Gina and Mark's Wedding in SF

Gina's Wedding was simply beautiful, just like her! My favorite picture of her. She looked like she just came out of a wedding magazine. Everything was so elegant and classic.

The ceremony was in a beautiful church in San Francisco. I especially enjoyed the ceremony, because the priest's stories were good, true, short and sweet. The first one about two brothers who unknowingly were giving each other part of their harvest because they felt the other deserved it more, basically telling us that both husband and wife should put the other's interest first. The second reading having us put our names in the famous Love is patient, Love is Kind reading, which most of would laugh because we aren't all those things all the time. But Jesus is all those things and when we put him at the center of our relationship, He will help us and guide us through a successful marriage.
Her lovely bridal party

Another favorite picture of mine, their engagement picture that was displayed at the reception, which was at the Flood Mansion on Broadway Street

An old school typewriter for us to write the couple notes

Beautiful long tables throughout the dining room

while the newlyweds sat right in the middle

such an elegant cake...

that was displayed against the view of the city...we all fought for the blueberry one, there were three different flavors, red velvet, green tea and blueberry

Father, Daughter dance and Mark and Gina's first dance was in another part of the mansion. Picture is dark, but you can see her beautiful dress.


The two SCU moms with 3 kids :) Christina was the first to get married in the bunch and I was the first to have a baby, now we have opposite of each other...she had two boys first and then a little princess...Yes I committed a fashion no no, I wore the same dress to another wedding, what can I say, I had nothing to wear :)

I read in the wedding, so we also went to the dinner rehearsal... Jayson loves Auntie Gina!

The food was delicious, even Jayson ate a bunch

But of course the best part, the cupcakes. Jayson had one and stole another before we left.
On the way home through the desert it rained, so Jay took the kids to play in it for a few minutes. Thanks to Auntie Melissa and Auntie Sheila, Jay and I got to enjoy Gina's wedding day in peace :) Jaylin and Jayson had fun hanging out with the Uncle Neil, Bubba and Daisy (their dogs) and Jayme enjoyed her cousin time with Marcus

Jaylin's Fashion show at Zappos

Zappos had a Kids Apparel Expo, which is where several vendors set up booths for us employees to learn more about their products...so I brought Jaylin in with me to work to run around and a bunch of the reps asked her to model...and she was more than happy to, she had so much fun! These are all Kaiya Eve dresses, a popular brand in LA :)

The black and white dress

The red one that I told her was too sexy, but it was her favorite

Jaylin with her favorite rep in the black rhinestone dress...doesn't she look like she could be Jaylin's mom
What did Jaylin end up with...not only a teddy bear, pins, and some other swag, but this beautiful dress

Other Fun Stuff

Town Square Playground, a new local favorite outside mall because it has good shops and restaurants


In the same Town Square, new hot spot Blue Martini...they have all different kinds of yummy Martinis. With the girls at work...Why is my boss dressed up like a super hero? because that's the kind of crazy stuff they do at Zappos :)

More of the big bosses giving recognition speeches at the quarterly happy hour


The annual Zappos vendor party this year was at Rain nightclub and poolside at the Palms Hotel


In addition to the open bar, icees and cirque dancers, were these cute penguins swimming in the pool



Tricia and Rick's Wedding

Three words to describe Tippie and Rick's wedding at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas..."PIMP MY WEDDING" Not only was it classy, it was just PIMP :) All the details and extras made everything so perfect!

Don't they just look pimp :) The Festivities started out Friday night. After the ceremony rehearsal was a party at the VIP suites at the Red Rock Lanes

Not only was there bowling, but Open Bar and Yummy Dinner while a slide show of Tip, Rick, friends and family played on the big screens behind us

And the best part...Dessert!...most of you know by now that I am obsessed with taking pictures of pretty food :)

The generous couple gave beautiful speeches and fun presents! Tip's Dad gave the best speech on how this marriage is also a union of Puerto Rico and the Philippines...it was too funny, you had to be there.

Bridesmaid gifts were these cute cosmetics bag with a picture of the bachlorette party

The boys got pimp glasses...and all guest got Vegas goodie bags that came with drinks, snacks, tourist visors, personal fans and much more

Both my sisters and both my girls were part of the wedding entourage

It was a full day of getting ready

But the girls loved it

Even little Ava...isn't she cute!

The end result...beautiful Flower Girls

and hot chicks...haha

It was actually nice to have a girl day with Jayme and Jaylin...Jay had Jayson the whole day, so it was a nice, we missed them, but it was nice :)

The ceremony was outside on the terrace

overlooking the pool

The girls did a great job preparing the isle before Tip came down

Robinos Family

Jayson in his little suit


At the reception, all tables had a different kind of chocolate as the centerpieces...Tip is a chocoholic

So creative, didn't even realize there was chocolate mixed in there

so the kids had a blast trick or treating at each table

in addition to their own table filled with candy, coloring books and other art and craft activities. For dessert they got big bowls of ice cream with their own dish of sprinkles and m&m's so they could make their own ice cream creations

Jaylin had so much fun dancing...even made prego Liz dance with her. Once Jaylin started jumping I had to stop her :)

Then Wedding Brunch the morning after...sorry for the blurry pics...time for a new camera

cousin picture with the new bride...ugh...uncentered Alan :)

That wasn't it, a bunch of people from the wedding came out afterwards to the Red Rock pool to relax and swim and drink mojitos

It was a very fun and exhausting weekend...but oh so worth it. Big Congratulations to newlyweds Trish and Rick!!!


Father's Day

For Father's Day we took Jay to the new sushi place that opened up near us. We made it through lunch with Jayson only breaking one glass :)

The girls loved their sushi and chicken & rice

Triple Date Night


Date night was with Dale & Darlene and Dave & Loan. We had tapas and different kinds of sangria at Cafe Ba Ba Reeba on the strip, outside of Fashion Show Mall. Happy Birthday Loan!

Then had candy apples at Venetian

Then Dancing at Tao nightclub where we saw Karina Smirnoff...ugh..I think I am smiling a little too big...must of been all the vodka shots that Loan likes to drink