Mysteries of my life unfold.... well.. not really...

SO! If you have ever met me and we talked for more than about 30 seconds, I would probably at some point have mentioned my sick addiction to all things Twilight. MUHAHAHAHA! Yes, I'm one of those Twilight people, and no you don't have to like it because I do. I'm not one of those "Fan Girls" running around screaming my undying affection for Edward Cullen in your face. BUT none the less... I am a Twi-hard Fanpire!

So I don't have pictures from it yet, BUT I would like to talk all about my wonderful family vacation last week and the wonderful Twilight: Eclipse premier we got to attend whilst there.

DAY 1: Monday my little family, my parents, and my brothers family, all packed up and drove northward to begin our adventure. We stayed at Thanksgiving Point (a usual for our family) and then proceeded to Chuck-E-Cheese, where we met up with my sister who lives up there already.

I remember going there as a kid thinking it was totally awesome with games and prizes and all that, but I was ALWAYS afraid of the HUGE anamatronic rat that would sing and wiggle around with his band. Can I just say... Chuck hasn't lost his edge. I'd still have to say the best part of the night tho, was when Chuck decided to sing "Hey, Soul Sister" by Train. I kid you not he was workin it in his background music video. All strollin down the street and a giant dog playin a ukulele. He's all into it, big rat foot tappin and everything. Anywho, aside from giant dancing rodents, we got lots of tickets from games, ate some pizza, and each of us did these little picture id cards that the machine picked u an occupation. Mine was like professional Diva or something, Kaitlyn was a soccer player, Kylie a cheerleader, and Alex was some freaky worker at Area 51. It was quite funny. My bro Jeff did his twice with rather bizarre faces, but I don't exactly remember what the cards were... just that he looked like... well... like Jeff.

DAY2: Oh this is my favorite day... SO day 2 was an all girls day. Oh yeah.. it was sweet! We started out by going to the spa my sister used to go to school at and got facials and pedicures. I reached a seriously high level of relaxation whilst there which was much needed and much enjoyed. We all picked out different shades of red for our toes in honor of the upcoming evenings events.

After the spa morning, we went to lunch at Zupas (if you've never had it.. i pity you... it's awesome!) followed by a tour of my sisters new work, a laser spa type place where they make you fabulously beautiful. We all got to do this skin analysis machine that shows like sun damage and wrinkles and pores and all that... wasn't my favorite part cuz I don't like knowing my skin is not the best, let alone having a computer and HIGH RESOLUTION camera confirm that knowledge. *interesting side note. That spa does laser liposuction... which only leaves like a pinhole scar and you don't have to be unconscious for the procedure. Also.. the owner decided to show us a big bag of fat that had been sucked out of someone.... I gagged a little...*

Stopped at the mall for a few minutes to look around, then we went up to my sisters house for a little bit so i could help her put a vinyl on her wall we had made a few weeks before, then she got out some wax and started ripping hair off all of our faces. That was exciting and I cried a little. Not a fan of it, but we women must suffer for our beauty!

NOW MY FAVORITE PART OF THE DAY! We went back to the hotel to get ready for our special event we had been waiting months for, rereading the series 3 times for, and had tickets for a month in advance! TWIFEST! Yes such a wonderfully exciting gathering of Twihards exists and they had them all over northern utah that night for the big eclipse premier. Erin and I, being the severely obsessed fans that we are, dressed up like characters from the movie (suggested by the Twifest people cuz of a costume contest to be held). Erin went as Alice and I went as Bella. We had been working on our costumes for weeks in advance and everything came together just fabulously! (minus my hair, but i got over it eventually). So we all got dressed up and headed out for a family dinner then back to where the "Twifest-ivities" where to be held. OH MY WORD! It was so fun to just see a ton of people there together all psyched up to see the movie at midnight, people screaming back and forth for Team Edward or Team Jacob.. with the occasional Team Switzerland thrown in there. We all got lots of freebies and whatnots. Mom, Jessie, and Erin, all got plastered in white face powder and glitter after declaring themselves Team Edward.... the glitter was seriously intense!! I managed to avoid it in an effort not to ruin my "Bella" look... cuz you know... she's not a vampire... yet. muahahahhaha...... MOVING ON. we got to hang out, do the costume contest, which we all won, hung around for a while, got some snacks and whatnot. Then the countdown began.

We couldn't go sit in the theater till about 20 minutes before the movie started, but we were some of the first in there. Every single seat in the theater had a special edition Eclipse Vitamin water in the cup holder. That was pretty sweet. We just chilled rather impatiently as the theater filled and kept tabs on the time waiting for the movie to start. Then finally the blessed moment came and I swear to you, I have never seen such a fabulously glorious sparkling vampire look as good as he does on a MAMMOTH SCREEN!!!!!!!!! (ok.. I'm doing to pull a fan girl for a second... I was all OME!!! *oh my Edward!*) The movie was absolutely fantastic and I was SO excited I was squealing along with every other giddy girl in that theater. I totally loved it and it was for sure my favorite of the 3 so far. I'm still pretty much in shock that it's out already and have since seen it 5 times now. It was a super fun night and I will always remember it and all the fun we had that day with all us girls just relaxing and being together!

Day3: BOYS DAY. So the boys got up bright and early after having watched the kids the entire day before, for which I'm very grateful. They decided to take a fishing trip that day while we watched the kids. This plan was also the only way we could convince them to go and let us have the girls day and Twifest. hahaha! So they went fishing most of the day whilst us girls took the kids down to a farm there at thanksgiving point. It was a lot of fun. Lots of animals to see, a wagon ride, but the hit of the day was the pony rides. You'd never suspect so much joy could come from riding a little horse around the same circle 10 times, but they had a blast! Kylie was laughing and Kaitlyn loved it and was determined to take her horsey back home. She said "But mommy, my horsey needs to come meet Daisey and Cindy so they can be friends!!!" It was so cute. After the farm, we went to Burger King (still in the spirit of Twilight, because they have eclipse toys in the kids meals haha!) Got some food and let the kids play for a bit, then we went back to the hotel for much needed nap time. Once the boys got back from fishing, we went out to dinner at Denny's then everyone pretty much crashed out for the night. We were all so whipped after both our long days.

Day 4: Return home trip, I slept almost the entire way. haha Kids slept too luckily. We had such a great vacation and it was a much needed break from reality. Much much thanks to my parents for making it such a great trip and for everything!!! We had so much fun! I'll post some pictures as soon as I get some from my momma and my sis in law. (your gonna love em!)

So that's my vacation update... Also on the side note of upcoming photos, Happy Fathers Day, Anniversary, and Birthday to Alex! His birthday was on the 3rd and we celebrated with fireworks and fun stuff. Pics to come soon! Seriously!

Welcome to my week in review!

Alright campers! Ya ready for this? OK! This is what has happened in my life in the last week! (technically 5 days.. but hey)

SO! On Tuesday Kaitlyn, Kylie, my mother, and me went up north to visit Jessie and give her a hand organizing all her wedding gifts and such in her first house. We arrived at about 3:30 and met Jessie at her work, which is an awesome tanning salon. She let me get tan.. so I'm a smidge less albino now but you can't really tell because I don't tan enough.. especially if i stand next to Jessie who makes me look like I've never seen the light of day, but it was still fun. My tanning session was followed by dinner at Olive Garden, which was tastey good. Anyone who knows me well knows I am a pasta addict and love my noodles! :)

After dinner we went to see Uncle Chad down on the farm. Which was SO fun because Kaitlyn and Kylie got to ride his horse, Leo.... who Kaitlyn lovingly renamed "Wee-woh". Kaitlyn was absolutely loving it... kylie was more just bugged to have sun in her eyes. Ha ha! So after they rode Leo with Aunt Jessie, we went out into the field where chads dad was training their BIG horses for a horse pull. (Horse pull- Great big horses... seriously the biggest horses you will ever see... are hooked up to sleds with a bunch of weight on them. Horse teams compete to see how much weight they can pull for like 15 feet each time weight is added to the sled. it's CRAZY how strong those horses are!!!) SO Kaitlyn hopped on the sled and helped "drive the horsies!" which she thought was amazing. I love the dust pictures cuz it's like "Where's Kaitlyn?". So after a big lap around the field, Kaitlyn said by to Leo, who was a gentleman and bowed to her, then she blew him a kiss... and he tried to return the favor.. which made her a little bit nervous, but was still cute and made her giggle afterward.



Cute right?! We had a lot of fun, even if it was pretty hot that day. Then with our dusty dirty sandals we were all wearing on the farm (brilliant right?) we decided to go to the mall and do a little shopping. Got myself an awesome new shirt, Kaitlyn got a cute new bracelet she doesn't hardly take off, and kylie got some new pjs which were desperately needed! We headed to the hotel after shopping, got a little sleep, then went to Jessies house the next morning to help her decorate and make her house super cute, then went home on Wednesday afternoon. I think it was a fairly successful trip!

OK! THURSDAY! Got up, got ready... went to a chiropractor appointment.. came home and noticed that our dog Daisy wasn't at the gate where she usually is when i come home. I go in to peak on her and lo and behold there were 2 little puppies in there!!! We knew she was pregnant (something i failed to blog about) but she was still going! Luckily alex's friend Skyler had come over to see Alex (who was working) and he jumped in to help with the kids while i helped Daisy, who by this point was seeming a little stressed and tired. I also called my mom to come help with the kids, as to not dump them off on poor Skyler. So I went in to help her deliver 5 more puppies, two of which scared me a little because they weren't breathing, but they are alright now. It was really exciting and I'd never seen puppies born before so I was a little nervous too. But here are some pictures of them! We have 3 girls and 4 boys... all SUPER adorable! We plan to keep one of them, but the rest will be sold to good homes and some are already going to family and friends. :)


Darling I know right?! So Iwill finish this post tomorrow as I'm having crazy busy times right now and can't finish. but this is what's up! SO Enjoy and see you tomorrow!

Jessie and Chad's guestbook

I didn't want to post all the engagement pictures, but i made a slideshow version of the guestbook for you all to see which has a lot of pictures in it. I made the whole thing in photoshop with some of my digital scrapbooking supplies. I sent the whole thing into Shutterfly and had it hard bound which looked really nice. I plan to make more books through them because of how nice this turned out to be! As you will notice, the wedding was country themed and this book turned out super cute and tied it all in. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

Make a Smilebox photobook

The return of the delay fish....

SO! I'm still alive! Just had the crazy busiest few months of my life i think. So here's what's been going on.

1- My sister got married! YAY JESSICA!!! Her wedding was so beautiful! This is were the busy part comes in. I made 6 trip up north in the 2 months leading up to my sisters wedding entailing: I was matron of honor, 2 Bridal Fairs in Provo to help with wedding decisions, trip up for engagement photo shoot, trip up for Bridal Portrait shoot, 2 Bridal showers (one in STG on up there), 2 bridesmaids dress fittings for alterations, designing and printing a LOT of invitatons, editing and printing engagement and bridal portraits, creating floral arrangements for table centerpieces, designing and printing a custom mini scrapbook/ guestbook, scanning old pictures and creating a DVD slideshow of the bride and groom, getting a flower girl outfit for Kaitlyn, making matching hair bows for the flower girls, making jessie a hair bow for the luncheon, making a music CD for the wedding ceremony, actually getting to the wedding with husband and 2 children alive and dressed for the occasion.

I think that's about it... give or take a few projects or so. It may seem like a lot, but it was worth it for my sis! :) Here's a few pics from the invites, showers and bridals. Wedding pics (which we hired someone to do because i was in the line) should be coming shortly.



Nextly, Alex and I celbrated our 4 year anniversary in June. We had tickets to go see Footloose out at Tuachan, which was FABULOUS. I just can't believe we've been together for 4 years! It seems like our wedding was just yesterday, but I guess time flies when your having fun right?

Alex is really lucky then way things worked out for him holiday wise. First he gets fathers day, which I made him breakfast in bed, and Kaitlyn colored him a card. Then he gets our anniversary, followed by his birthday. All 3 of these holidays fall within about 2 weeks of eachother. Not to mention that the day after his birthday is the 4th of July, which bring fireworks and all that excitement. Lucky dog. Anywho, we celebrated Alex's birthday, then the fourth of July, which was super fun. We go watch the big fireworks in town from Alex's grandparents who live in town so we get a GREAT view from thier front yard. Here's a few pics from that.




Things are staying pretty busy around here, but we're doing really well. I'm going to try to blog more often because of just some of the funny little things that happen in my life. i want to try to post them on here not only for you all to read, but for myself as a way of remembering. It's getting pretty late, and I'm super tired. So for now, enjoy and see you soon!

Wedding plans and Easter

Firstly, i apologize for not posting for the entire month of April! It was a very busy month! NOW!

HAPPY NATIONAL SCRAPBOOK DAY!!!

I am very happy to say I am celebrating this event all day long! As part of my celebration, I am updating my blog, because it is a form of scrapbooking to me because it's archiving photos and memories! I am going to be out and about around some of the scrapbook stores today with all the free scrap parties i can go to and freebies if your in the store! :) No I'm not going to be shopping, because heaven knows I don't need anymore scrapbook supplies right now! And if I get any digital scrapbooking done, which I plan to later this evening, I will post those to my blog here for all to see!

SO! Here's what's been going on lately!

As I said in my last post, I took a trip up north to see my sister Jessie's graduation from hair school about a month ago, and I did a photo shoot of her model she had to do as part of the graduation. I'll just pick out one of the favorites as too not overpower you with all the pictures that will be in this post. So she styled her hair and did her make-up to go with a "Vogue" theme of the graduation. And as an added note, Jessie and MADE the hat! Way cute huh! FABULOUS!


Here's jessie and chad after the graduation! Way to go sis!

So after the graduation we went to go get some dinner with Chad's family, then went back to the hotel. Then after a little bit of sitting there, Jessie calls and asks if she can come visit us at the hotel. She her and Chad show up and *SPARKLE SPARKLE*!!!


My sister is engaged (congrats little sis), and I am helping with all the wedding plans! SO! 3 trips to South Jordan, 2 Bridal Fairs, and 1 engagement portrait session later, here i am! Haven't finished editing the engagements yet because I just took them like a week ago and have been crazy busy since, so when I'm done, I'll put a few up! :)

Next topic... We had Easter!

Coloring some easter eggs at grandmas house!



Kylie's first Easter! Look how cute she looks in her dress!


Kaitlyn got some "Pet Shop" stuff in her Easter "basket"(it was kind of a jewelery box)


Then we went up to the Gifford Easter party at Alex's grandpas feed lot.

Kaitlyn with Grandpa Dean


She is a little obsessive about the chickens up there...

So that's kinda whats been going on. and i'll have some more goodness to add later today (don't judge me if i dont!)