These are photos from the most special day of my life. It was exactly two months ago and the time has already seemed to fly by. I love Phil so much and I am so blessed to have married my best friend. These pictures were taken by Lindsey Stewart of Green Apple Photography. She did such a great job of capturing the joy of this day.

Happiness
The size of our smiles say it all
So many wonderful family and friends came! Thanks for being there!
I love my friends so much!
This is my family:
These are my parents,
These are my sibling and their spouses,
and these are my absolutely gorgeous sisters.
This is Phil's family.
I think this picture is so sweet.
My loverly bridesmaids!
My best friend Ashley
My dear grandparents
Boys love jumping pictures
The Bride
The handsome groom

It looks like it was warm outside, when really it was freezing, but I didn't mind!
My mom made this dress. and it was perfect.

Salt Lake Valley. View from the temple.
This is where we got married: the Draper Temple
My niece Clara
My niece Lexa
Oliver and Anders. My new nephews.
Our first meal as the Hurst family.
Phil saying nice things and making me cry.
YUM YUM cake!
Josh and Phil. BFF for life.
Getting ready for the bouquet!
saying goodbye to my mom
Leaving the luncheon!

Mexicooooo!

Cabo san Lucas Mexico! What a wonderful sunny destination! It is one of those places I really did not want to leave. We had a fabulous time. These are pictures taken with my lovely lomography camera:

We asked for a wake up call so we could see the sunrise from our deck, but they called 15 minutes late and the sun was already up!

On the way to the beach!
Phil took this picture. He wanted me in it for scale. I am the little reddish-orange dot in the bottom-middle of the photo.
These rock formations are so cool!
The famous Cabo arch. Don't ask the boat driver if he can drive through the arch, even if you are just joking. He might not understand sarcasm and stop the boat and reprimand you for wanting to come so close to their fragile rock formations. Not that this actually happened to us...
Playa San Pedro
We rented a car one day and drove along the west coast of the Baja. We found this lovely flower field. It was such a relief to see this much green in the middle of the desert.
Jalapeno field! Phil was in heaven.
The best place is the one where you have no where else to go.
Phil doing the laundry. What a good husband!
We climbed up this rock formation...
To get this picture of our favorite beach. We saw maybe 2 other people here all day.
This marina was so clean and the boats were all beautiful.
I think this young man's name is Don Julio. I like how you can totally see Phil's shadow.
Phil on our balcony enjoying one of our favorite breakfast meals: crepes with nutella and mangoes. It looks like he has a flower in his ear. He doesn't. I don't know why it looks like that. I guess that is the beauty of non-digital cameras!
Ok now I really want to go back.

I am back!

I have so much to post about! But we are without internet at our home. We should have it within a week though and I will be posting pictures from the wedding, Cabo san Lucas, and of our new house and life together. It has been such a fun month and I have discovered some great cooking webistes that I also want to share. Stay in tune.

Engagements Photos!

These are our favorite pictures from the many beauties done by Lindsey at http://greenapplephotography.blogspot.com/. The pictures were all taken at the 'This is the Place Monument' and the surrounding village they have set up. I already can't wait to see our wedding pictures by her... or maybe I just can't wait to get married! Here is a link to our wedding website: http://www.mywedding.com/brianaandphilip. 30 days until the wedding!

I just found this picture on my camera and it made me crack up a lot. This is my niece Clara LeaAnn. Over Thanksgiving break she tried on my mom's reading glasses, which have a very weak prescription. She started tripping over everything and took a very high step when getting onto this carpet. We laughed for so long. She will make such a cute flower girl.

Smitten Kitchen

Yesterday I went to my soon-to-be-sister-in-law (Sage)'s house and enjoyed the company of her, her adorable 4-month-old twin boys Oliver and Anders, and my soon-to-be-mother-in-law, Jeanette. Phil and I were also absorbed in the planning of our wedding when I noticed a tab on her computer open to this website:

http://smittenkitchen.com/

I want to make everything! Some that most definitely will be coming out of my kitchen in the near future include: Pear Bread (Yum!), sundried tomatoe stuffed mushrooms,walnut pesto, and jalapeno-cheddar scones.