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. 

We're MARRIED!!!!!

Kyle and I are now married!!!!! :) oh my goodness. i never thought the day would come that we would actually be married. that it would never happen. that time would just stop because it seemed to be slowing down the sooner we got. then. BAM!! it was here. and i had nothing done!!!

i had a few major melt downs. and we had a bunch of issues days before. like pictures. and our bouquets werent done. and we didnt get all the details done that we wanted. oh my goodness. drama. i am so happy that it was over with! The night before the wedding we all went and set up for the luncheon which was good. yet a little incomplete with some of my projects like the sign in book. :/ oops. I tried to get it done the night before. but. i was busy getting kyles boutonniere done. and my wedding bouquet. which turned out amazing. but. still stressful because they werent done!

The endownment session and the sealing. oh my goodness. could not be anymore perfect. i had never felt so good in my whole entire lifetime. I was so nervous and happy and excited. I have no idea how i made it through those sessions. i should have passed out or something with all the feelings that i was feeling. Kyle smiling. looking. at me. just made my heart break. he was so happy looking and i was a bauling mess! He has never looked more perfect than he did once he became my husband. 

Even though it sounds great. It wasn't smooth at all that day either. We had a bunch of problems once we got there. we were kinda late getting there. Jill had called and asked if we could do my hair there and they said yes. and so we get there. and they have no clue why we are there. and i feel so awkward because i had lost my paper preparing me for that day. and then i remember that i FORGOT THE MARRIAGE LICENSE!!! oh my goodness. how horrible of me. my only responsibility given to me from kyle. and i ruin it. so my mom went outside and called him. and he got it. eventually. but then. i was told that we need to stop doing my hair. and its not even done!! and i go out and wait for kyle to come and rescue me from all the stress that is happening to me. and when it feels like ages! we are running so late! and then he gets here. and i'm all nervous. and i think maybe he was too. because he wasnt very comforting. like. all fidgety and stuff. and i'm freaking out! and then he forgets to grab the rings! so. i was very stressed that day. but. it all worked out in the end. and i got to marry the love of my life. and that really is all that matters. all that stuff leading up to it is nothing. just stupid interference's that were super annoying!

And we're married and we go to the luncheon. and we eat food and its all good. and i'm thinking. i'm married now. i dont care about what gets done and what doesnt. i felt just total relaxed. and i didnt care if i didnt get the all the banners done for the photobooth. or instructions for the guests. or that i accidently paid for the tables with my money instead of my parents. its all good. and then we come to saturday. the day of our reception. and i flip out!! everyone was wanting me to do everything. i needed to get everything out of the boxes. and i needed to put up the centerpieces. and i needed to do it all. and. that is when i started to stress.

i really hate that i did stress out so much. because. if i didnt. then i would have been less likely to forget everything that i had for the reception. i left out so!! much stuff. it would have looked spectacular if i had gotten it all done. but. we still didnt have the music worked out. my book wasnt done. the platters werent put together. the wind was OUT OF CONTROL!!! ugh. i should have done so many things different. and. had a normal boring reception inside a building. that way everything would have looked nice. or even down here in the valley at night so that everything wasnt flying everywhere. i have just so many regrets when it comes to the reception. and it doesnt help that no one. no one! showed up. everybody that i was planning on being there didnt come. like. all the palmers. i dont know where they were. i think the only ones that came were aunt kim and kari. i was real sad. it was just like. ha maryann! slap in the face. but. everyone that did show up. i hope had a great time. and i was just so excited that they came. and that they cared about us. :)

Then the next day we went on our honeymoon to telluride colorado. and it was beautiful there!! i cant wait to go back and live there! new mexico was just so dull and boring! but as soon as you start to see greenery and mountains there is the state line. and going through those mountains. i was just so suprised that kyle didnt run of the road because. i couldnt take my eyes off the scenery. it was just so beautiful. the whole way there we were riding next to a river. and mountains on either side of us. and then we hit this corner. and i burst out screaming "OH MY GOODNESS!!" there was snow on the tops of the mountains and it was so spectacular! so beautiful. i was just so excited. and that basically was all that was there. it was just beautiful. we went on a walk. and went on a day trip to different ouray and montrose. i was so disappointed. :( ok. so. we picked colorado because. one. we saw it in a magazine. two. kyle wanted to go there. and three. because i had said that i went through there once and was just captivated by it. i thought that the town was called ouray. but no. it was silverton. and i was very sad that we didnt get to go. because it was still quite a ways away. and it was real dumb too. we went to ouray and it is only 10 miles from telluride. but. we have to go all the way around the mountains to get to it. and it was like.. i think an hour away. and we didnt even get to see what i wanted to see!!! but thats ok. next time. i think that we are going to go on a snowboarding trip to durango and then take the train to silverton. it will be awesome times!

married life is a fun time! i love that we get to be with each other all the time. and that we get to roll over and say goodnight instead of having the dumbest. most stupidest. annoyingest. ride home at 12 at night. every night. because we wanted every minute with each other before we had to go. i love it. i love being mrs. maryann allen. and i love having kyle as my husband. and i love that we get to take naps on sunday. and i love that i get to make him dinner. and i love that we get to keep doing this forever. it makes me the happiest girl in the world! :)

here are some pictures from the honeymoon.

dont mind me. i'll just stand here looking all pregnant like!

These cute little fun colored houses! i love them!

unusual ice cream flavors. but. good. none the less.

view from our room.