married.

Here is a photo. Coming out of the temple, happy as ever.

Ohh I love it.

We're Baaack and.......MARRIED!

Hello Friends!

This will be a quick little post, but we have lots more to come.
Such as:
Wedding Pictures
Honeymoon Pictures
Stories
Happy Thoughts
ETC.

I just wanted to let you all know we are alive. We are happy. We are married. This blog can now be "legitimate" because my name IS Katie Perkes! {Okay-- not legally, but you know what I mean}.

We had an amazing day on March 12th, 2010 and a fabulous Spring Break aka our honeymoon to Mexico. It was stellar! All of it.

We are ever so grateful for all the people who helped with the wedding. We have so many good friends and the best families ever. We're so blessed! We love you all.

Life is real good as the Perkes. :)

Stay tuned for photos and more words. Yay!

Until then, have a great week friends!

Reflection.

Two posts in one day, I know.

Just bear with me...

I have a few thoughts to express. I just did a little facebook looking and blog stalking and I came to this conclusion:

Wow.

Being so close to marriage to such a great person makes me reflect on a lot of things!

Mostly things that have happened in the past few years.

I could really go on and on telling you stories of what happened, things I experienced, trials I went through, happy times, coincidences that weren't so coincidental and so forth.

But I'll sum it up and just say things:

everything happens for a reason.

What we want sometimes, isn't what we need.

Things change, often times for the better. or even the best.

Meeting Tyson when I did was definitely for the best.

It was unexpected.

It was a little scary at first.

I was nervous. I didn't want to get hurt.

But I knew it was right.

I felt it! From the very start. And I just went with that feeling.

Things progressed and just got better and better.

We fell in love. The best love either of us has ever experienced. REAL love.

That only grew. Especially as I moved home. Especially as I went to Europe this summer to learn and grow.

I came home. Still in love. Marriage was going to happen. When? We figured that out.

Engaged October 30th.

And now here we are, 9 days out from marriage.

Wow. What a journey it has truly been! Not just for us, but in my life as I look back since I even started college. SO much has changed. SO so much has happened.

This is BY far the best thing to ever happen.

I am grateful.

Not only to have the greatest person for me, but to feel peace with it. So much peace!

To not have to cry any more tears over boys.

To not doubt.

But just to know. To feel happy. To be content. To be right where we should doing right what we should be doing.

Everything that is about to happen in the next week and a half has, in a way, been a long time coming.

I hope to take the time to enjoy and soak up every single moment.

It won't be perfect, but it will be full of happiness.

I am getting married. This is it! This is what I have waited for my whole 20 years and 9 months.

And it's only the beginning.

I am so glad it's to HIM. He's great. If you know him, you know that. No doubt about it.

I could say a lot more, but I will leave it at that.

I have a great {almost} husband. He came to me by no coincidence. I needed him. I still do. I always will. He's my best friend! To put it simply. We are best friends forever, and I plan to not spend anything short of forever with him.

Thank you for letting things fall into place and things happen this way. The RIGHT way.

the end.

Marching into MARCH

March is the best month, officially.

For a few reasons, namely:

- WEDDING. Come on, that was obvious.

- Spring Break=Cruising to Mexico!

- The Start of Spring (hopefully).

- The beginning of the Marriage life living in our cute apartment loving life.

Yep. It's a goooood month. The best one ever, I think.

9 days, folks.

Loving that single digit sound!

And if you are wondering what we have been up to lately, it's a little thing I'd like to call: wedding planning, wedding preparing, wedding everything. Oh and school. And work. And getting ready for life after the wedding. Yep-- busy.

But we love life and we are enjoying it... so friends, during this month:

Enjoy March!

(this is us. loving life. obviously!)

Showered with Love

A couple of weekends ago, I had two AWESOME bridal showers.

We got so many great things, some duplicates, but all gifts were great and greatly appreciated! We in fact just moved them into our apartment today and it made me really excited to start USING them. And to live there. With my bff, Mr. Tyson Perkes. That will be stellar.

Anywho. I'm all about the photographs lately and don't think that will ever stop. Melia was the photographer at both showers {one thrown by awesome family friends and the other by awesome aunt and stellar sisters}. Wow. I just realized how "awesome" everything is. I might be a little too high on life. Can you blame me?

Here's the evidence from the shower. Enjoy!

Whitney Winegar and myself.

Ali came all the way from Cali for the showers!

Some of the food/cute decorations pictures!

Little Lauren looking cute with Great Grandma Egbert

Me, Melvin and Ali

my SBS.

Amigas

Hannah and I with the salad spinner she gave me!

Bestos. Minus Melis.

Betty Crocker, basically.

My Grandma Egbert and Marla (My Grandma came all the way from Hawaii for the shower weekend! I was really happy!)

Clairey and Me.

Shower 2: Cousin Lauren and I.

The Perkes Sisters! (minus Tianne)

I was so glad my future sister-in-laws and mother-in-law came down to the shower!

Modeling some nice dish towels!

Cool Cousins and Awesome Aunts!

My lovely sisters (and baby Henrie making a slight appearance!)

The Shower

Aunt Patti, Mom and my Great Aunt Marge!

It was a successful weekend! Thanks to everyone who helped!

You are all the best!

I'll Take HIm.

Sometimes I go blog crazy and can't stop blogging. Every day. It may be due to the fact that homework is the LAST thing I want to do-- although I do eventually get around to it. So here's another post. Expect another soon. It's just one of those times.

Sooo,

I MIGHT be biased, but I think this is one good looking guy. I'm glad he's mine. :) Oh, and I am marrying him in just 3 weeks from tomorrow. Day count: 22.

 

Also, we are currently slowly (but not too slow, because we only have 22 days!) are moving into our apartment. We'll be sure to take some photos of our sweet marriage pad once there is more than just a bed and dresser in it!

I feel so grown up. I almost have a HUSBAND and our OWN apartment.

This is wayyy better than those fake lives I used to have in the playroom all those years ago...

I am so glad it's real life.

Engagement Photographs

If you haven't already seen from facebook, here are some of our AWESOME engagement pictures taken a couple of weeks ago.

It was so much fun and even though the snowy ones were a bit chilly, we had a blast.

Our photographer Haley Warner is the best! We just got done taking some bridal pictures that turned out beautifully as well. {Don't worry. I'll post them soon!}

I am excited for the wedding day (obviously) and for the pictures that will be taken.

So here they are. Us being models. Or trying to be... it's much different being in front of the camera than behind it! :)

THE END of our photo montage. For now.