the weddin

i surprised vanessa and austin (along with the WHOLE family, sans kimmie) and flew in for the big weddin! i flew out of sitka on wednesday night and did the "milk run" where you take about every flight you can in alaska then out of anchorage i flew 5 hours to SLC. eloria picked me up from the airport bless her soul, i love her, and took me to alli's house. i loved everyone's different reactions when they saw me. alli thought i was her reflection (haha) my dad and alexis thought the big surprise was maddie going to be a big sister when my mom asked them what surprise they thought maddie had. vanessa was speechless, so was austin.

oh their wedding! what a glorious day! i was in charge of army sargenting the wedding line. i cued them in on beat and it went awesome after a couple of run throughs the night before. alexis, eloria, emily and i decorated the honeymooners suite and it was SOOO gorgeous, nicely tucked up in the mountains of park city. the wedding day was a breeze, vanessa looked so gorgeous and didn't even need the little make up sesh we had together, austin looked straight GQ, such a handsome couple. austin's grandma said the prayer and it was perfect. they walked down the isle to "marry me" by train and the theme song to "tangled" it was the perfect wedding mood music. i even cried. the ceremony was beautiful and simple.

eloria and nick came up and off went the clothes and we threw our swim suits on and partied in the pool. we had the greatest time. a swim party reception with your closest friends is the way to go. man we had so much fun, squirting each other in the ears with water noodles, sliding across the pool on the blow up aligator, and just celebrating the new couple. and not to mention the food was to die for.

my dad didn't have a heart attack this go around he just managed to drop the trailer hitch on his ankle by the achillies tendon and cut it out like an ice cream scoop. eloria and i rushed him to the hospital and there he got internal and external stitches to mend his poor ankle, it was pretty gnarly with his achillies tendon all exposed. but a nice pei wei dinner can always lift lowry's spirits, so we did just that.

i went to the chalk festival at the gateway with the gang. i put a head massager on maddie while she was standing in front of a pole and she crouched away from me and hit her head so hard on the pole, she never cries but it was sure sad. we ended the night with a little seranading by nickolav, he played his guitar and sang for us and i think even cody thought his deep country voice was pretty nice! those two, elora and nick are quite the couple.

although my stay was short and exciting i was ready to come home to my beautiful husband. it was the first time in my life where going somewhere other than my mom's house felt like going home. we loved each other all night long (ow ow) and worked like dogs all day today. we had our biggest day in sales today and it felt pretty dang good. life is sweet. there is so much to be grateful for. i am happy.

so true. xo, olive p.s. i thought spence would do some "surprise" posts on the blog but i guess he's just not that into it.