Saturday, December 31, 2011

A Year In Review.

2011 has been a great year. One of the best in fact. We got to start off the year as newly weds. We had only been married 3 days before the new year. Marriage has made this year very fun and quite the adventure.
 
 In March we went to Maui and had a blast seeing the island, hanging at the beach and driving around in a 2011 Chevy Camaro. The only disappointment was that there is no where in Maui to let a car like that lose!
Right after Hawaii we took off to Vegas for the basketball tournament.
Immediately after getting home from Vegas, Tyler was off to Denver to cheer on the Cougs some more. You may have seen him on tv a time or two.
Our summer was filled with rodeos, family reunions, boating, 7 peaks, baseball games and a quick trip to Arizona. We also celebrated Tyler's 25th birthday!
 In September we went on a trip with my family to St. George and went to Tuacahn and saw the little mermaid.
Fall was full of lots and lots of football!
 For Halloween we had a blast in our old school cheer outfits.
We had an excellent Thanksgiving. I think its safe for me to speak for both of us based on Tyler's face?




Natalie turned 18 in December. We celebrated at overnight at the Little America and went to see the lights. (T had to miss out, thank you bronchitis.)
We had a great Christmas and even had two Christmas trees. Tyler had the flu for Christmas but we managed to make it enjoyable anyway. Sadly I didn't get a picture of us together. I've been awful at pics this year. 2012 I'm going to improve, I promise!
We celebrated our first anniversary on the 29th and it was a great way to end the year! 
And again, I stink I didn't get a picture of us to document the day. I told Tyler so many times that I needed to before the day was over and even told him to help me remember and it came and went and I forgot. More pictures...definitely going on the new years resolutions.

Happy New Year Everyone!
Hope 2012 is everything you hope it to be!


Thursday, December 29, 2011

Sooo spoiled.


What's better than flowers on an anniversary?
Shoes of course.
A girl can never have too many shoes!
I got to wear these beauties to work today.
Tyler gave them to me for our anniversary and I love them.
I'm pretty impressed.
I hadn't shown him these beforehand, but I guess he knows me well.


Note to self: Next year when Tyler tells you, you aren't allowed to buy him a gift, don't listen to him.

Anniversary Post

I can hardly believe it, but its already been a year since our wedding day! In some ways, it feels like it has been way more than a year, but at other times I feel like it was last week! Everyone told us that the first year would require a lot of adjustments, but I really don't feel like it has and Tyler will agree. Maybe there is something wrong with us, but it has been nothing like what were told it would be like. When people have asked us how we like married life or other questions about being married, somehow its always come out that we found it to be an easy adjustment and that once we were married it just felt like we'd been married the whole 2 1/2 years we'd been dating too. Everything just sort of started to blend right together and its almost weird to think that we weren't husband and wife back then. Last year, not long after the wedding I started to write down everything I could about the day and I just couldn't do it. I couldn't get it quite right and write it the way I wanted to so I never posted it, but I realized even if it isn't perfect, I want to remember it the best that I can and so writing it or posting it somewhere is better than not at all. Sooo here it is...

December 29, 2010

I never imagined I would get married in the winter let alone in December, but now I can't imagine having it any other way, because the day was simply just like a fairy tale and completely perfect.

I woke up VERY early that morning. It was about 3:45am and sadly I woke up to a large amount of snow. I had prayed and prayed there wouldn't be any. I am not a  winter person and hoped it would be sunny and as warm as it possibly could be given that it was December, so I won't lie, seeing the snow got me a little down and a little worried, because I had refused to buy any kind of shawl or jacket to wear over my dress. I had figured I hadn't picked out my dress simply to cover it up and that yes (mom), I would rather freeze and show it off than be warm...so I was hoping I wasn't completely crazy and wouldn't totally freeze.

Joelle showed up just after 4am to do my hair and make up...around 6am I was all ready to go. Tyler arrived shortly after to head up to the temple. Once we were in the car, it finally set in. I was getting MARRIED. It was really happening. I was very excited! Once we had passed the point of the point of the Mountain the snow had eased up and we were able to increase our speed. As we approached Salt Lake, I began to get very very nervous. This was the only point I ever had cold feet. I began talking...without breathing inbetween...just nonstop talking. Tyler asked me if I was oay, and it wasn't until then that I realized how much I had been talking. I confessed that I was nervous and continued to talk nonstop until we arrived. Thankfully, there was no snow on the ground as we walked across the street from the parking garage to the temple, but it was very windy so I was very worried for my hair.
Once we got into the temple all my nerves were gone and instead I felt very very calm (this word basically describes the way I felt the rest of the day) and I knew everything was okay. We were very lucky to be the only 9 o'clock wedding and I got the brides room all to myself. After I had changed and was all ready Tyler and I were able to sit in the Celestial Room for almost an hour before the ceremony. I loved every minute of it. Our ceremony was beautiful and simply felt surreal. We were the first people to come out of the temple that day and it was amazing to have the Temple grounds all to ourselves, being that that is sooo rare at the Salt Lake Temple I felt especially lucky. Not only that, but the winds had pretty well calmed and we could not have asked for better weather.

It was so amazing having so many family and friends there to greet us and celebrate with us. It was almost overwhelming and afterwards I realized how many were there that I failed to take pictures with. I of course had wanted to and planned on it, but in the moment my mind was somewhere else I guess and I just flat out spaced it. To be honest, I probably would have forgotten more if it hadn't been for my photographers suggestions (Sorry if you were one of those I left out! I really was so glad to have you there and am so sad that I didn't take pictures with you!)


The entire time we took pictures on the temple grounds I just felt funny. I felt like it was all not real and I wasn't really taking my wedding pictures and it couldn't possibly be my wedding day. Everything just felt like a blur.


Thankfully, The only thing that ever got cold was my nose and my hands...the rest of me was just fine and was very grateful that the weather was as good as it was.

We really lucked out and got some amazing pictures and as we were finishing it began to get very very windy. Had we been married even an hour later we would not have the great pictures that we do, so I remember feeling so lucky and so grateful for them!

We left the temple and headed down to Orem for our luncheon and the roads were so yucky and snowy, so again I felt soo lucky that the temple had gone so well.

Our luncheon was great and gave us a chance to talk a little more to family and friends. We had just enough time to go home to change quick before we had to be off again and head over to the Bungalow. Once on our way, I remember thinking that the snow had kind of cleared up and the roads weren't nearly as bad. I even mentioned it to Tyler and said that it would sure make it nicer for people who would be coming to the reception. Little did I know it was the calm before the storm.

We literally pulled up to the Bungalow and I called my mom to see where she was at with my dress. In the 2 minutes I was on the phone, over and inch of snow had come down. And from there on out, it hit pretty fast. My mom ended up being late, because she had to turn around and go back home because of how fast the snow was coming down, so they traded in her van for my dad's truck. Thankfully they made it there okay. Because of how bad the snow was that evening a lot of people weren't able to make it to our reception. We missed them, but the night was still pretty perfect. We were able to get a lot of cool snowy pictures so I feel like I got a little of everything, a morning of great weather and clear skies and a night of freshly fallen snow!

The day was amazing and pefect and if I could, I would definitely love to go back and relive it! And since I can't I'm so glad I have my pictures and video to help me remember!!! Special thanks to my photographer Stephanie Sunderland and videographer Brandon Orton. They made the day even better for me!

To watch our wedding video you can  CLICK HERE

Today, December 29, 2011 I am very grateful for Tyler! Our first year has been awesome and I owe that to him! I couldn't ask for a better husband! I can't wait for all the many more great years to come!

Here are some more wedding pics just for kicks and giggles...

Happy Anniversary to my awesome Hubby!

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Perfect Way to Start Christmas.

WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO START OFF CHRISTMAS EVE?

Checking your grades and finding out you have a 4.0 GPA!!! Wooot. Woot.

My computer applications class felt like the death of me and I was to the point that I could care less what my grade was, I just wanted to pass. Sooo happy that I did more than just pass. Guess those countless hours were worth it!

It is going to be a very merry Christmas. Yay!

Monday, December 19, 2011

Happiness Is...

Finals being over! (I did a "freedom dance" after I turned in my last project)
A New Car!
A New Washing Machine! (for free of course, the benefit of renting!)
Overnight party in Salt Lake to Celebrate Nattie's bday!
Sherlock Holmes with Chelsea and Jake!
Seeing Jaynee for the first time in 4 months! Yay for coming home for the holidays!
Looking forward to more family parties, Christmas shopping, and Christmas!

Happy Holidays Everyone!!!

Monday, December 12, 2011

Crayon Art.

Look what Tyler made!
He spent some time on Pinterest Saturday checking out all yummy food and some good arts & crafts too. He'd seen this before and decided it was time to make one for himself.
Oh and did I mention he sluffed church to do it?
Go Tyler!
Ok, just kidding.
Well, he really did sluff church to do it, but I was in full support, don't worry!
He was sick so it was good that he stayed home and got some rest (and did crafts of course too!)
But really, it was necessary since we are in Nursery and there is already plenty of germs there, we didn't need to bring in his too! Especially since he's rather popular among certain Nursery children and they climb all over him!
And in his defense, all he did on Sunday was pick up his heat gun and melted away, because Saturday he did all the hard work!


Thank you pinterest for keeping this sicky entertained while I was gone!
Much appreciated.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Progress.

This is what progress looks like.
Pretty depressing huh?
2 days and many hours later and this sad thing is considered progress.
Did I mention I have 3 more projects to do AFTER this one?
Deadline: December 16th
He meant December of next year right???

Monday, December 5, 2011

Monday Night.

This is a taste of what my Monday night looked like.
I'm definitely an amateur and this project is FAR from finished {sigh}
But I must say, I'm very proud of my Angel Moroni. 
7 hours and a few redo's later I'm pretty pleased with my progress.
If only you could have seen how bad it looked Sunday.
Now bring on Tuesday...I know what I'll be doing.

Christmas Time.

Whoever decided that Christmas time and finals should go together was an awful person. I mean, I guess its better that they end just before Christmas than right after, but seriously, I would like to enjoy my holiday and all the shopping and activities that come with it without having to worry about finals! It causes way too much stress. I'll admit, I've been a little negative about this time of year lately so I'm trying to change my attitude a bit and focus on all the great things about it...such as Christmas cards, I love them! Love getting them and excited to send them! I also LOVE buying for other people. Its definitely the highlight of Christmas, nothing better than seeing someone else happy about what they got! What do you love about Christmas time?