The After Party

The reception was DARLING. All the tiniest details made up one really beautiful event. Very vintage and very Kelsey.

Lots of fresh wildflowers. How could you not love that?

The gift "table".

The sign-in table. Complete with pictures of parents and grandparents on their wedding days.

The delicious food- holy sugar rush.

Somehow Britter and I got put in charge of cutting and serving the cake. That is one messy job. Tasty though.

Receving guidance.

My Best Friend's Wedding

Our spring break was an adventurous journey to Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA for my dear friend Kelsey's wedding! Surely it was the longest drive Daniel and I have ever done together. We initially planned to switch a bunch, but we were so determined to reach our destination that we each drove half of the 10-12 hour drive (I forget). How did we get there, you ask? With our car dead and all---Daniel's parents let us borrow their car for our long journey. That was the biggest blessing ever. A great time!

Here they are! Mr. & Mrs. Dennis.

All the fam.

The ladies. Brittany, Kate, Kelsey, Myself, Julia. :D

My party planning accomplice, Julia!

The Portland Temple was so beautiful that day. Apparently it was one of the sunniest days Oregon had seen in a long time. The flowers smelled amazing and the sun just shined!

Here are a couple of shots from the Bachelorette/Vegas Night Party the night before. Disclaimer: No alcohol was consumed- just a whole lot of candy and shots of sparkling cider. Really more for giggles than anything else. :)

The darling bride.

Julia did such a great job decorating! We had a wonderful time and laughed until my cheeks hurt. It was the perfect way to send off Kelsey into marriage!

P.S. In order to keep pictures chronological- I'll probably have a few different posts. Stay tuned!

A Lack of Focus

It's true, our car is DEAD. Really it only cost us a dollar to buy from my mother, but it has cost us over 1500 to fix it on numerous occasions. It exploded the day before we left for Seattle. I walked down the stairs of our apartment to see Daniel back up the car while it made this atrocious noise. He pulled the car back in and it started shaking and died. Then with a noise much like a running faucet, oil spilled on to the pavement. So dead. Really the stress of having one day to purchase a new car has been killing me, but off we go. By four o'clock we need to have a car and be at the grocery and back to Rexburg. Talk about crunch time. Farewell Ford Focus....

When I Grow Up...

The more I plan our trip to Seattle, the more I become infected with the travel bug. There is something intoxicating about planning and sight-seeing and whisking off to an exotic land. (Well, exotic in perhaps a different way). As graduation creeps closer, the ever present question "What will you do?" grows louder and louder inside my head. If I could only make a career out of my love of travel books and overly meticulous planning. Sure, I could be a travel agent, but I very much need a different job market for anything like that (Idaho Falls I think has one travel agency). The joke back in high school was that I was going to be a tour guide at the White House-heck that still sounds good to me!! Or be a photographer for National Geographic!! :) Write for a travel magasine? Work for the Church Historical Society? Museum Curator? (I did try that whole Museum of Idaho thing and that went poorly...) Work for the State Department? (Maybe actually use my French?) Book Publishing? (Pull some strings at Deseret Book?) Who knows, mostly this is me procrastinating my last final exam. Constitutional History and Law--not favorite. I'll probably end up being a librarian or secretary at a dentist office. (Not that those are awful careers, just not exactly what I want to do with my degree) We are excited to leave for Washington on Sunday and my little brother gets back from Equador that same day. Whoohoo.