Busy Utah weekend

I had to spend another busy weekend in Utah finishing up wedding plans. I think I have almost everything done now. While we were there we picked up my wedding dress, fixed my temple dress, designed our invitations, picked up Zach's wedding band, found a place to live, figured out what the boys will be wearing, and more things Im sure I will remember later.

While we were there we got to celebrate SAMANTHA's 5th birthday! It was so fun watching her open presents and share all of her toys with me! She is such a cute kid and it is so much fun watching her grow up. We love you Sammy-kins!

Then on Friday my family and I took Zach out to lunch while he was on break and then it made me miss him so much ...that night I kidnapped him from his job at EFY!
Just so I could spend time with him. Man, I love that guy!
Zach had to leave on Saturday to work a couple weeks in Redlands so we didn't have much time to hang out. It's been crazy having him fly someplace just about every weekend. I guess it keeps us on our toes. We woke up early that morning and went down the street to Kneaders for breakfast! Yummy french toast! Then had to run a couple wedding errands and spent the next couple hours looking through his baby pictures while he did laundry. Can I just say that my future husband was the CUTEST baby ever!!!! I hope our kids turn out like him.

After Zach left I went over to my Aunt's house and made sugar cookies with Sam, and my cousin Breanna. It was so much fun and a total adventure in itself so I will need to make a whole new post about it.

It's Lindsays fault!

My soon to be sister in law tagged me in her note so its time to fill you in on a little about me.


8 Things I did yesterday:
1. Bought my wedding cake!
2. Took a nap
3. Played with Teresa for almost an entire day!
4. Practiced the song I sang in church today
5. Almost finished wedding guest list.
6. Cried
7. Did Laundry
8. Went to Shana's new apartment

8 Things I am looking forward to:
1. Getting married to the man I love more than anything in 68 days!!!!
2. Moving to Utah and starting a new chapter in life.
3. Going to Utah next week to finish a few things.
4. Being spoiled at a belated birthday dinner for me tomorrow.
5. The day AFTER the wedding when we can all relax.
6. Zach being done with school, but that's not for a while.
7. Furnishing our apartment
8. Finding a new job



8 Favorite shows:
1. Scrubs
2. The Office
3. Grey's Anatomy
4. any HGTV Show
5. Man vs Wild
6. Good Eats
7. Sunday night line up
8. What I like about you


8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. California Pizza Kitchen
2. PF Changs
3. Costa Vida
4. The Melting Pot
5. The Cheesecake Factory
6. Koji's
7. Neaders/Panara Bread
8. The smokehouse


8 People I tag:
Chandler
Julie C.
J&J + C
Kellie
Amanda
Zach
anyone else that wants to...

Few of our engagement pictures

I dont want to ruin the surprise by showing all of the pictures but here are just a few to tease you! Hope you enjoy!

Oh say can you see....

Happy 4th of July!!

Can I just start off by saying that I LOVE the 4th of July?! It is by far my favorite holiday. Not only because it is two days after my birthday but it is a day that gets to bring out the pyro in all of us. It was so much fun being able to spend the day with Zach. He drove with our friend Joey all the way from EFY in Santa Barbara. We spent the day with my family and had a little belated birthday celebration and a nice BBQ.

Later that evening we piled in our friend Alicia's parents car and headed to a "secret place" to light off the huge amount of illegal fireworks they had. It was so much fun! We started blowing stuff up around 10:30 at night and I'm suprised no neighboor call the cops on us because we were still lighting things off after 1 am!
The soon to be Lyman's and our baby firework! Ground blooms are my favorite! Zach and I have decided that this will become "our holiday" meaning that every year we will break the bank throwing an awesome BBQ and spending way to much on fireworks. Don't worry, you are all invited to the Lyman Pyro Festival. ( I'll think of a better name for it later)

Because I love these little guys so much, we made a pile of 30+ ground bloom fireworks...and lit them off with a rocket. It was the most amazing garden of "blooms" I have ever seen! So much fun!

It isn't 4th of July unless there are sparklers!
Alicia, one of my best friends!

We got shot!

This is just a sneek at our engagement pictures done by Jagger Photography . We had a blast working with them and are really excited to work with them for our wedding. They are so laid back and fun it just makes the entire process great! We'd love to get "shot" by them any day! :)

Shana's Bridal Shower

Today I threw a bridal shower for my friend Shana. She is getting married July 31 and I have the honor of being one of her bridesmaids. She is such a sweetie and we all had so much fun working on her shower! I was in charge of games so we played purse scavenger hunt, TP dress bride and Video newlywed game. It was a blast! During the purse hunt all the ladies had to get together in small groups and come up with as many items on the list. There was everything from Pink lipstick to pictures of grand kids. Anything you could think of was probably on that list. The TP bride was one that Shana played at another shower and loved it. We gave all of the ladies a paper doll bride and they had to design the dress using glue, confetti, and toilet paper. Shana was the judge and the girls came up with some pretty creative ideas. Then we played my favorite game. Earlier in the week I interview Mark (her fiance) and asked him 40 questions about his beautiful bride to be. I asked him things "what color is Shana's toothbrush" which he actually answered right. Although when asked what is Shana's favorite food, he got it wrong! It looks like he needs to study up a bit before they get married.

All of the engaged girls! Me- September 19, Shana- July 31, Alicia- August 21, and Megan TBD

Our cute little food display

Beautiful centerpieces, they are actually a mini mock up of the ones for her wedding.

And of course, no bridal shower is complete without opening up something a little naughty.

And so it goes...

Apartment hunting is Evil!!!! Zach and I have looked at several places to live with no luck! Granted we did find a few little stink holes to live in but ya know.. if you feel like when you step in your shower that you are going to get some sort of disease. I don't think we should live there. We think we may have found something today so cross your fingers and Keep praying for us. I know we will find something eventually.

In other news the wedding planning is going along smoothly. My brother and I have spent the last week working in the back yard on different things to make it "wedding ready". Its been nice to work outside and get some fresh air but I'm not exactly digging my new farmers tan! This week I have mastered the power wash sprayer and the hedge clippers. I feel like a champ! Also have been painting a few things and making little things here and there for the wedding. It's been fun. I am really excited that everything is working out and that I have the most amazing fiance in the ENTIRE world! :)

Update on Dad: For those who don't know my Dad was in the hospital for a couple days last week. About two weeks ago he blacked out in our backyard and fell and twisted his knees and ankles. We took him to the emergency room where after 5 hours they kissed his boo boos, gave him an ice pack and sent him home. The following Friday he was having another episode with the dizziness and blacking out so we took him back to the doctor, which sent him to the ER and they checked him in for a couple days. At first they found a growth on his adrenal gland and said that was the source of the problem but after further investigation the found out that it was actually his kidneys beginning to fail. He came home Father's day afternoon and has just been taking it easy for the last couple days. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.