Back to school blues...

   Tomorrow is the first day of school. I cannot believe that summer is already over! It's hard thinking that the days of just doing whatever I wanted are no over; however, I'm looking forward to being busy and having some sort of routine. This year is going to be so different with having Travis here! I already feel different about school and not nearly as stressed. Travis actually left for home just this morning! He has a bunch of worked lined up for this next week, so I won't have him around. I am not the biggest fan of being apart from him, but luckily he's only gone a week. The poor guy, he needed a week to be busy! He has been beyond bored being down here. All that we have done has watched T.V series after T.V. series. Once he gets back to Utah, he will have some jobs lined up and we will face reality together.

So very in love with this boy! 

I had to post this picture... it cracks me up! Do you think that their is a man in the home?! Trav and his powerade. Down here, you can buy 2 for a dollar! At home you can buy one of those for about 2 dollars. At first, I thought it was a bit much to have 15 of these in the fridge... but when I'm finished a workout these taste pretty dang good. 

I'm goin' a little crazy. I would love to have another horse of my own (that's no news), but lately I've just been dying to ride and just be around them. I've made Travis watch one of my horse movies.... you know the ones with the terrible acting and lame story lines? I love them and Trav' is a good man for sitting through it. He even took me to a near by stable just to look at the horses there. 

I love this picture!! This horse just looks like he has so much to tell you about life. 

Weddings galore!

  This past week has been fabulous! All of my family has been in town for my sister's wedding. It has been so nice to have familiar faces around. It's kept Travis and I busy, which we have loved! We've loved the family dinners and BBQ's. I know that it really makes me miss home and wish that we could all be closer. Soon enough though!

  On the same day that my sister got married, my cousin, Nathan, also got married. Travis and I were fortunate enough to attend their sealing at the Salt Lake temple. My uncle Greg was able to seal Nathan and Carmen and it was a really neat experience. My uncle Greg has been serving as an area authority over in Russia for the past 5 years and is finally come home. I loved listening to the ceremony again! Especially having my husband there.

 Waiting around for Mackenzie's wedding!! I loved having our cute little nieces around. So much fun! 

 Claire bear! Love this little soul.

 We all knew that this little miss Georgia was very sassy... Well, she showed us a whole other side to her at Mackenzie's wedding. She danced her heart out! The most psychotic and hilarious dancer I've ever witnessed. So entertaining! She is definitely someone you would want to party with. 

I chopped my hair off! When I was at home, I had it done before our wedding and whatever the stylist put in my hair absolutely destroyed it. My hair is already thin, but I have never had it feel so stringy, dry and dead. Something needed to be done, so I had my darling friend Karin chop it all off. I looooooove long hair, and I do miss mine. But, this cut has been nice! It's easy and cool for summer. It's certainly grown on me! 

 A cool picture taken at Mackenzie and Manny's ceremony. I've never been to a greek wedding before! The ceremony was so unique and interesting. It was really cool to see!!

My sister looked beautiful and so happy! Which is how I hope to see all of my sisters to be. My good friend Fus was able to come and join in on the fun!! I am SO sweaty in this picture from all the dancing. I seriously had so much fun dancing! Whoever knows me well, knows that I am not a dance party kind of girl. I don't know if it was the greek food I ate... but I definitely danced the night away. OPA!!!!! 

It's about time..

I think it was about time I give a little update on our exciting life down in Utah. For starters, Travis is now HERE!! Well, he's been here for over a week now, but it has made things exponentially better. Our little place has certainly felt like more of a home since he has been here. He is the greatest and I am so happy I married him :) We really haven't done much... and I mean that when I say that. Our days start with working out and then for the rest of the day, we watch our show (Friday Night Lights). I've watched it before, but I have loved watching it again with Travis. We're a tad obsessed, but it's keeping us busy and that is exactly what we need. 

My very good friend, Kim Parker, got married this past week! Karin, Aubri and I patiently awaiting outside of the temple awaiting the beautiful couple to come out! I was lucky enough to go to the sealing and I loved being able to be apart of that. It brought back a lot of thoughts and feelings about my special day with Travis! Such a great blessing. 

It is HOT down here! Neither of us have been able to adjust to it well. This is us at the park at dusk... because that's the only real time we can handle being outside. 

 We went to the Heber rodeo this weekend. I love this rodeo, I went to it last year with my sister and we had such a good time, so this year I went again with my sister and Travis. It was so crazy because at this exact time last year, Travis and I were just starting to seriously date. Time really does fly!

 My little niece Cecilia! Such a little sass. 

 Love that sight.

Again with the little Miss Mae! 

   Our apartment is coming a long, but it is still not ready to post some pictures! However, I made something that I am very proud of. I am not the most creative or artistic person, so I obviously had to get this idea off of pinterest! With all that said... I'm still very proud that I was able to make this! 

This is it!! It's kind of hard to tell what it is in the picture. But, all I did was cut out an S on poster board, scrunch up coffee filters and used hot glue to stick em on. It's really cute!! I love our initial, not just because my first name starts with an S, but I just think the letter S is pretty. Way to go Steph! 

Life is good!!