Conference & Cupcakes

I LOVE General Conference for my church! It's a good time to relax and listen to wise words from church leaders and on top of that it gives us time to make Halloween cupcakes with my husband, sisters and soon to be brother-in-law! We spent yesterday afternoon decorating cupcakes while watching conference and though we aren't professionals we did a pretty good job and had a lot of fun. Here are some pictures of them:

As you can see...we are far from professionals but we had a good time and made some funky cupcakes!  I had so much fun with it!

Conference, as always, had a lot of great words of wisdom and spiritual messages.  I love watching conference.  It's one of my favorite parts of my religion!  To learn more about my religion click HERE.

Honeymoon Tragedy and Bridals!!!

Ok so the honeymoon was fantastic...but it didn't last long. Unfortunately on Monday we came back early from our honeymoon because Sunday I was incredibly ill and by that evening I was throwing up. :( It was so sad. By morning I was just so ready to go home. I think it was just all the stress of the wedding and the heat and being away from home that all hit me at once and I was done for. I was fine until Sunday. Friday we checked into our beautiful hotel room; Saturday we wandered through Mandalay Bay (where we spent a small fortune on the most frivolous items ever: flip flops), the Luxor, Excalibur, and MGM Grand. We had lunch in the Luxor at the Pyramid Cafe and it was delicious!!! We ended up spending most of our money on room service...their menu was SPECTACULAR!!!! I'll have to download the video we took of our amazing room sometime. Unfortunately the fun didn't last. :( We came home and all week we've been moving my stuff into Jonathan's apartment and getting settled in. Today we got cable and internet installed so I am a happy camper!!! I can now check blogs and facebook on a regular basis and hopefully post more!!! YAY!!!! So tragedy on the honeymoon but it all ended up ok. :D Now we have more time to start out together and relax!!!

Other than the honeymoon tragedy we are excitedly awaiting the day where I receive my marriage license in the mail so I can go legally change my name and for our wedding pictures to arrive!!! Since I don't have my wedding pictures to post yet I figure I'll post some of my favorite shots from my bridals!!! ShaiLynn is a good friend I've known since jr. high and she is AMAZING!!! She did the engagements, bridals, and wedding and I can't wait to see how the wedding pictures turned out! Here's a few of my favorite bridals!!!

The Last Four Months

Wow...I really suck at this posting on my blog business!! Hopefully I'll get better at it soon!!! So to update you on the last four months...

In January we had my mom's birthday, in February was Amy's, March was Jonathan's and April is mine.  It's sort of a family tradition to take each other out to dinner where the birthday person chooses then have some sort of dessert (usually cake) with ice cream afterwards. It's always a fun time and it's sort of the highlight of each month to have a birthday to celebrate together!!

In February Jonathan and I took our engagement pictures!!! We went to Gardner Village to shoot them and then headed to a little home decor shop off of 8th West for a few more. Our photographer, ShaiLynn, is the absolute best!! I was freaking out because two days before the shoot I got a big fat cold sore on the corner of my upper lip and it was swollen up so bad!!! ShaiLynn did SUCH a good job...you can't even tell I ever had a cold sore and the pictures turned out beautifully!! Here are a few of my favorites!!

This past four months has been dedicated to working hard to prepare for our wedding next month!!!  We've only got three weeks left and we're so close to having everything done!!  I just had my bridals shoot on Saturday and I'm SO excited to see how they turn out!!!  I'm sure I'll be posting those pictures as soon as I receive them and when that happens Jonathan will be banned from the internet so he doesn't "accidentally" see the dress before the big day!!!  We are so excited and it is going to be such a big day for both of us!!!

As far as everything else goes...we're both just working hard.  Jonathan is the head chef at LDS Hospital and he works really hard at it.  He loves his job which is really nice!  I still work at the bank and working hard at that.  Other than that there's really nothing too exciting happening with us other than planning the wedding.  It'll be nice when the day comes and we can relax and start doing other fun things!!  I promise I'm going to try to post more often after the wedding...our first goal is to get a handle on the bills then the second we have any breathing room we're getting cable and internet!!!  Hopefully it won't take too long!  See ya soon  :D

A Tribute To My Sisters

I just wanted to take a few minutes to write about how much I absolutely adore and love my sisters! They are the best sisters a girl could ask for and I am so thankful to have them in my life and to have their support. I love spending time with them just goofing off and being myself. I love that even though I make LOTS of mistakes or they don't agree with me I know that they still love me. I am so proud to be your sister guys! Love you!

Heather

Jenny

Amy

Jonathan's 24th Birthday!

March 12 was Jonathan's 24th birthday! We both took the day off work and did birthday things all day! We started off with shopping at The Gateway where we got Jonathan some awesome clothes from Hollister and Pacsun. We goofed off for a while and then decided it was time for lunch. I suggested Happy Sumo since he'd never been there and it was AWESOME!!! We goofed around at Happy Sumo for a while and then it was time to go back to his apartment to kill some time before we had my family's traditional birthday party for him...dinner and a movie complete with cake and ice cream! We headed out to my sister's house to meet for dinner. Jonathan picked out Texas Roadhouse for dinner which was delicious and the perfect place to goof off and joke around! Nothing like a good steak and some awesome people to be around for a good time! After dinner we headed back to my sisters' condo to decide the next step in our adventure. We got talking about different movies we liked (which is actually pretty normal) and we decided to go on a Quest to find the movie That Thing You Do! which turned out to be more difficult than we thought yet successful nonetheless! We went back to the condo and turned the movie on while we pigged out on cake and ice cream! Heather wanted to make the cake but she ran out of time so she bought him a chocolate cake with mint frosting and it was superb! When the movie ended it was late and we were all homeward bound. We had a lot of fun and I think it turned out to be a really successful birthday for Jonathan! Here are a few pictures of our day. (I don't know why we didn't take pictures at Texas Roadhouse or at my sisters' condo but here's a few from earlier on)!

Birthday Outfit! Shopping Success!

Sushi @ Happy Sumo!!! Yummmm!!!

Waiting for Our Sushi!

Goofing Off!