We're Married!!!

Yay!! Josh and I were sealed in the LA temple on Saturday the 16th and it was a beautiful ceremony. It was really special because his grandpa was able to seal us. The whole day was amazing. Everything was how I had imagined. I want to thank my mom for everything she did. She really put this wedding together and I could have asked for anything more. It was an absolutely beautiful day. Thank you for being patient with me and going along with my crazy ideas. We are so grateful for the wonderful family and friends that we have. They were so generous with their time and means to help us with anything we needed. Thank you!I loved my pink shoes...My sisters were too cute in their pink dresses. They looked fabulous! My new family. Josh's parents and some of his siblings were able to come out to LA to celebrate with us.

Bridal Shower

Yesterday some of the sisters from my home ward threw me a bridal shower! It was really nice and I enjoyed talking with everyone. They are all so generous and I am so grateful for their thought and kindness. We enjoyed a great desserts and great company. Thanks for everyone in supporting me and Josh as we get ready for our wedding. I can't believe it is next week!! I am so excited!

well, I have been home for about a week and a half and I have about another week and half til Josh gets here, so I thought I'd jsut update with things I've done so far...

My family attened Gen and KC's wedding up in the tower at Rice Eccles stadium. It had a beautiful view, good food, an amazing cake, dancing, and the best company-family. Congrats to Gen and KC!!
Maddy had her 9th birthday. It was a day of fun. I was able to take my sisters out to color me mine a cuple days after to ahve a fun day with the girls. They painted a "special plate" for Josh and I, and we painted a surprise spoon rest for my mom- it is what she was asking for...
This week my mom has been running around getting the girls to their summer camps. Maddy is in a soccer camp, and Mckay is in surf camp. I took this same surf camp when I was her age and loved it, so it is a lot of fun to see her out there in the waves enjoying it jsut as I did. This is a picture from her first day where she was able to get on a couple of waves and do well for having it be her first time out.
I hope everyone is enjoying their summer!!

Bear Lake Pictures

well, finally, I have some pictures. I am home now for a couple of weeks before the wedding so I am stealing these pictures from my mom's camera, since I have trouble with technology and can't seem to keep my camera working. Anyways, there are some fun ones from Bear Lake. I loved being out on the boat and spending time with my family. Tubing is really a lot harder than it looks, but it was way fun and I would love to go again soon. I feel like I should have pictures of something else, but I can't think of them now, so here are these...

I love how pretty the water is!

It was fun watching the boys being crazy.

from left to right... Jake, Spencer, Sterling, Conner, Glenn, Josh, Andy

I'm pretty sure this wasn't considered a crazy ride... but the googles were a must for my sisters
This is my mom flipping out of the tube

I'm pretty sure Maddy cried when Andy and I stood up
This is before my arms died of exhaustion and my entire body drowned in water.

Happiness

Today I was told to be happy, and not frustrated or stressed, so I decided to write the things that make me the happiest...

Josh
my family
dancing
swimming
taking walks
taking pictures
Bear Lake
PB M&Ms
jumping and skipping

helping people exercise
talking with my mom
pink
relaxing at the beach
sports
pole vaulting and hurdling
brownies
emails from my sisters

anything that has to do with irish or modern dance
love

laughing

My weekend...

I had a great weekend!! My family came up and we stayed at Bear Lake! On the fourth we went boating/ tubing. It was way fun, but I was also way sore the next day. Of course that didn't stop me from going the next day just as much. Josh was able to come up on the fifth and hang out with my family. We had a lot of fun playing games, being on the boat, and talking with everyone. The lake was absolutely beautiful. Also, my wonderful family threw me a surprise bridal shower!! It was totally unexpected, but way fun. I love my family so much and I am so grateful for the planning they did for me. They are so wonderful! Anyways, I got some good pictures... on my mom's camera... but I don't have them uploaded to my computer, so hopefully I will have those soon. SMILE!!!

not so good a day...

this picture is of Maddy and has nothing to do with post, but it makes me smile, and I like pictures better than stories... so here is a picture, becasue there is a long story to follow...
Well, I had an interesting Saturday...
It started off great. Josh and I went to Kneaders with some friends. Great french toast! I don't really remember what we did after that, but it was good because I was with my best friend. Then he had to leave to go to work early. This meant I had a lot of hours all by myself to fill up with something. I borrowed a book from Josh so I decided to read it by the pool. It got way hot so I moved inside. I have two swimsuits, one I like a lot, but it is discolored from the chlorine pools, and the other is nice, but I don't love it.
So, I decided I had a couple of hours to go shop for a swimsuit--hopefully finding one on sale. I headed to the mall and found a great swimsuit, real cute, and a cute coverup to go over it. I was happy. I hadn't spent that much money, so I was proud of myself. I don't like shopping all that much sometimes because finding clothes is hard, but I was happy with success. It was now like 5:40 and I needed to be at my aunt's house in Orem by 6. I rushed home to get my book so I could read when my cousin was sleeping.
Well, this is when they day went wrong... my engagement ring broke.. is this common? One of the prongs broke. I was driving when I noticed it, I don't remember doing anything or catching it on anything... I was sad, and mad. I have only had the ring for a little under a month and a half. White gold isn't supposed to break like that! It was too late to go to the store to talk to the people there, so I jsut put it in the ring box and ran to my aunt's house. Well, now that I was upset about ring, as I got into my car I noticed that someone had side swiped my car. There were huge white streaks all along the driver's side of my car. What the heck!! How wrong could this past 10 minutes have gone! I was upset even more, so I called my dad. He assured me I wasn't the only one having a bad day... he was all alone this weekend while my family was camping, and he moved 2 queen sized water beds and a king bed around our house and switched rooms. As I was talking to him I missed the turn to my aunt's house and ending up driving about 20 extra blocks.
Watching my cousin was fun. He was calm and real easy to watch and we had fun. So I came home and my roommates and I decided to go out for ice cream at the Malt Shoppe.... They gave me the wrong shake.... a perfect ending to a weird day.
I wouldn't say my day was terrible, but it was weird and not so good. It had it's okay moments, but overall it was just a day of weird emotions....