Emily

I just wanted to give a little tribute to my cute little sister. Any of you who know me, at least know a little bit about her. She has always been by best friend and I am so happy for her and her husband Devin because they are having a baby in 4 WEEKS! You can bet your bottom dollar you'll be getting pics of her cute little bundle of joy when she comes!! Emily doesn't have a blog so I'm going to take the liberty, and also complete this tribute with some pics! I love you Em (she doesn't have a blog, but I know she is blog stalking you as you are reading mine!) My mom and I totally went for the big guns for her shower and made a diaper cake! It was so fun. Here is a pic of Emily at my Mom's house when we had a shower for her.

My dream...

So Brad loves snowmobiling, motorcycling, rock climbing...all things I never really did before I met him. I do them now, and too find joy in them.

Aisha loves dancing, and until now has had a very hard time getting the Bradster on board...
Check out the link below!

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Inspiration

I just found this really great quote from Ali Vincent who just won the Biggest Loser after loosing almost 1/2 of her body weight.

“I feel like that’s what beauty is — to feel strong and confident"

Check her out http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/24159091/?GT1=43001

My mother is amazing!

As per tradition, my sweet mother drew a portrait of one of our engagement pictures. We now have it hanging in our home and it is beautiful. She is so talented. She has done this for all family members for their weddings and takes commissions as well to do any kind of portrait. She did a drawing of me and Brad when we were each 4 years old and put them next to each other. It was really the cutest thing ever! I've also put the original picture in this post so you can really see how amazing she is! You can't even tell the drawing is a drawing!! I think the drawing looks better than the pic! Maybe because one of the great advantages of having your mother draw a portrait of you is you can have a moment of seeing what it would be like if you had a little plastic surgery!! I tried to convince her to add some sweet upper arm muscle to my arm, thinning out the nose and Brad requested more hair...he he!!

More wedding!

I was so grateful that my dear friends Chelsea, Erin and Melanie could come to our sealing at the temple. We've all been friends since Jr. High so it's only fitting that the girls that were there through all of the dating dramas of high school through college were there to celebrate with me! I know that my friend Kortney was there in spirit, she was home feeding her new baby...I guess that is a good excuse for missing the big day;) Thanks ladies for helping me be who I am today!!

Let's start over...

Aisha fell asleep during Brad's photoshoot, normally I hate those cheesey shots where on has their eyes closed...but I really like this picture because it visualizes exactly how I felt that day, not sleepy, but full of peace, gratitude and happiness!! Aisha with fuzzy Brad totally checking her out :)

Aisha and Brad at Salt Lake temple

...So I opened this blog with all good intentions of posting, updating and keeping you all updated with our life...but alas, this has been opened for 6 months and there are only 2 pathetic posts. So, with new resolve, I ask forgiveness and I am going to start anew. So...Here are some wedding pictures...might as well start where our lives beautifuly started together as man and wife (sniff..sniff)

Updates!

Well, it's official, we've been married for 4 months! Here is a picture of us on the night we got engaged. Just reminiscing! We've been enjoying married life. Before we got married I warned Brad that a lot of girls that I know got really sick after they got married. My sister came down with laryngitis, and other friends have gotten colds, the flu and other such joys of being human. While I was just teasing him with my threats, I actually did get sick after we got married, then I a little better and then I got sick again and then it came back...I won't bore you with the details....but, in January I was diagnosed with Mono! Hello, Mono! I seriously made it through Jr. High without getting it and I catch it now. Well, so, as far as updates for the old blog go, I've been sleeping, getting hooked on day time TV and rejoicing when I can actually do the laundry! It has truly been miserable and frustrating but I am getting better!! Brad has been busy with the dental clinic and getting in a little snowmobiling (usually once a week!!). We've taken a few trips to St. George for motorcycling and relaxing (and of course shopping trips to Vegas!). I'll try and do this updating more often, and get better pics!!