Chalk the Block 2019

One annual event that Andrew and I love to attend is Chalk the Block. Local artists draw amazing art work with chalk all 

over the parking lot and every year I am blown away with the talent and creativity these people have, especially when 

I struggle at drawing basic stick figures. If you have never been and you are in the area during the time,

 you need to put it on your list to go!

 ^This one was Andrew's favorites because it's basketball^

The theme this year was based on Hollywood, so there were a lot of different movies as part of the display. 

^Look how magical this set up was!^ 

 ^Love this artwork so much and the quote!^ 

Isn't all that artwork astounding?! We really love going and every year we hope it doesn't rain 

(because that has happened before). And one thing that I think would have been really cool was if an  artist did

a Mary Poppins chalk drawing from when they went into the chalk drawing with Bert. It would have been 

practically perfect in every way! But we didn't see one. If only I had some level of artistic ability and I would have done it. haha. Personally, I just love the idea I had. 

It's a fun way to start wrapping up the summer and it's so much fun to spend time together. 

3 Years!!!

I cannot believe it has been 3 years (at this very hour!) that we were married and 

then we walked out of the temple doors together as HUSBAND AND WIFE! 

Best moment ever! 

So a little tribute to my husband: 

I still think you're cute.

I still love your smile.

And thanks for making me laugh everyday. 

I love it when you call me just to tell me something real quick.

I love how you go out of your way to make me feel special. 

I still love your hugs and your kisses.

I still love the way you smell.

I love making memories with you.

Either out on the town or

a night inside our apartment. 

I have fun and enjoy my time with you either way.

I love how you are the first person I see in the morning and

the last person I see at night.

Thank you for being my everything.

Thank you for being such a wonderful example to me.

I will love you forever. 

Happy 3 Years my Love!!!   ❤︎  ❤︎  ❤︎ 

Here's to year 4 and the many to come after! 

This Day is my Favorite Day

Today we celebrate 2 years and I can't believe it. 

And I was the first to tell him "Happy Anniversary" exactly at 12:00am.

It's always our little competition to try to be the first to wish each other whatever holiday it may be.

He tried but I distracted him and won! 

Our life together has had it's ups and downs but everyday I realize how lucky I got.

Two years ago I thought I loved him.

I had no idea.

He has shown me time and time again how perfect he is for me.

His endless patience.

How he always makes me laugh.

He is always trying to bring unity to our marriage and family.

He shows me constant affection.

How he constantly wants the best for us.

Andrew, I love you more every day.

I am happier today than I was 2 years ago, because every day since then 

means an extra day of my life with you in it.

Happy June 4th to everyone out there 

because in our little world it's a very special day.

♥ 1 Year ♥

Our anniversary was so special. 

We planned it together but Andrew did so many surprises that caught me completely off guard. 

We started our anniversary weekend by attending a wedding at the Payson Temple 

(which is where we were married 364 days previous). It was wonderful to be back there again.

We headed off to Park City for our anniversary celebration. 

Our hotel room was more of a hotel suite with it's own personal hot tub {win!}

Andrew made dinner, bought cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory, and brought snacks galore.

We shopped, stayed up late watching the Office (Andrew got me addicted a few weeks ago and it's a good thing that it's summer), 

we fell asleep, then got back into the hot tub before officially going to bed just because we could. 

The next morning we hot tubed again.

And went on a hike to Battle Creek

I have lived in Utah my entire life, and this hike is probably 30 minutes from my house

and I've never done it. If you're in the Utah County area it's a must do! 

I can't believe that a year has gone by. 

Life happens way too fast. 

One year ago we became an eternal family.

Life is pretty wonderful when you are married to someone who loves you so much 

and he happens to be your best friend. 

My Husband is Four ;)

Andrew got a mini drone for Christmas and now that the weather is nice we've been taking it and playing with it. He is once again a child! And I love him for it. 

Drone Selfies 

The camera is not the best quality but the whole idea of a drone is pretty cool. 

And it's fun to see him play with it and enjoy it.

He's cute, sometimes he'll put the drone in the trunk of the car before we go out on a hike or some other activity. Most of the time we don't pull it out but it's there as a "just in case" we want to use it. 

Creative Juices

On Monday night Andrew and I went out on a FHE date night with some of our friends. 

We went to Color Me Mine-- and we tried to be creative.

Andrew is way better at it than I am.

It took longer than expected, so we will need to go back and finish.

Which means, another date night! 

^Look at that bowl though! It's intricate design is going to be gorgeous when finished!^

^My coaster. The design is from a stencil and that is how I roll!^

^Those 2 coasters are 100% Andrew to a T!^

^I promise, I'm holding up a coaster I actually painted, and not just a blank one^

It was a fun night and I'm looking forward to seeing our our art and creativity will turn out! 

Wedding Planning

When Andrew and I were planning our wedding we had little to no idea what we were doing. 

We were both the first siblings to get married.

One of my best friends got married when I was on my mission, so I was completely un-involved there. 

When we were planning our wedding I wish we had some sort of rough guide of what people before us had done.  

We did not know where to look for so many different things. 

All things that follow are in the Utah Valley area. 

Our photographer was Maddie Thomas. She was wonderful and a complete life saver. 

We had her do our Bridals and Wedding Day

(the person for our engagements we didn't like too much so we found Maddie instead).

You can find her website HERE and her Instagram HERE.

And all pictures that follow were all taken by her! She's wonderful. We love her. 

For our luncheon we had it at a local church, that way we could invite as many people as we wanted.
We had a lot of people from out of town that we wanted them there as well as our local family and friends.
This worked perfectly! We had Kneaders cater and it was delicious! 

We also had our reception at a local church and these pictures do not do the place justice. It was absolutely beautiful! People were so amazed when they came in and many people told us that they had never seen a church reception so beautiful.
I was completely in awe. 

We had Michelle do it and her company is called Ivory Gables. 

Her website it HERE and her Facebook is HERE.
She was absolutely wonderful to work with.
She showed us so many different options and ideas and we got to pick exactly what we wanted.
Loved her! 

We had VIP Catering do the food at our reception. They do all sorts of food. We choose to do desserts. 

We ordered for 500 and when the reception was over we had over 600 of one kind of dessert. 

Their serving size is more than just one per person. 

Their website is HERE.

We had Emily do our cake (we found her through Thumbtack which is a kinda nifty site). She was so professional
and really worked with us for what we wanted. The cake was so beautiful AND she made those flowers out of sugar.
She did that!!! Talk about her talent! She doesn't have a website but I'm sure if you look at Thumbtack her information
will appear and I have her contact information if needed. 

~ ~ ~

We ordered our wedding cake topper off of Etsy. It shipped from China so it took around a month to come. I didn't realize
that fact and it came about a week before the wedding. Ah, sweet relief! Online it did not have "and" for
Mr. AND Mrs. so I asked them to include it and they did! 

To order this one or one similar the Etsy shop is HERE.

And today celebrates 6 months since we had this wonderful day that all this wedding planning 

work went into. Totally worth it. We loved everything about our wedding day!

Casper's Christmas

You know how people mix up Halloween and Christmas.

Examples like;

+Nightmare before Christmas

+Casper's Haunted Christmas 

and that's what happened yesterday. 

Last week Andrew signed us up to go to the BYU Vocal Point Christmas Concert 

and I was so excited for a fun Christmas activity but what I did not realize was 

that the concert was in October!

Yesterday was so busy and we were scrambling to get out the door on time! After work I had to run 

to Walmart, and on my way I realized my gas needle in my car was on empty and I had 

no idea for how long. When I mean empty, I'm not kidding. It was as low as it could go. I am 

so glad I caught it before I ran out of gas in the middle of the road. That would have been bad. 

Andrew got off work later than planned. When I got home I had to change and I could NOT 

find my black pants.  I just had them on Sunday. I looked through all my drawers.  All my 

pile of clothes that we have no room to put.  I could not find them! (and I still can't- even 

when I cleaned the apartment tonight.) So I had to settle for a pair of jeans. 

We did make it out the door on time.

We went to Subway with gift cards I had received on my mission. Thank you Anaheim Mission

 Members who gave me those gifts cards. I saved them and they made for a wonderful 

dinner for date night. Thank you so much! 

The concert was for Vocal Point to film so the concert could be broadcasted.  The concert was 

WAY cool!  It was a 3 hour deal but we were able to see how it all runs. 

Those guys are so talented.

It was a perfect night and it got me in the mood for Christmas. I'm ready to start playing 

Christmas music, get a tree, decorate, make cookies, and do all the Christmas things.  But it's 

still fall, and there is no snow (thank goodness for that) and I'm really excited for Halloween! 

The concert airs on BYUTV on November 26. We may or may not be on TV.  

If we are, I might not be smiling because when the cameras were on us I was listening

 to the song which was a very calming spiritual song.  I was enjoying it. But not smiling.

Does anyone know what I mean? 

And FALL BREAK is now!

School was over, we put the kids on the bus, and then we were done.
Hello Fall Break! 

I'm FALLing for You

Excuse the pun, but I kinda like it. 

We went up the canyon after church 

because we kinda wanted some fall pictures. 

 ^We did this quite a few times and I loved every minute. 

If you don't throw leaves, it's simply not fall. ^

^Our cute friends came with us too. Seriously, so photogenic.

And I really want her hair, it's so long!^

We had a lot of fun.

It's so nice to get pictures that are not selfies

(which we love, but switching it up is nice too). 

I'm so in love with fall and all that comes with it.

Especially fall break.... which is in 3 days!!! 

Yahoo!