donuts and target and ottomans

this weekend was the weekend Scott and i were originally going to get married before we decided that waiting to get married would be a lot less fun than being married (we were right about that one). naturally though, we had to celebrate our almost-wedding weekend in style so we went shopping.

this shopping trip has been a long time coming, though. the ratio of Scott fun days to Allie fun days was a little askew, since i'm in school right now. i've been letting all my fun days build up though, which isn't a bad idea because then you get one GIANT fun day where Scott gets to tread at my heels and hold mounds of clothes and watch me try on shoes and not even complain about it! it's a win-win for both of us ;).

while in salt lake Scott got this very strong need for a donut. this was particularly exciting for me. it's pretty common for me to find little quirks of Scott's rubbing off on me. like the other day he was showing me some hunting video on youtube (riveting stuff my friends) and i was able to name the brand of camouflage they were wearing. this is not anything i would choose to know, but it's just part of the gig i've come to find out, which i can accept. so when we are driving around salt lake and Scott DEMANDS (not an exaggeration, he was demanding it) that we find ourselves a donut shop, being the sweets connoisseur that i am, i'm not about to fight him on this. as it turns out, though, most bakeries are closed at 5 pm on a saturday, so we settled for some dunkin donuts. this was our first experience at the dunkin, and we're still wondering what all the hype is about. although, i can't say i expect much from a 5 pm donut. so props to you dunkin, for even having donuts in the early evening.

Scott did really well actually. with the whole shopping thing. he made it all the way to about 7 pm before he was "over this day". i've been told shopping with me requires some stamina. i managed to milk a small bit of energy out of him for target. where dreams go to party. plus we had a bazillion gift cards to use up from the wedding and if that doesn't give you a second wind then heck if i know what will. so we had a heyday in target saturday night.

i know we're both real adults now because our favorite purchase that night was a storage ottoman and we are THRILLED. driving home we raved about the ottoman, and we couldn't wait to tell all our friends about the ottoman! that you can STORE things in! and it was on SALE! the ottoman sits at the end of our bed and every day thus far it has been a small source of joy for us. yesterday, i told Scott, i sat on the ottoman to put my boots on! and it was a treat. this does not compare to sitting on your bed to put shoes on. nay. when you sit on your bed to put shoes on you sink in and fall back but this ottoman. this ottoman is sturdy and stable and it will never falter. we love the ottoman.

and because i'm too lazy to end this post in an organized manner. look! picture. despite the looks on our faces we were actually pleased. this was our first bite, and we had yet to critique the dunkin. we were just glad to have found it.

in which i embrace fall

so friday i decided that this weekend was going to be a fall weekend because i'm reallyreallyreally sad that winter is coming so FAST and fall is slipping through my fingertips. i've hardly been able to enjoy it because i've been busy coping with the fact that i'm going to be cold for the next 5 months (this takes some serious mental preparation people). bonus, though, we did whip out the down comforter this weekend and with it, our new duvet. so naturally bedtime is much more exciting these days.

and so the weekend was a fall one. i woke up and went to the farmers market, i drank hot chocolate, and i went hiking with karlie. karlie is one of those girls who can chatter about nearly anything, and so we chattered about nearly everything from marriage to school to jobs to life and the colors of fall left us super enlightened. does is blow anyone else's mind how GOLD the leaves get in the fall? it is unnatural and it makes me giddy.

sunday was the sunday-est of sundays complete with afternoon nap, some light internship shopping (still not sure what this internship will kill first, me or my bank account) and family dinner and football. pumpkin chocolate chip cookies were had in much abundance and i finally got to try my sister in law's famous raspberry tarts, and there was much rejoicing. treat season i could kiss your face.

happy

leading up to your wedding you get a lot of unsolicited advice from anyone who knows you about what you should do and what you should expect on your wedding day. inevitably something huge and important will go awry, don't sweat the details, have a morning wedding, have a night wedding, do not have an afternoon wedding, you're going to be so stressed out, you wont get to eat, you should definitely make sure you eat, etc etc and so on and so forth. its like you go into the day expecting it not to be perfect.

well guess what, we had an afternoon wedding, and it rocked. 

in some of ways, our wedding day was exactly what i expected it would be, kinda crazy, and kinda tired. but in a lot of ways it wasn't.

after the ceremony and the pictures and before the reception. there was a small gap of time where scott and i were at the reception center just us, kickin back and hanging out. i think i will always remember it as one of my favorite parts of the day. because beneath the flowers and the dress and the favors wasn't that the whole point of the day? me and him, best friends, starting our new life together. it was just so relaxed. it gave both of us an opportunity to really take in the day, and it set the precedent for the rest of the night. we just did us, and that is what i think made our day our own kind of perfect. 

if i could describe our wedding day in a word , it would be "happy". because that's what it was. i didn't care that our cake fell apart, it wasn't the end of the world that we didn't have any flowers for half our pictures. i ate at our luncheon and at our reception and heck i even had a second serving of dessert because gosh darn it it was my wedding and i wanted 2 brownies. 

basically everyone knew that when scott and i knelt over the alter together that day that i would just be a big emotional mess because as much as i try to deny it i am just tenderhearted crybaby, and you know what, on your wedding day that is totally justified. but as we knelt and looked at each other, and made promises to each other, i didn't cry. instead, i couldn't stop smiling. one of those big, trying to hide laughter kind of smiles. you know what i'm talking about? where you're just so happy and excited that the only appropriate display of emotion is laughter (all of this, i felt, was totally inappropriate, being in the temple and all). this is what was going through my head the whole time "how freaking cool is this?! this is so cool! im so exicted!" 

threw me for a loop, which i don't know why because that's what our whole relationship has been since the very beginning, and what it has been since, 

happy.

square one

so we've been married for a solid 5 weeks now and we've already got ourselves a freezer full of elk to show for it! i spend most of my time on campus (senior year is a gem) while scott spends most of his working and hunting. we've learned that i really like pillow talk and basically any excuse to keep scott awake for a little longer, and also that we are still terrible at waking up in the morning, even though we have someone else there to nudge us in the right direction (scott does most of the nudging). scott finally saw rebecca black's "friday" music video, thanks to me. we don't have a dinner table but we do have a dishwasher (priorities), and like any normal couple we stay up too late every night mooching off of my brother's netflix. and so. this is the foundation on which we are building our marriage; pillow talk, venison, and the office! i think we're off to a great start.