I haven’t yet shared the images that my amazing husband Adrian took of me, but if you’re a FB or Twitter friend, you may have already seen them. If not, check out this amazing photo! It’s my new favorite picture of myself.

I’m so thankful my husband is an incredible photographer in addition to being an amazing husband, dad, and lots more! We’re planning on spending a relaxing evening together for my birthday by going out to one of my favorite restaurants for dinner.

Click here to see more photos of me on Adrian’s photo blog!

June 29 – the day we met
July 1 – our first date
July 4 – our wedding anniversary!

Last night we went out to dinner at a new restaurant, Bru’s Room, and then went to see Eclipse, finally, which was amazing! My parents had Zachary sleep over for the evening so that Adrian and I could enjoy our time together, and it was a great night. To top it off, I was able to catch up on sleep and ended up sleeping about fourteen hours! Yes!!!! :)

We had a wonderful wedding! Everything about our wedding day was magical and we had such a great time on our wedding and honeymoon. I can’t believe it’s been 6 years already. Who knew six years ago that we would have done so many awesome things — started our own businesses, had such an adorable little boy, and there is still so much more that we have planned and I know we’re going to have such a blast doing it. We’ve had a lot of great times together over the past 6 years!

I wrote a post last month for a blog hop about our wedding day, so if you’d like, you can check out out here.

This is one of my favorite photos from our wedding day – the photo of our recessional, after we’d been announced as husband and wife. It was obvious how happy we were by the smiles on our faces!

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Enjoy this adorable photo of Zachary from a shoot that Adrian did with us last week at the edge of the Everglades. You can check out the rest of the images by clicking here. :)

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Zachary is doing so well. He turned 19 months last week – we are truly on the road to 2 now! He said a new word the week before: “duck” – in response to one of his favorite books, Five Little Ducks. He just LOVES his books these days! I’m going to make a list soon of all of his favorite books, because the list has really grown. Just a few short months ago, I thought my baby would never want to sit down for a story, but now he’s the one who asks me to read to him rather than me wishing he’d just stay still for more than two seconds so that I could read more than three words of a book!

He is LOVING summer camp! When I picked him up on Friday, he had a huge smile on his face and didn’t even want to go home, he kept right on playing. I was thrilled! :) He is such an independent, fun little person to be around and I have such a great time doing things with him. We’ve been going out a lot together after camp and days that he’s not in camp, and he enjoys having playdates, playing in the yard, going over to the pool, walking around the neighborhood (if it’s not raining), and going to Barnes & Noble to meet friends and look at books.

Adrian’s been getting back into his photography again lately (which I’m happy about – he is an absolutely amazing artist), and he did two shoots this past week. One with me and Zachary (mostly of Z though) and one of just me, since I’ve really been needing some new headshots lately (my last ones are a good four years old). I’m so thrilled with the images and will be sharing some of them on here this week!!

Summertime has been so much fun. I have always liked summer (as a kid, you couldn’t beat great vacations and being off of school plus my birthday is in July), but as I got older and no longer had to attend school, autumn became my favorite time of year (can you tell by the title of my blog?)… but especially now that I have a little boy, I’ve been just loving the summer. It’s a magical time for a child, even one as young as mine, and there are so many great new experiences for us to share together.

My 28th birthday is in two and a half weeks… and I have some really fun giveaways, reviews, guest bloggers, and general FUN things planned for all of you during the month of July. Make sure you follow my blog if you aren’t already so you can stay tuned. :) And don’t forget to check out the EcoMom giveaway that I posted the other day if you want to win some free organic food for your baby/toddler!

Here’s a little bit of fun to round out your Sunday. The raspberries were on sale at the grocery store the other day so I got two boxes. I was reminded of the movie Amelie (one of our favorites) and Adrian took this with his iPhone. :)

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Adrian and I got married on July 4, 2004 at the gorgeous Heron Bay Marriott in Coral Springs, FL. Much like every other summer day in Florida, it rained. :) That’s supposed to be good luck, though! :)

I had four girls in my wedding party, and Adrian had three guys. Our main colors were shades of purple and silver. My flowers were incredible!!! People still talk about my flowers, and I’ve been married for nearly six years. I absolutely love how my Florist matched the colors of my draping and lighting perfectly with the flowers. There were soooo many flowers! Everything really flowed together and looked so beautiful and elegant. They did a great job and I would not change a thing about how my decor looked. My bouquet was absolutely gorgeous, put together perfectly and the size was exactly what I asked for – not too big or too small. It was just right for my hands.

I loved my wedding dress. I felt like a princess and looked like one too! My dress was not one I would have normally tried on, but the sales girl insisted and it was actually the first dress I tried. I ended up loving it, and after trying out a couple more dresses, I went back to my dress and decided that was the one! Adrian looked amazing in his tuxedo! He picked a longer, more formal jacket which was a fantastic style on him and looked great. The subtle pattern on his vest was a great accent. I had my makeup done professionally by a MAC Makeup artist and it stayed on for two days straight. :) It was flawless and did not smudge a bit even.

My ceremony went by so quickly! It was about half an hour but I felt like it only took five minutes. I don’t remember too much! I do remember thinking about how much I was concentrating on not getting any of the ceremonial wine on my beautiful white dress! Haha! By the time we were done, my feet were hurting pretty badly. My wonderful new husband gave me a little foot massage after everyone left the room, before we took our photos. We were very happy to finally be married!

We had a great reception. Our band, Manhattan Music, sounded INCREDIBLE and played all of my very favorite songs! We had so much fun dancing with our friends. The rum cake with buttercream frosting that we chose as our wedding cake was delicious and the wait staff at the venue made sure I had my favorite drink (at the time, I loved White Russians) available at all times. Since we were married on July 4th, the band even sang the Star Spangled Banner in commemoration of our country’s independence, which will always be a great memory.

The next day we got together with our friends and family at my parents’ house for a brunch, and Adrian and I headed off on our honeymoon — a cruise on the Enchantment of the Seas visiting the Western Caribbean! My dad took this photo of us getting into the limo that drove us to the cruise terminal! We were so excited – it was our first (of many) cruises together. :)

Wedding Photos by John V. Caspanello, Jr.
Floral Design by Flowers by Tony
Music by Manhattan Music
Cake by Ferraro’s (no longer in business)
Venue Location: Heron Bay Marriott

Over the weekend, I decided to throw Adrian a birthday party. It was just a small gathering with family and good friends. Zachary slept through most of it. :) Here are some of the photos that we took:

The yummy cake was half chocolate, half vanilla, with strawberry filling and buttercream frosting. I got the icing in Gators colors since we’re Gator fans.

I love this little montage of each of us with our best friends: me with Amy, and Adrian with Jason.

Happy birthday, Adrian!!  Zachary & I love you very much!!!