The anniversary that doesn't really matter anymore.

We're married now. our true year anniversary shouldnt matter anymore. should it?

Well. I thought that maybe it should be recognized at least. not exactly celebrated. but. we tried to have a nice dessert. which. i'm usually very good at making. and. i had some really good ideas!! like. some of the best that i've seen so far. 

lately. i've been OBSESSED! with blogging. and looking at all kinds of craft blogs and food blogs. and i stumbled upon this one blog with this awesome cake. and. it looked amazing. and. mine... haha. like a big giant covered donut. this is how it ended up looking.

so. when we went grocery shopping. kyle was like. hey. why dont you buy the extra creamy whip cream. and i'm like. ok. that kinda sounds like a good idea. but... it turned out to be the worst decision. because. the cool whip was just wanting to melt before i could squeeze it out of the bag. and i ended up just grabbing it by the handfuls (hands were washed!) and just slopping it on the cake.

this is kinda what the cake is made up of. it is 3 layers of angel food cake. with sherbet as the filling. and topped with cool whip. it tasted so good. minus the cool whip. it was a bit heavy. so. next time i make it. i'm getting the regular. even maybe lite. but. the plan was going to have ruffles going all the way up. it started off great. the cake was chilled for an hour and then i put the cool whip on. but. by then. everything was melting. and. it got so messy! learned my lesson! 

tons of cool whip left over! good for writing my dear husband messages.

:) i love my sweetie so much! alot of important things happened this last year. i moved to an awesome place. i had an awesome boyfriend. who became my fiance. who became my amazing husband. i have my future planned. i got to go to college. it has just been a great year. and. i've had kyle with me through everything. he's always been there to help me. with planning our wedding. with the separation anxiety of being away from my family. with the suffering of the late night drives home as we were dating. he is just the best guy ever. he makes me happy. and. i get to keep him forever. :)

p.s. did you notice my hair cut? very different. very short. and. very cute!!

The Creative Connection

So. This is the first time I've ever entered to win anything. But I am entering to win a trip to attend the BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event 

and I so want to win!

So. Basically what this is.

Is me trying to win a trip to Minnesota to go for a couple days to become more creative.

Now why would i want to go to Minnesota?

Well. I posted earlier about how I want to start my own business called The Yellow Door. 

It would be a combination of jewelry, clothing, and bags.

one problem.

I'm not very educated on how to make. hardly any of that stuff. and they offer classes that would help me learn to sew and how to make jewelry. I have so many ideas and sketches of things that I would love to do. And not just do just to do it. But do it well. and have people buy it.

This would be such a good opportunity. I want to be unique and creative and original. There are all these great tutorials. But. That is someone else giving instructions to make their things! and i want to be able to put up something that is mine! This would just be a door opening for me to see my potential and talent and possibly a future. 

oh my goodness. if I could just win! PLEASE! haha. ;)

here is a link to their website to enter for yourself. 

wedding pictures

Even tho i have some pictures on facebook. I thought that i would put my favorites up here.

:) my husband is so handsome!

I just loved my tights! i dont care if no one else loved them. because they were totally awesome to me.

Absolute favorite!!! i want to put a quote on the side of it or something. it just seems perfect for that.

:D

I thought that this would have been a great shoe shot. if we were thinking about it. but. a great picture nonetheless.

aww. me and papi. he made me cry. i do love him very much.

we were extra nice to each other and we decided not to shove the cake into each others faces.

:) i do love my new family. they are awesome.

our cake made by my cousin kari. who did do an amazing job!! i just loved it. it was perfect!

me with my family. :) they are awesome as well.

:)

me with a mustache. i would look good.ish.

me with my 3 best friends!! they are all so cute.

i love how everybody looks so happy in this picture. it is the best ever!

me and kyle's first dance. the only exception by paramore. 

me and jess. my maid of honor.

all of us. :) we are cute.

me and kyle also just got back (well. like. almost a month ago) from a san diego trip with his family. it was really fun. it seemed like we were going to be there forever. and then. on day five i was like. dang. our trip is over. and it made me kinda a little bit sad.

but. we did alot of fun things there. we went and ate at all the places around our condo. we went to this awesome icecream place called cow-a-bunga and. they had this orange chocolate chip icecream. and it was super delicious! and we also went to this thai food place. and my last experience eating thai food. was super gross. but this place. was awesome! exactly what i'm getting next time. (hopefully.) OH!!!! and there was the awesome. amazing. spectacular. super delicious. incredible. fantastic. splendid. delightful. 

bakery. 

oh my goodness. like. the best pastries i've ever eaten. i was so glad that tyler and becky wanted to go with us. because if we hadnt gone we would have missed out tons. me and kyle got the idea because we were just watching cake boss. and we really wanted to go to a place like that. so we did our homework and we found one 20 minutes away. and. yum. so good! mine and kyles favorite thing there was the strawberry mousse cake. great. now i want some. it was super delicious!

we also went to the beach too. even tho it was kinda cold. but kyle learned how to skim board. and i tried. but. i was kinda scared because it was hard to keep your balance. mostly all i did was just go out in the ocean and get pounded my waves. because the boys liked to play way out were all the big waves break. and oh my goodness. it was so cool. we were out with adam and natalie. and then out of no where this seal just pops up and just swims by us. it was pretty cool. something that was not cool was we saw 2 jellyfish. 1 alive. 1 dead. and i was freaked out after that. i was so afraid the jellies were gonna come and get me. so i had kyle protect me. 

it was a really fun trip. and it was nice getting to know all my new brothers and sisters. and my neices and nephews. i thought that things were going to be super akward. but. no. they werent really. i made all the little girls some headbands. i think that they all liked them. i'll have more pictures up later. when i make a post about my new shop that i want to open up.