Love, true love....

Two weekends ago my cousin, one Claire Stanfill, married the handsome and dashing Joel Wagstaff. Such a lovely couple! The whole fam flew in for the event and my immediate family (+Amanda and Clark's girlfriend, Kelsie) had a weekend slumber party at our house (read: two bedroom apartment with a couple of couches), minus M&V&Jedmaster who stayed with V's fam (we had plenty of room! And our carpet is so fuzzy and sofft...still they remained unmoved). Here are a few pics with more forthcoming....

Happy Anniversary!

Mike and I celebrated our first anniversary this last weekend. We made it. One whole year. It's like we're experts now. Seasoned masters. Yo-Yo Mas of matrimony. Or maybe not. It's odd how you feel like you've been together forever, but a year really isn't that long. And people are still calling you "newly weds," when you feel like you're finally part of the club. Nope. Denied. Maybe when we start having progeny....

This last year has been wonderful. Mike really is an amazing husband and I love him more than when we started. Over the weekend, he stealthily sent me flowers at work (the most gorgeous lilies I have ever seen), we went to an amazing dinner at the Chef's Table (I used the wrong dang spoon for the sorbet....uncouth woman), got massages (I have to say, I was dreading getting a man masseuse, which I did...he had a mustache), ate some more, went on walks, went to see Iron Man with Pete and Meagan (they're more newlywed then us...so it's all good), and then crashed on Sunday (Mike was zonked out on muscle relaxer for his back and I had a wicked headache...so romantic).

To conclude: I'm glad I waited around long enough to find Mike. He's my favorite.

Carlsbad Crew

Just thought I would post a picture from Bruce and Sabrina's wedding in San Diego about a month ago. The guys in the picture (left to right Johnny B, Bruce, my hubby and Jimmy) are Mike's closest friends from highschool (and now). I'm the only one not from California (loser!). The wedding was beautiful and we had a lovely time staying with Mike's family. Hopefully more pictures are forthcoming....(as I totally ganked this from Holly's blog)...

That waterfall sure sounds perty...

Jimmy and Holly invited us up to SLC to go on a wee hike Saturday afternoon. Revved up for an exciting outdoor adventure, we packed delish deli sandwiches, meltingly moist cookies, and some bottled beveregation and headed out for the trail. The internet trail description said it was "moderate," which we translated to "easy if you're not wusses." Turns out that--two aching backs and 1 set of bad knees combined with killer switch-backs and vertical ascents (90 degrees! or something) with the added delight of kamikaze caterpillars dive-bombing from the trees en mass--left us to conclude, "Welp, that waterfall sure sounds like a winner....time to go settle Catan*." For the parts of the trail we did do, the weather was beautiful (sunny with a tantalizing breeze) and the scenery divine. After some additional physical therapy we'll be back to conquer the mountain and actually get a visual of the falls....

*Don't judge us.