Taking a Break For Pete's Sake

Ya, I know I'm reading a lot. Last weekend was spent on the couch reading two books. Just finished another one tonight. But you know what? I've been planning a wedding for the past nine months and the weekend before I was working my tail off to put on the most beautiful wedding there ever was and I did it. Can't wait to show the pretty pictures. So, this is kick-back relax time for me for the next couple of weeks. Until I get a new project that is. Perhaps it's working on my golf swing :)

Good Times

Maddie's friend, Kim, took this photo of us at the reception.

Finding Light in the Dark

My friend let me borrow her Lords of the Underworld series by Gena Showalter, which begins with The Darkest Night, then The Darkest Kiss and finishes with The Darkest Pleasure. Well, finishes for now. There is more to the story...and I can't wait to read it! These are very yummy books, but not suitable for all audiences. If you want a steamy romance for a hot summer read, these are the books for you!

Maddie & Dan, Married At Last!

These are just some wedding pictures I took while Cesar was taking the "real" wedding photos. He took some shots before they got married of just the two of them.
Such a sweet couple!

Maddie wore navy blue, peak-a-boo, pumps with pink polka-dots.

Beautiful shot :)

Coming out of the temple after they were married!

At the wedding luncheon. I didn't really take any pictures after that. I can't wait to see Cesar's pictures. We did some unusual location shots and I think they're going to be fabulous.

The Week Of...

We have officially begun the week of...the wedding. We have our schedule and list of things to do. I am heading into this week with a peaceful heart, knowing I have done all I could do to prepare and I'm as ready as I'll ever be.

This has been a great month with Madison home. I enjoy being with her so much. Here she is in my wedding dress. She's so pretty! I can't wait to see her on her wedding day.

What's With the Titles?

So I read Zen and the Art of Vampires, which starts out rather poorly. Some of the lines were so ridiculous that I bust out laughing at them. But then, something happened mid-way through the book and I finished it wanting to know what was going to happen next. The second book, Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang is the follow up to the Zen book and now I'm hooked on Katie MacAlister's books! She combines vampires, called Dark Ones, and the Brotherhood, which is an organization that kills Dark Ones in Iceland where our heroine, Pia Thomason, is vacationing. Pia ends up becoming a Zorya, which is someone who helps ghosts pass over. In the book, Sex and the Single Vampire, the heroine Allegra Telford is a Summoner. Allegra and her Dark One, Christian are also in the Crouching book. Her heroines are flawed, in their own eyes in some way. Pia is too curvy for her own comfort and Allegra's eyes are two different colors and walks with a limp. The men they fall in love with are devastatingly handsome. The two women meet their men and are their Beloveds, which means they return their soul to them and they can communicate telepathically and the sex is really, really good. Fun, light, summer reads.

Night World

L.J. Smith's young adult novels Night World 1 2 & 3, are over 600 pages in length, but each include three seperate stories. The books all center around Night World and our world. Humans don't realize there are vampires, werewolves and witches amongst them who compromise the Night World. Each of the central characters in the books seem to make an appearance in some way in the subsequent books, nicely tying story lines together. An overarching theme through each of the stories is the soulmate principle, that everyone has that special person and when they meet they are able to communicate soul to soul. True love, action and good versus evil abound in each story.

A great young adult novel. Would recommend it from sixth grade and up as it is pretty clean.