more photos...

thanks chris and jon from prairie pixel group for the amazing photos that keep rolling out...

key to my heart.

i remember when i was little my parents would always take us to sears to get our portraits taken. nothing glamorous, but just something with me and my little sister in matching clothes that grandma petersen usually sent for sears.

our hair was always curled and had big bows in it. megan always had a horrible cowlick and we would have to be crafty with the hairspray.

anyways... they would have these photo packages to pick from and i remember my mom picking a package that would always have a teenie tiny picture in it.

a picture for her locket.

she had a small silver oval locket on a long silver chain. there was a little pearl that was between the locket and the chain. and the locket had some flowers engraved on it.

i always wanted to look in there and see what was in there.

always a tiny picture of us right by her heart.

i liked knowing i was close to her heart.

i used to have a gold and red minnie mouse locket when i was little. i remember my dad went somewhere with work and brought it back from one of his trips.

one for me and one for megan.

i think i put of a picture of my cat felix in it.

sometimes a tiny piece of sand or lint...whatever would fit.

so for the past few years i have wanted a locket again- to put a picture of my love in.

they are hard to find these days. joel said borsheims didnt have any when he went to look for a wedding gift. that is sad.

i did find one at vonmaur the other day...

...and valentines day is coming up.

one day i will take portraits of my kids and wear them in a locket close to my heart.

penny lane and mr joel

they have a love hate relationship.
mostly love though.
he 'hates' cats. was 'allergic'

funny how he isnt anymore.
must be love that someone who is allergic and hates cats buys one for a valentines gift for his lady.

she snuggles with him more than she snuggles with anyone else.
he talks to her in a special little voice.
she gets into things she shouldn't and he yells in an extra loud deep voice.
he gets her ramped up and running around like nobody else.
he calls her a devil cat when she is bad.
she calls him the jerk when he ignores her.
he gets upset when she always trys to surf the web on his lap.

since my sister got her new cat he has been nothing but trouble.




me showing joel a picture of megans new cat gus.
joel: penny thinks gus is ugly.

gus loves bread.
he jumps up on the counter,
drags the bag down,
and puts it in megan's bed
and eats it all.

me: penny needs more food.
joel: penny go make yourself a sandwich...gus does.

konichiwa!!!!

as luck will have it...

i will be going to japan.

well not just luck i guess- years of friendship and free photography and pr...

and well not just japan...

a 28 day tour of Guam, Japan, Korea, Kwajalein, and Okinawa with my good friends the maynard triplets.

they will be singing 19 concerts for the USO from may 21-june 19 and i will be acting as their manager/publicist/assistant/photographer and emotional support.

i still have to tie things down with work- but it sounds like they are cool with me going.

the chance of a lifetime... the travel the world with a dear friend- and the best part- it's FREE!

i cant wait and am so excited i can hardly stand it.

mandy promised me she would take care of me someday...
and boy is she.

i heart you mandy.

the email that broke the ice...

i planned on reading this at the wedding sometime but totally forgot.

here is the story:

me and joel met the summer of 2001 at a zao concert at the cog factory- thanks to john. the funny thing is i had my camera that day and had jaimi snap a photo of us on our way to the concert. see picture above. look how cute and young we are.

we talked our senior years of high school and i drove to west omaha often to see him. he wasnt much of an talker and it took him a good year to talk to me candidly. the funny thing is for me to call him in omaha from plattsmouth it was long distance, but it was free for him to call me. dont ask me why. i still dont know to this day. but i was to embarrassed to ask him to call me back- that i would run the phone bill up and have to take the heat at the end of every month for my phone calls to joel.

after i moved to omaha for college me and joel started hanging out more and more. i wanted to date him for a long time, but i would get so nervous around him when i was about to ask him i just broke down and emailed him one day saying do you want to be more than friends basically... and this is what he said.

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From : Joel Schlegelmilch
Sent : Thursday, October 31, 2002 1:01 AM
To : 'Danelle Petersen'
Subject : RE: hello sir




Hey. I don't know if you will get this before i see you tonight, but i will
e-mail you back anyways. I think of myself as a kind of sally when it comes
to relationship stuff, so things sometimes come out tangled or not at all.
i think i have wanted to be a bit more that just friends with you for a
while, but i am shy and it is hard to say anything. hangin out and doing
things with you makes joel a really happy boy. i like watching movies and
chilling with you, it is great. dont worry about saying anything stupid
because you are the only one here that is brave enought to say anything, and
i am just really shy, even though i do think about you all the time, i just
don't say anything. i like were our relationship is going right now, so i
will leave it at that. ttyl..

your big sally friend joel


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i love you joel.

something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue...

something old: the name petersen.
something new: the name schlegelmilch.
something borred: grandmas pearls.
something blue: my tattoo.

i guess i will always be a petersen, i mean look at this danish face. i know what ebleskiver's are and like them and even have the pan from williams-sonoma, thanks to cousin Jim and Abby. I've been to the danish windmill museum and actually have family heirlooms in there. i look just like my dad. i will always have the petersen chubby face and fingers. and i will always have a camera snap snap snapping tons of pictures like those darn petersen's do so well.

i will always be a petersen. i will always have an amazing family...whether they are petersens, cramers, seils, johnsons, stefanics and jensens. they are all great.

but now i get a new name and a new family. i got a new big sister and shopping warrior friend linsey (who i adore) a brother in law matt who can tell me everything i need to know about buying a house and investments, and a little brother named kyle who i can always count on to toss me an amazing pizza among other things. (oh and he has a hot little lady named rachael who the sweetest thing second to chocolate. a new mom who can cook the best fried chicken ive ever tasted and hug like the best of them. and a new dad. a dad who just happens to be one of the cutest people i've ever met. dont let the leather, earing or harley fool you. he is the biggest softy i know. he also is a hugger and one of the best ive ever met. oh and i get a lot of rad new cousins and aunts and uncles and grandparents...

but most importantly i get an amazing husband. i have loved mr joel for quiet sometime. about 5 years. and everyday i love him more and more. we were married on our 50 month anniversary. thats pretty neat.

here are some of my favorite pics from the greatest day of my life. more to come...

greatest days of my life and pictures of course.

...happily ever after.

i love my life.

i have an awesome husband and great friends and family that love us.

thank you so much to everyone that came out the wedding and reception. it meant the world to us.

it really did. thanks a million. more news to come about the married life. still getting things back in order then i will start to blog to catch up.

check out my shutterfly with the pics and add some if you want.

danellep.shutterfly.com

until then i will be taking care of my husband.

love- mrs. s

ps- happy new year!!

what a weekend.

i am proud to announce----

now introducing mrs s.

just a few photos to tide you over.

more to come soon.

it was all great.

i will blog many blogs tomorrow and fill you all in.

two more days and im a bride...

my love

is a good love.
a great love actually.
he is fun.
and funny.
we dont have to be fancy.
we just be us.
it reminds me of a favorite lloyd dobbler quote:
"When we'd go out, we wouldn't even have to go out. We'd just hang out. This girl
made me trust myself. I was walking around, feeling satisfied, can you imagine that?"
he gave me his heart.
...i didn't give him a pen.

if you dont know what that means well...
lovesick in the 1989 movie- say anything-lloyd dobbler gives diane court his heart and she breaks up with him and gives him a pen in return.

it's one of my all time favorite movies-
not just because i love john cusack- but because it's true.

love isnt about going places and and trying to be in love.
love is about just being.
being and living.

im about to be a wife.
holycow.
i will let you know what its like.
i bet its like being in love x10000.

three more

4 days

5 days...