My first bridal show

I went to my first bridal show the other day with Page my brother's bride-to-be. The show/expo was the fourth for Page. She said she might be done with the shows, but if asked she would again and why not with all the free stuff given out.

I took some shots of some different thing while there.

Best shot of the expo in my mind, but I'm in LOVE with is kind of style of gown. The pink bow was added, but not part of the dress. I like the jewel part and maybe a little color around the waste, but not draping down the entire dress.

I like the jewel on the flowers and purple is going to be one of the colors. Purple and sliver.

Page and I.

I LOVE caramel apples. These are a good idea as favors for the wedding party and I think this is what I want to give to the people in our wedding. I'll plan to have them on the head table.

The apples are $3.99 each.

They offer many more options than apples too.

http://californiacaramelcompany.com/

This is the bride and groom apples.

The white apple has little bits of glitter sparkles to make the "bride" ones pretty.

I like the drapery on these cakes.

By Shelton wedding cakes design.

http://www.sheltonsweddingcakes.com/

I saw on the website the drapes can be done in color too.

Just thought this was cute and behind this cake was a cupcake set-up.

There was a fashion show for Disney inspired dresses.

I'm totaling falling in LOVE with the one of the right without the large bow going down the front.

http://enchantedbridalshoppe.com/

Can't wait to go to another one.

Just engaged on the Lilly Belle

James "popped the question" while we were in Disneyland last week on the Lilly Belle, with the help of our friend Billy who works for Disneyland.

Lilly Belle has been retired from day to day passenger service and has been made the show train so people can't line up to get into the car. Celebrities and royalty have ridden in the car.

Here is our entire group. I'm in the middle, James is to me left, his mother, Robin behind him and his father, Rich to my right, and my mother, Sandie to my far right.
Photo taken by Billy.

Billy telling us about the different engines to the trains, while we wait for the train with the Lilly Belle car to come in. The car is just the next land (Tomorrowland).

A photography of Walt Disney with his wife Lillian Disney. He named the Lilly Belle after his wife.

Other "Lilly Belle" stats:

Built: 1928
Wheel Configuration: 2-6-0 "Mogul"
Serial Number : 60598
Locomotive Color: Green and red
Coach colour: Green
Driver Diameter: 44 inches (111 cm)
Locomotive and Tender Weight (dry): 61000 pounds (27,669 kg)

Billy giving us info about the Lilly Belle.

After he asked me to marry him.

posing for his mother.

Inside the car is a guest book for any of the special riders to sign. There wasn't much room left, but I found half a page left so everyone in our party to sign. The other thing now is that I forgot to take a photo of the page we signed.

Inside the car.

The door.

The next few shots were taken by Billy.

Twilight convention concert

Friday night during the Twilight convention a concert tool place where Goodnight Juliet and Reggie Ginn preformed.

All the photos of Goodnight Juliet are of the lead singer Niki Leigh.

This is my favorite shot from the concert.

She said she was suffering from a cold, but I couldn't tell. I really like the band and bought the three-song CD they had for sell.

In between songs she would talk to the audience.

Here is Reggie Ginn. She wrote her songs which were inspired by the Twilight series.

It was cute she said let me introduce you do my band and she pointed at her keyboard. She hit a button and drums (and much more) came from the speakers.

Gil Birmingham as Billy Black

Gil Birmingham was the surprise quest at the convention. He spoke on Saturday and Sunday.

This was from Sunday -- I only remember because the first day he didn't have glasses and the second day he did. It was a little bit of a conversation starter in the area where I was sitting.

In the middle of the session Gil's mic stopped working. Hilly from The Hillywood Show went in the back to get him a new mic and took the dead one back with her, while at the same time Jacob and Drew (also from The Hillywood Show) went up on stage to give him their mics. It was too funny because Gil was messing around with the two mics.

Kiowa Gordan as Embry

Kiowa Gordan was the first of the wolf pack to appear on stage at the convention. He was suppose to be joined by Bronson Pelletier (Jared), but due to scheduling conflicts he had to back out at the last minute. It wasn't known to us until the final day of the convention. Since Bronson wasn't there Kiowa had the stage all to himself.

Later in the blog you will see Kiowa on his cell because a person in the crowd asked him to call Bronson so we could talk to him and wish him a happy valentines day.

Right off the bat he came out howling. The crowd cheered him on and I could just wonder what people outside the room thought about while hearing a wolf-like howl coming from the Grand Ballroom of a four-star hotel.

Second howl he did, but he's lighten a little more due to someone else's flash going off at the same time as mine.

Where Chaske and Alex laughed many times Kiowa smiled a lot.

It was awesome every time someone near me asked a question because it was almost like he was looking at me for the photos.

This was too funny. One fan asked him to sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." I guess during the Wolf Pack breakfast he sang it so the ones who didn't go to breakfast (like me -- it would have set me back $99. Now if Robert Pattinson was going to be sitting at my table, while I ate some fruit and muffins I might have charged my card another $100).

Kiowa was like, for real? This is what you want me to do? Sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."

And he did it.

Another odd request. After telling us his workout set-up one fan asked him to do some push-ups.

He got up out of his chair and said I'll do 10, but you'll have to count them.

Yeah the photos isn't that great, but I had to just hold the camera up and hope for the best.

This is where Kiowa called Bronson. He told Bronson what was going on and that he was putting the phone on speaker so everyone could hear him talking.

It was too funny how one of the clear words we heard Bronson say was "shit."

One girl also yelled out "Ask him if he'll be my valentine."

Kiowa asked him and we heard him say, "Yes I'll be your valentine."

We were running out of time so The Hillywood Show said Kiowa could answer one more question. He ran out into the crowd and picked a few people. He even came out near us. Just as Charlie Bewley did. He was only about three seats away from me.

Each side of the row "Kiowa over here, no over here," to take photos. He began to model -- It was so cute.

Here he is modeling his very colorful shirt.

While signing the banners.

Kiowa had to be the most entertaining of the bunch. He jumped off the stage just for fun. Then he did it my way but I was up close and had my long lens on so I missed it.

This was right before he jumped my way, but I also like this shot.