saturday, september 21, 2013 – blake’s bar harbor marina – pasadena, md

#sailingjourney

there’s just no way we could ever use silly little words to describe the love we felt saturday at our bon voyage party, so a picture post is in order.  it was indescribably perfect.  we are lucky in so many ways.  to all of the beautiful people who gave up their saturday to be with us, in the rain, we love you…

(click the first pic for a slide show, or enjoy ’em like this.)

a detail that makes my heart very happy

playin’ with my new fisheye, the night before the big event!

hoisting our MD pride!

the calm before the party!

thanks pinterest, mom, fla, shannon, and even jake!

pepper the boat rat makes her debut, with my tio and beautiful cousins…

flaco or gordo? i’m not quite sure :)

dark and stormies

our friend, christina and her cutie, mateo

jake!

she had lots of visitors :)

jr and his poppa bear!

some of my teacher folks :)

captain aidan

a ruiz sandwich!

the ladies on journey

chatting :)

couldn’t peel him off the boat!

thanks marco!

my bff and her man!

matching perfectly in the cockpit!

turtle doin’ what turtles do :)

mike & mateo

journey pulled up to the dock!

patrice, smoochin’ on her cupcake :)

jake, and our friends jen and matt.

mi tia beatriz y su nieta briana <3

mateo lookin’ for the beer!

my hollywood family <3

cousin eddy and my awesome mommy!

jr, jr, and shane!

more beautiful cousins with our sailing cupcakes.

this lovely lady was in my FIRST kinder class! oh my, time flies!

me and marco :)

step-dad scott manages to find the prettiest ladies!

jake and our friends, jose and bianca

the group. minus the misfits who were chillin’ in the back, too cool for group pics :)

the winners of the 50/50 raffle.

us and tio eddy & tia betty <3

the hardest workin’ bolivian i know!

our great friend betsy. she also has a cool kid and a nice husband :)

“boat chillin'” i think they were calling it!

maternal side of my fam… some of ’em at least!

cousins and coolest teens EVER!

amazing how quickly teens can bond…

someone sweet slipped this card into the card pile :)

me, at 1:30 am after not eating all day. good stuff, quepita!

thanks fla, alesia, briana, gray, aaron, and annique for the pictures!