Thursday, May 22, 2014

Life goes on...

Hello Again!
This is Kona, Hawaii (on the big island). I am so stoked and grateful this is where we get to go for our honeymoon! My amazing Grandma is gifting us this trip, and we are elated. Look how pretty it is! Talked to her yesterday on the phone, and she says everything's going to work out with us using her miles and stuff for the flight!

So, the band we wanted bailed on us. So we called around to other bands for the wedding and found out that the cost for one band is more than our entire wedding costs! haha So that's not happening. We're going to go for a DJ instead. At first I was a little bummed, but then I saw one in person and realized how fun they can be. I love that they can play all our favorite songs, exactly how we know them. The bands might not be able to do the rap songs or make things sound similar to what we like anyway. Plus, I love the awesome lighting they can do!
Things didn't end up working out with the basement apartment at Dallin's parent's house, so my mom and tom are building us one in their basement. I was so excited when they told me because we didn't know what we were going to do. Tom is working so hard on it and teaching Dallin how as he goes. We had to empty the whole basement of all the crap that was down there first, and that sucked. haha But it's coming along great and I move in a couple weeks!
Oh, and this is what our cake is going to look like. It will be a little bit different, but just as magnificent!

This is the invitation for my Miss Utah send off. I've been working on sending them out this week, and it'll be good because I'll save all the addresses and use them for the bridal shower and wedding invites too! (ugh. Interview practice tonight...)
Miss Utah is sneaking up on me and it's freakin' scary! This is my official MU swimsuit (which I'm stoked about). And Presley Orthodonics is a sponsor so I got my teeth professionally whitened.

My kids are so fetchin' cute. I'm obsessed. I sewed them these shirts and they were so good at staying still while I pinned. And they're good models haha I just used old tee shirts.


 

Josie holds onto Jake for dear life in the car. I'm not that bad of driver!

On sunday we went golfing with Ryan and Shayle. It was so fun and relaxing. It makes me want to pick up golfing. I only tried 3 times, and I was terrible. Other than that I just drove the cart.
So, in other news, my psoas muscle in my left hip is officially messed up from so much dancing and working out for MU. So my trainer says to take some time off and ice it. I hope it gets better soon because I need to be practicing and i literally can't do anything right now. 
Also, online classes suck. I hate them. I write on here and facebook instead of doing my work because I hate it.
But, I did get a full-ride scholarship this fall!!!! Woo hoo!! the Hunstman full tuition academic scholarship. I have been so lucky to get through college debt-free. I realized the other day that just by doing pageants I've made over 6,000 dollars for school, and I've also gotten other academic scholarships and grants from the government. I wish dallin had help like that because now he just needs to finish. I do my student teaching in the fall and then I'm done!! (unless I go to grad school...)

Well that's all for now! I guess I'll go start being productive on the 1 million things I need to do!
-Syd :)



Thursday, May 8, 2014

The Wedding and Miss Utah Finally Becoming Real!

We had our meeting with Misty the wedding planner, and we got most of the big day planned! This is my official wedding book!

These are all the papers with all the little details. Misty definitely knew her stuff and it was nice being with her and my mom because they think of everything.

This has pictures of what we chose for our guest book, cake servers, and toast glasses. Up top is a small picture of the swan ice sculpture we're getting :)

This is the photographer we chose to go with. After interviewing several we decided we liked his style and work best. We're excited to work with him. It was fun seeing Dal get excited about something in the wedding stuff. haha

More pictures of papers

This is where I got my wedding dress! The girls at Bridal Expressions in Sandy by the south towne mall are truly amazing. They got me the perfect wedding dress and veil, and they are sponsoring me a gown for Miss Utah in June!

It's so cool that I have this big bag of wedding dress in my closet. It's finally becoming real! I actually have my dress! I need to get some alterations done still. I wish I could put a picture up, but dallin would see it haha

This week I met with my cooperating teacher for my student teaching in the fall. I'm teaching health at Pleasant Grove Jr. High. This was all the paperwork from when I got my assignment, and next is my student teaching license. I really like Jessica (the teacher I'm working with) she is nice and not intimidating, but I know I will still learn a lot from her.  


I got us a wedding banner from a catalog I got in the mail. It was a steal of a deal. It's so cute and I'm excited to hang it at the engagement party, bridal shower, and reception.

Ordered the favors! These are buttermints and the bottom two say "Thanks for Sharing our special day" the top left says mr. and mrs. and the top right says "two hearts one love." I love them! So cute. 
This was my present from the Easter Bunny (Dallin). He is so thoughtful and knows me so well. I had to find my easter eggs, (truthfully he had to help me because I suck) and in each egg was a bunch of letters. Then I had to unscramble my letters to see what the present was!
 It says pandora charm! I love my pandora bracelet, so it was the best present for me. He put a thing of Extra gum in there because I told him that's a tradition that my dad always puts in for every holiday growing up. Since my dad's in NE now Dallin had to step in :) He's sweet. (Speaking of, my dad just got into town yesterday! He's going to be in Bluffdale this month.)

So, below is a picture of 2 jars I got for the wedding! One is for people to write date night ideas on the sticks and the other is for writing advice. Of coarse I still have to make them cute, but I liked that idea and to buy some already made is like 40$ on etsy. I bought this myself, and it was like 4 or 5 bucks.

I made this watch. It's not done yet, but I'm pretty proud so I had to put it up.


I can't believe that Miss Utah is in 38 days. I'm freaked out. I am more or less prepared-except I don't have a swimsuit yet and I need to practice my dance a lot. But I got my dress from Bridal Expressions! Here it is! (This isn't a good picture, but it's super pretty.)

We're sending out invitations for my send off party soon, it's on June 10th at the Scera in Orem at 7pm. Let me know what your address is so that I can send you an invitation.
 My kids like to cuddle in bed under the same blanket because they love each other. They are the bestest of friends and it's the most adorable thing in the world. 
That's all Folks!
-Syd