We Own this Town!!!

On a recent trip to Wichita, KS we started to notice a trend. On our first weekend together as a post honeymoon married couple we had a great time taking pictures off all things Eaton. Here are just a few fun shots we took while out and about.

Venus and Jupiter as seen from my backyard

In case you missed it last night you could see Jupiter and Venus last night just to the right of the moon so I took a picture. Here you go... And no that is not dust specs on my camera lens. Those are actual planets. Enjoy and thank you for joining me in my geek moment.

The Moment Mark Has Been Waiting For......

For those of you who don't know Mark is Guns N' Roses number one fan. And Saturday night or should I say early Sunday morning his dreams came true. After a long 15 year wait GNR finally released their new CD Chinese Democracy and Mark has died and gone to Heaven.

Over the last few years Mark has had me on Guns N' Roses watch. When there have been concerts we have bought ticket (only to be disappointed when Axl cancels the show), everytime there was talk about a CD release date (it would fall throught) but Mark never waivered and contunied to be their SUPERFAN. Always the supporter, Mark has constantly kept the classics alive, singing them at karoke and remaining a true fan no matter the dissappointment.

Well thats all changed and the CD is out. Mark being so excited was one of the many who preordered around the world. And although many of the reviews have been harsh, Mark and I give Chinese Democracy two thumbs up. It was definately not love at first listen for me however the more I listen to is (and yes I do have a copy of it in my car right now) the more I love it. We look forward to the tour and plan on going to the first concert. So Axl if you are reading this please don't cancel.

Pictures have arrived!

Here is a slide show our awesome photographer, Edward Charles Photography, put together on for us on his blog to showcase his talents. Thanks to Josh Hernandez, World Champion Race Car Driver, Mark and I now have the slide show available on our blog for your viewing pleasure. Ed really did a great job putting this together and we are so excited to share it with you. It starts out with a few pictures from our engagement photo session in College Station, where else, followed by some pictures from the wedding. If the pictures look like they are cut off please maximize your browser to take up your whole screen and it should fix the problem. To watch the video click the play button below. It may take a minute or two for the video to load.

Thank you again to everyone who came to the wedding and thank you to everyone who helped along the way.

We hope you enjoy.




For those who have not had enough of Mark and Rachel 2008 and would still like to see more I can email you a link to hundreds of other pictures from our wedding.

Fabulous Honeymoon!

Mark and I spent our honeymoon at the Excellence Playa Mujures Resort and Spa just north of Cancun. Outside of the fact that Mark ended up with a major ear infection that had him down almost 5 out of 8 days and I was bit by a million mosquitoes we had an amazing time. The resort was awesome and lived up to all of our expectations and then some. It was just a wonderful relaxing trip full of lots of laughs, plenty of adult beverages, crazy taxi drivers and tons of medicine from the “farmacia” with the directions and explanations all in Spanish.

We wanted to post just a few pictures so you could see what we were up to while we were down in Mexico. We both had our first experiences with driving in a foreign country, even it if was just a golf cart. It was a little scary. Ok I lied, it was really scary those drivers are crazy even on an island that is only 6 miles long. We also took a trip out to Chichen Itza to see the ruins and Mark took me down to the hotel zone to show me the party scene in Cancun. Boy was Mark in for a surprise there; let’s just say Senior Frogs was not what he remembered.

New Website!

Now that the wedding is over and I seem to have lots of free time on my hands Mark and I thought it would be fun to set up a blog so we could keep everyone up to date with what is going on in our world.

And special thanks to Ed Holtgraver, our photographer. He did an amazing job at the wedding and on our engagement photo shoot in College Station. Thanks for the great pictures!

To see more of Ed's work check out his blog newhorizonweddings.blogspot.com.