Fall 2013... Slowly Catching Up.

...Fall 2013...

As I said before, this past fall semester was way to intense for me.  18 credits is something that was way to stressful for me. I don't know how some people do that or more every semester. IT WAS THE MOST STRESSFUL 4 MONTHS OF MY LIFE.  Okay, so maybe all of it wasn't so bad. My brother Cline was doing a semester at BYU with me before his mission so it was really fun to take a class with him, and I got to do this incredible internship at an interior design/furniture store called The Gatehouse. I died almost everyday when I saw all of the amazing displays and home furnishings. Some day I will have a house and be able to buy stuff from there! Also these pictures are semi out of order, so brace yourselves. 

^^^Fall semester started. Sending my boy off on his first day of fall semester. 

^^^My little brother Cline got his mission call to SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA. Those that don't know, we are 1/4 Korean and still have lots and lots of family out there, so we were all so sososososososos excited about his call! It is perfect for him because.... well..... WE HEART ASIANS. 

^^^Cruzie liked to go to the high school football games! 

^^^Cruzie at his first BYU game!

^^^Cruz with my mom at gardner village! Such a fun day!

^^^I definitely chopped my hair off and I definitely and doing a weird duck face (ugh. the worst) and I definitely loved it for the first little while... now I want my hair to grow back fast! 

^^^My favorite chair from my internship at The Gatehouse. I may or may not have sat in it a couple times each time that I was there working.... It is hands down the most comfortable and cute chair ever!!

^^^Picture of my dad because he was the cutest little kid and had a birthday in October. 

^^^So I realize I look a little weird in this, but I think my outfit is pretty awesome and the colors I enjoy them a lot... hahah I am weird. I know. 

^^^apparently Cruz is pretty much all that I took pictures of this fall. Oh well, at least he is cute to look at!

^^^Cline and I did a project turning our sister Carly into Cleopatra and him into Marc Anthony. It was quite the production! 

^^^Cruzie at gardner village. He LOVED the witches!! I am obsessed with him. 

^^^My dad may or may not have been on the news for a second shown being angry with some bad calls at a BYU game. Die hard cougar fans over here guys. 

^^^Richie got the opportunity to go to Nashville to do a video shoot for a shark tank update on the company Kisstixx. He LOVED Nashville and he was pleasantly surprised by how charming that city was. 

^^^This is what happens when you get home from school at 7:00 pm Halloween night and decide last minute to dress up. Haha we look so weird. But we had fun passing out candy to all the kids at my parents house. 

^^^My mom's family had a murder mystery dinner this fall and we tried to get into character for this picture. I would definitely say mine was an epic fail but Richie looks fantastic! 

^^^Just a cool picture of Richie in Salt Lake!

Happy late fall!!

summer 2013.... yeah, i am that far behind. woops!

...summer 2013...

so last semester was pretty crazy, i was in 18 credits and i am the type of person that can barely handle 12 so i definitely neglected this little thing.  but here are some pictures from this past summer that we took, and i am realizing that richie and i are the worst about taking pictures.... so sorry there isn't a great selection! 

^^^baby cruzie lovin' in hawaii. (i love that baby to death)

^^^richie and i at the beach the day we got to hawaii. sea turtles!!

^^^me with my sista's and our friend makaye.... it was my first day guys, don't judge the pasty white skin just yet. 

^^^he had so much fun in hawaii!!

^^^kalama beach in kailua

^^^for those of you who don't know, richie is actually 1/4th hawaiian and he gave this ring to me for our anniversary it is the hawaiian name that his mom called him growing up. i love it!!

^^^okay, seriously richie has the cutest little cousin. his name is tane boy and he is just adorable. 

^^^dentist. enough said. 

^^^largest onion i have ever seen. 

^^^fourth of july with this babe

^^^4th of july cake that my sister whit made. she is so good at this stuff! so jealous of her. 

^^^baby buddah catching some rays. 

^^^Telu (my bro's bff and our adopted brother)

^^^ran into this kid at the provo temple one day. he bore his testimony to us in tongan.... it was soooooo cool!!

^^^cake that my sister and i made at the good old stf at about 3am.... so many orders due the next day. 

^^^this summer i learned how to do eyelash extensions.  They are the coolest and i really enjoy doing them! 

it was a really fun summer and we were able to go do some cool things. we spent most of it hanging out with family, working, eating snowcones, swimming and unfortunately going to school. but besides school, i would say it we had a pretty awesome time!

1 year

<<<dresses, slacks, cakes and dates>>>

so this post is extremely overdue... on June 8th (yes i know i should have written this post months ago) was mine and richbot's one year anniversary! We had such a fun day up in the city with a surprise date that richie planned. we stayed at the little america which is where we stayed our very first night as mr & mrs and then we went to this incredible stake house called christophers and after that we ate a blueberry lemon cake that i made at work for us because we didn't save our wedding cake.... oops... but in all seriousness i honestly cannot believe that it has been an entire year that we have been married. it has gone by so quickly. it is absolutely insane. it really has been the best year of my life so far, richie and i were talking the other day about how we hear from some people that the first year of marriage is the hardest, but i am here to tell you that is a lie. it is not at all, it is simply beautiful. 

i <3 richie stapler. 

wedding videos:

temple video

reception video 

anniversary pictures:

the best steakhouse in utah 

 richie enjoying the mummy bag i gave him

 the cake 

forks from our big day a year ago 

Sonnet James

...Sonnet James...

play dresses for mom's [and women]

Dear everyone that sees this post. Check out this Kickstarter Campaign of one of my family members.  The dresses are a bit pricey, but totally worth it. They are easy to clean, durable and comfortable. I promise you will love the idea behind Sonnet James. Go to the link and Click, Watch, Donate and channel your "Inner Child". 

Thanks for browsing, seriously how gorgeous is my cousin modeling in these? Yeah, that's what I thought, you can get one too and look amazing as well. Go fund Sonnet James, like now! 

Stanford CA

.Standford. California. 

...Fear the tree...

So a few weeks ago, Richie and I set off on a fun adventure to go to California (we rode the front runner/trax to the SLC airport. We definitely qualify as city slickers now I think) and babysit my cousin Jen's two little girls Lili and Serelle while her husband Kylan gave her a surprise birthday weekend get away to New York. Is that the coolest birthday present or what?! Kylan has been out at Stanford University getting his MBA and actually just recently graduated. Anyway, if any of you haven't had the chance to go to the Palo Alto/ Stanford area, I highly recommend that you experience it at some point in your life. Richie and I were able to go visit them twice in the two years they were out there and we fell in love with it and never wanted to come home. It is literally the best place on the mainland United States. 

Oh! By the way, Stanford's motto/slogan thing is "fear the tree" and I think it is funny so that is why I put it on this post. Pretty funny. Anyway while we were there, the weather was soooooo incredibly hot.  So we tried to think of fun pass times that would help us cool off a bit. 

DAY 1 of babysitting:
The day started off with Richie, the girls and me dropping off Jen and Kylan at the San Franisco airport and then we headed into the city because Richie had a meeting with a company out in San Francisco.  Once there we drove around for probably about 45 minutes trying to find a spot and eventually after much searching and some high stress about Richie missing the meeting, we finally were able to park. While Richie headed to his meeting at Razer Fish, the girls and I headed to Pier 39 to look around and go on the marry-go-round, however I do not have any pictures of this experience because right as we were about to step onto the marry go round, Richie called and said he was done. So we hurried and rushed back to the car so that we wouldn't have to pay an arm and a leg for parking any longer than we needed to. Then we headed back into Palo Alto and of course went straight to Trader Joes. I am so glad there is one in Salt Lake now, but we need to get one down here in Utah County!!

The girls looooove Richie. So cute!

Day 2 of babysitting: 
This was definitely the hottest day while we were out there I think. In fact it was so hot that we decided to drive an hour South down to Santa Cruz beach. Let me tell you, it was well worth the drive. The girls had so much fun playing in the sand and jumping over the waves. Of course, I didn't get pictures of that either..... I guess I need to step it up on documenting things. Oops. I do however have pictures of the Palo Alto farmers market that we went to before the beach.  We got the best nectarines in the whole world and added it to our picnic basket for the beach.

 These were the biggest green beans I have ever seen. They looked delicious!

Once again, the girls love him.

After the beach we promised Lili and Serelle that we would let them pick where we went to dinner.  They picked this little Pizza place on main street (I think was main street) called Pizza My Heart and I think they were pretty excited because the pizza slices were pretty much the size of their head! They ate all of it. Money well spent.

Then we hung around outside, walked around and looked at some shops and the girls even entertained us with their fantastic dance moves at this little outdoor concert. It was such a fun day!

Day 3 of babysitting:

We went and picked Jen and Kylan up at the airport and then we all headed into the city and went to this hole in the wall best Mexican restaurant ever. They had the most incredible drinks ever. Kylan said they literally just put cantaloupe or strawberries or whatever fruit they want and smash it all together and then that is the drink. Needless to say, it was delicious.  After that we hung out at the park for a bit and then Richie and I headed to the airport Utah bound. It was a fun trip! We sure are glad that the Lundeen family is finally back in Utah!