Happy Valentine's Day!!

I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day filled with lots of love and fun surprises! Ken and I had a laid back day, it was so nice. Ken made me an amazing breakfast in bed with flowers and a sweet card. I was super excited. We watched TV and took a nap and relaxed all day. It was great!! We didn't even get up to shower until like around 5 that afternoon and then made a yummy dinner together and just relaxed some more. I had a cold over the weekend so it was exactly what was needed!! I love you Ken, thanks for a perfect day!!

Engagement Photo

I know this is way past due, but I finally remembered to post one of our engagement photos, I knw I still need to put up more wedding photos and I will, just who knows when! Life is good just super busy!! Here's this for now.

Best Flower Girl and Ring Bearer Ever!

I can't believe I forgot to post about my niece and nephews during the wedding. Dylen was our flower girl and Max was our official ring bearer and Luke was our unofficial ring bearer. There was some question as to whether the feisty 3 year old and curious 1 year old were up to the job, but I never doubted and thought even if they totally melted down I really wanted them to be apart of our wedding. They both highly impressed everyone there, in fact, Dylen pretty much stole the show! She was so cute walking down the aisle that as my dad and I followed her we were laughing at how particular she was about making sure the flowers she was throwing were landing just right. I loved having them in the wedding and Misty totally helped as a Bridesmaid by holding Max's hand as they walked down the aisle together (so cute!) As he passed the different rows he would stop to say hello to people and stare at the pillow, it was absolutely adorable!! These are some of my favorite pictures from the wedding, I took them from my sister in laws blog. My absolute favorite is the one of Bean hugging me with her foot popped. I had a ton of fun dancing with them, the pianist was nice enough to play songs they would recognize and they both really got into it. We also got some adorable shots of Luke from our second reception, he was too little to walk down the aisle, but did a great job looking adorable! Even DrewAnn was dancing up a storm at our second reception. We have the cutest nieces and nephews!

Our Wedding Cake

Ken and I designed our own cake for the second reception and we decided to go non-traditional for it since we had the traditional 3-tiered cake for the first reception. The one we designed had the layers of the ocean with a wave at the top and tandem surfers coming out of it. Ken made the cake topper so that made it even more special to me. We LOVED how the cake turned out and it was super yummy!!

Wedding Pictures

I know I have been promising wedding pictures forever, I just haven't gotten around to it. I really want to put a book together...that is one of my goals for this year. Here are a couple of shots from our reception at the Seapointe, we went down to the beach beforehand and took a bunch of pictures. Our photographer Mariah Baddas did an amazing job and I would recommend her to anyone! I met her through my best friend Brooke, they are neighbors and friends. The only bummer about the shots we took at the beach is that my entire wedding party was not able to be there. Megan and Misty had to head home early so they were in all of the pictures from the cruise and reception, but not the second reception where we took these. Dylen and Max were also not there so I don't have them in these pictures unfortunately. Other than that I love how they turned out and did get good shots with the whole group on the actual wedding day. I promise to get more up eventually.

Happy Birthday Dad!!!!!

Again I know this is really late but HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!! We love you!! My dad's birthday was on December 30th and to celebrate he got a new car, well a Nitro to be exact, pretty great gift if you ask me!! Ken and I were still down with the flu so my parents brought us dinner and we gave him his present. We even tried to bake a homemade coffee cake for him but it turned out pretty bad, sorry! We love you and promise to surf with you more this year!! Here's shot of my dad giving the toast at our reception, if you weren't there it was pretty funny, my dad even got in a comment about how they were so happy I was getting married...finally!! That had the crowd roaring, gotta leave it to the men to crack jokes whenever the opportunity presents itself!

Wild Animal Park

Mark and Wendy came down with their 3 boys for the weekend and we met them for a day at the Wild Animal Park. It was really fun to hang out with the Handy's but Ken and I were still not feeling well at all so we were not the best company to have. We did go on the new safari ride and got some neat pictures, but we liked the old one better, it was longer and you were able to see a wider variety of animals. Oh well, all in all the day was fun with the Handy's, even though we all froze!