Sweet little note....

As I was going through a the final stack of wedding cards, I ran across sweet words of advice from our friends that I thought I should share.

Let me first preface this by saying that the outside of the card was a painting of a sail boat and my first thought was that this card was most likely from an older lady who was a little off in the head. Well I was half right, she is an older lady and though she may be a little off she still had some good advice for our marriage together.

"Dear Sara and Zach,

May you be blessed forever as you "sail off into the sunset" and begin your greatest voyage ever- eternal marriage. Just like sailing on the ocean - some days will be beautiful and smooth sailing and other days will be stormy and hard. If you will remember the peace you felt in the temple and always find it together, your voyage will be successful and you will have eternal life together."

Introducing the newest Mr. and Mrs. Lyman!

That's right, we're married now and completely loving it! September 19, 2009 was the best day of our lives. Thank you to our family and friends for their love and support. They have been so helpful throughout our engagement and we don't know what we would do without them. Our reception was beautiful, our family was amazing and the night could not have been more wonderful! We can't wait to see our pictures from both of our fun receptions. We are now currently living in Orem Utah and are both jobless. We are hoping to get a job here soon so we can take care of everything. So wish us luck as we start our newlywed life together! We will be sure to update more as soon as we have free time!

Our Mini Honeymoon

I know the blog lately has been all over the place but I still want to share more pictures! After our wedding Saturday we stayed in a little hotel near my parents house. We woke up fairly early Sunday morning to run by the house and finishing packing and then get on the road for

Las Vegas.

We stayed at Treasure Island on the Vegas strip. I secretly upgraded the hotel room that Zach got for us to a nice suite. It was so beautiful! We had double doors, it was impressive so I had to take a picture with it.

Our amazing room! I wish you could see the bathrooms because there were TWO of them!

Yup, we were spoiled.

Check out that beautiful view from out room.

Getting ready for dinner at the Steak House in Treasure Island. It was the best steak I've ever had. It was also Zach's first time trying lobster and he loved it.

After dinner we went and watched the siren show at the hotel. It was actually a pretty risky show but had cannons and fireworks so it was fun to watch. I randomly found out that a girl I used to work with was one of the dancers. She worked with me in my first salon in CA so it was completely random seeing here there. Anyways, after the show we walked around the strip a bit and after realizing that we are poor and everything there costs tons of money we headed back to the hotel room because we still had to wake up early the next morning and go home. So we fell asleep and around midnight the cannon from the show went off and scared the crud out of us. The entire room lit up with a HUGE bang! Seriously, it was midnight!!!!!!!! Why is that show still running that late? Ugh. Oh well, I guess we can laugh at it now but at the time we were just scared.

These pictures could use an explanation. So I've never had "squeaky cheese" and Zach decide that once we got to Utah we needed to get some. After explaining to me that it was cheese curds and the squeak when you chew on them, I was oh so thrilled to try them, NOT! The word curd just makes my tummy do back flips.

None the less, I tried one. Yes, I can be quite the trooper. They actually weren't to bad. I wouldn't eat them on a daily basis or anything but if offered again, I might partake. haha

on a side note:
I was so dang tan picture! I miss you TAN Sara, I'll see you again this summer, hopefully.


At the end of a LONG road trip Zach and I finally arrived at our apartment! We decided to take a picture with the best part of our place, the sweet blue carpet that covers the entire thing. Now though the color may be a bit much I have to cut the carpet some slack because he is extremely plushy and warm and my frozen toes.

Pre wedding festivities!

Warning: Contains Adult Content, Please ask small children to leave the room

Ok, they aren't dirty pictures or anything, just embarrassing. :)

I know this is a little late but now that the wedding is over I can catch up on so much due blogging and fill in the blanks from this summer. To say the least it was a BUSY one. Three friends getting married, 2 cousins get engaged, all of the wedding festivities to attend for each bride. But enough about them, the whole point of a blog is to just talk about yourself right? ha ha.

Here are a few pictures from my Bachelorette Party. Now the heading says warning because seriously, there are a few pictures of things that may not be appropriate for the youngsters in the room. Now in my defense, I didn't plan the party so I can't be held responsible for any of it! :)

One of my very good friends threw me a Pajama Bachelorette party at her house the Thursday before the wedding. It was such a fun idea. All of the girls were asked to wear there pj's to the party and just to come and have a good time! She spoiled me rotten and ordered all of my favorite foods, desserts and drinks! I was in heaven! She decorated her condo with the all sorts of fun stuff. I guess at the party store she could only find confettie that said "SARAH" so she spend a couple hours cutting off the "H" on every piece! Talk about above and beyond!!!! She made little "boy part" ice cubes for all of the girls drinks. Of course we played "pin the macho on the man" but we will only show the edited pictures. Really no one wants to see a bunch of cartoon parts anyways. We all had so much fun playing games and enjoying each others company. We decided that night to have all the bridesmaids and I sing to Zach on our wedding day. (that's right 2 days before the wedding we are planning this, we're crazy) Anyways, we came up with a song and dance that was just hilarious! After that we all snuggled in the couch and watched the movie 27 dresses. Such a fun night, I will really miss all of my girls when I'm in Utah.

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My mom is going to be so ticked I posted this picture but it was a fun night of pampering with my mom! I sure love her! Thank you for everything Mom!

Oh yeah, we have a blog

So in all of the craziness that is wedding planning I have completely forgotten to update the blog. Perhaps it is because this has taken over my life...

On top of finishing things for the wedding I have had to fit my entire life in a few boxes so I can move to Utah. I never realized how much stuff I had!!! So I have been working hard at cleaning out my room and downsizing all unused clothing.

In other news, we are now only 8 days away from the big day. I'm not freaking out.. yet. Honestly I'm not worried about the marriage at all. I love Zach with all of my heart and I know he will be a wonderful husband. I'm worried about everything coming together in time for the wedding.

And with that said, this is about all the time I can spend online. I have to get back to work and get everything done. Grooms have it so easy!!!