We made it - January 26, 2009

If anyone is still checking the blog to see if I updated it, sorry, I got lazy and busy settling into our new place. But here are the last few pictures of our arrival in Maryland. We made it from Florida to Maryland in a day and a half and arrived by 4 PM on Monday.

The Welcome to Maryland sign!

Our first glimpse of our new placeOur kitchen...we had a lot of work to do!
Taking a rest after all of the driving
This is what we woke up to our first day here. Notice what's going on outside the window behind Justin. And it's the only snow of the season so far and it hasn't snowed since. Figures it did it on our first day. Welcome back to the East Coast!!!

Sergeant actually really enjoyed the snow

Justin was tired after three weeks of driving. He has literally never fallen asleep on the couch since I've known him

We have an ENORMOUS closet. So my good friend Danielle (her wedding pictures are below) came over to help me organize my closet. She is an expert. Thanks Dan!

South of the Border

We didn't really make any notable stops on our way from Florida to Maryland. But I had to get a video of the infamous, South of the Border. Such a great place...check it out!

Danielle's wedding (1/24/09)

Sorry it took so long but here are pictures of the actual ceremony and party. The setting was beautiful and Danielle was her usual fun self and she looked amazing. Here are a few pictures and the rest are on a link at the bottom on kodak gallery.

Me walking down the aisle with Mike and JoshLindsay with Brett and Todd
I couldn't resist posting this picture. This is Danielle's brother, sister-in-law and her nephew Zach
Aaron with his parents
Danielle with her parents

Exchanging rings

Yay, they're married!

Me and my hubby

Their first dance. If you know Danielle, that face she is making is totally her!

Us with my parents
Aaron is missing from this picture :-(
Danielle's dress ripped so badly this is a picture of me inside of the hole - So sad
Cake time!
To see the rest of the pictures from the night, click here

My brother

If you haven't noticed, my brother has been helping edit the map on the right and has embedded some videos for me after I couldn't figure out how. So those lovely notes that are written about my brother...I'm sure you can figure out who wrote them.

I will upload the rest of the wedding as well as our arrival in Maryland as soon as I can!

Getting ready for the wedding (1/24/09)

We spent the whole day together hanging out, having fun and getting our hair and make up done for the wedding.

Here we are in the limo on the way to The Breakers
Me, Lindsay and Danielle in the bridal room

Here's a video of Danielle having fun before hair and make up starts. We were having a good time!! (Have I mentioned how awesome my brother is?)

Aaron had this outfit made for Danielle and gave it to her for the wedding day. The leaf with their names on it was their logo throughout the wedding.

Danielle's beautiful gown

Her mother's handkerchief sewn into her dress

The beautiful bride

Off to see her groom for the first time

A quick food break in between pictures

Danielle's nephew Zach in his coordinating outfit with her brother Noah.

The groom with his groomsmen overlooking the water

The bride and groom with her parents

Danielle and her dad...how sweet!

The Ketubah signing

To see the rest of the "getting ready" pictures, click here

Danielle's rehearsal and rehearsal dinner (1/23/09)

We all headed over to The Breakers for the rehearsal on Friday afternoon. Here is a picture of the view from the ceremony site and a picture of the happy bride and groom!

Here is a video of Danielle rehearsaing. She's such a character. My brother knows how to embed the videos on the blog but I couldn't figure out how, but he is so cool, so super cool, the coolest guy I know.

The wedding festivites begin! (1/22/09)

On Thursday we all met at the Marriott in Delray Beach (where everyone is staying) and Danielle drove ten of us to a nail salon in Boca to get our nails done. After that we drove back to Delray Beach and had a wonderful lunch by the beach.

Steph (Danielle's sister) and me in the back of the van on the way to get our nails done
Steph, me, Lindsay and Stacy (the bridesmaids) getting our pedicures

Danielle getting her nails done

Amy (mother of the bride) keeping an eye on her grandson while trying to catch some rays!

Lindsay and me at lunch

Lindsay, Danielle and me at lunch. Can you tell who just moved from Los Angeles and can't deal with weather less than 60 degrees!