This wedding is coming up fast!

Our Wedding Website

Our friend made us our wedding website. (I really love it!) It's continuously being updated, but a lot of information is up there now. It's exciting, at least for me, to see our progress. We'll probably send out invitations mid next month! Tim & I have been working hard on planning this wedding. We hope that everyone who comes out to Utah to celebrate with us has a great time. Exciting exciting =)

Busy Weekend with Timmy

Tim flew in to SLC on Thursday night. We had a lot of wedding-related activities to do this weekend and I think we did pretty well on completing each thing. Friday, we met with our Priest - it was Tim's first time meeting him. That was really nice - good conversation =) Afterward, we met up with a guy Tim knows from work for lunch. We ate at Settebello, one of my fave restaurants. Then, we spent hours at Bed Bath & Beyond. Doing a registry is pretty interesting - harder than it seems. Heh But that was a nice time for me & Tim. We're not done with our registries at all..will work on it some more online. We can't decide what cookware to put on the registry =) After hours of doing that, we were pretty hungry so we ate at Simply Sushi. It's an all you can eat sushi restaurant. Pretty good sushi =) This blog post will be all about wedding stuff & food, I swear. haha

Saturday morning.. we had our engagement photos taken in downtown SLC. That was pretty fun. We walked all around downtown and got a lot of different backgrounds for our pictures. I wonder how they turned out =) Exciting exciting. I really like our photographer, she's really cool. It was a bit weird to get that many photos taken of us. hehe But it was really fun though. We got really lucky too, because while we were walking back to our car after the photo shoot, it started to sprinkle. And pretty much the rest of the weekend was wet (either rain or snow or both)The weather was definitely on our side for the photo shoot. Right after the engagement photos, we drove straight to Deer Valley Resort in Park City to do our Food Tasting. THAT was a lot of fun, and very delicious. =)

We ate a lot of good food and we decided on the entrees we'll have for our guests to choose from. Our coordinator at the lodge packed 3 huge slices of cake for us to try later, 'cause she knew we would be too full to try it at the restaurant. (She was definitely right) I'm very very excited for the wedding and reception! =) We hung out at the lodge for a bit. I people-watched the skiiers, and there were a couple of ladies performing (singing & playing the guitar) at the lodge. Very relaxing. Tim even fell asleep on his chair (the photo shoot wore him out, hehe) I'm so excited for the reception to be at Deer Valley. I think it's pretty up there. I hope people like it as much as I do. For dinner that night, Tim & I met up with a couple of my friends at the Red Iguana, another good restaurant to try out over here. (Lots of food this weekend, I know) =P hehe

Sunday morning.. we went to mass at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral downtown. It was Tim's first time inside the church, so that was good that he saw it. I really like that church, it's very pretty inside and out. In less than 4 months, we'll be getting married there! =) =) Afterward, we chitchatted a little bit more with the Priest, and also the lady playing the organ. She'll be helping us with the wedding rehearsal too. =) Nice lady. Greek Orthodox masses are pretty long, so we ate breakfast afterward at Eggs in the City. Yummmmy. And that was pretty much our weekend. Food and wedding planning. hah We had a lot of fun and got a number of things done. =) Good times good times. Now it's time to work out this week! haha!

Only the 1st week Back?!

This week felt so full & busy. And Christmas feels like a million days ago. So crazy. I've been pretty busy at work which is probably why it feels like so much time has already passed. The weather has been nice here, but colder than California for sure. I still can't believe it's 2009 already. Time flies so fast! The wedding is coming up really quickly! Some changes happened with the wedding planning during Christmas break, but nothing to stop our world from turning =)

Time for random pictures and a video once it uploads (my computer is a slow one, so i'll probably post the video later):

This is what I see each day...

...probably 15 mins after taking the previous picture.

I made pizza the other night and so I decided to take a picture of it. hehe It was pretty yummy.

Vacation: Complete

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I flew back in to SLC last night. I'm so glad I did - I couldn't imagine how I'd be if I came back today and I had to go to work tomorrow =P heh It's good to have a day to get myself back into the swing of things here. My vacation was really nice. I had a great Christmas and New Year's with my family. It was great to relax with all of them and just be around the little kids. Now, my days of watching YouTube videos of Jingle Bells, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Makulay Ang Buhay (a Filipino commercial that Lily loves), ABC, etc are now done. I won't hear "Hi Ninang Grace! or "Be Nice Ninang Grace!!" from Lily for awhile - I guess I can hear it on the phone (not the same).

So sad, I miss the noise. I miss my family. I love spending time with Lily & Ian. So cute!! This was the longest I spent with any of my nieces/nephew and I'm really glad I had a chance to do that. I don't think I've had as much baby spit up in my life than in these 2 weeks. hah! ah well. And Lily amazes me with all of the little things she does (annoying or not) hehe She's such a smart cookie. She knows so much and talks/sings all the time. I'm excited to see allll of my family again in March in Michigan. woo hoo! =) I miss my other niece, Samara. I didn't get to see her this Christmas... =\

Here are some more pictures from my California trip: