57.

Today is 57 days till the big day. For some reason 57 seems exponentially closer than any other number thus far. I'm excited to say the least.

Phil being home is the best.

We've been

hiking

cooking

talking

cuddling

laughing

working

hot tubbing

theater going

counting

down

the 

days till

marrying

and eating too much ice cream.

many many pictures to come soon.

buh-BYE!

...because he is the sweetest, sneakiest, most romantical man on earth...Phil surprised me and came home last night. He was a day early and not a minute too soon! I cried. He doesn't start work 'til monday...I have two days off... Goodbye computer!!

WEDDING CAKE FRAUD. and other developments.

Let me start by saying I am still EXHAUSTED from this weekend. Why, you might ask... it was a wedding weekend! Beautiful Chelsea got married on Saturday and the celebrating was WONDERFUL. I think I'm still catching up on sleep. Read more about her lovely day (and peek at pictures of the blushing bride herself) here!

Now on the matter of fraud... wedding cake fraud to be exact. Some of you may remember the post I wrote about the glories of cake tasting. I will forever remember it as an incredibly decadent part of the wedding planning process. Those little squares of cake can pack quite the punch and left me nearly comatose in the end. I found the perfect flavors and the perfect cake to boot, but one thing was missing, the groom. 

Phil was away at school and couldn't participate in what grooms everywhere would surely agree is one of the highlights of the wedding process (they're not very invested in swatches and flowers). I consoled him with the fact that he did choose, via phone, the flavors of said matrimonial gateaux (that means cake. it's in french for le nisha). He quietly lamented until his sneaky side got the better of him, as it does...often. Now he's asking for outright cake fraud! 

His request is this (mind you I am marrying a star sneakster) : We fake look for a cake vendor. We eat up all of the cake they give us like greedy little bandits. The sugary sweet bakers (you have to be nice if your profession includes frosting) stand by innocently asking us questions and hoping for our business. We say thank you and leave without any intent of ever giving them a dime as we have our cake already.

I just don't know if I can do this! Is it stealing? lying? cheating? or is it just some healthy tasting? A slice of chocolate raspberry does sound good right about now...

singing eating and family-ing

This is the first year in 4 years that I got to spend Easter at home with the familia. My first year away at school I spent Easter with my dear friendie and roommate Olivia searching for an open food joint...in the rain...while my family called me...so that I could hear all of my cousins having a good time. We huddled under a wimpy umbrella in the April showers freezing our booties off before giving up and returning to our little freshman dorm.  Apparently people who work in food services also have families and holiday traditions. We didn't know. We may have ordered pizza, we may have just starved... come to think of it we might have even gathered change for the vending machine. Tragedy. Remember liv? So soggy and hungry!

This easter weekend was just right.

I got to spend time with my little sisters who are growing up so fast right before my eyes. Courtney drove up from San luis for the holiday!

I had the chance to sing Pie Jesu from the Durufle Requiem under the direction of my old choir teacher at the church where he is music director. Such a beautiful, ethereal piece of music.

In the same performance my grandpa surprised us all by singing with the choir for the church's Good Friday service. He has a beautiful voice and it was his first time singing with a group since 1959!

We went to UCDavis to see my cousin Brianna run an amazing 3.1 mile race, followed by a delectable crepe feast.

I got to sing again on Easter morning ... A song I completely fell in love with.

We spent the afternoon with all of the family at Grandma and Grandpa's and I was reminded how lucky I am to have the absolutely incredible family I have. I can't get enough of them.

We had turkey my grandpa shot and carrot cake with yummy cream cheese frosting.

delicious!

p.s. here's the soul of the holiday...

MEANWHILE...BACK AT THE RANCH.

It seems like 3,000 years since my last post. It's been a terrible state of affairs. Apparently comcast/netgear/the devil himself doesn't think it's really important that customers get the internet service they pay for on a monthly basis. It seems to be acceptable in their eyes to just take said internet away from our household for say a week, two weeks, at a time, whilst having no explanation for why their service is shotty. The internet over at our house is BROKE. In my eyes comcast is totally fired. I want to go at them like all the villagers yelling "kill the beast!" in Disney's classic... annnnnd I digress.

A lots happened since the last post. Not anything big or exciting or life changing, just a bunch of daily wonderful. 

I went to visit Phil two weekends past and aside from the fact that it's still bitter cold in Provissimo and Utah does some serious bad mojo to my hair (really, it's not happy there, suggestions?!) it was a much needed and fun packed four days.

I'll break it down to a list so as not to make your eyes go computer-droopy:

1. I met ruby. She's Jaicy's cat and she became my little buddy. She doesn't have a tail just a cute cotton ball stub. She's softer than any softness and she liked to walk around the sink playing with my makeup brushes while I got ready. cutest. critter. EVER.

2. We started registering... something I had been putting off because I find it daunting. It was SO fun! and PG very much enjoyed the laser gun. (They must have made it look like a gun to draw in the grooms.)

3. We went to Phil's mission reunion. He was obviously the most fantastic catch there no offense to the other fiftyschmifty guys.

4. We went to Saturday afternoon conference. The whole watching conference with fiance thing is great, spiritual, wonderful. I sort of wish we could go to church everyday together.

5. We saw fast and furious at midnight with lovely friends. Here's my review: Seriously no substance at all but wildly entertaining and Paul Walker is FINE. The cars are quite cool the subjection of women was kind of revolting and otherwise it was rockin.

6. We shared an incredible date. After scoping out our new apartment bldg. (that's right Phil found our digs for next year! SO exciting.) We decided to just have a date and went to yummy Mexican food where I literally ate my weight in everything good and fell in love with Horchata which I will now be attempting to recreate for PG (it takes two days. ya I really love him.)

7.I cried... because I didn't want to leave... BUT the bright side is big on this one.... He's home for the summer in eight days!! So I really can't complain about anything. Except the internet...

roll le film...

My numbers

3 days until beautiful Chelsea's ( Oh my gosh she's all grown up and I finally met her DARling fiance who is just awesome. and yes I could tell that in five minutes.) wedding.

8 days til PG returns to the ville and we can be in love in person

1 month-ish until I see my dressy dress again. I saw it this past week and it's all coming together beautifully.

72 days and some hours til we're hitched!