Brad's 30th Birthday

Ryan's friend Brad turned 30 this month,

so his wife Carrie threw him a 

"Back in the Day" surprise party.

Everyone was dressed up in either

80's or 90's clothes... it was a lot of fun!!!

Here are some pictures...

This is the front of the invitations I designed for it...

This is the back...

Carrie had Brad's favorite outfit ready for him to get changed into...

This is the dance floor Ryan built for the party...

Some of the girls... mostly wearing 80's clothes...

I'm wearing neon pink (of course)...

The guys mostly wore 90's clothes...

Group shot!!!!

We all had a F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S time :)

My mom's birthday @ Medieval Times

We went to Medieval Times for my mom's birthday...
My Parents. Grandparents, my sister and
her friend Vanessa, Ryan & myself.
It was a lot of fun, food was yummy and the show was great :)

Halloween!!!

Here are some pictures from Halloween,
our friends have a big party every year
and we all get really into it...

This year we were a gangster & a flapper...
this was by far my favorite costume :)

Dinner @ my parents' house...

My parents had us over for dinner after we got engaged,
we had awesome food and a fabulous time!!

Thanks guys, love you <3>

The table decorations were pink & black
(both our favorite colors)

My wonderful parents

Sweet grandparents

Both our parents.

My beautiful sister & her BF.

My wonderful soon-to-be in laws

My lil

The ring...

Where he did it...

This is a panoramic view of where Ryan proposed... I love the colors :)

We got engaged!!!

I know it's been over 2 months, but here are

some pictures from when Ryan proposed...

In case you never heard the story, here's a quick recap...

It happened on Saturday, August 30th, we were driving home from Point Pleasant Beach (I had a beach volleyball tournament that day). Half way through our drive, Ryan decided to pull over at a Rest Stop/Scenic Overlook on the side of 295. A little story about this bridge... ever since we started dating, every time we drive to & from my parents' house in North Jersey, we pass this beautiful bridge/overpass across the Delaware River, it looks amazing specially when the sun is setting... so for 4 years, everytime we've passed it, we've said "we should stop here sometime" but never really did. 

Well... we stopped that day... even thought it was about to rain the sky was really pretty, the sunset looked like a painting with purples, oranges and pinks-how perfect ;)  So we were looking at the water, talking and hugging... since I'm only 5'3", my head was on his chest so I heard his heart and it was going crazy... so I asked him "babe why is your heart beating so fast?" and he just said "oh it's probably........" not a big deal...

So like I said it was about to rain & we still had about 45-50 minutes left of our drive... so I told him we should go.

That's when he grabbed my hand and got on one knee... I don't remember everything he said, I was pretty shocked. I even told him to "stop kidding" because he had gotten on one knee before, when our friends were over, as a joke and handed me a plastic ring I had from my friend's bachelorette party. But he wasn't kidding this time, he took a little black box out of his bathing suit pocket (which he had with him the whole day at the beach) and asked me to marry him.

I said of course, kissed him and hugged him...

his heart was still going a mile a minute...

So we got in the car, at that point it was pouring out... so we just stayed in the car for another 10-15 minutes, while my shock was wearing down and our hearts were slowing down... we kissed and hugged some more, called our parents and drove home...

My First Blog...

So after reading tons of blogs,
I decided to start my own...

Let's see how this goes :)