Survivor, Awesome Friends and Wedding Updates!!

Well I do have to start this post, by letting you all know that another season of survivor has ended. On Mothers Day we got together at Nicole's to watch the final four episodes of the season, and we were not disappointed, it was an action packed FOUR hours. I was bummed because Yau Man didn't win, but at least Earl did! Yau Man deserved to win more though, I think because he was one of the oldest guys out there but played an awesome game. When there was 6 people left, they did a reward challenge for a car, all the survivors had a car except for this one guy Dreamz. So Yau wins the car and asks Jeff if he can make a deal...so he goes on to give Dreamz the car, the catch is though, if they both make the final four and Dreamz wins immunity, he has to give it to Yau. Nothing like this has ever happened in survivor. Dreamz accepts and the deal is made. Dreamz realizing that this might not be the best for him, tries to get Yau voted off and almost succeeds if it wasn't for stacey slipping up and making comments that made Yau start thinking. He uses his hidden immunity charm and is saved. He makes it through round 5 by winning immunity and then when it comes down to the final four, Dreamz wins immunity and at tribal council we were all waiting so stressed out thinking he'd be a man of his word and HE CHANGES HIS MIND...which resulted in YAU being SENT HOME! We were all totally shocked by that. At least though Dreamz didn't win and our other main guy Earl did. He took all nine votes in the final, although afterwards Jeff asked the jury who they would have voted for had Yau still been in it and he would have won. It was just an insane final...we loved it!! The next survivor is happening in China which looks intense and then Nicole called me the other day and after survivor China, there is going to be another Survivor ALL STAR...we are super excited!!!! That's enough about survivor...but that is not it for survivor night...

Since I was house sitting over my birthday I didn't get to see Natalie on her birthday and the girls didn't get to see me on mine...so we used this night to celebrate birthday's as well. I gave Nat her picture card and gift and the girls gave me a card they made for me, a purse, lantern and a gift certificate to Michael's my favorite craft store!! Super sweet of them!! They also had a little cheesecake with candles for me to blow out, do I have awesome friends or what!! Here are a few pictures from that night...

Monday I worked, nothing too thrilling happened. Tuesday and Wednesday were my days off this week so I took advantage of the time off and got quite a few things done. Tuesday was my errand morning. I went and picked up the wedding invitations which turned out super cute, I am so excited to hand them out. I picked up Jessica's 6th birthday gift (part of it) and found a great deal at GAP. This skirt that I liked when it first came in at 60 dollars was on sale for 16.97 how awesome it that, so I just had to grab that for me!! I ran out to Old Navy and Michael's. I picked up the supplies to make the little add on invites for those people to come to the temple on the day of the wedding. I think they are going to turn out super cute, although I wish I could give one to everyone just so you could all see the cuteness! I also bought these amazing stickers to put on the inner envelope of the invitations, they are from the Martha Stewart collection of Scrap booking supplies and the colors work perfectly...all but the blue, so we'll just use the green, orange and pink. I am in love with the Martha collection everything is so beautiful Brandon is going to have to watch me in there! So I had a busy morning of running around and the rest of the afternoon I used for organization and doing some RS things for our meeting that night.

Wednesday wasn't as hectic, but still busy. I went over and helped Kathy out with the kids since she is supposed to be taking it easy. So I ate lunch with the kids and just got to chat with them. I was asking Jessica what she wanted for her 6th birthday and she listed some clothes and some toys and then she listed a Diary with a lock and lipstick...which I thought were too funny for a 6 year old to want. So anyway on top of the clothes Brandon and I picked her up,I ran all over creation looking for a journal with a lock, eventually I found one in the dollar store, Disney things on it and everything...so I bought her three. Picked up some lip smackers for her today!! Anyway I took Jake and Sarah out ti rent a movie and get some treats. Jake chose Arthur and the Invisibles (which we watched, well I did the other two fell asleep) which was a cute movie. We didn't have time for Sarah's which was a Disney Princess movie but we might watch it this weekend!! After the movie store we drove out to visit Laureen (Brandon's mom) we'd bought her some sweats for her birthday and we exchanged the size for her, so i wanted to get them back to her as soon as I could. So we have a quick visit with her and I got to show her our invites which she thought were cute! I'm excited that she is going to be my mother-in-law...she is just the sweetest and one of the most talented ladies I know. I am lucky to have not only a great mother but now a soon to be great mother-in-law- Super Excited!!

Brandon came over Wednesday night after not really seeing him for almost three weeks. We needed to get a picture taken to go in out invitations. It seemed like everything was going against us, Brandon totally forgot we were doing photos and wore the wrong color shirt so I changed, plus it was overcast, drizzling and COLD! All worked out well though and we found a few winners. Laura did a great job taking pictures and following the directions I was giving her. The first picture is the one I think we are going to use, although it will be wallet size and the second one is just a fun one that we took but that I really liked!! Let me know what you all think!

After we finished up pictures we headed down to the mall to pick up my belated birthday gift since I didn't get to see Brandon much on my birthday. He picked me up a new awesome pair of puma sneakers...I love them...plus it was BOGO 1/2 off so since Brandon couldn't find a pair he liked I got a second pair of pumas, but they are more like a flat which is super cute. Such a sweet husband-to-be that I have!! We also picked up our first home item together, we've both been picking up things but this was the first one we got together... It is just some cutlery but it was still super exciting!! I cannot wait until we can use it all and set up our new home!!

So wedding plans are coming along well and hopefully I'll have the invites off within the next week!! Oh I have a question for all you married gals that are reading this...how did you all word the separate invite for those people that you were inviting to the temple... Any suggestions would be awesome because I want to get them all ready this weekend!!

Also I have the thank Julia for the super sweet birthday card that I got in the mail yesterday...it was super sweet of her, and we'll definitely have to go out for lunch soon! I can't wait to hangout!!

Hope you are all having an awesome week and are enjoying this latest update. Check out Kathy's blog to see Sarah in her new glasses she looks ADORABLE! I'll post some pictures when I actually get to see her in person.

One more thing please keep Kathy in your prayers so that she can have the baby soon!!!!! I would love her to have the baby this weekend when I'm hanging out with her so I can be there!! Plus I just want her to finally feel better, and I want to know what the baby is and I want to hold a newborn baby again...ahhhh I'm super excited!!! I'll keep you all posted on how things go!!!