if I blogged in 2011...April {part 2}

Josh was in charge of date night and he chose the Pinball Hall of Fame. 

It was so much fun!! So many great pinball machines and arcade games!

And they let you play them!

We loved it there!!

 They had machines from the 1950's!

So many fun {and funny} machines

Josh was a natural, not surprisingly beating me every time...

After a few failed attempts at pinball, I was so excited to see Paperboy...a game I was actually good at.

Well, back in the day, anyway. You can see by the look on my face my horror when I realized I wasn't nearly as good now as I remember being...Josh beat me at this one also.

 Finally, we got to the back corner and I found my joy!

Pac-man!

I was much happier.

I stayed there the rest of the evening! :)

We give it a thumbs up!!

Thanks for the great night Josh!

if I blogged in 2011...April {part 1}

Our new place is about a mile from a park that every years holds Pet-a-palooza. It's a day where you bring your pets and listen to 5 performers for $8. We decided to walk over and go.

We got to see the band Train perform.

We like it!

Singing along--with passion!

And we saw dogs....lots of dogs!!

if I blogged in 2011...March {part 6}

I have absolutely NO idea where to start on this post.

We had a Picnic/Carnival Reception at the end of March in Henderson.

I had so many great people help me envision and put it all together.

It really was absolutely perfect! I LOVED it and it was just what I wanted.

I was crazy sick {they "honeymoon period" ended real quick} Josh got it first, and decided to share it with me. But I hardly even thought about it during the reception, it was just so fun and so great to see everyone enjoying themselves!

 We really wanted a relaxed fun "party". So we decided on an outdoor carnival picnic.

The decorations were a vintage feel. And of course, my sister Jill did all the flowers for me! 

The majority of the decorations and games were done by my friend's aunt Dea and my friend Melissa! They totally caught my vision! I loved it all.

"Happily Ever After Starts Here"
My friend, Melissa made these signs.
So cute!

The food was catered by my friend, Alisa. It was awesome. I wanted picnic baskets and blankets to eat on. And I wanted cookies instead of cake, so we had a tremendously lovely cookie bar!

I loved the blankets!

The games were SO.MUCH.FUN! And there were a lot to choose from:

Bean Bag Toss

BINGO!

Balloon Toss

Cake Walk

Caricatures

Go Fish--ball toss

Plinko!

Giant Word Search

Fish Pond

Ring Toss

"Lucky Duck"

Kissing Booth

We {obviously} wanted a less traditional reception. We wanted a party. Neither of us is crazy about cake (although, after my wedding cake I might be now!) So we decided that we would do a wedding cake pinata! So fun, the kids (young and old) loved it!!

We let go of over-sized balloons as our final get-away!

We really wanted to leave on vintage bikes.
We got some broken ones, it's the best we could come up with. :)

But what we wanted the most was for everyone to have fun.
I love looking at everyone's smiles!!
I think we got what we wanted!!

And of course, we owe so much to these folks. I love these pictures so much!
I really do hope our parents know how much we appreciate their love, prayers and excitement for us through the years. We appreciate they support during the wedding, but especially in raising us and making us good people. We both have great parents and families that we love so much!

So many people played such a HUGE role in putting this all together! I hope I have let them know how much I appreciate everything! I tried really hard to not be an ungrateful bride, but I still don't feel like I've expressed enough gratitude. I was overwhelmed at the amount of love and generosity that was shown to us! We are a lucky couple!
Thank you!!

The End.

All the amazing photos are a compilation of Jonathan Canlas and Jennifer Garbett.
LOVED my photos!!

if I blogged in 2011...March {part 5}

Our first home.
We didn't want to "miss out" on any part of the newlywed adventure, so Josh and I decided to move into an apartment and rent out the house. And it saved us a lot of money, so that is always nice.
We were so excited! And it's fun to have our own little place!

if I blogged in 2011....March {part 4}

 We had an open house in Salt Lake City when we got back from our honeymoon.

It was low key and perfect.

Here are the two pictures I have from it.

Lot's of goodies as you can see. :)

I would love more...let me know if you have any!

if I blogged in 2011...March {part 3}

We went on our honeymoon to San Antonio, Texas! The trip was a total surprise to me, Josh planned it all! I didn't know until we made it to the ticket stand and then Josh told me. He and my sis, Jill, packed for me! It was so much fun! I would've never guessed San Antonio, although I mentioned it several times that I really wanted to go there one day. It was a perfect honeymoon. There was lots to do on days we wanted things to do, but if we felt like being lazy we didn't feel like we were missing out on much.

We didn't have a clock/watch the whole time we were there and our phones were turned off, it was amazing! We caught up on some much needed sleep! Ran along the Riverwalk every morning. And ate a lot. That was pretty much our daily routine.

Here are some other highlights....

I am absolutely IN LOVE with the Riverwalk! Our hotel was right on the Riverwalk. It was so wonderful, the pictures don't do it justice, but it was so romantic and a fun energy!!

The Alamo!

It was like 5 minute walking distance from our hotel.

It's a lot bigger than what we thought, but I guess that is what they say about Texas!

Oh, Mi Tierra!

Just looking at this picture makes me hungry! We ate lunch there the first day and loved it so much we went back the last night we were there. YUM!

 But the main highlight was just being about to hang out with my Josh! After a few crazy months of wedding planning it was nice to have just the two of us! 

And NOT have to leave each other when we said good night!!