I absolutely fail at blogging(Pic heavy finally)

Okay it's official. I can spend hours online facebooking and of course Pinterest takes up a small percentage of my life, yet I totally forget I have a blog until I'm reading friend's blogs and remember, oh yeah I haven't written anything in eight months. Granted, this year has flown by faster then any other I can remember. And I have had a job that has consumed me for the last seven months. Still, I will consider it my duty to do a better job at this, so prepare yourself for more ramblings and random pictures.
Let's catch up. Fair warning, this may be a very long post.

All the months before June 18th this year were filled with preparations for my great friend Lacey's wedding. A friend of hers and I planned a Bridal Shower for her a couple months before the wedding. It turned out pretty amazing(if I do say so myself).

The wedding was absolutely beautiful, Lacey was stunning and everything came together great. I am quite proud of my first wedding planning/maid of honor experience. Unfortunately she doesn't have her professional pictures back yet so this is the best I can do for now.

In June was also our 1st Anniversary. I can't believe even now that it went that quickly yet I feel like we've been married for years. We spent the weekend at the Montelucia and it was really just what we needed with all the chaos and excitement of the last few months. They gave us one of the best rooms, right next door to the room I had the night before our wedding. We spent the weekend by the pool, had a nice dinner at Prado, shopped at Scottsdale fashion square and had brunch at Olive & Ivy, and ate the top tier of our wedding cake(even though it was a little frozen still).

July we took a trip back East to see my grandparents and my family rented an old farmhouse on a lake. It was beautiful and definitely made me wish I could have an east coast house with a front porch and Adirondack chairs. Unfortunately the visit wasn't all positive, my grandpa was diagnosed with cancer over a year ago and has been in treatment for it since. It meant a lot to me that he was able to be at our wedding last year and it really was important to be able to spend more time with him while we were there.

Also in July I turned 23, no biggie. We went tubing on the Salt River. And I felt officially old because I was annoyed with everyone. I did get this little baby for my birthday, I am slowly learning how to use it:)

August was nothing too exciting, just a lot of work and projects. Like rainbow cake in a mason jar...didn't turn out exactly the way I hoped but probably because I went with the shorter jars because in my mind they were cuter, just maybe not as functional. Though they did come in handing yesterday when I made apple pie filling, much easier to store. Plus Haley was my helper on these and she loved all the colors even if they did look more like baked playdough or fishing tackle.

Also, I've been wanting to do this for awhile...Ideally I wanted to do this pattern on a wall. But since we are renting and cannot paint, I tried it out on three canvases. I have a great link with instructions that I can't quite find right now. I will post soon though(I promise). I love them! They are hanging in our kitchen and our future home will definitely have a whole wall like this.

September 11th, we went to the Healing Field at Tempe Town Lake. It was definitely sobering. I am glad we went, this is the history of our generation and I'm glad people have not become to desensitized to it yet.

I'll leave you with that, October is promising to be quite eventful but that will have to wait.