"You make me wanna say 'I Do' "

This last weekend Tyler and I had our reception in St. George and it was incredible! SUCH an amazing day full of WARM sunshine :), the temple, getting pretty and enjoying my family & friends. I had a lot of  extended family and friends come. I saw some old friends and neighbors, which was really great and the decorations and food were wonderful! BIG thanks to my parents for such a great day/night, and for my siblings AND aunts/cousins who came to help and support us...only 5 more days until we are actually a Mr. and Mrs. YAY!! :) I told you last post I would post a few more bridal pics so here they are...

 

 

 

It's been awhile

My apologies...I realize I should have been blogging during this wedding planning process BUT I was way beyond busy. AND when I had a free minute I got reminded of more things to worry about :)

Papa John's birthday celebration. bowling + pizza :)

Ty+ Matson at the duel shower

The cute little nerds :)

Oh brothers. He almost squeezed me to death

but I love him :)

At our duel shower for the two engaged couples: Kellee + Harold, and us :)

Kellee + Harold

Kel bel and I :)


THESE pics bring us up to mid-march :) This is all from either John's birthday celebration or the duel shower for Kellee, Harold Tyler and I. It was a lot of fun both events. We played a newlywed game and it was quite fun listening to all of our answers. Other then a lot of bridal showers, school, work and getting everything squared for the wedding & receptions....we got our bridals done :) Here is a sneak preview of a couple. I will post more another day :) Enjoy. AND for all those coming to St. George for our reception see you then! BE ready to dance and have  fun! :)

Time flies by....

WHOA!! Well I haven't posted anything in a minute...busy busy me. sorry. Well let's update. Tyler and I had our engagements taken! And they turned out awesome :) I LOVE them. (THANK YOU MELISSA) I will post a few....(of course not any of the possible pics we may use for the announcement...you will have to wait for that ;) )

And now we (mostly myself) are just getting all the plans in order for our receptions and marriage- that is less than 2 months away! Wow. crazy crazy. Well I am excited. (YES I do know the exact days if you said 2 months I would correct you...haha I am a geek I know)

Next the plans after the wedding and honeymoon are to head out to Knoxville Tennessee for the summer. Tyler is going to do sales for Vivint. Everyone says I will be getting a nice big culture shock when I arrive...but I am excited for that also. More excited to spend a summer outside of Utah with my best friend/new hubby :) and all the adventures of being a newly wed couple.

There is is folks...Tennessee

Weekend Retreat and Love day :)

This last Saturday was Tyler's summer sales group's weekend retreat. It started out at the Provo Beach Resort where we had a mini competition of arcade games, bowling, golfing etc. Whoever won got a gift card to RIO! :) I love that Tyler is such a lucky AND talented guy. He won the bowling with a score of 217 i believe (and almost the basketball too) so we took home the wonderful gift card to Rio! THEN we all   got to ride on the Flowrider! It was a lot of fun! I just did the boogie board along with Erica and we just watched all the boys attempt to surf on the flowrider, and a few succeeded. BUT it was fun to watch the wipe outs! :) Anyway after the flowrider, dinner and the boys attending like a two hour regional meeting, we headed up to a cabin in Heber area. Basically the majority of the time spent in the cabin was a poker tournament. Two groups of 8-9 players, top 4 of the group went on to the final tournament. It was actually fun to watch ( I know that is kinda weird but I have never played so I was intrigued by it) So the final tournament came down to.......Tyler and one of the guys on his team. The game was NEVER ending because one would get a good hand, no one was betting enough and they just kept exchanging chips. THEN after a grueling 30 minutes or so of this, finally the other guy (sorry I don't remember his name) looked at his hand and said I am putting all my chips in, which he was down quite a bit. So Tyler took his bet, to my relief and happiness Tyler had two aces in his hand and the other guy had a QUEEN and an ace. IT was close but we won another gift card for that :) Well worth it in my eyes! 

First round of the tournament

The winner is....TYLA! :)

:)

SO I had to just add a little bit more about the Love Day celebration. I must say I have the most perfect Valentine, for me! I know EVERY girl says they have the best guy because he did this and this....blah blah. Well I think every girl is different and all I know is I am glad I found my perfect Valentine. He made me a dinner which turned into a surprise candlelight rose petals everywhere and then almost the best part about it, HE TOOK ME TO THE JUSTIN BIEBER MOVIE! :) It was actually a really good movie and I enjoyed all the single girls (and guys) screaming and going gaga for Bieber! But I most enjoyed the fact that he cares so much about making V-day such a fun, loved filled experience for me :)

The Bieber tickets were inside the box :) hehe

candles, flowers and sparkling cider.

:)

Long stemmed rose :) Him watching Bachelor with me is a great idea!

I made this heart shaped s'mores delight :)

My amazing Valentine :)

A Warm Superbowl Weekend :)

Weekly update! It was a pretty normal week for us (Monday=Bachelor, Tuesday=Biggest Loser, Wednesday= American Idol, Thursday=American Idol & Jersey Shore) school, work, gym and food :)

HIGHLIGHTS: I took my first Chem exam (BAM I did good!) and Ty's company had a company party to introduce their new company name "Vivint". They had a raffle...and since Tyler has pretty good luck we decided we should go and just see if he possibly would win anything (like the 10k grand prize!!!) WELL sadly his luck didn't pay off this time around, but maybe next time when there is a 20k prize?? I can only hope!

So we spent the weekend in St. George and it was very nice :) I just love the NO snow zone. It is great! We did quite a bit of wedding planning with my mom (Ty got bored but he is SUCH a trooper! He even went to a bridal show with us...NOW that is what we call a great fiance!)

He loves life.

This was at the wedding venue, we entertained ourselves while my mama talked

haha I thought this was amusing...he looks like he is really pondering this picture :)

We also found out this weekend that fast sunday and superbowl sunday are not a good combination (especially when church was at 1!) Since SuperBowl Sunday tradition calls for snacks galore we had to create the perfect mix of sweet n salty...corn salsa, s'mores, shrimp + the idea of a red velvet cream cheese cake (we never got to it we were so full). All in all, it was a fun trip! Gotta love the weekends in STG.

Ty: "Favorite dinner ever!"

Chef Ty adding the avocados to our SALSA

Sister sister :) isn't she so cute!

Sammy boy kickin it + watchin the bowl 

SISTERS :)

Let the snack fest begin!

Ty enjoying his favorite snack combo

He luuuhhs s'mores!

Aren't they funny