Wedding

Neither Chad nor I can believe that a year has already gone by since we exchanged vows on the side of a mountain on the Big Island of Hawaii.  The calendar, however, presents a pretty good arguement.  Even though yesterday was a Monday, we managed to celebrate in style.  Halfway through my day I...
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Over the weekend we got a present in the mail from the wonderful Alecia Hoyt. The DVD’s with our pictures on them! I resized and renamed them and put them online. The quality is high enough to print regular (4X6, 5X7) photos. If you want a higher resolution for bigger pictures, just let me...
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Among the things we forgot to buy for the kids: toothbrushes, toothpaste, kids bath stuff. Aurora came into our room about 10 minutes after we woke up, and crawled into bed with us. Hooray honeymoon. We let Ozzie sleep in some more, and Chad ran over to the sundry shop at the hotel to...
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I can’t call this a honeymoon because it wasn’t. Not really. Chad and I had a fantastic 12 hours after the wedding together, and one days, we’ll have a real honeymoon. One of these days we’ll come back to the Big Island and do all of the things we wanted to do. First, I...
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As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. I’ll let the amazing pictures Alecia Hoyt took for us do the talking. The entire Wedding Gallery is here. I tried to pick out some favorites to share, but it was just too difficult. Instead, here’s a teaser.
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I tried to sleep in. I even stayed up a little extra late the night before. I thought that with the help of my mai tai, lava flow, and super duper eye mask, I might get to sleep in until 8. Well, almost. I think I woke up at around 7, got up, and...
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With all of the cakes out of the way we were free to go to the beach. Hapuna Beach State Park is consistently voted one of the best beaches in the world by travel magazines, and for good reason. It’s gorgeous, the waves aren’t too rough, the sand is nice and the water is...
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After I got the pineapple upside down cakes in the oven, I started work on the tropical carrot cake. I made this cake for Chad on his birthday, we liked it a lot – and after several batches of pineapple upside down cake, we knew we would want something different for the wedding. Since...
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Ahhh, Friday morning. The day that would bring a beach picnic, nail appointment and luau at the Kona Village Resort! Yes, Friday promised to be a super fun day. At least it would be after I finished making the cakes. Oh yes, I made the cakes. I made individual pineapple upside down cakes for...
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One full day in Hawaii and we’ve already lost track of time. After the small non-disaster of the previous evening’s ‘event’ we decided to play everything by ear. I think that if Pele had been kind enough to keep her lava flow where it was in early June, then we would have driven down...
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