The Wedding Ceremony

So, Ramin and I decided that what we wanted to do was have a small, intimate and private ceremony because we're both not very fond of big attention grabbing things. We agreed that going to the county clerk's office would be best for us...and it was nice that we were able to bring all of our immediate family members as well, plus Jill to be my photographer :)

The pictures are pretty self-explanatory so I won't make a comment about each one. The general process of events was: waiting outside before the ceremony, entering the ceremony room and signing the license, the actual marriage ceremony (where I cried A LOT, cause that's just what I do) and then the end where everyone has a big smile on their face. Hope you enjoy these pictures!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Bridal Shower

My amazing friends, Toni and Niki, hosted my shower for me. Toni offered to host it at her house and Niki drove down from Idaho to help with everything. It turned out so awesome and I had lots of fun :)  Here are the pictures!

The group of ladies at the shower. Toni's house has the perfect setup and she did a great job putting it all together. Everyone at the table included (going around the table starting with the gal in the teal cardigan):

Jenn Baugh, JoAnn Bahr, Me, Mary Peacock, Jessie Adamson, Toni Sehlmeier, Bronwyn Erasmus (can't see in pic), Misty Harding, Amy Earnest, Laurie Reiser, My mom, Tara White, Niki Young (standing), Jill Palmer (taking the pic)

The food spread was AMAZING! And Toni even made cute little napkin holders too! Can I just say that I LOVED those cupcakes. We had mint chocolate chip ones and red velvet - YUM! Those chocolate covered strawberries were my favorite too!

We played some fun games...I know...they are usually lame but I wanted to add a bit of that into my shower so Toni obliged and found some fun games. They were tough though!! I didn't win anything :P

This is a close-up of the favor bouquet I made. I made chocolate lolli-pop things and arranged them in a bouquet for everyone to take.

And now the gifts....here's the spread of them!

And my process of opening them. I took care to open them carefully cause I like to save the wrapping and tissue paper :) Everyone thought I was lame.

And here's me surrounded by the final spread. Seriously, I am so thankful for all of the gifts I received. So much of my stuff I've had for years was old and gross and it was so nice to replace much of it with new things...and to receive entirely new items as well!! I'm just so thankful to everyone!

One final picture of everyone at the table. I really hope people had fun because I sure did. And it was a nice short shower....it didn't last for hours and hours and it was in the middle of the day so people still had time to do their normal Saturday activities. I just wanted it to be a quick get together and it turned out awesome!

Thanks again to everyone who attended and made it a special day for me. I loved it!

Next post will be....The Ceremony :)

All the Updates!

Well - Ramin and I are finally married and back from our honeymoon! It's been a crazy month of March but I'm glad to be home and to have time to focus on things OTHER than a wedding celebration :)

I don't want to just dump a crapload of pictures on here, cause trust me, there is a crapload :) So what I will do is update the blog one day at a time, starting with the bridal shower, all the way through to the last day of our honeymoon.  This will make it easier to digest and easier for me to remember everything along the way :)

So, next post will be - The Bridal Shower!

The NEWS

Remember how my last post said I had more news to give? Well here it is!!!

I finally got my ring from Ramin!!! He did officially propose to me and I'm so excited!

We're just planning to do something VERY small so we're keeping it kind of quiet....I know that not very many people read this blog...but I'm not adverse to telling anyone either.

We're actually planning to just get married in a small ceremony at the courthouse on March 16th. It's a Friday night so we'll either have a nice family dinner that night or Saturday night - not sure yet. Initially, we wanted to keep it very small, just our parents, siblings and a few very very close friends. But we're not sure what we'll end up doing just yet.

And yes, we've already got the honeymoon planned out and paid for! We're going to England from March 19th through the 28th! SO EXCITED!! I've always wanted to go there and so has Ramin.

Anyway, that's the big news. Finally something newsworthy to write about on here :)  Hope you like my ring!

UPDATE

Holy cow - I know I'm bad at updating this thing lately! But I can tell you it's because I've been very busy at my various hobbies of card making and sewing! I've started to use my new camera quite a bit lately so I'm going to attempt to be better at updating the blog like I used to be.

Here are the latest updates:

• Been back at eBay for a little over a month - 5 weeks to be exact. It's been GREAT and I'm so glad I made the decision to go back. I am hardly ever stressed out and I can leave work at a decent hour and get home early enough too!! It's AWESOME.
• Sending out my Christmas cards tomorrow - here's a snapshot of the cards I've been working on. I decided to hand make my cards because they just seem nicer when some thought is put into them. I'm also making some hand made gifts again this year to give away to local friends...I'll post pictures of those when I'm done. They are what I've been feverishly working on these last few weeks!
• My next post will be AWESOME! But I have to talk to some other family members before I want to post it online.....so be patient for that!

Here are the cards I've been working on:

Just wanted to share this picture taken back in July up at Cascade Springs. We had a nice trip with the Baugh Family - some of our best friends!

Speaking of the Baughs! Here's a picture of them that I took last past weekend. It was so awesome to take these pictures and get into editing again - that's the part I LOVE LOVE LOVE. I hope Jenn won't get mad at my for posting these...I just love them too much!

Anyway that's it for now....stay tuned ;)

Summer End Pictures

Ramin and I had Jill take some "End of Summer" pictures of us at the railroad near our house. They turned out super cute!!

I don't have much of an update to provide other than I'm still working hard at the new job and learning more every day! I'm kind of excited to get the holidays started, especially Halloween! I plan to really go all out for decorating this year since we've got Jill and her kids living with us for a few more weeks.  As usual, I'll talk pictures of the decor and post them on here - it seems to be my new tradition!  I'm also working on a new Halloween yarn wreath ;)

The News

Holy cow....long time no post eh? I'm not sure who really even reads this blog. I think I mainly update it to keep my Grandma updated and to share pictures. And then I also have it as a personal record for myself. It's a good place to keep a journal of the events in life.

So let's just get down to it - the biggest news update of right now: I've changed companies AND careers!

I am no longer working here:

Instead, I am working here:

You might be asking - what the heck is Vivint? And, why the heck did you leave eBay?  These are two very good questions that I can definitely answer :)

To start off with, Vivint is a home automation and security company. A rapidly growing company at that. If you're not sure what home automation is, check out their website here and learn more - it's kinda cool!

I've actually been working at Vivint for the past month now. In fact, today marked the start of my 5th week! Holy cow! And I totally love it so far! Every day is a new challenge and there is so much room for me to grow as a person there, it's really amazing.

So what do I do there? Well, I am the Manager of Customer Support. It's a pretty hefty responsibility and I have about 20 people reporting to me...most of them Supervisors. And each of them has about 13-14 phone agents reporting to them. It's been really challenging getting to learn a new place and a completely new job, but I have my previous boss from eBay, Tim, with me. We help each other through everything. In fact, he's my new boss at Vivint and it's been great working for him again.

It was tough to leave eBay after 8 years. I mean, it was comfortable and I knew it well. I was just starting out my Instructional Design career and things were good. In fact, I wasn't out for looking for a new job....but I was feeling as though I was just done with eBay. After a while you just realize that it's time to move on. And when I got presented with the Vivint opportunity, I felt I needed to take a chance and see what I could make of it.  It's quite a bit more money and much more challenging...but I don't mind taking the risk. The only downfall I've found with it so far is the drive. It takes an hour to drive to EACH way. If you're familiar with the Salt Lake area, you'll understand when I say I'm driving from the far west side of West Jordan all the way down to Provo....yeah.

I've met tons of great people so far and I absolutely love what I'm doing. Sure, I've had to do some hard things already (I won't go into details)...and I've been extremely stressed out...but I really feel as though it will pay off in the long run. I'm getting extremely good experience managing an entire department, as opposed to just projects and people.

So anyway...that's the main update. I don't really have many pictures to share other than this one:

This was Ramin and I on our anniversary - 6 years! I'm hoping I'll be able to post a wedding update soon. What I can tell you right now is....plan for March! :P But that's all I got.