Alice and Wonderland Theme Party

This party was for my niece Briana, who every year picks a movie and does a birthday theme. Again, my niece Anna did the cake.

Briana (alice) and her mom Fabby

we used quotes from the movie and wrote them on cards

with a picture of the character for centerpieces

Alice with twiddle dee and dumm

Anna is on the left (soon to be a pastry chef)

We try to be as festive as we can,

here are some of guests that came dressed.

Sooo much fun.

Construction Theme Birthday Party

This was my son Jacob's 1st birthday and my step son Joshua's 12th birthday

Construction Theme. Our photographer was Greg Loza http://www.greglozaphoto.com/ and the decorations were from http://www.birthdayexpress.com/

i had this table at the entrance that way the kids could

grab their "toolbox, hard hat (decorate it), etc)

My niece Anna has been accepted to a culinary school in

N. Carolina and she's been making all of our cakes

Jacob and all his gear

I had set up a table outside with tools and wood projects that

the kids could do. they built wooden bird houses and wooden tool boxes.

I had a guy from http://www.moodoopuppets.org/ 

come and entertain with a puppet show

Family Portrait

We take our family pictures every December, and this year, for Jacob's 1st and Josh's 12th birthday party, we had Greg Loza, come and take our family photos, and photos through out the party. http://www.greglozaphoto.com/

OUR WEDDING

We had our beautiful wedding on 06/09/2006 at The Mukenthaler Mansion, Fullerton CA. 175 of our closest friends and family shared that day with us.
Here are a couple wedding pictures that Kusha from http://www.kushaphotography.com/ took.

Engagement

John proposed in just 6 months after we started dating. Our relationship was a little rocky at the time, and on 12/27/2005 he asked me to go to lunch. I thought ok were breaking up for sure. He took me to Houston's (where we had our first semi date) and we talked. He was very nervous, kept grabbing my hands, and I didnt know what was wrong with him. He got up to go to the bathroom, took awhile. He would always ask me if I would ever marry him, and I always said yes. When he returned he grabbed my hands, and on my left hand I had a funky looking ring on my middle finger, he started to take it off, and i'm like what are you doing. He than proceeded to say the following " I love you very much, do you still want to marry me?" I said yes, and as he was taking my ring off, and I asked what are you doing, and he he took out this little black suede ring box and opened it, and asked "will you marry me?" I said " are you kidding me?" he put the ring on, and i'm like OMG.... I said Yes.

He had this all planned out, a couple of weeks earlier we had gone xmas shopping with my sisters and he had talked to my twin Juanita about him proposing to me. We shopped around and asked me to go into Kay Jewelers because he wanted to get a watch. We went in and I of course go to the engagement rings, and he asked if you could pick any ring which one would it be, I picked one and it was the one that he gave me when he proposed.

I absolutely love it, its a unique shape so we had to get the band custom made, and after we got married, 2 months later we got the other band to go with it.

Here are a couple of pictures from our engagement photo shoot with Kusha Alagband and my ring. Kusha was amazing and did a great job with our engagement and wedding photos.