Simply Singer

I know this is a late post - about a year late since I just realized I never clicked the button .... but here we are .... August 2015 With a week off of work, Steven and I were unsure what to do. We thought about different things that we could do but nothing stuck. Steven, out of nowhere, said that we should go on a road trip to see Old Faithful. We, well I mean I, packed our bags and we got into the car and left. We drove up through Flagstaff, over to Santa Fe, where we stayed the night. Then drove up towards Denver. But as we arrived in Raton, NM. we had a nail in the tire and it was loosing air. Since it was Sunday, there was not much open, so we bought a patch and fixed it best we could. We luckily were able to find a Walmart that had a tire center that was open in Trinidad, CO. Put a damper in our trip but we got back on the road and headed to Hot Springs, SD. We did stop at Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, CO. The next morning we headed thru Custer State Park. We sa...

To celebrate our one year anniversary, we decided to go to Vegas. The night before we left, we had the "top layer" of our wedding cake. (Actually, the place we got our cake from makes a small anniversary cake for certain anniversaries, so it was not actually frozen, but it was fresh.) We cut the cake with our cake cutting set from the wedding and shared the moment with my parents and sister. The next day, we headed out to Vegas. Upon arrival to our hotel, Treasure Island, Steven booked me a few hours at the spa for a Swedish massage, shower body exfoliation and hydrotherapy bath. So pretty much when we arrived in our room, I unpacked then headed straight to the spa. Steven, on the other hand, went to the casino to gamble. (He actually won pretty good amount of money too.) After spending 5-hours at he spa, I headed back to the room to quickly get changed into something more, dinner appropriate, as we headed to S&W steakhouse for our dinner reservations. The next mor...

After the wedding we had decided to look for our own house to purchases. We looked and looked for different houses all over the valley. We fell in love with a few but since we were not pre-approved yet, there was nothing we could do. We waited to head back on the status for one loan. When it took too long, we just ended up going somewhere else that was able to give us an answer within a day. It was exciting looking through houses figuring out what we wanted and what we did not like. Though it was tough trying to figure out what was a want and what was a need. It took a little bit of arguing to come to terms on everything that we needed. Steven wanted a backyard that he could fix up and make our own and a garage he could turn into a work space while I wanted to make sure there was a large enough kitchen, a large master closet, carpet, and a few other things. The day that we walked through the Parkwood Ranch house, we had seen a few others prior to it and had a few more after it. Ste...

So for our honeymoon, we decided to go to my home area, Southern California. We got 5 day city passes that included, one day at Universal Studios Hollywood, three day park hopper tickets with one magic morning tickets to Disneyland/California Adventures, and one day to Sea World San Diego. We took or honeymoon from Saturday March 1, directly after the wedding until Sunday March 9. It all started as our friends and family celebrated our marriage by seeing us off for the first night as husband and wife. We got into the limo and headed into Phoenix to our hotel. After staying at the Westin, it has become a regular place we stay to get away. But any who, we got room service and rested up from all the excitement from the wedding and for the first full day of our honeymoon. So the next morning after we got up and got all ready, we hit the road to Hollywood. On the way to California, we passed my best friends, Kassey, Heather & Ted driving back home. Also as I was driving like 80 mph o...

Our wedding was on March 1, 2014. With the days counting down and our wedding day almost here, there were still last minute things that must be done. The day before the wedding my friends and family started to come into town. We held the wedding rehearsal that afternoon and then the rehearsal dinner directly after at my parents house where friends and family gathered for dinner. It was really nice to be able to see my family, since I have not seen them in a while. As the night came closer, my soon to be husband headed back to our house and I stayed with my parents. Us girls did our nails, had some drinks and talked. It had been a little rainy that day and as I went to sleep, I prayed that it would stop raining. I could not sleep very well that night and Steven ended up calling me in the middle of the night since he could not sleep either. As the night went on, it kept on raining and I kept on checking the weather map. Finally the morning came and I was able to get a little bit of ...

With the planning of the wedding came a lot of stress. Not just on me, but on my fiancee  and my parents. First, Steven and I did not know exactly what we wanted to do. We thought about having the wedding in California where I am from, having it in Arizona at a church, or just anywhere that was nice. After looking around we found a few wonderful places. The only real difference was that one venue we had to find our own vendors and the other venue everything was already provided to us. So after a little bit of deliberation, we settled on Regency Garden, where  everything was already provided to us. With everything doing on, it was hard to even plan the wedding. Even though all we really had to do was meet with the vendor and make a decision. Using Pinerest, I was able to get some ideas of what I wanted so the meeting would be easier to accomplish instead of going in blind and trying to figure out what I wanted. (Photos not in order) Engagement Photos ...