"this is the moment of sweet Aloha..."

I've been waiting to blog about the wedding until I had pictures from it, but I still don't have pictures, so....honeymoon it is! I told Logan to surprise me with where we were going, and he actually did a really good job not blowing it. He even said all kinds of things to throw me off the trail. I had my guesses, but I wasn't entirely sure. Then, at the reception, his Grandma was talking to me and said, "so...when do you leave for Hawaii?" I smirked and glanced across the room at him and answered: "um...tomorrow?" but when I told him she totally told me, he just insisted she had no idea and that was NOT where we were going.
We stayed in the Hawaii suite in Logan, Utah that night which was super amazing, and then headed down to fly out of Vegas the next morning. I didn't know for sure where we were going until we got to the airport and he gave me a present to let me know. Drumroll....what? you guessed already?

Woo hoo! Hawaii!! Ha ha.

We stayed the first two nights in Waikiki in a hotel overlooking the ocean, then we rented a car and stayed on the North Shore in a rental home. That was awesome. We were across the street from Shark's cove where we went snorkeling, a bike ride away from Sunset beach where we went almost every night to watch the sunset, a little ways away from Motsumoto for the best shave ice around, and not far at all from most of the other beaches. We loved it.
We made shirts before we left:

We went to the Laie Temple and I finally got my dream of going inside. 

We went to The Polynesian Cultural Center and they called us on stage to dance to The Hawaiian Wedding song during the luau feast, and they congratulated us on getting married. 

We sat on the beach and drank caramel apple spice cider together

 We rode beach cruisers to the beach and we got to see sea turtles

We went on a really cool hike up to a waterfall.

We got a convertible camero for the week we were on North Shore and it was so much fun 

We drove back to Waikiki and got to go parasailing over the ocean together

we got shave ice every day

We met the awesome guy from Hawaii 5-0 and he was just as cool in person

we watched the sunset together on sunset beach

we watched fireworks on the beach on Aloha Friday

It was the perfect honeymoon.

aaand, this is what I brought back. good riddance, bad dreams! doesn't it look like it was made for me? :)

27 was a really good year for me. I got to see my favorite band, fulfill my almost lifelong dream of riding an awesome little mermaid disney ride, move somewhere warm and beautiful, visit Boston like I've wanted to forever, go indoor skydiving, go to the beach in California, go to Disneyland a couple times, spend over a week in Hawaii and parasail, made new friends and saw old ones, went camping, got engaged, got new nieces and nephews, and had the most amazing wedding to the best guy for me I can imagine. I don't really see much topping that...so I'm just gonna go ahead and call this year 27 -2.o...

rebecca trying out the fort

My birthday this year was really fun. Rebecca has been staying with us for a couple weeks so she was here for it and we all went out and celebrated. We had birthday breakfast, birthday snow cones, went to a birthday candy store, birthday danced, went birthday swimming, ate birthday dinner and dessert, opened birthday presents, and watched a birthday movie in a birthday fort we made. (the little mermaid. obviously.) hurray!

Plus lots of people wished me Happy Birthday and it's fun to hear from everyone. Also, I got awesome presents.. Yay!
Summer is the best.

A couple weekends ago Melinda came down and she and Rebecca and I went to Vegas for the day.

We had a ton of fun and saw all the sites. That was my first time going up in the Eiffel Tower, it was so cool watching the Bellagio fountains from up there. Once again, yay for summer!

wedding, colors, and other fun.

Our wedding invitations have arrived in all their Disney glory! My ring is finally here! This weekend we're getting pre-wedding photos taken by one of my favorite photographers! Friday is my last day of working at 5am! The wedding is one month from today! Whew. Lots of things. If you'd like to send us your address for an invitation, you can do that here: lhttp://loganandkatrina.blogspot.com/p/address-submission-form.html... as well as find other general info about the wedding.
and since we've all been so patient...here are a couple sweet phone pictures of my ring :) ha ha.

so cool right? it reminds me of sleeping beauty.

A couple weekends ago I had my Bridal shower and it was awesome. For real. I'm waiting on pictures before I actually post about it so that maybe you can get a taste of the amazingness, but I'm not sure yet when that'll happen. (if anyone sees my mother tell her to just send those my way...)
Last weekend we drove up to Spanish Fork for the Festival of Colors again. We went in our usual group and Rebecca brought along her friend Kayla too. It was just as cool as ever, and we even danced in a conga line while we were there (which actually took a little effort after a few minutes because we were going uphill...I'm out of shape. What can I say?) We threw color, sang, and Logan and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary.  I may or may not have lost a shoe in the midst of dancing.
It was touch n go for a minute there.

4 years of Holi

this might be my favorite picture of Rebecca ever taken. My sister, the hippie. She's even got the moves. 

Hare Krishna!

"now pass me my dress, yes"

2 months from today....

I'm gettin' hitched!

This weekend was crazy. A few weeks ago I ordered the wedding dress I fell in love with online and I've been waiting for it to get here. Or rather, to a store in Lehi. My Dad actually called I'm pretty sure every bridal store in Utah as well as a couple in Idaho and one in some random state for this dress and no one had it in. He eventually found one place getting it, so I hurried and- with only slight complications- ordered it.
Three weeks later they finally told me it came in, so I headed up after work on Friday and was so excited to see it. I got there,  tried it on....and hated it. :(  It was the saddest thing. The ladies at the store kept saying how great it was and finally Melinda took me aside and asked me about it and I tried telling her what was wrong and then just ended up tearing up with her saying "oh no, don't cry!"

The whole way home I just kept trying not to think about it so I wouldn't cry and when I got home I didn't even want to try it on for anyone. I tried it on a few times anyway, just to see if I could learn to like it, and then slept on it that night and decided the next day I just couldn't do it. By that point we were up in Idaho and Logan looking around for reception places. That ended up being pretty fun and we found two places we're deciding between.

While we were out and about I just kept thinking about my dress and I asked my Dad to just list it for sale online. After a couple hours Logan called the store I got it from and sweet talked them into letting me exchange it. They even stayed after hours and I had the whole store to myself and a personal shopper to help me with dresses. They close at 6pm and I was there from around 7pm-9pm. I found the perfect dress- (which ended up being almost the exact opposite of the first one I got) and it doesn't need any alterations (phew- sigh of relief) and now things are back on track again! The lady told me she usually doesn't even call Grooms back but Logan was just so nice on the phone she wanted to make an exception for us. It was a Christmas miracle! ....or maybe a wedding miracle. :)

We have pictures on March 10th with one of my favorite photographers around here so I'm totally excited, and the weekend after that I have my Bridal Shower Melinda is throwing me which is gonna be awesome, I'm really stoked. Things are getting busier, but (cross your fingers) just more and more fun as time goes on. :)  

"you've felt this way all along..."

Hi!
 So, things have been crazy lately. First and foremost, I'm engaged! We made a video to announce it. This has the back story as well as the actual proposal..if you want to skip to just the proposal, skip ahead to like 5:30 in the video. Also, say goodbye to beard-y on Logan's face because he shaved this week. 

Um, so after we got engaged we went to Disneyland the next day. That's how we roll. It was a blasty blast and I didn't want to come back to work. Boo, work.

yay for the little mermaid ride!

I got mega soaked on splash mountain

Since then we've been wedding planning (as anyone on pinterest knows...sorry for wedding spamming!) and trying to plan things out in the short time we have left. The date is April 27th, and anyone who wants an invitation should send me your address and one of these days we'll get around to getting invitations. Our theme is the little mermaid meets pirates of the caribbean. mostly because we love pirates and mermaids and come on...who loves Ariel more than me? So we're trying to plan that loosely themed so its not over the top and kitchy...but awesome.

Sorry if I'm off in my own world over here in the next little while. I've got dress fittings (wait till you see my dress!!! it's amazing), decorations, a reception place to book, who knows what else...

...time to elope yet? ;)

"it's a new dawn, it's a new day..."

Happy New Year everybody!  We drove down to celebrate in Las Vegas, and got there just in time for fireworks in front of the Bellagio fountain. We even made some crazy friends who led us over to an awesome drum circle with a hula hoop dancer.