The Polifkas: May 2009

Coming Soon

I will soon be getting back my wedding pictures. When I do I will post wedding and honeymoon pictures! Bye until then!

Boston Marathon

We arrived in Boston on April 19th. The first thing we did was go check Matt into the race where he got all of his stuff including his number. It was so crazy there with so many people!

Then we went and explored the city.

This was a place in Boston called little Italy. Everything was very Italian we were not sure what this Mikes Pastry place was but it was way crowded and we saw lots of people with Mikes Pasty bags around Boston so we decided to take a picture in front of it because apparently it was a big deal there haha.

While we were walking around Little Italy we passed this neighborhood basketball court. There were people gathering around and little kids wearing and holding Celtics jerseys so we decided to walk over and see what was going on. When you got over there we realized that in was a Celtics player Rajon Rondo. He was there doing a photo shoot.

April 20th was the day of the Marathon. Matt woke up early that morning to go get on the busses that took the runners to the start of the race. Brandy, my dad, Val and I woke a a little later to go and see him run some of the mile markers. The first mile we were supposed to see him at was 16 but because of the Marathon there were so many people and the public transportation was just crazy so we weren't able to see him till mile 22. At least we got to see him. There were so many people along to whole race it was crazy to try and get anywhere. We saw him one more time near the finish line.

Matt did great he ran it in 3:15 which is really great especially considering that he was still running with a injured knee. Brandy and I made really cool shirts and hats for Matt that we wore to the Marathon to support him. After the marathon we went back to the hotel for a nap and then my Dad and Val took us out to dinner to celebrate! It was so much fun.

The next day before we had to fly out we went to see Fenway Park were the Boston Redsox play. This was one thing Matt really wanted to do while we were there. We took a tour of the park and it was really cool to see everything and hear all the history of the team and the park.

We flew standby to Boston so we were not able to make it all the way back to Utah but we did get on a flight to Chicago. So we spent one night in Chicago which was cool because Matt served his mission in Chicago so we walked around the city for a while and had desert at a really nice place called Grand Lux.

Then the next morning we got back to Utah. So it was a quick 3 day trip but it was for sure worth it!

Pre Wedding Bash

Because we got married and had our reception in Salt Lake we decide not to have a reception in Orderville but I still wanted to celebrate with my friends there so we had a pre wedding bash at the Ponderosa. It was great to be able to introduce Matt to all my friends from home and great to see everyone.

Easter in Otown

We went to spend Easter weekend with my family in Orderville. It is always fun to go back and spend time with family and friends.

Bridal Shower

I know this was a while ago but I have been busy the last few months and have not had a ton of time for blogging. My family through me a fun bridal shower that we had a my hotel and it was so fun to see everyone there and have a good time. Thanks again to everyone that helped.

The Engagment

So here is the story on Friday Feb. 6th Matt was taking me out for a birthday dinner my birthday was not till Saturday but we had plans with friends and stuff on Saturday so we decided to go to dinner just me and him the night before my birthday. I had to work that day so when I got off work I went and met Matt in Salt Lake because he was already there for school. I met him at his school and we took the Trax to the Temple Square. After walking around temple square for a while we made our way up to the top of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building where we were having dinner. We were sitting on a bench up at the top of the building waiting for our table looking down onto the Temple grounds. While we were sitting there Matt asked me if I wanted to open my birthday present. I opened the gift and it was this really cute digital scrapbook that he made on the Internet while I was on my cruise with my family. The book is a "Remember When" book.

It has pictures and words about all the things that we have done while we had been dating. The book is just the cutest thing I love it and I was so proud of him for making something so cute for my birthday. So I am just reading through every page on the book and then I turn to the last page.

It felt like it took me a while to put the whole thing together in my head. I looked at the words for a minute and at the picture for a minute and when I finally figured out what was going on I looked up and he was down on his knee! It was so so perfect I was so surprised he had done and said many things in the two weeks prior to make me think this wasn't going to happen for a very long time. I jumped up and hugged him and knew what my answer was immediately.

My ring is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I was so proud of him for designing it so perfectly he did have a little help from my sister, but we had never been ring shopping or anything like I said it was a complete surprise.

As if the whole proposal wasn't enough of a surprise my sister Brandy called me halfway through dinner to let me know that she was going over to my Aunts house to play games with my cousins and that we should come by on our way home. So we got to my Aunts house and went inside and Matt had planned a whole surprise birthday party for me with all of our friends and cousins and the biggest surprise was that my mom and brothers came up just for one night to come to my party. It was so so much fun!