beauty on a wedding day...

I am trying to figure out exactly what I want to have done to my hair on the day of the wedding as vain as that sounds :) Every lady wants a perfect wedding and I hope I can achieve at least the feeling of it..

here are a few ideas:

I love the volume on the top...

This one has a little more of a oomph...love it

elegant, yet sophisticated. 

I've been wearing something pretty heavy on my mind and no matter how hard I try to sidetrack myself, I am constantly reminded of how much this wonderful girl's sudden death has reminded me of life, especially with all the hecticness around my life involving wedding, kiddos, employment status and such.... 

This weekend is a pretty relaxing yet sad one. Last week, we had lost a beautiful girl in the community, Sabrina Roberts, to a heart condition. She was beautiful, talented and loved by family and peers. Her memorial service will be tomorrow and due to the sudden notice of her being gone, it really has reflected upon me how important everyday is and how fragile life can be. Also how fast it can leave as well. Love your family, hug your friends and don't ever go one day without saying I love you...

RIP Sabrina Roberts <3

WOW I'm bad!

I use this blog to update on the wedding/family but we are so busy that I have no time to ever do it! I promise...I'll be better about it especially since now we are just tying loose ends of the wedding. I am soon off to mail the wedding invitations already! Wowza. Wedding is approaching though. Just about three months away! So exciting! Its time to finalize the table cloths, seating, dress alterations, pickup shoes, get the groom's and groomsmen clothes picked out, and all the table decorations. So I guess we have a few things left to do but we have the majority of all of it done! Venue, catering, photographer, dress, bridesmaids dresses, flowers, and music are all done! This is going to be so much fun! Our engagement shoot will be done next week finally with Randi Swanson! She is amazing and I highly recommend her and her work! We will be shooting at Pike Place Market with the whole family...

 I love our city :)

We just had an 18th birthday party with Dean. Dan, I and the kids managed to throw a quick surprise party for Dean at the last minute and had the cousins on my mom's side come out. Some of them Dean hadn't seen in many years so it was a nice reunion :)

We're crazy (and this isn't all of us hehe)

moving along...

Just a few pictures of what we have made so far at wedding craft party #1! Thank you to all who came and attended!!

the beginning of all the men's boutineers.

Madeline and Alicia modeling off the earrings I made for them (and looking cute!)

9 of the bridesmaids are wearing these earrings

kind of blurry,but 2 others are wearing these!

CJ and Jessica getting crafty with the boutineers!

kinda bright but these are the final boutineers! they have really cute green/yellow ribbon and cute yellow flowers!

Marla came out from Yakima! I miss her and love her so much!

Sonja, Dean, Amber and Marla worked doing tissue flowers that they worked hard on! (p.s. the date on the picture is wrong lol)

Brianna doing karaoke, we couldn't resist!

Sorry Alicia,I had to throw in this one :)

pretty bridesmaids and handsome groomsmen...

Hiya everybody,

These posts sure do come too far inbetween. I'm telling ya, a family of 7, sure does soak up all the free time. However, I wouldn't change a thing!

A lot has changed this month already. CJ has moved out into her own apartment along with a roommate. So happy for her and to finally get her own space. She was sharing a bedroom here at home and now she can roam free, do what she wants and I am so excited for her! Dean is looking into options for colleges. He just got a new job and will be deciding on attending fire academy in Bellevue first or finishing his pre-reqs at Bellevue College. Either decision we are so proud of! Collin and Maddy are winding down the countdown to their play "Cinderella". It opens up at the beginning of March and I know they are getting antsy! Logan is still hanging in there with The Bandits baseball team. They start practices here soon and they will be on their way to competing! Devin still has his collection of WWE and Webkinz growing. That kid and his imagination. I'm telling you, the next Walt Disney this kid. Dan is still enjoying his job. Working hard to plant those seeds in companies, so if any of you lovely people out there know of companies that need an IT company to help out your servers and computer issues, Dan is the man to call!

We have the bridesmaids all set up in their pretty dresses and shoes. All we have to do now is wait for the dresses to come in and they'll be looking all pretty! Here is one of the dresses they can choose from: I had picked out three styles, that way they can pick out what is most flattering for their figure and hopefully purchase a dress they can wear again. The days of forcing your bridesmaids to wear god awful dresses with silk and taffeta are long gone! ;) And the shoes will be uniform in the color Saffron (yellow) since 9 bridesmaids will be in Truffle (brown) and the Maid of Honor and Jr.Bridesmaid will be in Kelly (green). Hence my three wedding colors.

The groomsmen will be in simple uniform. Khaki pants and a button down shirt, Dan will be picking out the final color and a tie or suspenders :) We want to make this wedding fit out rustic/vintage appeal- I thought the suspenders would be a nice, old-school touch. Lets see how many want to wear those!

We have finished the guys' boutineers. Jessica had designed the first boutineer and we fell in love with it! She is so innovative. We ended up making 15 of those puppies! I finished all of the bridesmaids earrings. They are so cute and this DIY wedding is working out great! Very cost effective :) Now our next project is to make the centerpieces and the corsages for the mothers!