Happy One Year

Today is the one year anniversary of when I married my best friend. I cannot believe it's already been a whole year since our big day! Our wedding was so perfect. The weather cooperated, all of our best friends and family were there to celebrate with us, and most of all, I remember feeling so happy and excited to start my life with my amazing husband. And what a great first year it has been. I thank Heavenly Father every day for putting Ryan in my life. He is my best friend, biggest supporter, and my better half. His example makes me want to be a better person every day. I feel so blessed to have married such an amazing man and into such an amazing family. This past year, we have done a lot of traveling, house updating, and had lots of little adventures along the way. Every day with Ryan has been special, but here's a few of my favorite memories of our first year...

Our Honeymoon in Cancun
My First Utes Game

Watching HGTV shows together

Road trips

Singing "Let it Go" from Frozen at the top of our lungs

Pretending I'm not falling asleep when you read to me every night

Our weekly trips to Lowe's for building supplies

Watching Vampire Diaries and The Bachelor

Arguing over the water temperature in the shower

Our terrible potential baby names (for the future of course)

You always replacing my decorative soap dispenser with your Star Wars one 

You singing in the shower

Going to Mexico...twice

Watching you play with our niece and nephew

4-wheeling at Gooseberry

Surprising me with Tim McGraw tickets

Our trip to the South

Your surprise 30th birthday party

Doing building projects together

Nightly back rubs

My first NFL game in New Orleans
Trip to Mississippi & New Orleans 

A kiss every morning before you leave for work

Our First Holiday Season Together

 I had my gallbladder removed & Ryan took care of me

Hosting parties at our house

Michael Jackson show in Vegas
Trip to Chicago and Michigan

Ryan truly has made me happier than I ever could have imagined. Our first year together has been amazing. I look forward to our future adventures and to eternity together.

Happy Anniversary to my handsome husband!

What Happens In Vegas...

A successful superstition: at our wedding, Jamie and Dylan caught the bouquet and garter, and now they are getting married in August. Yay for love!

Last weekend was Miss Jamie's Bachelorette Party in Vegas. Jamie, Amber, Cassidy and I had a fun little road trip and enjoyed the Vegas heat for a couple days. On Saturday, we hit the pool in the morning and then got dressed up in our Cougarettes and Cougar shirts and got ready to hit the strip. We went to Jamie's favorite restaurant BJ's and then saw the show Ka. We had some fun walking around the strip before we called it a night. 

I am so excited for Jamie and Dylan and thankful to be a part of their big day. XOXO.

Jamie caught the boquet and Dylan caught the garter at our wedding

Suite Retreat basket I made for her

Soakin' up the 106 degree sun at the pool

Dinner at Jamie's Fav BJ's

Elevator Selfie

After the Show

I love Cassidy's cute preggo belly

Lip Tattoos

More Tattoos

Our yards at the Linq

Fun at the Polaroid store

Waterfall at the hotel

5 Months

That's right- this handsome dude and I have been married for 5 months now! It's crazy how fast the time flies! It's amazing how much our love has grown in these 5 short months. Ryan is truly my best friend and I am so thankful to have him by my side. We have already had some adventures, and have a vacations and things planned in the next couple of months. As I said in This Post a few weeks ago, being married is like getting to have a sleepover with your best friend every night of the week. It's what I've hoped and dreamed of my whole life, and I'm happy to say that it's better than I imagined. I am thankful for Ryan and look forward to spending forever with him. September 26, 2013 was the best day of my life so far. Here's some more pics of our amazing day, just 5 months ago:

Honeymoonin'

7 Days of Mexico, Sunshine, Beautiful (warm) blue ocean, My best friend (and brand new husband), an All-inclusive resort, and All-you-can-drink Strawberry Pina Coladas (virgin of course)

Sounds pretty amazing, right?

Well, it was.

Our wedding and honeymoon was possibly the best week of my life to this point. After celebrating our big day with all of our family and friends, we headed off to sunny Mexico. I couldn't believe how beautiful the water was. The view from our balcony could have been on a postcard. 

We stayed at the Live Aqua Resort in Cancun. Wow...I had never stayed at an all-inclusive resort before. It's awesome. Even though it was hurricane season, we really lucked out and had great weather all but one day. We ate so much, and just chilled and enjoyed the beautiful weather the whole time. The beach and pool-side waiters made it easy to sit at the pool or beach the ENTIRE day without moving a muscle. We got a lot of relaxing in, which was so nice after the stress of planning a wedding. My favorite was the day we rented a cabana and just chilled all day watching the ocean. 

One day we did an adventure tour where we visited Tulum, the ancient Mayan ruins. We spent a couple of hours there and got to see the ruins and the most beautiful beach I have ever seen. Ever. Then the bus dropped us off at XelHa the rest of the day to play. Xelha is a natural adventure park--kinda. It was so neat and I really wish we could have taken more pics there, but we were in the water the whole time. We biked up to the entrance of a natural lazy river that we rode a big inner tube down. Along the way there was cliff jumping, a rope swing, and lots and lots of snorkeling spots. We loved it, it was so beautiful and would love to go back someday and spend more time snorkeling and exploring. 

We got to go para sailing over the ocean, which was neat, but made us both a little sick. The highlight for me was the night we got to release baby turtles into the ocean. I guess sea turtles lay their eggs in the sand and the resorts are responsible for digging them up and releasing them into the ocean when they hatch. We just happened to be there one night when they hatched, and we got to release teeny itty bitty sea turtles onto the sand and watch them run into the ocean. It was the cutest thing. I was so sad we couldn't take pictures because it would distract them and they'd follow the light from the flash. It felt like a scene from some romantic movie. haha.

The day before we left, a tropical storm came and practically flooded the resort. Tropical rain storms are really different from rain at home because its really warm rain and there's no lightning or anything. Just a lot of rain and wind. We thought we'd make the best of it and we went out and played in it. It was actually a nice break from the scorching sun and humidity.

It was so fun that I got to spend my first time visiting another country with my hot new husband. We enjoyed every minute of it, and even got to message back home to our family a few times thanks to Wi-Fi and iMessage. We broke a record and gained our Newlywed Weight within the first 7 days of being married. 

So, there ya go. Our honeymoon adventure in the beautiful Cancun, Mexico. Hope to go again someday with my handsome man.