Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Bridal Showers and Family Time

I had two bridal showers in August.  Amy and Kara threw me one with my family and friends, and James' sisters and sisters-in-law threw me one for his family.  They were so fun!  We sort of forgot to take any pictures of the one with my family, so here are a couple we took after it was almost over.

Yummm!

Thank you to Amy and Kara for a swell time!  I received so many generous and thoughtful gifts.  I can tell this whole marriage thing is going to overwhelm me with gratitude for all the people who I love the most in my life.
While Kara was in town for the shower, we had a little family fun time at Cowabunga Bay and at James' parent's house which the kiddos just love.






He's getting so big and strong!!
A couple weeks later, I had the Taylor family bridal shower.

My soon-to-be sister-in-law, Noelle, made me this table for my bridal shower gift.  I am in love with it!








I sure love all these amazing women!  I'm so honored to be a Taylor soon!

Melanie made this very cute decoration.  It's hard to read here, but the boy is made of a Phoenix map and the girl is a Bakersfield map.  Then the heart is Draper, where James and I will live once we are wed!

Wendy and her kids came into town for the bridal shower.  How amazing is that?!  All the way from Portland!  The week before the shower, Byde finished  his last session of chemo, so we had a party for him.
The kids beat down "Cancer" the pinata bull!











It was another great weekend full of family time!  Thank you to Amy, Kara, Sondra, Melanie, Jenny, Liz, Noelle, Wendy, and all my dear friends and family who came to my showers!  I am truly the luckiest and most blessed girl in the world!

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

James and I have been talking about going to a Bees game all summer, so we finally made it happen last night!  Going to a baseball game and eating a hot dog just feels so American!  Love it!




There were fireworks afterward which were awesome!  Fireworks just make me giddy.  So fun!  Let's be honest, baseball games are long and somewhat boring, but it was still fun to go on a little day with my fiance!  I'm calling him fiance as often as possible since I won't be able to call him that for too much longer.  Yippee!!

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Engagement Pictures

Remember how I'm getting married?!  Ahhhhhh!  It is the happiest thing!  We got our engagement pictures back a few days ago, and we love them!  Enjoy some of our favs...

























We had so much fun and our photographer was so great (Sarah Carabine)!  One of those was the one we chose for our invitations even so stayed tuned to a mailbox near you!  The photos were taken in downtown Provo and out by Utah Lake.