Our Wedding: UT reception

After almost a year and half, I am finally finishing posting about our wedding. better late than never though right? haha.

We got back from our honeymoon I think on Monday, then we had Tuesday off to settle in to our new apartment. Then we had our reception in Utah that Saturday. It was at our church (it wasn't my first choice, but we had it at my mom's chapel, and for a church gym, this one is up there with the nicest inside, so it worked). A lot of people came and I got to see some high school friends that I hadn't seen in forever. It was so nice to see so many friends :) Here's a smattering of pictures.

amazing friend and photographer Becca!

Daisy :)

Sandy :)

Nikki :)

Debbie, Jared, and their adorable Violet

He's just too precious

My bouquet toss and Jantz's garter toss turned out better than expected...

Yep, married and married.

married too.

And here we are. Just married and so happy.
And a year plus later, we are still so happy. So glad I married this boy. 

Our Wedding: the honeymoon

We went to Breckenridge for our honeymoon. We stayed in this cute little condo and spent time walking around, going out to eat at fancy restaurants, and spending time as honeymooners. We loved going to the local grocery store and getting pastries for breakfast - i. love. pastries. yum. We went to a really nice steak place and had a really good dinner. One of the nights we went to a pizza place and it was was soo good. We were awful at taking pictures, but I'm ok with it only because it meant we were having too much together to even think of pulling out the camera. I did get a few shots in.

Here is our decorated car :)

The mustache might have been my favorite part haha.

And here is some pictures of where we stayed...

The night we got dressed up and went to a nice steak house.

Saturday, after opening all of our presents and Jantz's parent's house,
we went to a Rockies game. It went something like 14 innings. I have no
idea if we won or not...but it was really fun!

Before we left Breckenridge we took a ride on the gondola things.

Of course as soon as we got home, we went to Red Lobster for dinner.
It was delish!

So there's our honeymoon :) I still have to post about our Utah reception! (and what is going on in our lives!!! Which is beginning to get better - ie, I've been getting lots of job calls :)

One whole year

I seriously cannot believe that it has been one year since we got married (and three years since we started dating). It seems like so much longer...and yet so much shorter. Every day I find myself more and more in love with him, even when we have our super boring days of just lounging around doing nothing. Marrying him will always be the best decision I will ever make. And gosh he makes me laugh all. the. time.

We have had so much fun together and have gone through a lot of changes in one year. I finished my master's, we moved to Colorado and into our second apartment, I had no job, then got a temp job, then ended that job, Jantz started school, and we acquired 2 plants (we're all sorts of responsible now haha)! While not having a job, and thus no money to spend, has really sucked - a lot - it has been really nice being able to spend so much time together (just pray I find a job soon!). Jantz has been doing AMAZING with school, I really couldn't be more proud. And since I have all sorts of time on my hands now, I have been actually making dinner regularly, so, I'm pretty proud of myself too.

We didn't do a great job of capturing what we did for our anniversary, but honestly it was pretty low key because we didn't have much money to spend. But we still made it special :)

We went to the Danish bakery that I raved about last year,
and it was just as delicious as ever.  SO GOOD.

His parents came with us because, well, they are the ones who introduced us to it, and they love it just as much as we do. Then we were somehow still hungry so we went to lunch at some mexican place that was really good. Then we went home and I don't really remember what we did until dinner (probably something really fun). We were planning on Cheesecake Factory for dinner because it has sort of become tradition, but Jantz had wanted On The Border for weeks and I knew if we went to Cheesecake the chances of going to On The Border any time soon were slim to none, so I insisted we go there instead (but don't worry, as soon as we get the money rolling in, we're going to Cheesecake Factory!). We filled up on chips, shared fajitas - they are the best, and one of the only things that I like there - and went to Wendy's for a frosty afterward. It certainly wasn't the most extravagant of our anniversaries, but it was sweet and simple and I got to spend the whole day with the man I love, so it was really the best anniversary yet :)

Our year old wedding cake! Yay! We actually didn't eat any until Monday I think, but it still counts right?
Not only did it still look just as cute as it did on our wedding day, it actually TASTED just as good too.

We may or may not have eaten this whole piece...and wanted more.
Don't judge us for eating way too much year-old cake.

Our Wedding: CO reception

Wow...remember when I was posting about our wedding? Well I want to finish! Especially since we just celebrated our 1st year anniversary on Saturday!! After our delicious luncheon, we headed back to the house to set up the reception. It was gorgeous. The perfect day. No rain. Clear skies. Just perfect. Everything that day fell together so perfectly it was obviously destiny that we were supposed to get married that day. haha, but for real. I changed out of my dress to help set things up - and to pee (I literally had to take my entire dress off to go to the bathroom...it was awkward to say the least).

Even though I helped set things up, and even though I had planned what everything was going to look like, I honestly have no recollection of seeing it all set up that night. I don't know if it looked how I wanted it to look, or if everything went as planned. But I kind of think that that is better, because I get to look at pictures instead, and pictures look perfect, so I get to imagine how perfect it all was (with no idea if anything went wrong). And this is how I get to remember it forever:

The first hour was saying hi to people, and the second was cutting the cake, dancing, and bouquet-throwing. Cutting the cake might have been my favorite thing. You know those people who ever-so-nicely place the piece of cake in their spouse's mouth? We are not those people. I mean, when are you ever going to be able to smash cake all over someone's face without getting it on film? There was no way I was going to pass up that opportunity. And I got him good. Loved every. second. of. it.

I knew from the beginning that I wanted a first dance with my husband and a daddy-daughter dance. I wasn't sold on everyone dancing because I didn't know if anyone would actually dance, so we just planned for those two dances. I have no idea if anyone saw us dancing haha, but it was what I wanted, and I'm so glad I did it. The best part for me is that we did it just as the sun was beginning to set (not planned), and it was just lovely (can I say lovely without sounding ridiculously cheesy?).

Throwing the bouquet and garter happened after it started getting dark, so pictures weren't as good, but I almost like that it was dark - it just looks fun. And it was fun. So, win win.