My Wedding Dress

I bought my dress or should I say my parents bought my dress at Mon Amie bridal salon in Costa Mesa. Just a couple weeks after Alex and I got engaged my Mom and I went there just to look around. Little did I know that I would end up walking out of the store with the dress of my dreams. It was just the second dress I had ever tried on before and it was the one. I randomly went into the bridal salon the day of the Stephen Yearick's trunk show. That was a dream come true since he was the designer of the dress I fell in love with and he was willing to customize it just for me. Anyway here are the before and afters as well as the sketch he drew up for me to approve the measurements and changes before it became customized. It turned out perfect!!!

Before with no sleeves and low back

The Sketch!

First time I tried on the finished product with my Mom

Wedding day!

TIS THE SEASON... to wear red lipstick!

Recap of my Summer

I have not been on here in forever! But now that finals are over i'm able to update you on my summer. In July I went to Europe with my family. We started off in Paris then took an overnight train to Barcelona and from there we got on a cruise that went throughout Italy. It was amazing.. the only thing missing was Alex. He had to stay home and work. Alex got a job in June at New England Financial. He sells life and health insurance and is also a certified financial adviser. After a 9 month engagement Alex and I were married in the Newport Beach Temple. It was truly the best day of my life and the could not have turned out more perfect. Right after we got married we took a week long cruise to Mexico. It was so fun and I did not want to come home and start school. Alex and I have now been married 3 months and it has been the best 3 months of our lives. We are looking forward to our first Christmas together!

Finally Summer

Today I finished my junior year of college. It's crazy to think that I have already been in college for three years. Time has flown by. I am so happy that I now finally have time to plan my wedding. Yesterday marked 3 months until I marry my best friend.

A couple weeks ago I was at Stanford for the NCAA championships. It was my first time competing in this tournament so I was very excited. Not only excited, I was also very nervous. My team and I had worked so hard and everything was on the line. This is the last tournament of the year and when you lose your done. Fortunately I had my whole family and Alex there to support me! Well.... our hard work payed off and we made it to the FINAL FOUR! We didn't win it but making it to the semis was a huge accomplishment. We beat Virginia in the round of 16. This was probably the most exciting win of my college career so far. The reason for this was that I was able to clinch the match for my team. Next round we played Duke who defeated the Bruins last year. The match was a lot closer but after a long fight we came out with the win! Next were the Florida Gators. Unfortunately they defeated us. They went on to beat Stanford in the finals. It was a blast playing with my team and experiencing the excitement and nerves of the NCAA tournament. Losing was really hard but the good thing is that I have another shot next year to take the title with my team.

As of Latelyyy

So it's official... Our long distance relationship has come to an end and we can't be happier. Alex graduated in economics at BYU in April. I was lucky to have a weekend off tennis and make my first trip to Utah since I transferred. It made me miss my freshman and sophomore years of double dating with our best friends Lauren and Kirk! I flew in thursday night and alex graduated on Friday. It was a great weekend spending time with Alex, my sister Lauren and her hubby Kirk. Not only did alex graduate that weekend, he had a playoff game for the NCAA's and it was Easter. Sadly his team lost so that was kinda a downer but the rest of the weekend was so much fun. He came home a week later and has spent a lot of time with me in LA. I am so happy to have someone to go to dinner with, accompany me to the grocery store and watch red boxes with me. My best friend is officially here forever and I will never have to be apart from him ever again! 
 On May 10th Alex turned 23 so I decided to plan a surprise birthday dinner for him.He loves seafood so I researched some fun places to take him. I used my trusty favorite site yelp to look some stuff up. I came across a place called the Boiling Crab in Korea Town. I drove the whole way and alex had no idea where we were going. We got there around 8 and it was packed. They told us it was going to be an hour weight, but Alex was very pleased with my choice that he wanted to wait. I'm not into seafood too much unless it's sushi but this place was awesome. It was a perfect place for a birthday. We ordered a pound of shrimp and a pound of crawfish. It comes in these bags and you decide the sauce you want on it and things that you want in the bag with your seafood. We decided on a mixture of sauces (garlic and spicy), sausage and corn on the cob. Sounds kinda gross and random but it was delicious! We also got spicy cajun fries. This place was better then I expected and Alex and I will definitely be going back there soon.

On another great note my team and I hosted the first two rounds of NCAA's and swept our opponents 4-0 both days. So right now we are on a huge bus traveling to Stanford for the sweet 16. The seven hour bus ride hasn't been too bad for the fact that we have watched t.v. and indulged in all the baked goods we made for the trip. We play Virginia first round this Friday! I am very excited to be competing in my first team NCAA tournament! My fan base (mom, dad, Mayci and Alex) will be arriving on Thursday to cheer me and my team on to a big victory! When I get around to it I will post our results! Wish us luck:)

5 Months

Met him at 18

Fell in love with him at 19

Got engaged to him at 20

I Will be sealed to him 5 months from today for time and all eternity at 21

Turned 21 then jetted off to Hawaii

On March 15th I finally turned 21. I spent the whole day with my Mom, Mayci and my sister Lauren who flew in and surprised me! We started off the day by going to my favorite lunch spot called Toast Bakery and Cafe on 3rd street. After that we walked to Joan's on Third where we enjoyed homemade cupcakes. We spent most of the afternoon eating and shopping then landed at an LA hotspot called Ketchup for dinner. If you like Ketchup and fries this is the restaurant for you. We started off with the fry trio which included cajun curly fries, sweet potato fries and regular french fries. But what made the fries so good were the 6 different flavored ketchups. It was so much fun having a girls day! I feel sorry for Dad who was on a business trip because he missed out on some good food!

On Friday after my birthday my teammates and I went to Hawaii for Spring break. We stayed at an all inclusive resort on Kona called the Mauna Lani. We practiced a lot but we also had a lot of fun. The highlight of the trip was the hotel's buffet breakfast in the morning. It had everything that you could imagine; Pancakes, waffles, omelets, french toast, chocolate croissants and the list could go on... Even with all this food to choose from I came down with an addiction to Malasadas which are a Hawaiian doughnut. I just could not get enough of them! Another thing my team and I realized was that Hawaii had a very penetrating and strong sun. I don't think anyone left without a tan or major sunburn. Overall it was a very relaxing trip and a perfect way to spend my Spring break. 

Our weekend together

After almost 2 months... I finally got to see him! 

It was so much fun watching him and his team play against USC. Unfortunately they lost in 5 both nights:(

On the brighter side we went on a really fun date Saturday night to mexican restaurant I have been wanting 

to try. It's on Beverly Blvd and it's called El Coyote Cafe. Alex's game ended late so we didn't get there until 11... randomly that night it was the restaurants 80th anniversary and from 11-12 pm they had enchiladas with rice and beans for only 80 cents!!! So we scored big time! After dinner I wanted Alex to try one of my favorite spots called Millions of Milkshakes but it was really crowded so we decided to go to Yogurtland in Westwood instead. 

I L-O-V-E-D spending every second I did with him. I look forward to our next date night whenever it will be:)

UCLA and BYU

We both used to be BYU Cougars but now i'm a UCLA Bruin. Since I transferred from BYU to UCLA Alex and I have been having a long distance relationship. It has been really hard but has recently gotten easier since we are both in season. If you didn't know this already, Alex is on the volleyball team at BYU and I am on the tennis team at UCLA. We both have been really busy traveling almost every weekend. Anyways I am soooo excited for next weekend because Alex travels with his team to play against USC and I will finally get to watch him play. He is such a stud. Also he will finally get to see me play because when he is in town we play against UW at home. I haven't seen him since the day we got engaged so I can't wait to spend the weekend with him. While he is in town we are also going to celebrate my 21st birthday early! All I can say is that next weekend is going to be the best!