april 25th - warm & sunny... scattered showers

saturday, april 25th was my bridal shower. it was such a beautiful day to enjoy the sunshine and great times with family & friends.

here's the bouquet out of the bows from my presents :)

Judy and Janica (and Ligia too) did such a great job putting it together, and it was so perfect! i loved all the tropical themed goodies, fun colors, and (of course) the generous gifts!

Mom was able to make it despite having extreme jet-lag!

Marilyn, Dianne, and Julie were there. I was glad to see Julie, I hadn't seen her in such a long time!

(Mamma) Linda, Aunt Kim, and Hayley (she's one of my flower girls)

I was glad that the Medina Ladies could make it. (although we should've gotten a picture of all of them together... Gramma Joan, Aunt Janice, Aunt Anet, Aunt Kim, Aunt Debbie, Hope, Hayley & Linda. Actually, that's not all the Medina Ladies! that's just the locals.)

I especially liked the cute card that Hope & Hayley made that said "welcome to the family." :)

cute scrapbook kit from Aunt Anet

Dayna, Hannah, & Ava were there and it was so great to see them! the girls are so big now, I can hardly believe it. (Hannah is 10 & Ave is almost 8)

Thanks to all for a great day!!

the engagement shots, special edition

we had 3 favorites that we gave out in the invitations. we also had some other favorites that we wanted to display on the tables at the reception.

these have been posted to my Facebook, but i know that many people haven't seen them.

cats who copy

now, there are those of you who have heard me speak ill of blogs... i'll have you know, that it wasn't until elizabeth started one that i wanted one. now i want to be like the cool kids.

really though, i laid off the blogging because i had a MySpace page. MySpace has been somewhat replaced with Facebook, of which i am also a member.

my decision to start a blog is mostly for all those adoring fans out there (all, say, three of them) who don't have a Facebook page and aren't going to get one...

so, you can call me a sell out, or a copy cat, or a follower of the cool kids - i suppose it's warranted.

(for those of you who didn't see, the Mickey & Minnie dolls above were our first wedding present. our land lady, who works at Disneyland, gave them to us.)