The Happenings of Russ Yeager and Morgan Yeager

1 Week ’til Christmas

Russ — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:53:12 +0000

How time flies, huh? I’m sorry for leaving everyone for the past 3+ months, things have been all over the place lately. Now, here we are just one week from Christmas and a couple of weeks from 2010! I am still looking for employment and Morgan is working like crazy. I miss her a lot, but she is amazing and a really hard worker. My pre-New Year’s resolution is to be committed to this website and continue to blog about things. I have a lot to say, but just not much of a writer. There has been so many things that have happened since our marriage on September 5th and I get that I can’t sum everything up here in a post or two, but I will go over a few highlights: We were married!, we went on a FANTASTIC Honeymoon, I fought with EDD A LOT, Mom and Dad sold the house in Grass Valley (sad face), Ethan and Mel have really made their house nice, Zach and Megan are engaged and pregnant, and I am starting Brew Caddy (brewcaddy.com). I have pictures from our Wedding and Honeymoon to show everyone, but those are about all you’ve missed out on. Morgan and I haven’t been anywhere lately, her work STINKS and we have no money! This post is pretty much all over the place, but please look for future posts with more direction, coming soon!

August 26th Wedding Update

Russ — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:23:49 +0000

We are really getting down to the wire now, almost less than double digits until the wedding! The 10 day countdown has started. This weekend was amazing for both Morgan and I. Our boys and girls really showed up in full effect and gave us the best parties of our lives.

Friday the boys headed up to Reno where we were upgraded to the 25th floor into a suite with adjoining room. We had dinner at the El Dorado Buffet and then walked around the strip for a bit. We decided to just head into Brew Brothers. They had live music but it wasn’t too impressive. We then went to Rum Bullions to see the duel piano bars. After getting ripped on by them for a while we headed to Aura. We contemplated heading to a club after that but decided we should get at least a few hours of sleep. Saturday we got some breakfast at the 24 hour cafe followed by a 20 bar beer crawl that happens once a month in Reno. Dinner was at The Prime Rib Grill, and it was amazing! We headed to 210 North and found ourselves in VIP with everything you could imagine. It was so much fun that we just stayed there until 3:30AM. Sunday was reserved for resting and driving home. We arrived back in Roseville about 20 minutes after Morgan.

I don’t know all of the exact names of places that Morgan went to but they started off Saturday by visiting two wineries in Sonoma before checking into their hotel in San Francisco. Dinner was at AsiaSF, a transgender restaurant and club. After AsiaSF the girls headed to various night clubs around the city. In the morning they had brunch and then drove their separate ways. I’m sure there will be pictures posted here in the near future, but they won’t be ours personally. We were having such a good time that there was no time!

Yesterday was Morgan’s 28th Birthday so we went to lunch and the river followed by dinner at Old Town Pizza with friends. Today we decided on a honeymoon finally. We are going on a 7 Day Western Caribbean Cruise from Miami, FL. The cruise will be with Carnival on the Valor. The cruise leaves on September 13th and returns on the 20th. You can view the itinerary here.

August 19th Wedding Update

Russ — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:08:03 +0000

Just 17 more days until the big one and I am having a hard time believing that everything will all come together, but Morgan says not to worry. We have been discussing our Honeymoon lately and I think we are going to do yet another Carnival Cruise, this time either out of Galveston, TX or Ft Lauderdale, FL. Tomorrow I am going to get Hua to my parents because the following day the boys and I are going to Reno for the Bachelor Party and Morgan and her girls are leaving Saturday for her Bachelorette! I have done some more updates on the site, a few are visual and some are informational. The Travel Info and Events pages mostly. Again, we are a few pieces short on RSVP cards, so if you’re holding on to yours, QUIT IT! We want them for our scrapbook and for organization. How will we know you are coming if we don’t get your card, don’t be left out! My wedding ring has been special ordered and may not arrive in time for the wedding (I do have a temporary ring just in case). My left ring finger is a 12.5 and my ring had to have a special mold created to make it. I guess it will truly be a one-of-a-kind. That is all until next week, look out for another update Monday or Tuesday following all of this weekends festivities!

August 11th Wedding Update

Russ — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:22:28 +0000

Last week we had two engagement photo sessions with two different photographers. The first session was with Meagan who is our wedding photographer, the second was with Donna Beck who is a friend of Morgan. The video above is from our session with Donna, it was shot in Historic Roseville and she put the video together for us.

We are receiving RSVP cards daily, but we still have a lot more out there, please send them in to use ASAP. Tomorrow our wedding favors are being dropped off at the house, I can’t wait to see how they turned out! Today, Morgan and I have been working a lot on wedding items. I have added some information on parking in downtown on the travel info page for people not familiar with the area.

Wedding Invitations

Russ — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:46:24 +0000

I have added images of our wedding invitations to our website since most everyone has received theirs formally by now. At the top of the page click on the banner that says “View Our Formal Invitations”. From there you can scroll through the four pieces that I designed that were incorporated into our invites. We can’t wait to see everyone and share this wonderful day with all of you!!!

August 1st Wedding Update

Russ — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:03:55 +0000

Another month down, it seems like just yesterday it was Thanksgiving and now in just over one month Morgan and I will be married! We have a PACKED month, probably more than I even realize. August 5th we have engagement photos with our photographer around our ceremony site. August 6th we are doing a photo session with Donna in Historic Roseville. August 8th we have our Wedding Shower with the family! 98% of our invitations have been sent out and we’ve received a handful of RSVP cards back already, it is really exciting to check the mail now. I have added a direct link on the Wedding Travel Info page for guests to book a room online for the big day.

July 22nd Wedding Update

Russ — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:39:20 +0000

It is time for the weekly wedding update! Hopefully tomorrow we can pick up our paper from the printer and can get our invitations into the mail by Friday. The wedding favors have been ordered and we should expect to see those between the first and second week of August. We have a meeting tonight with our DJ and we now have a room block reserved for guests. All of the wedding pages have been updated with the newest information so please take a look.

July 15th Wedding Update

Russ — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:15:59 +0000

We have been slowly but surely getting things taken care of for the big day. We should hopefully have invitations going out into the mail next Friday, so start checking your mailboxes the last week of July for your beautiful invites designed by yours truly. Once everyone has received theirs in physical form I’ll be posting a digital version for quick viewing or printing. Our wedding favors are in the midst of being viewed by the necessary people, we are really excited about this item! All of the wedding pages have been updated with some more current information. Please take a look at them. Sorry for leaving you hanging the last 45 days, I guess we’ve been busy!

Google Analytics - May 2009

Russ — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:14:59 +0000

The website has continued to receive more and more traffic this year, I believe with the help of Facebook links and twitter posts about the new blog updates. Referring websites and search engine traffic is now higher than direct traffic. Before this year, all russandmorgan.com received was direct traffic because it’s intention was just to be used for family and friends to know what we are up to. Now with the growing popularity of the social networking sites, we now have access to let our friends know what is new with us through ‘advertising’ rather than just relying on them to come to us directly. Our traffic this month is 40.23% higher than last month but our average time on site has gone down 5.82%. We had 49 visits from friends and family via Facebook this month, so that is great to see! For all of the nerdy, yet interesting stats for the month of may, click here.

New Schedule of Events

Russ — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:40:51 +0000

From the time that I moved our website from a traditional site to a content management system (CMS) on WordPress I wasn’t been happy with the calendar. It was ugly, clunky, and not very friendly, therefore I didn’t update it much. I have been feeling really creative this week and getting a lot of design work done, so I thought I’d spend some time out on our website. Now, the schedule is more like it used to be, it is a simple list of upcoming dates and what the event is. What is new now, is that the item can be clicked on. Once on the event page, you will see a Google Map of the location along with an event description and time. It is also possible to RVSP for certain events (maybe in the future I will implement this feature for an event). Have a look at our new schedule layout here. FYI, not all of our events that are scheduled are on the schedule yet, and they will be soon.