Wedding Part One

The Day Before

We held our wedding at a local place here in Northern Michigan. It was a lodge covered in hardwood and a lovely pavilion down by a small lake. It was perfect for us. We were hoping to have our ceremony outside and the reception inside. It took us a while to find this place, but when we did we knew it was perfect.

I had hand painted each bird house which had the table numbers written on them. A little bird sitting on each was Tom's idea. Nice touch I think.

We hung paper lanterns which Jenny (sister-in-law now :) and her husband Jon helped us put them up. It would have taken forever if it weren't for them.

I really want to incorporate mason jars in the wedding. So Tom came up with the idea of putting candles in them. Rocks as the bottom mini pumpkins surrounding the candle and moss and leaves around them. Then we got these pine cones from Tom's Mom. It was great!

See that's table 6! with the birdhouse and the little bird perched on it!

Tom's Mom also found these amazing lantern plants. They were perfect!!

Gift table :)

Another view of the place

I just loved the birdhouses!

I think this one was my fav cause the bird is on the chimney.

A lot of help from everyone, parents, siblings, friends. So much help to put everything together!

Hair-Raising Changes!

Shortly after Tom and I got back from our honeymoon we decided we wanted to do something drastic.

These two photo's are pre-hair cut.

Post hair cut!

We both had more than enough hair so we donated it! We both love our new hair cuts! So much faster getting ready in the morning! It would take forever to blow dry my hair!

Yarn out West

So, probably not everyone cares about yarn, however, this will be a post about my spoils from out west! So Portland is MECCA!! for yarn! It was such a great place! I loved each shop I dragged Tom to. Hahaha, poor guy. . . he was a good sport about it though.

These two are from Seattle actually. Blue Sky Alpaca, which is one of my favorites to use. Really soft baby alpaca yarn in sport weight. I knitted up a pair of fingerless gloves with this! (pic will be up soon!)

Now on to Portland. Honestly, I wish I could have spent more time at Knit Purl! It was a really nice shop downtown Portland, but we had dinner reservations :)

If I had to pick my favorite, it would have to be Happy Knits! This places was really pretty inside! It was hard to pick my yarn out at this place. But I also snagged this cute project bag :) Tom also picked out some yarn for a hat he saw in the store (photo will come soon!) The multi color is Malabrigo Worsted, (Tom's choice) The red is Madeline Tosh Worsted.

I also really like Yarn Garden! Such pretty yarn there! Why is it so hard to choose yarn? Oh right, cause I'm not rich hahaha. Plus, out suitcase could only hold so much. Tom also picked out some yarn! I think it was fun for him to choose some too!

Heading Home

This was the car that took us all over the place! It was a Toyota Corolla. Great little car!

We ate at the French Meadow on our way back in the airport. Really good food there.

Anyone who has been the Minneapolis Airport knows this Snoopy Statue :)

Views from the plane!

We were very excited to head home.

So there you have it, our Honeymoon. You're probably tired of seeing those pictures haha. I still have the wedding to post! LOL!!! But another day.

Final Day: Science Museum, Space Needle, Yummy Burgers and Jazz Club

So our final day lead us to the Science Museum. It was pretty cool, really geared towards kids, but it was still really fun.

Turtle Statues with a sea-gull in the background.

Pretty cool Dinosaur exhibit.

Honestly, the butterfly house was the best part of the science museum. I really enjoyed them flying around us.

View of the Space Needle is looming closer and closer.

Yikes, here we go!

The trip up, only took a few seconds. . . crazy!

Made it! It was such a great view!

The whole city from this vantage point!

Another kind person willing to take our photo.

The look out point inside.

Heading towards the Experience Music Project Museum. Really interesting building design outside.

Insane inside!

This mosaic was really cool. All different kinds of instruments circled around this. mostly guitars, but it was pretty sweet!

This was in the Avatar room. Tom was getting into a simulation to become a character and act out a scene in Avatar. He had fun!

More of the Avatar room.

The top of the instrument tornado.

Outside the EMP, pretty cool!

Red Mill Burgers was just soo good!!!

The burgers in this place were amazing! The onion rings were hand made!

After our meal we headed to The Triple Door which was a night club downtown Seattle. It was pretty cool! Good jazz!