Sorry for the past few days friends - I got a little spooked when I went onto my statistics and found some of my top referring sites were pornography (what the?!?!)

I found out it's just a spam bot - that nobody was reading my blog from a porn site and my site wasn't affiliated with them in any way. Just shut down to only private for a few days until I could get it all figured out. And now it's all figured out and all is well!

We got WEDDING PICTURES! Expect a full, detailed post (or two. or three.) about that wonderful day just 2 months ago.

Let's catch up a little:


24th of July was awesome! We got to watch the parade, hang out with family, and go to Lagoon! And YES we rode Cannibal - TWICE in fact! It was so much fun to be with family and have such a good time.

I love Pioneer Day because it gives me the chance to really think about my pioneer ancestors, and appreciate all they did to get me where I am today. Some people don't understand or think it's that important, but really it's one of the most important parts of history, in my opinion. I will forever be so thankful for what those brave men and women did, so that I can be where I am. It made me reminisce on my Pioneer Trek experience from Young Women's. We went up to Wyoming to actually walk the path that those pioneers did. It truly was so remarkable to walk where they walked, to see what they saw. It made me that much more grateful for my faith and those who worked so hard to make sure I could believe whatever I wanted.

The days get away from me now friends!

The routine has settled in, here's how it goes.

Wake up, Randy goes running and I either work out or sleep. Get ready. Breakfast. Scriptures. Drive to work together. Work work work. Randy sometimes goes in later or leaves earlier depending on his schedule, and goes and runs errands which is AMAZING (love you!). Get done with work. Drive home together. Make dinner. Watch a show, read, play games, spend time with friends, go shopping for more house things, have FHE, go to the temple, make treats, or a mix of any of these. Then we do it all over again. Surprisingly, I really love the routine we have settled in to. It makes me feel like we are real life adults, a family, and I love that security.

Now here's time for the ballet part of this post:

My sister danced her last recital at Clytie Adams a few weeks ago. It was so nostalgic for my family. We have had a ballerina there for the past 18 years. And now we're all done dancing at that wonderful studio. Clytie came to my wedding a few weeks before the recital, and jokingly asked me when another Richards girl would be coming to dance for her. I have left so much of my heart at that studio, on the stage at Weber, in the dressing rooms downstairs, in every toe shoe and pair of tights. Dancing 100% has made me who I am today. I will always be a ballerina even though I'm not dancing as much anymore. Dancing at Clytie's are some of the most precious memories I have. I danced for me when I was there. Just for me. Because I loved it. I learned elegance, grace, friendship, technique, determination, hard work, how to smile through hard things, and that I could absolutely anything I put my mind to. I am forever thankful and so happy that I had the chance to be a Clytie Girl, and that my sisters also both that to do that.

Randy and I had originally scheduled our bridals for a Saturday afternoon/evening. Well, just a few days before Saturday, we looked at the weather forecast. Pouring. Rain.

I did NOT want to have my bridals in the rain! I knew that on my actual wedding day I wouldn't be able to control the weather, but I wanted some pictures in the sun! So we did a last minute change (huge thank you to our AMAZING photographer for making it work) and took our pictures on a Thursday instead. Can I just say, it was an amazing decision. The weather was PERFECT and I could not be happier with how it went.

Randy and I drove down separately so he wouldn't see me at all before hand. My mom met us in Salt Lake and I got into my dress, and fixed my hair after putting on the veil. We took a little longer than we thought to get everything just perfect, and I hear Randy was going absolutely insane outside, waiting. I had been teasing him for weeks about my dress, and he was just dying to see what was true and what wasn't! He was a really good sport about it all haha.

I thought I was going to pass out. I wasn't told anything other than to not turn around where I was standing. However, it took Maddy quite a bit of time. Every time somebody walked up behind me, I thought it was her. It was brutal! The longer I waited, the more sick I felt. I was so excited that it felt like I was going to vomit.


I walked up behind him and he was seriously shaking he was so nervous. If you can't tell by my face, I'm stupidly happy.

When he turned around it seriously was the best face I've ever seen. He was so excited and happy and just in shock. That's the way every girl wants to be looked at. Like they just blew him away.  It seriously was one of the top 5 best moments of my life

Maddy showed her dress off a lot before we had this bridal session so I had seen other people's reactions towards the dress. I still was not expecting what I saw. Maddy was absolutely gorgeous. The dress was everything I could have dreamed it would be. I was so happy.

Then we got to wander around, being in love and snapping photos. Which I'll be posting later.

Basically, our first look was the best look, better than I could ever have imagined. And it's the best feeling knowing I get to have looks like those for the rest of my life.