Our Wedding Shower:

last weekend we had our wedding shower that my mom threw for us. something about my mom: she is one of the most generous people i know. she loves to give. so when we had our shower and i asked her if we could get an ice cream truck, she didn't spare any expenses. we had a yummy taco guy, king kone ice cream, and a photo booth. the photo booth was technically free since my bro and i own it ;)

our dear friend ruby was there and snapped some shots of the party. i am so grateful she thought to take pics and her photos are so legit. most of all these photos are by ruby ellen!

some pics of nicholas + i:

^ little ethan and christian getting their icecream.

my beautiful mom.

sweet friends: ruby + linda.
brave, true, and soul.

bravey + truey, with all their toys my mom gave them, hah.

my ring :)

yum!

other fun shots from around the party:

all the pics were taken by ruby!

i am sure she is for hire for any event ;)

the party was at my mom's house. we are blessed with great friends - my mom's friends all were there to help her since she's not her full 100% with the chemo. friends came, made punch, made salad, baked pies, set up the tables and chairs. one of her friends got us a great deal with the table + chair rentals: only $5/table and $.50 cents per chair! haha, when my mom told me i was like, what can you even get for .50 cents these days? apparently you can rent a chair. what a great deal!

we had so much fun and i think the guests had fun too. i am glad that is done though: now we are going full force into wedding planning for the next 30 days! i am excited but am just ready to be married, you know what i mean? some days i am tempted to just run down to the court house. and we just want to go on our honeymoon so we can go to the harry potter theme park! ;) xo.

tidbit:

 a chat.

he is so cute.

Custom Portrait:

what do you guys think of our custom portrait by nan lawson?

the outfits are based off our engagement session.

i love it. she is so legit. nan makes me want to

draw, and take pretty photographs.

inquire about a custom portrait for yourself today!

you can find her at the other links:

site | illustration shop | photograph shop

twitter | flickr | tumblr

thanks nan!

a GLEE surprise:

i have to share my weekend update with you, though this was a couple weekends ago. so i like glee. i think it's a great show. i read some twitter controversy going on a while back about how they auto tune their voices and everything, but i can't carry a tune so i'm not a stickler when it comes to these things.

nicholas told me he had a surprise for me, and i had no idea what it was. he just said it was on a thursday evening and that i was really going to like it. i tried guessing and thinking what it could possibly be.

so we're in the car and i happened to call my older brother to ask him a question and as i was saying goodbye, he was like, "wait danni are you going to see glee now?" and i was really confused. lol. i replied "glee? what are you talking about?" to which he replied, "glee. aren't you going to see it tonight?" i said "bro, what do you mean glee? like glee the tv show? like you mean a glee taping?" lol. this continued for a good 2 minutes. neither of us got it. he didn't realize it was a surprise, and i had no idea what he was talking about.

then it hit both of us at the same time. i realized and was filled with such excitement i was like, "ohmigosh, i gotta go!!!!" and he was like, "oh wait, never mind. i don't know what i'm talking about. ok bye!" haha. the whole time nick was just about to die listening to our conversation and hearing the surprise spoiled.

i got off and looked at him and asked if we were seeing glee?! he said he got GLEE IN CONCERT tickets a couple months ago! i was SOO excited, it was the best surprise ever!

the concert was in la at the gibson amphitheatre at universal studios.

they showed all these classic glee quotes before the show started.

they sang all my fav's, including defying gravity and bad romance.

the entire glee cast was there, it was legit. during the performance i thought "i can't believe i'm here seeing all these glee people in person! this is unreal!" hehe. so all that to say, i have the best fiance, soon-to-be-husband EVER! ;)

Our Engagement Photos:

i don't know how to start except say how truly blessed i am. waking up today felt like christmas morning. ;) not only did we had a really great engagement shoot, 100 layer cake and Green Wedding Shoes have posted our photos on their beautiful blogs today. I've had the opportunity to meet all the girls from 100LC and Jen from GWS (hurray for living in southern california + blog socials!) and I can honestly say they are the sweetest ladies ever.

The girls of Simply Bloom, Vania + Christine, really made our vision of the shoot come to life, their talent is amazing! I wasn't sure what to expect but they made us feel really comfortable and told us exactly what to do. They were so sweet and worked with us to get great shots - it was nice to make new friends too.

Be sure to stop by both blogs - as there are different pictures at each one! You can also read our experiences and some tips we learned from the engagement shoot ;) bubbles, wood letters as tall as me, bunting: it was all very us! Thanks you Jen of GWS and Jillian + Amanda of 100LC for the honor of having the photos on your blog.

tidbit:

 we'll have a batman child just like this one day.

(via banjobrown)

tidbit:

 sorry you got let go.

i love you babe :)