wedding season

jason and i had the privilege of taking some engagement pictures of lindsay & brett yesterday. they have set their wedding date for april 17th 2010. we couldnt be happier for them & as we were taking pictures yesterday, i loved how LOVE just radiated from them. how sweet their looks were towards each other… how much brett just ADORES lindsay =) its awesome. we loved hanging out with them.

we are also in orlando for the wedding of some dear friends of mine, alli & trevor. they were younglife leaders in tallahassee for the past 4 years and are getting married TONIGHT in orlando. alli & trevor were a part of our “wedding work crew” and flipped our ceremony to the reception so this afternoon we went over to the WP farmers market to help alli’s aunts set up her reception. it looks adorable and just screams ALLI =) should be fun.

here are some of our favorites of brett & lindsay… and one of jason & i since we are rapid fast “getter ready-ers” and are ready go to to the wedding. we’re hanging out waiting for my beautiful friends to join us so we can head out.

the YL team that plays together, stays together.

this past weekend, our younglife team (midtown) took a little R&R week to mexico beach. we are so blessed by a family in town who allowed us to live in their beach house for the weekend. we LOVED our time together.

this weekend wasnt as much about planning our year as it was enjoying each other. last weekend before jason & i headed out of town for the work week, we had our team over for pulled pork and after they left we were talking about how much it feels like family. having our teammates together just feels so natural. even after a summer apart for most of them, once we were all back in town- it was only natural to be together. i love it. i love the way they all really do love each other and want to be real with each other.

anyhow, this weekend was spent laughing, laying on the beach, flipping in the air in the ocean, eating tacos, worshipping on the beach, and so much more. here are a couple of pictures from our weekend at the beach.

hope you guys all had a great weekend too =)

PS: emily, hayley, jamie & jason… you guys were SO missed. seriously. not the same without you!

momma taught us well.

as you may or may not know, the timbers (the neighborhood that jason & i live in) a little over 1/2 college students. every year around the time that summer ends, leases end for students and they move out or move in, etc, etc. the thing about the timbers tenants is that they seem to throw everything away when they move. my mom is enamored by this time of the year here because the students really do throw everything away. from brand new shelving (still in boxes), to dressers, to couches, to chairs… everything.

so the other day as i was heading out of our neighborhood a woman was putting 2 “porch chairs” in the trash area. i called jason and he went over to check them out and ended up bringing them back to our lovely side porch. after a little bit of scrubbing, the chairs are pretty much as good as new! my husband is a regular old mr. clean! here’s a picture of the chairs. the on the left is pre-clean and the right one is what they look like now.

also on a sidenote/bigger note: jamie graduated at the end of the summer session, so this saturday night jason and i planned a little surprise dinner for james. here she is with the lovely centerpiece at the olive garden =) congratulations jamie!

RUSH laughs

this week has been sorority rush week at FSU and since my office is on campus (next door to all of the sorority houses), jason and i have been there to witness all of the literal “rush” that comes with recruitment. so the other day after noticing how most of the girls were looking sad and were really walking very quickly, head down to get to their next house, jason came up with a brilliant idea. he suggested calling in some YL leaders and providing a little comic relief that might get them to smile on the walk by.

so a handful of our wonderful leaders came in. found ridiculous costumes from the skit closet and during the breaks we went outside to pass out ice pops. the costumed leaders played different games like freeze tag, duck duck goose, and leap frog. we definitely got some laughs!

a friend of ours who is going through rush texted me later yesterday evening and said “the guys were a hit! while we were waiting after rush so many people were talking about the banana man and the cross dresser!”

check out the pictures. yes, that is my husband. the cross dresser. im a lucky lady.

pictures!

we have a flickr site that is currently housing a lot of chavara pictures…

www.flickr.com/caseychavara

we use this site to host a lot of our pictures from life and if you’re ever curious what we’re up to… head on over to flickr =)

currently all wedding pictures, dorety beach vacation, and tallahassee younglife camp are all up with fun shots of our summer.

here is one of my FAVORITE wedding pictures from our awesome photographer… lindsay osborne. check her out here.

no pressure, no problems: a st. lucia honeymoon

we loved our time in st. lucia. here are some pictures… the first few are from our resort. hanging out & relaxing in incredible weather. then we decided against going on a pricey excursion from the resort and instead rented a car through avis & a driver for $20 more (because its an english island and the drivers are CRAZY). michael drove us all around st. lucia, and as a native islander- he was able to show us so many great places that we would have missed otherwise. he also loved to take pictures, so he took many shots of us with things like the banana farms (st. lucia’s biggest money maker) and the pitons (the 2 big mountains).

when we left to go to our honeymoon, our house was a wreck. the pre-wedding business had everything looking like a hurricane had come through. welllll when we returned, jamie (best maid of honor ever) had cleaned our entire house and displayed all of our wedding gifts on the couch. what a fun sight to come home to. thanks again jamie, seriously- what a blessing!

enjoy the pictures from lucia!

the new direction for our blog

hellllo blog world =)

jason and i have decided to continue our wedding blog into a blog to keep people updated on silly happenings about our life as a married couple and life in tallahassee.

later today, we will put up some pictures of our honeymoon in st. lucia.

hope you’re having a great monday!

love,

casey & jason

room group rate extended!

just a quick note to let everyone know that the group rate has been extended to june 14th. so we’ve got 10 days.

also if you’re looking for new wedding information, we are updating the welcome page of our website www.doretychavarawedding.com with up to date information on events, out of town information, etc as the date approaches.

as for now this is probably the last you will hear from us for a while. i leave sunday morning at 6am to go to windy gap (a younglife camp in NC) with 75 high schoolers and leaders from tallahassee for the week.

and jason has left on his bachelor party adventure weekend. he will be staying in orlando this next week before heading up to charlotte next weekend for graham’s wedding. we’re then going to rendezvous in north carolina (after camp for me, after the wedding for him) to spend a couple of days with my grandparents before heading back to tallahassee on the 16th.

pray for our time apart and for all of the things going on. if you’re curious about windy gap (seriously one of the MOST BEAUTIFUL places in the world- check out the website www.windygap.younglife.org)

goooodnight!

-case

golf on july 3rd

hey everyone…  i wanted to remind some of you (or tell you for the first time) about the opportunity to play golf on friday morning (july 3rd).

my dad is organizing this little outing. tee times will begin in the morning (it will get HOT people and you dont want to be out there in the mid morning sun). if you are interested, PLEASE EMAIL joe dorety at… joe@bluewaterdisplay.com. he will let you know more specifically directions towards all of this, but for now- we are just trying to compile a list of people who are interested in playing.

**also, if you’re planning on reserving a room at the hampton inn, in order to ensure that you get the $89 group rate, you need to reserve by sunday. im going to try to get that extended, but just to be safe= sunday.

thanks! one month out. getting exciting!

here’s a sneak shot at some pictures we look earlier this week before it started RAINING cats and dogs.

hotel group rate expires JUNE 7th.

hey everyone- in case you are planning on reserving a room at the hampton inn in tallahassee, please do so before june 7th in order to ensure that you get the group rate of $89 per room.

we are going to try to extend the block group rate, but there is no guarantee that we can do that. so ladies & gentlemen- reserve your rooms if you’re interested!

 

looking forward to seeing you all in just a smidge over a MONTH. wow.