After the fact...

Well, after reading my last blog I realized that I skipped straight from finals to getting engaged! I guess I should recap on all the things that have happened besides meeting an amazing, brilliant, sweet, and extremely wonderful person to marry :D But first I am going to talk about Brad and the wedding plans just for an update...

The wedding is going to be August 9th and we are getting married in the Salt Lake City Temple. We are having a nice dinner after the wedding for close family and friends at the Joseph Smith Building. Brad needs to finish up his summer classes and finals so we will just be in Provo for a few days until he is done and then we will go to Georgia for a reception on the 16th. We are having it at a friend's neighborhood clubhouse that is really cute and that is nestled back in some woods. We are going to make it really pretty with tables and lights on the back deck area. Then me and Brad will be off on our honeymoon in Charleston, North Carolina! We are staying in a condo on an island off the coast. It is so beautiful and we are looking forward to having some delicious seafood and enjoying the beautiful beaches. At the end of our week-long honeymoon we will fly back to Coeur d'alene, Idaho for a small reception there with his family and friends.This past weekend me and Brad, and my sister and brother-in-law went to St. George to go to my cousin's reception and to see our friends Mike and Danielle DeMottte. I also got to try on my wedding dress and it was beautiful. My aunt is going to alter it for me because it was a little too big. She designs wedding gowns and formal dresses and is an amazing seamstress so I know she will do a good job.

So anyways.....

After finals me and my roommates, Becca and Jess, went on a road trip to Wisconsin. The drive is about 24 hours and we had a great time the entire ride there with great music, great food, and great stops along the way! We stayed overnight at a hotel...which was kind of creepy and ghetto much to our surprise. We thought it was a nicer hotel that Becca's mom had mentioned, but turns out it was a different one. But it was tons of fun and we got a good night's rest. We stopped at Little America along the way and got 50 cent ice cream cones which was fun and we got to see lots of open country in Nebraska, Wyoming, Iowa, and Minnesota. Once in Wisconsin we went to an awesome Cheese factory and we went to the Mall of America. The mall is SOO huge and is basically a one-stop for anything you could possibly need...it would take multiple days to visit the stores in the entire mall. We ate at the Rainforest Cafe while we were there and we got to sit under singing monkeys which was quite an experience.

After visiting with Becca's family in Wisconsin for a few days we flew to Georgia to visit my mom and siblings. Jess got to experience a true southern town and she is even now sporting redneck gear via a confederate pride t-shirt. We visited all sorts of places...gone with the wind museum, stone mountain, downtown Kennesaw, and a civil war locomotive museum...it was tons of fun! Amy, my sister, was also in a musical called Lil' Abner and we went to see her perform while we were home. She did a really good job and the musical was really funny. I got to see my old choir teacher Mrs. Gunter, who was one of the directors for the musical. It was perfect weather while we were there and one day we went to the lake where we got extremely burnt...i guess we should have put on more sunscreen, but I have a nice tan now :D