Wedding Shots

I just realized I haven't shared any photos from the wedding yet! Well we haven't seen a lot of them yet, but I do have two links to blogs which have posted on the big day. The first is from a friend who rocks at taking pictures and editing, the second from our photographer. My favorites you can see below:

Daily Delivered - The Robinson Fairytale

Addilay Photography - Jessica and Shane













This is by far my favorite so far. My neices and nephews are such a big part of my life and I love how you can tell they love their aunt and uncle too!













MY Parents. Who knew they had a wild side?

I'll post more on the wedding later, but for now Happy New Year's Eve Eve!

Oh Christmas Tree Oh Christmas Tree!!!

I tend to sing a lot in the shower...and I cannot get this song out of my head. I'm not even sure what the words are, but I'm pretty sure I keep singing, "your leaves and never changing...." That can't be right. Anyways, Shane and I had went to "Bob's Christmas Tree" right after Thanksgiving and picked out the cutest little Christmas tree of all times. I wish we could keep it. It stood about 4' tall.I had been waiting for this all year because I keep collecting ornaments everywhere we go and finally got to display them. So here is a snapshot of our year...through Christmas ornaments. Enjoy!

The first picture I shot with a flash...then with just the ambient light...keepin' it real.

Love this one! Read about how I got my wedding dress ornament here.

 Picked this one up in New Orleans for my bachelorette party.

For all you folks who don't know how they say Merry Christmas in Hawaii (ahem Vanessa), "Mele Kalikimaka!"

Take me back 2015!!!

This is is really cute, on the inside it has notes that say "Blessings." We wrote down what we considered blessings throughout the year and can always look back and be thankful! Thanks to my MIL (from Hallmark.)

This one came from my best friend Lauren. We used to live right near Disney World so it really makes me miss home seeing this one. Thanks LP!

I work with timber - hence the birch wood ornament. :-)

Atlanta adventures ...

 This one is for Shane's work...if you don't know what he does you will keep reading my blog ;-)

And finnally thanks to my SIL a "2010" ornament to commemorate the year we were married.


How fun! Can't wait to see what we land on the tree next year. What are your Christmas traditions?

I Was Dreaming of a WHITE CHRISTMAS and....

Had I wished for a White Christmas it never would have happened, but because I wasn't even considering it, I was surprised!

 

 

Do you remember your first time playing in the snow?

 I am so thankful for my husband. I am completely confident that one day he will be as great a father as he is a husband. As for my little nephew, I feel a little Kelly and Regis Cutest Baby Contest competition coming on  for all you mom's out there. ;-) Then again, I am pretty biased. 

Hope your Christmas was as great as mine!

A fishing trip in Maui

I wanted to post about the wedding before sharing our honeymoon in Maui with you. However, the pictures from the won't be available for a little while so lets talk Hawaii!

We left for Maui the morning after our wedding - yes I was the bride that needed to leave the very next morning! We were exhausted and ready to sleep 7 hours on our ride out to the islands. Sleep did not happen. We sat next to a sweet young mom who had a sweet young baby that was very upset the whole way. Poor thing!

Anyways here was the view from 35 A and B:

I was so glad to get there around 5pm, but unfortunately it was really dark and we were super tired and hungry so we didn't take pictures that night. We woke up at 4am bright eyed and bushy tailed and so I snapped a couple of picture of our pad for the next week. (FYI - we stayed at the Ritz in case ya want to book your honeymoon there ;-))

 We had a pool/ocean view. I loved standing out on the patio and feeling the cool breeze from the ocean while I drank green tea every morning.

One side of the porch...

 The other side...

 The ocean view (sort of)

Our second night in Maui we went to eat at a sushi restaurant in the Kapalua resort - where we stayed. It was incredible food. We started the nightly picture taking tradition that evening.
 

The next morning we took a private charter fishing boat about 60 miles of the coast of Molokai. It was a gorgeous sunrise in the middle of the ocean and the islands..

 The waves were pretty big the picture above was snapped litterally a second after the one above it. See the sun, and then you don't. I'm a little surprised I wasn't sick at all.

 The island of Lanai above.

We caught Mahi and Tuna that day so they flew the appropriate flags when we came back into the harbor. We were one of two boats that caught fish that day.

 I caught both of the dolphin. The one on the right is a male and the female with the less blunt head is on the left. They were our "honeymoon fish."

Yes, I did catch the larger fish, but my husband's fish were worth a lot more money. We took one of the tuna to a local restaurant and gave them 10 lbs of tuna in exchange for a free meal. It was the best meal we had in Maui. More to come on that later, but for now have a great night!!