Flowers, Flowers, and more Flowers!!

Hello Hello Hello!!!

Oh my goodness my life has been totally been consumed by wedding planning! Here is the latest update!! John and mines Marriage license was delivered to the Washington DC temple! YAY!!!! Its Legal!!! I started my temple prep class today which is AMAZING and I'm so excited to learn more about the wonderful gospel I have been privileged to be a part of. Also! I have narrowed down my flower choices for bouquets and decorations etc! YAY! AND! The Wrights are so nice and amazing and have offered to have mine and Johns open house in FL at their home! I am very excited! Here are some of the flowers to give you guys an idea of where i'm headed haha!

This is called a Purple Anemone(sp?) I want to use it in the bridesmaid bouquets, for the groomsmen and for the dark purple in my bouquet :)

I'm in love with these white and purple calla lilies. I am totally having them in my bouquet and possibly with the purple anemone is the bridesmaids bouquets.... thoughts?

K so this might be a repeat picture, but its just so pretty. take out those little purple things and put in the dark purple anemone and thats my bouquet! YAY!

Well thats pretty much all that is new for now. I haven't taken many pictures lately but when I do I will be sure to post some more!

XOXO

Halloweens Past

In the Spirit of Halloween I just thought I would share my last few Halloweens Favorite Memories!!!

2009

Bri and I went to the Masquerade Ball! SO MUCH FUN! Live music, everyone in masks! Now if that isn't fun I have no clue what is!!!

2008

Gentri and I threw a fantastic Halloween feast! Complete with amazing decorations!

2007

My family became sea lovers and went all decked out as Pirates!

I mean just look at my Dad, that is dedication!!!

2006

Custom Costume year! What a great group of girls! We all had our costumes custom made this year and I think they turned out pretty fabulously!

2005

Halloween is always fun whether you are working or playing ;)

2004

MNSS with Anita and Michelle! Such an amazing trip!!! We got sooo much candy!!!

Can't wait to see what this Halloween will bring!!

XOXOXO

Wedding Planning....

Hello ALL!!!!! Sorry I have been so MIA to the blogging world as of late, but I have been so very busy with sorting out wedding plans! Compiling paint swatches, finding an apartment for us to live, choosing flowers, getting a marriage license, organizing flights, hotels, honeymoons... the list goes on and I feel as if it will never ever end! Wedding planning is a lot more stressful than I thought it would be. I've only been engaged for a little over a week and already I feel like my life is in over drive all the time! Who knew there were so many tiny details to be covered?

However I wanted to share some details I have made decisions on!

The first and most important decision: We are getting sealed in the Washington DC Temple on December 22 at 12 pm :) :) :) :) :) :)

The look I want is a very southern, warm cozy feel.

Whats better than candles and canning jars?

I want my bouquet to look something like this,

our colors are black, cream and dark purple

My friend Rachel made these adorable cake toppers, and I have decided to make some too!

I am custom doing them to match my dress and Johns suit :)

I'll post pictures when they are done!

Instead of having a traditional HUGE wedding cake( I HATE cake) we are going to do a small cake on top with cupcakes underneath! YAY!

Now if only I could get cupcake wars to make them for me.....

Well that is all my life consists of for now. I am traveling to UT in a few weeks to go dress shopping and take our engagement pictures so I will be sure to update after then! I also am applying for another part time job because I'm not getting good hours at Disney, so I will keep you updated on that and more wedding details as I figure them out!

XOXO

I'm going to be Mrs. Dow

I"M ENGAGED

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last night John surprised me and flew from SLC to Orlando and proposed!!! After 4 1/2 years we are officially engaged and are going to be getting married in the Washington DC Temple on December 22!!!!!!!! Here are some pictures from last night :)

The counter was all set up when I came home from work with the ring in between candles and tons of gorgeous red red roses!!!!!!!

kinda whited out....

SOOOO EXCITED! WE ARE ENGAGED!!!!!

WOW!!!!!!

TWU WOV

Celebrating at Ghirardelli with some ice cream!

MR. and MRS. DOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Perfect Summer Day

This last weekend was the BEST weekend of the entire summer! Not only did I get to do some pretty fun cool things, but I got to do them with my best friend and LOVE of my LIFE!!!

John flew into PBI Friday afternoon and it was non-stop fun the moment he got here! Friday night we went to Saito's Japanese Steak House for dinner! YUM! I love Hibachi! Our chef was hilarious too! He kept making my mom jump with all his twirling knives ha! After dinner we were so stuffed so we went and walked around the mall till we had enough room for some Coldstone ice cream... DELISH!

Saturday we woke up pretty early and had yummy breakfast sandwiches and then John and I headed off to John D. McArthur State Park to go SNORKELING!!! It was such a fun adventure! I haven't been snorkeling in years and last time I went I was pretty scared! This was Johns first time and he did great and I wasn't scared anymore! Maybe cause I had my man there to protect me from any sharks or barracudas! We spent most of the day just lazing around on the coral reef! It was so relaxing and we saw so many beautiful fish and lots of turtle nests!

:)

Then Saturday Night we went to the first Dolphins Game down in Miami! It was my first ever NFL game! It was so much fun! We got fun Jerseys from Target(I LOVE TARGET) to show our team pride! Our seats were so awesome! We were 9 rows up from the 50 YRD line on the Dolphins side! They were playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers! We ate delish stadium food and loved seeing all the crazy tailgaters! It poured down rain on us during the first quarter but it was ok because we had our first kiss in the rain <3 ! haha! It was such a fun day! And was only made more perfect that we got to spend it together! I seriously love this man so much!

Sunday was Church and naps as usual with YUMMY ribs and some dominos for dinner :) Monday we went to the LW Beach early in the morning before he had to leave and it was low tied and was so perfect! Very relaxing morning! We saw dolphins off the pier and there were lots of fish in the water. I LOVE spending time with John it seriously is the best ever! I can't wait for him to come visit again SOON!!

Rihanna Concert

Last Girl On Earth Tour...

The concert was AWESOME! Rihanna has some mad vocals! She sang every song live and was amazing! Thanks to my Bestie Amy for letting me go with her to the concert it was so much fun!

Sorry the video is so small on here. I have bunch more on my iphone and camera but this was the smallest one. I definitely recommend her Live though! FANTASTIC!

Back to the O-Town

Here is a little update on what is going to be happening for me:

So for the last two weeks I have been living out of a hotel while I have been working at Disney and apartment hunting. Within 24 hours of my arrival in Orlando I had a roommate! YAY! Her name is Brooke and she is 23 years old and seems really fun!

Once we figured out we were going to live together with a third girl named Angelica we decided it was time to start hunting for apartments!

We talked over a few we thought would be good and then went together to take some tours and finally we signed a lease for our new home! I will be moving into my new Apartment at Cumberland Park at the end of August! YAY! I am so excited to be moving back up to a singles ward and somewhere where I can have a job. I start work Sept 1 for Disney again! I am super excited by all of this and can't wait to see what fun adventures I will have this fall in Orlando! Wish me luck!!

xoxo

LES