The baby has arrived! Miss Mollie!

Travis and Andrena had their little girl yesterday! We are so glad that she waited to come until we returned from our honeymoon. I got to see her today and I'm absolutely in love. She is so small and precious! She has completely melted my heart and I adore her! Love, her Auntie Bree

Newlyweds on our Honeymoon!

Whoever invented the honeymoon is a complete genius! Funny that the planning of the very ceremony of bringing two together as one is the one thing that draws couples apart for months and months (In our case 14 months!) Without our honeymoon I don't know how we could have jumped back into everyday life. I think we would have failed miserably. 

       Our honeymoon was incredible! It provided the space to rest, relax, have fun, experience adventure, and spend time together for the first time as husband and wife. We had so much fun hanging out together, suntanning, reading, snorkeling, 4-wheeling, biking, swimming with sharks, and laughing. I'm so thankful that we took 10 days away to regroup and learn how to be a new family. In the Bible the honeymoon lasted for a whole year- wouldn't that be sweet! 

Bora Bora Overwater Bungalow

(This was not our view... our view went straight out to the ocean without another bungalow blocking an inch of sight!)


If you ever go to Bora Bora or Tahiti you must stay in an Overwater Bungalow. They are incredibly expensive at about a grand a night but it is worth it! At least once in your lifetime. When we arrived in Bora Bora we had to boat to our hotel, from there we walked on very lengthy docks to get out to our Overwater Bungalow. It was breathtaking! We were in awe! The view that surrounded us was the most beautiful teal, clear water ever! We had a glass bottom coffee table that opened up to feed the fish! 

Bora Bora and the French Polynesian delicacies!

Lobster Ravioli (one of the only familiar items on the menu) and Greg with his traditional steak (of some sort) with a bleu cheese dressing (the only option available at EVERY restaurant! haha)

View from lunch one day. You can canoe across to that little tiny island and eat lunch out there too. 
Last dinner of our honeymoon at a very ritzy beautiful restaurant! I want my house/outdoor living space (in my dream home) to look like this!

View from lunch one day- breathtaking

The food was quite interesting on our honeymoon. 

MORNING 1

-No coffee in the room. What?! No big deal, we're not that hungry but we'll go to the buffet and grab  light breakfast and some coffee.

-Breakfast Buffet $67 PER PERSON! We had NO idea! We got the bill and thought, "Wow Oh my gosh! We just had the most expensive wedding possible and there's no way we can afford that all week-can't imagine what dinner will be!! We're going to lose a LOT of weight in the next 5 days. " (Because the remaining 5 days in Bora Bora all our food was paid for already.)

Lunch 1- No more of that $130 for breakfast. So we rented bikes for $12 from the concierge and headed down to the local market to grab some food. (Which mind you almost nothing was refrigerated or familiar! Yikes! So we bought: a tiny thing of Skippy Peanut Butter (all they had was chocolate flavored Nutella- yack!) I brought our own Starbucks coffee so we grabbed some filters, white bread (yack again) and that's it.  No coffee pot in the room so you probably thinking what do we need the filters for? Well we heated water and held the filter over a cup and drank our fresh brewed coffee ghetto style! It took teamwork to hold the filter and pour H20 at the same time : ) That was our breakfast (and sometimes lunch for the next 5 days : ) 

Dinner-Awesome!

 You have to take a boat to go to a restaurant. To eat dinner we had to make a reservation at the concierge and then the chef- yes the chef! Would come pick us up as well as a few other couples and that is all who was at the restaurant that evening. The chef and maybe one other waitress would take our drink and food order, cook the meal, we would all eat and then wait for the other couples to finish. Then we would all leave together after a few hours. 

Our Wedding September 2, 2007

Here is our Wedding Album on a digital show if you would like to see it! 

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We had the most amazing wedding ever! One could not have asked for a more beautiful location, gorgeous flowers, amazing people, and just an absolutely perfect day!! Our photographer Ashley Blake from A. Blake Photography was phenomenal, our caterer was precise, my brother made beautiful wrought iron vases that looked like our candelabras! Susie and Sarah did the flowers (with the help of Lacy) my dad coordinated the day of transportation of all the decor and so much more! Greg's parents put on our rehearsal dinner. We had Chico Strings quartet grace us with beautiful music.... so much more... More pictures to come!