Our Wedding

May 9, 2009 - Our wedding day was without a doubt the happiest day of my life so far. I don't think I have ever smiled so much...EVER! Having all of my closest friends and family with me on such an important day made it that much more perfect. :)

These are some pictures taken by friends and family.

Just got my makeup done....

The venue.... Aliso Creek Inn in Laguna Beach, this is the canyon and golf course...

Ceremony setup...


Mother's bouquet....

Processional...


The Ceremony...


Then our photographer took some posed pictures and so we were taking turns posing - it was fun! Also, we did take pictures before the ceremony too :)


My two bestest friends in the whole world - the Heathers. Heather W. on the right has been my bestest friend since second grade!!! And the Heather on my left has been a close friend of mine for years! I seriously do not know what I would have done without them - they were with me the whole time and made sure I wasnt nervous and just made me feel like everything was going to go well - and it did! :)

Our grand entrance, speeches and our first dance ..... (I dont have pictures of the Heather's speeches but when I get the pictures from the photographer I will post some :))

We walked out to the song "Eye of the Tiger" ...hahaha
Reception.....


Cake Cutting...

Bouquet Toss..........

Ryane caught the bouquet!! We have been friends since freshman year of high school :)

These dont even portray 1/10 of how much fun we had! Best day ever!!!

Hahahahaha

I loooooooooove these pictures!!! They are sooo funny! The first time I ever saw these pictures I just about died laughing - they are so cute and silly!

And now my favorite one ... so funny!

Workouts just got a lot easier...

Just got the iPod Shuffle from Ron for my birthday and it is WORLDS better than my first one! It has 4GB of space, plays multiple playlists, its 'tiny' and it talks!!!

Currently listening to ....anything dance-y :)

Our Painting Adventure

So, Ron and I have been doing some silly stuff on the weekends like going bowling, playing golf, going to the zoo and things like that. Well, this last weekend we decided that since the guest room is all prepped for painting that we would buy canvas and do some colorful paintings for our walls!

We had a lot of fun gathering all the supplies...and realized that Sweden is really silly :)

"Everytime I come around the city BLING BLING"

Yea snow rage...hahaha

Everyone was freaking out about this volleyball tournament - they took a bunch of sand and dropped it in the city center and set up bleachers but it was still next to nothing compared to a Huntington Beach event...it was funny :)

When the weather gets nice all the swedes get their boats out...

Now here is where we get started painting.... (its acrylic by the way...)

Neither of us are really painters but because I love drawing we both thought that my painting would turn out the best....not so much. Ron's painting turned out waaay better - I did not like mine at all so I havnt even finished it yet! hahaha.

Ron's painting:


My painting:


We decided to hang his in the living room - it goes with our rug and our couch and we like that its abstract :)

The Guest Room

So, it may not look like it from the pictures - but our guest room has light blue striped wallpaper. Why anyone still uses wallpaper is beyond me, but I learned my lesson the last time I took down wallpaper (and found red walls underneath) and so this time around I am just going to paint white over this wallpaper.

Here are some pictures of it on a normal day just so you can get an idea of what it looks like...

Now here are some pictures of the room prepped and ready for painting....

Here is where I got started with the painting... the closet doors are almost finished now

That's all Ive got for now - I have one layer of paint on the whole room and I plan to do another coat but I had to stop for a week because I got injured....opening a can of paint.

This is the second time Ive had a bad experience opening a can of paint - I don't understand why I cant do it, but every time I try I get really hurt. The first time I tried I just got really frustrated and was peeling back all the edges and my hands started bleeding and I nearly had a mental breakdown.

Then this most recent time I was trying to open the can with a screwdriver like Ron showed me and I was prying at part of the can when my hand slipped and hit the can and the sharp edge cut my middle finger and took off a chunk of my thumb! It hurt so bad I almost passed out! My hand was bleeding alot and I couldnt even look at it without almost throwing up. So, now its been almost a week of not having use of my right hand thumb - which I never realised, but I use this thumb alot!

So the moral of the story is - I am never opening (trying to open) a can of paint again.

PS - My thumb is doing a lot better now :)

Our Home

I promised to post pictures of our place now that we have gotten some more furniture and filled it out a bit.

Living Room

Our desk - which we moved into the living room so we could watch tv, be on the computer and be in the same room together at all times... :) We tried to make the guest room an office but then we would just have our laptops out all the time in the living room so we gave up on that....


Our fireplace that we never use so we got some cute lights and wrapped them around to light it up. :)


Our dining room table....dont mind the post-it notes - we were labeling things in Swedish :)

A wedding gift from the UK office.....

A tiki that we brought all the way back from our honeymoon in Hawaii....we love this little guy!

I still need to post pictures of the guest room while I am renovating it - some 'before' pictures so once I finish we can compare! :p

New Look....

So, I looked at my blog and the fact that those pictures of the zoo came out really funky was bothering me so I am trying another template that will hopefully make it easier to view photos.

Im sorry for not posting more often - I have lots to catch up on so these next two weeks I am going to try to get all caught up and do some sprucing up with my blog so its not so boring.

Hope you like it!

Isnt this picture cute!!! I love it :)