Six Years!

today i celebrate 6 whole years with my hubsy!!

he's the best thing that's ever happened to me and every day i can't believe how lucky i am!

wedding wedding wedding

my baby sister is getting married today!!

i seriously can't believe it!

one day she's this little thing making you play barbies until you're in high school and then the next day she's all grown up and getting married!

i'm so ridiculously happy for her!

EEEEEE!!

my little sister got ENGAGED this week!!

i am so happy for her and of course i love Michael so i can't wait for him to be an official member of the family!!

and just look what a good job Michael did picking out a ring!

man he's got good taste!

CONGRATS YOU TWO!!

jumping pics

so i was going through some old photos and i realized something.

Matt and i took this picture on a trip in colorado when we were first engaged.

and ever since this picture was taken in 2006 we've been taking jumping pictures in different places.

washington 2008

sedona 2011

and my favorite wedding photo 2006

now that i'm aware we've taken pictures in four different cities and three different states we are definitely going to do this everywhere we go and for every major event!

last one

last post about Utah i pinky promise.

just a few last pictures.

Matt driving like 2 hours of the 24 hour trip

snow still on the mountains in July

modeling the Indiana Jones hat Grandma gave us

stayed the night in Vegas again on the way home right as a huge storm blew through.

lucky we were so tired we didn't mind the storm keeping us away from the casinos.

we hit the nearby Denny's for dinner.

man i love this boy.

those last 5 hours of our drive felt like an eternity but listening to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on our ipod kept me awake while Matt slept.

we loved our trip but we're so glad to be home.

i missed my bed and my shower and my sharks and my couch and my tv and most of all my puppy!

she has been super needy ever since we got home but i don't mind it at all since i missed her just as much as she missed me.

puppy kisses!

wedding!

Lucia is married!!

i can't believe my little Lucia is all grown up and married and i got to attend!

after a slight bit of trouble (we couldn't figure out how to get into the temple. yes, we're idiots.) we saw her wed for time and all eternity to the lucky Michael!

so stinkin happy for them!

waiting for the couple to come out of the temple

hugging the gorgeous bride!

taking pics to keep ourselves entertained during wedding picture time.

and then the reception later on that night was so cool!

i love love loved the building they had it at!

here's me being a bloggy photographer girl. HA!

her dad making the cutest speech ever. totally love him!

cake!

throwing the bouquet

garter

totally love Lucia's face in this picture! oh boy!

dancing

blurry pic but i just love this!

they're going to be so happy together!

daddy hugs

when it was time for them to go everyone got sparklers and made a path for them to run through.

such a cute idea!

way better than the usual bubbles that boring people do. (cough ME cough)

so glad we were able to be part of their super duper special day!

fireworks

when we FINALLY got to Utah we made a quick pit stop at Lucia's to see her one last time as a beautiful single lady and give her a goody bag of dirty honeymoon gifts.

(ps. not to toot my own sexy horn but i'm totally the queen of dirty goody bags! seriously, i would've loved to get everything i put in hers! she's so dang lucky! ow ow!)

then we continued on to Grandma and Grandpa Wamsley's house.

i was super dead tired after a day of driving, a night of gambling, no sleeping because i'm a crazy insomniac and another day of driving but we had an amazing first night in Utah with my cousin Ashley and her hubsy!

something we learned about Utah last weekend, they are fireworks CRAZY!

i'm pretty sure i saw more fireworks during that weekend than i ever have in my entire life.

i guess Utah allows people to light fireworks a certain number of days before and after the 4th of July and everyone takes advantage of it.

so what could we do but join in the party??

Brent and Matt messed with their lighters so the flame would come out ginormous!

boys will be boys.

i probably shouldn't mention that i told Matt to do it in the first place.

pyro Nikki at her best.

Ashley was scared to even try to light one of the lighters.

for good reason i guess because when she finally lit it she dropped it and almost lit Grandpa's grass on fire!

i died laughing!

we loved hanging out with them so much!

it's such a bummer they don't live closer to us.

come visit us soon you guys!