Happy Halloween!

I wore my orange today! did you?!

this picture is from bestie's halloween party a couple of weekends ago..like our costume? haha

Hope your halloween is BOO-tastic!

4 annual BYOP!

FALL IS MY FAVORITE!! Look at our BEAUTIFUL view from our porch!

I got this idea from Pinterest 

I painted the designs with puffy paint 

I made these for family and friends! Also an idea from Pinterest 

Halloween Smores! 

Yesterday was our 4th annual BYOP! (Bring your own pumpkin) It's a tradition I started with friends where we all get together to carve pumpkins, make caramel apples and go to a corn maze! Usually we go to the corn maze during the day and come back and do pumpkins but this time we did the maze at night and it was sooo much fun!! We had a blast! I always laugh until my tummy hurts with my friends..they are awesome and I'm so lucky to have them in my life and this tradition that we can still do even when we all have kids! 

pumpkin carving stuff 

haha I made my pumpkin puke ranch! yum! 

caramel apples 

pumpkin cake pops! SOOO hard to make!! Ry was a HUGE help!

all the food I made and everyone brought! we ate soo much! 

megs spooky deviled eggs..cute huh? 

our pumpkins!!!

my pumpkin..I added the knife as a cute prop! haha 

us with our pumpkins! 

the ladies!! LOVE THEM! 

Joseph stopped by so I could see his halloween costume!! Isn't he a CUTE gnome?! 

us at the corn maze! SUCH A BLAST! 

What a fun day!! Happy Fall & Happy Halloween everyone!!

xoxo

new hair

I got my hair cut this past weekend!

I had grown out my hair long for the wedding and I wanted to donate to locks of love..well..I didn't make it cause it was just driving me BONKERS! everyday I would throw it in a pony tail or bun..seemed like a waste..so I decided to chop it all off..im dissappointed I couldn't donate..but one day I will..I just couldn't take it any longer! HA!

here is before: (please excuse the pics..they are from my phone)

and please excuse my nappy looking hair..haha..i had it in a bun..

all my hair! GOODBYE!! 

NEW HAIR!! 

I LOVE IT! I feel so much more refreshed! I could hear my hair saying.."ahhhhh thank you!!" haha

watcha think?!

happy hubby

I made this:

for the hubby tonight for dinner..coconut chicken with a sweet chili sauce..

needless to say..I had a very happy hubby with a very happy tummy..

I LOVE cooking for him!

congratulations

One of my best friends just told me the BEST news! Her and her husband are expecting! I am just sooo thrilled for the two of them I can hardly stand it! It's funny because I just knew it..before she told me..I just has this feeling..in the picture above..at my wedding..she was pregnant! Baby M was at my wedding!

Life is so exciting right now! All of our close friends are starting to settle down and get married! and now they are starting to have babies! I cannot wait to see what 10 years down the rd is like. Me and ry are soooo incredibly blessed with some amazing friends who are just like family..we are just so happy that we are able to be apart of everyones happiness! and that we can share our happiness with everyone else.

our wonderful friend Britt got married a couple of weekends ago and I am so happy for her! She looked STUNNING and so happy! I was so glad that we were there to see her get married!

Congrats to both britts!

post-wedding

I am a newleywed...I love everything about it..I'll admit..not much is different than it was before..(me and ry lived together before) and I wouldn't change anything about it. I don't regret it one bit..in fact..I hope my kids to the same thing before they get married..our situation was a little different though seeing as we had been together for 5 years then..and we knew that we would one day get married. But it just validated that we were meant for each other, knowing that we could live in the same space.
even though we went back to our normal lives after the wedding hype..things just seems different..good different..theres something about calling him my husband and knowing hes mine forever, I love catching glimpse of his ring now and then and I love signing my new name.
As much as I love being a wife-I've been sad...depressed almost...everyone tells you that the wedding day goes by sooo fast and the long planning and hype will be over before you know it..but no one told me this feeling I have now that it is all over. Everything about our day was perfect and I wouldn't change a thing..I remember everything from the day as if it went in slow motion...but it was all over way too quick. We had all our favorite people together in one place at one time and then like that..everyone was gone again..back to their normal lives...which is fine but there is something unsetteling about giving everyone hugs goodbye and not knowing when I would see them again. We always had the wedding to look forward to..and now..what? I know holidays, other weddings, events, trips..but when will EVERYONE be with us at the SAME TIME?! I think I've come to the realization these past few days that it will never happen again..and it makes me sad..
All of our wedding stuff is still in the other room..still stacked up like my mom put it there after the wedding..I've gone in there a few times to try and put it away and just can't. I feel like once I put everything away..it will all be over..
I know thats stupid because it is over..we had our pefect engagement and our perfect wedding and our perfect honeymoon and now we move on to bigger and better things..
I am sooo happy with life right now..I just wish everyone I loved could be right next door.

I am so happy to be a newleywed and can't wait for the wonderful memories that there are to come...

our baby is 1!

well kinda..not really..We adopted our baby girl 1 year ago so we celebrated it as her actual bday! Shiloh had a great day! she got to go for a long walk..got to go bye bye in the car to petsmart, got a pawdicure, picked out a new toy, got a giant bone from daddy, got to eat wet food and doggie iceceam that she loved!

eating her doggie iceceam 

with her presents and hat..doesen't she look so pleased here??(I am making her wear this hat and pose for this picture and you can totally see she is not happy-BRAT)

pooped from her fun day!

happy birthday to my sweet shiloh, my baby bear, my shi shi boo! we love her more than anything!

honeymoon

Our honeymoon was AMAZING! so much fun that me and ry are still depressed it's over! We went on a cruise and had an absolute BLAST! The trip was full of laughs and LOTS of eating! haha We did a lot of stuff on and off the boat.

On the boat-we hung out on our BALCONY, went to a magic show, comedy show, ice skating show and Broadway show, watched lots of movies, played BINGO and lost, played slots in the casino and WON (well ry did), took a cupcake class, shopped, hung out by all THREE pools, sat in the many hot tubs, got a couples massage and facial, ate breakfast buffet every morning, explored the boat, ate pizza at the pizza place, took LOTS of naps, ATE LOTS OF FOOD, ate the BEST steak we've ever eaten, learned how to make pasta, played mini golf, dressed up for dinner and got professional shots done, and ENJOYED each other’s company

on the plane! 

formal night 

hamburger cupcakes 

back of the boat 

bingo loss 

the BEAUTIFUL boat! 

about to watch a show 

mini golf 

and OFF the boat we had fun shopping, parasailing, hanging at the beach, exploring, and atv trailing! 

soooo sad its over and that we're leaving..

WHAT A GREAT TRIP!

here are some of our professional shots we bought..(they are slightly ghetto because I took these with my camera of the picture instead of scanning) 

on the titanic! haha 

BEST TRIP OF OUR LIVES!!! we wanted to live on the boat!