Home Sweet Home

There is nothing quite as sweet as home. Living here in Utah has really shown me that. Not that I don't love Utah... Okay actually I don't. Haha. I love having family here. I love seeing my big sister and my little nephew all the time and I love Daniel's family and everything they do for us (namely Uncle Luke & Aunt Erica and Uncle Steven) and being able to see and hang out with a lot of Daniel's cousins as well (the Leany's) is so great. And of course my cousin Hannah who I love to death and Melissa who is so much fun! So in that manner, Utah is swell (do people still say swell?! I guess I do!).

Last weekend Daniel and I went home- to Colorado. Oh man I love that place! And I love all the family out there too! My parents and siblings and Daniel's parents and siblings and his Uncle John and all their kids. I love them all! Seriously people. I don't even know where to start with how great our trip home was!

At the beginning I suppose! So we flew in on Thursday after work. Up until our flight, I was a crazy ball of craziness!

I think Daniel had just about enough of my rantings because he decided to help calm me down... By freaking me out. Excellent.
Exactly an hour before we needed to be leaving from the airport he tells me he has to drive to Ogden "real quick" to help one of the other techs with a call... Uhh HELLO?! It was traffic hour and Ogden is 30 minutes away without the traffic. Ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh. I'm trying to stay calm but I was doing a BAD job of it!

what I imagine I would have looked like driving to the airport

So he laughs... But it's so not funny! Until he tells me he loves me and is totally joking, he's almost home. (Did I mention he hadn't packed yet? Yes, he's a better procrastinator than me!) Okie dokie. The up side of that story- all my stress is out the window! Because hey, it could be worse. I could be crazy lady speeding to the airport as the plane was taking off.

The flight out went smoothly and we got in pretty late- to late to get anything accomplished which is perfect for visiting time! And considering I hadn't seen Amy in about 37 years, I had a lot of visiting to do!

On Friday, we went to the same lady who did my sister's dress alterations for her, Judy, she's wonderful. Seriously love her she is so sweet and not to mention efficient! She took measurements for Malory and Amy to add sleeves to the dress (all my other bridesmaid's are in Utah unfortunately) and then we went over to Cheri to do a flower consultation.

It could not have gone better! You know when your family has the hook-ups and you're just feeling great? It was like that. Except before I met Cheri it was like, okay does my fam really have the hook-ups or do we know some old lady who likes flowers and orders them from Costco? Ughh. It was kind of making me nervous. Well, it turns out Cheri is amazing and she has a similar taste in flowers to me so I can relax because I know she's going to do some beautiful work for us! I want to spill all the details, but Daniel likes to keep everything on the down-low so that when people come to our reception it's like "Ohh, Ahh!" and an Angel's chorus in the background!

After that Ames had to leave for work which stunk, but we didn't do too terribly much after that. We did go to a cake tasting, I'll omit the name because I don't want to bad mouth them openly like that, they're probably great but it wasn't a good experience! They had 4 flavors to taste. I know what you're thinking! White cake, chocolate, strawberry, marble, red velvet maybe. That's what I was thinking too. Errrr! Wrong! They had (prepare yourself........) Mexican chocolate- not too bad but kind of dry. Rum. Gross. Banana Rum. Grosser! and Cherry Amaretto. So apparently they thought we were alcoholics?! But seriously- who wants to feed 350+ people with such... interesting... flavors. Not us. And the frosting was greasy. No thanks...

Then it was just running around to Archiver's and Hobby Lobby getting some stuff to do a little project I was wanting to do for the engagement pics. So we completed that- again wanting to spill everything but Daniel has put me on lock-down!

Saturday was even better. Ames had the day off so we spent the entire day together. We went and got our eyebrows done in the morning and then bought some shoes. Sidebar... I have a shoe addiction. And Daniel has forbidden me from buying shoes because I went a little crazy a couple months ago and bought 3 pairs... But Amy bought me these ones for $10 so it was okay. But I figured I'd get Daniel back ;) So Daniel meets us at the mall and I'm like, "Babe... I love you, don't be mad okay?" So he gets this look on his face like... Oh great what now?! So I told him I bought another pair of shoes... And I got some for Amy too... And they were $25 each... It would've been great except he decided to be okay with it! Dang it, why is he such a sweetheart?! Haha.

So then we go to the other cake tasting place. It was.... AMAZING. Like, holy moly delicious heaven on our taste buds! The place is called The Makery and the consultant helping us and designing our cake was so much fun and so talented and the cake... was delicious (I'm sorry did I say that already?!). They had plently of flavors for us to try, all that we requested and every single cake was great! I could not be more excited about our cake! Now everyone seriously needs to come to our reception solely to taste our cake. I'll clue you in a tad... We're having 3 cakes, 1 main 4 tiered cake and 2 "satellite" cakes that are 2 tiers. The main cake is White Chocolate with a Strawberry filling. YUM. One satellite cake is Strawberry with Strawberry Bavarian Cream filling. SO YUMMY. And the other is a Red Velvet cake. YUMMMM. And they all have cream cheese frosting. I'm daydreaming just thinking about them again! EPIC SUCCESS on the cake!

Then we went to find our caterer. Danny was set on BBQ which at first I was a little apprehensive about. This is a wedding, not a graduation party! But everyone we talked to seemed to like the idea and then we went to Famous Dave's and it was so good I'm completely sold on the idea! So we set them in stone and we're very excited! Daniel, Amy, and I all loved the food!

After so much food and running around we were pretty beat so we headed home. That night, one of Daniel's best friend's Josh Hoeft got baptized and we got to go to that which was so awesome. We couldn't be more excited! Daniel gave a great talk on the Holy Ghost. I really love when he speaks about spiritual things. He has such a strong testimony and you can always feel the spirit so strong when he speaks. I feel very blessed to be marrying him. I know he will be a wonderful leader for our home and for our kids.

Sunday we went to church and then that evening we did our engagement pictures. Becca did so wonderful for us! Daniel has a hard time being comfortable in front of a camera, especially when it comes to PDA. It's kinda funny actually how awkward he can be! But Becca was really able to get him to relax a little and I haven't seen the pictures yet, but I'm so sure that she captured so many great pics! It's almost been a week and she said to give her about 2 so I'm starting to get rather anxious! Haha. I've always been spoiled since my mom is professional photographer and she does so great I have a hard time trusting anyone else to capture what I know my mom is capable of! But Becca did great, I seriously cannot wait to see the pics!!! Also, I decided Becca is also wonderful because she also loves shoes and she loved mine. So she is good in my book! Haha

So that is my forever long story about how great and productive our trip home was! I love our family out there so much and I have always known Colorado is home base and we want to go back, but being home really just reminds me how much we love Colorado and we will be going home as soon as we can. :)