Bahama Mama

For our honeymoon, we were lucky enough to go to the bahamas! A trip that his family all pitched in for. (Thank you!!) We stayed at the Atlantis resort in Nassau, and naturally, it was tons of funnnnn! And a really good de-stresser from wedding madness. So here are some pictures.

 a waffle cone ice cream chair!! i love ice cream

 Atlantis, herself

 My lover and myself

 The Sharks were Duke's fav part

 drinks by the pool!

 view from the balcony

 hello

 sometimes we read

 sawfish!!

 won some free money

 found this cute little guy in our room!!!

It was wonderful!!!!!!!!!!

Friends

After three weeks I still think marriage is pretty great. I love it. One of the best things about weddings is that it brings all the important people in your life together. I've been really REALLY blessed in my life to have such good friends. I really am so grateful for those of you who were able to come to my wedding! It was sooo much fun seeing everyone and I wish I had more time to spend together with everyone. I already miss all of my deary's! I know that once you're married you tend to make more "couple friends" and I'm looking forward to new friendships, but I want to keep all the old ones forever!!! In fact, I'm glad I didn't get married too young, so that I was able to meet all of these awesome peeps. Here's some pictures of some of my little friendies taken recently.

 bff's from Arkansas--hanging out before I left arkansas.

jenna and I

Then my awesome sister Brittany threw me an awesome bridal shower at The Chocolate in Provo..aka The most adorable and delicious place on earth (Also the same place I got my wedding cake from).

 It looks like i'm not wearing pants in this picture...and maybe I'm not...

And these amazing ladies came to the shower!! I love all of them so much!! Thanks guys :)

*Obviously some very important persons are missing from the pictures. But I love you just as much! Miss you all!

Hello

I just wanted to blog and say hi out there. Hi whoever is out there! I have lots of things I could blog about right now, but I don't have pictures on the computer I'm on, and it's just to much effort to get to them. And a blog post with tons of words and no pictures is BORINGGGG!

(this is the best I could do picture wise)

I have to say, It is nice to have time to read blogs again, to write in my blog, to sit and watch TV. It's been far too long. Far too long. Maybe I can actually Google chat with people just like old times. I kinda have a job now actually. It's one of those at home, a couple hours a day jobs, so it doesn't really count. Just some facebook/twitter/customer service maintenance. But I'm starting to look for a real (part-time..lets not get carried away...) job on base. Back to reality 

Annnd just for fun:

Moving

I think I'm getting older. My back has never hurt so much moving. Last Thursday we headed back up to arkansas for our open house, which turned out beautiful!! A big thanks to everyone who helped. My mom has some very talented friends. Then we packed up our moving truck and on Sunday made a 16 hour drive back to Florida. (PS moving trucks are expensive, ugh)

Monday I unloaded a million boxes and since then I've been unpacking and cleaning like a crazy person! It's been fun though. I love our little house and it's so fun to have a place that is our own and I can do whatever I want with. I'll post some pictures eventually...

On another note, I did happen to make the world's best lasagna the other night. Not a big deal, but if you want to see for yourself, I got it from allrecipes, and it really is the worlds best lasagna, in my opinion. I feel like such a little wife. And i'm kinda LOVING not working 40 hours a week at the moment. But don't worry...i'm looking for a job... slash i got a job offer last night to make $500 a month doing some twitter/facebook/emails for a company from home a few hours a week. But I'm looking. Well I'm off to the social security office to officially become Mickelle McCrory! Woot! 

Hey y'all

I'm in Florida! Wedding was pretty much perfect, but I'll cover that when I get my wedding pics back. Bahamas was awesome. I don't have Internet here until next week, so this will be short. Anyways we've been getting all set up in our little house. We didn't have water when we got back (fun surprise), but duke being the boyscout he is, put cups outside in the pouring rain so we could at least brush our teeth. Yep, I used dirty rain water to brush my teeth on Saturday. Then he took a bucket shower outside in the rain. Luckily though, he knows the couple who lives next-door to us and they go to our church as well, so we showered sunday and monday at their place and today we have water!!!!!!! I have never been so happy. I literally jumped up and down.

After 10 days married life is still good. There was an incident when trying to play a game of checkers on empty stomachs, but all is well.

Duke and I head back to Arkansas in a couple days to have a reception back there. Its just one big party after another! And then well finally get to open our gifts. Yay!

Oh and I almost forgot! Duke and I went to this cute little antique store that is in the old post office, and strangely enough it also has a delicious cafe! I'm talking DELICIOUS! AND we scored a globe that's got to be at least 20 years old, bc it says Russia is the USSR. I love globes. Isn't it great??!




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Wedding Nightmare

I had my first wedding nightmare last night. I went to pick up the cake and the lady said we never placed an order, and then she just had to give us the only cake she had on hand (it was ugly). Then I realized the only table we had for the cake was a kitchen table and I needed a small round table!! It was a nightmare. Lets hope for the best.

I also had another vivid nightmare where I got forced into some kind of slave labor camp type thing, and we stopped at a walmart and I ran away and I hid behind this big letter C for days or weeks. It was scary. And I came out, I was transformed into a black girl and married a guy named CJ Johnson????(also black) It was weird.

Today is 5 days until I am married. It is also our official 2 years. Well I am off to begin the day of craziness. Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FRIEND RACHEL!!!!!! i love her.

Life According to my iPhone

Hello long lost blog. Im in utah. I get married in 6 days--Still very surreal. Haven't seen my fiancé since July 3. He flies in on Wednesday and I cannot wait to see him!!! Here's what I've been up to in the meantime:

One of my 100 to-do lists

Sewing things for wedding

Drove through Joplin, MO on the way to Utah. Still lots of damage.

Picking flowers with Brittany

Trying so hard to beat my highest score on sudoku, and coming soo close!! Ugh.

A lovely bridal shower thrown by my family! With delicious homemade cafe rio salads.Thank you!!

Bridal preview..whoops! Speeding like a mofo to get to bridals. Suppose to be there at 6:25, rolled in at 7...thanks to I-15 construction, traffic, and accident. Then britt got pulled over going 87 in a 65...but thanks to my wedding dress and Britts clean record he let us off. Good times!

My fiancé sent me flowers and chocolate because i was stressed out. (and told him he should do something nice for me).

And hanging out with my sister!

Ps I love Utah summers. Ahhh.
PPS-no idea why the formatting is so weird...probably bc im posting from an iphone. the joys of technology.

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Utah bound

I'm on my way to Utah with my momma! First time I've had this much free time in months. It feels good. Anyways, here are some quick updates.

• I'm officially unemlpoyed as of Friday at 4:30. I'd be lying if I said I'm really torn up about it. FREEDOM!!! 
• I've been gluing and folding and cutting and sewing and painting my face off for the last few weeks. Hopefully it will pay off!! Here's one preview of something I painted:

cake toppers!

• Duke and I found a house! to rent that is. We'll probably only be in Florida for like 6 or 7 monthish, but it's very exciting to have our own little place. I can't wait to move in!!
• I just passed a sign in Colorado that says "Happiness is a crock of beans"
• My mom is using 2 GPS's on this trip. JUST IN CASE!!!! 
• One day I will blog about my trip to Italy. Maybe tomorrow on the road. Except I don't have pictures with me. But it was fabulous. fabulous. Already planning my trip back someday.... :)

Anywho. Life has been crazy. Mostly filled with wedding planning/crafting and working. I'm ready to get this party starteddddd!! 13 days. can't wait.