Wordless Wednesday - LACMA

Summer Goals

Summer

I’ve seen a few of my fellow blogger friends do this and it seems like a great idea. I’m one of those people that like to list things out so that I can check them off. That and the fact that I often forget the things I wanted to do. With today being the first day of summer, I thought this would be the perfect time to plan some fun events that I always talk about doing and never seem to get to..

The street view walking to our car from Disneyland

• go on the architectural tour when we go to Chicago
• take a funny face picture of the nieces when we go to Michigan
• take a full family photo when we go to Michigan
• dance at a summer wedding
• go to the dog beach (maybe a few times)
• go to Disneyland just for the fireworks
• go to the animation class at California Adventure 5 times
• save for a kayak
• tweet up with Chicago Twitter friends
• walk around the Queen Mary, possibly take a tour (beautiful Art Deco interiors)
• host at least 2 game nights
• bike ride to Huntington Beach
• ride the AquaBus and walk around Shoreline Village
• ride a water bike
• go through our closet and find clothes and other items to donate
• go to the Belmont Brewery
• start refurbishing the alley chair
• girls day at the spa
• have a sunset picnic at the beach
• make a summer mixed drink
• try at least 5 of the gazillion recipes I haven’t tried
• walk around downtown Fullerton
• tour the Gamble House by Greene & Greene in Pasadena (Arts & Crafts)
• walk up Signal Hill and back down it
• walk to the local farmers market

A lot of these things are local activities. So often we don’t get to experience the great things that are right in our backyards. Living in Southern California, we’ve been blessed with some pretty amazing weather. I want to take advantage of these blessings.

Do you have a similar list or any fun summer plans?

Wedding Memories 9.8.07

How fun is this blog hop? I love reading about other's weddings. It's such a joyful day in someones life. I love it. I could read about wedding for hours! I read about my twitter friends wedding and she told me about this blog hop. I loved the idea and here we are. Not exactly interior design related but possibly could be used for inspirations?

9.8.07

Our wedding was at 12:00 in the afternoon on a beautiful September day. My husband and I really enjoy cooler climates and a hot summer was not one of our desire so we went for September. We both love the beach and ocean and decided to have our wedding (with 100 of our closest friends and family) aboard a private yacht that went through the Newport Harbor. Some photos are from our photographer, some are from friends, and some are from the disposable cameras we had on all the tables for guests to take pictures from their view.

One of my favorite parts about having a wedding on a yacht....we didn't have to hire outside vendors or coordinate that stuff. We need with the yacht coordinator and just told her what we wanted within the vendors that they already partnered with. These vendors were great I might add. We met our DJ and photographer for the first time AT our wedding. Kinda crazy but it went so well, we loved them!

Cake - Cinderella Cake (who we now use for special events) www.cinderellacakes.com

Instead of freezing the top of our cake they gave us a brand new little wedding cake top for our anniversary just like the one we had :)

White roses, white calla lilies, and lavender calla lilies.

One of my amazing bridesmaids worked at a florist and did my bouquets and got me a great discount. How awesome is she?

We were married by a great guy, the pastor of Mike's old church that has been a mentor for Mike. His name is also Mike and did an awesome job. We're at a different church these days but still keep in contact with this guy and his great family :)

dress by Alfred Angelo

Mike felt like the Brad Paisley song "She's Everything" was written about me and I just happened to find this awesome pair of yellow running shoes and wore those during our first dance. If you don't understand the connection, go look up the lyrics.

I loved our photographer, he took these great shots of Mike and I love!

Photographer - Kip Roof www.kiproof.com

Sealed with a Kiss! A wonderful start to living life with my best friend who makes me laugh every single day through lifes ups and downs, I'm so happy to experience it all with him. I truely feel so blessed.