the HONEYMOON**

Back to blogging. :) Seeing how I haven't blogged since before our wedding day, I have lots and lots of things to post. First, I wanted to thank everyone who came out and supported us on our big day! We are so blessed to have such great people in our lives. We got so many great gifts and we cant tell you all enough how much we appreciate all your thoughts and wishes as we begin our new life-long journey together.

I'm going to post a little piece of paradise next. Mind you,,, we forgot our digital camera! I know I know right? SO all the pictures shown below are from a disposable one. Let me tell ya, using one of these for a week makes you extremely grateful for technology! This picture posting is so you guys can 1/2 way enjoy our AWESOME honeymoon with us. The Bahamas were absolutely beautiful and Aust and I had the time of our lives. We met so many great people and we hope to go back and visit again one day. We stayed at Sandals for 5 nights and 6 days. We didn't leave the resort ONCE because there was so much to do. Thank you Sandals Emerald Bay for making our honeymoon so special!!

Caught the Rainbow on our way to the beach. Now that's how you welcome someone to the Bahamas!

Aust and I by the pool that looks out into the ocean

Giving salty/wet kisses...LITERALLY! ;)

Laying in the hammock (we did this often). Check out the palm trees in my *HUBBY'S* glasses! Rockin

Our friend Peter snapping a picture for us as we prepared for a long day in the sun!

And when we had enough of the sun, we came to the pool and read under the canopy!

I will give some credit to the disposable camera. We got some cool under-water pictures.

&& again.

Us chillin' in our private pool :). Aust quite enjoyed this. Not sure why I'm pulling this face, but i love the layout of the picture!

We loved going to get drinks at the "Drunken Pub"

Not thinking, I gladly raised my hand at one of the night activities. Sure enough i got called to come up on stage with "Action". I was quite embarrassed, and Aust thought it was just great. This is Action and I posing for the photographer. In case you were wondering...he did indeed go under those limbo poles that were on fire and standing on size 9 flip-flops WITH his volunteers on his lap. CRAZY!

These were our awesome Texas friends. We hung out with them almost every night. Trace was a pilot and Catie was a dance teacher at the high school. We loved them and are hoping we can meet up with them again sometime soon!

Overall we had a blast! We didn't want to leave and come back to reality. BUT gotta do what ya gotta do. Thanks Aust for making our week so special. I am looking forward to our Happily Ever After.  

The Start of Summer, and the Preperation for a NEW life**

This is my little cousin Kai welcoming everyone to Mother's Day breakfast....

She sure does know how to give "The Scoul" doesnt she? :)

It's been a very unstable, confusing, frustrating, stressful few weeks. After finding out that i did not get in to the the University of Utah's nursing program, Aust and I decided it was time to pack our bags and head back south for the summer. So, that brings me to today. We are now back in Cedar, living with my mom, not knowing where we will be going next. Awesome right? haha. Thanks mom for letting us join the house blindsided. I guess what were really doing is awaiting emails from nursing schools all over the dang place. Its kind of my fault that we have no idea where to move our things. Hopefully i will find out soon, so we can live a bit more normal/functional life.

Aust is still working for Legacy Construction. Rolling in the $$ for us. Thank goodness too, because im jobless, schoolless, and do nothing but babysit our new dog for the time being. Which isnt a bad thing, other than im so used to going 10000 miles an hour. It was always school, work, gym, homework, bed. Lets just say im about to go crazy now.Aust just found out they got a new job in Eureka and so he will be living there for a while. Im hoping that after my summer lab class i can move out there with him for a couple of months. I dont want to be newleyweds and live over 500 miles apart. Ugh. If only money grew on trees right?

I must admit. It has been nice being home with my family. That is one thing i missed the most about living in Salt Lake. Seeing how are family is so little, were all so close. And i was missing out on almost everything. Especially this little stinker....

ANYWAYS: can i just shout that i have only 11 days until my wedding!! WTF? Where has the time gone? I cannot wait to offically become a Bulloch. My father-in-law Danny tells me time and time again that, "Its better to be a Bulloch than to marry one." haha thanks for the advice Dan but I think i can handle you Bulloch's...i hope ;). I have had so much fun with Aust's family over the past 3 1/2 years. Im looking forward to so much more!!

Speaking of wedding... I got my bridals back... I LOVE THEM! Here are a few of Emily Clarks great works of art:

My mothers Fav... (above)

one of my favs...(above)

emily's fav...(above)

&& thats not all of them... she did so amazing and i dont know how were ever going to be able to decide on ones to hang at the wedding. Thank you so much EM!!!

I also have to thank this beautiful young women...

For all her help, $$, and love that she has given me over the past 20 years. Especially for this big wedding day. Mom, you truly are my hero and i hope you know how grateful,thankful, and happy i am to have you in my life. You raised one hell of a daughter and i give you my credit. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming! Love you mama!

I also wanted to thank my two amazing cousins, Whitney and Shalon, for putting together an amazing Bridal shower party for me. I got so many great things, i cant wait to get a house and start decorating!! Thanks to everyone who came, and for all the gifts you each brought. I love each and every one of you guys!

Shalon and Whit: The planners

Whit, Cindy, and Me

Aunt Sherry and Granny Jaine

My beautiful granny Margaret

 My amazing friends of i dont know how many years! haha Cox and Dirty Nickel

Below are some of the gifts i recieved... SO AWESOME!

Aust's mom has been working long and hard on this amazing quilt! LOVE IT

My cleaning supply basket with a cute poem from Cindy, Whit and Jord

I cant get over how cute these blocks are that austs cousin Kels made!

My "Cold, Hard, Cash" from Shalon and Sherry!!

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!! Hope to see you all at the wedding! WAHOO

So, this is like the longest blog post EVER...but i havent blogged in ages so i have to catch everyone up on everything. My cousin Shalon has been planning an "Angels Landing" trip for months...well Sunday we finally accomplished it! What a fun and scary hike though. Im so glad my mom and I got to cross it off our bucket list...

Thanks Shalon for the Family fun event! You ROCK!

Engagements...Check. Wedding Colors...Check. Officially a Bulloch...SO CLOSE!

I really wish I could figure out how to post a cute font with a cute banner instead of this dull boring stuff. I apologize ya"ll.

We finally got the engagments taken. Due to a few cancelations...thank you mother nature! Emily did a FANTASTIC job. I am very happy with how they turned out. In fact, I like so many of them I am having a hard time deciding which ones to use for our invitations. Of course I cant share my decision with you guys, you must be surprised when you recieve yours. However, I cant resist sharing a few of my favorites:

&&& i could go on and on and on really. But you all get the idea. We are headed down to Richfield this weekend to create our announcements! Im so STOKED. I just want this wedding to get here already.

Speaking of wedding: Have you all marked "Busy" for May 28th in each of your calenders. We hope that ya'll can share our special day with us.

I wanted to shout a little thank you to everyone who is helping with the wedding plan: My Mother, who is stressed to the max but secretly having SO much fun with it all at the same time :). Austin's mom Diane, for helping us make the invitations. Carol and Donna who are getting everything situated with the reception and Diamond Z. Anna Heywood, my salt lake wedding planner/co-workers wife. && of course a special special thanks to Ren and Ree for letting us get married at their beautiful palace!!

Here is a little sneak peak of my colors:

Yes i know it seems crazy. BUT its going to be so amazing. When i first told my mom that i decided to do a "peacock" themed wedding she about died. I remember her saying over and over again..."Your kidding right".  It took 2 pictures (if that) to make her realize how elegant, unique, and fun these colors really were. Trust me, it has been such a great experience working with these colors and feathers for our decorations.

For my cake, im doing a topsy turvey. For those of you who dont know what that is, please look below. Im SO excited for this thing. Yes Yes Yes the majority of it is fake, you gotta make it look good right? Plus who eats the cake anyways? You just shove it in eachothers face and its over. Thanks to Josi, Austin's brothers women (who we claim will soon be a sister-in-law :) ) and her amazing skills, she has been designated as the cake maker. She was kinda upset with me at first because once i saw her awesome cake pictures i demanded she make ours. We love you Jos and thanks so much for putting up with me and my wants :).

Now of course this particular cake DOES NOT go well with our colors. But you get the "topsy turvey" idea! <3.

To sum things up, i have officially bought the grooms ring. Its so cool and i know he'll love it because he saw it in the store and said, "If you dont get me that exact ring then im not wearing a ring at all." Boys... there worse then girls sometimes :).

This is such a long post. Maybe by next post ill have figured out how the heck to make my fonts fun and cute. And make my banner (name and picture thingy) cute as well. Peace out.

the month of LoVe**

Alright, I am really going to start keeping up with this whole blogging thing. I need to keep my fellow followers up to date :)

So, the good ol' Valentines day was not too long ago. Of course, I got spoiled by the man of my dreams. To give you all a little spill of the gifts i recieved, on Thursday (the day he FINALLY gets to come home and the ONLY day of the week I look forward to) I opened the door to a handful of b-e-a-utiful flowers and a card that couldnt exaplin his personality any better. It was such a great surprise and I had to start smooching him right them and there. Just getting to see him for the weekend would have been enough for the special holiday, however, he jsut couldnt resist. On Sunday before he headed back to the dreadful BM (AKA Battle Mtn Nevada, ya'll should go visit. Its a GORGEOUS little town ;)) I receieved a Victoria Secret gift card. I wasnt sure if this was his way of telling me I need some new bras (the few I have are falling apart) or if it was just simply a "gift". Either way, I put it to good use and I am now the proud owner of 2 new Victorias Secret bras. To make is even better, Aust came with me and waited patiently for me to find the perfect ones :). Thanks babe for the amazing gifts and an incredible weekend.

So, since it is the "love" month, I figured it would be a good time to express the love and appreciation I have for the amazing people in my life. I am so blessed to have such great family and friends that are there for me through anything and everything. I have been through one HELL of a life and I would never have been able to do it without the amazing support from each one of you guys! I have had so many struggles in my short 19 years. At times of hardship I say to myself, "When am I ever going to get a break?" BUT then I have to keep remembering that God has given me these challenges because he knows Im the only one strong enough to handle them. Im sure I will continue to have my ups and downs as well as each and every one of us. Fortunatly I have the love from the people listed below (as well as many others) and I cant thank them enough for all they have done! Thanks you guys, for being there for me and for just simply being... YOU!

Mom:

Where do I even begin. I cant thank you enough for everything you have done and do for me. I must give you the majority of the credit for raising such a strong little girl. You have helped create the person I have become and I am so blessed and proud to say you are my mother. I look up to you, admire your strength, and pray that I will be able to parent my kids as well as you did me. We have been through so much together and your support and love is what got me through. You are the best mom a girl could ask for. If I had to sum up everything and put it in one short word, it would be HERO. I love you mom. With all my heart. Thanks for being such an amazing women.

Dad:

Thanks for all your contributions in raising your one and only daughter. You were everything a little girl could as for in her daddy. I miss our close times and all our incredible memories you and I have created. I know that you chose some extreme trials that were presented in your walk of life and i wish so bad that things could have been different. However, we all make mistakes and we just have to learn from them. I have greatly from yours Dad and I know that this is not how you expected your short 42 years to end. I know you are taking care of me up in heaven and I cant wait to give you a big bear hug and get tickled until i pee my pants. Even though some choices caused us to drift apart, our love for each other was as big as the moon. You will always be remembered as a daddy who would do anything for his little boogerlips. I miss you Dad and love you more than you know!

Aust:

My life long companion. I am so lucky to have such an amazing guy in my life. Especially through these past few struggling months. He is my rock and is always there when I need him. He always knows how to make me smile. I had to choose this picture because it shows his fun and giddy personality. I cant wait to finally make our 4 years official. I have waited far too long to marry him! Thanks babe for being my everything. And in the famous words of us..."Always, Forever, No Matter What!". I love you Austin Reed and am looking forward to spending forever with you.

Carly:

My best friend CARLY is my other half. She is definitely my backbone. We have been best friends since the womb :](and thats no exageration)! We have fought maybe twice in our lifetime and thats it. You know you have a best friend when you dont talk for a week, month, or even a year and you can pick up right where you left off. She is my [[HERO]]. I have been so proud of her these past few months. She is excelling in everything she does and she has an amazing guy that takes care of her. If he doesnt.. he will have to face me. GRR. Car..thanks for always being there for me, for making me the person i am today.Were grown up now and I cant wait to see where our lives go! i ♥ you sissy! ♂.

Shalon Star:

This girl has been my lifesavor. Our lives are so much alike it is crazy. She left the footprints for me to follow as ive grown older. She is definitely my support system in a whole. Whenever i need ANYTHING she is always there. Ive called her at 3 in the morning and asked her to come get me just to talk, slept over in times of need, and just simply call when I need the best adivce or a shoulder to cry on. She is truly an amazing person and has the biggest heart for her friends and family. I am so blessed to have her in my life. Shalon, thanks for all you do. You have NO idea how much your advice and love mean to me. In the famous words of you..."Thank you for being... YOU!"

This list could go on and on forever. But I hope all of my friends and family know just how much I love each one of them. Thanks everyone for being there for me and loving me with all you can!