I'm a Mrs.

My love and I finally tied the knot on October 22nd, 2011. The day was perfect! The weather was perfect! The food, the cake, the tables.. everything was just as I wanted it! It was my favorite day so far! We were married at Gold Hill Winery, in Placerville CA. We used all succulents - no flowers. We had our closests friends and family there to celebrate with us. I want to thank everyone who made the long trip to share our day! It really was beyond amazing! oh yeah.. and our photographers from M Portrats did such an amazing job, and caught our day just perfectly! Here are some pictures from our day!

Wedding Love.. Some of my (stolen) ideas :)

I want succulents.. lots and lots of succulents! My colors are green apple & turquoise. I want simple, yet elegant, but fun! My Dress is a Maggie Sottero, packed away in a box in the closet until I'm brave enough to get it altered. The cake has been tasted, and chosen. My next projects are the Save the Dates, to go out in April; then invitations to go out in July. Our date is November 26, 2011, in Mission Viejo, CA.

A friend leant me some books on wedding planning time lines.. I always get to the 2nd page and the anxiety kicks it; so I snap it shut real fast. There is so much to do! I don't know how people plan a whole wedding in only 6 months or less!! My mother-in-law is my saving grace. She has been making the planning part of things go a little more smoothly.

Enjoy some beautiful pictures that I hope to replicate to some extent for my own big day. If you have any advice for me.. please feel free to let me know!!

(all these photo's are from google images or theknot.com)


























This is my dress (on a stick figure of a model)

We're Getting Married... Finally.. ;)

On September 2nd, Rich and I hiked to our favorite waterfall, where he proceeded to drop to one knee and propose! I, of course, said yes! Alot has happened since then, and there is still a TON more things that need to be done! As of today, we have picked my wedding ring (it's being finished at the jewelers), I've picked and purchased my dress, it's on it's way! And we had our first round of engagement pictures taken. They didnt come out as good as I was hoping for, but we did get a few that came out great!

~Our date is tentatively October 1, 2011.
~The Ceremony and reception will both be held at Lake Mission Viejo.
~We are trying to plan a smallish wedding and reception (yeah right!) - he has a huge family!
~I am already having anxiety attacks about everything; I guess I should talk to my doctor about that, since it's only going to get worse!

We are so in love, and I am so excited to marry my bestest friend, and start a family with him! I cry just about everytime I think about our wedding day! Hopefully I wont be a big cry baby on the actual day, but who am I trying to kid?! I'll probably have such a puffy face that day! haha

Anywho, our lives are going great right now! We are excited to have Thanksgiving with his family in a few weeks! Rich is going to be turkey hunting this week to hopefully take one for the family dinner! :) Wish him luck!

Here are the pictures that made it from our first photoshoot.. enjoy :)

Wedding Contest.. Vote For US!!

I entered Richie and I into a Dream Wedding Contest.. you can vote once a day! So please help us out and vote for us!


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THANKS!

Baby Plants

Well I got my little baby plants into the ground, with the help of my love Richie. We planted 9 tomato plants (7 different types), 6 jalepeno's, 2 jumbo jalepenos, 5 bell peppers - Yellow, Green, Red & Purple, 1 lemon cucumber, 1 zuchini, 1 snap pea, 1 eisley wax pepper, 1 numex hot pepper, chives, cilantro, green & yellow onions. I can't wait until this garden grows!!

* COME ON SUNSHINE :)*

Summer Garden 2010

We finally got the garden beds prepared for our summer garden! (A big thanks goes out to all the people that donated llama manure, and horse manure/compost to fertalize our beds with!) Here are a few pictures around the garden! I'm going to try my best to blog about my very first garden experience! I'm so excited!

Here are our starter plants. We're going to be planting them in a couple of weeks once we know that there aren't going to be any more frosts!

We are mostly doing a salsa garden, but have also chosen a few other veggies and herbs to include. My sister is using one of the beds to have a cut flower garden as well. Here is a list of our veggie plants:

(The # in front is the amount of plants we got)

1x Chives

1x Cilantro

2x Mucho Nacho Jalepenos

6x Regular Jalepenos

1x Eisley Wax Peppers

1x Numex Sunrise Peppers

1x Limmony Tomatoes

1x Super Sweet Cherry Tomatoes

2x Mortgage Lifter Tomatoes

2x Brandywine Tomatoes

2x Sungold Tomatoes

1x Lemon Cucumbers (if you haven't tried these, they are a must!)

1x Golden Yellow Bell Peppers

1x California Wonder Bell Peppers

1x Red Heirloom Bell Peppers

6x White Onions

1x Sugar Snap Peas

1x Zucchini Squash

Please wish me luck in this new adventure! I've always wanted to do this and the house we live in has given me the perfect conditions in which to start! I love our property and its location! If only we owned this property.. that would make it that much more magical!