This is divadan80's Blue Wedding!

We took these pictures on Mother's day at the mall. I wanted a picture of them together because they were dressed alike. I got the dresses for them at Osh Kosh. I showed the pics at work, everyone loves them. You can also see more pics of me and my family on Facebook, send me a message and I will send you my name.


Look at that BABY! She is posing and smiling hard!

Hey Ladies, it's been a long time since I have been on the blog. My life has changed so dramatically during the past year. I just wanted to introduce my baby girl to you.

On December 15, 2009 @ 1:13am, Maliyah Denae Mitchell was given to us. She was 6 pounds, 11 ounces and 19 inches long. How wonderful it is that she is a part of our lives, we are so lucky! My husband is so crazy about her. She is his first child, and my second. My daughter is 9 and she is finally a big sister.

She was born nine months and 1 day after my wedding. I never would have thought that I was going to get married and have a baby in the same year, but it did happen and how grateful I am. The pictures I posted are the newest pics of her, of course but my husband has more and I will post them later. She looks like my daughter to me more and more everyday.

The day I had her, it seemed as if nothing else mattered, no cell phone, no computer, my job, his job, and because of that, I knew that everything changed in that instant.

Now that the baby is here, I think about how I said I wasn't having anymore children, at least until I got married. .....how selfish of me.

I think about how my husband wanted to hurry and have a baby.......and I didn't.

I think about how many times my daughter said she wanted a sister or brother.........and I dismissed it.

I think about how selfish I have been in my life, thinking I couldn't do this again, thinking I would only have one kid, and how wrong of me it was to think like that, it was extremely selfish of me.

My baby has changed my outlook on life, now I have to consider having a 3rd child if my husband wants to, which I am not real sure he does because he see's now how hard it is to have a child and how expensive they can be. He has waited years to have a child and now he finally has one. I am happy I was able to carry her and give her to him.

Ladies, this will be my last post on wbc, I have enjoyed every minute of my wedding, the planning, the stress, the hopes and the dreams of it all. Farewell to all of you and I hope you go on to live healthy and prosperous lives with your new spouses and new found families.

I will come back from time to time to see what ya'll are up to. And of course I have to see Sonya, gratefulbride, be married!

I will miss you all!

.....A Gift From God to See, to Hold, and to Love...........

I want to order my wedding photos for my family members to have small albums. I need some photos edited b.c. of the big red exit sign that is in the bridal party pictures. I feel like I cant order them to give away looking like this.

If any one can help me, please let me know. If anyone knows of a site that can do it that would be helpful also. Thanks so much....

I got the news recently. I am pregnant. My husband is so happy and he is acting so crazy, he is driving me crazy. I was already told that this baby will come out looking just like him because of it. He doesnt have any children and is extremely happy and he is ready for this. Asking what took so long??? I am about 6 weeks preggers. The baby will be due in early january. I am excited to go ahead and get our bundle of joy out of the way.

We will be having a baby before our first anniversary. Honestly, I kinda wanted to wait at least a year and just enjoy being married, but tell him that. My daughter is a little excited but she is jealous too. She has been the only child for so long she doent know how to handle it yet. My kids will be 10 years apart? go figure?

I know I have been incognito from the blog lately but hey, my life is changing rapidly and I will still come back to check on you ladies and I have to see about Miss Rhonda getting married this month!
We should be moving into a house by the end of the month, hey that's next week! it's gonna be hard for me to move stuff and I'm pregnant .

I'm kinda scared because I already know to go through a pregnancy is a big sacrifice and I am an emotional ball of nerves now, anything can set me off. I'm ready to do this though, ready to bring new life into the world. My parents and his parents were expecting a baby and they are getting it a lot sooner than they thought! YEAH!

Here are the pictures fro our Honeymoon in Hawaii. It has taken me a while to get it together to put them on here but this was our "us" time. We went to Honolulu on the island of Oahu. It was great, we had a wonderful time. I would tell anyone to go to Hawaii once in their lifetime. "ALOHA!"

We were there for 7 days and 6 nights and we enjoyed every minute of it. Wished we could have stayed longer and had more money to stay.
We definately want to go back one day and my husband even suggested that we bring our daughter next time. Hawaii is a wonderful family place. I saw a whole lot of kids and families, baby strollers, etc. There is a lot for kids to do.

I am so blessed that we had the opportunity to go to Hawaii to sit back and enjoy each other for a week with no distractions. I really enjoyed going to the Dole Pinapple Plantation. This is where Dole has set up shop to grow the pinapples they sell all over the U.S. I also liked when visited the historic Pearl Harbor. Somethings are once in a lifetime chances and this was one of those things.....

Here are the pictures from my Wedding Day! I also have all of the pictures printed out in 3 wedding albums. I have a dvd slideshow and the rights to all of my pictures. I tooke them to work and my co-workers were acting wild b.c they all wanted to see them. It took a while for most people to look at all of them. Everyone still hasnt seen all of them and they were asking so many questions. I couldnt work for them asking me questions about the wedding pictures. So take some time and view all of my pictures. I like the pictures a lot also. Just click on the link below to view all of the pictures!!!!!!


www.imageevent.com/capturedmemoriesbyscott/march14


Enjoy!

The rehearsal dinner was the night before the wedding. It was friday the 13th and windy, rainy, and cold. After we had the rehearsal at the hotel we went to a Mexican Restaurant called Los Cucos. It was hosted by his parents. We had fun and it was the first time the bridal party was together. I enjoyed the evening out with everyone.

I had my bridal shoot about a month before the wedding. I created a slideshow of the pictures I liked the most but you can see all of my pictures from the bridal shoot by following the link:


www.imageevent.com/capturedmemoriesbyscott/Danielle

I have so many photos to share. I am going to start by spiriling back to our engagement photos and let it lead up to the wedding day pictures. I have gotten so many compliments on the engagement, bridal and wedding day pictures. I cant not post them again.

March 14, 2009 was my wedding day. I have to admit the day did go by fast and I even did some last minute things on my wedding day. I got up early to get my hair done and to get my daughter's hair done. My time in the chair went quick b.c. all she had to do was curl it. I left to go to the post office to pick up the silk flowers I had ordered for the wedding. They didnt arrive until the day of. The company I went through used usps, wtf? I even paid for rush shipping and they came in the last day. When I got the box and opened it to see the flowers. I was sorely disappointed. These flowers were not nice looking at all. I felt like they were just mediocore. I gave the flowers and buttoniers to the men but then I felt like I should have just done all of the flowers myself. I could have with all the time and money I spent at hobby lobby and micheal's. I should have made my own flower arrangements. The flowers I am holding in the pic are from the arrangement I made from micheals for my bridal shots.

I was a ball of nerves the whole day. I went to micheals to buy a basket to hold the programs in and I bought an autograph mat and frame to put together at the hotel. It came out great, someone said they had never seen that before.

The ceremony was supposed to start at 6 but it didnt start until 6:30 b.c we were just running late. I was the last person to get ready and it made me mad so I went bridezilla on my bridesmaids b.c. they were all ready before me and started rushing me and I was like hell no. I couldnt put my dress on by myself and I had to wait on them to help me.

Our ceremony was cut short? My name was pronounced wrong and it was rushed? Didnt finish, just cut it short and got off of the stage????? So the singer I hired didnt sing the lords prayer and we didnt do the cord of 3 strands. It was my day and it was important to me but to everyone else, it didnt matter.

I felt annoyed with a lot of minor things, even though it may not bother any one else. The photographer told me that he asked the wedding coordinator to take the exit sign down that was behind us on the stage. Well they refused to and refused to turn it off so in my pics of the wedding party, you can see the big red exit sign. I didnt notice until I got my pics back but now that bothers me and it may not bother anyone else that is just how I am.

During the reception is where I was able to relax and have fun. I drank plenty of wine and danced and I participated in the soul train line.. The wedding was fun! I am glad there were not any major problems so the day went good. I felt so releived and relaxed after the wedding was over and I was happy! We got so many gifts and gift cards, took too many pictures, I was so tired of smiling my face was hurting. But its all good. The wedding brought my family together again and Mario's Family too.

I have a group of childhood friends that I have know since I was 5 years old and they were all there except one. The one that was missing passed away on march 11, 2009. It was a shock to me and I am still heartborken. I talked to her the monday before and she told me she was sick with Bronchitis and she has been sick for 10 years battling lupus and asked me if I was going to be mad at her if she missed the wedding, I told her no, if you are sick, you're sick. I guess this was her way of telling me good bye. Well she passed on the wednesday before my wedding. Her brother called me and told me while I was at work. I was totally distraught and hysterical. She was only 30 and left behind a 10 year old daughter. I still cant beleive she is gone. So it was a bittersweet sadness with me and my friends.

Rest in Peace Sharon Yvonne Rodgers

The wedding cake was fabulous and everyone gave me compliments on it. The all wanted to know who made it: "Who Made the Cake in Houston".

The blue cherries were also a hit. When we did the toast and the bestman liked them so much he mentioned it in his speech.

The flute and server set I got from things remembered was very elegant I got a lot of compliments on it.

I got compliments on everything: the monogrammed sticker on the dance floor, the blue cherries, the centerpeices, wedding cookies, m&m's, the hotel, the aisle runner, the dresses for the girls, the brown suits for the men. The Elegance of it all.

Oh, the centerpieces. The guest liked them so much, they were asking me where I got them from and I told them I made them, they were in shock, they didnt believe me. When the wedding was over with they took most of them, I didnt care I have a couple of tiers at home.

Without the nerved up feelings that I had and the small things bothering me, my bridal party kinda pissing me off......everything went great.

I had a few people ask me if I could help do receptions for them. Yes! I can!

I am extremely happy to be married to my husband and he is just as happy to be married to me. We are madly in love and it showed at the wedding. I am happy to also have the day over with so I wont have to keep on planning and I wont have to keep on stressing. Now I can just live the married life! and it feels the same.