A Visit From Some of the Groomsmens!!

Hey everyone!! We have been so busy lately!! As you guys know, Alvin and Anthony (both Rey's groomsmens) have recently relocated. Alvin graduated last year from UCSD and interned as an engineer and now he's moved back down to San Diego because that same company has offered him a job!! We are so proud of him!! And Anthony came back from boot camp for the Marines for a few weeks. He's done so excellent there and is such a trooper!! We got really lucky because we got to spend the past 2-3 weeks with them!! First Anthony came back, and then Alvin came back!! It was so great just hanging out with them!! (photo above is of Rey and I with our Maid of Honor Brea, Best Man Nick, and Groomsmen Anthony at the bowling alley throwing up "W" for "Wedding Party!!" Hahahahaa!!) Both Alvin and Anthony are gone now and it sucks!! But luckily Anthony gets his phone and internet on the weekends (and will be coming home about once a month) and Alvin has his phone and internet whenever he's not busy working. :)

What else is going on with our wedding party?? My fabulous MOH Brea just left early this morning to Italy!! She went with her family (and a special birthday shout out to her Mom Mrs. Aguas!!) They were actually suppose to leave Wednesday at 2 pm (I think??) but because of the volcano there, their flight got pushed back to 10 pm. And then again to about 7 am on Thursday (today). She is such a great MOH, she called me before she left asking me to give her a list of things to do for the wedding while she's on vacation. She's so funny!! I told her to just enjoy her vacation, and that we can do wedding stuff once she gets back. However, she said she was going to be bored in the 16 hour flight, so we agreed she can try to do some wedding invitation wording mock ups. I'm excited to see what she comes up with once she gets back home!! She is such a great MOH, I am so grateful to have her by our side as we plan the most important day of our new life together. Brea is so eager and ready to help out in any way she can. She's definitely a great stress reliever for me. She's organized and totally capable of anything life throws at her. I know anything she does, she's totally going to nail it because everything she does, she does it with perfection!! We hope she and her family have arrived to Italy safely. They as a family (and all individually) are so kind and caring, they deserve the best trip ever!! We can't wait to see all their photos from Italy!! We pray for their safe return back home without anymore delays due to the volcano.

In other news, I'm graduating next month!! Whoo hoo!! Not a really big deal, but I'm still proud. :)

Until next time folks!!

First Wedding Mixer: Brides & Basketball

Last night we had our very first wedding mixer!! To read more about it, go here.

A Great Pick Me Upper.

I was having a really bad morning and a bunch of my friends on Facebook were trying to help me get outta my funk. Then comes along our photographer to perk me up. :) He's the greatest!! Here are a few more!!


I just love the textures of this photo!!

I love how in this picture it looks like we're all alone in this huge place. It was so busy there, with lots of people walking around. I don't know how he happened to take a picture right when there was no one there.

This photo photo really makes me laugh. I didn't want to walk down onto the beach (parts of the walk was really really steep!!) and along the walk down I saw sour grass (or at least that's what I call it!!) and I just had to have some!! I remember eating it when I was younger and I asked DF, the photographer, and his assistant to please try it. After much speculation they ALL finally gave in and the photographer just had to capture DF trying it out for the first time. Haha!! Look at my face and how concentrated I am trying to shove the grass into his mouth, careful not to poke his eye. Totally focused!! Hehee!!

We were good sports and part took in a bit of rock climbing!!

I knew Rey would like this because it has his car in the picture.

We just love all of our photos!! They are all so unique and are so artistic!! We only have a few more days til our 3 week wait is over and we get all the photos back!! So so so excited!! We hope you all have enjoyed our teasers as much as we have!! We are so happy that Eddy surprised us with teasers 4-5 times throughout the wait, and each time he gave us teasers it was about 4-5 pictures. We have a whopping 19 teasers to date!! Whooo hooooo!! And we love each and every one of them!!

Hope everyone is doing fabulous on this gorgeous Tuesday!! Many blessings!!

More Engagement Teasers!!

We got MORE fantastic teaser engagement photos!! Yahoo!! So excited!! They look fantastic!!

A great close up!!

I love the lighting in this picture.

Love the contrast of this photo!! It reminds me of an "equal" equation YKWIM??

Hanging out in many doorways..

My friend Jenny said this one looks like a postcard, and I agree!! Hehee!!

We just love our photos and hope you do too!! Hope everyone is doing fabulous!!

Venue booked!!

We are happy to announce that on Wednesday Rey and I went to our the Metropolitan Golf Links to go and put down the deposit and sign the contract for it gorgeous place (photo above of us with our wedding coordinator Lisa right after we put down the deposit and signed the contract). Now that we've actually got a place to host our special day, it's 100% official that we're getting married on July 1, 2011!! We are so excited!! This was our #1 choice!! I knew it from the first time I went to see it that this is where I'd want to become Rey's wife!! The gorgeous never ending grass is beautiful!! And I just love the idea of having the reception in their beautiful fully draped tent!! We can't wait for everyone to see the place!! Here are a few photos of the gorgeous place!!

Such A Tease!!

I just woke up right now (didn't sleep til 6 am because I was still unpacking at my Mom's) and I just got the best surprise!! Our wonderful fantastic great perfect bomb diggity thoughtful (any other descriptive words to describe how great he is?!) photographer gave us MORE TEASERS!!

I absolutely LOVE this picture!!


And this next one is funny because it's an inside joke. I'm very dominant so I'm always the leader in the relationship. So here I am in the picture pulling him along. Haha!!


I could totally be a photographer's assistant. The photographer was very encouraging of us to think up of ideas, poses, and areas at the locations we went to for good unique shots. While the photographer and DF went on a restroom break I saw these bike racks and thought it would be a cool picture!!


And if you've ever been to San Francisco, you know the beaches here are ugly. Haha. I'm very impressed how great the photographer caught the beach in this picture however..


I love this photo!! It's so sweet!!

I told the photographer how much I loved my shoes and he ended up taking a photo of it!! You can't tell from this angle in this picture but it's not a round shoe, the part of the shoe is angled sharply and looks so cool!! I'll have to take another picture of it so you'll know what I mean!! I think this photo is romantic though.. Makes your mind wonder what we are doing that the camera didn't capture. Haha!!

The evening weather was gorgeous that night!!

We took this picture when it was already getting dark (it was taken at the same beach as the photo above. See the crazy color difference though?? The one above looks like straight up evening time!!) I love how his equipment was able to make it look like it was daytime!!

Well those are all the teasers I have for now. Again, we are blown away at these amazing photos!! Our first vendor we chose and put our deposit for was our photographer and we are 100% satisfied already from what we've seen!! Only a week or two left til we get the rest of the photos!! We're so excited!!

We hope everyone is doing well. We miss you all!! Thanks so much for hanging tight while I got more photos and also for letting me share!! I'll post more when I get the rest in 2-3 more weeks.. Unless our photographer wants to surprise us again with more teasers!! Haha!!

Our engagement pictures!!

Hey everyone!! I'm writing you all from our school library before my next class starts! We just started our spring semester, and FINALLY we are making some progress!! This May we will walk the stage (perhaps, I'm still not sure if this is worth walking for) to get our AA degree. Then we'll be transferring by the end of the year if everything goes right and if there are no budget cuts!! We are so excited!! Please Mr. Governor, don't take any more of our classes away from us!!

Other news, my Mom is moving on Feb. 26th!! She bought a new house!! I'm super excited!! That weekend is going to be really busy!! Not only is that the week she moves into a new house, but that's also the week we take our engagement photos!! I'm so excited!! I've been a fan of Eddy Fong of Renai Photographer for so long, and to finally be working with him, it's going to be so amazing!!

Rey's birthday is coming up around the corner (Feb. 8th) so I'm getting really excited!! He'll be turning 23!! Phew!! Can you believe we met when he was 18, and I was only 17?? We were TEENS!! Pretty soon Rey will be his marry age of 24, and I will be my marrying age of 23.. How time sure has flown!! The other day I was packing some stuff and ran across my high school senior yearbook. I thumbed through it and stumbled upon the senior dedication page he wrote for me. Ahh, it was so sweet!! He signed it, "You hubby Rey Ramirez". He knew even years ago that one day we'd be getting married. I can't wait til next year!! It seems so far away, yet so close especially because we have aimed to do NO planning or DIYing for the last 3 months of our engagement. All we want to do then is worry about the Save the Dates, RSVPs, and final deposits and guest count. Other than that, we want all the other stuff done and chosen. We don't want to stress as the final months close in. My Mom finished her planning with 2 months to spare (aside from the RSVP and the final deposits and guest count), so I know we can do it for sure!! I have bad skin, so I want to focus on remaining as stress free as possible and take care of my skin so I don't have a HUGE zit on my face when the wedding rolls around. These past 2 weeks my skin has been looking great, I'm so impressed. But I guess because my face skin got so used to this crazy cold weather, it's not breaking out. (My skin breaks out when the weather changes).

Anyways, we hope everyone is doing well!! Hopefully 2010 is being good to you. We can't believe how January is almost over!! The year is already going by really fast!! Yahoo!! 2010 roll over, so our wedding year can get here already!!