MY SPECIAL DAY

The following pictures are done by Chris Wood this is all I have of Sean's and My wedding, BUT you can see his other photo's at: http://www.robertwoodphoto.com/

Us at Bountiful Temple

JUST MARRIED!

Sean lovin on me

My HOTT husband.... I took this one with Chris' camera

Sean took this one of me

Secret agent....

MERRY CHRISTMAS

profile.... how I LOVE that man!

thanks Sean...

My cute boy held my dress.... it was so adorable. HA! I loved it! I had seen pictures of a groom holding his wife's gown on a website I had been looking at and SEAN was EVEN CUTER!

pictures

okay I have been getting pictures from the girls, no wedding ones yet that I have received but I did get these from work and my bachlorette party!! hope you love them!

this picture is at work BEFORE the party... We decorated out own pumpkins, mine had wedding bells on it. These cute girls threw me a WONDERFULLY crazy bachlorette party! It was very exciting I'm not lying!


then here they are after work!!! My girls.. So cute..... THANKS LADIES! And SEAN thanks you all too! LOVE YOU.

look what I found today!

Alright guys.... here are two shots of Sean and I right outside the temple... WHAT A HAPPY DAY! LOVE that man!
Hey thanks for the pictures Kira!

Sean and I. That is his mother in the background and to the left his younger brother Lance. And his dad looking off to the right by his mom. Such a beautiful day! Perfect for a PERFECT wedding.

Sean is squeezing his grandmother there, and that is my parents off to the right of me. This was such a perfect day.... I couldn't be any happier! Can't believe its come and gone! We were waiting for so long for it to get here! NOW its DONE! And we get to be together FOREVER! YESSS!!!

the new Mr and Mrs Sean Stewart

hello all! I am writing to you as a WIFE! Sean and I have been married for 10 days now and I can't imagine ever being happier! Its been so wonderful. We had the best time on our honeymoon and got to do some really amazing things. I will have pictures for you soon, and I will get our new address up so you can all have that. Anyhow... LOVE being married! Setting up our home.... Getting all our Christmas stuff ready, loving Sean! I just love his stinkin GUTS! Thanks to everyone who came to our wedding and the reception and for those who couldn't that's okay too! We know you would much rather have been there with us. It was beautiful, the best day of my life. I have the best husband ever! LOVE that man.

take a second... deep breath.. relax. calm down

just got to remember to breathe. I have a tendency of getting a little worked up. NOT on purpose and I would change that if I could. BUT something just seem so important. And it takes a little step back and a few minutes to see that JUST maybe its not as important as it seemed. And right now, down to crunch time, and everything is balling up and rolling faster and faster... And I have to remember to just relax! And drop right down to my knees.
THANKS mom and dad for taking care of your scatter brained daughter.. LOVE you..
Sean.. thanks for loving me anyHOW... even when I loose something VERY important the MORNING I get to go to the temple.. (temple rec anyone!??)
Megan.. loving me even when I have to work, and FLYING all the way here to be with me these last few days!!!!
Evie.... sending out extra prayers for me...
everyone else.. for just being around to help lift anything that might even feel for a second like a burden...

Friends and Family and nieces O MY

Hello all and WELCOME to Provo.

INCOMING today of my family and my best friend from from home! I can't WAIT! WOOOP WOOOP, HOLLA ya'll! My parents drove with my baby brother and sister yesterday and today from Arcata, CA to get here.... I can't wait to get off work and see them! And Megan is coming down from Seattle and we get to spend some good time together before the big day on Saturday (which is now only 2 and a half days away!!)
Sean and I have such a great support system.. So thank you all for loving us and helping where and when you can. It has meant so much to us as we start out own life together! See the rest of you soon!!!
The rest should be here by Friday night! and I can't WAIT to see them!

waitin and WAITIN

Okay.. So when this whole thing started.. Sean and I had a LONG time to go.. and he just kept saying.. "When its down to a week or less I can handle it!" and this whole time he has been repeating that thought.... Well.. As of Sunday, it was LESS then a week.. WHO CAN'T handle it STILL!! Sean, (or I, but he is way cuter then I am about it) this week I have heard:

• "Its only Sunday.. we still have so many days..." sighed Sean(6 days left)
• "Ah.. LAUREN, its MONDAY it's only the BEGINNING of the week!" Sean said quite exasperated (5 days left)
• "ug.. We still have to wait till SATURDAY!" half crying childishly Sean said (5 days left)
• "WAIT it's still Tuesday, I thought it was WEDNESDAY already!" brokenheartedly exclaimed Sean @ 12:05am (the BEGINNING of Tuesday!) (4 days left)
• "LAUREN, it's STILL Tuesday!?? Its been TUESDAY FOREVER!.. !" text Sean (4 days left)

okay Sean.. I can't wait either... I am glad to know you feel the same. I keep having dreams that we are married and I wake up mad cause we aren't... BUT I am happier awake because I get to REALLY see him. In my 10th grade year my teacher wrote on the board "
"you know you are in love when you don't want to sleep because REALITY is better then your dreams" That's true. FOR sure. I hate when nighttime rolls around and I have to go home to my own bed without him. I am lonely and sad... And I usually can't sleep. And I have been so tired because I don't want to go to bed because then I can't text Sean... and if he calls I won't hear it. I don't wanna miss a thing.. ANYTHING.
This last weekend before this week and this week as well have been so fun for us. We have our cute apartment and have been able to move things into it and start making it look like our home. I love it. I can't wait to share that with Sean. The most wonderful man I have ever met. So far we had mostly been moving in furniture and the big stuff, but last night I started taking clothes over there. And I was standing in front of our closet and our clothes looked so cute in the closet together! And I just stood there looking into it with him. ah....... it just is SO right. I can't even explain to you all the feelings this has triggered me.. and I am sure in him as well by the look on his face. I love him so much. yep. I do. That is it. LOVE LOVE LOVE him.

anyhow.. contrary to POPULAR belief its REALLY not too much longer.... see you all on Saturday!!

address for the Reception

Ladies and Gentlemen due to popular request I have the address here you to the victorian.

This COMING Saturyday... as in 5 DAYS!

November 22, 2008

its from 6:00pm to 8:00pm

and ya'll better BE THERE! so here it is:

2767 W Gentile Street

Layton, UT 84041

if you have anyquestions you can call Sean or I

saturday to saturday....

So... From this Saturday, to next Saturday, those are my last days as a FLOYD. THEN I get to be a Stewart. um.......

"ONE week till I get Married."

"I am getting married next weekend!"

"NEXT weekend I am getting MARRIED!"

"Not this weekend but NEXT I am getting married."

"This coming weekend Sean and I are getting Married!"

"Next weekend, I will be a wife, and Sean will be my Husband!"

"Saturday, this coming week I will be the new Mrs Sean Stewart!!!!"

HOLLA atch're girl!

new job...

I did manage to get a Promotion.. finally.. NOW I am a PFR.. well Sean says "o, now your my cute little PFR." But I think I am normal sized actually. I am now a WaMuJPMORGANCHASE Personal Financial Representative. New accounts... initating loans, doing the loan docs.. and WHATEVER else I want, or they want me to do.. I am really excited.. WISH me luck and send me your busines...!!! jokin..

countdown....

10 DaY's

till I am a STEWART

9 DaY's

till I am single for the last time

8 DaY's

till my endowments, and till my Grandma get here!

7 DaY's

till Megan and my Family get here

6 DaY's

till I pick up my dress from the Cleaners..

5 DaY's

till its my FINAL Monday as a FLOYD

4 DaY's

still my Stake President's interview for my REC

3 DaY's

till Mine and Sean's last friday dating

(I am not counting the next one cause I can't see him)

2 DaY's

till I get my marriage licence...!!

and

1 DaY for my INTERVIEW....

well.. that is today. At 2:00 pm!

WISH ME LUCK

sickkkkkkkkkkkkky this weekend...

"I saw this in the movies, it's fine" And keep in mind I had just told Christine (right before Sean came to my rescue) that I was thinking that I might be calling her after I get married if I get sick cause I'm not sure if Sean can take care of me when I am sick..... BUT I WAS WRONG OBVIOUSLY!

Hey ya'll, so if any of you are sick just call Sean. I am not lying. He will put your feet up and towel on your head and wrap you in blankets, and even take your temp.... And with these let me explain:

FEET UP:
Sean pulled my legs up onto the back of the couch at an EXTREME angle so they were elevated.

BLANKET ON:
He picked it up and threw it on me after he put my feet "up" and it was a mess. Not the nice bed I had made for myself on the couch BEFORE he got there...

DRY towel TO THE FOREHEAD:
He went to the kitchen grabbed my towel for drying my hands and got the corner wet. He then came over and dabbed my forehead and then put the DRY towel on my forehead, I am still not sure what this was supposed to do, BUT he said he had seen it in the movies... So I trusted him

TEMPERATURE:
He didn't know why he was feeling my forehead and my neck behind my ear, or cheek or whatever else he just decided to put his hand on my face. Again, he had seen it in the movies.

SO again thanks SEAN cute boy! For your tender loving care this Sunday.. LOVE YOU!! only 12 more days till we get married.... WOOOOpWOOOOOPPPP

weekend pictures... I have a few

It's FALL

Hello all! so this weekend was Halloween and I had the day off on Saturday so... I talked Sean into sitting in the trees with me and all the colorful leaves!.. hahaha I know. He said he could think of lots of other things he said he would rather be doing, but he loves me so he climbed up into the tree and sat in the leaves for me. We took all these pictures ourselves and love them... Just put on the timer and had Sean pose while I ran into the picture... Anyhow.. only two weeks till we get married! I can't wait. It really is coming pretty fast! I feel like its not ever going to get here but then I think... WOW.. a little while ago it was 14 weeks! now.. its just around the corner!! HERE come the bride and GROOM!

November 1, 2008

so.. Just to let everyone know. I AM GETTING MARRIED THIS VERY MONTH! I can't wait. Its so close and I am the happiest I ever remember being. I know that I am actually. So yep.. Heads up! the Stewart Floyd wedding is going to be a BLAST! Look at my cute fiance.... Pretty soon he will be a cute husband!

almost THerE!! THANK YOU ALL

Okay guys... Its getting closer and closer.. Its the LAST day of October today, so... HAPPY HALLOWEEN. AND I AM GETTING MARRIED in 22 DAYS!! HOLLA! lets see... check list:

• Groom: CHECK (GOT me the BEST ONE EVER)
• Family: CHECK (thank you EVERYONE who is traveling to see this BLESSED day!)
• Announcements: CHECK (just this week though.. sorry about that! THANKS mom and dad!)
• Temple Reservations: CHECK (Thanks EVIE!)
• Dress: CHECK (ooo yeah.. got it a while ago. just need it dry cleaned!)
• Rings: CHECK (oooooooooooooooooooooo yeah beautiful if I do say so myself)

ummmmmmmm.. and I am sure there are more but I am to excited to really think of anything else. As of today Sean and I are still apartment hunting and trying to get rid of our contracts. BUT I think we found one (I emailed it to him today he still hasn't seen it BUT we will go tomorrow to look at it) So much to do but you know what? MOST of it is done thanks to our wonderful families. My mom and dad running around doing everything they can think of.. (Well... my dad isn't running.. he is hobbling, he makes a trip to the emergency room right before his children's weddings.. same thing with Randall and now with me as well! you can ask him about that, so using crutches he walked as best as he could all over town for me, the post office, buying cutesy stamps for the envelopes, taking them to me mother, labeling them, printing out invites to the temple and luncheon etc. Really, whatever I needed he was doing because he couldn't really go to work and carry anything heavy or do much after the tumble he took at work the other day. SO SHOUT OUT TO MY DAD! thanks DADDY!) The invitations turned out to be an all day thing, arranging and rearranging, sounds fun to me! So thanks family for doing that. My mom said my dad did an amazing job because "Well, its for Lauren". THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
Mom.... MAKING my DRESSES for my girls... O yeah! all SEVEN of them. And a winter coat.. and anything else she could get her hands on.. wall hangings quilts... and anything else! LOVE it. THANKS
AND... Evie my to not soon enough to be MOTHER-IN-LAW. What didn't she help with? All I know is I could call her and she would be on it so fast! From setting up our room and time and date at the temple, going with me anywhere that I may need to be. AND of course.. In the middle of the night scanning and emailing me pictures for our slide show! And just being there especially with my family so far away. Thank you Chris and Evie!
I can't even tell you all the hands that have reached in to help with whatever they can since the exciting news came out. Bridal showers, open houses.... bachlorette parties! Everything. Cassidy even helped me with a slide till SUPER late the last two nights as well! THANKS CHICKY. And with all their help it has taken so much stress off of Sean and I and given us more time to spend together (even though that still doesn't seem enough for us) and made this a whole family effort towards our goal... MARRIAGE! only 22 more days today! Till we are going to the temple and we're GONNA get married! GOING to the temple of the LORD!

one month from TODAY!

I am getting married one month from today...

Only 31 days from today! I made a countdown last night that I can pull off daily till the BIG DAY is here! Its a big pink chain in my livingroom. And I LOVE it... Sean says he will make one too and that it will be better then mine.. (I highly doubt that...)

Lauren sayings: Translated into Korean

OOOO Thank you: 당신을 감사하십시오

Kiss me quick: 저를 빨리 키스하십시오

Kiss me like you love me: 당신 같이 저를 사랑한다 저를 키스하십시오

Hey cute boy: 어이 귀여운 소년!

Sean has been teaching me some of them and he is VERY nice and tells me I actually do a good job... We shall see about that when I try my Korean there. He knows what I am saying, like a mother who understands her muttering toddler.... He understands me.

My plan is to use my Korean whenever I can get away with it. But since the few things i know include: "Kiss me like you love me, Thank you, wanna die today?, are you stupid?, beautiful, no, yes..." and I think thats about it I will have to work REALLY hard to be able to use them. So i might resort to randomly spitting them out.... "KISS ME LIKE YOU LOVE ME!" Excuse me ma'm? YOU HEARD ME! but I will have to say "YES"haha Just jokin.. But that would be funny! Anyhow.. I can't WAIT to head over there!!! Hopefully I will have a bigger vocabulary by then, and then when I get home! Anyhow... Can't wait to try my Korean out on ya'll

Also I learned about South Korean Fan death... Sean told me about this. Both him and I have slept with fans on.... So we hope something doesn't happen when we move there that makes this possible for us too, not just South Koreans. Interesting story. Go ahead and read it. I didn't believe Sean all the way as he was telling me about this, I thought he was half way joking but he was NOT! Anyhow.. I am going to do some research about Korea and find out everything I can about it, and I have Sean to ask questions so hopefully I will be well adjusted ASAP when we go there and when I come home I will PRACTICALLY be Korean.

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maybe Sean and I will have a bilingual baby someday!???

We are GOING to KOREA!

KOREA HERE WE COME!!!!
Sean and I are headed to Korea! I am so excited. I can't wait to go. We just got offered the externship yesterday! For those of you who didn't know, Sean applied for an externship there this coming Summer. He will be working for a Korean Law Firm and ENJOYING it FULLY! I will hopefully be teaching english and I want to volunteer at an orphanage there as well. I love children and I can't wait to go there And the kids there are so cute and sweet and funny and I just know I will love them!!! Sean is really excited as well, he served his mission there and has been back a few times since then, but this last summer was the first summer he had stayed here in the states, (GOOD THING!) So we are both REALLY looking forward to be going there. We will have been married for six months when we head there!!! We will be going probably next May, or shortly there after! We will be going to Seoul. I can't wait to travel

and see everything there is to see there! I went there a few years ago when my brother

served his mission there. I got to go pick him up with my parents. I had trouble

eating the food, speaking the language (as in NONE at all really...), understanding,

and keeping the food in me! BUT I loved the people, the sights, the culture, and the land and the bath house... (it was very interesting but it was a good experience)! It was so different.

CULTURE shock. And I am american and I have huge blue eyes so the people there make you feel beautiful and wonderful "movie star?" That is was I head, and from what I understand it was the same for Sean. It was so funny. Anyways I found some pictures

online of Seoul and I uploaded them so you can see what I get to see!

So here you go, enjoy!

I think that is the subway on the left there....

The streets in Seoul, very busy and lined with skyscrapers. People EVERYWHERE

Shopping in Korea is UNLIKE anywhere I have ever been!

Not sure where this is actually, but it's BEAUTIFUL

Here are they in their traditional dress (can't remember what they are called)

Kimchi (ROTTEN CABBAGE!) solid and soup forms. 3

Rice rolls
more food.....

You just wait till you see pictures of our bathroom when I get there and our kitchen..

I can't wait to see what it is like to REALLY live there.

DIP me!??.. wait.. WHAT!

Okay. Has anyone ever danced!???.... hmmmmmmmm well funny story from this weekend.. Sean was at my house and he was doing his homework (for the most part) and he had gotten up to come be by me for a second and was swaying to the music playing, "Sean, are you dancing with me?" I asked. "Yes" came the reply. My roommate Jess says "Hey Sean, you know Lauren LOVES to Salsa can you do that?" the response came back negative but followed by "I only do American dancing, with a slight British influence and some Scott as well." UM OKAY! where did that come from! hahahaha I was laughing he was completely serious and as cute as ever. So he asks me if I can teach him so I proceed to teach him to Salsa, one step back and he is supposed to mirror me. I told him that, that was a good position to do a dip in. And he said okay. So as I leaned back the surprised look on his face gave it away... he might not have been sure what I meant, or was not ready. Down we both went onto the floor. He dropped me. RIGHT onto my back in the dining room. I was HOWLING at this point. His face completely gave away his surprise. I can't be sure if he even tried to catch me. It all happened so fast. Then there we were on the floor. Everyone laughing... Still not quite sure how that happened. Well it did.
Shortly there after I was still teasing Sean about his dancing, and (which he still says he is good at and I am going to just believe him) I had gone to the fridge and gotten an apple. I took a bite and tried to suck the juice from it and sucked a HUGE chunk of apple into my throat. Cut off my air way (well.. PRETTY much..) and I was choking. I couldn't get it out and guess who thought I was joking?.. Yep.. Sean. He let me choke. He says "Lauren, can you be quiet? I am TRYING to study?" haha!! Yep, let me choke a little MORE quitely. While I was choking he was studying away. I was running into the wall trying to pop out the apple I hit myself against the counter... ( Obviously I am a VERY good actor, sacrificing my body for th show) and I ended up on the FLOOR AGAIN for the second time that night. Within like 15 minutes. I was laughing while choking, Sean just kept on doing his homework. Good student that he is, and I worked and worked until finally I choked out my apple. Of course the whole time I was doing this, he was of course completely aware of me and had I been in any real trouble he would have saved my life I have no doubt, but it was so funny to see him REALLY not believe me. I was laying on the floor when Sean finally got up to check on me. "Lauren," he says " WHAT are you doing on the ground? Its DIRTY! You should probably get up" As he pulls on my arms bringing me back upright all the way to a standing position. WOW. I was laughing so hard I couldn't believe it.
He is the funniest man..
I Love him. Love him so much. I still can't quite believe how he came to be a part of my life. And he puts up with me, he teases me, and won't let me get away with anything. Which is good.. I am kind of ornery and I always needed someone who could stick up for themselves lovingly and act like they loved me... And Sean is my man! Anyhow.. I hope he always knows that I love him so much.. I try. I really do. And even when I am tired and he has to be patient with me I know how much he loves me... Anyhow.. LATER YO!

more pictures

Not crazy about him or anything ... if you can't tell.
LOVE him..
My cute family!
SO SMILY
ALL smiles.

PICTURES from my family visit.

Hey here is my cute family! ENJOY

This picture about here, is Sean showing some teeth... And me too.

Me and my boys. Look at all the faces..... THIS is where I get it from.

Sean and I after conference. I love him...

My two favorite men EVER!

Trevor... He is eating ribs with a broken elbow. YES. AND he was done before the rest of us. It was so funny.. He looks awfully special in this picture. I just wanted to help him. He woldn't let me. BUT I did get to put deoderant on him one of the days. ALOT. Got him covered. No stinky brothers here. NOT with me around.

Conference weekend!

So I would have to say the this weekend was a success! My parents and my baby brother came for conference weekend. To go to conference but to also meet Sean's family. I did not worry for a second about either families. Both are SO wonderful. They are actually quite a bit alike and that made for a fun weekend with a very full house. My parents along with Trevor (my little brother) and his buddy Braden, and then Sean and I stayed in Farmington for the whole weekend hanging out, eating, joking, laughing, taking economic crisis and just getting to know one another. I am so blessed with such a big fun loving family. And my family loved theirs, I got raving reviews from them when i dropped them off at the hotel last night. I LOVE MY LIFE! (And only 47 days till I get married to Sean. Six weeks and 5 days! )
So this weekend, we had a full schedule. Starting off right from the airport we headed to Cabela's. Just for my dad. He has been holding to a gift card for there and not been able to use it. AND BOY was it burning a hole in his pocket. My mom and I went too. Yeah... I know Funny picture, can you just see it. High heels and fancy pants walking all over the largest sporting goods store EVER invented? It was as ridiculous as it sounds. I promise. We tried on all the funny hats, (camo hats? and snow camo hats? and also some funny ones.. not sure what their purpose is, but I KNOW you could rob a bank in them SCARY) So after running around trying on the hunting attire and pretending to be the animals we were off onto bigger and better things!
THE OUTBACK steakhouse. Another novelty my parents don't have in Arcata, CA. So yes we took the whole crew there, mom dad, Lauren and Sean, then Trevor and Braden. It was fun, and also VERY entertaining. Trevor has a broken elbow and he STILL ordered a full rack of ribs and finnished them all before the rest of us are done and they were completely cleaned off! He looked rather funny while doing it but he was rubbing his tummy and sitting back waiting for the rest of us to finnish. Gotta love my little brother. And of course my dad made his faces that he does, twisted lips and all that. And mom and I just smiled and ate our dinner while Sean took it all in.
Of course we had to pause and take some pictures (which I will upload later) But it was so entertaining to see my family in action, even though they were not all there. If you can just imagine all the jokes and stories and faces times three that would be it.
Let's see... So we did all that then finally we were off to Sean's parents house in Farmington. It was so much fun. I LOVED to watch them all together. I love them all so much it was so amazing to see it, my two families all in the same room. I love them all. Anyhow.. Lots of fun. AND also my Mom got to see conference for the first time IN the conference center, and my Dad I think too. The protesters outside really surprised them. My mom couldn't believe it.

And also it was neat to share that with Sean. That was our first conference together. It is so neat and very touching to be able to walk into the conference center and be able to share my faith and hope and love of Heavenly Father with Sean. And he supports and feels the same. It blows my mind. What a way to start our lives together. Built on trust and faith and a goal that is the same for our eternal future.

I am getting MARRIED next month...

October is finally here, and that means NOVEMBER is almost here. Sean and I are getting married next month! I can't believe I finally get to say that!!! It is coming down to it finally. I feel like its been taking forever! I know I haven't had to wait as long as some, BUT almost 22 years trying to find him NOW I just want to be with him all the time. "Every second, every minute, of every hour of every day." When he studies, when he works out, when he sleeps, when he is eating etc. You get the picture. ALL THE TIME.

So... 'all the time' started a while ago. When I am not working all I want to do is be next to him, but the time spent together while he is studying began recently. As in, he tried to read while I colored pictures. And all I am saying about that, is if we don't get coloring books and crayons soon he will be out of lined paper and highlighters! I made him two books the last two days. Stapled together and all, made for Sean with tons of love from me. I got to practice writing my last name to be and also write him love notes, my final project of the night was a page of fireworks. That was going to take a while but by this time Sean was ready to go. I think the noise of the markers on the paper was too much... :) He still says he has never heard of a 22 year old that actually wants to color. This does not in anyway seem unusual to me, but okay. I love to color, and the fact that it amuses him makes me happy. So hopefully soon I will have some beautiful colored princess pictures, maybe even a few landscape ones? I will have to keep them all so I can see how much time I spent making pictures while Sean was studying. So next time you are in town ask to see my collection! I am sure it will be GREAT!

http://www.bluemoondigitalphoto.blogspot.com/

This is the link for the lady who did our photos in California, if you click on August you can see our family pictures and mine and Sean's engagement ones. There are really cute pictures of my nieces and my brothers and little sister!