What Up With the Pickards?!

I know all of you have been dying to know what we've been up to.... (not like you have kids or jobs or anything else to think about haha). Anywho, for anyone that has an interest, here's the basic lowdown:

Well, we got married and you knew that, but here are just a few pictures from Jessica Kettle and Allegra George that are our favs. Thanks for the beautiful pictures guys!

Next on the agenda, is camping. We got some sweet camping gear for our wedding from our grandparents so we decided to test it out up in the Uintas. It was a little weird camping with just two people but it turned out being really fun!

Then for my wedding present, Daniel got us Tim McGraw tickets up at Usana so we got to go. The coolest part was, right before Tim came out a security guy came up to our blanket and gave us seats down by Tim! We probably got within 5 feet of him at one point... and I may have almost cried and peed myself simultaneously. It. Was. Amazing.

Lastly, we've just been hanging out, working, gym-ing, and having fun with our family and friends. I love that I found somebody that can be as big of a goof-ball as me and that I can laugh with all day long :)

(Thanks to Whit and Dad for the boating pics and supporting our crazy ideas :))

Honey Moon

We've gotten multiple requests to put up some pictures of our honeymoon... and I'm finally getting around to it. The last few weeks have been so busy with work, gym, and trying to set the apartment up and stuff. Looking back and editing these was so fun, but it was kinda weird to think we have already been married over a month! Where the heck did the time go? Its almost august which means that school is starting soon :( boo!

Anywho, back to the honeymoon. We really just wanted to relax as much as we could while we were there and de-stress from all the simultaneous schooling and wedding planning. So we went to different beaches, explored some hikes, went to the PCC and dole plantation and pearl harbor!

Let the picture-fest begin!

This was on the way to the airport in LAX... we were pretty excited to be going on a sweet vacation just as a couple :)


We drove all the way to Waimea beach one day... and it rained the whole time we were there pretty much... but it was still beautiful!


Then we went to the dole plantation. It was pretty sweet seeing all of the different kinds of pineapples just growing everywhere. They even had pink ones! haha of course we had to get a picture as a Pair of Pineapple Pickards :)


That night we went to the cheesecake factory and then went to the beach to watch the sunset... it was beautiful, and we were silly. obviously :)




We also went on a hike to Manoa Falls. It was rainy that day too, but the hike ended up being really fun cause we got to splash around in the mud and see the beautiful waterfall at the end!








One of the days we drove to more of a "locals" beach that had HUGE waves and few people. It was fun, but I was too afraid to get in the water haha (Oh and Daniel was pretty excited because we got to rent a 2011 Convertible Ford Mustang for our trip!)




The day we went to the Polynesian Cultural Center was really fun! However, it rained pretty hard that day too (so no judging the hair peeps). I liked all the different shows, Tonga and Samoa were the best, and the food and the Luau and everything. It was really neat!










On Sunday we found this cute little church and went to sacrament meeting. Then we decided that Pearl Harbor was a good Sunday activity cause you didnt have to pay anything. It was really cool but kinda eerie. It was so sad to think that kind of destruction happened. Seeing the oil bubble up out of the Arizona, was a solemn reminder of all the poor men trapped down there. Then that night we got to meet up with my old teammates Kara and Emiko and their boyfriends and we all had a family dinner :) It was so good to get the ninja crew back together!










One day we did this killer hike called Koko Head. I'm not kidding you people. The locals call it "Natures Stairmaster", and it lived up to its name. It was really hard, but it was so beautiful at the top! Poor Daniel almost fainted at the top... It was a combination of heat, humidity, sun, and hard work haha!












One of the last days we went to this little lagoon. It was so beautiful with white sand, and calm water and it didnt rain! That night we went to the famous Rainbow Cafe and I sported my new favorite shirt I got :)








Well, thats all folks. Sorry that that was the longest blog post known to mankind! And I think I am the slowest blogger in the world! So if this isnt formated correctly, just give a sista a break cause I'm still trying to figure out how to do this stuff! Peace out!

Birthday Shout-Out

Today is my older sister Whitneys birthday! Whitney is one of the most loving, kind, and sweet people I've ever known. I've been so blessed to have a sister as sweet as her, and I've always looked up to her throughout life. If I grow up to become just like her in every way I'll be perfectly happy. Happy birthday Whit, I love you forever!

Counting Down

Its finally June! That is significant because we are getting married this month! It has been so crazy trying to balance school, gymnastics, wedding plans, and everything else that the time has flown by. Part of me (most of me) wants the time to fly by as quick as it can, while the other part of me (very small part) needs the time to slow down so that last minute wedding things can be taken care of. Its hard to keep the right perspective on things when your life gets crazy. We are doing our best to set our priorities straight and just trust that things will fall in to place as long as we are organizing our lives in the "good, better, best" fashion.

In the mean time, we are working our tushies off in school (we both just got A's on our 2nd anatomy midterms :) ) and trying to enjoy this "fun" engagement time!


Haha, a funny picture of us the night we got engaged. So excited I found someone as goofy as me to spend the rest of my life with :)

Testing Testing 1...2...3...

Hello Blogging World!

I am writing this post for pretty much one reason: to see how everything will look when I actually have something important to say. I am fully aware that unless you have established a really cool life, i.e. children, jobs, vacation ect., a blog is sort of a silly thing. But by-golly we're getting married and I feel like along with that territory, you get full blogging rights; whether or not people will actually read it!

So, if you've stumbled apon this blog by mistake, you may stay if you like, or move on to someone who has a way more glamorous life than us. But if you make the choice to stay, you'll find out that we're pretty awesome folks (haha that makes us sound so old) too and maybe we could be blogging world friends.

That is the end of my testing post, now I better get back to studying for REAL testing so that I can pass college :) Peace out 'till next time fellow bloggers!