two

ok - I know it's only my second post, but I'm seeing a theme with my titles - "two" symbolizing my second post, and my second year of marriage beginning, and going to 2 locations for mour "trash the dress" event yesterday!

Well here I am on the 1st day of my 2nd year of marriage! Danny and I spent the whole weekend together doing mostly normal things, but just logging in some quality us time. We had the traditional piece of our wedding cake top on Saturday and it wasn't half bad. the icing was freezer burnt but the cake was pretty good! There should definitely be more chocolate chip wedding cake in the world! Unlike Kara (a friend of mine who religiously remembers to take a picture of every single thing) - I didn't think to take a picture of this momentous event for us until it was over - haha! I even got out my wedding cake knife and we ate it off of our china - oh well - we did it!

Well before I get on to blogging about "trashing my dress" yesterday, I'm going to tell you a few other things about last week....

One exciting thing was that I got a promotion! WooHoo! I am now a first shift lead editor. most of you have no idea what that means - but basically it means a longer title and more money for me! I love my job! I won't be transcribing much anymore - mainly just editing other people's transcription. This is a huge blessing because Danny and I have had some financial issues this year, but God has always provided for us and taken care of us and I know He will continue to bless us.

Another thing - leading up to the "trash the dress" event - I know you are wondering if I was able to actually fit into my dress after last week's blog. Well mom was able to work her sewing magic and it fit like a glove again :) Thank God!

I think I will actualy keep you all in supense a little longer about what all we did yesterday since I don't have any pictures to show you yet....I'll have to wait until my photographer sends me the proofs. Dad took some video too so I may see if I can Youtube it or something. I can tell you where we went....

First we went to this grafitti wall under a local overpass. It was a little (insert adjective here) because we didn't know what all the grafitti meant or said - so I hope we aren't endorsing something that is totally obscene or racist or something! We were there about an hour, and to say that I was "glowing" is an understatement. I was dripping will sweat - as was everyone else! But we have to make sacrifices to be beautiful and get the good shot!

From there we went back to Tammy's house (my photographer) to grab some ice water, cool off, and touch up the makeup. Then on to this really awesome barn. Unfortunately, there were no trespassing signs posted so we couldn't take pictures there. I was pretty bummed because I have somewhat of a barn fetish - I just love old barns. But it's just as well because from there it was a 45 mninute drive to the beach and we were running out of daylight. We had intended to go downtown and get some creepy shots in a cemetery - (to see what I mean go to http://juliabailey.com/ click on slideshows and choose the cemetery session). There was a "death shot" that I really wanted to get....I know, it's so not me - but I'm trying to step outside the box....besides I was trying to go for the artistic expression. Anyways, it was getting late and the cemetery was most likely closed by this time, so we chose to skip it and move on to the beach.

We got some shots in the sea oats and on the rocks, and some great sunset shots on the driftwood with this old dead tree in the background. And, yes, we did get some shots in the ocean too - I can't wait for you to see the pics. We had this big piece of tulle to use as a veil that was very dramatic looking. I can't wait to see the pics myself!!!