Bachelorette Dinner

Saturday, July 18th went out to dinner with all my good girlfriends for my bachelorette dinner. I have already been through some crazy bachelorette parties so I decided to have a nice dinner with all my girlfriends. We went to TAPs for dinner. Here are some pictures from last Saturday's festivities, hosted by my sister and maid of honor Kat.

my sisters ariana & kat

my moh kat

airy & I

bridesmaid airy & my moh kat

my friend nikky from hgc who's also my bridesmaid

my matron of honor bff crystela & her sis diana

the jacinto sisters...well now crystela is an adkinson hehe

carissa, my future sis in law mel & airy

carissa, myself, my bridesmaid mel who is also my future sis in law

my other bridesmaid shy who also is one of my good friends since we were 12 yrs old

my fellow nutritionist friends from work: autumn, romie, myself, ilanna, sheila & chrissy

my first shot, patron tequilla

shot #2 a "red headed slut"

hesitating if i should go for it hehe...

and i did...

followed by soda to wash off the taste hehe

now its time to open presents...yay!more sexy stuff...

Thanks to everyone who came and made dinner fun!

I love my sisters and girlfriends!

Link to our engagement photo session

Finally, our engagement photo session gallery is up!

Love our pics, well I love some of mine but Jaime's pictures turned out really good!

Here's a link to our gallery:
http://www.evokephotography.com/galleries/engagement/alvarado

Wedding Invites

So we finally sent out our wedding and couple shower invites over the weekend. I am soo glad that we finished preparing it on Friday, took us hours to get everything together, I am soo thankful for my mom who helped me place the direction cards, Kat who placed the stamps and sealed the envelopes and Ariana who helped my mom for a bit hehe.

I am just now anticipating who will be responding for the RSVPs. Hopefully everyone gets to respond soon whether they're gonna make it or not.

Our next plan to get favor boxes...

Rhinestones galore

Finally got our wedding invitations in the mail this weekend so my sister who also my MOH (maid of honor) worked on putting rhinestones on the invitations, reception cards & rsvp cards.

here are some pictures of us bedazzling...

I will try to get them done by this week so we can send it out soon...

Updated Wedding Webpage

I finally updated our wedding webpages, added some new pictures. Yay!

Here are the links:

http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/MariaChristinaLozada&JaimeAlvaradoJr

http://mariajaime.weddingannouncer.com/

Friday night dinner with good friends

Jaime and I invited our good friends Nicole and her boyfriend Fernando, Kat and John to come over Friday night for dinner. We haven't seen them since last year (Nikky & Fernando), we've all been soo busy it was soo nice to see them again.



Here are some pictures I attempted to take of the food we prepared:

I made some fresh salad greens with red bell peppers, grape tomatoes, shredded carrots, cranberries, Persian cucumbers, crutons, bleu cheese and balsamic vinaigrette...sooo yummy!


The other side dish I made is my twice baked potato...I was soo hungry that I didnt take a pic of what it would look w/the garnishes on it ie sour cream, bacon bits, chives...haha



Jaime the bbq chef that he is made some steaks and grilled them in the bbq...it was soo nice and tender the steaks literally melts in your mouth! (good job babe!) Btw the steaks are pretty huge, I would say a good 7-8 oz size. Its Friday, ok to eat unhealthy and I made the salad to pretty much balance it off...hehe jk...



Kat & John brought some beer and wine, forgot to take pictures and Nicole & Fernando brought more beer and dessert. A lovely and yummy strawberry pie from Marie Calendars.

Here are some pics we took after dinner, we were soo full...

Hopefully we get to have another get together soon...Jaime and I love making dinner and having people come over...

Our first wedding present in the mail...

I came home after a long weekend at Jaimes last Wednesday and guess what I found on top of our dining table ...

Our first wedding gift! We got a free 5" Santoku knife for registering for $500 Calphalon products. I dont even remember if we registered Calphalon stuff at Bed Bath & Beyond or Macys, one of them hehe. If we complete our registry we are eligible to receive more gifts like the Calpahlon Stir fry gift complete with a nonstick stir fry pan and nylon stir fry turner. Sounds awesome huh?

I came back home today and Mom told me we got another present! I dont know what it is but its from Macys...I wanted to open it but mom told me to wait for Jaime hehe...I guess I can wait...I'll just stare at the box and figure out what it is...its pretty light!