Thanksgiving!

Oh how I love Thanksgiving! This year we spent the day with my family. Ben and Carrie and their kids were here from California so it was great to spend time with them.  We ate LOTS of great food at my moms and then kept up the Crosland family tradition of a movie after dinner.  We went to see "Frozen" the new Disney movie and it was absolutely adorable! One of my favorite parts of Thanksgiving is when we all go around and tell what we are thankful for. As we went around my niece Blake's turn is next, she sits there for a minute and points at Stefan and I and said "I am thankful for you and you!" and then she was done. I am happy we made it onto her list! Kids are the cutest.  This year I said I was grateful for my cute husband as well as my mom.  I have an amazing mother! She still puts up with me coming over all the time, my panicked phone calls when I am cooking and I've messed it up, going to countless doctors appointments, being there for me during the hardest points in my life and simply for being my constant best friend! I've been blessed beyond measure for the amazing parents that I have. I'm very grateful for them.

I even am grateful for this little pill.  I love how she is always with me and no matter what is happy to see me.  Dogs really are the best. 

And of course I am grateful for all my cute nieces and nephews... This is the newest addition to the family. Baby Logan!

It was a great Thanksgiving being together with the family.  We missed Tyler and Carly and their kids. Next year to the Brown family!

Stefan's 24th!

Stefan turned 24 this past Tuesday! That was our first birthday for us to spend together.  It was so fun!
He had work during the day so he was gone for the majority of the day, but when he was home we had a great time.  We went to dinner and then after we had friends over and had cake and ice cream for Stefan and his twin sister Paige.

Dinner!

 I made "Better Than Sex Cake" and it was super easy and a big hit!

Stef and Paige blowing out the candles... The picture is blurry but its the only one I got!

For those who know Stefan you know that he is one of the selfless people you will meet.  I definitely married up.  He is so amazing and a huge example to me everyday.  It's obvious that he is amazing because he can handle me and that is not easy to do. I never would of thought that I would be married at 19 to someone like him! I definitely lucked out. Happy Birthday Stef!:)

Goodbye Halloween!

Although Halloween is now over... I still wanted to show you all my Halloween decorations that I made! Growing up I always teased my mom because she decorated for "Autumn" instead of for Halloween... But since whatever I tease my mom about usually comes back to bite me... I found myself making an "Autumn" decoration! Not a great picture, but here is my "Happy Fall" banner.

Then for my actual Halloween decoration! My sister Amy and I made these out of 2x4's.  Super easy and quite cheap to make! 

We had a great Halloween even though we didn't really take any pictures to show anybody.  We dressed up like Vampires and we went out to dinner and to a haunted corn maze with friends! Never been a huge Halloween fan (too creepy for me) but I always love to dress up! It was mine and Stef's first Halloween together! 

8.15.13 The Wedding Day!

Yay for wedding pictures! We got these back last week so I thought I would share some of them! Well like 200 of the 400 that we got back.... Haha so a lot of them! 

The beautiful Bountiful Temple!

Cute Lizzy Bell, holding these cute fans that my mom and I got since it was August and 100 degrees outside. We also had matching little water bottles that had our name and date on them as well!

Little Mackayla

I love this picture of Carly and Clara! 

My wonderful brother in law Luke, filming the day for us!

Waiting at the temple

My beautiful friends!

I love this picture of my dad and little Lucy!

And we are out!

My amazing parents. What would I do without them?!

I am such a daddy's girl

I wanted comfortable shoes... and for anyone who knows me... that definitely means sandals.

Stef and Blair

Lucy and Blake love Stefan!

I love these pictures! This is Stefan's cute twin sister Paige.

Stefan's sister Melissa 

I love Lallen (Lizie Allen) we have been friends since birth! Don't know where I would be without her!

Everyone at the temple!

Stefan's family

My family!

My family!

Carly is obviously really tall:)

Stefan's Family!

Stefan and his sisters- The only boy!

My friend bridesmaids!

Amy was prego and she just loves it when I rubbed her belly:)

My cute friend Lizzy Bell! I am so happy she was able to be part of this day.  Oh the adventures we have had together!

Then we had the luncheon after the temple then onto the reception at the Eldredge Manor where these pictures were taken!

Little Clara and Goose were our escorts!:)

The fam damily! Love them all. 

The Crosland Grandkids.... All Boys... Except 6 of them... Poor Cody!

Stefan's cute family! Notice besides his mom, we are the outcasts with our blonde hair!

His nephews were cooperating a little more for this picture! 

Grandma and Grandpa Hale- Heidi's parents!

All of my beautiful bridesmaids!

Bridesmaids and Groomsmen!

Our friends!

Here are some pictures of our food we had there! I hear it was good... Although sadly I never got any! 

I love the cute straws!

I loved my cake! 

Note: The little kid finger prints that made it onto the bottom of the cake;) It adds character!

I made a bunch of these pictures of Stef and I, some engagements, just some fun dating pictures, a few bridals and groomals- and we hung them in between the trees as people walked in!

Love this picture! What a stud!

The Crosland Grandkids- My parents pride and joy (besides me of course!)

Little Blake!

Clara!

Everybody always wants to sit by Cody

Clara's face on the right side just makes the picture! 

I got these little flowers for the little girls! They were a big hit... for about 30 seconds! 

Then like a typical wedding we had a line. Really there was no other way for us to see everyone that came through. 

Matt and Mckinley!

Carrie and Mackayla

My friends!

I love this picture of Ben and Cody! SO happy that they could make it here for the wedding. 

Bailey and Chase Sevey (Stefan's mission buddy) came up from Arizona with their cute new baby! 

Tyler, Carly, Lucy and Clara!

This is our DJ!

Ben, Carrie, Cody, Macey, Mackayla!

Blair, Nick, Boston and Porter!

After the line, we had dancing! This is mine and Stefan's first dance. :) 

Then I danced with my daddy! If you have never heard the song "I Loved Her First" by Heartland, listen to it. You will cry. It had special meaning to us and lets be honest... I balled like a baby the whole dance.  I love my dad!!

Stef danced with his mom!

Then the fun dancing began! Lucy and Porter danced together the entire night. They were a hit! It was so adorable. 

Stef and Paige!

My friends!

Cutting the Cake!

The bouquet toss! -Kesley caught it!

The garter toss!

Shawn caught it!

The grand send off!!

Our friends decorated our car.... with lots of vasaline.... GROSS! Not naming any names.... (Nick, Kyle, Dan, Shawn) It was nasty! 

What an amazing day it was! I am so happy we were able to spend it surrounded by the people we love.  Thanks to everyone who came and helped out and made the day so special! 

My photographer was Jen Herem and her website is jenheremphotography.com and her blog is jenheremphotography.blogspot.com she was great to work with! 

Our reception was at the Eldredge Manor in Bountiful. They were very willing to help and do whatever we needed.  There website is eldredgemanor.com

My cake was made by Kariann with Cake Dame- She just does it out of her home and the cake was delicious and she was great to work with! Her website is CakeDame.com