HoLiDaYs!!!

I love this time of year!!! I hate the snow, and the cold, and driving on icy roads... but, the holidays and all the fun family parties make up for the crappy weather! haha.

I am especially excited for the family parties this year because even though James and I have been to each others' family parties for the last three years, this year is different...

.... this year we are ENGAGED! .........This year we are about 3 months away from being MARRIED! So I have decided this year will be even more fun! :) And I can't wait to see everyone! I love our families, they are all so fun and they are all so different from eachother, but all the parties are way fun!

* on a side note: I made James go to Target with me yesterday, because they had a "6 foot christmas tree" on sale for 20 dollars! Score! right?!... Wrong! haha I am only 5'4" and this tree was smaller than me... the box wasn't that tall either so im not sure where they got 6' from haha... anyways so there we were... sad, that the tree was a "charlie brown tree" lol..and started looking around at the decorations.

James wandered off for a minute in the christmas section and came back with an ornament it was a key, but the top of it was a heart and engraved on it was "our first christmas together- 2009" and he was like " hey! look!... next year I am going to buy you an ornament just like this one!" I thought that was so cute! I wanted to buy it but he said we should wait and have it actually say 2010 and have it be our first ornament to buy together as a married couple... how cute is that?! I love him! :)

P.S. I bought christmas ornaments last year after the holidays on clearance and ever since i have been so excited to buy my own tree since i already have a few ornaments, hahah... but I decided Ill wait until everything goes on clearance after christmas and then Ill buy my tree, but it has been hard to resist!

P.S.S. On my facebook page I have a countdown to our wedding day... i believe its at 109 days now! holy cow! I am so excited! we are almost out of the triple digits!!! hahaha

I didn't start the count down until a couple weeks after we were engaged and i think we started out then at like 192 days or something and that sounded forever away! but 109 days sounds SOOO much better! :)

Anyways... I hope everyone has an awesome thanksgiving this year!!! and the rest of the holidays too! :) I'm so thankful for so many things in my life, but mostly my family, my awesome (soon-to-be) in-laws, and of course my amazing and adorable fiance! :)

3 Years & So in Love!!

Today was our 3 year anniversary!

3 years ago today we were going on a blind date, after being set up by his mom and his cousin ashley! We went to Fazoli's and went bowling afterwards! (and i totally kicked his butt! haha)

I even got a strike, and i suck at bowling so this was a monumental moment for me :). As I walked back towards my chair, James was getting up to take his turn and gave me a hug! (i think he may have done that without really thinking about it, because half way through the hug it got a little awkward.. as in "oh whoa..ok.. i guess we are hugging... haha") That was so sweet though, and i was on cloud nine!

Then we sat in the back seat of Ashley's boyfriends truck and we all cruised the boulevard in ogden... (because thats just what you do when you have a cool truck you have fixed up and made loud and stuff! hahah)

He reached over and held my hand! Aww!..

it was the sweetest thing ever, I could tell he was nervous to do it (and of course Ashley and Kory made fun of us, when they noticed lol.)

Then, they dropped me off at my house.

Then I decided to tease him a little more about kicking his butt at bowling after telling him I was terrible at it... so i sent him a text and said something to him about it. Well, he didn't have text... ( I can't remember why) So then he had to call me to say something back. (I'm so sneaky & strategic..lol)

We ended up talking on the phone until almost 4 o'clock in the morning!!! We talked about anything and everything. Best. Night. Ever!!!

We have been inseparable since that night, and here we are 3 years later!! Can I tell you how much fun I have had since meeting him?! We have had a blast together and things are just getting better!

Some of the fun we have had:

Him giving me a promise ring on our 1 year anniversary, surprise dates and flowers, movie dates, family dinners & parties, camping, double dates, cute letters and cards, walks at the syracuse park, all of our birthdays and holidays, shopping for stuff we might want to register for for our wedding, hanging out with our families, bowling, batting cages, flaming gorge trip, and of course...ring shopping, and getting engaged on July 29th, engagement pictures, and looking forward to our wedding day (it's in 127 days! YAY!)

Today we celebrated with a quick lunch before I had to go to work. We went to this new place in clinton called "Hibachi House" it is a Japanese grill. It is really good! And the best part? it is much less expensive than Tepanyaki, (like 5-10 dollars per plate!) but almost the same, and its a ton of food! Then we went back to his house and cuddled for a few minutes and watched t.v. It was so fun and I just love being with him! He is so cute and sweet!!!

Now...If only March would get here faster! :)