Flickr Find

After reading one of my favorite blogs, I found this. I decided to do it just because I have never created a mosaic picture and I have always seen them on sites such as weddingbee.com (since I used to live on that site). This was so much fun to make.

Here's how to play: Type your answer to each of the above questions into Flickr's search. Using only the images that appear on the first page, choose your favorite and copy and paste each of the URL’s into the Mosaic Maker (3 columns, 4 rows). If you participate, leave a comment here with it as well as on coveiter.com. This should be so much fun. I want to see everyone else's personal touches to their mosaic.

1. What is your first name? Alexis

2. What is your favorite food? Candy

3. What high school did you attend? MunfordHigh School

4. What is your favorite color? at the moment green

5. Who is your celebrity crush? Patrick Dempsey

6. Favorite drink? Coca-Cola

7. Dream vacation? The Mediterranean

8. Favorite dessert? Cheesecake

9. What do you want to be when you grow up? successful

10. What do you love most in life? family

11. One word to describe you? friendly

12. Your Flickr name? Rutland

*All photos are from flickr.com

I had so much fun doing this. I hope you all enjoy it as well. Let me know what you think, and again post your outcomes. There was no need to sign-up or register for anything.

Working Hard

This past weekend Lamar and I volunteered for Habitat for Humanity. I have always wanted to do this, and the opportunity arose, and we took it. We decided to volunteer for the 2nd shift which was from 12:30 to 5:00pm. This worked out great for us. We got to sleep in. I know that is completely selfish, but trust me, it was needed.

We arrived at 12:30 and waited for the shuttle to take us to our house. As I said earlier, I have never done this, so I didn't know what to expect. I was overwhelmingly surprised and how coordinated everyone was and how many houses were going up at one time. I would say there were approximately 10 Habitat Houses going up in this one neighborhood all at one time. To me, this was spectacular. Just think of how many families are getting a new home.

We got signed in, then proceeded to the house we had volunteered for, The Cunningham Family. We were asked to help out on the roof. So what did we do, yes you got it folks, we got to shingle a house. Lamar and I are pros, I think we could do our own house :) Somehow, we got lucky and got to use the nailgun while everyone else was doing it the hard way with hammer and nails. I would line the shingles up then Lamar would nail it down 4 times. We did this all afternoon and I was quite amazed at how much we got done.

After we finished, I asked the homeowner (they are there working the entire time with us) if I could take a look at the inside of the house. I took a look on the inside and was quite impressed. These families are so appreciative of everything they get. The comments she made to me about the house were so humbling and appreciative, it made me want to keep coming back to help this family build their new home.

Overall, it was a great experience and we would both love to do it again. I will have to say, our bodies were definitely not used to standing on a slanted roof all day. We were a little sore the next day :)

Hope everyone had a great weekend. Sorry I didn't have pictures to share of our experience.

Pictures

Ok, first I have to apologize. I still haven't finished the honeymoon pictures, but I think you will all be glad to know that our wedding pictures from the photography are finished!!! Woohoo! We are so excited about the pictures and they are wonderful.

You can check them out by going to www.jennyreichmanphotography.com then click on Clients then the passwords are "alexis1" and "alexis2". She couldn't get them all in one file. Check them out and let me know what you think. I hope you all enjoy them as much as we do.

-Alexis

Honeymoon Part II

Well I am back again (finally) and will start posting on the rest of the honeymoon. After arriving at Sandals, Lamar and I got checked into our room. We were staying in a concierge level suite, which was really nice, since it included 24 hour room service as well as a fully stocked bar in the room. Here is a picture of the bed (unmade of course, and it's the only picture we have).

After looking around the room for a little bit, we proceeded to walk outside and tour the resort. What we found: Storm clouds, nice umbrella chairs on the beach, the pools, and the swim-up bar.

Lamar is a very active person and cannot stand to sit on the beach and lounge all day. Needless to say we had something booked everyday but the day we arrived and the day before we left. So our first adventure was ziplining through the rainforest. If you have never done this, it is so much fun. There were 7 different lines ranging from 70 to 840 feet. It took about 30 minutes to an hour to complete all the lines. Here are some pictures as well as a video. (One piece of advice: Do not wear sunglasses while ziplining. There are times when your arms get jumbled and you can knock yourself in the face a little. Just ask Lamar. We had to straighten his glasses out a time or two.)

Before we took off.

Alexis going on her first line.

Lamar coming to the end of his first line.

Our tour guide for this trip was very entertaining, if I remember correctly his name was George. He let us stop at an overlook which was absolutely beautiful, showed us the 4th most poisonous snake on earth, opened a cocoa plant and had each of us eat a bean (which i will tell you, looks extremely disgusting and has a bittersweet taste, and showed us a pineapple plant.

Here is the video of what it looks like ziplining. On this particular line, I didn't make it all the way to the end. Your weight has a lot to do with the speed you will get while on the line, while I got quite a bit of speed for most of them, I always started to slow down by the end of the line, whereas Lamar came speeding into most of the platforms.

Well for me this is a photo-packed post and I am going to have to stop for today. Keep coming back for Part II of our Honeymoon.

Slip 'N Slide

Ok I know this has nothing to do with our honeymoon recap, but this past weekend we went to Hattiesburg to see Lamar's family. Well his uncle was celebrating his 50th birthday so we had a little party then did some drunk slip 'n sliding. Needless to say it was quite amusing. Here is the video. I hope you all can see it. I'll post on the honeymoon later.
I have many more videos, and I can honestly tell you that this was a ton of fun to watch, even though I wasn't drunk (surprise, surprise). But nonetheless, definitely something I would recommend trying. Too bad we don't all have a pond, 2 extremely large tarps, a 4-wheeler, and ski rope.