Job hunting and Doc visits.

Hey Everyone! I can't believe that Christmas is already here and then it will be a new year! Thats so crazy! Time has just flown by! Since i wrote last, I finished up with school at the U of U dec. 17 and should have my deploma mailed to me in the next little bit. I graduated with a BA in history and haven't 100% decided if i wanna teach with it yet. I signed up the other day with Granite district to try subing to see if i would like being a teacher. Haven't heard from them yet, so we shall see. Also gonna try signing up with canyons district too since thats closer to where i live. I have also been applying for jobs this month since i can work more being done with school. I am unable to work full time as an Ortho assistant for my dad, so i need a second job. I really HATE job hunting, but i know its necessary. Hopefully i find something that pays decent since Nick and I have a house to worry about. Also, yesterday i went for an MRI to try and figure out what is causeing the horrible migraines i get a few times a week. I know its better if they find nothing, but i sorta hope something small is there that will be the cause of my probs and an easy fix. If not then its a continuing line of elimination to figure out what the problem is and taking preventative meds to try and help me have less a week. I hate that i have to take something everyday and hope its not for the rest of my life. The MRI went well and was pretty easy, the only clitch being when they tried to do the IV in my right arm, my vein immediately collapsed (which is a nice sore bruise now) and so they had to try the left. That worked, but it left both arms nice and sore yesterday. Man do i hate IVs, haha... should get the results in a few days and so i will try to post an update. Thats really all for now. Sorry about no pics, i got them on facebook and then got to lazy to do it again. Haha.... Until next time, Hope everyone has a great Christmas!! :D

The first Month. :)

Hey everyone! Nick and I have been married for one month today and its been great! Our honeymoon was a cruise to the Western Caribbean and it was amazing! We stopped in the Grand Caymans, Cozumel, and Belize. We sadly had to miss our last port due to rough waters from a hurricane. In the Grand Caymans we went snorkeling and swam with sting grays. It was so cool! we got to hold one and get pictures with it! In Belize we visited Mayan ruins and we got to climb to the top of one. It was amazing and so cool to see something so ancient.In Cozumel we just walked around and looked in shops. It was fun just hanging out on the ship as well and having all you can eat ice cream 24/7. Chocolate-strawberry swirl was my favorite. :) Now that we are home, we are living in Draper in his parents basement for a year while we rent out our own house. It has been good so far, and though it has taken a bit of adjusting to, to think of it now as home and my old house as my parents house, everything else has been going really well. Haha having to get up and extra 20 min for the drive is a bit hard, but hasnt been to bad. I am excited we already get to have a Christmas as a married couple so soon. I will try to upload pics sometime next week of the wedding and honeymoon. I can't this week because i am studying for a final. So ya, married life is going well so far and i will blog again with pics soon hopefully. :)

Ready to be Married!

Hey everyone! Getting in one last post before the wedding! lol. So i got the sign in books done and they got them sent to me in like 2 days even though it was suppose to take longer. It was awesome! We ordered two because my mom wanted one for herself. haha..... Also, got the pictures we ordered for the reception picked up and have begun wrapping candy bars in cute custom wrappers to use as the favor people can take when they leave the reception. Has been a family affair, with everyone helping, which has been great! I also got all the dance songs picked yesterday as well as got pretty much all packed for my honeymoon. Have a few more boxes and stuff to take to Nicks as well, which im doing tomorrow. It is really great that everything is coming together so wonderfully! It will be so great to be finally married and return to normal life. Haha.... So excited for my wedding day and so glad the day is almost here! :D Will try to blog again after the honeymoon with awesome pics!

Another check on my To-Do list!

Hey everyone! Haha wedding plans have been so crazy now that its so close, so quite a bit of time has passed yet again since my last post. Ok so since i last wrote, i have been able to tick a bunch more stuff off my to-do list. I compiled a list of everyone we were inviting, and then picked up all the invites. I have gotten them all addressed and sent, which is so great to have done! I also went with Nick on Oct. 19 ( the day my bff got home from her mission in Chile!) and we got our marriage license. I also finally got my endowment session scheduled and found a date for my ward bridal shower. : ) 
Around the 2rd week in Oct. i had my bridal picture session, which went great! There are so many amazing pics to choose from to show at the reception! Haha not sure how i can narrow it down! (Though i am actually working on doing just that this week and need to have the list to the photographer by this weekend.) Oh i also finished getting all the pics of me and Nick for the montage as well as selecting the music that i want to go with it, as well as getting it delivered to Pete (my photographer). I have ordered all my flowers as well (which are going to look so amazing, and got the menu for the reception all ordered as well.
Also, i got all the bridesmaid dresses altered, including Sadie's, though she didn't get home til the 19. The lady did an amazing job and was so fast, which is great because then i didn't worry about getting them in time. Haha the only thing i'm really worried about now, is if i took to long in finally ordering the photo sign in book and if it can be done and shipped in just 2 weeks...Hopefully it can or there is someway to rush order it. Either way, i definitely need to get that done asap! I also still need to decide on all the music i want for the half hour of dancing. Not to worried about that though cause it only takes like 5 min to make a wedding play-list and load it on an ipod. So thats what ive accomplished in oct. I will try if i can to update again before the wedding to let you all know how everything came together! : D

More wedding stuff accomplished!

 Ok so since i last posted, a few more big things have been done. First, we finally got the little flower girl dresses picked and ordered and everything. I have two flower girls; my friend Jessica's little girl Phoebe, who is almost 2 and then my soon-to-be little niece Kylie, who is 7. We all met (me, my mom, Kylie, her mom Stacey, Jessica, and Phoebe) at David's Bridal at noon on a Saturday to have the girls try on the dresses i had seen when at Davids another time. They are ivory to match my dress, silk on the top half with a silk slip as the bottom layer, with about 3 or 4 layers of gauzy material on top of that. It makes them very poofy and remind be of ballet tutus, but not quite THAT poofy. I think they are super aborable! They are also going to have black sashes around their waists that end in a big bow on the back, as well as be wearing black shoes. Kylie will also get to wear a tiara and Phoebe will have cute black flowery clips in her hair, because she is to young for a tiara. I am so excited to see the girls in everything on my wedding day! They will be so stinking cute! : D I am really sorry, but i totally spaced on taking pics as they tried them on. That will have to wait til i pick them up.
 I have also finally begun to get my count of how many people i think we are going to be inviting and getting address from everyone. Haha i know its a teeny bit late in the game since they are suppose to be sent out next week since you send invites out about a month before the wedding. I have no idea where all my time suddenly went! lol. My mom and i also finally got the invitation ordered today as well. haha... Lucky in the digital age, they can get them all printed and ready in like 4-6 days, so we should be fine. Definitley cutting it close, i know, but we will make it! I am so excited to get the invitations, because i love the design we picked and the pictures we chose, and can't wait to see how it all comes together!
 I have also had a few showers as well, both of which were so great! I got some amazing gifts that will definitely come in handy in Nick and I's new life together. I also have finally found a date that works for my ward's bridal shower and am finally going this thurs with Nick to pick out what wedding ring he would like. I am super excited for that! : ) And, i finally made an appointment with Heritage Gardens to come finalize my menu, as well as getting my Bridesmaid dresses in last week. I am super lucky because 2 won't even need any alteration, which is really great! Haha so ya, that is all the wedding stuff that has been going on since i last wrote! I will blog again once i get more things ticked off my To-Do list! :)

Engagement pics done!! :)

In my post last week, i talked not only about my cake, but also that i had engagement pictures coming up. We got them done over the weekend and we had a blast! We ended up not being able to do the pictures on Thurs because of the weather, so we had to reschedule them. He couldn't do Fri and we couldn't do Sat, so we ended up doing them on Sun, Sept. 12. We kept them at the Jordan International Peace Gardens, which is were we planned on doing them Thurs, and met at 4 o'clock. It was the perfect day for pictures! It was in the 80's, sunny, and not windy at all. Our photographer Pete was hilarious! He kept joking around and being silly to make us laugh and was very laid back and fun and super easy to talk to and get along with. He had tons of great ideas but also asked for our input and if we had any poses we would like to try. We didn't really have any ideas of our own and were fine going along with the great ideas that he had.  It was so fun and made me so excited to get to start designing the invitations! I can't wait until Pete has the pictures finished and gives them to us! I am so excited to see how they all look! :D

The Official Cake!!

Hello everyone! So as i said in my last blog, i had a meeting with the Heritage Gardens cake lady last Monday, Sept. 6. I went with my mom and we met with her at Heritage Gardens at 10 am.  We were shown into her office and told she would be right with us. While we waited, we were given some books to look through with tons of different cake designs. I was certain i already knew what i wanted, but decided to look through them anyway, just for fun. In the 2nd book i found a vintage styled cake with draped lace on it, made from fondant. I immediately fell in love with it and felt that it fit my dress perfectly. When Cindy came in, she first went over flavors. I kept with the flavors i had been thinking of, which was: Red velvet for the top tier, Key lime for the second tier, and Snickerdoodle for the bottom tier. I am also sticking with the square twisted look that i had liked from the start, (and previously posted a picture of.)  When she asked what design, I decided i wanted to go with the vintage lace design instead of the design i had thought i wanted. I don't plan on using the flowers that were shown in the design pic, because they don't match my colors and weren't a huge hit with me anyways. Not sure yet what i'll put on instead, but i have a few ideas. :)