kite flying

Here's some pics from kite flying...i have like 50 million more but you know what flying a kite looks like...We had mucho fun!

being married really is better!

So initially I never saw what the big deal was about getting married, I’ve always felt that you could live together as a couple for 10 years and it would be just the same as being married. Especially with jake and I, we have lived together for almost 3 years and have had shared a bank account for 2 years. We’ve been making so many decisions together that some other people might not have before they got married for a long time now so I felt that when we got married everything would be the same except for my last name and a couple rings. But this is so not true. When people said that marriage is when 2 become 1 I thought it was just a silly thing, but I really feel that jake and I are united as one forever. Even though we live in the same house, have all the same bills, go to the same job, and do the same thing everyday, it’s all 5 million times better when you have a husband to go home to and to know that no matter what he’ll be with you in anything that might happen. And even if he doesnt want to he has to because he signed the contract (*insert evil laugh here*)

sometimes i'm a snob. . .

So last night my family and I went to see Rent, I’ve now seen it 3 times (including once in NYC) and it has always been one of my top 3 favorite Broadway plays so of course I loved it but it could have been better. The two main guys were the originals from the 90’s so of course they were perfect, I would have thought that since they’ve been doing this role on and off for 10 years they would become bored with it but Anthony Rapp (who plays Mark) had so much passion for his role and the music still, you could see it that when he was singing he was all caught up in the moment still. I think he feels the same way I do about the songs, I’ve loved that soundtrack since the beginning of high school and have every song memorized but it never gets old, it’s not like Brittany Spears where you hear “oopps I did it again” and you want to rip your hair out because it’s too overplayed. This is different, the music just makes your hair stand up and makes you want to sing with passion along with everyone else, just beautiful. But this is not what I wanted to write about… I wanted to take this moment and show one of my snobbish sides. My entire family loves Broadway shows, it’s definitely something that’s talked about on holidays and everyone on my mom’s side of the family have season tickets to ‘off Broadway’ at Gammage in ASU and have had them for years. One of the happiest days of my life was when my parents decided to get a third season ticket so I could go to all the shows (it meant I was old enough). So being to over 50 shows at Gammage and 2 in NYC I must write about Broadway behavior and etiquette. Here is a link showing all of the etiquette: http://www.wikihow.com/Practise-Proper-Etiquette-for-a-Broadway-Show I agree with all of it. The main things it states is that you need to:
- Dress up. Broadway used to be a very fancy thing that only rich people used to go to, they dressed up for it because it was a special occasion and it shows respect for the actors who worked so hard. Last night I don’t know how many pairs of shorts, jeans, and t-shirts I saw. The only reason why it would be ok to wear jeans is if it was a contemporary, high energized, younger generation show, and only if you are wearing dressy pants, nice shoes, and a super nice shirt. (Rent would fall into the ‘ok to wear jeans’ show, but the people were not wearing nice tops!)
- This is not a rock concert, don’t yell! When Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp came on stage people were screaming and hollering! This is sooo not appropriate! It’s definitely appropriate to clap when a famous person makes their first appearance but no yelling, it’s not Aerosmith.
- Only clap when appropriate. What I’ve learned in going to so many shows is that its only appropriate to clap, at the beginning, when a famous actor comes on, when a really good song is over (the best 1 or 2 songs of the whole show), a completely soloed song, at intermission, and at the end of the show. The people at last nights shows clapped at the end of every song and sometimes in the middle of songs! The actors are not used to that because it’s not what you are suppose to do so there is not a scheduled pause so they keep going and you miss some things over the clapping.

I noticed that a lot of people were there because of the movie which is awesome, if a movie got you interested in Broadway then that’s cool. I hope that those people had a good time and realized that Broadway is not some boring show, and that it can be really upbeat and fun. They have shows about anything you can imagine, there is really something out there for everyone. One of my favorite Broadway songs is about prostitutes looking for someone to screw, not all of the shows are plain boring crap, most of them are super interesting.


Other then that I went goofy golfing and to chucky cheese with Ty, Mike, and James on Saturday. Jakey was sick so he didn’t come. : ( then I went to Lucia’s baby shower, it was kind of sad, nobody showed up, there were 3 girls, the host, and Lucia’s mom. But hopefully she got enough stuff to get her started. Then on Sunday we went to the park with James, Mike and Ty again and flew a kite! Everyone had the best time! I got the cutes pic of Jake and James helping ty fly the kite, I’m going to put it in his room. We were there for a good 2 hours just having a blast.

wow, work is really boring

It’s a little boring at work today and I feel like I’m back in the ‘real world’ now so I want to write about the wedding so I can come back and read it someday.

Wednesday was my first day off of work and I was going crazy running all over town getting last minute stuff done. Then Thursday I packed up all of our stuff for the weekend, wedding and honeymoon then went to the clarendon hotel (www.theclarendon.net) (awesome hotel!) And we had my bachelorette party, it was super fun, just what I wanted. Very mellow, not crazy, good time with my closest friends (and sisters). We had macayo’s delivered and then went to melting pot (yummm!). Then on Friday we got our nails done and it took forever but was good bonding time. The whole day I felt sick to my stomach, I even went to the bathroom because I thought I was going to puke several times. So I started freaking out a bit, in everything I read it said that it’s good to be nervous but if you feel physically sick then you should listen to your body and re-think what you are doing (getting married). So my mind was out of it all day and I was worrying like crazy. But then it hit me, I had a vitamin this morning on an empty stomach then had a huge starbucks, probably why my stomach hurt. Then I had some food and instantly felt better. Oh man, I cant tell you how relieved I was, I knew I wasn’t making a mistake, but it kind of freaked me out a bit and I think it was for the better. After we did our nails we rested for a bit and then went to the rehearsal, it was good and fun, started to feel real then, then I started getting nervous (real nervous not sickness). After we went to dinner at Roy’s and it was flipping amazing!! I loved loved it. They printed custom menus with our names on it and everyone had fun bonding with each other. Jakey gave a speech and it just made my heart melt, he is such a cutie! After that I think I just felt like all was right in the world and everything was perfect, I had no more nervousness or anything.

On wedding day I woke up and felt like it was a normal day with lots of stuff to do. So I took a long shower, packed up and headed to the hotel. My sister spent the night with me on Friday and even though we didn’t have much time to chat I really appreciated her being there, so I wasn’t alone. We got to the hotel and everything was slow but fast. The hair lady was super nice, then we started to separate all of the ribbon and put together the candy ‘bar’. I was really super calm all day, anytime I started to get nervous I picked up my camera and played some music (the best things in the world). We all got ready, took pictures then went down for the ceremony. I was fine, talking with ty and my dad when all of the bridesmaids and groomsmen were walking down the isle but then when it was my turn and I hit the stars, saw jakey I turned in to a mush (as I’m sure everyone saw). I couldn’t comprehend anything I only really saw 3 people in the seats everything else was just about trying to see jake through my tears and making sure ty was beside me. Everything else was a blur, I remember not being able to hold jake’s hand, which is all I wanted to do, I hadn’t seen him in almost 24 hours and it was for obvious reasons an emotional 24 hours. He is my support system and I think it’s dumb that I couldn’t see him through out that time. What I do remember is the sand ceremony and the vows which were both perfect, the sand ceremony was important to me because I have ty, and I wanted him to be a part of the ceremony and have something symbolic stating that we are 2 and 1 becoming 3 together. Then the vows which turned out perfect, we didn’t show them to each other before so I was kind of worried they would be too different since we used the same concept but it worked well! I’m going to frame them in our house with a wedding picture. When it was all official and we kissed Jake dipped me, he did this in the rehearsal and I told him it was cute but not to do it in the ceremony because I could fall in my dress, but apparently he didn’t listen because he did it anyways. I was told later that he wanted to do that because it’s what his dad did when he got married, so that was cute but way unexpected! The reception was good and fun, nothing really bad to say about that. Everyone was gone by 10:30 which I thought was super early but when I thought about it I’ve never stayed at a wedding past 10 so I guess that’s normal.

Our honeymoon was great, we didn’t do a ton of stuff which is what I originally wanted to do, but after everything we just wanted to relax and be together so we did. We had mucho fun but mostly just relaxed. We went on a cruise to mexico and went to 3 cities and all 3 were unique and completely different. I told jake that I wanted to accomplish 3 things on the cruise at the cities, 1. Shop 2. Relax 3. do something adventurous
So in the first port Puerto Vallarta we went shopping the first ½ of the day and then went horseback riding at night so that just left relaxing. In the second city Mazatlan we decided at the last minute to take a trolley tour of the city, it was 5 hours but we are so glad we did it! We learned a lot of stuff and it took us to the most beautiful views and things to do. It was one of my favorite things we did. Then the third city was Cabo San Lucas (!!!!) we got a taxi to take us to the most beautiful beach I’ve ever seen in my life. The sand and water were amazing and there was hardly anybody there. They had little straw huts lined up and we just had so much fun, jake played in the water like a little kid (in a cute way) and I took a ton of pics and then we just relaxed, we almost fell asleep. It was so beautiful. So that was our relaxing day.

On the cruise we were lucky enough to get our own table at dinner but the people next to us were in there late 30’s early 40’s and were constantly complementing us on how ‘refreshing’ it was to see a couple who genuinely loved each other as much as we did. They kept saying how they could just tell that we belonged together. The last night one of the guys asked how old we were and we told him, of course he was surprised at how young we were but then he asked whose house we were moving in to and we explained that we already lived together and he seriously almost flipped out. Apparently he is ‘old fashioned’ his wife said, then they said ½ jokingly that their opinion changed of us because we live together already. I don’t get it. How did we change his opinion about how we love each other just because we live together? Oh well, they were really nice.

I am super happy how everything went and also super happy that i married jake, he is the best! : )

alright alright

Here's some honeymoon pics. . .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30044222@N05/sets/72157615348793767/

holy smokes I'm married!!!

I was going to write this super long blog about all of the wedding festivities, but really there is nothing much to talk about, everything went perfectly i think.

Our honeymoon was great too. ; )

The end.

It's 1am and jake is passed out on the toilet

So first let me say that jake's friends that he's had for years and years are all slackers, they all live with their parents, and all they do on weekends or nights is drink. So they have no money from spending it all on partying. So they were all making excuses about throwing him a bachelor party, then James stepped up and planned one for him, i think all of his friends came but right now i'm not sure. Jake lasted about 2 1/2 hours before they brought him home. He is horribly wasted. I feel so bad for him. He never ever drinks and he drank a lot. Jake has always had this thing about trying to impress his friends, he is always trying to be 'cooler' around them which is why he drank so much. Sometimes i dont understand that huge difference between us. He always tries to impress his friends, pretty much every bad thing he has done in his life was because of his friends. Sometimes i wish that he would see that he is an adult and can say no, or enough is enough. As much as i love him and know that i'm suppose to take care of him when he's like this. I can't help but be kind of mad hat him. He should be responsible enough not to end up sleeping on the toilet at the end of the night. Oh well.

We're getting married this week! Crazy! At least i know i will have a husband who never gets this drunk again.