Ready.. Set.. July?

Tomorrow is July 1st? Really????

Now that's a tear jerker alright! Last time I checked my 'Summer' begun about....... YEP - two hours ago. It's not already suppose to be July.. what happened here?!

May was completely consumed by our wedding, don't get me wrong, it was the best day of my life.. but no doubt, stressful. We got back from our honeymoon and a day later it was back to school, and that's when Human Phys took the month of June away from me. With class everyday, tests every Thursday, and lab quizzes twice a week my head was stuck in books on any down time I had. Not to mention finding a job and thank you cards -- that's an entire new blog post by its self!

However, on the bright side I'm done with Phys, done with thank you cards, and applied for a job --> got an interview --> and started working in less then a week. It's been month of success if I do say so myself!

I say bring on July! Aust and I are both scheduled to work a lot in July, BUT were going to fit in fun play days in there... somehow! We still got camping to do, lakes to go play in, snow cones to eat, BBQ's to plan, and lots of hiking.. and Cedar City is JUST the place for all that!

Happy Summertime!!!!

R.I.P. Juan

I got some bad news.

Juan Died.

For those of you who don't know Juan, he was the beautiful horse in my bridal pictures. He was the horse that I never had and always wanted. However, I'm

glad that he was able to get groomed up one last time to be in my bridals with me. He unexpectedly died of colic a few weeks after our pictures.

Brandy (the owner) was so excited to pretty him up for my pictures. She said that she always wanted to do her bridals with horses too. Unfortunately, at the time of her engagement she didn't have horses. She was so sweet to be willing and excited to watch my dreams come true with her horses. Brandy and her cute daughter helped out so much with positioning the horses and thinking of cute poses to do. It was definitely one of the funnest days preparing for the wedding! I definitely couldn't have done it without the incredible Brandy and Juan!

At the time of the pictures Juan was shedding off his winter coat, so when we were finished we had lots of hair..pretty much everywhere. After many lint rollers and the help of terrific family we got the dark brown horse hair off the white dress!

Juan was such an outstanding horse and I really did love him! I will always remember him and that perfect day taking my bridals. It was definitely worth all the lint rollers!

R.I.P Juan

Let it RAIN!

Well, it's true -- were finally married!

Let me tell ya.. there's nothing better then a down poor for a week straight when your planning an OUTSIDE wedding. I'd like to say that is was a miracle and the day of the wedding the weather was beautiful without a cloud in sight, blah blah blah...but...if you were there, you know it was anything BUT beautiful weather May 19, 2011. I don't think we could have planned a worse week in May for an outside wedding. I always heard those horror stories about hours of labor put into a yard to make it beautiful for a wedding, and then the horrible rainstorm ruined it all. I just never thought I would be one of those stories. When we first decided to do a backyard wedding my mom talked about the 'backup plan' more then the 'actual plan'. I kept getting frustrated saying, "Mom, you need to think positive! It's not going to rain!". Let me just give a little shout out to my mom right now and say THANK YOU! If it wasn't for her and all the last minute help from my amazing family and friends we wouldn't have pulled it off. However, we took the wedding inside the house and it was perfect!

I always dreamed of that beautiful outside wedding growing up. Whats worse then seeing those dreams shattered by crappy weather was knowing how many mornings my Dad and Mom woke up, sore and exhausted from hours put into that yard. Well, for those of you who know my Dad, you know that his main hobby is yard work. He loves spending his free time making his yard a beautiful masterpiece. However, before the wedding we had people telling the family that our Dad had some 'issues' and was seriously addicted to his yard. When in all reality -- I know that he was just trying to make his little girls dream, of a backyard wedding, perfect. When it came closer and closer to the wedding, I prayed hard for good weather..but not because it was going to ruin my outside wedding, mainly because I wanted my parents hard work to finally pay off.

"Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain. But you cant have a rainbow, without a little rain."

I'm sure by now you have a good idea as to why we based our blog around rain. I kept hearing from everyone that rain on your wedding day was good luck. I can now see the truth in that. Honestly, I couldn't be happier!! Marriage hasn't been anything but pure bliss ever since the day we got sealed in the Salt Lake Temple, for time and all eternity.

We can't thank everyone enough for all the love and support that was given to us on our wedding day. It was so great to see all our family and friends come together to celebrate our special day! We are truly blessed with so many great people in our lives! Sure it rained, but the part I'll always remember the best was the feeling I had in the temple... getting sealed to the love of my life and to my best friend, Austin James Thomas.