New Port Beach

This past weekend, 9/17/11, we had the opportunity to head out to cooler weather to attend a wedding. We headed for New Port Beach and definitely enjoyed the 70 degree weather. Ahh, refreshing.

Our friends Karen and Ronnie were tying the knot! Finally the last Luto brother has settled down! It was a beautiful wedding. The bride and groom looked so happy and excited. They were married on the yacht Eternity in the New Port Beach harbor. I thought that I would get seasick but we pleasantly surprised that I didn't. The food was great the music fun, the only draw back was that I was stuck on a boat for 5 hours. All I can say was that Matt and I were ready to get off the boat, and in fact were the first people off when it docked. We had fun.

Here are few pictures that I took.

His model pose. hehe

8 Years!

Matt and I celebrated our anniversay a few days early this year because he was going to be out of town on business the day of our anniversary. I can't believe that we have been married for 8 years now! Where has the time gone? It hasn't been an easy 8 years that's for sure. We've been through a lot of ups and downs but I know that we have grown from the experiences.

This year we celebrated by having dinner at Pizzeria Bianco in downtown Phoenix. We tried to do it a couple years back but didn't realize that it was a popular restuarant and the line was like 2 hours long, no thank you! So this year we decided to go earlier. I got off of work early and we headed to downtown and walked right on in. It's not a very large restuarant which is why the line to get in ends up being 2 hours. The food was okay, if you have been to Grimaldi's it is very similar, so we tried it but don't think that we will be going back.



After dinner we headed to the Chandler Mall b/c I had received a gift certificate from Helzberg Diamond for a free pair of pink pearl earrings. Score! Who doesn't love free jewelry?!

{My pretty pearl earrings.}

After I got my free pair of earrings we headed to San Tan Village to try to catch an early showing of Captain America, but before we went to the theater we hit up Pandora. :) I got a new charm for my bracelet that I had gotten for my bday.

{Charm for Anniversary}

This time I got to pick which charm I wanted. I love it! Once we had made our purchase it was on to the movie. We ran into some friends and chatted, then I looked up at the time listing and it said that the 6:20 showing of Captain America was sold out!! What? We were a little bit disappointed so we looked online, using my phone, to see when the next showing around the area would be, b/c the next one at San Tan was like at 8 or something close it. We found a 7:15 showing at Gilbert Stadium and made our over there.



It was a really good movie! We really enjoyed it, and are excited about the new movie featuring the comic book heros that have come out in the last couple of years. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it and stay through the credits b/c there is a teaser of the new movie that will be coming out soon.

Happy Anniversary to us!! 

Flashback: Honeymoon

This was taken about 6 years ago. We were on our honeymoon in Hawaii. Checkout the size that tree!! The cool thing about this particular tree is that the brown things that hang down from the branches grow to the ground and become part of the trunk.

Flashback: Bridal Shower

This picture was taken at my bridal shower ages ago! These are my lovely friend who are all married now. From left to right: Joyce (Udall) Wolfley, Leslie (Layman) Evans, and Amy (Nixon) Adair.