A Tragic Event

Some of you may or may not already know this, but a very sad story hit way too close to home this weekend. If you watched/read the news you may have heard about the plane that crashed in Guatemala that had humanitarian workers on board from Utah. (http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=4095091)
Five of the people on that plane were from the same company that Kurtis works for (and I used to work for) and two of them that didn't survive actually worked rather closely with and around Kurtis. It is such a tragedy that this happened and my heart goes out to the families of those amazing people on their way to do such a noble thing. I can't imagine what they are feeling right now and I hope I never have to experience first hand something like this. There is a small miracle in this story and that is that the COO of the company survived this horrific crash, which we are grateful for. This is a hard time for everyone at the company as well as many of the people who use to work there. John, Cody, Jeff and Lydia will all be missed by so many people. I ask for all of you who may read this to keep the families of all who were on the plane in your prayers. I am a firm believer that people who experience sad events like this can feel the prayers and caring of those who they may never even know. There are also accounts set up for the families of these amazing people. I encourage those of you, who are able, to donate. Here is how you can help.

At any Zions Bank Branch in the names John Carter and Cody Odekirk. Donations can be made in person, mail a check to 2302 Washington Blvd, Ogden UT 84401, or if you have a Zions account you can call any branch to transfer money.

Any Sauk Valley Branch in the names of Jeff Reppe and Lydia Silva. Donations can be made in person or be mailed to 201 W 3rd St, Sterling IL 61081.

If mailing a check or money order please specify which memorial fund you would like the funds to go to.

One thing I will take from this, and I hope others do too is to show your love and gratitude for everyone in your life always. There are no guarantees that you'll have time later to let that person know how you feel, now is the time to do it. With how busy our lives get it gets harder and harder to spend extra time with a loved one or to give that good friend a call. We need to remember what's most important to us and not let other things get in the way. Again, my heart goes out to the families of those on the plane and I pray for their comfort at this time. I am so grateful for the people that are in my life and I want them to know how much they mean to me. I love you all!

Daisy's Turn!!

Since we have video capturing Dozer's personality it's time to capture Daisy's. Here is her trick...she always does this when we get home or if we're not paying enough attention to her. She's so adorable!!

Sneak Peak...

Our wedding photographer has put some of our pictures on her blog as a "sneak peak." I have her blog listed under "friends and family" in case you guys want to look there, but here are the sneak peak pics! Hope you love them as much as I do!!

We have a date!!!

We finally were able to set a date!! We're officially going to get married Sept 17th! We have the Eldredge Manor booked for our reception and I'm going to call the Bountiful temple on Tuesday and get all of that squared away!! Now it'll be easier to plan because now I'll have a date to tell people, but we did get a photographer. It was actually the one I originally wanted, but I wasn't sure if she'd do our engagements and my bridals without being officially booked for our wedding because her pricing is an all-in-one package, but she was great and was willing to work with us and did tell me she'd be available for the 17th if that ended up being the date we get married so now she can do all of our photography! We have our engagement pics scheduled for this Friday (the 15th) and my bridals are scheduled for Wed, Sept 3rd!! Woohoo! I am so excited and today is an excellent day!!

Wedding Update

For those inquiring minds (aka our good friend Christina) I thought I'd take a minute to update everyone on the wedding situation. Obviously since we haven't said anything yet as far as an exact date goes, August is now not an option. There has just been a bunch of things that have come up preventing us from setting a date yet. We're now hoping for middle of September, but realistically it may be moved back further, which sucks, but there's really nothing we can do about it, so we will make the best of it! I have started planning and getting things ready because once we are able to set a date, it'll be a really quick thing. Here's an update of what all has been decided on and done so far:

I have my wedding dress and it has already been altered!! I bought my wedding dress from Kathleen's bridal in Kaysville and it's kind of nostalgic for me because my very first dance I went to in high school I rented a dress from Kathleen herself, but she was doing the dress thing out of the basement of her house and now she has made two old houses in Kaysville into two stores - one for wedding dresses and the other for prom dresses. The dress I got was the very first one I tried on - actually my mom and sister had gone in there a week earlier to look at dresses and had picked that one out as one I would just love, and they were right! The dress was perfect and when I tried it on, my sister started crying, so we know it's a keeper! Anyways, I've now had it altered so it fits perfectly and I'm going to leave a recommendation for anyone who needs a dress altered. I went to a lady in Syracuse name Terri Renner (I think that's her last name) and she was so nice and very knowledgable. She estimated she'd have my dress done in a week and actually had it done in just over one day and did it perfectly!! She's amazing! She also made my sash that I'm wearing with my dress - an aqua color to match my shoes. She did an amazing job and I'd highly recommend her to anyone - if you need alterations, let me know and I can hook you up with her number. All in all I'm loving my dress!!

We've also decided on wedding colors - we're doing shades of blue - mainly aqua, dark blue and light blue and then we'll have a green accent - the green is hard to explain. If any of you have seen the orchid flowers that are green - that's the color, but for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about - it's like a charteuse (or however you spell it). I also know what I want the decorations to look like depending on when we do get married. My sisters have ordered their dresses in the colors already and mom has ordered hers, so that part is done and Kurtis' family has been updated on the colors as well. I'll probably be ordering my dad, brother and Kurtis' dad's clothing today or tomorrow. The guys will be wearing a shade of blue dress shirt and then tan/sand colored pants. Depending on if we're able to do the wedding in mid-Sept, they will not have to wear ties at the reception and will get to wear sandals. We're still working on what Kurtis will wear. I want our reception to not feel stuffy and formal, but still look nice.

I have also called a photography place I want to go with to see about getting our engagement pictures done soon so we can have those ready to go once we can send out invitations. They weren't in the office on Saturday when I called so hopefully I can get in touch with them soon. I've also found someone to do our cake, so I'm excited about that...now we just need to decide the details on the cake.

I have ideas of where the reception will be held, but that can't be a for sure thing until a date is set, but we are planning on getting married in the Bountiful temple - that will be a for sure thing. We are doing a different kind of invitation for those invited to the temple ceremony and that invitation has been started to be created, which I am super excited about!

All-in-all, things are slowly coming together and we're hoping to get as much as we can planned or completed before having a date so that once we do finally set the date and have to rush, it won't be so stressful!

Big News!!

WE'RE ENGAGED!!!

Yes that's right folks! Kurtis proposed! I wanted to take this moment to apologize that this is just now getting posted...we've been engaged since Thursday! I was very surprised! I mean, we were making plans, but I didn't have a clue when he was going to propose and even during his proposal I was still oblivious! It was so cute! He put a bandana around our (well more my) dog Dozer and strung the ring on the bandana. Well, I was upstairs getting ready for our co-ed softball game later that night and he came up to the top of the stairs and asked me when I'd want to start telling people we were engaged. Well, I thought it was kind of a random question, but didn't think anything of it so I just told him I don't know and asked why. So then he asked the question again. This time I stopped and still said I didn't know and then asked, "Why, do you have a ring or something?" He said, "Maybe..." So then I was confused but still not really paying attention to my surroundings. The thing was, Kurtis was looking down at the dogs pretty much the whole time we were talking!! So, finally he calls Dozer's name and I look down and lo and behold there's the ring! I was so excited that I didn't even really say yes! I said "Yay!" and then we put the ring on (which is completely gorgeous!!). About a couple hours later, I realized I never actually gave him an answer, so I told him (in case he didn't already know) that my answer was yes. So...all in all it was a very sweet proposal and funny at the same time because I didn't even get what was going on!

I'm so excited!! We don't have an exact date set just yet, but we're hoping for August so this will be a stress filled time while I plan, but luckily have a lot of people willing to help! I can't believe we're getting married and I feel so very lucky to have such an amazing guy that I'll get to spend eternity with!

Weekend Fun

Yes.... we are still alive. It's been a while but nothing exciting really has been going on in our lives much. We play in a softball league on Thursday nights but other than that nothing has really been worthy of blog material. If you ever want to laugh your guts out you should come watch the coed league on Thursday's that we play in. It's amazing. Anyways this weekend was good times in Roy. Every year Kurtis' work does this charitable deal where they choose 5-10 employee's to go to Guatemala and build a school and get some school supplies for the kids. To raise money for the deal they have a bowl-a-thon and it gets a bit crazy. This year we made our own shirts. We went and bought some white shirts from Walmart and a tie dye kit and went at it. We bowl once a year at that so it's obviously for fun. It was really fun though. We got a TON of great prizes including Kurtis getting a 3 month pass to Gold Gym.... and a few coupons for some dry cleaning... so the raffle God's think we are fat and dirty... awesome!

Krista's strike form

lovin the shirts


Hyram and Krista livin it up