chocolate milkshakes and cottage cheese

The other night around 10:30 Bradley and I decided we were hungry. I went to the kitchen and decided I wanted a chocolate milkshake, Brad went to the kitchen and decided he wanted cottage cheese. He is so much better than I am.

In my defense I did spend the previous day studying for 12 hours and took arguably the hardest test of my life. Not really sure what that has to do with my milkshake at 10:30 at night, but I feel it makes it more acceptable.

Life as a Fortuna

Well married life is still great! Home is starting to really feel like home. We got our stuff put away and most of the thank you notes are written and we have started to form our own little routine. It's great! We had our first guests over this last week/weekend. Bradley hosted a pizza and poker night with the boys on Tuesday. I had to work the evening shift and so he invited a bunch of his guy friends over and they had pizza, chips and soda and played poker all night long! Then over the weekend we had our friends Adam and Christine over. We made fajitas, baked cookies and made milkshakes. We played games and just relaxed. It's so nice to be able to invite our friends over and welcome and entertain them in our new home.
School is going well for both of us. Only like 34 more days in the semester! Wooo hoooo! I'm so excited! This first semester of nursing school has really been brutal. I would definitely NOT recommend planning a wedding and getting married during school...it's really hard. Somehow I've managed to still do fairly well and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I can pass my finals! Thank goodness for my brother Brad. He's almost done with medical school and if it weren't for him I would be really lost. Thanks B-rad, you rock!
 I also want to say thanks to my cute cute mother-in-law. She is so good to us! She brings us over fresh baked bread and homemade soup all the time! She is such a sweetheart, and it really makes it easy on a busy night! All in all life is good for us, we really can't complain about much. Here are some pics of what we've been up to, and our house! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my wonderful MOM!!! We went to the Incredible Pizza Factory as a family and celebrated her big day! Hope you had a great day mom, we all love you!

Our darling nephew, baby Michael! It's hard to believe he's only 3 months old. He's a cutie for sure!

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY to our cute cute nephew EZRA!! He lives in Illinois so we couldn't celebrate with him, but boy do we love him! Isn't he darling??

Congratulations Soderborg's!
Our dear friends Adam and Christine got sealed this month in the Logan temple, and we were lucky enough to attend. It was a beautiful day and the ceremony was awesome. It was so special and I'm so glad we could go. We love you guys!

This is my husband...he's the greatest!

Fajitas and cookies, my favorite!

HOME SWEET HOME

front room

We LOVE our house. and I really love the fireplace! :)

Wedding Pictures

Here they are! Pictures from our PERFECT day! Enjoy...we sure did! :)

Leah Lou and Chloe Blue...and Isabelle too :)

Fortuna Family

Chambers Family

Friends

This makes my heart happy! :)

Heritage Gardens Reception Center...amazing!

Flower girls! We tried to get one of the little boys in their tuxes because they looked so darn cute!! but one little boy was sick and the other two little boys were not happy. They were very good considering what a long day it was for them.

What a good looking group of guys!!

My beautiful sisters.
Thanks to my cute mom who stayed up late many nights making the bridesmaids outfits! You're amazing mom, they turned out perfect! I can't believe how well the tuxes match the skirts, which matched my shoes. It was meant to be! :)

Our delicious pumpkin chocolate chip cake!

First dance

Daddy/daugher and mother/son dance :)

Away we go!

It was such an amazing day! Thanks to everyone who helped out and participated in anyway! We love and appreciate you! A very special thanks to our parents...without them we wouldn't be where we are today, happily married for time and all eternity. Thanks for a perfect day mom and dad!! We love you!

HONEYMOON!!

Well we're FINALLY married! The wedding day was absolutely beautiful! The whole day was perfect! Pictures from our special day will be up soon. But for now, here are some pictures from our awesome honeymoon!
The night of our wedding we stayed at Little America downtown. It was so fun! He had his sister and brother-in-law decorate it before we got there and he upgraded our room to the honeymoon suite so they had sparkling cider and chocolate covered strawberries (my absolute favorite) waiting for us when we got there. They also gave us an engraved room key with our wedding date on it :) Bradley is such a sweetheart!

Brad planned our whole honeymoon all by himself. I found out where we were going when we got to the hotel after our reception! I can't believe he was able to keep it a secret for that long! He took us to the Riviera Maya in Mexico. It was such a blast! The beaches were beautiful! The sand was so soft and white and the water was so blue! We went on a few tours in the nearby cities, we went snorkeling and saw so many beautiful and colorful fish. Some were as big as my leg! We layed out and got nice and tan, and of course we ate waaay too much! It was so amazing and I hope we get to go back someday!

Bradley is so nice and let my bury him.

What happens in Mexico, stays in Mexico...

They put this cute sign on all the doors for people who were on their Honeymoon. :)

Brad had a drink in his hands every chance he could. We definitely took advantage of the all inclusive :)

The view from our hotel room!

Our last night :(

SINCE WE'VE BEEN HOME...

Marriage is awesome! We totally love it! Hanging out with your best friend all day everyday is amazing. Although we do have conflicting schedules most of the time, its nice to know that at the end of a long day I can come home to my cute Bradley Fish. We've just been catching up on school and work, writing a bunch of thank you notes, and trying to get our house all organized (pictures of our house will be up soon)  The last few days we've made time to do a few really fun things! We went to a Haunted house with our friends the Hefner's, and on Thursday we went over to my sister Melinda's house and we had dinner and carved pumpkins. It was so fun and got us ready for Halloween! I found out Bradley is quite the talented pumpkin carver.

The finished products! Bradleys (far left) is a crazy demon bat. A level 4 on the pumpkin carving kits. He pretty much rocks because that's the hardest level. Mine is next to his and its a skeleton and a little cat. Melinda's is next and her's is a skeletor face. Patrick's is the one on the far right and he did the traditional pumpkin face. :)