia (co-workers from Joy's work before she moved to Utah)

I think this picture is so cute of Star's daughter, Ashley. She loves Grandpa!

Joy's friend Michelle! So excited to see her in a week!

The Father's of the Bride and Groom! We love you both

Iris, Iris, Iris.... she threatened Tony when she first met him. Does he look scared? I love my Iris! Thank you both for coming! Joy grew up in Alta Loma down the street from the Alves family. They have 3 girls and 1 boy around our ages. We had so much fun together!

The pioneer building where we had our reception! Joy loves the idea of the LDS reception in the church building!

Star's husband Mark made this box when he was younger and then Debbi Pry painted this sand castle for the reception and Joy and Tony now have it in their home since their apartment has all beach and sandcastle decor.

These give-away chocolates were so much work for Joy to make. She very glad they turned out so nice!

The book signing table. (Mom it looks beautiful)

Has anyone had a juice bar at a reception? I loved this idea! Thanks for putting this together Dad!

Food line -- Are those seashell bowls? Yep... Joy's parents are amazing!

The sandcastle/seashell wedding cake

The wedding rings

Center pieces...Joy designed these herself.

2009-05-07T07:32:00.000-07:00

FIRST WEDDING GIFTS!

Our first wedding gifts! This is so exciting. This person was super sneaky and sent these gifts before the wedding invitations were sent out... I know who you are sneaky lady!

I am all finished with the invitations and they will be mailed out shortly...

2009-04-14T08:07:00.001-07:00

HE-MAN

I tried it and this is a lot harder than it looks! I won't show that picture though (of course)

PICTURE TIME! DON'T THEY LOOK HAPPY AND FULL!

2009-04-13T11:28:00.000-07:00

EASTER EGG HUNT!!

The girls hid all 16 Easter eggs and we had the boys look for the eggs! Kurt was so excited to do everything this Easter it was so much fun! This was Tony and my first Easter together so as you can imagine he had tons of fun with my Brother Kurt, Glory, Noel and Paul. After the Egg Hunt, we did Kareoke and played Apples to Apples. Overall, this Easter was a lot of fun!

Okay now do I get to eat it?

Didn't take long for Kurt to find the easy places to look!

You can't really see this, but Kurt is sitting on a ledge to get to this Egg. Noel's house is perfect for an Egg hunt with every nook and crany!

EGG FIGHT!!!

This is the second reason why the Owen's love Easter! We take this very seriously!

Tony looks a little scared of Noel! I found out later that Tony only has used plastic eggs for an egg hunt.

ENGAGEMENT PHOTOS

2009-02-25T07:41:00.000-08:00

We had so much fun going to Butte Gardens to take these pics. Kurt did an awesome job as our photgrapher! You would have never guessed that we were freezing! I wanted to go to Cali to take some pics with Palm Tree's but I think these turned out nicely.