ginormous amounts of kaela and doms wedding

Oh boy, this one is a big one. Kaela and Dom got married in Vermont on July 11th. Their wedding is the reason we switched the road trip from May to July... we just couldn't miss their wedding. We have traveled all over the country and all the way to Bonaire for Max's sisters wedding, I wasn't going to miss this one.
Dom and Kaela are super chill people with an awesome relationship. They are very suited for each other and are going to be very happy together. :)
As I have explained in the first post that shows up on my page, Max has a huge family. Just huge. I love it. I love his entire family. I have married into the best family a girl can ask for. They were so welcoming and so loving that I felt right at home with all of them. It can be pretty intimidating meeting the in-laws but not with these guys. Not at all. Every time I am with them, I wonder why the devil we don't spend more time together. Awesome family, that's all I can really say.

I absolutely adore the way Kaela is looking at Dom...

The first kiss...

The happy married couple.
Everyone who came to the wedding minus myself of course as I took this pic.

My hubby and myself :)

Max and Jummy... oh Max, why?

Max with his brothers :)

Jummy,Max, Harmony, Jake, Joy, and Isaac

trying to get a decent shot of them together

Max and Scott... can you tell Scott lives in the Carribean?

Max and Harmony

these two look the most similar I think of all Max's brothers and sisters.

Harmony, Jummy and me

Joy and Isaac... you can really tell these two are siblings

Jake, Laurie, and Isaac.

Holy Moses did it start raining.

Max, Harmony, Faith, Isaac and Jason

Charity and I.

Aaron and Joy.

Faith and Jason

they did the same road trip as us to vermont but stayed in Niagara for a few days and went back home after the wedding.

I shot their wedding last September. here

Faith and I.

Aaron and I.

Isaac, Faith, Noah and Max

Be a tiger.....Rarrrrrrrrr......

Charity and Joy.

Jummy and I... soul sisters!

Jake, Scott, Charity, and Joy

Scott is doing his famous rat face... handsome fellow,huh? I'm not sure what the others are doing... trying to outdo Scott I'm sure.
Kaela and I... when I could finally stop her quick to get a pic with me!

Honestly, this is one of my favorite pics from the night. They had so many speeches at dinner, this family loves each other so very much.

Dom and Kaela.
Time for goofing around.

Max, another Aaron, and Isaac.you know, for hating getting his picture taken... jake sure was around me a lot. everyone knows that means lots of pics.

Sharon and I.

My father in law and I.

hey, this photo turned out really good of us three!

could not get Jake to look at the camera for the life of me. dang kid.
Aaron and Charity.

oh isaac, forever a goofball. :)

Father and son.

Look who's smiling!!

see jummy, i got some of him!

sorry guys, I didn't notice Jake was flicking off the camera until I had it on here and now I'm too lazy to delete it.

Ok, here is where we started having some fun with the sparklers :)

someone had seen an email that had love spelled out and they asked me if i could try and do it...

of course i can! it was so fun playing with this... I can still hear all the drunk ladies laughing their heads off during this.

well dang, we got love down, why not go for the gold!

can you tell what it says?

TRUE LOVE :):)

Congratulations Kaela and Dom!

St. Croix Part 1

I know, I know. These are way behind. Part 2 of my St. Croix pictures I posted a while ago. But here are some photos from my point and shoot from our wedding vacation.

Here is the tiny little 10 seater island hopper that brought us from Puerto Rico to St. Croix. We had a slight delay since there was a storm and I'm sure we would have crashed in this little thing. Max's mom called it a flying Taurus. Haha, she is so funny. We purposely didn't tell her about the tiny planes because we KNEW she would freak out. And freak out she did!

There were so many pretty flower around the hotel... they picked flower right off the bushes for some of the decoration for the wedding.
This is Max's sister Harmony and I. We were exploring the beach with JW, Rach, Lynsie and Isaac I think.
This is the part of the beach we were walking along... not really beach. More coastline? There were lots of sea urchins lurking in the rocks. Max got stung on his hand when he fell over while snorkeling and I got one in my foot when my sandal slid off. Let me tell you, they take forever to get out, and they sting for a long time even after they are out.
Max and I pre sea urchin.
This was our first little cottage... it had all the necessities. Bed, tv, bathroom and a kitchenette. They did upgrade us to a way nicer cottage since we were the wedding couple ;)
This is Max's cousin Tony and his fiancee Tina. We were on our way for a horseback ride in the rainforest! They were so nice and paid for us to come with them!
We were in the taxi here... we had to drive from Christensted to Fredrickson which was on the other side of the island. Our main taxi driver for our whole wedding group was Dallas. He as a great guy.
Max was in front of me since his horse was a "biter".
My purty lady.
This was a section that completely covered in moss. It's hard to tell by the picture how completely covered everything was but it was drowning in the stuff!

Isn't this a classic vacation picture! The whole palm tree, sand, ocean thing going on. Very VERY beautiful I will tell you!
Just Max and I. Our horses weren't cooperating very well.



This was a giant termites nest... Fascinating stuff huh?

Here is a little better look on how the moss covered everything. This is us going to walk under a strangler tree. You can't even see the branches!
We found this plant on our horseback ride that's leaves tasted just like lemons! My friends ended up not liking them but Max and I sure did! Apparently they are really good to put out on your counters if you have a bad case of ants.
My Opa and I relaxing at the pool.
This is my Oma.
My mom, sister and I looking really hot after swimming and sweating in the heat.
Max's sister Angel and I.
This was before I got into my wedding dress. Always the goofball right? This tank top is a special tank top. Rachel wore it before she got married and she passed it on to me. I wore it while I was getting ready and I will pass it down to JW or Lynsie when it is their turn! In essence, we will all wear it before getting married.
Saucy time ;)