Random Update

Well we are STILL waiting to hear back on the townhouse. We put another offer on a house that wasnt a short sale and they counter offered but we decided it was at the top of our budget and we didnt want to stretch ourselves too far. I am growing more impatient and frustrated everyday. We were kind of hoping to be in a place before Brian and Beckys wedding just so we could have more room to house everyone. There is another townhouse in the same complex that is listed for about $15 thousand more that is NOT a short sale. So we decided if we dont hear anything back by Sept. 20th we would make an offer on that one and hopefully could get it a little cheaper. While it costs more it would come with the appliances and blinds, which the other does not. I really dont know how much longer I can wait, its been 4 weeks now and all I think about it moving and decorating, I even went and picked out some paint colors! Mostly steele blues and grays. I already know what I want to do in every room and HGTV is always on in our house. I am even looking forward to packing and moving, I just want a house!

In other news, last weekend Becky had one of her bridal showers up at her Aunts house in Salt Lake. Brian is so lucky to marry into such a great family, I just loved all her aunts and grandmas and cousins. They were all so nice and welcoming. Here are some pictures from the lovely shower

They had a little luncheon with fruit, chicken finger sandwhiches, ice cream, and pastries

Becky and I

Aw doesnt she look so cute!
Pyrex! Yay!

To all of you wondering...

I have had alot of family and friends asking if we have heard anything on our offer on the townhouse. We have not. It is a short sale so it goes directly through the bank and they are in no hurry to sell it, even if they get an offer for what they want, it still takes 30-60 days to hear anything. I know you would think they wouldnt want to sit on houses while every month they lose money on it. But thats just how it works. It is frustrating but we are being patient. We have looked at a few other places and are putting another offer in on a short sale single family home. The house is way under priced and I think they are just trying to get attention on it, but we figure we dont have anything to lose. I wish the process was faster but most of the houses out there right now are short sales because of the adjustable rate loans and people lost there houses because they couldnt afford them when their rates when up. We are very excited to get into a house in the near future, and trust me, we will let you know as soon as we do!

(Town) House Update

Here are some pictures of the townhouse we put an offer on. The house definilty needs some redecorating but everything else is in really good shape. The master bedroom is huge and it has a master bathroom attached. We still have not heard anything back from the bank yet and I am trying not to get my hopes up but I am having a hard time not to. We are going to look at some more single family homes tomorrow morning just to keep our options open. With this townhouse it does have an HOA fee so with the money we would spend on that every month we could get single family home for a little more money without an HOA. Hope you enjoy the pictures and please ignore the decorating. Anyone who knows me know I can have this place looking a lot better in no time. Ha

The Master Bedroom
The Kitchen (it has horrible wallpaper!) but a good size and open dining area

The living room

The Masterbath (which is exactly the same as the other upstairs bathroom)

The basement is unfinished(this is only one half of it) but we plan to make still a liveable space with curtains or fabric on the wall and carpet on the floor so we can use it for my consultation room for weddings or just an extra hang out space

Last weekend Tysons sister, Kortni, got married in Pocatello Idaho. Most of Tysons family is from there so we got to see everyone and of course go to the wedding. I did the flowers for Kortni and they were so awesome. Kortni had great ideas and great style. The centerpeices and her bouquet were probably some of my favorite pieces I have ever done! They were so unique. Since I was a bridesmaid I didnt get to carry my camera around and take lots of pictures so I will post more when I get some back from her photographer. The other picture is of Tyson about to catch the football at the pool in Lava Hot Springs (about 30 minutes from Pocatello) that we went to. They just built two new slides and its a really fun pool, not quite a water park, but just as fun and the lines are so short!

Big News!

Tyson and I have been working with a Realtor for the past month or so and have found a townhouse that we love and we put an offer in on our first house! Its a short sale so we wont find out for a few weeks if the bank will accept our offer. Kind of funny, Tysons friend Casey owns the townhouse RIGHT next door, and Tyson lived there for about 3 years when we were dating. Casey is now married, to my old roommate when I first moved to utah when I was 18. The House has 2 floors and an unfinished basement. It has 3 Bedrooms and 2 1/2 Baths. If we finished the basement it would add another 2 rooms and bathroom! So there is plenty of room to grow...if you catch my drift ;) We'll keep you posted if all goes well! We are so excited to have our own place. This picture is not the exact unit, but they are all pretty much the same so you get the idea!

Weddings

This summer I have been staying really busy with Weddings and I love building by portfolio. You can check it out at www.brideandblooms.blogspot.com. I am so glad my day job is so flexibleworks perfect for my wedding business. I have truly been blessed!

Girls Weekend

Last weekend Tyson went to Colorado with Some of his buddies to go watch a few Rockies games. And I am not afraid to admit that I am afraid of staying in my house alone, especially for 3 nights. So I invited Becky to come down and hang out with me and keep me safe. We had so much fun! It was a nice make-up weekend from our Oregon trip because Brian ended up showing up for that weekend to Surprise Becky and we never got to just have our girls weekend. It was so nice to just be able to go and do whatever we wanted and no time limits! We went to color me mine the first night, and didnt finish our projects after 2 1/2 hours, so we went back the next day and finished, and before we knew it 3 hours had passed! I couldnt believe how much time we spent there but it was so fun and I know we both cant wait to get our plates back. We made "It's your special Day" Plates so one day we could look back and say we made them together. We also did lots of shopping and eating out and just had a great girls weekend!! I cant wait for Becky and Brian to get married and I am so grateful to have her in my life and all the time I have had to get to know her. I just love her to Death! Thanks Becky for coming down and keeping my company

B-O-A-T

Oh yes, he cant deny it, he is having so much fun
Okay we both look slightly retarted in this picture, but its really hard to get a good picture of yourself and someone else when you are one doesnt cooperate and while you are speeding and turning corners in a moving boat! Atleast he is smiling though!

For the fourth Tyson and I went to Bear lake with his Aunt Bridgette and their family. They were nice enough to share their campsite, food, friends, and their boat with us. I realized i forgot take a picture as we were taking the tent down, but we used our tent that we got for our wedding for the first time, it was still in the box. This picture is actually the 3rd when Josie and Kiesha came down and hung out with us. The whole weekend was so fun, but we were outside for 3 days straight for like 12 hours and I had taken all the sun I could get. My lips broke out in 4 different places with coldsores, and i even took 3 Valtrex pills! They came with a vengence. But it was so worth it. There is nothing like being on a boat. We also got to go boating with Tysons aunt and uncle Kurt and Leslie at Utah lake. We went tubing and wakeboarding. I was SO sore the next day. Also worth it. Thanks to Tysons family for being so generous with your toys!

I'm All better now!

All I needed was some good weather........AHH Finally!

I'm ANGRY!

I cant tell you how ANGRY I am right now! The ONLY thing I can stand in Utah, is the summer. Everything else about it sucks, I hate the snow, I hate the cold, I hate the roads, I hate the drivers, I hate the Zoobies, I hate the never ending construction. The only thing I have to look forward to is the few hot summer months we get after a long and miserable winter. And Apparently WE DONT EVEN GET THAT THIS YEAR!!! I hate this weather, and if it rains one more day...I really just might kill myself. Its the 4th of July and and I think we have had about 4 days of nice weather...and dont even try to debate me on this. I'm just too ANGRY!

New Love

Anyone who knows me knows I have a sweet tooth. I love candy and anything sweet! About a month ago I was craving chocolate, so Tyson and I went to wal-mart and I picked out some chocolate treats. I have never been a fan of oreos until now. I never really had them growing up, but for some reason I just cant get enough of them! And no, I am not pregnant. But I feel like I seriously could sit down and eat a whole box at once and still want more..Someone stop me, I LOVE THEM!!

Parade of Homes (if you can even call them homes)

This house and the next few pictures that follow was the first house we went to. It was probably my favorite house! The pool was so pretty and the whole deck and barbque and fireplace and everything was so gorgeous. It had huge bedrooms, tons of bathrooms, an awesome kitchen, theatre room, ballet studio, the list goes on...it was about 12,000 square feet and only 2.2 million. Not bad right?

The Play room

Biggest bathroom I have ever seen! It was probably about the size of our apartment, no lie.

THis is just the kitchen in the basement off of the theatre room, this house was absoloutly AMAZING!!! Its also the one that had the infiniti pool..this is the last picture from this house

Cute Little Craft room

I dont think i would ever want a white kitchen, but it was so pretty and calming to be in

All the decorations in this house were from this store called Alice Lane. I love everything in that store! Someday if i am ever rich...I just love her style!

I just loved this vanity and this huge mirror, it was so pretty

Theatre room, one of the many houses we went to

This was just a guest bathroom of a guest bedroom in the basement...no big deal

All the houses we went to had these huge master bedrooms with amazing views and huge sitting areas, basically another living room in their room

Loved these chairs and decorations!

Last weekend Tyson and I went to the Parade of Homes in Utah County. There were some amazing homes. My favorite house by the one in Lindon. It was so pretty and had a really unique styel and didnt look all the other utah homes. There was also a really nice, HUGE, house in Alpine that was about 13,000 feet! It had an indoor pool, sauna theatre, workout room, bedroom after bedroom, awesome deck with hot tub and horse stalls. It was really fun to see all the houses but also makes a little sad that I dont have a house, not that i need anything like these houses, but coming back to your basement apartment afterwards its a little humbling! I mostly loved all the decorations and interior decorating. ahh someday...maybe

Graduation...#2

Chelsea and Her friends at their graduation party. They decided to do the traditional "cut the cake and feed your friends after gradutation" Someone came up to Chelsea at the party and handed her a card and asked "will you please give this to chelsea?" Thinking that Chelsea was me. She just pretended She was me and said sure. Later when I was helping clean up someone asked me "why are you helping, this is your party, you're the party girl!" Thinking I was Chelsea, then after I set the record straight she asked me If I had already graduted high school. Made me feel good though, I wont lie, But do we really look that much alike? All the fam after Gradutation. Not alot of family could come this year because we had other cousins gradutating at the same time and everyone took a turn at each one.

Chelsea and I

This past weekend I went to Oregon with Becky and to our Surprise, Brian suprised Becky and flew in from Alaska right before we got home from the airport. There are about 165 people in the graduating class and the principal promised it would not go over an hour and half. It went 3 hours and they announce every seniors name, awards, what they are doing after high school, as they walk and recieve their diploma, and most of them made some stupid joke on their paper that was also read. Glad thats the last one for 6 years! Thank goodness. Way to go Chelsea, I cant wait until to move to Utah

Gradutation..One of Two

A few weekends ago we went to Wyoming for Tysons youngest sister, Kiesha, graduation. Sorry none of these pictures are great but I got what I could. Can I just say that Graduations are one of the most boring ceremonies ever! But Congratulations Kiesha! :)

Here it comes....

It is officially wedding season! I have been so busy with brides I havnt had time to update my blog! Last week I had consultations every night and a wedding on the weekend to top it off. I have to say I love this time of year and working with brides seeing every brides personal style and wedding visions and colors. I am booking up for the summer including Brian and Beckys wedding, but still trying to save some weekends for family things and a little summer relaxing...like seven peaks! Keep checking my business blog to check for the latest bouquets and recent weddings...at BrideandBlooms.blogspot.com

Camping..and Miracle Popcorn

Okay I cant say I contributed to this popcorn all that much but they were all very pleased with themselves that they made this popcorn with tin foil and a fire. They made a little pouch and poured the microwave popcorn into it and then rested it by the fire and waited til it popped. They were all so excited when they heard the first few pop and even more when they opened it up and it was so delicious! They called it Mircale Popcorn!

Tyson had been golfing early that day. He played 36 holes and it was one of the nicest days we have had all year, hence he is a little sunburned!

This weekend the Hammonds and Janelle and her friend kirsten and Tyson and I went camping up American Fork Canyon. Tyson and I didnt actually stay the night so I dont know if you can really say we camped, but we still went up and had tin foil dinners, played games, and roasted marshmallows. We only have a tent that we got for out wedding and its still in the box, but we have no sleeping gear, so maybe next time. Chris brought his bolo ball set and I think that is my new favorite game I get really into it. If you dont know what it is you can see a picture of them in the back of this last picture. Its made out of PCP pipe and you have two golf balls with a string attached in the middle and you throw them and try to get them to land on the bars and each bar is 1, 2, or 3 points! I'm not sure why I like it so much but its so fun! On saturday Tyson and I went to the Utah state track meet and hung out there pretty much all day. It was fun to see all the relays and just be outside and finally enjoy some nice weather and even get a little tan. I am so glad the weather is getting nice and all I want to do is be outside all day!