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eric & meghan’s beautiful erie wedding

Rachel — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:41:49 +0000

These two were just awesome. My sister and I shot this wedding together and had a blast. The wedding was at the gorgeous St. Peter’s Cathedral on 10th STreet, and the reception was at the Bayfront Sheraton. Larese floral did the flowers and DJ Barnes rocked the reception as he always does! We had a ton of time in between the ceremony & reception so we got to go Presque Isle and take pictures there. It was so fun and so relaxed. We managed to use all our time – it’s amazing how many things there are to take pictures of You can go here and see a few more or comment on facebook!

The moment the groom walked into the church

They had such gorgeous stationary! The second pictures is Meghan arriving!

Love when the couple catches me taking their picture

I just love dtheir flowers.

About to put the ring on!

We stopped at a few places along Presque Isle. This boat came sailing by at the perfect time in the background!

Hi gorgeous couple!!! Thanks for making my job easy…

The awesome members of the bridal party

I don’t usually like to shoot in full sun, but I’ve been trying to get over it because the colors and vibrancy are just awesome in certain situations!

Love this one.

Up on the Skyway at the Bayfront Sheraton Hotel.

Cupcakes are really popular these days. There’s were amazing! I think by Betty’s Cookie Korrell.

So they LOVE their dog. Every table had a picture/centerpiece of the doggie!

This little tych was stealing attention from the couple all day

Adored their wedding rings!!! Bling!!

I believe at this point she was saying that she missed her dog. Love it!

Some of my favorite dancing pictures. They were so romantic together!

This was Meghan’s mothers necklace

Love these closing shots.

best cake moment

Rachel — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:26:32 +0000

From the wedding of Jennifer & Clint. They are so funny. This is probably my best cake/smashing/face moment I’ve been able to capture and I thought it would be great as an animated gif. So here ya are! The best part is after this the DJ immediately sent them out for the bridal party dance so he barely had time to get the cake out of his nose & eyes. I’ve never seen a bride be so mischevious.

Also a serious one :

strawberry cake

Rachel — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:44:32 +0000

Whenever I go grocery shopping I get a boxed cake. This time I had Brian pick it out, and he chose strawberry cake with strawberry frosting… he’s so funny. I made him dinner and finally got a chance to tidy up our downstairs which has looked like a cat and video game storm hit it. You can take whatever you want from that. It’s so fun sometimes to just serve Brian and prepare for a few hours for him to come home and say hey I made you dinner and a cake!

Anyway I took some pics of course because it was just SO flipping cute in all it’s pink-ness

happy hump-wednesday.

Mercyhurst/design peeps – is anyone coming home for Mercyhurst Homecoming and the Design art walk through on Friday night?

chocolate friday

Rachel — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:47:05 +0000

today is a very chocolate-filled day at the office. i am enjoying it. nancy brought back chocolate rum cake from the bahamas, and we have pulakos. i’m a bad, bad girl.

yay friday! small group tonight with 12 – count them, 12 people.

bye friends!

*danielle, praying for you today*

what i eat when i actually have time to cook…

Rachel — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:22:03 +0000

One of the advantages to being off on Mondays (which isn’t always possible, but I try my hardest) is getting able to actually use and cook and chop and eat all the healthy food I buy at the beginning of the month. Today I wanted to make myself a healthy stir fry. It’s super simple, but unbelievably tasty. You can use whatever amount of the ingredients you want, or add or take away anything.

The basic ingredients to rachel’s summer stir-fry are:

Assorted bell peppers

Fresh pineapple chunks (this is important)

Zucchini/squash

A few slices of onion

A few piece of asparagus

Chopped fresh chicken, cooked before the veggies are added

Extra Virgin Olive Oil (about a tablespoon or so)

Rosemary/Thyme to taste

Start the chicken first obviously, and then after it’s about halfway cooked, you can add the rest. The best part? It’s a starch free meal – the only carbs come from the veggies/pineapple. It filled me up. Sort of. I have to admit, I still had a twix bar afterwards. I’m terrible about my sweets.

In other news, this weekend was good. Fast as usual. Sunday service was good – and Brian and I got some really nice quality time together. MetaCafe was fun, you need to come! Also, I got a ton of cleaning, purging and organizing and figuring out things that have just been put off due to busyness. Tax stuff, business account stuff, stacks and stacks of junk mail, coupon cutting, client file disorganization….I don’t know how I let things get out so of hand. I mean, I feel that I am an organized person, but things build up so fast. I still have a small pile on my desk I need to deal with. But I can’t get to it quite yet.

Today was one of those days where you do things you have to do – go to the dentist, run to walmart to pick up supplies you’re low on and end up spending way more than you want, heading to petsmart to get food for the cats – unable to resist walking to the adoption section and having to leave in tears because you want to take all these beautiful, loving pets home and give them a home…. etc. Don’t you all have days like that?

I’m going to Bella Designs (that website will be redone within the month, I promise) now to take pictures of dresses for a celebrity/ebay auction that will be happening soon, then home for a bit, then to Chris’s with Danielle to make a major dent in the new Grace website reprogram/redesign. I’m actually excited about it!

This post got rambly. Sorry. Where is life going? It flies and flies and flies and flies.

the awesome sunday

Rachel — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:35:44 +0000

This Sunday was such a fun time with family and friends. It was a great one-of-the-last-days-of-the-summer (SERIOUSLY???) It was my mom’s birthday and my sister and I were baking fools – she with her famous cupcakes and me with a betty crocker boxed from scratch marble cake. We had a great time together. My mom is awesome – I hope it was a good day for her! She’s ________ years old!

Then my friend Faith and I decided it was finally time to hit up the Ravine Flyer II – Waldameer’s pride and joy, new this year. Neither of us had gotten a chance to go, and couldn’t find anyone else who was interested. When she called I was so psyched. We only waited in line about 30 minutes, and it was very worth it. I felt like I was going to puke. Even though I’ve discovered I really like roller coasters a ton after our Kings Dominion adventure on vacation, I still get really sick-nervous-anticipate-y-excited while waiting. It was definitely a great coaster. Smooth for a wooden one, FAST, crazy, huge drop, awesome view – although I wish you could see it for longer, the second I saw it was spectacular and scary at the same time!

Then I came home and Danielle was over working with Brian on some stuff, and we ended up getting take-out from the Outback! It was very yummy and convenient. Then watched the movie 21. I really really liked it. It was intense and the guy they chose for the main character was an amazing casting choice, so likeable, believable.

Anyway – thanks Faith, friends and fam for that fun day!

turbo slim results

Rachel — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:52:34 +0000

I have the specifics written down for myself, but overall I will definitely say it was a successful little crash diet to get myself moving again. If I can stay healthy, motivated and conservative with my meals I hope to keep up the trend.

Overall weight loss: 6 lbs

Overall inches lost: 7 inches

(Now before you flip, that means all around, so some of the waist, belly, chest, thighs, etc) I did NOT lose 7 inches around only my waist
Thanks for following along if you did, or if you didn’t. Should resume regular less frequent posting and photos next week

turbo slim day 10

Rachel — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:46:34 +0000

I never posted this because I’ve been so insanely busy, and truthfully I didn’t/couldn’t follow this last day hardly at all because of time and money. We have no fresh foods left from the diet, (no eggs, no fruit, no turkey, no veggies, no nothin!) I’d already spent upwards of $70 on the specific items, and at the end of the month it just couldn’t be done anymore. Money/frugality had to come first at this point. I did ok except I had an oatmeal cream pie. ughghg.

Day 10 Meals

Breakfast: Eggwhite, broccoli and feta omelet

Snack: Celery and Peanut Butter

Lunch: Turkey Burger with… um. no bun, and veggies

Snack: Plain yogurt with kiwi and flaxseeds

Dinner: Broiled chicken with onion, swiss and tomato sauce on whole wheat pita (chicken parm pita?)

Results to come next post.

turbo slim day 9

Rachel — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:28:26 +0000

This just made my day. Any time I see people rescuing animals or other people it breaks and mends my heart all at once. Look at those poor kitties – they just don’t know what to do

Today I am tired, a little embarrassed (for reasons I wont disclose here), feeling kind of sickish, and overwhelmed by the workload – hardly any of which I can pass on to anyone else. It would be ok but everyone is on the same schedule and want things NOW rather than a week from now or two weeks.

I’ll tell you what, I’m really starting to look forward to Myrtle Beach.

Fitness wise, I’m going to be fighting temptation all day as my boss brought in a huge and beautiful strawberry pie, one of my big weaknesses. But then the payoff happened as I was drinking my protein smoothie when a coworker said “you need to tell me how you are losing weight, you are looking very thin today.” So, keeping that in mind, I’m going to keep doing this for today and tomorrow, then gradually start bringing some of my favorite foods I’ve been denying back into my diet again!

Today’s Meals:

Breakfast: Cottage Cheese and Raspberries (doing yesterday’s tomato omelet)

Snack: Mango Yogurt Protein Smoothie (had a banana/peanut butter instead)

Lunch: Chicken Curry -Broiled chicken breast with long-grain brown rice, veggies (cauliflower, garlic, tomato paste, curry)

Ok seriously no one has time to cook like that on their lunch break. gah!!

Snack: Celery with Peanut Butter

Dinner: Hawaiian Chicken Kebabs — this is sort of what I made with turkey last week… too bad no pineapple left and our grocery budget is TOTALLY GONE for June. NO more food allowed to be bought so I’ll have to make do with what I need. (chicken, onion, yellow pepper, pineapple, cherry tomatoes, vinegar, olive oil)

turbo slim day 8

Rachel — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:27:08 +0000

Today was day 8, and I didn’t have a chance to post, so I’ll just give it in past tense. I did ok with my eating, although I fudged what I ate for dinner – I just didn’t want any more meat, and I had to stop at my parents to take care of the cats, and all I could think about was the grape nuts and fresh strawberries they had – so that’s what I ate. Not too bad, very healthy, just not what was recommended. I also had the morning snack for my afternoon snack so had no protein smoothy which was sort of a bummer.

Today’s Meals

Breakfast: Egg White and Tomato Omelet (although I actually had multigrain waffle with cottage cheese and fruit)

Snack: 20 almonds (had later with some dried cranberries)

Lunch: Salmon and arugula/romaine salad with light italian (Instead Meghan and I went to Marketplace grill and I had an amazing salad with grilled chicken, light italian, and some parmasan cheese & croutons – I know – i’m bad)

Snack: Strawberry protein smoothie

Dinner: Baked or Broiled Chicken Breast with, frozen peas and carrots (ooooor grape nuts with fresh strawberries and a bit of sugar)

Workout: Cardio Party (I did Cardio Party Remix – 30 min + some weights)

So… how am I? I am really stressed at the agency – things are kind of crazy for me. It’s a good problem, but we keep getting new projects!!! I barely have time to quote them all and get it together, plus work on existing projects that are dragging on.

Physically, I was down another pound and a half this morning which was great. Today, the lower back is a bit achy, but I’m planning on asking for a massage from the hubby. There was so much to do when I got home, so that was a bit overwhelming, and it’s done now (dishes, laundry, cat feedings, litter, etc., blech).