"how sweet it is to be loved by you..."

Note from the blogger: Me: I wrote this blog all out and ready to post but it took me awhile to get my wedding pictures, and I never ended up posting it.  I'm just going to post what I wrote and you can all pretend it's 6 months ago while you read it. Ha ha.  
So, it's almost getting to the point where I'll need to re-introduce myself on my own blog. I wish I could say I had good excuses, but...oh wait, I do have a good excuse this time! This is my first blog back as a married woman. Weird, right? I say it every once in awhile just for kicks because it still doesn't seem real. Also, I still haven't changed my name. I'm having a little bit of an identity crisis, alright? It's been my name my whole life!!

We got our engagement pictures back and Abbie Warnock did a fantastic job. Here is a link to the album where she uploaded them:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150785827188433.430797.86164073432&type=3

I'll post a few of my favorites here.

 The wedding was up in Logan, Utah in the temple there, which is very castle-looking and cool.

the temple, the day of our wedding. taken by logan's cousin Emily

 It was kind of the central spot to where both of our families are living so it made sense. The morning of the wedding it snowed...ha ha. It was funny because it wasn't funny because honestly...snow? come on now. Gimme my sunshine and warm weather! But it cleared up quickly so no harm done.

I had Vivian Williams come and do my hair and makeup. She was recommended to me by our engagement photographer and she was fantastic.

When we came out of the temple everyone was lined up and clapping and we got to walk on through them which was lots of fun. I felt like a celebrity.









 Our friend Julie Hale took our pictures for us and we got some adorable ones. We took a couple pictures outside the temple, which was fun but also pretty freezing.

Yay! Big fluffy dress! ha ha.

Fun fact: We got our wedding colors from the little mermaid ride at California Adventure.

 

Then we had the wedding reception. It. Was. Awesome. Thankyouverymuch.  We pretty much had a little mermaid wedding, right down to our picture in Ursula's ball, (I totally didn't get any pictures of that!) Sebastian on the wedding cake, the sign in sheets, etc.
Check out our wedding cake. Logan made it, as well as the cake topper.














 Which...come on...look familiar?

ha ha. so amazing.

My Dad even walked me down the stairs to a version of the little mermaid wedding song that Logan composed. 

Then we had dinner, Logan surprise sang me a song he wrote for me, and we started the dance. I didn't realize he was going to sing, he just got up all the sudden and picked up his guitar. It was a little hard to hear with the crazy acoustics, but it was cute...and if you want to hear it, we recorded it so you can watch here:

first dance

Also, the cotton candy maker started up and so did the photobooth, which was way fun.

This is the only picture I got with my brothers all night:

  ha ha. but i'm okay with that.

all the adorable nieces and nephews in their cute outfits

New Sisters!

Sisters!

We got an ice cream cake but got distracted and didn't take it out of the freezer in time so it was frozen when we tried to cut it. Which led to funny pictures like this...

Then we ran outside while people threw rose petals and cheered and I didn't fit into my car because I was too fluffy so Logan had to squish me in as best as he could. ha ha.

I guess that wraps up the wedding! After that we drove off and started our Happily Ever After...

oh! I also got my new ring! When we designed my ring we asked them to put stars in it, which they tried to do, but it was so tiny they didn't really show up. So we had them redo it and I got it just in time for the wedding :)

love it. 

"we bought a zoo!"

I wanted to blog about this because I just re-watched it last night. "We bought a zoo" was probably my favorite movie I saw this year.
You know how sometimes you just really want to watch a great movie...something new, with ups and downs and fantastic music? This was that movie. Plus it's based on a true story. Bonus.

The preview made it seem boring, (don't judge it by that! in fact...don't even watch one.) so I really didn't care to see it, but I heard from a couple people that it was great. We watched it like, 6 months ago and I really really liked it, and what struck me was how great the soundtrack was. Perfectly timed, just wonderfully done. I'm actually not one for noticing music so much in a movie, but this one has a superb setlist.
Tom Petty, Cat Stevens, Temple of the Dog, Jónsi, Neil Young's "cinnamon girl"... wonderful, the whole way through. 
Has anyone else watched this? I feel like it kind of got skipped over. Anyway, the movie is great, and the little girl is the cutest thing you've ever seen.

a preview of the fantastic music :

"a pirate's life for me!"

Halloween! So, every year my family has their big Halloween bash and this year the theme was pirates. I'm totally bummed we missed it, but we decided to dress up anyway, because...well...it's Halloween!

this was our "arrggg!" face. somehow I ended up with a popeye face instead. ha ha

Captain Blackbeard

first mate

hurricane Sandy came through tuesday with a pretty good rainstorm, but yesterday was really pretty. So everything is good here. Ahoy from Boston, mateys! Now gimme all yer candy! 

"here i am...rock you like a hurricane..."

Hurricane a-comin'! Stand fast. Secure the riggin! 

So, apparently Massachusetts gets hurricanes. This is news to me. I hadn't even thought much about what natural disasters are around this area until a couple days ago when suddenly there were all these emergency preparedness things going on about Hurricane Sandy heading this way. I think it's actually going to be downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it hits us tonight and tomorrow but it still means plenty of crazy weather and possibly power outages. We were told that we should probably fill up our bathtub in case the power does go out and we need water for things.
...fast forward to right now. Remember how the bathtub just flooded our bedroom and soaked through to our downstairs neighbor's house and maintenance showed up and ended up ripping up our carpet to try and save us all?  This all after we soaked every towel and blanket in our house trying to remotely mop some of it up...unsuccessfully. oops.

On the bright side, if our power does go out, we'll have plenty of water! ...and so will our downstairs neighbor...
Happy hurricaning everyone!

Logan: "I just re-parked the car away from the tree and next to the big hummer, so..."

"So if the wind blows, the hummer will fall on top of my car?"Logan: "oh. way to be a pessimist!" ha ha.

"home. let me go home... home is wherever I'm with you..."

One of my friends said something yesterday about having to get a new license because his last one expired and it made me laugh because I thought, "people actually live in one place long enough for that to happen?" Who knew?
It seems weird knowing for sure we'll be living in Boston for the next four years. I've never had the future planned out that far in advance! Not that it's really planned at all, just...living here. ha ha.

Anyway, things are going well so far. (although it hasn't snowed yet...I might be singing a different tune once it does...)  Here's to the next 4 years!