Sunday, February 26, 2012

Bridals

 Michelle had her 3 nieces, and flower girls come to her bridals, in their dresses.  She had them done at the Utah State Capital, the same place I did mine 10 years ago!  While we were there, I thought it would be fun to take a picture of Nora Jane sitting on the same stairs, where I did.


I love Weddings!

Wedding planning has long been a hobby of mine.  So when Daniel's sister Michelle got engaged around Thanksgiving...I was excited!!  I was even more excited when she called the next week and needed help finding shoes to go with her dress.

I immediately went to Nordstrom.com, and to their wedding shoes section.  As I was scrolling through, found these beauties!


I texted it to Michelle, who was super excited about them.  Michelle has never been a very "dressy" kind of girl..so I knew these were the perfect compromise between heels and tennis shoes she would want to wear.  

From here the idea of having all her bridesmaids and flower girls in "toms" and making it a theme in her wedding began.

Unfortunately the dress had already been purchased, and was not long enough for her to wear heals with.  So...I quickly bought these:


Then we got these for the bridesmaids:


And we were going to do little black glitter toms for the flower girls, with purple dresses.  But we ended up going with cream dresses for the girls, so I found these, and said I would embellish them.


Here they are with the embellishments:


Then my cute neighbor gave me the idea of "wands" for the little flower girls.  Michelle wasn't to sold on the idea, cause she's not much of a "princess" type.  But was a good sport and let me make a sample one, she could veto.  Also, I saw some cute glass tile necklaces on pinterest, and thought they'd be cute with the girls' initials.  Here's how it all turned out:

And here are the flower girls, minus Jeff's niece who lives in Texas.

I love weddings!!!

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

VALENTINE'S DAY

Awesome Valentine's this year! In keeping with the tradition...we spent valentine's day with the Goddard's! First it was dinner at Flemings (which can be hit and miss...but tonight was a definite hit!) and then off to Lady Antebellum!! This was mine and Daniels first BIG concert together..and we loved it. Thompson Square opened. They are married and just dang cute. He got her flowers for Valentine's. Then we got to enjoy some Darius Rucker...who after seeing live I love even more! I love his dancing moves! Then it was Lady A! Loved every minute of it! Thanks Goddards for another great memory!








View from our seats



Thompson Square



Darius Rucker



All of them together!

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

The Nutcracker!

I am so excited to start up "The Nutcracker" tradition in my family this Christmas.  We've decided to make it a girls only tradition!  Nora Jane and I had so much fun.  Grandma Pace joined us this year, and we got all dressed up in our fancy clothes, went to lunch and then down to the Capitol Theater.  Ballet West did not disappoint...and neither did my 3 year old!!


I didn't realize how much I have missed not going to The Nutcracker every Christmas for the last 15 or so years.  I'm so grateful to my Mom for instilling a love of ballet and the Nutcracker in me, and for taking me every Christmas.

Love you sweet Nora Jane and excited to share lots more Christmases at the Nutcracker with you!

Friday, December 2, 2011

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Michelle's Engaged!!!

Daniel's sister Michelle just got engaged this past weekend to her boyfriend Jeff Christensen.  They met while both playing basketball for Westminster.  We are so excited for the two of them, and to have Jeff join the family.  The big day is February 24th in the Salt Lake Temple.

Nora Jane's Pretty New Dress



Sledding November 5th