More TOMS shoes

J&S's TOMS story was just featured on shoedish.com.

Screen shot.

... a fun ride

Brothers At Sea - Pure Volume

Lando's band, Brother's At Sea was just featured on the home page of purevolume.com. Exciting!

Here are some screen shots.

Here they are one of "Today's Top Artists"

Here, in the bottom right hand corner, you can see they were "recently featured"... I forgot to take the screen shot when they were one of the BIG 2 pictures :(

Here are some screen shots of their My Space (which Jade designed).

Way to go brothers!

TOMS Shoes - A TOMS Love Story

I sent an email to TOMS shoes telling them about how Jade & Sara met and how TOMS played a contributing role. They were tickled enough by the story that they featured them on their blog and in their blast marketing email. And it looks like it might have generated other interest as well (stay tuned).

The email blast

The TOMS blog website

The blog post

tell us your TOMS love story!

February 3rd, 2010 by admin

A few weeks ago, an amazing story fell in to our inbox about a couple who met because of TOMS. Not only did the two TOMS fans fall passionately in love with one another, they are now engaged to be married and plan for their entire bridal party will wear TOMS! See the Mother of the Groom’s story below…

When we were in Virginia on vacation this past summer (from our home in CA) our delightful, 22 year old bearded, tattooed web designer son and our family were eating burgers at little retro diner in Williamsburg.

We were approached by a (brave!) girl “My friend wanted me to give you her number” is what she told our son. Yes, this cute and stylish 20 year old thought our son was cute… but what clinched it was that he was wearing TOMS! Because he was fashionable AND socially conscious she could NOT let this opportunity pass by!

He called her. They dated cross-country (interrupted briefly by his 6 week trip to help orphans in Kenya). They are now planning their Virginia wedding and they want everyone in the wedding party (bride, groom, attendants, flower girls – parents???) to wear TOMS!

Stacie
(mother of the groom)

The happy couple rowing in Central Park, “Sara came to visit and a TOMS love story had begun..”

Although this is a beautiful and incredible story, we’re convinced there’s more like them… So tell us- did wearing TOMS land you an awesome relationship? Do your friends label you and your honey the “TOMS couple”? Would you dump your boyfriend if he stopped wearing TOMS? Post a comment below and tell us your TOMS love story!

See Jordan & Sara’s engagement photos after the jump!

The post generated a lot of comments. Here is one I didn't think would hurt their feelings - haha! (It says "They are clearly models and this is a publicity stunt, but if it sells you more shoes then go for it " ) SEE BELOW.

Engagement Photos

Alanna took us out and did engagement & family photos. We haven't gotten the family photos back yet, but we DID get the engagement photos back.
They are awesome!
Here is a sneak peek. (A few of my faves.)

Miss M & BFF Videos

Miss M and her friends are really into making these FANTASTIC videos these days... they are so talented! (It takes hours and hors to film, write backward, edit, etc. but they have a great time doing it!... Wish this had been around when I was a teen!)

[YOU MIGHT WANT TO "MUTE" THE MUSIC PLAYER OVER TO THE RIGHT SIDE.]

Enjoy!

Miss M & Chachael


Miss M and Mary Kate


Miss M & Tess


Fun video from church to have students bring cans!


Miss & Chach again.

Engaged!!!!!!!!!!

Jade did not join us in Mammoth this year because he had other plans... BIG plans!

He wanted to surprise Sara with a New Year's Eve proposal (he had convinced her he was not going to be able to propose yet because he was too broke).

This is how he planned it - we have to hear the details about if it is actually how it happened - The countdown to midnight would happen, then he would kiss her for "Happy New Years" and then he would drop to his knee and ask her to marry him. (And if all went as planned, she would say YES!)

Apparently she DID indeed say YES and was so happy & excited, she dropped to HER knees too (adorable!).

There is supposed to be video too... if I can ever get my hands on it, I will post it here as well.

So happy!

Awwwwww!

Happy & crying

Congratulation cake

Blowing out the candles as an engaged couple

The ring.

(Blurry, but all we have right now... more coming :)

We all knew for a couple weeks and we were having the hardest time keeping a secret (just like Kristen Wiig as "Sue" in this SNL skit. Watch it and ENJOY thinking of our suffering through it!!! - hahaha!).

Mammoth '09/'10

Christmas & Mom's 40th birthday passed into the history books and we took off for a holiday in Mammoth. Jade did not join us as he had special (secret) plans with Sara for New Year's Eve (more on that in a future post). But we DID have Mom, Dad, Lando, Deevs, & Miss M.

The plan had been to leave at 3AM on the 3oth and get to the mountain in time to board/ski that day, but we decided to sleep in instead and got on the road closer to 10AM.

We drove most of the day and stopped for lunch at the Pizza Factory in Lone Pine. Scott & Mel were in England visiting Becky & Frank & Rachel, so we did not get to stop to say "hi" to them.

Lone Pine Pizza Factory

Dad driving - "look at the snow"

Brothers

At the condo

Getting ready to hit the mountain

Suiting up

Mom & Deevs

Mom & Deevs again - Lando showing us the "super model" camera angle to make us look tall & thin

Waiting for the gondola from the Village to Canyon

Dad & Miss M at lunch

Lando & Mom at lunch (in an attempt to make sure he was not going to make a funny face, I was the one who got caught making a funny face!)

The conditions were pretty darn good and the weather was OK. The storm that was supposed to roll in on New Year's Day passed through as barely a whisper with no measurable snow.

Miss m and Wooly

Family shot

Deevs hurt his back in a fall on a jump attempt. Having also come the week before with Kyle, he was not as dedicated to being on the mountain so we let him go home on Friday with friends & stay with G&G.

Miss M & Mom were both feeling altitude sick and getting colds and were sore... so both of us only went 2 days then stayed in on Saturday (we went to see Avatar). Dad & Lando went together for a half day which started at 12:30. They said it was surprisingly uncrowded (on a Saturday of a holiday weekend) and the weather couldn't have been better. (I was a tiny bit regretful that I didn't go.)

Today is Sunday and I am typing this from the condo. Everyone else is still asleep, but should be waking up shortly when we will hit the road for the 5-6 hours back. (Worth it!!!)