Honeymoon Pictures

Here are honeymoon pictures. For a brief description of our honeymoon adventure in Florida, click here. The pictures are abundant and candid and spectacular. Not.


This is a picture of Christian and I making breakfast. He is cooking a tomato with tongs. I am cooking Apple Jacks, still in the box, with a spatula. We are having all kinds of excellent fun.


Here's Christian and I having an awesome time in our rented Chrysler Sebring. Christian is laughing his head off, probably in disbelief of how much excellent fun there is to be had.


And lastly, Christian and I are in a boat. We are about to go out on the lake and have excellent fun. We are having excellent, non-posed fun in the boat.

Plautz Family Photos

I have a bad habit of posting about things that happened in the past. Wedding pictures, hair cut report, a birthday wish list on my birthday -- all of those things should have been posted before they were. Today's post is about something that happened last weekend. The next post I have in mind contains honeymoon pictures, which are also overdue. I really need to do better.

But more to the point, Christian and I spent a good portion of last Saturday working on his mom's Mother's Day present, which was a digital picture frame with pictures of her family. All of the kids contributed, Christian and I bought it, and Catherine helped us decide which pictures to put on it. My favorite part was that Catherine had most of their family pictures at her apartment, and I got to look through hundreds of pictures of Christian as a little kid. Like me, Christian was a really cute kid, and then a really awkward-looking teenager, and then grew up and turned out really really incredibly good-looking. What can I say? We're a super hot couple.

We used digital pictures that Catherine and Elizabeth had, and then digital pictures that Christian and I had, which were all engagement and wedding pictures. This meant that we had a lot of pictures of Catherine, a lot of pictures of Christian and me, a lot of pictures of Amelia, and hardly any of anyone else. Realizing this wasn't ideal, we scanned in more family pictures. I enjoyed looking at their (and now my) family grow up, and I thought others might enjoy seeing them also, so I posted them here. I think they're in chronological order, but I could be wrong. That happens sometimes.

More Pictures

Christian and I dropped off the wedding and bridal pictures film (six rolls total) over a week ago, and we finally got them back yesterday. Christian gave them to me as a month-a-versary present. First month-a-versaries are a big deal. They were fun to look at; we agreed that it's easier to look nice in black and white pictures than it is in color pictures. I spent part of this morning uploading them and weeding out the ones where I'm making a weird face.

This picture is our all-time favorite. We already have it framed on our bookshelf. We like it because we both look nice and Christian looks like he's saying, "Yes! We finally got married!"

Finally: Wedding Pictures

Finally, I know. Here are wedding pictures. Just like I promised. And now everyone needs to make good on what they promised in return for wedding pictures -- the offer to do my Institute make-up work not so much, because I already did it and turned it in and graduated on Sunday. Here are some of my favorite wedding pictures:

Quick Thoughts

My Quick Thoughts For Today:

1. I was going to post a few wedding pictures as my birthday present to everyone on Monday, but I keep forgetting to get the CDs out of Christian's car, so I didn't. I've decided to hold the pictures hostage instead. The question now is, how badly do you want to see my wedding pictures? And what would you do in order to see them? You can vote in the poll (right) or offer your own suggestions in the comments section.
2. In the previous poll, three people voted that they were in the depths of misery while I wasn't posting, two people voted that it only took a little bit of sunshine out of their day, and one person (me) voted that they didn't even notice I was gone. While I'm flattered that three people missed me so much, I'm also a little worried about my ability to affect their mood on a given day, and about their mental health in general. My suggestion to those people is to see a psychiatrist.
3. I'm looking for dinner ideas. Post suggestions in the comments section.
4. After I got married, I submitted a name change request to Facebook. My name is no longer Mary Cunningham (except legally, because there have been a few problems with getting a copy of the marriage certificate) -- it's Mary Plautz. Facebook has taken its time with granting my request. Therefore, I am currently boycotting Facebook. Does anyone else who changed their name remember how long it took? Let me know in the comments section.
5. There is no good TV on during the day.