i'm a married woman

and couldn't be happier, even though these last couple weeks have been mucho crazy.

to do a little catch-up

-i finished all my finals (and passed) all my classes before i bid goodbye to BYU

-(this deserves it's own bullet point) my very last final was marriage prep and i was freaking out just a bit about it because i hadn't studied nearly as much as i should have but as i walked out of the testing center and looked at that little screen i gasped to myself and maybe might have laughed a little bit out loud because i got a 98% that is the highest i have ever gotten on any college test! i had to call kolton and tell him not to worry-we can get married because i passed my marriage prep test.

-i packed up all my junk, said goodbye to my sweet roommates who helped me pack up all my junk and made the 4.5 hour drive for the last time.

-i was busy busy the rest of that week making sure all the loose ends were tied up

-then on Saturday the 18th i went through the temple. it was such a sweet experience, if not a little overwhelming.

-that night my sweet friends threw me a bridal shower and we had so much fun catching up

-on tuesday, the 21st, the day i got married (holy cow!)  i was up before the sun getting my hair done. then kolton picked me up and off to the temple we went! a couple hours later i walked out of the temple with a handsome husband on my arm.

-after some pictures, and a luncheon, we were off to the reception 

-i had so much fun standing in line and  chatting with all of the people who came to see us.! as i was standing there i realized that all of these people were there for us!  really i do feel so blessed for all of the support so many people have shown us.

-we spent a few days in island park before we came home for christmas.

-after christmas we were off to vegas! where we spent a few days seeing all we could see. vegas is a funny, funny place we decided.

-however, before we left for vegas. literallly-like an hour before our flight left, we ran into idaho falls and bought some furniture. so exciting! we bought a beautiful bed, mattress, and a kitchen table! we kind of felt silly buying the first things we saw but we liked 'em and the price was good so we figured, why not!?

-when we got home from vegas we moved into our apartment and spent a few days organizing and re-organizing everything in our new home.

-then we started our winter semester here in freezy rexy. the first day was a little stressful but it's been uphill from there (meaning it's got better and better. maybe uphill is not the right expression)

whew! talk about a crazy couple of weeks!

but things are starting to settle down and we are just putting our noses back to the grindstone. it seems crazy that we have been married only two weeks. i feel like i can't even remember a time when we weren't  married. is that weird or what?

p.s. i apologize for the lack of pictures or details or anything else that might have made this post interesting. stay tuned for that kind of stuff. okay? okay.

so fitting...

love this movie

and this song is especially fitting.

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!

i sure can't.

okay so maybe it's not perfectly applicable.
for one, i sure hope kolton is not chasing down all the women in London tonight, or at a brothel for that matter.
but we ARE getting married in the morning. and he had better be at the temple on time!!

p.s. sorry for the foreign language subtitles (spanish, maybe?)

baby it's cold outside

i love this song.

and this video is truly a treat.

enjoy!

weak sauce

I have a problem.

With onions.
I have gone my entire life wondering what people were talking about when they said cutting up onions makes them burst into tears.

I've just never understood that.

Then, last year I was making dinner with a friend when he asked if I would dice up the onions, "Unless", he added, "it makes your eyes water."

"Nope" I proudly announced. "Onions don't affect me one little bit."

About thirty seconds later I couldn't even see said onion because I had tears (and mascara!) streaming down my face.

Talk about putting your foot in your mouth.

Today, I had a similar experience.

I was helping amy with dinner and she asked if I would dice up the onions. Being prepared, I grabbed my glasses. (I don't exactly know what this was going to accomplish, maybe block the noxious fumes from my eyes)

Unfortunately, this attempt failed.

And I ended up with tears (and mascara!) again streaming down my face.

I am such weak sauce.


a sad day and surprise

Yesterday was my last day of classes here at BYU.

Talk about a sad day! I have loved it here so much and I'm going to miss it SO much. The last few weeks I have been trying to soak everything in. The walk up the hill to campus, the lovely weather, long hours at the library- I've even tried to enjoy nutty, demanding professors with silly assignments. I've tried to soak it all up so I can remember it all when i'm freezing my buns off in Rexburg, Idaho.

I'm not quite done here at BYU, however. I still have to take four finals before I'm home free and will no longer be a student here.

But don't you worry. I have already informed Kolton that we will be back to visit. For what, I'm not sure. We'll definitely think of something.

On to a happier subject.

Last night I took some Nyquil trying to kick the nasty cold that won't go away and it knocked me out. This morning I woke up to my roommate coming into my room. I sat up in bed to say good morning when I noticed that she was carrying a table. She was followed by my other roommate holding the other end of the table and the rest of my roommates filing into my room.

The table was all decked out with french toast, syrup, muffins, bacon, and orange juice.

We had ourselves a surprise breakfast-in-bed bridal shower!

Oh my heavens. it was so sweet of them, and I just love these girls.

We all sat down on my bed and enjoyed our delicious breakfast and just had a lovely time, with me sitting in amazement over the fact that they had completely surprised me. (I like to think i'm pretty intuitive, but I did not expect this one little bit)

After we finished off our delicious breakfast they gave me a gift. It was....

This lovely cookbook!

I saw it in the bookstore the other day and  have been raving about it ever since I discovered it.

so they went out and bought it for me. And it is chuck FULL of chocolate dessert recipes. Since dessert is my favorite thing to bake, I find it very fitting.

Holy cow, I love these girls.

I'm so sad to be leaving them in a few days because they are all so sweet and thoughtful and we have all just had a ball this semester staying up late at night talking, cooking together, goofing around, spouting off one-liners, and just all sorts of other fun girly things. I am going to miss them a ton. But, like I already said, we will be back to visit a lot. :)

And that's all I've got to say about that.

p.s. I get married in eleven days. ELEVEN!

girls weekend

I have always been a big fan of girl's nights, but girl's weekends are even better! This last weekend Wendy and her girls, Amber, Kenzie, and Nat and Madison came to Salt Lake to meet up with my Mom, Tylee, Addi, and I. We had such a lovely time!

I had met up with my family on Friday evening to go to the Jazz game, then on Saturday morning we sent the boys home and went to the mall with the cousins.

Oh my heavens, it was SO much fun! We went to Anthropologie in honor of my grandma and loved looking at all the funky trinkets and clothes and other wonderful things that we could never afford (one day....) things like:

and this:

and this:

And many, many more.

Holy cow, I love that store.

We also went to Music and the Spoken Word with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir which was splendid, and to the First Presidency Christmas Devotional that evening-which was also splendid. I love Christmas music and the talks were all so wonderful.

All in all, it was a great weekend with the girls and we're hoping to make it a long-lived tradition.

before i dash to class...

I gotta be quick lickety split on this story but I promised I would share and....a promise is a promise.

so.

When dear Kolton and I went to sign our marriage license we were all nervous and giddy and trying to sign our names just right and neatly (okay, so maybe that was just me) when a couple walks in behind us and sidles up to the desk right next to us.

"We're getting married!" the man announced. "We just talked to the judge, he said to sign us a marriage license and he'll marry us today." (all of this was said in a country twangy accent, by the way)

These folks must have been known in the county courthouse because there were congratulations all around. with comments of them needing to buy a big Thanksgiving table to fit all of their newfound family around it.

So the receptionist started to rustle up some papers and they got to signing.

I was peeking over Kolton's shoulder at this funny couple and noticed the soon to be bride just texting away (letting all her friends now she's getting married in about ten minutes, I'm guessing)

We left soon after that so we didn't get to see much more of this couple. But I'll have to admit.....I was a little jealous of them. As we walked out to the pickup I tried to convince Kolton to just let us go down to the courthouse and get married that afternoon.

But he was having none of that.

And I was kidding of course.....well, kinda.

Now don't anyone worry-We're not going to elope anytime soon. It sounds tempting, but we will resist. We already paid the decorator. (hee hee)

We'll just wait nineteen looong more days. (NINETEEN!!! holy mackerel!)

And we'll see ya on December 21st!

And now I'm off to interior design!