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!!!

Another Update...

It's almost wedding day with September creeping just around the corner. We have had SO much to do! I was very grateful that Zach was able to come down for one last week before school started. I don't know what I would have done without him. We got so many things done. In fact we were so busy running around that I got sick. Aside from the sickness it has been a wonderful week and our excitement is growing by the minute!

Our first stop of the week was to the Old Orange County Court House to get our marriage licence. We missed our appointment because Zach missed his flight early that morning and got put on another flight two hours later. After battling the horrible lines at the court house (not!) It was super fast and we were both very tempted to just make the whole thing official for an extra 25 bucks! We went to Claim Jumpers to "celebrate"our almost marriage. I know it sounds cheesy but since when have we been normal?This is after I went through the temple and received my endowments. It was such a wonderful experience to be with my fiance, family and friends inside the temple. I am really looking forward to getting sealed for time and all eternity in just a few weeks. We forgot to take a picture outside the temple before the session, so we decided to take out at In N Out afterwards. haha.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZACH!!

Friday was a very important day for a couple reasons. Most importantly it was Zach's birthday! I thought it was only fitting to post a cute baby picture of him so we can all see how cute he was and the extremely handsome man he has become! I love you Zach, I know your birthday this year was a bit hectic with all of the stuff we had to do for our friends wedding but I promise next year will be much better.... cuz we will be married! :)

It was a very fun and BUSY day! We were able to go to the sealing in the San Diego temple for our friends Joey and Alicia Mascio!

Just practicing for our big day. How do we look?

We had to say good bye to our sweet little boy Bentley. No, he didn't die. I had to find a new home for him. Which I did. He now lives with the Louder family in Orem Utah. I will miss him greatly and am having a hard time with him not being here. He is such a good dog and I wish he could have stayed with me. Honestly giving him away was probably the hardest thing I have had to do this entire wedding. I'm sure Bentley James is very loved in his new home.

And on a happier note.. look who came for a visit! My favorite (and only for the moment) niece Finleigh! Well, she isn't my niece yet but she is so stinking cute! I just love her! I had lots of fun splashing around in her little blow up pool with her!

Showered with love

Tonight was my bridal shower and it was so much fun! Since a "picture is worth a thousand words" I just decided to mainly post pictures about it because I don't have much time to blog about it. I will be sure to edit it later with more detail but for now enjoy!

During the "how much do you know about Zach" game. I aced it!

Me and the "maids" with a couple flower girls thrown in there.

My group gift was a HUGE gift card to target so I can buy my Dyson Vacuum when I move to Utah! I was soooo excited about that!

Mommy and Me
and a fun "bow"quet.

and of course you have to open something a little naughty, I didn't put up all the pictures of the "fun" things I got. I didn't want Zach to see them and spoil the surprise.

45 days to go!

We are in what I like to call "wedding crunch time". After attending the Chapman wedding on Friday I suddenly realized how much I still have left to do for our wedding! My list keeps growing by the second. I keep having to remind myself to just Breath Sara, breath. So currently I am....

1. Working on Invitations so I can ship these suckers out by Friday.
2. Wearing my wedding heels so I can work them in before the wedding.
3. Listening to possible music for the wedding and figuring out what I do and don't want.
4. Scanning pictures for our slide show
5. and finally doing a load of laundry.

Yesterday was filled with lots of anger toward certain vendors. People try to yank me around and I'm sick of it. So the "mean Sara" had to come out and set them all straight. I have to say that I am very proud of myself because I am usually really bad at confrontation but things like this is how Bridezilla's are born!!

My cellphone broke yesterday, and I mean BROKE! The charging piece in the phone fell out so... I am without a phone in this crazy wedding planning time. I must say that it is actually kinda nice to be without a phone and know that no one can interrupt me today. On the same token anyone that NEEDS to get a hold of me today will be very upset when all calls go straight to voicemail. Oh well. I will consider today a mini vacation and enjoy every moment of my cell phone-less day. On the negative side that means I can't communicate with my honey today. Hopefully my new one gets here soon so I can transfer all the numbers over.

Congrats Mark and Shana!

So here is a fun little video we made yesterday in the car on the way home from the LA temple for Mark and Shana's wedding! More pictures will be up soon!