nice day for a... white wedding

It is wedding day for my pal miss Katie Jane, and I am just as happy as a clam for her.
Extremely ecstatic.
Simply celebratory.
Pleased as punch.
Jumping for Joy.
*insert any other cliche/alliteration filled ways to expressed my happiness.
But seriously, her new man David is quite the winner we have all decided. And she is smitten. Simply smitten. It is quite magical really...

I love weddings, all the lovey-dovey-ness in the air, it is simply magical, yet I can't help but feel a tinge of slad-ness. You know, so ridiculously glad and overjoyed for my KJ dearest, yet somewhat sad that she is leaving the Single Ladies club, (no we do not call ourselves the 'Single Ladies club', but hopefully you catch my drift.)

sidenote: 'slad-ness' was a term coined during my senior year, yes, we choir nerds made up our own words....quite often in fact. we were performing the classic 'Smile' for our ballad piece (not a male duck) during a competition and one part goes as such: 

"Light up your face gladness,

Hide every trace of sadness"

Somehow we kept combining the two lines into 'slad-ness', partly due to mistake, and then due irony, and then out of pure teenage humor I guess. It drove Mrs. Schmidt crazy....so obviously we kept doing it. And it has stuck in my vocabulary of awesome words to use, apparently.


Anyways, back to KJ. Yes I have this tinge of slad-ness, but the joy definitely triumphs. As her sister said at the wedding dinner last night, "We are thankful to David for coming into Katie's life, and improving her reading habits... by diminishing them. Katie has found her real-life love story now."

Ah man! How can you not just die hearing that?  and let's not even mention how David talks about her, and how I basically started welling up like a crazy person. Ya, that's right. I am an emotional person, and I love weddings. Deal with it.

So here is to the perfect May 11th wedding for my dearest, darling-est Katie. Cause seriously friends, I love weddings. And Katie. And the month of May.

Ahhh, bliss.

peace love happiness

magical week full of peace. love. and happiness:

(which has been my new favorite song for some time now)
 

• driving down to salt lake with my mom
• sleep over with gwen which included lots of giggling and reminiscing
• getting dressed in the morning, and realizing i brought black and red to wear...katies colors...i guess i was a bridesmaid whether she liked it or not...
• walking around temple square with my girlfriends
• seeing the new Craigo family walk out of the temple!
• picture time
• more galavanting around temple square + picture taking of our own + oooo-ing and ahhh-ing over all the brides
• sara getting a most exquisite phone call about... her mission call!
• attending the fantabulous luncheon at Rodizio Grill yum...
• eating 2 chicken hearts (i awarded myself a gold star, cause everyone else just licked one)
• watching katies wedding video, and hearing her's and parents talk about their sweet children, and then crying my eyes out
• parading around zurchers taking pictures with the grand hats, and searching for stuff to decorate the getaway car
• heading to the leeflang house to help set up for the reception
• lounging on the trampoline staring at the sky, and feeling the blissful breeze
• sneaking out for a delicious snowcone complete with icecream on the bottom and cream on the top at bob's brainfreeze
• reception happiness
• throwing rose petals and rice at the new couple
• games at saras
• (the fact that katie jane got hit by a car, on purpose, did not fill me with peace, love and happiness...it made me very angry. come on. seriously?)
• a very very peaceful sleep at Jen's
• breakfast with her darling family
• facing my worst nightmare
• lunch and shopping with Dott, Mom and Tess
• happy bracelets
• a gorgeous saturday
• frozen yogurt for dinner
• so exhausted i fell asleep as soon as i hit the pillow at 11:00
• morning drive home...with jason mraz blasting
• making it home for fathers day
• hearing my aunt and uncles wonderful news...they received another baby boy to adopt!
• a boise rainstorm
• watching life with the family
• and finally to sleep again...

oh i love weekends full of adventures :)

(click to enlarge if you feel so inclined)

stupid tradition

okay that makes 2 bouquets caught in the past year.

im beginning to think this tradition is stupid

haha its just not working!
at least i get some pretty flowers out of it.
thats something.

p.s. i have lots to blog about.

maybe someday i will have a chance to take a break from writing lesson plans

and assignments

and be able to breathe!

but for now, read my dear friend sara's blog post

on our fantastic weekend...

last weekend haha

it was pretty stellar

and she summed it up PERFECTLY

i couldnt have dont a better job

love her! sooooo much

YES!

FINALLY!!!

also, congrats to by dear sweet lovely bestie katie leeflang!
so excited for that june wedding!
happy happy happy!!!

souvenez-vous qui vous êtes

-whit sariah

all grown up

its been a summer FULL of weddings. literally full of them. but last nights wedding made me realize how much everything changes when you have to grow up.
my dearest of dear cousins Chelsea got married.
my Chelsea is off into the world of married splendor.
it was a beautiful reception. It had rained all that day, and the day prior, but the rain let up about 20 minutes before the reception.
It was gorgeous outside. And she looked gorgeous.

all night i kept reminiscing about our childhood and the glorious times we had. Moments like sitting around the piano and singing Hymns opera style, or being insane little 8 year old kids and making up our own club at Grandpa and ma's that none of the other cousins could be in. Or of our plans to go to BYU-Hawaii and both marrying Tongon brothers. Or the infamous "wake-up" moment. Or the when she busted her knee in the 8th grade, and i got to be her book carrier while she gimped around. Or when our teacher asked us to pick out a number between 1 and 5 and I yelled out "7".

But the best memory I remembered last night, was when Chelsea met her now hubby Steven.... In the 9th grade. Yes the 9th grade. Those love birds have been together since age 14, and I was there for all of it. The 3 of us were quite the bunch. Being choir nerds and loving every minute of it.

I'm so thrilled that they are now together for all of Eternity. Chelsea couldn't have found someone better for her, and Steven is the luckiest guy ever. I hope he knows that.

Oh what a night. What a happy, rainy, tear-jerking, bouquet-catching, beautiful, grown-up night.
love it.

(Yes. I caught the bouquet. Not good with all the aunts around. They will be talking for months.)

-whit sariah

fan-freaking-tastic

i had a swell weekend. i felt i should share

my dear roommate kym and i had been planning a trip to the hogle zoo all semester, so we figured that this past weekend would be perfect since i was still in logan. so the hogle zoo is what started this little adventure, but that was only the beginning...or middle...whichever

i drove down to our dear friend jennifer jones' house on friday for an evening of celebrating miss sara michelles 20th birthday. hooray! we laughed, we played, we watched the office, ate taco bell, and concluded the evening with the one and only hugh grant in notting hill

"im just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her..." classic.

the next morning we had breakfast with jen's awesome family, and then made our way from draper to holladay to the hogle zoo to meet kym and the giraffes. this day just so happened to be the day before mothers day, so the zoo was covered with moms and children of all ages. it was a huge deal actually, complete with "Mom and Me at the Zoo! Bring your child into the wild" t-shirts...yes i got one--partly because all proceeds go towards new exhibits, and partly because i wished my mom was there with me.

so we spent most of the morning/afternoon there, having fun and taking pictures. then sometime around 3 we all went our went our separate ways, except for me and katie...she was stuck with me for 2 more days.

we went mothers days shopping, drove up millcreek canyon, took a mini nap, and then went to a crazy bonfire! this was definitely a blast. the fire was HUGE and there were some really fun people too...not to mention a few cute boys ;) but they go to BYU...gross. So ya, this bonfire was like an hour away from katies, and lasted for a long time, but it was definitely worth it. :) So So fun!

(dont worry...thats just our delicious energy drinks)

sunday was mothers day, and i was sad all day long that i couldn't be with my mommy, but it definitely helped that i was with katie and her cute family, and not all alone in my apartment in logan. i also got to take katie over to meet my dotty! i was soooo happy i got to see dott and talk with her for a couple of hours and introduce her to katie. it definitely made the trip :)
then monday i had to leave by noon or so to make it back in time to get ready and go to work. but we didnt leave without first making a stop to MOLCASALSA. yummy! i then made the drive back...it was hot, i have no AC, my ipod was dead, and i was DREADING another week in logan, but i will survive, only a couple days left and i can go home! and then bring on the ROAD TRIP!!!

happy flower

I found a new favorite flower courtesy of my FAVORITE blog:
greenweddingshoes.blogspot.com
they are called anemones, and basically I love them...a lot. here are some pictures: