Wedding Invitation

  Roberto is a talented graphic designer that designed our wedding invitation. He is Jon's friend from CBU, and they have stayed connected via text, facebook, and myspace. One of my favorite parts of our wedding was the invitation. Our wedding was Fall themed, and Roberto did such a great job in setting the scene for that.

 When Roberto told Jon that he was going to pop the question, and how he was going to do it, we both knew that they were a fun unconventional couple. Roberto popped the question via Twitter. I don't know all the details, but I do remember it was cute, sweet and creative.  So knowing the story behind their engagement, I was delighted to see their wedding invitation. I thought it was so cute and creative, I wanted to share it with you all. 

The front is the story of how they met. 

Inside, is their story continued, with wedding information.

I loved this part. 

It is so unconventional, and I love it!

The End.

 

New Pictures

 I recently dusted off my Cannon SLR camera, and put it to work on Adah. It was really fun to play with it again, and my subject couldn't be more cooperative.

I just love those cheeks!

My Mom just loves those feet.

I love that smile!

And those eye!

This pictures reminds me of one we took of her days after we came home from the hospital.

Couldn't help but get one of Chloee.

Daddy's hand is my favorite to chew on.

The flash was a bit much, but she gave me a great smile.

She loves Chloee.

Summertime Fun

I was just putting some pictures from my camera onto my computer and thought I would share some.

 We went to a birthday party that was amazing. It was in Newport, and it was a party like none other! For me, it was the party that started summer. 

Adah, and her Papa

 A picture of Adah and my Dad on Fathers day. 

Photo by Trever Hoehne.

Monday Ramblings

Well, a lot has been going on in our house. We are going through the process of re-doing our bathroom, and getting new carpet! We have been wanting to do this since we moved in, and now we are going full force.

 We are getting new carpet in the two of the three bedrooms (the office has hardwood floors), and the hallway. Then the same company had a vintage hexagon bathroom tile that we have been looking for, so they are going to do the bathroom too! 

 I am so excited because our house is so old, and just about everything, except the bathroom is very vintage. So we are keeping the vintage feel with the tile. We are also re-finishing the cast iron tub, replacing the toilette, vanity, and of coarse painting. I am so excited to see the end result. All of this will take place next week! 

 Something else that's new with the family is my grandpa moved into my Mom and Dads house. My grandpa fell and broke his hip in January, and has not had the best health since then. IT is the first time since then that he has been in an actual home, so he seems to be responding to having the family around nicely. He even went to church yesterday, and got to hear me sing!

 Jenni, and I through a baby shower for a friend on Saturday, and it was really nice, and as an added bonus, I now have a very clean house. The weather was great to have it outside, and the food Jenni made was really good.

Well, that's all I can ramble about today.

Happy First Monday of Summer!

Apples to Apples

 When we first looked at our house one of the huge buying points for me was the huge (and landscaped) backyard. After we bought it, it was like an adventure trying to find out what types of plants, and trees were in the yard and how to care for them. 

 Shortly after moving into the house we discovered that the smallest tree in the yard was an apple tree. It even had small apples growing in. But that's as far as it got. The apples never got any bigger, and eventually fell off. I didn't really care, I was still so excited that we even had an apple tree, and knew there was always next year.

 With the pregnancy, and winter being so cold, I forgot about the apple tree, in the seance of losing the excitement of the anticipated apples that would soon grow in. I honestly forgot about most of our fruit plants in the backyard this spring, and missed allot of good lemons. But, a few weeks ago, I looked out our window and saw the apple tree with much bigger apples than had grown in last year.

And this is what I found. Much larger apples scattered all over the tree. There are so many more then there were last year.

 Them today I, again looked out the bedroom window and saw that they were starting to turn red. This whole time I thought they were Granny Smith apples. I still haven't done any research about the apples, or how to care for them. I am just watering them faithfully.
 The apple on the right is being pecked by the birds, so I'm going to have to figure out how to stop that. Going up the 5 freeway, I noticed on the produced trees that they tie metallic string to the branches. Maybe I'll try that.
 And there is another type of apples here. I like to call it, The Apple of My Eye. I know, really cheesy, but they are really cute! 

Me + The Sun = No Bueno

As I look at the pictures over the last 10 years I am seeing how I have changed. I am noticing that I am getting older. I can no longer eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I am feeling aches and pains in places I have never felt them before. I am also not as adventures as I once was. But I think the most startling thing that I have noticed in these pictures is how much my skin has changed.

I have always had very fair skin and easily burned in the sun, but not easily tanned. I always wanted a deep dark tan in the summer that alot of my friends could get so easily within minutes of being at the beach. I would say for a good 5 summers, plus the time before my wedding all I wanted was a really nice tan. I would prep myself for summer by going to the tanning salon and working my way up to the longest I could stay in the bed. I honestly could never see a huge difference, other than the fact that my skin was so leathery feeling and looking. But none the less I kept tanning. The darkest I ever got was before my wedding. I went to the tanning bed every day for 2 months. That was the only time I was in my mind "dark."

Like I said before, now my skin is not nearly as healthy looking as it was when I was 17. I know that naturally our skin is going to look older, but I can't help but think of how it might ave looked had I not spent so much excessive time in the tanning beds, or in the sun unprotected.

So my goal this summer is to be real with the fact that I am never going to have that golden tan that I want and to really be careful while being in the sun. So here are some facts I found on Mayo clinic while researching the topic.

• If you spend time outdoors during daylight hours, you need to use sunscreen even if you have darker skin pigment, tan easily and can tolerate longer periods of sun exposure without burning. Regardless of skin type, the sun's energy penetrates deeply into the skin and damages DNA of skin cells. This damage may ultimately lead to skin cancer.
• SPF is not an indication of how much time you can spend in the sun. For example, if you use a sunscreen with an SPF 30 rather than one with an SPF 15, it doesn't mean you can stay in the sun twice as long. In reality, an SPF of 15 filters out about 93 percent of the UVB rays; SPF 30 filters about 97 percent of UVB rays. The beneficial effects of sunscreen decreases over time, so after a few hours the difference between the two may be even less.
• Most people use sunscreen too sparingly. A liberal application is 1 ounce (29 milliliters) — the amount in a shot glass — to cover all exposed parts of the body. If you have a 4-ounce (118-milliliter) bottle, you'll be using about one-fourth of it for one application. Be sure to rub the sunscreen in well.
• Use sunscreen frequently and liberally. Apply sunscreen liberally 30 minutes before going outdoors and reapply about every two hours. Use it even on cloudy or hazy days. UV rays can penetrate cloud cover.