wedding stuff

I guess planning a wedding is not all that I imagined it would be.
I have a vision. I really do. But it is hard to convey it to other people.
I want it to be more of a party, summer BBQ style, than a wedding
(since attention and stuff is not really my thing)
But I still want it to be me. Well, me and my sweetheart.
So I have some DIY ideas and some decoration ideas and things.
We have been working hard! And we are really excited for the BIG day.

So far we have discovered that we really need help with some woodwork stuff.

And sewing stuff :) 

And photography-site scouting.

And we sometimes have to take little breaks so that we can get in shape and not go crazy at the same time!

But it always comes back to this every night. I am really hoping it comes together in the end.

watch out world!!!!!!!!

GUESS WHO IS DRIVING?!?!?!?

Canyonlands

We are all officially finished with our undergraduate education at Brigham Young University.
Here is how we celebrated.

Meanwhile in the testing center. . . .

So everyone started taking finals and I was like
"I hate only having one paper that I already turned in a week ago!"
So I took off, left all my stressed loved ones behind,
And spent the weekend with my granny & grumps instead.
It was the best finals week I have ever had.

I left Thursday and arrived around 2.
I ate at a place that was recommended to me: Teriyaki Grill.
IT IS THE GREATEST!! I ATE THERE EVERYDAY!
I got the teriyaki chicken salad every time. The dressing!! I die!!

Then I went to visit my granny at work (her mission)
and locked my keys in the car so............that was an adventure

We ended up hitting a few stores and then went to see The Longest Ride.
Which I loved (minus the nudity which I didn't actually see because I don't watch sex scenes)
It was so beautiful! The art and the scenery. I loved the old couples relationship.
I loved the houses. I love the outfits. I loved the characters.
I even loved the bull riding.
Yes, I did read the book but I actually liked the movie better.

Friday we did a little shopping, a little eating, a little sun-soaking.
Granny and I went to breakfast at Breakfast At Tiffany's at Green Valley.

 

I wore my pineapple dress that I love so much. I had to get a snow cone.
AND THEY WERE OPEN!!

Then we found our way to the antique and consignment stores which I LOVE.
I bought a dresser. Oops. But I am so excited about it.

And some old art and a few vintage handkerchiefs.
We went for a long walk. All the cacti are blooming. They are beautiful.

I love this house so much! But Granny was thinking it was a little overgrown. 

We took grumps to teriyaki grill and also got hot fudge sundaes from Culver's.

Granny and I watched Fred Astaire movies all night.

Saturday I went to here Susan Easton Black speak with her husband at the tabernacle.
It was a beautiful sermon about the choices made by members of the original quorum of the 12
Granny and I grabbed lunch afterwards at Twenty-Five on Main.
I ate a cookie dough stuffed cupcake. It was amazing.
We went succulent/cactus hunting.

Then we picked up Grumps and drove to Kayenta to look at the art
and get a Royden--a slushed mint coconut lemonade and it is AMAZING!

Then we drove to Gunlock (not overflowing) and around the mountain back to town.
We grabbed dinner (teriyaki grill again--seriously SO good!)
At hot fudge sundaes at Neilson's (better than culver's)
We stopped at the bookstore where I got a beautiful collection of Hemmingway's novels.

Plus a record of the Gaurdians of the Galaxy soundtrack...
oh, and some See's candy! I LOVE graduation gits :)
Granny and I went for a hike up to the cement arrow used back in the day
by mail planes traveling to Los Angeles.

Then we played games with the Garrett's (always hand-and-foot)
And Granny and I watched All The King's Men before bed

Sunday I got up, soaked up some sun, and hurried home to my sweetheart
whom I dearly missed. I like adventures better when he is there.
But this weekend was splendid. So peaceful and relaxed and warm and fun.
I just had a good vibe all weekend. Maybe it's because I started listening to Rose Harbor Inn
on the way down, and that is such a lovely book.

But I missed Travis!
So we spent the good majority of the night packing up his apartment of two + years and moving stuff to his aunt's house, where he will live until we get married.