Class of 2009!!

My Baby brother is GrAdUaTeD!!!

Jonathan,I am so so so proud of you and I know you will go so far in life. Sounds cheesy, but you are such a smart kid with a great view on this world. I know you'll make it a better place. You truely are the second-smartest person I know! (me, being the first of course!) Keep those smarty pants on your whole life ;) I love you Jonny-Joe!

My brother rarely takes a serious picture AND smiles, so some of these are more valuable than ya think!

Proud Mom and Pops

Go TiGeRs!!

Paulson Family Wedding Shower

Nola Paulson and family put together a beautiful wedding shower! It had a recipe theme. I received a ton of great recipes with a great gift to go along!

We ate brunch before with all my favorite breakfast foods!

We got a great new pizza pan with a yummy recipe for BBQ chicken pizza! We'll use it often, I'm sure!

My mama gave us our cute red crockpot that i've been dying for!

Ann gave us the sassy-red fiesta dishes we needed! They are the cuttest ever and add so much style to the kitchen!

4 days....only 4 days!!

Blake and I have been busy these past couple of weeks!! Blake has relieved a huge stress by finishing the MCAT. Now, he is trying to put together a ton of applications by friday so they'll be ready to send out... The test was a thousand-hour long test in Taylorsville really early in the morning so by the time I got to him, his brain was fried for the day. He has been taking a couple classes a week to improve his score and he feels a ton better about the test this time. We will find out the score while we're on our honeymoon.... that could be good or bad ;)
I've just been busy with work and finalizing all of our fun wedding plans and hoping I'll still fit in my wedding dress(yikes!).... Thank goodness for mothers because there is NO way I would survive planning alone!
Most of our family is here in town for the wedding and we really enjoy having everyone here! My nana and papa are visiting from Moab and it's always a joy to have them around. Trent can have his history-talkin' buddy and my mom has the world's best shopping partner. My aunt Gretchen and two boys, Sam and Ben, are here from Portland and I CAN NOT believe how big they've gotten! Blake's family is growing too! 2 of the great girls in his family are pregnant and have the cuttest prego bellies! Kendra will be having her second child, a boy, and Nicole is having her first baby, a girl! We look forward to having Jake and Jill here with us and we'll finally meet this handsome Luke we've heard everything about!

Starting to Feel It...

Blake and I get married in ONE MONTH!!!!! Getting this close to the wedding, I'm starting to feel all the stress that I've heard so much about. I'm actually to the point where I don't like to talk about it because that's what I've been doing everyday ha ha. Now, when people ask how wedding plans are going, I simply reply with a 'good'.

Blake has enough to worry about without stressing about wedding stuff... He is taking the MCAT on friday!! He has spent all of his extra time away from work studying....and sometimes when he gets a chance, he even studys at work. He has worked so so so hard in preparing for this test and I know it'll pay off. **GoOd LuCk HoNeY**

Happy..uh, 29th.. Birthday!

..Today is my mama's birthday! I am so so sad I couldn't be there but I know she had a good one. I hope she decided on the most expensive place to eat, because this is the one day you can get away with it ;)

Mom, I truely appreciate everything you do for us and everything you are! I am so very lucky to have a beautiful mother like her and I know she'd do anything for her kids!

FuTuRe Mr. & MrS....

We will be getting married in the Salt Lake temple on May 29th. Planning this wedding has been a challenge for me because I am not the type of person that makes decisions easily. I'm just easy to please ;) Honestly, I'm happy with anything so it's been a little hard to decide on sooo many things!

Reception Center: The only thing I wanted for our reception center is that it had to be one big, open room. That is exactly what I found! Our reception will be at the Eccles Conference Center in ogden. The room is HUGE but beautiful.

Ceremony: The temple was a sinch to pick because, in my opinion, Salt Lake has the most beautiful exterior... better pictures too!

COLORS: Choosing colors was one of the hardest parts of planning because they are SO important. Everything revolves around the perfect color. I always thought I would get married in the fall so I had deep and darker colors picked out, but... things change :) I decided on 'Champaigne pink' after seeing the color on a silky table cloth in a design add. I fell in live with it! This color has been a night mare to work around because it seems that nothing is made in this color. But it'll all be worth it!

Dinner: we decided to have the dinner the night before the wedding so we don't cram everything into one day. We will be eating at the White House in bountiful. They have gorgeous hardwood floors and yummy food!

Photography: Choosing our photographer was actually the easy part for me. She was recommended to us by so many people and my mom said she is just my style. We are thrilled we went with Amber of Togisala Photography. She has been so so much fun to work with!

A Little Early...

So I know it's a little early to be starting a blog page but I thought it would be fun to give family updates on all the wedding plans!
I'm new to this blog thing and to be honest, it's kinda kickin' my butt! (I swear it's the computer) I have no clue how to add other people onto my page... suggestions?!?