Soooo 6 months ago ? Hmmm......
Well, Since that last post in March? Geoff and I have graduated from CSULA, We bought a home, I had a 25th birthday, weddings and birthdays galore, Rachel came home for my bridal shower, we worked and worked on the home, We bought the cutest kitties, and lots of wedding details are getting checked off! I am sure there is so much that I am missing, but that is a brief overview! so here is the recap in pictures!
I had to include a picture of Bella and Mia. They are just the cutest! We got them in January and Febuary. I don't know why I haven't posted anything about them before.
Geoff and I graduated from CSULA and I turned 25!!! How wild is that!??! Mom was so soooo good to us and threw us an intimate celebration with our dearest family and friends. I am in love with this cake. It is a beautiful design from Cake Divas. The people that are designing our wedding cake! It is filled with Sweet potatoe cake and brown sugar cream cheese frosting! yummmm! I am so excited to taste our wedding cake!!! I can't WAIT!!!!!! :) I had to include a picture of Bella and Mia. They are just the cutest! We got them in January and Febuary. I don't know why I haven't posted anything about them before.
My sister Rachel is just the BEST! She is studying for her Masters in Missouri but came ALL the way home for my Wedding shower! She is SUCH A GREAT maid of honor! I am blessed to have such a great sister and friend. We went to Cowboy Country in Long Beach. Rachel and Esther put their thinking caps on and we had a great time! I am such a blessed bride! Kira made us all these wonderful shirts! The girls shirts said "Bride Entourage" and mine said "I said YES!" aw. I love my big wonderful bridal party! :) 
We were house hunting for a long time and finally in June we found OUR home, and early June we closed Escrow. phew! It was a loooooong emotional journey but finally it is ours! Geoff and I are so happy to have our own home. We know we will have to work very hard to keep it but it is something we WANT to do. Here is the finished product, but SOOO many little details went into this beautiful home on Cerise Blvd. My parents, my papa, and my brother have definatley earned their keep at our house! THey have worked countless hours and devotion into our home. We are SOOOO blessed to have them in our life!
When we bought our home, it had tile in the living room. That is all I will say about the tile. :) It wasn't a favorite, but when it came down to it we were just going to "deal with it." Mom didn't like that. So we did a little investegating. There was hard wood floor underneath!!!! Papa so diligently removed each tile!!!! In our living room AND kitchen! 
This was Geoff and I's biggest project. Unfortunatley, during this house fixing up process, we worked quite a bit so we weren't around to help with the tile or the grass. Things like that. So we got to lacker the fence! on both sides! Our side was easy. just tedious. However, the neighbor behind us literally has a forest on his side, so that was quite hard to accomplish. There were lots of dead spiders, and crushed bugs in our efforts but at least we accomplished our job! Geoff and I are a great team and it was fun having a project with him like this! :)
Dad is the expert painter in the family so he had the job of painting the walls (interior and exterior) the fixtures and so much more! Dad enlisted his trusty intern and son to follow in his footsteps! Josh did a wonderful job helping and basically listening to whatever Dad told him to do. He learned painting techniques and I believe he really enjoyed himself! :)
Dad is the expert painter in the family so he had the job of painting the walls (interior and exterior) the fixtures and so much more! Dad enlisted his trusty intern and son to follow in his footsteps! Josh did a wonderful job helping and basically listening to whatever Dad told him to do. He learned painting techniques and I believe he really enjoyed himself! :)
Oh! They also sanded and primed ALL of the walls too! Since our house was a Bank owned property, the bank quickly painted everything with a fresh coat of paint so it would look great to sellers. Well, haha it did look good to us and we bought it. After we were in the house for some time, we noticed the paint peeling off the walls!!! That meant we had a lot of hard work to do! Sooo we got to peeling, sanding, priming and then EVENTUALLY painting. Everytime I went to the house, I wanted to paint but it was never the time! sooo Mom and I got to paint the shutters outside. We had fun painting these becuase they were going to add so much accent to the outside of our home. :)
Literally every INCH of our home has been touched with LOVE. Literally every part of our home has been blessed by my parents, my family, and of course the Lord's blessings. I pray for the house everytime we leave and return and I KNOW that we are protected inside and outside. The Lord is good. ALL the time. 
My mom carved this outside of our bedroom window. Isn't she the cutest?! I put the leaf there for a fall touch! :) 
We will be forever working on our home... and there is so much that has been done. The next project for our Cerise home is... our bedroom set! It will be delivered by the end of October! :)
These precious kitties are the newest additon to our hectic lives! :) They calm us though. It is fun to play with them, watch them sleep and cuddle them. They were a complete accident. Mom took Bella and Mia to the Animal hospital for their shots etc and while she was there the staff informed her that someone dropped off a box of kittens the night before! These precious kitties got their shots and everything from the vet and were ready to be adopted. Mom sent me a picture of their brother, an orange tabby cat, and I instantly fell in love! I called Geoff and told him and he wanted to check them out. He was not opposed to having a kitty. So we went to look. After holding Lucy (on the bottom) in our hands, we were falling in LOVE! Geoff asked, do you have any more? The lady responded, well yeah, there were 10 altogether! So she went and got us another little girl who just got her shots. (Lily on top). Done deal. Geoff said "we'll take 'em both" and like that we were out the door. From there we headed to the pet store to buy all the essentials. They are the cutest kitties and we are blessed to have them!
Well now that I have briefly updated the last 6 months of my life, I will try to update more often as the wedding comes MUCH CLOSER! I haven't even briefed about the wedding. Well here is one update I will give as I am at my new job and shouldn't be playing on Blogspot for too long! 
These are my wedding heels! They are burgundy (go figure!) and oh so cute! I got them from Nordstrom during their anniversary sale! I wanted to get my dress hemmed in my tallest shoes (that I will wear for our 1st dance) so I know I wouldn't trip! I love love love them! and Geoff and I practiced dancing in them last night and they are comfy! I will be rather tall on the wedding day! sooo all of you shorties. beware! haha :) I will update soon with wedding things! There are so so so many details that are still on our lists but they are slowly getting checked off and that is soooo very exciting!
Ciao Ciao
