ANDRES' WEDDING IN OREGON!

This past weekend, Andres and Phillip got married! I drove out to Corvallis for the wedding last Wednesday after work and came back Monday night. It was such a nice trip and so much fun! 
The wedding was beautiful! It was held in a vineyard in Corvallis and the actual ceremony was in the middle of an orchard with white paper lanterns and shear white cloth draped across the altar. It really was pretty enchanting. 

And just look how adorable we are! Andres and Phillip had all the groomsmaids wear long white dresses and it just looked so beautiful when we were all together!

11:00a.m.- All the groomsmaids met at Andres and Phillip's House to get ready, fully equipped with matching gold silk robes and all the mimosas in the world.

4:30p.m.- The most beautiful ceremony in the orchard. The orchard was beautiful, the grooms were so handsome, the music was lovely, and everyone involved was even more so.

6:00p.m.- Toasts from friends. The yummiest dinner. I tried salmon for the first time to see if I would like fish now. Still don't!

 

7:00p.m.- Cake cutting. Dancing. More dancing. More dancing.

 

We laughed. We danced. We cried. I cried less than I thought I would but more than I wanted to. We ate. We drank. We celebrated love in all it's forms. Husband and husband. Friends and family. The unity of loved ones coming together to celebrate a new beautiful marriage.

It was just such a fun, beautiful, happy day! 

LOS ANGELES IN TWO DAYS!

We leave for Los Angeles in two days!!
Well, three days if you count today. 

Our flight leaves Friday morning and I can't wait to get away from Utah for a bit. I love Utah, I do. But it sure is nice to escape it for a little bit. Even if it's just the weekend. And best of all, my aunt (who I'm staying with) lives literally like 1.5 mile from the beach. It's a lovely thing!

I keep thinking about how badly I want to go back to Disneyland! I haven't been since I was 18 which weirdly doesn't feel that long ago but also feels like an extremely long time at the same time. I don't think this will be the weekend for it just because it's Easter weekend and I'm sure it'll be especially packed, but I do want to go soon! 6 years is way too long now that I think about it!

Work is crazy busy this week as I try to get everything done before I leave for my trip but I should be able to do everything! I just hate the idea of taking time off if I'm not completely caught up. 

Also, last night as I was busily sewing skirts and getting orders ready to ship, Jeremy decided he was going to make me dinner and made the yummiest stuffed chicken with pesto, cream cheese, and provolone cheese! It was seriously so good you guys! Like, so good. So thank you for that, bug. :)

P.S. I just bought the cutest swim bottoms from Kortni Jeane! They're the ruffle Melon ones and I'm excited to get them! I have a pair of pineapple bottoms from her line and I just LOVE them! They are so comfy and cute!

Photo from Kortni Jeane Website

Kortni Jeane bottoms:  www.kortnijeane.com/rufflebottoms

 

CABIN TRIP WITH THE FOSTERS

Jeremy and I went on a snowboarding cabin trip with his family to Eagle Point! Eagle Point is about 3 1/2 hours south east of Salt Lake City.

I had only ever been snowboarding once before, when I was 16, and I really didn't learn much in that one day of snowboarding, so essentially, this was my first time. Jeremy was super patient and stayed by my side all day which was so nice! I really was kind of scared. I may or may not have cried more than once that day. I blame it on fear of falling, and feeling way too claustophobic in all the layers of clothes I had to wear to combat the 10 degree weather. I kept reassuring him I was having fun even though I was crying. The phrase of the day was "I think the fear is just overcoming the excitement of it." haha.

He was so nice about it all, and he is such a good snowboarder too! I knew this already, but it's so different actually being able to watch him snowboard in person and see his cool tricks. That guy can do backflips! What?! Backflips, you guys. I can't even do a backflip at all, and here he is doing them with a snowboard attached to his feet.

The first night there we all went to the hot tub down by the lodge. I was seriously so excited for the hot tub! Maybe even more than snowboarding... ;)

There were two hot tubs side by side outside where we had the prettiest view of the sunset while we relaxed. The relaxing only really lasted less than 10 minutes though because his siblings in the hot tub next to ours schemed up a plan to turn their hot tub into a bubble bath. They poured 1/3 Solo cup of hand soap into their hot tub and I don't know if I've ever seen more bubbles in my life! The bubbles were overflowing the tub walls and running down the sidewalk blending in with the snow part of way down the path. A lodge worker came outside and just asked "Did one of you put soap in the hot tub?" and they all lied and said no! He asked them to get out so they could drain it, clean it, and refill it. It was awkward. Just really uncomfortable to have multiple workers come out to start draining the water, and grumble to each other about what they had to do to take care of it. Meanwhile, all the sudsy siblings were now in our hot tub as we awkwardly didn't talk each time a worker came outside. It was weird. I'm sure it will be a funny memory in a year, but for now, I just felt so awkward and bad for those workers having to clean up after adults putting waaaay too much soap in a hot tub. Sorry, lodge workerbees.

We played games at night in the living room of the cabin which was really fun! My family was never really a game family so it's a big change hanging out with the Fosters who play so many games! For real, it seems like every time we go visit I learn about a new game that I've never heard of haha.

It was such a fun trip! So, thank you Fosters for letting me tag along. :)

A VIDEO OF OUR LA TRIP!

Jeremy made the coolest little video of our trip to LA!

The file is too big to include the video on my blog but if you click the link below you can watch it on his Vimeo account. 

Here's the link below:

Vimeo: OCEAN FRONT

OUR VACATION TO LOS ANGELES!

Last Wednesday Jeremy and I took a little vacation out to Los Angeles! We've been talking about going on a little trip for a while (well, not a while, we've only actually known each other 4 months) and decided on Southern California.

DAY ONE: MAGIC MOUNTAIN. MEXICAN FOOD. BEACH DAY.

On our first day there we went to Magic Mountain! Jeremy has never been on a real rollercoaster before so it was fun to see him experience an actual amusement park for the first time. (Sorry, Lagoon, you don't really count.) 

After Magic Mountain, we went to get Mexican food at this really yummy whole in the wall Mexican place my family stumbled upon last September in Santa Clarita. It was so good and the perfect little welcome back to California meal! 

Above: Nice Jeremy being cute for my photo.

Below: How he actually felt on the inside. Poor guy. Superman kind of tore his stomach up, and I made him go get Mexican food with me way too soon after that ride.

On our way to my aunt's house, there are a ton of nurserys and fruit stands along that highway to the coast. Jeremy saw a cactus nursery that he wanted to stop at so we went and I'm so glad we did! It was one of the cooler ones I've been to lately.

My touristy photo. :)

We made our way to the beach that evening and it was such a nice little moment to slow down and just play and relax.

Just look at this little dreamboat! :)

DAY 2: MALIBU. PRIMO PASSO COFFEE. LAGUNA BEACH. SANTA MONICA PIER.

A little coffee shop Jeremy discovered in Santa Monica that he wanted to try out. I'm not a coffee drinker, but I do like coffee shop atmospheres. And chai lattes. I could always go for a good chai latte!

Jeremy's first time driving in LA! And I was kind of mean and really threw him out to the wolves. Stop and go traffic on the 405 for two and half hours each way. Ooof! Sorry, dood. You did great though! ;)

We met up with his friend in Laguna Beach to visit and walk around the beach and shops.

Anyone who knows me well knows I'm a sucker for clam chowder bread bowls! It's probably in my top 5 meals actually. Jeremy had never tried clam chowder before so we got one on the Santa Monica Pier and it was so good! 

DAY 3: VENICE BEACH. SANTA MONICA PIER. BEACH DAY.

I had a lot of trouble with that dang ice cream cone. It was seriously so good but oh boy did it melt so fast. 

We had a nice beach day in Santa Monica where we just left our cameras and phones and everything important in the car so we could be in the ocean without constantly having to look back and check on our stuff. Getting a non-electronic car key made is one of my better decisions in life lately. It seriously makes it so easy to go to waterparks, and oceans, and rivers now. I just safety pin it inside of my swimsuit and I'm golden! It's just nice to not have to worry about that. Don't judge me but in the past when we would float the river, I used to just leave my key up under the wheel well and just hope no one would think anyone was that dumb to leave the key near the car and go snooping around for one. Haha.

DAY 4: BEVERLY HILLS. EIGHTFOLD COFFEE SHOP. POOL DAY.

Jeremy loves cars and besides the fact that I'm already not really interested in cars to begin with, I tried to explain to him that I'm a little desensitized to nice cars because there's just a lot of them in California. Take a drive around Los Angeles, Malibu, or San Francisco and you just end up seeing a lot of them. With all that being said, the car show on Rodeo Drive was actually pretty cool! And it was fun to see Jeremy be so excited.

We got the yummiest espresso milkshake from Nespresso in Beverly Hills. It was the best treat after walking around in 95 degree heat in the sun. Oh that sun really beat us up after spending nice breezy days on the coast.

A cute, over-priced candy shop near Rodeo Drive. I loved their packaging but oh boy was it pricey. It was nice to look around and eat their free samples. :)

DAY FIVE: DRIVE HOME. JEREMY'S SIGN. DINNER IN NEPHI.

We passed this sign on the way to California, but Jeremy was sleeping and I didn't want to wake him up just to take a photo so I made sure to remember where it was so we could stop at it on the way back. Do you know how hard it is to find any little visuals to help you remember where something is in the middle of a desert? It truly was in the middle of nowhere, but luckily it's somewhat near this old abandoned waterpark down the freeway a bit so that helped.

Our first trip together was fun! We laughed a lot. We danced in the car. We rapped along to dumb songs. We psyched each other out before rollercoasters. We swam. We argued. We fought. We made up. We ate the yummiest Mexican food. We kissed. We loved.