Reception Pictures

The reception was held in my uncle's backyard in Cedar Hills. The weather and everything was great. Big thanks to everyone who helped make things run smoothly. And thanks to my mom for making the ruffled crate paper and my friends and Brittany for helping with the paper rosettes! 

Flowers byPersimmon Floral 

 

My Grandma

Cake from The Chocolate

delicious cookies made my Whitney

 

Invites designed by q.a. designs 

thank you stacy for helping me paint this!

yummy Yogurtland land that i didn't get enough of

Semper Fidelis-Always Faithful in latin/Marine Corps motto

hello, adorable!

Roy

Mark interpreting

I love this picture

Duke's sister, grandma, and mother

Duke's Aunt and Best Man Dan

Erica

Brittany & Jules

Suzy

Jonathan

Cherilyn my cousin

Loral and Rachel

Eric and his cute nephew Hendrix

Jackie

My very cute cousins kids

Scott & Whitney

Bouquet toss

Stacy- the lucky winner

I love this pic too. And Claire in the back with her hands up

precious

bff's

bff's

(almost) all my bff's

And that's it! I would like to take a second and just tell you that I made almost everything for the wedding except where noted. It was a lot of work, and I didn't even execute everything because I ran out of time. But I definitely couldn't have done what I did do without help, so thank you again!!!!!

Wedding Part 2

I loved my wedding day, it was happy. It is great so great have all your friends and family in the same place celebrating happiness! Here are some more shots from the temple.

my sister brittany and husband jules

All the wonderful people who came!

My family

My siblings

Duke's family

Duke's siblings

Our friends

my girl friends

bff natalie

WEDDING!! part 1

I have to say I worked hard on my wedding all summer long. Probably too hard. I sometimes thought it would be the death of me. Because of all this hard work I was scared that things were going to go wrong. The day before the wedding I had a few breakdowns, and lots of tears. But I am happy to say that the day of was perfect for me. I was happy and didn't notice anything wrong. I'm so glad I was able to just enjoy the day and not worry about silly things. I do wish I could have had more pictures with Duke before the reception. We didn't do "groomals" and so we only have pictures from the temple, where the sun was pretty bright and I look like i'm glowing in all of them. ha. However, I really did love our photographer. Alixann Loosle. She did a great job and did a  great job at Brittany's wedding as well. So here's some pictures!

We love each other.

Parody

Provo Utah Girls aka California Gurls by Mormons. I found it pretty entertaining, however if you never lived in Utah you may find it weird and creepy.

Tuesday Tidbits

Do you like my title's alliteration? Thought I was clever.

Today I challenged Duke to a staring contest-I won in like 7 seconds. So then he challenged me to a non-staring contest. No one won because we couldn't stop laughing. What is a non-staring contest? Well we witnessed this new game being played by some rugrats a few weeks ago at Five Guys. I guess it's the new thing. You have to get all your stares out first. Then you both have to blink until you just can't anymore!! These kids were so good they were going for at least 5 whole minutes. Blew my mind.

I went for a walk today around my "neighborhood" because I didn't really feel like working out. I felt white trash walking around aimlessly in my white T-shirt and cut off sweats, no make up. (This was at 2:30pm). I always see random WT/NWT (non-white trash) walking around our neighborhood at EVERY hour of the day. I always wonder where they are going. Duke says "they're just going for a walk!" But I don't buy it.

Here's a picture of our house from the outside. I would take pictures of the inside..but it's just not to that point yet. Maybe in December when I get the rug I bought that's on back order...maybe.

Also, made these last night and we really loved them. Also making this tonight. We are on the lookout for the best recipe for tomato soup. Wish us luck.
PS. I'm actually really enjoying this whole cooking thing.