Dinner After the Opening

Soo Jin and the gallery staff at Patrick Painter put together a fabulous dinner after John's opening. We dined on the most delicious Mexican food dinner: Chicken Burritos, Cheese Enchiladas, Rice, Beans, Guacamole, Chips, Salad, and Chocolate Cupcakes for dessert. The tables were decorated in the spirit of John's paintings with brown tableclothes, red circles, and green succulent potted plants. It was a truly special night that we will never forget!


Soo Jin and me

Cassie, John, Claire, Joe

Cassie and Jenn

The beautiful, almost-to-pretty-to-eat, cupcakes that Soo Jin saved just for Claire, Joley and me. They were so delicious and decadant, but also tiny works of art!

Joley and Andy

Marc, John, and Richard

Andy and John hug it out in front of Honey Hunter for the last photo of the night!

Beyond the Horizon - John's Opening!

John's show, "Beyond the Horizon" opened at Patrick Painter Gallery in Santa Monica this past weekend. It was his best show ever and the most beautiful paintings I have ever seen.

The color paletter for our wedding was inspired by this painting, "Flowering Feathers".


John and Cassie in front of Flowering Feathers. Unfortunately my shoulder is doing it's double jointed thing in this picture...it looks so weird!
"Kaleidoscope"






























"Honey Hunter"



































Jenn and one of the Clayton Brothers in front of "Beyond the Horizon"













Love Birds...
















John spots me taking his picture from across the gallery. He sure looked cute that night!


















A beautiful picture of Joley and her bright smile!













Claire and Marc













Andy, Amanda, Michael, and Jillian (Andy and John's cousins)














Andy and Joley

Cassie and Panny in almost matching dresses!

Santa Monica Beach with the Family

John's family met us in Los Angeles over the weekend for his show. The day of his show we all got to spend the morning together at Shutters for breakfast and then out on the beach for a few pictures.


Joe, John, and Andy
Look out Hollywood!












Joley and Cassie outside of Shutters











Despite the gray weather, we still had fun walking on the beach. Here's the Santa Monica Pier...











...and right next door is the Casa Del Mar where we stayed. This is the view from the beach.
I love these pictures that John and I took of each other on the beach. Big Red and Little Red!