Back to calm

The wedding has come and gone, and so has our out of town family. Which means I should have more free time to blog starting soon! I do apologize for being gone for so long and I can't wait to get back to blogging and reading what's been going on in the life's of the people who's blogs I follow! :)

Wedding Day

May 5th 2012- 10 years after their first date (to the day)

The wedding was perfect, beautiful. It was nice to see my parents finally get married after 10 years of being together, I love them so much. It was also nice to do photography for the wedding. it was my first wedding and I'm eager to share my photos.

During my Ring Session before the wedding

Rings and Center peices

Justine's Nickname for my parents, it's a long story, maybe I'll share it one day.

Left to right:
Angela, Becky, Ally, Mom (bride) me, Justine

Wedding party

Me and my mama :)

To bad her eyes are closed, she was trying not to cry

With this ring, I be wed.

signing as a witness

me and Angela hanging out and getting the food after the ceremony

H said (jokingly) if she shoved it in his face, he'd get a divorce

kiss :)

The toast, with Momosas (champaigne and orange juice) my sister Ally read "I carry your heart with me" by EE commings.

we made those!!!

These obviously aren't all the photos I've taken but they're my favorite.

Costumes

Starting on Monday I have been starting to out together costumes for Trojan Women. I was volunteered by the play's director, Glen Jacobs -who also happens to be my Stagecraft teacher. He's had me working on it during class and now it's spilled over into rehearsal and such. The thing with costumes for this play is: we can't actually use dresses... we use these strange toga like things which we make by wrapping a bed sheet around you and sewing it together around the shoulders. ((I can't find a picture of anything like it online, so I will post pictures as soon as costumes have been finished))

In more TW news, opening night it in only 15 days!!!!!!!!

Wedding

So some of you may remember that my parents wedding is on Saturday. Yeah, exciting... and stressful. Seriously, I'm not sure if I want to plan a wedding for myself in the future... maybe I'll have my sister do it for me, when the time comes.

Anyway, my mom has taken Wednesday through Sunday off for the wedding and for the fact that my family from Wisconsin are coming into town on Thursday. Friday will be a family dinner -sorta like a rehearsal dinner, where we'll go out somewhere nice and dress up and I'll be sure to take lots of pictures to post when the crazyness is over.

Saturday is the actual wedding... we walk down the isle at p.m. sharp. Then the reception is at my house and my dad is BBQing so it should be yummy. This also means, however, that we will be cooking and prepping all morning and probably the night before as well.

Sunday we are all driving to McMiniville Oregon to go to the Air Museum and to the water park. Another busy day with all the family and another great photo opp which I will obviously take advantage of.

Monday will go back to a normal day, school and work for everyone. However, our family will still be in town and dad will probably take his dad and brother to his shop to show off his business.

The family leaves on Thursday after next, one week after they arrived and then maybe life will go back to normal...

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Harry Potter obsession is back

So everyone who has been reading from the beginning knows how much I love Harry Potter. The books, the movies, the idea of Hogwarts and the Wizarding World, everything is amazing. J.K Rowling is my god...

Anyway, the last few months have been busy and I feel out of my obsession for a while. However, recently I decided to re-read the first book becasue it had been over a year and as soon as my eyes hit that first sentence, once again, I was hooked. There is no better feeling than taking the Hogwarts Express to your first year at Hogwarts.

I can't even begin to describe how much I wanted to go to Hogwarts, and still would even to this day. It's a place full of magic and wonder where anything can happen and where true friendships are made. It's my favrotie way to escape the world and go somewhere where I love.

Ignorence is bliss?

((seeing as I've been watching Sex And The City a lot lately, some of my posts may start to sound like something you may hear on the show. :) ))

I ignorance really bliss? If your boyfriend was cheating on you, would you rather know and be unhappy or not know and remain happy? Not that that is what's happening to me, no, not at all, it just seemed like the perfect example for what I was trying to express. Would you really want to know something that would make you unhappy?

Or what about physically ignoring something...or someone... that's my issue. I'm not doing the ignoring, I'm the ignored. He says he's not doing it on purpose, that he has other things on his mind. But there are times where he could come up to me and show in some way that he cares for me. Even just saying hi or giving me a look, anything that shows that I'm on his mind at all. I feel like hearing that he was cheating would feel similar to having him act like I don't exsist at all...

Oh, the joys of High school relationships...

My first Blogging Awards

I've seen these on other blogs and was always wondering how they work, now I know thanks to Becky from

Preppy Premed who nominated me for not one, but TWO amazing blogger awards!! To me, this is amazing because I can remember when my blog was small and me and one friend were the only followers, now, I have 20 and I thank you all so much for your love!

Each Nominee Should:

1. Nominate 15 fellow bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award

2. Add an image of the Versatile Blogger Award

3. Thank the blogger who nominated you in a post with a link to their site

4. Share seven completely random facts about yourself

5. Include this set of rules

6. Inform each nominated blogger of their nomination

My facts: (sorry if I have said them already somewhere on the blog)

1) I am from Alaska and to this day it remains my favorite place in the entire world. (Noting that I've only been to like 6 states...)

2) I have been writing sense I was in grade 4 and finished my first full book in grade 6; however, the book kinda sucked and I can barely believe I wrote that...

3) I'm not going to lie, The Jonas Brothers are my guilty pleasure. Listening to their music always makes me happy and I love their songs.

4) My favorite TV show is Sex and the City even though I'm only 16.

5) My current favorite food is Hot Cheetos (I used to hate them but now they're amazing!!)

6) My favorite book series is Harry Potter with out a question. I'm a HUGE Potterhead. I own soooo much HP stuff and I'm proud of it.

7) I've recently developed the 'I don't care if you think something I do is wrong becasue I see nothing wrong with it and I know what's right for me' attitude and I'm sorta loving not caring what other people think of me. 

Rules:

The Liebster Award is for up and coming bloggers (200 followers or less) that you think deserve recognition for their fabulous blogging abilities.

Here's how this award process works...

Each nominee should:

1.Choose five blogs to give the Liebster Award to. 

2.Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them.

3.Post the award on your blog.

4.List the bloggers you gave the award to with links to their sites.

5.Leave a comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award.

6.Share five random facts about yourself

My facts:

1) I like cold weather better than hot weather even though I love to swim and lay in the sun with my friends. It's just so much easier to warm up in the cold than it is to cool down in the hot.

2) One of my best friends and I have a plan to watch movies this summer and we've made a list of 37 movies and counting...

3) I sorta want to take up golf...

4) My favorite color is green because it's pretty and simple. 

5) I love taking pictures of clouds. I love in focus they are and how the colors play on each other.

Nominated Bloggers:

so... in the sake of time and effort (seeing as it's REALLY hot in Portland today and I'd rather not spend the entire afternoon working on this post) I'm going to nominate 10 bloggers for both awards rather than doing them both and ending up with a list of 20 people.

1) Tori @ Eye Candy

2)Carly @ I'mCarly

3)Alexandra @ My Blog Named Kip 

4) Nina @ Confessions of a Concealed Heart 

5) Jill @ A creative little mess

6) Anna @ A sweet Southern mess 

7) Alicia @ The Seeley Family

8) James @ The Various Awesomness of Music

9) Katie @ For the Record 

10) Holly @These are the moments...

Some of these blogs I am a new follower to, some are friends, some are blogging friends, either way, show these ladies (and James) some love for me :)

Sorry

Guys, I'm soooooooo sorry that I haven't been blogging lately. I've been really busy seeing as the wedding is like 18 days away. Things have been really crazy. Trojan women is going well and the Speech team is getting ready to plan Sweet Speeches which will be in early June. Not much blog-worthy has been going on however, I promise to post more as soon as I get the time.

And if any Madison kids are reading this post: Don't Stop Believing fully supports Hannah and Lorene for co-presidents. :)