Random Christmas Pics

Chad and I need a better pose, preferably one that makes us look like we like each other a little more!

 

 Chad and our niece Norah, these two are just the best of friends!

I love Norah's smile it makes me so happy!

 

 We got to spend New Years Eve with two of my bestest friends! We ate a delicious dinner at Cafe Trang then went back to Jenny and Eric's house to play some Wii and hang out. Ashly and Sean were in town and I am so grateful we got to spend some time with them!

 Rogaine sure does work! This was Chad's white elephant gift, it's so strange to see him with hair                                                 

This was a hit at our party, petrified owl puke it even comes with tools to dissect it!

This was my white elephant gift I brought, Em got them which turned out perfect to recreate the painting!

A Few Wedding Pics

Me and my Honey on our Honeymoon!

I'm finally getting around to blogging our Honeymoon!

Chad and I spent 4 days in DisneyWorld, we got made fun of by some people for going to the happiest place on earth for our honeymoon but we loved it!

We started our first day at Epcot


Here is Chad next to Poseidon


Here I am in France

Here's Chad playing with a wild panda in China, we liked to pretent we were really in these countries it made it much more fun!

Here we are on probably one of the best rides ever the Aerosmith ride in Hollywood Studios was awesome!

I had to get a picture with my favorite Disney villains, the Siamese cats from Lady and the Tramp!

I was so excited that they had the Magic Kingdom decorated for Halloween I love Halloween!

Our first glimpse of the castle Chad was so giddy can't you tell??

He was such a good sport letting me take pictures of him!

This was in the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse, we liked to imagine ourselves living in a giant treehouse

I could live with that view outside my bedroom window! I was bummed though I didn't know that DisneyWorld doesn't have the Indiana Jones ride just this giant tree.

We lucked out I am the only one in this pic because there was a parade going on right in front of me and everyone was lined up on the street so I got to be the only one with the castle!

Chad got me to go on the stupid Tea Cups...I HATE the tea cups it took me a while to recover after that one, I really almost puked!

We got this pic for my dad we thought he would love to own a guitar as big as a house!

This was on our Jungle Safari in the Animal Kingdom

We ended our 4th day in the Animal Kingdom. It wasn't our favorite park but it was really pretty scenery. Our favorite was Hollywood Studios because of the rollercoaster and Toy Story Mania it was the longest wait in all of the parks. We never waited in line for anything except that one and Chad was having a hard time believing it would be worth it but he loved it!

We had a really hard time coming back to reality well I did at least and we can't wait for our next vacation!

Happy Birthday Joe

Earlier this year my sisters best friend of all time was in a tragic accident involving a Trax Train. Today is Joe's 20th birthday and I just wanted to wish him a very happy birthday.

My sisters and I have always wanted a brother, growing up with all girls was fun but we have all said we wished for a brother. To us Joe was that brother, he spent a lot of time at our house, especially since he didn't have a car and he lived only a few houses down from us, I often referred to him as my little brother. I know he was just like a brother to Kaitie, they were extremely close they were like twins. They even fought like a brother and sister would, but when it came right down to it they always had each others backs.



Joe was a friendly giant, he was tall and very well built, which he was very proud of! He played basketball for West Jordan High and excelled at it. Joe was loved by everyone and had more friends than anyone I know. Joe was very adventurous, I remember one night he came over to our house and he was limping he then told the story of how he was snowboarding and he wanted to do one more run before the bus came, well the bus came and he was on the lift, his sister called him to let him know he was going to miss the bus, he then decided to jump off the lift to try and make the bus! He didn't make it!

I have so many great memories of Joe that make me laugh whenever I think of them. I can't even tell you how many times he would come over and drink from any glass on the counter, which usually was always my dad's, he always keeps a big glass of water on the bar. Later he would come up and yell "alright who drank all my water" and we would just laugh because it was always Joe!

Joe was very ticklish so we loved to try and tickle him. One time he was standing in the kitchen at the end of the bar and I snuck up behind him and started tickling his sides, i've never seen anyone so big fall so hard, he went straight down to the tile with a loud thud!

I would often receive random text messages from Joe sometimes in the middle of the night and they were usually always filled with big words, he loved big words and used them in everyday conversation. He would sometimes text me and ask how to spell some really long word that I usually had never heard of. He loved texting and texted all the time. Once he texted Kaitie 19 messages in a row to tell her about his dream he had.



Joe, we miss you and love you so very much. You are in our hearts everyday and we are grateful for the precious time we had with you. You have definitely left your giant handprint on all of our hearts. Because we knew you we have been changed for good!

One last thing Joe...you're so voluptuous!! (one of his favorite words and he used it incorrectly all the time and he said he knew that and didn't care because he loved the word!)

Bachelorette Party!!!!

The only thing this party was missing was one of my very best friends, I told her we would get a bunch of pics for her! Ash these are for you, love ya!! This party was awesome, i'm so very grateful for all my dear friends who put it together, I had so much fun!

Robby did a fantastic job hosting, it was held at his house and he went above and beyone, fresh flower arrangements on all the tables, he had little jars of gumballs to give to all the girls as favors, it was so cute! He has been such a good friend to me since kindergarten!!

Robin Hood and Meghan Hood!

Those were our nicknames for each other in elementary

These girls planned a great party! Rachel and Cho made some yummy salad and Laura made some fantastic cupcakes and some individual trifles that tasted heavenly! Rachel put together a video of Chad being asked a series of questions, all the girls at the party were given the questions and they had to ask me and I had to guess what Chad said, then we watched what Chad's answer was, if I got it wrong then Rachel made me eat a piece of Double Bubble, she made me eat some everytime Chad had a long pause...I ate A LOT of bubble gum! It was super cute and Chad did such a good job!

Oh Jenny!!! What can I say other than I love you to pieces! Jenny was a co-party planner, she made mock pina coladas for everyone, I loved it!! I was thinking earlier in the week how I would love to have something like that and she read my mind! Thanks for being such a great friend Jenny!

Here's one table of girlfriends, there was another table in the formal dining room that was decorated so cute too!



Rachie and I, we have been friends since first grade, I love that we have stayed close through the years, we have so many awesome childhood memories together and I cherish them!

This is Rob and I totally dominating the game! I was blind folded and Robby had to direct me to put the stick through the toilet paper roll between his legs, I think we did it within seconds!!


Robby won those sexy pink undies for winning the game! Here we are just posing with our winnings and some of my presents!

Sisters!!! I love my little sisters and I especially love wearing all their clothes! Thanks Kaitie for supplying my ENTIRE outfit for the night!!!

Surprise Bachelorette Party!!!!

Rachel had asked me like a month in advance if we could plan a night right before my wedding to hang out, she was so sneaky making me think we would just spend a quiet night in chilling watching movies...The Monday before my wedding the girls came marching down to my room clothes in hand and said "put these on we're going out!!" So Nichole threw my hair up and Laura beautified me with colorful makeup

The mastermind behind this...none other than my bestest friend Rachel!

All our funky socks, it was a golfing party minus the golfing it was too cold so we went to a movie instead

Here was are at the District in these awesomly matching chairs, they complimented our outfits so well!

Rach and I hanging out in the theater waiting for the movie to start

The night before the big day!

I took my mom, sisters and Rach to get pedicures so all of our feet would look nice and pretty for the wedding. The girl that did mine kept trying to get me to put ugly stickers on my toes I think I said no 20 times! Then after she painted them she tried to get me to let her paint white flowers, NO WAY!! I ended up redoing them when I got home I gave myself gold glitter toes and they looked great!

My mom and I

I was starting to panic while we were getting pedi's my mom and I had to make 7 new centerpieces because we didn't have enough for the dinner, my mom and I don't know the first thing about arranging flowers, I started to feel a little in over my head, then Rachel called her mom and sister and they luckly came over. It was Denise to the rescue, her and Sarah put all the arrangements together and they looked amazing! I am so grateful for Rachel's family and how good they are to me, they have treated me like family throughout the years and I love them all so very much!