amazingness

HOLY COW! i have no words.

Summer

So I just uploaded tons of summer pictures from my camera! And I wanted to share how much fun we had this summer at the rodeo/carnival/sidewalk sales in Preston. It is a pretty cool tradition in Preston every summer to have a crazy awesome rodeo (yah, I said AWESOME rodeo) and all the festivities that go along with it are sweet too. So I convinced Ryker that rodeos are cool, at least this rodeo, and we headed to Preston! Also I suck at organizing posts so they are cute and stuff. Dang. Anyways though this is us at the parade, waiting to see Abby J come marching by (Shes the one on the back corner of the truck and also on top of the cheerleader pile)


Taking pictures with my little brother is pretty great. He is a ham.
This is us at the rodeo, and also one picture I got at the carnival. I don't think we ended up going on any rides, due to their shoddy craftsmanship. Haha we are wimps, but we didn't want to die.

Pump pumps

Pump pumps, that is what my family calls pumpkins.
We spent Halloween weekend with my family in Preston, just like we did last year. It's crazy how fast time flies, one year ago at Halloween time I was falling pretty hard for a boy named Ryker. A year ago from today we sat underneath the high school bleachers and had one of our first talks about getting married. We also made a crappy batch of muddy buddies, ate at fongs, and Teagen got stung by a bee. One year later we did homework, stocked up at Sams club (I love that club), and one again ate some (alright) chinese food. Being married is the best thing ever and I love my man more than anything in the whole world. Even when he drops his cereal bowl on the kitchen floor. I even love cleaning up his cereal from the floor. Haha. Ryks is the man. I'm glad we get to spend time with both of our families, and for everything they have done for us. Thanks mom and dad / ma and pa!

Halloween 2010 Halloween 2011

Hiking and Hatting

Hey all, fall is in the air and we have been loving it. A few days ago we went on a hike (walk) at cress creek, this cool trail in like....somewhere, with Chan and Konner. It was pretty rainy and cold, but neat-o. Here we are there!














My favorite time to crochet is when it gets cold outside, and I have a hard time doing anything else but that. Thankfully, Ryker's Aunt Jamie asked me to make a few hats for her girls, so I could put my crochet craving to good use.






It was my first time making a flower, but I thought it turned out cute. There are so many free flower patterns online, its awesome.



Thanks again, Jamie, for letting me do these!

Ok bye!

P.S. we are going to my parents house in a few weeks for Halloween. We did it last year too, and a few days later decided to get engaged. Wow time flies.

Bye for reals!

Ryker blogged. The top right one is the best

Missing these guys.....

The Storm Trooper

Well, we got a new car! We had been planning on it all summer and finally found the right one. It;s an '09 Mitsubishi Gallant (im not sure I have ever seen one before this one) but we quite like it.

So we took some modeling pics the first day we got it, and I gotta say, we should both probably look into making it a full time career.









So I guess we are real adults now or something.
Oh and we deleted our facebooks.
OK blogtown, peace!

the things we find on youtube.

Some outlets at our apt were having the worst day of their lives, others the best.

Back to school, back to school......

Got our lunch packed up and our boots tied tight.

Wedding Part 2

Seeing as we are nearing our 4 month mark it seems fitting to wrap up the happenings of our wedding day. Our reception was a long time in the making, because of the 1000 origami cranes I made everyone fold! It was more of a whim to have them at the reception in the beginning, but once the 40 dollars worth of paper had been bought over the internet it was too late to back out. One of the few benefits of our long engagement (for mormon standards) was the time to fold. Ryker and I spent a lot of evenings silently making birds, and we also recruited help from tons of nice family and friends. Probably the best part of having so much help was when we were finally hanging the birds and discovered that some people had come up with their own patterns, leaving us with a few roosters and divebombers. Once all the cranes had been folded it was time to string them onto fishing line. Ryker, Dustin, and I spent the week before the wedding looking something like this.... Look how happy they are! Well Ryker is a little bit concerned for the situation Harry is in, but otherwise they are having a grand ol' time.

After we had the strings made and taped to the walls/lying on jordans bedroom floor, we found ourselves in a pickle. I hadnt thought far enough ahead to transporting the strings to the church. They were so easy to get tangled together. I did what I normally do to find something though and googled "transporting 1000 paper cranes." Of course there would be detailed instructions somewhere on the internet. But for reals there was, it was a miracle. So Ryker and I scavenged for some big boxes behind a furniture store in town and the transport device was born.

Basically we ran thick wire back and forth across the top of the box and one by one taped strings of cranes to it. A lot of work! It kept getting saggy and the box tried to fall apart, but our good friend tape pulled us through.

The night before the wedding we loaded the box into Petes trailor and made our way to the church to hang them. Im so glad my father-in-law is an electrician, and a super awesome guy besides, because he went right to work figuring how to best hang the birds.

Meanwhile the rest of us were all busy setting up tables, filling vases with water and rocks for the centerpieces, going to walmart, eating pizza, and gawking at chewbacca, the special guest. We had so much help, I was so thankful for everyone, we couldnt have done it without them. Here is Ryker doing some dance moves.

My parents rocked the house by providing the rest of the decorations. Our backdrop was sweet, and the flowers were great. My mom wanted flowers more than I did, she is a flower lady, but they were the best.

One of the last steps of decorating was getting the fish. Ryker and I had decided that having live goldfish in bowls would be perfect for our centerpieces, so the day of the wedding Abby and my cousins Kelli and Kenzie Foster went to Wal Mart to buy 20 or so of those cheap goldfish. It was quite a sight to see them rolling into the church parking lot.

I guess they stuffed Kenz in the back to keep her fishy friends company.

Finally it was time to stop setting up and change into our nice clothes so we could stand and talk to our friends and family in the line. Even though we spent nearly the entire time in line greeting people I dont feel like I missed out on anything. However, here are some pictures of how things looked beyond where Ryker and I and our familes were.....

The centerpieces were super easy and cheap to make, we raided the DI for random sized vases, got some glass rocks, waterproof led lights, and goldfish. We had brownie sundaes for refreshments. The flowers on the brownies looked a lot like carrots though, and a few people told me they thought it was carrot cake and didnt get any. Oh well, the leftovers were tasty. We also had a lot of extra orange soda and whipped cream which went to good use.poop. oh, looks like ryker wanted to blog, too.A little secret about the cake.......our moms made us get one. At one point Ryker had suggested that instead of buying a cake I could just paint a picture of one. It was a pretty good idea, but in the end we got a real one. Alberstons made it for us for an AWESOME price and it looked dang good. The top half is sitting in the freezer right now, a few days ago I wanted to check it out and it made me miss my wedding day haha. Hopefully it tastes good next april. It still looked yummy.Oh my goodness, this is a small portion of the amazing gifts we recieved. We are so grateful for everyone who dropped by and showered us with stuff. Seriously, you guys rock.

HOLY COW i must just blog really slow, because this post has taken forever! This picture captures the feeling of the end of our wedding day and the end of this post. Ok BYE!

Hi!

Well, here is our blog! I thought it would be fun to post about our lives, even though they are pretty normal. Plus Ryker is feeling sick today and we are being lazy bums, which leaves me ample time to write and upload pics. We have been married a little over a month now, and it has been the coolest month of our lives. We recently got a copy of our wedding photos, and they are flipping cool! Also we have been on some cool adventures, so the rest of this post is going to be a big jumble of stuff.

This was taken the day after thanksgiving, when Ryker took me out on a freezing walk and pulled a ring out of his pocket. Ill always remember that night, it was so perfect.



In between getting engaged and married we had to find a place to live! It took a little while to find what worked for us, but our hard work paid off and we chose a cozy 3rd floor apartment in Rexburg. I moved in a few weeks before Ryker did, so we didnt spend much time here during that time, but we sure do enjoy it now. And my parents got us that couch from DI, an excellent buy. It could fit at least....a lot of people on it.

It was a good thing we had 5 months of engagement, because part of my ideal wedding included 1000 origami cranes. I couldnt have picked a better family to help me with this endeavor, the Bluncks were awesome. I also had a lot of good friends that folded more than their share of birds. This is Ryker and his older brother Dustin, stringing cranes onto fishing wire and watching harry potter.
Finally the morning of April 30 came! We were both super excited. Ryker had a hard time waiting to come pick me up, so he showed up pretty early and hung out while I finished getting ready. My mom and sister spent the night before the wedding with me which was awesome, and Abby did my hair. she is a pro. We were scheduled to be sealed at 11 AM, but we needed to be at the temple by 10 to get ready and stuff. Man that was a crazy car ride, knowing where we were going.This is our last unmarried picture together, on our drive to the temple. Mmm I love that guy.
Dun dun dun! Here come the Bluncks!
I was nervous to come out and have everybody there! It was so cool to see so many people waiting for us though. Family and friends came from all over the country to be with us and we are so grateful for them!
This is my little brother, Alex. He used to always tell me not to get married, he just wanted me to live at his house forever. Whenever I would talk to him on the phone he would say, "Balory, you not gonna marry ryker bunk." I think he is ok with it now though.
Because the sealing got over around 1130 we chose to take some pictures a few days before, just so people could go eat instead of standing around waiting for us. It was dang windy outside but Taylor Davenport is a wiz with the camera and managed to get some good shots! This is one of me kissing my husband. Bet you didnt know that!

So enough about us and our hotness (jk) (but really) (we are pretty good looking) (i mean we are kind of a big deal). Remember all those people I talked about who came? here they are! Rykers side........
And mine!
This is my parents and brothers and sister. Al is cool!
And this is Rykers parents and brother and sister and nephew Teagen. We missed Chris a lot, but the viod was filled a little bit by a certain wookie....

Who will make his blog debut next time, when i venture into the reception details. But until then BYE!