Our Honeymoon . . . Finally!

So I finally got these pictures ready to post and I've got some more errands to do today so I think I'll just put the pictures up and let them speak for themselves :)

Unfortunately we weren't very good about getting pictures but this si what we have.

Hotel Del Coronado is where the prettiest beach is...it's also where the Marolyn Monroe movie "Some Like it Hot" was filmed. Which happens to be one of my favorite old movies!

We took the ferry a lot to get to San Diego (Our hotel was on Coronado Island).

We visited the USS Midway, but didn't buy their expensive picture.

We went to the zoo and the elephants were Cody's favorite!!!

This was Cody's first time at the beach and he spent a lot of time looking for good shells. The third picture is him trying to get me to come farther into the water to look with him. But it was TOO cold!

My flip flops had "just married" on the bottom of them, but I had a hard time getting the married to work very well for a picture.
We bought a little fishing pole at the local hardware store so we could fish off the pier on Coronado. Cody caught the biggest bass in the ocean! We met a lot of very nice San Diegoins that helped us throughout our week. The last people we met helped us set up our pole for ocean fishing. So much fun!!!

Mi Pueblo

So this post is kinda late but I would just like to suggest a new restaurant to everyone. Cody took me to that new mexican restaurant on South Main for my birthday and we loved it! It is called Mi Pueblo and we were so impressed with the food and the staff. The flavor of both our meals was super good and you could tell the employees and the people who own the place are trying really hard to make it a good business. We've heard some people say they are too expensive but they're not any more than applebee's and chili's and at least as good! Plus they gave us at lot of chips and salsa to go home with :)

So Dissapointed . . . .

My sister, mother-in-law and I were headed down to St. George for my bridal shower a week before the wedding and we got a flat tire in my sister's van. Now, the three of us are fairly capable and knew how to change the tire but we did really struggle getting the dang jack and spare tire out of the back of the van so it took us a LONG time. So there we are, three girls fighting the back of a mini van and not one person stops to help us! Once we were almost done, someone finally stopped to help but I was so dissapointed that no one stopped before that. What's wrong with people these days?

Memorial Weekend Ride

Cody and I did a lot of driving this last weekend but it was worth it because we got to spend a little bit of time with both of our families. We went to cody's cousin's graduation in Escalante and then back to Cedar and then we went down to St. George Saturday night. The wind got a little wild and crazy that night and our tree about blew over. While Cody and my dad were working to keep the tree up my 8 year old nephew was getting pretty nervous. When we went back into the house he said to me serious as can be, "I'm afraid we're not going to live through this". I tried to reassure him without smiling too big but it was just so cute.


On Sunday Cody, my dad, and I went on a ride on Pine Valley. It was so stormy the night before but it was clear as can be and the perfect day for a ride sunday morning! I don't think that I've been on Pine Valley when it's been so wet! The ponds were full and everything was so green, it was absolutely gorgeous. Because of the rain the day before, parts of the trail were also very slippery.Ha notice that Gambler and Dee are nuzzling and being nice in this picture? Well about a second later she bit him...Ha!!! That tease!!! :0)The top right picture what went on everytime we got the camera out . . . I would forget i had my glasses on and I'd have to find something to do with the stuff in my hands, and you couldn't see Cody's face. Despite our struggles I think we got a few pretty cute ones. Luckily my dad likes taking pictures like me so he was always suggesting pictures. I told cody that must be where I get it from.
I've never seen so many wildflowers! There were all kinds and they were everywhere. I got to try out the digital macro setting on my camera and get a few pictures of them but I missed a lot. I think my favorites were the gorgeous red cactus flower that i have in the middle. I've never seen cactus flowers that vivid red!

I got most of these by the second pond we came to and at that pond there were two young cows. They looked like they must have survived the whole winter there without their mothers, though we couldn't figure out how or why. It was kind sad. While I was taking pictures they were following us around and kept following us until we got too far from their pond. Poor things!


Speaking of wildflowers, we passed this field that looked like it had a carpet of yellow wildflowers, so of course my dad and I thought we needed a picture in that field.

After our second run in with a rattle snake (yeah that's right 2 in one day, yick!!!) my dad was walking his mule and he picked me a little bouquet of wild flowers! it was so sweet! I tried to keep them for the rest of the ride but our descent was longer than I thought and they didn't survive very well. Part of the slick trail that wasn't so bad on our way up was like a slip n' slide going down. Dee lost her footing really bad at one point and I thought we were going down but somehow she caught her self and we made it the rest of the way down. I'm so proud of Dee. This was her first long mountain ride and she handled herself pretty well! She struggled with all the water crossings (even a water trough at the bottom of the trail terrified her) but hopefully next time they'll scare her a little less.

Since my first bouquet looked pretty sad by the time we got close to the truck, my dad picked me some more. What a sweetheart!

Cody's Uncle Tom

Cody's Uncle Tom has been working on some songs for our wedding. You can check out one of them called "Since I Fell For You" on his blog.
http://steelmysong.blogspot.com/

Steal of a Deal with our Photographer

Hi,

Our photographer is offering a deal to anyone that books with them after being referred by us. (We don't get anything out of it, they're just trying to build their business. They are located in West Jordan, Utah. You can look at their portfolio and our pictures at warrentphotography.blogspot.com .

Here is their deal:

"We are offering anybody who you refer that books with us from now until a year after your wedding a great deal on their photography. We would do the engagements, bridals, and full wedding day photography, plus prints included in the package with all of the images with copyright release for only $600 (traveling fees would apply on top of this price for those out of state, or living past the wasatch front area), the normal price of this package is currently $950.00."

Engagements!

Our photographer has posted some of our engagements on his blog! If you want to see them his blog is warrentphotography.blogspot.com The wind scared us on Saturday morning, but everything worked out and I think our pictures turned out really cute. Warren and Marva were great to work with!

Shootin Chizzlers

I did some Bridals on Saturday, so when Cody and I went to Beryl to shoot chizzlers on Sundaywith my dad, I was in the picture taking mood. The first place that we went had this cool looking old car so I made us stop and my dad was our photographer :)

. . . and of course I had to play with the picture

Cody was very annoyed that the fox eluded us.

Yes, I am a dork

So last night I discovered what I think might be the most truly dorky thing about me. I LOVE this PBS (KBYU?) show called "Rick Steves Europe". When I turn it on it puts my roommates and Cody to sleep but I absolutely love it . . . . maybe because it is probably the closest that I'll ever get to Europe :( Last night he went to Spain and Morroco! So interesting!!!

Save the Date!

There was a fun event for brides in St. George a few weeks ago where we got to sample different vendors including caterers, planners, florists, salons, make-up artists, dresses, and photographers. They got us all dolled up and took pictures for us. Here are some pictures from the event. There's one that is a good picture of my ring!

I also just downloaded a new photo editor, so I had fun playing around with it to make my collages. I'm really excited to use it to play with our real bridals!

Wedding Planning

So I said that I wasn't going to make a blog until we were actually married, but I decided to just break down and start it now. At the very least we can keep our families up to date on our wedding plans. I feel like we got a lot done over Spring Break and it really motivated us to just get everything done. Unfortunately that dang school has to get in our way :)



Our photographer is Warren T Photography from West Jordan. We won a contest for a free full wedding package! We are so grateful for that--it has taken a lot of stress off of us. You can see his blog at: http://www.warrentphotography.blogspot.com/ When we do our bridals and engagements, we'll get some pictures up. (We're doing them April 25th and 26th)



I am so excited to have Olga Goddard do our flowers! She is so sweet and I feel very confident that our flowers will be just beautiful. If you want to see what she does, her blog is: http://www.olgaandmyfavoriteflowers.blogspot.com/



We are having our ceremony at Willow Glen Inn on June 26th and our reception in Cedar will be that evening at a very cute little yard/garden called St. James Place. Here are some pictures of the place from other weddings. (I should probably give credit to the wedding decorators that I got these pictures from: Thank you to Irresistable Weddings and Wedding Decor and More)





I have a friend from one of my classes doing our cake. Her name is Amanda Runge and I'm excited to work with her.We'll let you know as we get more things in place!