The Happiest Times

I say this every time I post, but I really can't believe that we are getting married in only 43 days. I have this little count down on my computer and I remember when it said 175 or something like that. We had an amazing engagement party. Because we couldn't tell anyone all year and because some people haven't been as excited as we thought they'd be, it was definitely nice to see that we have support from a lot of good family and friends, and those people are happy for us. That's all that matters. It really touched me that Rachael and Randy both worked so hard to make sure that we had a good time. Caitlin and her gang came all the way out from Vernal and Cedar City, Sydney, Ben, Sarah and Brandon all came from Provo, Dallin's family came from Cedar Hills, Lindsey came even though she had to leave really fast for Miss Draper pageant. Anyway I was really touched by how willing people were to travel for us. This year I've been so spoiled by having so many amazing friends, and they've been doing a lot for me. I love everyone in my life- I got lucky in that department. Here's some pics from the engagement bbq party.

Also, we finally got all the bridal shower invitations out! Holy crap I can't believe it's in a week! I'm so excited! I already got my outfit that I'm going to wear for it! :) My Aunt Kim is hosting it at her house and her, my mom, and kaylynn have all put a lot of work into this, and again, I'm spoiled, lucky, and so grateful. This is the cute invitation.

This is a little synopsis of what we've been doing lately. For 2 weeks we've been eating crappy food and not working out (thus calling it fat fortnight). We're both in school still and I'm studying for the praxis. I take it on july 23 and this is my last semester in regular classes before student teaching! We went to the pool on sunday and it was really relaxing. And we are planning the shower next week.

 We went to the Jos A Banks tux shop in the District and Dallin ordered his official wedding tux! He had to try it on in grey because that was the right fit. They will get the actual tux in next week and he'll go in for alterations. He was excited and the guys there that helped us were so nice. I took a picture of myself sitting there because I liked how big my ring looked haha

I got the kids all decked out for the 4th of July! I'm not allowed to buy them any more clothes so I bought cheap ribbon and tied it on their collars. This is them taking a nap on a pile of clean laundry. They love doing that. They always do that and it bugs me haha but this time I let them sleep because they looked so dang cute.

I don't remember if I've put our engagement pictures up on here or not. Here are our favorites. We'll get small prints of other ones for the tables at the reception. These are what we chose for the wedding invitations though. Our photographer is amazing and the place we went was gorgeous. I love how they turned out. 

I spent some time with Kim Campa and Kid this week and it was so fun to see good friends that I haven't seen in a while and catch up. I am getting 2 new part time jobs and my friend/bridesmaid Mickie is moving back to Utah from Oregon tomorrow! These are truly the happiest days. We're having a lot of big things happen this year, and we'll probably have these memories and friendships the rest of our lives. Me and Dallin are really lucky and really happy. 

Anyway, see you next Saturday!!!

:)

-Sydney (soon to be) Graff!