Our Grand Adventures

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Cancun!! Part 2

Wedding Preparation!!

Practicing our surprise
Photo credits - Carol Anne

Having fun with it, too! :)
Photo credits - Carol Anne

My dear sweet friend! The beautiful bride!

Three of us bridesmaids - Left to right: Anna, Me, and Savannah
Photo credits - Marcee Alten

Ironing the dresses
Photo credits - Marcee Alten

Kimberly was our hair dresser. She did an amazing job.
Photo credits - Marcee Alten

Auntie Heidi and I - I love her!!
Photo credits - Marcee Alten

Marcela!!!!! :)

Steaming the veil

Auntie Heidi and Kris Davis are ready. :)

Savannah and I
Photo credits - Marcee Alten

Marcela's mom, Bety and I. She is SO sweet!
Photo credits - Marcee Alten

The Bride and I
Photo credits - Marcee Alten

Portraits!

Left to right - Anna, Me, Marcela, Kris, Heidi, and Savannah Photo credits - Carol Anne

Photo credits - Carol Anne

Love you, Marcela!
Photo credits - Carol Anne

The Wedding!

Love this sign. :)

The Venue
Photo credits Carol Anne

The Bridegroom
Photo credits Carol Anne

The groomsmen
Photo credits Carol Anne

The bridesmaids
Photo credits Carol Anne

"Here comes the Bride!!"
Photo credits Carol Anne

"And these two shall become one flesh’; so
then they are no longer two, but one flesh." Mark 10:8
Photo credits - Carol Anne

Oh, the joy!! They are SO happy!
Photo credits - Carol Anne

Mr. & Mrs. Austin Kachele
Photo credits - Carol Anne

More Portraits!

Photo credits - Carol Anne

Such a beautiful sunset for a beautiful wedding!
Photo credits - Carol Anne

"What therefore God has joined together,
let not man put asunder." Mark 10:9
Photo credits - Carol Anne

The Reception!

The speech!
Photo credits - Carol Anne

Do you remember that surprise I mentioned earlier? Yes, finally
you can know. Kris had the idea for the five of us to put together a
song about the different things we remember when we think
about Marcela and sing it instead of a giving a speech. We sang
it to the tune of "Maria" from The Sound of Music. It was really fun!
Photo credits - Carol Anne

Congratulations, Marcela and Austin! I'm so, so happy for y'all, and it was such a privileged to be part of y'alls special day! God bless you!

So, that, Friends, was my trip to Cancun!! I thoroughly enjoyed every minute there, catching up with my friends, getting to see one of them walk the isle, and getting to stay at the beach. The photos where used by permission of the Bride and credits go to the Grooms sister, Carol Anne and Marcee Alten. I hope you have enjoyed this glimpse of my trip.

~Esther Schatte

Signing off

"Great and marvelous are Your works,
Lord God Almighty!
Just and true are Your ways,
O King of the saints!" Revelation 15:3

Saturday, December 31, 2016

A Trip to the "Wilderness"

I met my friend Sarah this past semester in Microbiology and we hit it off from the first day of class. After several dates to Taco Bueno (which we both love!), DQ and Denny's, we discovered that we are practically the same person (Haha!!). Not quite, but we share the same values and opinions from our relationships with God and career paths down to the beanie hats we love! :-) Anyway, on one of our outings we discovered we both love being outside so we planned a 2 day vacation for when the semester ended. We decided Broken Bow Oklahoma was the perfect place for us to experience the wilderness, so we booked a hotel and 2 weeks later found us driving up to Beaver's Bend State Park.

It was really foggy all of Wednesday.

(This picture was taken Thursday.)

We're here!!!

The scenery was so beautiful!

We did most of our hiking on Wednesday which ended up working out really well because it was quite a bit cooler on Thursday.

It was a long way down...

So, I jumped down onto a rock not realizing how very slippery it was and ended up flat on my face. I think my shoulders took the hit because they were the only part of me which was sore, but we couldn't stop laughing about it!! :-)

We couldn't find the trail we really wanted to hike on so we were relieved to come on this sign.

It was beautiful even with the fog.

The spillway

We hiked down a VERY steep hill to find this gorgeous waterfall.

Looking down at the river

Selfie time!! :-)

We started out on, what we thought, was a 3 mile hike over semi difficult terrain, but it turned out to be a 7 mile hike over very steep terrain. We ended up hiking 13+ miles that day. We were exhausted by the end and were so glad to head for the hotel to shower and get cleaned up. We then headed to a little restaurant called Steven's Gap.

Waiting for our dinner to come...

It was the most delicious catfish ever, especially as we were SO hungry!! After we finished, we headed back to the hotel where we slept for the next 12 hours!! :D

The next morning we went to a little coffee shop called Adam and Eve's. It was the cutest and coziest coffee shop I have even been to!

After our morning cup of coffee, we drove back by the dam and spillway so we could see them in the sunshine. The view was stunningly beautiful!

There was a gift shop connected to the coffee shop and we found these nice water bottles and super cute beanies.

It was even more beautiful in the sunshine than in the fog!! I was amazed!

"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork." Psalm 19:10

We found The Blue Rooster and decided to try it out. The food was delish and the inside was really rustic.

This little guy (about 6 years old) was the son of the boss and was helping out with serving. He took excellent care of us and kept coming over to ask if we needed drink refills.

We had an absolutely wonderful time and are looking forward to the next time! This verse is so true of our friendship.

"A sweet friendship refreshes the soul. ~Proverbs 27:9

God is faithful!
Lizzy