Engagement Pictures... for real this time

Okay everyone... here is a link to our engagement pictures. We took all of our pictures by our apartment - the first half by the bay and the second half on the beach... the very last couple are on a park bench on our street.
Enjoy!

Weekend

Well I guess I lied to you on Friday... we ended up having a jam packed weekend and there was no lounging to be had. One of the fun things we did was go to a concert with friends on Saturday night at The Casbah in downtown San Diego to see Justin Townes Earle. It was the first time I had heard of him but he was really awesome and put on a great show. He's playing in New Jersey in April if anyone back home is interested in seeing him (which I totally recommend).

P.s. How did everyone like the Oscars last night?? Some highlights for me: Anne Hathaway did a wonderful job hosting, I loved Reese Witherspoons hair, and I loved both acceptance speeches for the best supporting actors

TGIF

Happy weekend everyone! I'm a little jealous that as I type this it is 5:00 pm on the east coast and officially the weekend... I have 3 more hours to go :( ... Oh well, I'll get there soon enough.

For the first time in literally months Kevin and I do not have any plans for this weekend which I'm actually really excited about. I'm also pretty excited that the forecast shows rain for this weekend. I never thought that I would hope for that but the weather is always perfect here you feel guilty not going outside and sometimes it's nice to be lazy and have an excuse to just lounge around.

Whatever you all do... hope you have fun... see ya Monday!

Palm Springs

This weekend we decided to take advantage of the long weekend and took a little trip up to Palm Springs with friends. It's such a gorgeous town...

It was so funny seeing snow capped mountains next to palm trees

Amanda and I spent one of the days at the spa... and the Kevin's (Amanda's husband is named Kevin as well) played golf... the rest of the time we explored the great shops and restaurants that Palm Springs had to offer.

Kevin and I getting ready to go out for the night

Amanda and Kevin

Kevin and the ladies

The 4 of us after dinner

Wiley and his girlfriend, Macey Sue, came along for the trip too...

Wiley and Macey

It's so much much fun exploring the west coast!! Crazy to think that only a 2 hour car drive gets us to Palm Springs. It was such an easy trip we'll definitely be heading back there soon!

Engagement Pictures

The title of this post is probably a touch misleading... you probably saw it and thought, "Wow, I know exactly how I'm going to kill the next 1/2 hour at work." Well sorry gang... I only have one little teaser of a picture for you that the photographers just posted on their blog... you can't even see our faces. Sorry.

Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

We had such a great weekend... engagement pictures Saturday morning, The Centennial of Naval Aviation during the day on Saturday (and it was approximately 80 degrees here!), took Wiley to the dog beach on Sunday.... and then Kevin and I celebrated Valentine's Day last night because he has a big flight tonight.

He surprised me and took me to a gorgeous and really romantic restaurant called Prado in Balboa Park.

If anyone is planning a trip to San Diego in the future... you seriously have to try this place. The food was incredible and the entire experience was just.... lovely. I really can't say enough good things about it. While we were there I said that it looked like it would be an amazing place to have a wedding... so I was not completely surprised when I went on the website today and discovered that they have lots of weddings there.

picture above found here

Celebs Love the Suber Bowl

We had some awesome celeb spottings at the Super Bowl... some we were able to document... others we just weren't able to act quickly enough to get our cameras out/they were D list.
Anyway, I'm not going to try and write a clever post... just enjoy the pictures.

Picture taken right after my mom whispered in Mario Lopez's ear how many times she voted for him on DWTS



Maroon 5 performed at our Tailgate Party... they were really great live



Kevin and my brother, Sean with Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon)

Me and Kevin Dillon

Keith Urban performed at our Tailgate too... what a hunk!

we sat right in front of the Jonas Brothers during the game

more JoBros

Randy "The Dawg" Jackson

Annie & Kevin

I just found photos from this wedding on Style Me Pretty. Apparently, there is another couple out there named Kevin and Annie.... and they have great taste.  Have a looksie.

Super Bowl!

Kevin and I are headed to Dallas this weekend for the Super Bowl! Yee haw!
We went last year and had a blast... so I'm super excited for this year.
And even though Dallas is having a bit of an ice situation right now I'm still super pumped about it. I'm hoping we get as cliche as possible... have a big steak, see some bull riding, go two-stepping... you get the idea. We're only going to be there for approximately 2 days (one of which will be at the big game) so this may not happen... but a girl can dream.
Anyway, check out some of my dad's articles for the big game. Yes, that's my handsome father below.

I don't think that it's been much of a secret that Kevin and I have had to change our wedding date... more than once. Turns out that the Navy can be a really inconvenient factor in planning a wedding. I think that's why I stopped blogging for a while... the Navy was discouraging me from thinking I could ever have a wedding planned more than a month in advance. Recently, things are starting to look up again and it looks like the wedding is set for August (I hope I didn't just jinx myself).
Anyway... now that I'm cautiously proceeding back into the world of wedding planning I thought I would share this website I found 100 Layer Cake. It's a great place to get decorating ideas, find vendors, and best of all buy/sell used wedding decorations. So all of those candles, vases, etc. that you bought in bulk for your wedding you can resell them on this website... or scoop up someone else's at a good price.
Also... Kevin and I are finally getting our engagement pictures done next weekend!!!! I really wanted to get them done in San Diego to capture our time living out here (and to longingly flip through while Kevin is deployed... kidding!... kinda)... so we'll be heading to the beach and pier for a fun Cali vibe.  Check out the photographers website here.