Chugging away

Well, it's been 2 weeks since my last post and a lot has happened. I made a difficult decision to leave Artist Boat. This weekend I went through training for Sea Camp GISD program. There are things on the wind, I just have to have faith.


Wedding plans are coming along nicely. Dad sent us the information for a potential dj yesterday. He was quite impressed with this one that was at one of Mom's ta's wedding last night. Hopefully I'll hear from him soon for price and availability.


Last weekend we went registry shopping. It's not as easy as you would think. All in all, we spent about 5 hours making our registries between Target and Bed, Bath and Beyond. We may go back, or just add things via the websites as we think of them. We also celebrated our one year anniversary. I gave Jason a couple's massage, he gave me a kindle. After registry shopping we did dinner and a movie at Star Cinema Grill. 


Hopefully life will get less stressful and I can get caught up on so many things that have gotten set aside. Melissa comes in Thursday for our engagement shoot. Save the dates will be out by the end of this month, early next. We'll keep you updated as we go. And as promised in my last post.....

Church Sneak Peek

Yesterday was Matt and Abby's wedding (friends from church). This gave us a peek at how our wedding will go. The church looks beautiful, even with the temporary chairs. Hopefully, if all goes well, the pews and other furniture will be back in time for our wedding. Here are a few pictures for y'all to view.

They hope to have the rest of the stenciling done as well. Everything is being restored to original look from the 1800s. Lots of bright, rich colors; it really is stunning. I can't wait for everyone to see it in person in January!


The wedding was absolutely beautiful. It was simple, classic. I should have a digital copy of our photo booth pictures. It's quite silly, and very us. Keep posted!

Wedding Dress Shopping Day!

Yesterday was wedding dress shopping day. I was greeted by a surprise in Kyle and Marcy coming into town. 

The first place was amazing. The consultant was nice and really helpful. For all you future brides in the Houston area, I highly suggest Ventura's Bridal. The first dress I tried on ended up the winner. Sorry, no posting pictures here. Can't risk Beau seeing. But I will post a few of the losers.

And possibly my favorite picture from the day: Em hiding in the train of the Cinderella dress at Alfred Angelo.

We are still in search of the perfect bridesmaids dress. We found a couple of potentials at Alfred. Once we find the ones, I'll post them here. 


After a successful day of shopping, Beau and I went to our last show of the season: Mamma Mia. We had a blast and the show was just as amazing as I remembered. I can't believe that it had been 9 years since I'd last seen it. 


This morning we got up and met everyone for breakfast in Sugarland. It was nice to see everyone one last time. I'm so glad that Kyle and Marcy were able to make it in. A great weekend :)

House and Wedding Updates

Today was work day #1 on the house in order to get it on the market soon. We actually got about 75% of the stuff done that we needed to. I got the bathrooms and bedrooms in order while Beau did touch up painting and tackled the backyard. We brought a load of stuff back as well that we'd left up there. Beau is planning on going back next weekend to finish the yard work, pressure wash the back patio and bring the last load of stuff home. 


The meeting with the florist got postponed until Monday. I'm super excited to meet with her and talk about the ideas. We went to Matt and Abby's happy hour yesterday, which was a lot of fun. Decided to split the cost of the fake flowers for Cadee to throw. Obviously they will still be good when our wedding rolls around. The church renovations are coming along well. It's going to be beautiful. Perhaps I will get some pictures to share. David told me that they finished painting and it look amazing. Ok, time to wind down before tomorrow. Another full day.

Bujinkan Galveston Dojo Family Festival 2011

Last weekend was the Bujinkan Galveston Dojo Family Festival. It was the first year it was run and went fairly well. Jill did a zumba/hip hop class for free which was awesome. I'm hoping to start doing it on Saturdays to help with getting into wedding shape.

Jill (right) zumba-ing with the ladies

The rest of the day was dedicated to showing off bujinkan. We had intended to do two demos, a kids class and an adult class. It ended up being one formal demo, a casual kids and casual adult class. The turn out for the formal demo was actually a fairly decent one. 

Tim and George demo sword work

Hopefully next time we hold one, it'll be even bigger. If you are interested in joining either the zumba class or the bujinkan class, comment here and I'll get you more information.

Engagement photos a go!

We have figured out the engagement photo situation. Our photographer decided that it would be beneficial to go ahead and come out to do our engagement photos. She'll be coming into town on the second weekend in June. This will give us a chance to get accustomed to working with her, so we are prepared when the wedding comes around.


Since she's going to be staying with us the whole weekend we have many options. The plan is to take some shots in the theater district of Houston, since that's been a big part of our lives this year. We'd also like to do some shots on our beach.


Everything seems to be falling into place nicely!

Adventures in Kayaking

Friday was quite the adventure with kayaking. One of my favorite groups to take out, Blinn College, met us at Armand Bayou for what was to prove to be an adventurous day. Robert, their instructor and long time friend of AB, insists that the students always help (as part of the kayak experience). This of course made it much easier. 


As we cruised Armand Bayou I was wondering where the gators were. We usually see a handful of them as we go. Some how I missed a 4-5 ft gator as we headed out. Later we saw a 2 ft baby as we were eating lunch. Lamenting on our return trip that we had seen much, off to my left I saw a fairly sizable alligator. Just one didn't bother me so much, the second one though inspired some healthy concern. The former had to have been at least 6 feet, while the latter was a good 2 feet bigger. My guess was that they were a nesting pair. The smaller on stayed at the surface, but the larger one never came back up. It was quite the run in, my heart definitely skipped a few beats.


On our way back, we hit a pothole and managed to seriously bend our rim causing a flat. Thankfully we were near a precinct of the Houston Police Department. An officer was nice enough to bang it back into place so we could make it back to Galveston. Never a dull day at work for me.