Forgotten Beauty

Some days you really take for grated the beauty that surrounds us.. Yesterday I had the opportunity to go to the beach oand photograph Zach surfing.. While the waves were not consistant there was often a lot of down time where he was just floating in the water and I was left to just look around at the enviroment around me... As I have been so busy lately I had totally forgotten how much I enjoy the beach! I almost forgot what the sand feels like between your toes and how relaxing the sounds of the waves crashing to the shore can be.. I just found our day at the beach to be so calm and soothing.. I can't believe that I don't go there more often!! I alway take for granted how lucky we are to live so close to the beach and we rarely have bad weather.. When I am on the beach and look around at the beauty of the ocean, the sand, and the sea grass I wonder how hard it must be to NOT have ever seen the ocean.. HOW difficult it would be to move away from it.. and I just can't believe that I don't go and enjoy the sights more often! I decided to show you some of the pictures that I took while on the beach.. Enjoy :)

What I love about the Theatre...

After the countless hours you put in, all the dinners skipped to work on the productions, getting behind on homework assignments you know the production will come and be gone and you can get back to life as you knew it before tech.. But after the cramming stressful days just before a show goes up you wonder why do i put myself through this why do I do this every show.. The 2 wks before a show opens are complete and utter chaos all the time you have goes in to the theatre.. there are lots of frustrations as cues you worked so hard on are suddenly deleted from the show.. You are asked to find various extra cues you weren't planning for and you think.. THIS IS NEVER GOING TO BE READY.. but when the night comes that you finally have an audience you know "THIS IS WHY I DO IT" hearing the audience enjoy all the various aspects of the production as they sit back in their chairs laughing at all the right parts.. following the mood of the production and the show.. And you can see only the backs of their heads but you know they are smiling when they leave.. although no one ever knows how much work actually goes into productions like this but seeing the audience smile and enjoy the show is enough to keep me in the theatre and behind the scenes..

Skating through Life

Valentines day for me was a day I wan not exactly looking forward too.. Not b/c it's Valentines day but because I knew that I had to spend 12 hours in the theatre for our 1st tech day; which never goes so smoothly! But I woke up to a wonderful breakfast cooked by my wonderful Fiance.  He made me Egg in the heart which is one of his mom's famous breakfast items that he loves to cook.  He always made me YUMMY YUMMY heart shaped toast.  Then the 12 hours in the theatre wasn't so bad and we actually ENDED early... so that I was actually only there 10.5 hours so we had enough time to make it to couples night at the ice skating rink.  While we were there I had a lot of thoughts about our relationship and life together.  

As we were Ice Skating as anyone who has ice skated before knows your skates carve the way in ice to move forward but of course as each person moves forward there are many many paths and each path created by another person can make it more and more difficult for you to move forward on your own path and i thought.. this is so much like life.. there are many many people who have moved forward through life before us and they carved out their own path and as you watched them go through you are often challenged in figuring out how to make your own path.. ... But I also realized that as Zach and I carve a way through life and try to stick together there will be lots of obstacles that will will have to avoid and deal with.  We also will have to learn when to hold each other back and when to let go and let one another try new things(Zach was learning to ice skate backwards while i can barely go forward) and move ourselves forward.  And when one of us falls ( Like i did while skating) know that the other will be there to help them get back to their feet! And just learning to trust each others judgments, learn each others goals and help each other achieve personal and family goals will help make our relationship more successful and our personal growth will make one another happier! 

Today's Baking Fun!

So  I was just so exciting about all my new baking supplies that  I just couldn't wait until class on Tuesday to start so I made a cake last night so that Today when I had a little more free time I could practice decorating.  Well my mom found this really neat site that said how you could make the little cakes that I want for my wedding so i decided to try some of the things it said to do.. 

After creating the initial parts of the cake I didn't start following the dir

ections to frost the little cakes which didn't turn out so well 

After that I went back to the instructions which also didn't work out so well.. b/c the candy stuff they said to put on was just too thick.. 

After that I just decided to have fun with the frosting... 

Then I decided to frost the cake.. Which turned out the best of them all And that was my baking adventure today...

They may not look the greatest but I don't think it was too bad and they TASTE Awesome!! 

The DIY Wedding!

So I have decided in order to save costs and make our wedding as much US as possible I am creating most aspects of our wedding on my own which for me is fun but also a little stressful.

The Save the Dates went out last week and I created those which was tons of fun and I got lots of compliments on! It was so simple too! I just went to the beach wrote "Save the Date" and i wrote our names in the sand and when I got home i photo shopped them together and added a text box with our wedding date and WOW! an awesome save the date card! I just had to order then in the form of post cards, address them and stamp!

The next aspect of our DIY wedding will the be the invitations. I just received the paper today from the online co. that you can order paper from for fairly cheap and My mom and I will be spending spring break assembling those! Tons of FUN :)

I will also be creating the favors, programs, and many of the decorations. What I won't be DIY is Photography, I have hired Joey Wooton to do that for us! And Flowers, The flower Basket on HI road will be doing that!

I ALSO am going to ATTEMPT to make our wedding cake! I have signed up for the cake decorating class at Micheal's where we are learning how to decorate cake. So far I haven't had a chance to actually decorate yet but I have confidence that I will be good at it and quite capable of making the cake that I want for our wedding without having to pay the $500 everyone is charging!!! Since I am in the cake decorating course I will also be making alot of different cakes over the next few weeks so if anyone has an awesome cake recipie they would like to share I would love to try and make it!!!

I am loving the DIY wedding because it allows for me to input lots of my own creativity into the wedding as well as save a lot of money!! But I don't recommend it for those with little time because it can create quite a bit of stress!!