When your outfits are a little too coordinated // Abigayle + Mo's Wedding

This past Thursday I left work a little bit early and jumped on the frontrunner train to head up to Salt Lake City to meet JP. 

We were headed to a wedding up Millcreek Canyon and he'd been working in Salt Lake all day already and was going to pick me up from the train station.

So, you can imagine my absolute horror when I step off the train all dressed for the wedding in my camo skirt and h&m crop top and see him waiting there, also dressed for the wedding, in his camo shirt I just bought him. 

We matched. In camo. 

I started laughing so hard that I was crying, and there was nothing to be done about it so up to the wedding we went. 

It was a fabulous wedding reception at the neatest venue; all nestled in the trees surrounded by mountains and cliffs. 

Not to mention the bride and groom were freaking adorable and the food was amazing (beef and pork sliders with avocado and grilled onions!)

We didn't know a lot of the guests at the reception so I am sure there were more than a few confused people wondering who the couple in matching camouflage outfits were hahaha. I still haven't decided if it was a high or low point of our wedding-attending careers.

Congrats Abby and Mo!!

PS - my sis-in-law Shayla took Abigayle and Mo's engagements (here here and engagement video here) and bridals (HERE) and they are AMAZING! You should definitely check them out!

Hiatus is Over:

I realized this weekend that it's been almost 3 weeks since my last post!

A hiatus that I think may be my longest ever... 

The silence has been due mostly to a lack of internet at our home (thank Comcast... You have one job that we're paying you to do.)

and a little bit because summertime has decided to be absolutely wonderful this year. 

Between playing tennis with JP most days of the week, a canyon in our backyard that a big huge great dane puppy and I can't get enough of, and full-time jobs but no homework to clutter up our evenings, I think it's safe to say a majority of our time has been spent outside or adventuring with friends. Which has led to a complete lack of blogging.

But I'm back now! With renewed motivation to document the goings-on in my life with an actual camera, so stay tuned... haha. 

However for now, some iPhone pictures will have to do! 

^^^ this is the face of sheer joy. It is also the face of JP being very mean... I went off sugar and caffeine for a few weeks and this purchase occurred right in the middle of my deprivation... So cruel. 

Thoughts on being off sugar: I didn't feel a huge difference in my overall health, nor did I lose a bunch of weight. But my clothes seem to fit better and I didn't get as many headaches. I also have more steady energy (I'm still keeping caffeine intake to a minimum) through out the entire day and not as many highs/lows.

^^^ Up Rock Canyon in Provo. Does this not look like Narnia?! Oh my, the mountains are seriously incredible. 

^^^ JP and I have totally re-kindled our love for tennis (we first started hanging out 5 years ago by playing each other in tennis matches!) this summer and we love playing doubles with friends!

^^^ Me and that puppy I was talking about. He just turned 1 but weighs 150 lbs and is taller than me on his back legs! 

He's also the gentle-est giant you will ever meet, as well as a little bit lazy when it gets hot outside haha. 

 ^^^ laying in the grass on Father's day. My mother-in-law was telling me all about how spending time outside barefoot in the dirt realigns your personal magnetic field with mother earth's and I have to say, although I'm not sure how scientific that is I definitely feel happier when I've spent good quality time outside. 

^^^stargazing on my parent's trampoline. I was telling JP how it reminded me of when I used to sneak out and lay on the tramp with my boyfriends in high school (I had to sneak because we were NOT ALLOWED to go out there at night with boyfriends hahaha)

A Wedding in the Mountains: Bailey + John

Yesterday, I got to celebrate my cousin Bailey's wedding!

She was married in the mountains, up Big Cottonwood Canyon in Salt Lake City -- a canyon that, despite having lived in Utah my entire life, I haven't spent hardly any time in. 

Which I now realize is unfortunate, because it is a beautiful canyon! 

The aspens, the mountains, the perfect weather, how happy the bride and groom were, it all worked together so spectacularly. 

And it was such a lovely venue. 

The wedding colors were green as well, which suited the location perfectly, not to mention their favors couldn't have been more on point-- individual Blue Spruce tree starters all ready to plant! (!!!!) 

I am seriously obsessed with them. And I might have made JP take one too so that I can plant two spruces... 

It was a lovely afternoon spent with family surrounded by gorgeous mountains. 

I can't seem to get enough of the mountains around here lately. 

It's like I am finally realizing how incredible they really are!

 ^^^ the favors!

A Memorable Memorial Day:

bbq.

Great friends.

warm weather.

vitamin d.

3 hours of tennis. 

winning all our matches during those 3 hours of tennis.

gallivanting in golf carts.

burgers for lunch and a steak for dinner. 

walks at sunset. 

corn on the cob. 

white dresses and seer sucker jackets. 

grilled veggies. 

nba basketball game.

falling asleep with a book on my face. 

I hope your memorial day was wonderful and relaxing and spent outside in the fabulous weather!

So thankful for those who serve our country to make the life I live possible.

A Golden Birthday Celebration:

^^^ the birthday girl!!

^^^ siblings.

My sis-in-law Shayla turned 23 years old on May 23rd so obviously, we had to have a huge golden birthday celebration. 

In addition to gold decor e v e r y w h e r e  there was golden Oreos and goldfish crackers to eat, as well as golden creme soda cans to drink. Gold was a required part of the dress code and the golden birthday girl wore a golden crown all night. 

It was the funnest theme ever! The golden backdrop was an awesome touch and we seriously had such a fun party all night. 

Happy Golden Birthday Shayla!!