Since the wedding

We got married! On October 8th I walked down the aisle to marry my best friend! It was an amazing day, even though austin has been in a drought for over 10 months, not a drop of rain for 10 months and yet, on our wedding day the sky decided it was time to rain, and it did. The whole day! We had thunder boomers during our ceremony and we missed getting to take the traditional "bride and groom" photos after the ceremony. We had planned to go to the capital but it was too wet out so we headed on to the reception. I think I'll always be bummed we didn't get to take those photos. Anyways, the day couldn't have been more awesome. Now we're coming up on 3 months of marriage! It's crazy how it goes so fast.
We made it through the holidays, Thanksgiving at marc's parents home and Christmas at my parnents home. We are planning our next quick trip to West Virginia for a 3 day ski trip before the snow starts to melt up north. So excited for our future and everthing it has in store for us.

Puerto Rico

My boyfriend and I took a trip to Puerto Rico this May and had an amazing trip! I saw someone take photos of the doors in PR as an art project so i decided to do the same with the photos i took, and some of the doors. The colors are so pure and bright in San Juan. We took a day trip to Cristo Bal, the fort battled at the time of Christopher Columbus landing at the americas. Here are a few photos from the trip!

Up Coming Fall Design

Here is what i call one of the most wonderful bridal gown lines i've seen in a long time. I seem to keep up with this stuff even though i've never been married nor engaged. Its Rosa Clara, Two, . I am just in love with this whole collection, the 2011 line. Please check it out, and save the images if you want, thats what i do at least!

State Flowers

I saw on TV while watching, LA Ink a guy came in asking to be tatoo'd with the flowers from every state he's lived in, there were only three flowers for him but it got me thinking of what the state flowers are from the states that i have lived in and here we have it... Georgia, Hawaii, Wisonsin, North Carolina and Texas... I suppose i have to represent my parents state of Virginia bc its almost like i live there b/c of them so i'll add it to the list.

Georgia - Cherokee Rose

Hawaii - Hibiscus

Wisonsin - Wood Violet

North Carolina & Virginia - Dog Wood Blossom

Texas- Wild Blue Bonnett

Since the Holidays...

Hey! Wow its been a long time since i've been writing! I almost don't even remember whats happened since then, but i feel like i could best express it all with a few pictures! Here we go!

Me and Marc at the Nutcracker in Houston. I have wanted to go since i performed in the play in 1988!

Christmas Card photo!

Foot Surgery!!

this past week i had surgery on my foot to remove my bunion!! It was a little out of the blue that i decided to do it, but i figured i dont have children, i dont have personal issues, i dont live on the third floor of an apartment so i can handle having only one working leg for a while. So Tuesday morning i had my bunion removed! And now tomorrow i'm going to visit my doc to see about when i'm getting my pin and stitches taken out. It looks (from what i can see under my bandage) really bruised and purple, i'm really not looking forward to seeing stitches and a metal pin sticking out of my foot. But i'm excited to see if theres much difference in how it looks, i hope so.

I've just been at home googling couture wedding dresses and well, anything wedding b/c its an industry i adore and love and cant wait to actually dive two feet in to plan my own,...so that kept me pretty pre-occupied while marc studyed and went to work/school. I could be doing that for another week b/c they might tell me it could be another week before i go back to work (pin has to come out before i go back to work). And my lovely old college roomate volunteered to give me a ride to work every day! What a blessing for her to pick me up. :o) So all is well until i hear about my foot at the doc's tomorrow. Stay tuned!

College Football

This past weekend started the opening day of college football season. Marc and I went up to Austin to help twin brother move into his new apartment and get him organized. Being that its Labor day weekend, we decided to come back on Sunday so we'd have all of Monday to chill out and have a day to ourselves. Well its all been grocery shopping and laundry, which is great b/c its been a really long time since i've washed clothes. I feel like i get organized all over again when i do laundry b/c what gets washed has to be put away, and that always makes getting organized happen.

The tailgate for the game was great though. We saw a few people from a few years back and got to chat it up a bit and say hello. Because we didnt have tickets to the game, we went to Cain and Ables to watch some of the game and then went back to nick's apt to watch the US soccer game. Marc decided that was more important than the football game and i was all for it. i was exhausted from moving nick into his apt. So i fell asleep while marc watched the soccer game. All in all it was a nice weekend... wish i could have sat by the pool the whole weekend but i think it turned out pretty good.

Style Circle on www.stylemepretty.com

Wedding and Birthday Weekend

This past weekend was awesome! My family came in town to visit for my late birthday and my friends wedding. I took off two days of work and paled around with my mom and dad and had a normal (hang out with your family) weekend. We played on the floor with Maddie and took naps, and watched stupid SNL video's on hulu.com and just chilled. It was so great. Melissa's wedding was so great b/c we got to meet the family she's joining into and hear about how much they just love her like she was their own daughter. It was amazing to hear the gratitude and love come from a whole family about one person. I only wish to be spoken about out loud like that when its time for me to get married. It was all wonderful.

Stayed the night at a hotel with the other bridesmaids b/c we had a 6am hair appointment. The lady doing hair was coming to our hotel to do hair and make up so we were up bright and early. It felt like i was getting ready for a cheerleading competition. We had our matching "bridesmaid" tanks on and it felt like we were a team! :o) I thoroughly enjoyed the weekend. The bride was beautiful and the groom was adorable.

Inspiration Boards

Ok, so i got bored and saw that people make "inspiration boards" for weddings or birthday parties or other events, to gather thoughts and create a color palette and schemes for design. I decided i could totally make one, even without photoshop. i used extreme talent in power point presentation design to create a few of my own Inspiration Boards for weddings... Here they are...
these are a few of my favorite things...

Finally Busy at Work.

So the past few weeks/month have been quite stressful and really just down right frustrating. The economy has (almost) been succesful at destroying my drive to do my profession. We have slowed down significantly. even though theres been such effort to market the job force, its just been slow. We just recently started picking up speed, where i'm not cleaning up the office, i'm actually putting my hard earned profession to work. Its amazing the feeling you get when you get to put your brain to work. Where you get to think hard about solving a problem and strategizing the best way to arrange an office to make it work in the least amount of space possible. I love what i do. I realized that after being really bored by doing nothing for so long... that once you get busy again, and other people are paying you a lot of money to put together a 200 person office in 5 weeks... thats some awesome pressure.

Even still i have to check my favorite website, http://www.stylemepretty.com/ to see if anything has changed since the morning. Its a break in my day (even for 30 seconds) to check that website. Its like it re-charges my batteries and gets me going again. Seeing photos of wedding flowers, design and happy faces, its like the best refresher for me to get back to focusing again if i get too bogged down with what i was working on. Now if only we can get back to 40 hours and spread out all the new work rather than cramming it into a 35 hour week. Here is a new awesome photo from that website that i just fell in love with.... Pure, beautiful love.