For my grandparents wedding anniversary/vow renewal, I put these invitation suites together to go out to family and friends. We chose blue, silver and white as the color scheme mainly because my grandparents had blue carnations at their wedding. It worked well because we were going with a beach theme for the weekend since we…
Celebrating 40 years on Catalina: Decorations
In case you missed it, yesterday’s blog post explained why we were on Catalina and what we did while we were there. As I said in yesterday’s post, my aunt, mom and I spent the past year planning, scheming and DECORATING. We went with a light blue/silver/white color scheme based around the idea that my…
Celebrating 40 years on Catalina
Every year my grandparents switch off planning their wedding anniversary. This year was going to be their 40th anniversary and it was my grandpa’s turn to plan out what they were going to do. He pulled me, my aunt, and my mom aside and laid out his plan. He wanted to renew their vows on…
Hiking Adventures: Bluff trail
WHO: Travis + Elise WHAT: Montana de Oro Bluff Trail WHERE: Los Osos, California WHEN: March, 2014 WHY: We were on vacation in San Luis Obispo, and wanted to check out a local hike Hands down the most gorgeous hike we have been on. Pictures definitely don’t do this place justice. We drove about 20…
San Luis Obispo via Train car
As a Christmas gift, Travs brother gifted us two tickets on Amtrack Coast Starlight train up to San Luis Obispo. Our spring breaks landed on the same week, so we decided it would be a nice vacation for us to take between our school quarters. We took the train from Union station, in LA, to…
Hiking Adventures: Griffith Park
WHO: Travis + Elise WHAT: Griffith Observatory West Trail Loop WHERE: Los Angeles, California WHEN: March, 2014 WHY: It was Sunday and we wanted to go on a hike but try a different route from our usuals. We were in Pasadena, so we decided to check out the Griffith Park trails that lead up to…
When in Venice, California
Abbott Kinney Road in Venice Beach, California is quickly becoming one of my favorite spots. I mean it has my favorite paper store, urbanic, one of my favorite coffee spots, Intelligenista, and some pretty delicious food (insert Gjelina here). I had heard about Gjelina through some of my favorite foodies, and took advantage of the…
Hiking Adventures: Pine Knot
WHO: Travis + Elise WHAT: Pine Knot Trail WHERE: Big Bear, California WHEN: Feburary, 2014 WHY: It was Valentine’s day and we wanted to take advantage of the perfect weather outside. We also wanted to knock out some miles for our mile challenge. This is one of the longer hikes we have done together. The…
Queen Bean Caffe
I’m a sucker for a good coffee shop-especially local ones. Since moving back from San Diego I’ve been on the hunt for a good local spot. Queen Bean Caffe kept coming up in my instagram feed via some of my friends-so one Monday Trav and I decided to take a drive and check it out….
HIKING ADVENTURES: Castle Rock
WHO: Travis + Elise WHAT: Castle Rock Trail WHERE: Big Bear, California WHEN: January, 2014 WHY: Travis + I celebrated 5 years of being together and we decided we wanted to go on a hike. Along with our mile challenge, we decided we wanted to get out more and explore this year. Big Bear is…
HIKING ADVENTURES: Rock Creek
WHO: Alex, Travis + Elise WHAT: Hiking to the top of the mountain/hill next to our campground. Mind you there was no designated trail. WHERE: Rock Creek, CA (about 30 miles N of Mammoth) WHEN: June, 2012 WHY: The day before, all 4 boys (including the two pictured), decided they wanted to conquer the mountain. That…