Inspiration for the wedding Colors: Utah Jazz

Before we were engaged we were watching the Jazz and it dawned upon me... these are my wedding colors.

I saw the NAVY...

... the silver...

... and the beautiful sky blue and I knew I wanted these for my colors.


Good work they look great together. I'm excited to be using them and I think the colors are elegant together and are me!

My bouquet ideas

Yes I will be doing my bouquet! Two things I've really wanted to do are a wedding scrapbook, and some of the flowers like my bouquet for my own wedding. I've made many bouquets and can basically be given a picture and create that.
These are some pictures that I want my bouquet to look like. For this one I love all of the roses that are used and want to make a majority of mine with cream/very very light pink centered roses.

This picture is pretty close too. You can see the roses and other flowers (I'll use different ones like Lisianthus, Hydrangeas, maybe eonies in mine. I have lace from my dress left over so I will wrap my bouquet in that alone with Swarvowski crystals like they have dangling from this bouquet. I also love the Lemon Leaves bordering the bottom.

I might change my mind, but I am going to add just a touch of green to the cream/pinks and add some green Hydrangeas so the pallet will be like this.

Another beautiful picture where you can see the creams and more of the very very light pinks from the roses and other flowers. This bouquet looks huge, mine will be a little smaller and won't have some of these flowers like Ranuculus.

Dream Cruise on Woodward Ave.

Every year in August, Michigan holds the "Woodward Dream Cruise" where cars pile up on Woodward Avenue to show off how old, new, or expensive their automobile is. The busy 50mph road turns into a dead stop from all of the cars and spectators are found for miles up and down the road to admire some amazing cars.

It's awesome because the church building and temple are on that road and we used to pull up chairs and blankets on its lawn to watch the cars.

This year we were on Woodward in the before and after and we saw a lot of awesome cars. I was interested and checked out the most expensive cars 2009-2010. Check them out:

Most expensive cars 2009-2010

1. Bugatti Veyron for $1.7 million
2. Lamborghini Reventon: $1.6 million
3. McLaren F1: $970,000

Da di da da

Here comes the bride!

It's coming up so soon! Last weekend I got more things into place from the tuxes, flowers (which I'm doing most of... especially for the bouquets), cakes, food, etc. I still have 55 more things to be reminded of from theknot.com, so it feels like so much still.

The dress is coming along so well and now I'm just passing time.

Captured TWICE in WWII

Last week I finished the book "Rescued by Mao" written by one of my old next door neighboors William Taylor who served in WWII and was captured TWICE!!!

I loved hearing about his experiences, which were all true, and how he fought, was captured on Wake Island, and suffered so much while in the concentration camps. I can't imagine starving like that or how manipulative the enemy camps were, but he said during the duration of this hardship which was years, he always turned to the Lord and thanked him for his blessings and that he was alive.

At some close times he almost died, was beaten, and could have been greatly in danger or injured, but it's amazing how he was looked after and was dedicated to the Lord in prayer and also his habits and sharing the gospel to others.

Last night we also had a fireside where a man returned from Afghanistan where he served for quite a bit within the last few years and experienced many hardships too being in the face of danger and war. He too talked to us about turning to the Lord in prayer and actively practicing our faith in times away from family and the US.

We've been together for a year!!!

Chris and I have been dating a whole year now!

It's been so great, he's been amazing and we've had so many good times together and are excited to have millions of more in the future. I know when we got engaged we talked about how we wanted to make this engagement time it was about the 'marriage' and not as much the 'wedding' in the sense of making it about us and the temple.

I really feel like we've been doing that and it makes me so happy to have our minds and hearts focused on the things that will last.

I can't believe it's only 23 days!!! It's going by so fast and it stinks because I'm not right there beside him, but without a doubt I know he is there, loyal, loving, caring, etc. Even though I'm not with him I'm glad he's being understanding.

10 Reasons I love Chris Pearson:

1) loves me, the Lord, and the gospel
2) helps me become a better person
3) is trustworthy and loyal
4) kind and thoughtful
5) hard worker
6) thinks of others before himself
7) wants to be married in the temple and a family
8) funny and cute
9) both are frugal and think things through
10) mature and wants our family & us to be grounded in the gospel and its principles

I love him so much! I'm so excited to be with him soon. I'm not just bending these things, this is really who he is which is everything I want. I know too that when looking ahead and continually planning our future together we'll make a difference in many people's lives and in our own.

Love you,
Elise

Favorite things of Today

10 top things that made me happy today. Here are my favorite things which are not in any order:

1. Going through pictures of Chris and I
2. Coming to work and seeing Pearson mints on my desk
3. Seeing a porcupine roll by the side of the road
4. Singing in the car
5. See and work with my Uncle today
6. Doing my nails
7. Putting on my wedding dress
8. Gave the FHE lesson for my family
9. Eating sushi with my dad
10.Reading a book of my neighbor who got captured during WWII