A Relevant Christmas

I love Christmas!!! What I love most about Christmas is all the holiday parties that take place in the month of December and how there is always an excuse for people to gather!!! I love how someone will always volunteer to dress up as Santa for the kids, or that person who will offer there home or those who cook and bake for the masses, oh and how can I forget the decorations. Who doesn't love Christmas decorations? It just seems to me that people are most cheerful around Christmas time; except for the occasional scrooge and we know who they are. Heck they know who they are!!! Speaking of parties I have to say that this year's Relevant Christmas Party (my church) has been the best one I have been to yet!!! The Collazo family did a great job dressing up as Mr. and Mrs. Clause along with their Elves, they are such a great family!!! May God bless them always!!! Our leaders did a phenomenal job with the food, games, decorations, portraits, and the list goes. I can't forget how thankful we are to IBB for allowing us to use there facilities. They bless us so we in turn can bless others!!!

Here are just a few pictures of our gathering!

The Collazo Family

They were so gracious to take pictures with everyone, in order to have a wonderful holiday picture to take home!

Our engagement pictures and a year later...

A year ago today Fernando and I took our engagement pictures. I can not believe a year has flown by so quickly, and that this time last year I was busy with so many things that I never blogged about anything wedding related. How can I not blog about how much we loved our engagement pictures and our photographer. In a little more than a month from now I will make one year of being a married woman, my first year of marriage has gone by so quickly! Anyhow, we took our pictures with Carmen from Studio by Carmen...can I just say what a great couple her and her husband make. I have to say they were by far my favorite vendor to work with throughout the whole wedding planning process. I love her work and highly recommend her to everyone!

Here are a few of my favorite pics:

Note: Photo Credits to Studio by Carmen /http://www.studiobycarmen.com/

Bank of America Tower

In light of Breast Cancer Awareness Month I thought I would post a few pictures my husband took with "my" new camera of the Bank of America Tower in Downtown. I say "my" camera because he is obsessed with it as I am, to the point that I am considering buying him one so I can have mine back. lol. He always says so innocently it is not "your" camera but "our" camera because we are married. Apparently my husband does not believe my parents gave it to me but to us, I guess this is what happens when you get married. I love my husband and I love how we are both learning how to use "our" new toy even though I give him a great deal of grief about it. Anyhow back to the the point on the Bank of America Tower, this building has to be one of my favorite buildings in downtown simply because of it's night time illuminations. It is a 47 story building, and is one of the top ten tallest buildings in the state of Florida. On most nights it is lit white, but changes in colors for the Christmas season, St. Patricks Day, Independence day etc. Another building I absolutely love for its architectural structure is the Conrad, but we will save that one for another blog post.

These pictures were taken from my sister-in-laws apartment,

on October 5th which also happens to be her birthday!

So Happy Birthday ERICKA!!

Note: Photo Credit to Fernando Herrera