The Kopecky's

Annual Update...(haha)

2011-11-16T20:43:00.000-08:00

I can't believe it has been a year since I last posted on our blog! Time sure goes by fast! Well, it has been a busy year and I just got busier too... I started going back to school in August, and now the semester is almost over (and I should be doing homework instead of blogging!). I am going into Health Administration at Weber State. I still work full time and go to school full time too. Since I last blogged, I got a promotion from being a secretary to being the Office Cordinator for all of my boss' clinics at the hospital! I have been doing that since April, and I love it, which is why I went back to school! I still work at the front desk at one of the clinics for half of the week and the other half I have time to do my administrative stuff. Along with the promotion, the company requires that you sign up for their leadership training class, which lasts 4 months and you go for half of the day every other week. I have to take my class out in murray, so it pretty much takes up the entire day, but I am almost done with that too! It has been SO helpful though, and I really enjoy it! In my role I am the supervisor to the other secretaries, which means I had to do all of their evaluations, and have a few "chats" with them in the last few months. Not my favorite part of my job, but its not that bad. I stress over it right up until I start talking to them, but so far the conversations have gone well. I have seriously learned so much in the last 6 months (and the last year), that its hard to believe that I have only worked for the hospital for just over a year. So, between my job and school I stay quite busy and I am always thinking about one or the other! James has been busy all year too and he is just starting to slow down to where he actually only works 40 hours a week! During the summer there were weeks that he would work 80 hours in a week! It was pretty nuts for awhile! He loves his job though, so he doesn't usually mind working more! We went camping quite a bit this summer and had a ton of fun! And now I am just so excited for Christmas, that I can hardly wait to start shopping and to decorate my house!!! Our puppy, Joey, is the funniest little guy... he has a new habit of asking to go to bed! Yep, he wants to be tucked-in! :) hahha. He will go to the front door and whine, and then lay down until we get up and start walking toward him. If we don't hear him whine, he starts to scratch the door like crazy and then he will bark at us! We walk over to him, and then he runs and hides under the kitchen table until we have his bedtime snack in hand, and then he will run over to his little kennel and lay down! (He has to be put in his little pet-carrier bed, otherwise he would try to play all night long!) And then once we hand him his treat and shut the door, he will go to sleep! Sometimes, he will ask to go to bed at like 8:00pm! It's so funny, he must play hard while we are at work all day ;). Joey is such a spoiled little puppy, but we love him, and he is just so sweet that you can't help but spoil him! He is such a happy dog too, he loves riding in the car, seeing other dogs -even when they don't like him- he absolutely loves them!, he loves little kids, he is OVERJOYED when we come home at night (even though I usually come home for an hour long lunch with him), and he randomly gets bursts of energy and will run laps around the house, and will lightly paw at your face if you stop rubbing his belly when he doesn't want you to stop yet. James and I have such a great life and we are so lucky, and we love every minute of it! :)

sorry for the leave of absence! haha!

2010-11-04T13:06:00.000-07:00

So i blocked the blog awhile ago just because some of my husbands friends found the blog and apparantly, somewhere i supposedly said he almost cried... hahaha, well and as guys of course they gave him a lot of grief for it, so i blocked the blog. Lame reason i know, but i was going to find that post and delete it then open it up again, and i totally forgot to open it again!

Anyways.. lets see since i last blogged we got a new puppy in june!!! His name is joey (named after joey from Friends) and he is adorable if you ask me! He is a shit-zu yorkie mix, called a "shorkie" hahah.

He is now 6 months old and so cute and so very very SPOILED! Seriously i don't think we ever go to the grocery store without buying him new treats or a toy! hahah. I'll post pictures of him soon!

Oh..and I got a new job! In july i was offered a job at Mckay Dee Hospital, and I was so excited! I don't live far from there, and it was much closer than my commute to Salt lake every day. Another bonus of the new job?! Working day shifts instead of evening ones = seeing my husband more! and not just on the weekends! YAY! It was the best change ever! My boss is amazing, i love her! And everyone else i work with is awesome too!

So, in August I started the new job. And we also went on a few camping trips.
Actually I'll have to go back a bit, the trips were in July.. hahah... So the first part of july we went to Flaming Gorge with James' Dad and some friends and lots of other people. It was a blast! I didn't take any pics though :(.

Then at the end of july we went to Jackson with my family and my dad's side of the family all were there too. James and I drove up with my little brother and his girlfriend, cuz we couldn't stay the whole week. And while my husband drove, I navigated with maps and directions from my dad... and found out that along the way we missed a turn by an hour... so we went an hour further than we needed to, and it was pretty funny, my husband looked at me like "way to go!" hahah luckily, he doesn't get worked up and mad over hardly anything at all so he just shook his head, and laughed. hahah.

lets see... not much else has gone on lately, since our little vacations its just been work and then home at night to relax! We have had some friends over and had a little party one night, and our friends brought their little girl who is one, and joey absolutely LOVED her, haha, they are the same height so he would jump up and his paws barely reached her shoulders, but he would hold on and go crazy kissing her face hahah, and she loved him too she would just stand there and laugh, it was so cute~

They were pretty much the entertainment for the night lol.

This weekend we are having our parents over for dinner to thank them for all their work helping us move into our house and fix it up! It's long over-due, but between everyone having trips planned in the summer and then some hunting and camping in the fall, plus trying to find enough time to finish touch-up painting, and time to clean and organize some of our extra rooms, we have just a small window to finally get everyone together for dinner before all of the holiday festivites start!

Anyways, I am so excited for the holidays to be here! I am excited to have my own home to decorate for christmas, and though I don't have a whole lot to decorate with it will be so much fun! And one of the best parts is the after-christmas sales to buy all of the cute decorations for the next year at half off (or more)! I can't wait! :)

I also hope to come up with some fun ideas for some new traditions with our little family!! Even just little things, like a certain food/meal that we have christmas eve morning (since we always have more family parties than we can possibly make it to later on in the day and for christmas day) ... or i dunno buying each other christmas themed pajamas to open christmas eve hahaha... just something we can start together and then carry on for when we have kids one day!
....Any ideas?! All my family did was just me and my brother would exchange gifts on christmas eve, and we always looked forward to that! But I want to come up with more traditions!

I'm back!!!

2010-06-04T23:39:00.000-07:00

hahaha... its been awhile but wow it has been a crazy couple of months!!!

time has really flown by and i can hardly believe we are coming up on being married for THREE MONTHS! it's so crazy! We have bought a house, got married, moved into his dad's house until we could move into our own home, remodeled our house from top to bottom, moved in the end of april and are just about finished getting settled!

We still have some touch up painting to do and painting in the spare bedrooms, but I'm pretty much sick of painting now... so i keep putting it off haha!

I'll eventually post some pics of the house before and after but here's what we have done:

*painted EVERY wall!
* tore up carpet in the kitchen & tiled it, along with the laundry room and 1/2 bath
* tore up the carpet in the family room and bedrooms (this is an older home, where they had original hardwood floors underneath the carpet) so we tore it up and refinished the orangy-oak floor to a drak walnut color!
* tiled in the master bath
*added baseboards in the kitchen, laundry and living room (the carpet was coved up onto the wall like baseboard)
* recarpeted the little living room
*replaced all the handles and knobs on the kitchen cabinets, they were so ugly before! hahah

Well i think thats it, but James has also been working on the sprinklers, some were broken and the lines are broken in some places and then we have just been giving our yard a little tlc.

We have been so busy with all of that, that my mom and I justa barely went and proofed our wedding photos hahah! oops! I was dying to see them but we just wanted to get everything done so we could move in and start getting settled! They are so cute though! I can't wait to post some of them!

The house is mostly decorated now and i love it! Im so glad I started buying stuff long before we got married! hahah It was nice to just start hanging stuff up and making it feel more like home!

For anyone that doesn't know me all that well I started buying stuff for our future home two years ago! haha I knew James and I would get married but just in case it didnt work out I always told myself it was just for when I moved out of my parents house and had a place of my own... (you know so i wouldn't be tempted to throw any of it away if james and i broke up) hahah. anyways it has been so much fun to decorate and though I still need to get quite a bit, it looks really cute for now!

The only downside right now is my work schedule I'm still working evenings and james works days so we still dont really see eachother until fridays when he is off work, but I'm hoping to get that changed one way or another soon! We can't wait to have the same work schedule and be home together at night all week long!

But I have had fun trying new recipes from cookbooks we got from the wedding, and seeing how they turn out! Just tonight I made some greek chicken pitas that turned out really good! I think they will be a new fave! especially since the chicken is fairly easy to make and is a crockpot recipe! I have been making some of my familys basics, that I have kind of always known how to make, but decided to try some totally different things, and i am dying to try this apple bbq pork recipe! (another crock pot recipe too) Ill let you know how it turns out! :D

Well... thats whats been going on since the wedding day! like i said it has flown by! I can't even believe it! I love my husband so much! He is the best! & handy too! hahah.. he can pretty much fix anything and keeps up on our yard and house so well, he even helps me clean every weekend! yup... he's a keeper! :)

p.s. i just remembered we have had a few fiascos too since becoming home owners... our dishwasher broke, and leaked all over the kitchen.... i already mentioned some broken sprinklers, and a few not so awesome dinners hahaha! The not-so-awesome dinners only happened because i tried to improvise... yeah it doesnt work! LOL

wel... im really done now! next time will be more fun! I'll post lots of pics of our cute house and from our wedding day!!! yay!

YAY!!!

2010-03-29T19:30:00.000-07:00

Today we closed on our house!!! We signed a huge stack of papers, and made our down payment, and now we just have to wait for it to fund & record tomorrow, and then 48 hrs after that (or possibly sooner) we will get the keys!!! AHHH!! I can't believe it!! I'm so excited, stressed, nervous, and happy all at the same time! haha...

One thing that I am thankful for, we don't have a basement, just a yucky dirt floor crawl space that I will never go into... so we don't have to worry about a flooded basement! hahah... i have heard of like 3 people lately who have dealt with that, and definitely doesn't sound fun!

I'm just stressed about all the bills that we have to pay now, and neither of us have ever had so many bills! And now its going to take basically all that we make to get by until James finishes school this summer and gets a very nice raise! hahah... until then.. all i can say is "UGH..." hahah good thing i already bought so many decorations and stuff for our house... I have plenty to put up, and I don't think I'll really have any bare walls.. so at least I won't be tempted to splurge at Rod Works or Tai Pan LOL!

But we are excited to get to start out in a house... and so thankful that with the help of my mom who happens to be in real estate, that we could make this happen at such a young age! It feels like such an accomplishment already!

And we have so much fun now, wandering through Home Depot and Lowes looking at stuff we will need for our house & ideas on how to eventually and little by little remodel out first home! This has been such a good bonding thing for us too! We just get so excited talking about our plans to fix it up the way we want it, and having that common goal, just brings us so much closer! (Luckily, we even like a lot of the same stuff... for instance, we found a bathroom vanity that we both LOVE and we want to eventually redo the master bath, the main bath & probably the laundry room- bathroom in it!) It might be awhile before it looks the way we want it to, but its fun just talking about it!

One of our first "fun things" we want to get (that isn't necessary) is two comfy chairs and a small side table for our patio! So we can sit out there on the weekends during the summer and drink coffee in the morning and at night eat dinner, and have our own little BBQ together!

We get to go and buy our new furniture for our house on friday too! I can't wait! Oh and paint! this weekend we are going to be painting as much as we can too! :) So fun!

Back to Real Life

2010-03-22T19:44:00.000-07:00

So this week is finally back to reality, :( Back to our normal work schedules that happen to conflict so much that between monday and friday the hubby and I will only see each other at 4 a.m. when he is waking up for work, which means I wake up too so I can make him a lunch or just to see him! sad huh!?

by the time he gets home from work and school mon-wed its about 8:30 p.m. and I have work at 5 p.m. in salt lake, and then thursdays James doesn't have school after work, but we will still most likely miss eachother by about 15 minutes! :(

Wow... I hope my work schedule will change soon, hopefully in a couple of months we wont have such conflicting schedules!

But We have had so much fun these past ten days! We went on our little honeymoon to salt lake for two days, had a random guy buy our breakfast for us when he saw the "just married" stuff all over my car windows, and then we went shopping around at Lowes and Home Depot, to get ideas of things we will need for our house, and picked out paint colors, and just walked around looking at anything else we thought was cool hahah.

Then, we went on walks almost everyday this last week, we went 2-3 miles and just held hands and enjoyed the warm weather :). We had a barbeque this last weekend with his dad and neighbors, we stayed up late learning how to play Phase 10, rented some movies, and drove to our house just to drive by it because we are so excited to move in in a week and a half! :)

oh and much to my delight we found some girl scout cookies that were being sold, so we stopped for some of those too!

I think the married life suits us well! :) We love it, and we love each other so much! And each day just gets better and better! (seriously! what they say is true.. it just keeps getting better!)

And Easter weekend we get to move into our house! (which we may not totally move in, we might just paint that weekend, but it will be ours!!) Hooray! :)

We are so excited for summer barbeques in our cute backyard!!! :) oh...and i remembered it even has a designated garden area right outside the kitchen door, so I decided I'm going to attempt planting a garden this year!

Well... those are the updates for now!

The Newlyweds!!!

2010-03-18T11:43:00.000-07:00

Well we have officially been "newlyweds" for 6 days, and it has been so awesome!!! The wedding day was perfect, but went by so fast, I swear it was a blur! So much excitement, and so many family and friends that came to support us, it was all a little overwhelming! :)

When I had to walk down the huge flight of stairs with my dad I was suddenly terrified I was going to fall down the stairs, so i think I went a little too fast...hahah but I just had to get down the stairs in my 3" heels, then I thought I would be fine...hahah.

But my nerves had gotten the best of me, first of all I don't do well in front of large groups of people staring at me hahah, it makes me nervous, even when it is all family and close friends, and second I was focused on getting to flat ground, hahah!

Then I got to the alter where I had no clue what I was really supposed to do, but handed off my bouquet to my maid of honor as i had seen in movies, and turned to James, the love of my life, the bishop then asked us to take eachothers' right hand, and well lets just say we were both nervous and that confused us...LOL. oops! (that's right, learning left from right without hesitation might even come in handy on your wedding day... who knew?!?)

I was shaking, nervous, that everyone was staring at us, and nervous because we had zero time to even ask the bishop what we would say or when, and I was so sull of emotion I wasn't sure if I was going to cry, laugh, or simply smile, so my lips decided to quiver....hahah never had that happen before...so I was then worried I was possibly about ready to pass out... so then I thought, "ok..just don't lock your knees...ok. check" (Don't worry, I didn't pass out!) Instead James was trying not to laugh, uncertain of what my quivering lips meant... so he whispered "Don't cry" and that made me laugh little. Then the bishop got to the part where we each eventually said "I Do", and then said "you may now kiss your bride," and we were told we could do better hahaha, so we kissed again. :) Then, not sure of what to do next we started to walk back down the aisle, we didn't even think to wait for the music, and I don't even know how long before the piano player caught on and started to play... I didn't really hear it, I was too lost in the moment to really care either!

Backing up a little... we had a dinner before the ceremony, with our immediate family and grandparents, it was great, they all had a chance to get to know eachother, and our parents and some of the grandparents stood and shared a memory, story, or gave us some advice, it was very emotional and sweet. At the end, James leaned over to me and said, "I wasn't going to cry during this part!" It was so cute :) He cried quite a bit, and so did I, it was such a good way to start the day really, my dad shared a story about me, barely able to run, running out to our peach tree where we had a small strawberry patch beneath it, to pick my dad a good strawberry. James' step-dad talked and thanked James for doing something he never could, giving his wife a daughter. (James' mom has 6 boys, so as you can imagine, she had always wanted a girl!)

During the reception, we had many friends and neighbors and distant relatives come to show their support, and one moment I won't ever forget about that day was when James' Grandma came and said that his older cousins, Katie, would like to sing for us. We should have walked out the other end of the building so that everyone could have heard her, she was amazing. She sang accapella, "I will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston, and it was so amazing, Seriously, she needs to sing professionally! We both started to cry during this too, hahah...but you probably would have too just because of her amazing talent. It was awesome! :) Too bad someone didn't record it, but maybe one day I'll record her singing and put it on here for you guys, just so you know I'm not lying! :)

Our flowers turned out to be beautiful, I loved them! The huge alter arrangements were stunning, I of course, loved my dress, James looked ridiculously hot in his tux, and it was the best day ever! I can't wait to see some pictures!!!

For our honeymoon, we just went to Salt lake for a couple of nights to have a little get-a-way, without breaking the bank! We decided to do this because we also are buying a house!! YAY! I know I have mentioned it on here before, but we have it under contract, and we were worried for a little while about the old sewer line, but we had it checked out and it was in really good shape, so the deal is still on! We close at the end of the month and get to move in hopefully the 3rd of April! For now we are just staying at his dad's house. But we cannot wait to move into our first house together!!! Its going to be so much fun! On monday we walked around Lowes, and Home Depot, thinking of things we could do to make the house ours, and I picked out paint colors, we looked at tile, bathroom vanities, and light fixtures! It was so much fun!!!

Anyways, I just thought I would share a little about our wedding day, and the beginning of our lives together! The wedding day really was perfect, and you can't plan every detail, so we had some funny "blooper" moments, and moments where we wern't sure what we were supposed to be doing, but it was still so much fun and we loved every moment of it! I'm sure when we see all of our pictures, we will remember more stories to share too! We are so excited about starting our lives together!!! So stay tuned for more stories and pictures from our journey together! :)

Love,
James & Caitlin Kopecky :)

crazy!!

2010-03-03T20:03:00.000-08:00

I can't even explain how weird it is to me that NEXT FRIDAY I will be getting married! hahah! I mean I am so excited, yet exhausted from the wedding stuff, house hunting, and every little detail that goes with both of those big steps in life!

I knew it would be weird when it got this close, I mean its so out of the normal routine, that one day that you somewhat randomly pick, becomes such an important day, and that so much changes with that day too! Did anyone else think that it was weird when it got so close to your wedding day?! hahah! (Weird in a good way of course! lol)

Anyways, its so exciting, and i think the anticipation of the wedding day and trying to buy a house just might kill me hahah! Anyways, I just had to ramble on for a minute about how weird it is and how exciting it is to think that in just 9 days I will finally get to marry James! He is the best thing that has ever happened to me, and I love him for so many reasons, when i get mad, he hates it, (he would kill me for saying this, but he gets teared up... and worries about what he has done wrong) its never anything major and sometimes I'm just in a bad mood and get upset over something silly for a few minutes hahah... but he is patient and so sweet even when im mad or upset, and if its not directed at him, he knows i just need a hug and to let me vent. He makes me laugh and anything we do is fun, even when its just watching a movie or making dinner on a saturday night.... he is the best, and i love him so much! :)

SO Close! :)

2010-02-22T19:09:00.000-08:00

Well we only have 18 more days until we get married! WHOA...~ its so crazy to think its thats close! hahah!
and don't worry I haven't sent out invites yet, hopefully tomorrow! (we used the wrong size of envelopes, got them all done and then my mom saw them and said it looked tacky hahaha... she didn't realize she had bought the wrong size and she was gone when James and I put them together, and i simply trusted her judgement! hahah... oh well they are almost there! (lots of people have started asking why they didn't get one so i thought i would mention it!)

We also finally got approved to get into a house last week! So we have been side-tracked with that!

James, me, and my mom (who is a realtor) went and looked at houses on friday, then today my mom, my dad, and me all went on a marathon... seriously, on average when you have the whole day she shows people 10-15 houses, we went and looked at about 20!

We were literally running through some haha, or at least to and from the car (that may or may have not had anything to do with the fact that it looked nice outside but was freezing!) lol!

We found some good ones and tomorrow we are going to look at our top 5 with James, and hopefully we will just make an offer on one! that would be SO awesome!~

THis is just so fun!!! I'm so excited tonight I had to blog! hahah I have told everyone at work basically and they are probably sick of hearing me talk about it LOL, so here I am, boring you with my house hunting stories!

One was really gross, a bank owned one, and i swear i still smell like it (I'm at work or else i'd take a shower) I should have at least thought to use some good smelling lotion or body spray hahah! and hopefully i really don't smell like it and its all in my head! :)

Anyways, I am just so excited: bridals last week, house hunting (possibly putting an offer on one this week), invites, and a bridal shower this next weekend! YAY!

( I don't think I ever blogged about my first shower at the first of the month, it was all of his family his dads side, his moms side, and his step-dads side (and yes they all get along haha they are awesome i love his family) this next shower on saturday is both sides of my family! I can't wait! plus im pretty sure my aunt bought some eclairs for the shower, and they are my absolute favorite! lol! :0 )

Well, thats about it, and I'm pretty sure my thought are scattered as usual, and also a long post... hahah but i feel pretty scatter-brained too so i guess it fits!

I hope everyone had a fun long valentines weekend and hope you all have a good couple of weeks coming up! I probably won't post again until after the wedding and such! :)

Making Progress!

2010-01-20T20:06:00.000-08:00

Well, there is still a lot of wedding plans to finish, but I finally feel like I'm making progress! haha!
Me and my mom went today to meet with our florist, ( LOVE the florist too! His name is Martin @ Jimmy's Floral in Layton/Ogden, you have to request him, otherwise he doesn't normally do weddings, which I don't know why, he is AMAZING!)
- first of all he kept complimenting me, he loved my eyes, haha, and he was certain James and I would have cute kids! hahah... (hey, compliments are always nice to hear! lol)
- second, he knows everything, we ended up asking him for advice on the cake, the photographer, and many un-floral related wedding things hahah! It was great, and he was just fun! So use him for sure when you need flowers, plus I felt like once we picked the flowers, he could just put it together and make it amazing, so I'm just not even worried!

*I totally thought we would be asked what flowers we wanted and then for the florist to be like "okay so how do you want them?!"... umm...not sure thats why you are the florist! hellooo... I just want them to look pretty! LOL and I had no idea what I wanted... and I have spent HOURS trying to decide incase thats what happened! Luckily it worked out great!

We also had my first fitting for my dress last week, so the second fitting is coming up! YAY!

We still need to officially book a photographer lol... but we are getting there!

James and I also narrowed down honeymoon ideas, and set up our "group" for the tuxes and picked out the tuxes, and all that fun stuff!

And.. I finished designing my invites with Lindsay @ nonsensicalinvites.com! YAY I love them! We just have to make sure on the times and then we can print them! :)

We even have cute frames too for the reception to put some engagements and bridals in! so the extra decorations are all done too!

I'm getting so excited! I can hardly wait! I think its about 50 days now!
(we even have dates for the bridal showers! yay!) I'm excited for that too, I'm gonna be like a little kid at christmas, getting all that fun stuff for our own place! haha!

p.s. I'm sorry my posts are just about wedding planning right now, but it pretty much consumes my life at the moment, other wise I just work! hahah. But at least in a month or two I will have a ton of pictures to post to make up for my long posts without any pics!

67 days and counting!!!

2010-01-04T20:38:00.000-08:00

I can't believe how soon it seems like our wedding day is... it has taken forver to feel this way! And now... well I'm starting to feel a little overwhelmed! hahah! 2 months and 8 days is going to go by so fast!

I still have to:

book a photographer
make a complete guest list
get addresses
finish designing my invites with Lindsay Wall (YAY!) ... they are going to be so cute! :)
send out invites after typing in addresses and printing labels
try on my dress & do alterations ... (p.s. it came in 3 weeks early! yay!)
bridals
figure out where we are going to live... yeah, we aren't sure yet.. hoping we can get into a house! We will see!
and then all the other little things, changing my last name for bills, etc. and getting our own car insurance, getting stuff ready so I can be on his medical/dental insurance, bridal showers, etc.!

I'm way excited for all of this but wow.. its still alot to do! hahah. I'm really feeling relieved that I decided to take this semester off. I did that because I'm not totally sure if I want to continue the degree I started working on, or if I want to find something else. I just wasn't loving it. I mean... its school, and I have never been a fan lol... but I just don't find it as interesting as I thought I would, and I'm just not sure if the jobs it could get me are what I want, or if it gives me that many career choices. So I decided some time off would be beneficial to my sanity! :) haha. I hope I can decide soon what I want to do, but for now I have a lot of other things to worry about, especially if we can/ decide to try and get into a house by the end of april for the tax credit deadline.

Anyways, 2010 is off to a pretty good start and I have a feeling it will be a great year! :) I can't wait!

christmas!

2009-12-29T20:15:00.000-08:00

My posts are always really long, so I'll try to keep it short and sweet! :) But I had a pretty good Christmas, although i had to work 6 hrs on xmas eve and xmas day! boo!

We went to as many family parties as we could, luckily some are after xmas and some are the weekend before, so we don't go completely crazy trying to make it to all of them! haha! Next year we will have to figure out a game plan for the parties and just rotate who we go and see, otherwise its a little exhausting!

James and I didn't get anything for eachother because our plan has been to wait for the Presidents' Day sales (which are always really good) and buy us a couch set for our apartment! Plus, by then we may even have James moved into one, so that we can take the couches straight there! :) So, I'm excited for it to be february so we can go buy a couch! lol! and to make a final decision on an apartment!!!

I'm sad that the holiday season is almost over, it has been a nice break, and then its back to school, work, and still quite a bit of wedding planning to do... I have a feeling I'm gonna be really busy these next few months! But it will be fun and well worth it! :)

Only 73 more days!!!! We are so excited and I hope it goes by fast! :)

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and has a Happy New Year!

oh.. and P.S. I went and bought some way cute ornaments for our Christmas tree! YAY! they are cute white reindeer that are all glittery, with red glitter noses, and green-beads as legs haha- its hard to explain, but we will have such a cute tree next year- i can't wait! oh, and I got us some cute stockings too!

87 days!!!

2009-12-15T19:30:00.000-08:00

well... I have been counting down to our big day on facebook and we are finally down to the double-digits! YAY! hahah... this used to seem forever away, starting out with 190 days is way too long! But its finally feeling like our wedding day is gonna get here! and we are so excited! :)

Also, we went and registered at Target two weekends ago! It was really fun, but took forever! I even made a list before we went so we had focus and so nothing would be forgotten! We still managed to take a good 2 1/2 hours though! We were so exhausted by the time we got done! haha!

And.. I'm so excited about something else... something I didn't think I would EVER say I was excited about... a VACCUUM! hahah, my grandma had one that she got for like 20$ after buying something at RC Willey's and its just been in her basement for awhile, so she told me to come over and look at it and take it if I wanted to! So I did, and went right home and put it together and tried it out! LOL it was so fun! .... :)

*(not that I don't clean or anything, but I guess of all the things that come with getting married and your own place, that was something that never crossed my mind until we started thinking of stuff to register for, and even then I was more excited about pots and pans, silverware, etc... So I just thought it was funny how exited i got today when i put together my very own vaccuum! LOL )

Anyways, last night James and I went to his mom's family's Christmas party. It was so fun and reall good food! His Grandma and Grandpa just take all the adults 18 and over to dinner every year instead of buying each one a gift (because it is quite a few people now, and just easier and fun!) So we went and ate at Brickenbrackers (?) in ogden by the ogden airport, and oh yum! You need to try that place! Its more expensive i think (We did a banquet dinner so I didn't see the menu) but their yams, mashed potatoes, and chicken were SO good! (the yams were so rich though I counted them as my dessert hahah!)

Oh and another quick story! We went and looked at an apartment last night before the dinner and this apartment was so cute, cozy... but way cute! hahah, and it was just so fun finally being close enough to getting married to look at places to live! I have been thinking about where could put my decorations in that apartment and everything LOL! We are still going to keep looking, and that one is slightly more than what we would like to pay, but its definitely still on our list! yay! I can't wait to go see more and finally get an apartment! We just need to wait until about february to get real serious on actually moving James into somewhere and then moving in my stuff. He is waiting to start a new job up on base and won't start until January 4th, so after that we can get really serious about finding a place to live but its fun to start looking!

*Does anyone know of some cute apartments for around $700 a month? if so let me know! :)

HoLiDaYs!!!

2009-11-23T19:19:00.000-08:00

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!!

2009-11-04T20:26:00.000-08:00

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! :)

TAG!

2009-10-26T19:45:00.000-07:00

Passin the Tag Along...
What are your middle names? His is edward, and I don't have one!

How long have you been together? Three Years on NOV. 4th!!! (not married yet though) that will be on March 12... 137 days to go!!! YAY!

Who asked who out? Umm... His mom set us up so I'm not sure, but I just found out that back then before we had been set up on the date, she had a ton of the guys that we worked with (at our store in Layton and at the Ogden Hertz ask about me and ask if i was dating anyone...well, she really wanted James and I to go on a date, so she started telling them I was taken! hahaha! She finally admitted that and I think it's hilarious she waited so long to tell me, but I'm glad she made sure we went on the date!

Whose siblings do you see the most? Its even. We try to see all of our immediate family every weekend! Plus they are all younger so no one is moved away yet!

Do you have any children together? Nope, one day though, and we will be so excited for that! We have talked about having kids and getting married for a really long time!

What about pets? Definitely. We don't have any yet, but once we are actually married I want a small dog, like a tiny toy poodle (my family already has two and they are adorable, plus I'm allergic to a lot of other kinds that shed) James I'm sure will get some hunting dogs again (his ran away 2 summers ago :'( they will just have to stay outside though!)

Did you go to the same school? nope. I went to layton high and he went to Fremont.

Who is the most sensitive? I am... but there have been a few times where he has been a little teared up, but I have by far cried the most! haha

Where do you eat out most as a couple? We have a lot of favorites: Olive Garden, TGI Fridays, subway, panda express, tepanyaki, and mostly mine is Cafe Rio!!

Where is the furthest you have ever traveled as a couple? Umm... We went camping once to snowville i think... so only a couple hours away! hahah

Who has the worst temper? Probably me! haha. James is a very laid back person and not much gets to him, and when i get mad...well, its obvious, to him at least lol! (Its not ever me being mad at him, its usually traffic or something hahah)

Who does the cooking? That will definitely be me, unless it requires a crock pot or grill! (that or cereal LOL)

Who is more social? Him! He knows so many people its ridiculous! :) but I am more quiet, and I would choose hanging out just the two of us, over a group any day! (plus we only get to see each other on the weekends, so i like to have him to my self!)

Who is the neat freak? We each have our sides! hahah. Him: his truck has to be spotless! Me: I like a clean house and get grossed out by stuff being dirty (like the fridge)... lol on the other hand my car is a mess because i practically live out of it with my busy schedule!

Who is the most stubborn? I don't know... it would probably depend. I might have to say him though, but it could go either way!

Who hogs the bed? Not sure but when we cuddle on the couch he says I hog it... but I swear I'm like barely on the couch, hahaha! But to be fair I do hog the blankets in my own bed even though no one else is there to share them hahah i wake up with them like hanging off the bed on my side! lol.

Who wakes up earlier? Depends on the day and James' work schedule ( he sometimes works graveyards) but on the weekends he has to call and wake me up or I'd sleep in until like noon haha.

Where was your first date? Fazoli's and bowling at Sparetime! Then we cruised the boulevard in ogden and he held my hand... aww! :D Then, when he dropped me off we ended up talking on the phone til like 4 in the morning!

Who has the bigger family? Him by far! I have one brother, He has five! Same with our extended family, my family all only had at the most four kids... His they all had at least three kids

Do you get flowers often? umm.. not really. but its not always the same time that i do get them either, like not always on my birthday, sometimes randomly, and then when i got in my car wreck earlier this year.. so its always a suprise really, and i like that.

Who eats more? I dunno it depends, we have weird schedules, especially him. So its can go either way, but its about the same i guess.

Who sings better? I geez I don't think I have really heard him sing and I'm terrible hahaha so I don't think either of us are very good lol!

Who is better with the computer? Me! hahah... james doesn't really like to use it, except for looking on KSL, but i use it for school and work and for fun... he didn't even know what a blog was when i said i made us one! lol

Who drives when you are together? We take turns we live about 30 mins away(not too bad, but still a long enough drive late at night!), so we alternate weekends, or if one of us isn't feeling well, stuff like that...

Who picks where you go to dinner? We both do, neither of us are too picky, so it usually works out.

Who is the first one to admit when they are wrong? I don't know... we aren't married yet, and still in that "on your best behavior stage" hahah so we really haven't fought yet! haha plus we are mostly easy-going people so we just don't get into any kind of argument... lol

Who wears the pants in this relationship? He says he does... but all men think that,...but I think its equal ( i think its a macho thing! haha) plus when it comes down to it they want to make their wife/fiancee/girlfriend happy, so they don't really haha

Who eats more sweets? I don't know we each kinda go through a phase lol. one of us wants to go get ice cream for a date and the other doesn't and then we swap places! hahah

Who cries more? Me! James just won't in front of me, which I'm sure will change once we are married, and i think he would if we did ever get into a bad argument or something... and well I'm just a typical emotional girl!

What's your best day together? Just being together, visiting our families, being lazy and cuddling up to watch tv or a movie, having a pajama party after snowboarding! haha just anything as long as we get to be together we are up for anything!

Where did you honeymoon? (Haven't gone yet!) and not sure where , but I am voting so far for Vegas, because I want to see garth brooks! He just came out of retirement and so who knows if it will last and I'm dying to see it! hahah

Favorite date night? Same as best day together, adn really anything, but when he actually has something all planned out i love it, and just think its so sweet! :D

Couple I imagine us growing old like? My grandma and grandpa green! They have always been so much fun! they had us grandkids over for girls night, boys night, and kids' night, every year when we were all younger and we went on vacation alot together too. They are just adorable they met in junior high, were married by the end of junior year in high school and drive to school together as a married couple for senior year! hahah. so cute! Fifty one years later they are as cute as ever!

Engagements!

2009-10-21T19:21:00.000-07:00

Well, last week we had Ciara Richardson (fancy bred photography) do our engagement pictures! It was such a blast, and I was worried I wouldn't know what to do or that I would look funny, but it was totally fine! James kept me distracted and kept me laughing the whole time! I have only posted a few but they are some of my favorites that Ciara picked to edit and put on her blog! I can't wait to see the rest!

(I have a few more favorites, but I don't think I can get them from her blog, the ones I have I was able to get because she tagged me in facebook! haha.)

Anyways, it was just so much fun, and made this whole engagement thing seem more real~ I mean I already picked my dress but its been almost three months since I have seen it and its being ordered so its not gonna be here forever! And...we have done a few more things, but I guess getting our pictures just made it feel like we were really making progress towards getting to our big day! :D

Last weekend we really didn't do much just hung out with his mom and youngest brother Gavon, the rest of the fam was hunting that weekend.

This weekend I'm off to see Thriller at the theatre in St. George thats supposed to be really cool. So, I guess that will be fun but I'm bummed I won't see James all weekend... I hate when that happens!

Then the next weekend is Halloween! I can't wait, we don't really have plans, but we usually take his three youngest brothers trick-or-treating. I also have the urge to make some kinf of cute halloween treat, I just haven't decided what yet!

Anyways, I'll post more pictures when we get them! I hope everyone had a good weekend, and we are almost to the next weekend! YAY! :D

I hate the Hunting Season!

2009-10-01T19:50:00.000-07:00

So, james is gone this weekend hunting for elk! (my dad, brother, and grandpa also went on their own little trip to idaho and then got home last night to take off again today for the utah hunt) Anyways, i hate this time of year... they go on a boys only hunt and leave us girls here! I just hate having things occupy our only time together during the weekends, as a i have mentioned before! haha... Not that i want to go hunting, but just to be with him i might consider going and just staying at the trailor and reading all day with a nice cup of hot chocolate or something!

He says next year i can go and thats probably what ill do, just so i dont have to sit at home without him! anyways.. i know there are some other girls out there who know exactly how i feel about this weekend! hahah... but it sucks!

On another note, we might be getting our engagements done by Ciara Richardson (FancyBredPhotography.squarespace.com) this month! I'm hoping we can still catch some really pretty fall colors outside and I'm just so excited to get them done and feel like we can have something else done to plan our wedding! Maybe I'll even get super-motivated over the christmas break and make a scrapbook of our engagements~ that would be fun! haha.

oh and p.s. another reason i'm a little bitter James is gone this weekend is that last weekend was so insanely busy it just wasn't even relaxing... fun, but busy!

Saturday:

helped my mom take a apart the office furniture so she could stain it or paint it

ate some mac and cheese for lunch then went to his little brothers little league football game

went back to his house because he needed a nicer shirt for my friends wedding reception- haha

went to my house waited for my mom to get ready to go to the reception

went to the reception

went to dinner at iggy's- my mom paid for it to make up for all the moving we had done/and still had to do to help her with her project!

went to wal-mart bc she wanted to try and spray paint the furniture

went back and moved more of it into the garage

then finally relaxed for about an hour then the night was over.

Sunday:

woke up at 5:30 so i could be to James' house by 7- (we were going with his mom and step-dad to see his step-grandpa in idaho)

finally left his moms around 8 ish

got to idaho about 10:30am

played catch with his little cousin hailey, then we all played a softball game in the yard for a good hour at least!

ate lunch, and had some cake.

left about 2:30pm

got home at 4:30pm (to Hooper) andstarted to hook up James' horse trailor to go and pick up a big screen tv my uncle gave us! (woot woot!)

got the big screen at 6 ish (in layton)

rushed to get to my cousins joined b-day party! (hailie and lilliann turned 2- they are 5 days apart so they had a party together that was hello kitty!- so cute!) and we got there at 6:30 (riverdale) and p.s. we were and hour late hahah oops!

left the party around eight and went back to his house in hooper to finally relax a bit, then i left at 10:30 bc i had an early 7:00 class...

WHEW! such a long and exhausting weekend, it was fun, but we were completely wore out! not such a good way to start out the week!

Just a random mushy post! :)

2009-09-23T23:20:00.000-07:00

It's been awhile and i really don't have much to say but I just wanted to post a few of the reasons that I love James, my soon-to-be husband! :)

First of all we don't get to see eachother during the week and that makes it so hard, plus i work friday nights until 11:30 so that leaves at best, only two days to be together! It really is hard and since we got engaged i think it has just made waiting for the weekend to roll around even worse! We just miss eachother so much, and it will be so nice to see eachother everyday! We can hardly wait!

March...could you please get here quickly?!?!

Anyways, after nearly 3 years of dating I love him for many reasons! But here are a few...

*He is a little kid at heart. I love the fact that I'm pretty sure we have never gone into wal-mart without stopping in the toy aisle to look at the trucks. haha. (then quickly go over to the hunting stuff like it was his original destination, when it really wasn't)

*He kisses me on the forehead, plays with my hair, and when we cuddle he rubs the side of my face with his hand.

*He really worries about me. especially with how i drive late at night every night during the week. And when i got in my wreck back in april he rushed home from work, leaving early and stopped to buy me pink flowers, and my favorite kind of gatorade. Then he made sure to read the paperwork about how to watch for signs of a concussion before we could go cuddle on the couch. :) (i was broad-sided on the driver side and smashed the window with my head, giving me terrible whip-lash, cuts all over the side of my face and a cut on my eyelid that required some lovely stitches!)

*He is adorable with little kids. This one was one of the things that made me first fall in love with him! He has 5 younger brothers and his youngest was only 3 when we started dating, and he just is so great with him and all his younger cousins adore him, at family parties i usually don't even see him because he is chasing them around the yard or something! He is going to be such a good dad one day, i can't wait! :)

*He is just a happy person, it takes a lot to make him mad, even traffic doesn't usually get to him! lol. When I get upset or mad at something or someone he comforts me and makes me calm down, and just forget about it.

*When I'm with him I'm definitely my happiest self, I don't know what it is but I'm never stressed when I'm around him, and if I am when he comes to pick me up, i just seem to completely forget about it after a few minutes.

*He makes me laugh, anyone who knows me, knows i laugh a lot, and i love how we can be complete dorks together!

Anyways, you get the point.. I'm in love...hahah, and I really can't wait to marry this guy! James is the love of my life and I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with him! :)

Random Funny Thoughts for People Our Age

2009-09-09T19:43:00.000-07:00

Okay, so while I was doing a little "blog-stalking" i came across this, I am at work and was laughing so hard at some of these i finally lost it and started laughing out loud, and it was onlt made worse when I turned to see one of the nurses i work with, looking at me like, "ummm... okay..." (you know the look when you do something kinda dumb before they know what happened and can laugh?!) Anyways, by the time I saw the look on her face I totally cracked up and all i could do was point at the computer screen, and i had tears running down face! haha.. (p.s. i think things are made funnier by nature when you try and hold back laughing out loud...) LOL! So here it is, I hope you enjoy it!

*More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.
*Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
*Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

*I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
*Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the "people you may know" feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with?
*Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.
*There is a great need for sarcasm font.
*Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what was going on when I first saw it.
*I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.
*How are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
*I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
*I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
*The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to finish a text.
*Was learning cursive really necessary?
*Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".
*I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
*Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.
*My brother's Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, "Cuz we beat you, and you hate us." Classy, bro.
*Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart.”
*How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?
*I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent an idiot from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!
*Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in' examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and said "Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies"
*What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?
*While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.
*MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
*Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
*I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.
*Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
*I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
*Bad decisions make good stories.
*Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!
*Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?
*If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.
*Why is it that during an ice- breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be a problem....
*You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
*Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.
*There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
*I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
*"Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.
*I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'
*I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dang it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
*I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
*When I meet a new girl, I'm terrified of mentioning something she hasn't already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.
*I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.
*Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles...
*As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
*Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
*It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.
*I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
*Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do to with it.
*Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey- but I'd bet everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...
*My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?" How do I respond to that?
*It really ticks me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.
*I wonder if cops ever get ticked off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.
*The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words, someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself. There's nothing like being made to feel like a fatty before dinner.

***Sometimes its nice to come across something that makes you laugh, especially after a long day of school, and work until late, and then a test to still study for! hahah! a good laugh is needed after a long day i think! So maybe you didn't find this near as funny as i did, but I hope it at least made you smile! :D

Labor day weekend

2009-09-07T21:46:00.000-07:00

So our weekend was so relaing and just fun! We really didn't do anything special, but we did have two whole days on saturday, sunday, and most of the day monday to hang out! Usually James has to work starting sunday night so we only get saturday and a few hours sunday, so this weekend was a nice change!

Hmmm...saturday and sunday we just layed around, cuddling, and watching movies and tv. Sunday night we ate a really great dinner at my parents' house and my dad made chicken that was covered in some type of bread crumbs and then baked with marinated artichokes, and onions! Seriously so good, I'm sure it wasn't very healthy, but very yummy!

Then monday we went and ate lunch at his mom's house and just hung out for awhile and then went to RC Willeys because they wanted to buy a new dining table! James and I walked around finding styles of couches and such that we liked for our future house too! That was really fun I love when we do stuff like that! :D

Anyways, I know our weekend wasn't all that adventurous but we are also really trying to cut out eating out so much like we used to, and movies and such, we have a lot coming up for us in the next 6 months so we are doing our best to save up!

Well, I hope everyone had a nice long weekend!

p.s. I really can't wait to get my dress in, its so far away but i really want to wear it again haha! oh the anticipation! haha

Last two weekends (long post sorry!)

2009-08-31T19:38:00.000-07:00

So, James and I had another great weekend together! And thinking about it I never blogged about two weekends ago! Okay so rewind to two weekends ago! James and I tried to take off a couple extra days so that we could have an extra long weekend together, well it didn't totally work out that way because they really needed James to go in. We still had Friday night together (which I usually work) so we went out with Mitch and Kelsey (my cousin Kels and her hubby) it was so long overdue! But we went bowling and to dinner at Chili's! It was way fun! I miss them, but we all have very different schedules and don't have many chances to hang out. Not sure what else we did that weekend.. oh except hanging out at his mom's house and we had a fire and made smores (we even had them before dinner... lol)! But it was still a good weekend and a nice break for me before school started!

Okay now for this last weekend! James and I only had saturday and sunday to hang out like usual :'( but Saturday was fun we just went to a late lunch at TGI Fridays (one of our faves!) And then just spent the rest of the night together watching TV and movies, and the part i thought was the most fun, we went to Wal-mart and before we left we walked through the section with housewares and such! See... as a newly engaged couple, we haven't shopped for anything yet to register as our wedding is still a little over 6 months away, but saturday night we did! We looked at the vaccuums, found a cool blender, utensils, pots and pans, food processors and toaster ovens! Hahah... it was so funny because he actually got really into it and was finding stuff he liked and we stayed in that area for a good half hour! lol. It was just so fun to look at that kind of stuff that we will need when we are married! I can't wait to actually go and register for gifts! (p.s. we might have too much fun with the scanner thing they give you...lol) oh and don't be surprised if James sneaks in a few toy trucks or something to our gift registry! LOL. He is like a little kid and still loves toy trucks, we usually make a stop in the toy aisle when we go to wal-mart, and it just cracks me up, i tried to sneak a picture for my readers, but he caught me and wouldn't let me! :D Anyways, I hope you all had a good weekend as well!

Wedding Dress!

2009-08-24T19:47:00.000-07:00

Jenny, here is my wedding dress post! lol!
Ahh! I'm so excited about it! this is the light gold version but I bought the diamond white (which is slightly off white, but you can only tell when compared to something that is all white). And I'm posting this because James doesn't ever get on the computer and wouldn't even know how to find our blog haha! So that is lucky for my few readers, otherwise I wouldn't post until after the wedding! I'm going to do my best to not cave and show him the dress until I'm walking down the aisle!
oh p.s. I even got the flower in her hair that's pictured here, it matches the flowers on the dress and will be the diamond white! plus, i have a small veil that goes a little ways down my back! Oh I can't wait for it to get here, so I can try it on again with the flower and veil (they didn't have the flower in the store, so it will be fun to see it all together!)

Wedding Plans!

2009-08-24T19:28:00.000-07:00

Well, the wedding plans are definitely coming right along! I found my dress and ordered it! Sadly, it wont be here til January! Good thing I ordered now, it will be here just in time! Maybe I'll attempt to post the picture of it! hahah...But we booked the Chantilly Mansion for the wedding and reception, such a cute place! And now just to decide on the photographer, flowers, bridesmaids and mom's dresses! This has been so much fun, I just love it! :)

Also, I can't wait for us to find a house and be able to decorate! I have been buying things for our house for over a year! LOL... i know, its kinda silly, but I have a way cute set of dishes from Tai Pan, mirrors, wall sconces, candles, picture frames, pots, flowers, clocks, paitnings and other little deorations, basically our whole bedroom will be ready to go the minute we move in! haha! Plus a few other decorations here and there! I can't wait to put it up! when I first started buying stuff i just kept it out in my room, because i was so excited about it, but eventually it drove me nuts and there was just too much so I had to organize it all and put it in the basement! LOL. Anyways, I haven't bought anything in awhile, because at this point I am just waiting to see what we will actually need... like towels, or pots and pans... I don't know just stuff like that! haha...

Camping!!!

2009-08-17T20:05:00.001-07:00

So this last weekend James and I went camping with his mom's side of the family to Flaming Gorge! It was so much fun, and i didn't really know what to expect since i have only been like once or twice a long time ago! I should have taken more swearshirts and long pants with me! Friday and saturday it was freezing, even for most of the day! It rained, and the wind was blowing really hard, around the campfire we were all bundled up with blankets and sweatshirts! hahaha, not exactly what i expected it to be like in august! lol! But it was tons of fun spending the whole weekend together and just relaxing! Sunday was a little warmer so we took advantage and went out on the boats, went tubing and just got in the water (it was freezing too!) and then after a few hours, a little sun, and some lunch we headed in and it was time to go home! :( We also got to tell his family we were engaged because some of them didn't know yet! and they were all way excited!

James has the cutest little cousins, and one little girl became my best friend hahah, she was too cute, and there were lots of funny stories and funny things that the little kids did, and i just loved it, because even though i have been to their family parties for the last 3 years i really felt like i was part of the family! it was great! :D I love James so much and we are just so excited to go on our own little camping trips just the two of us once we are married!

oh p.s. we booked our wedding and reception place! I'm so excited i think it will be just perfect! And me, my mom, and James' mom are all gonna go dress shopping this week! (his mom has six boys and no girls, plus we are just really close, so we decided to invite her along and thought she would like doing the whole girly dress shopping thing! And then the two moms can pick out their dresses maybe too!) I can't wait! it will be a blast! :)

Our first weekend being engaged!

2009-08-02T23:33:00.000-07:00

okay, well it really wasn't too exciting haha...James had to work this weekend and he works graveyards. And he didnt have to work friday so he slept all day and night friday so he could just stay up all day saturday with me! :) We just relaxed watched some rented movies, went to lunch, and got ice cream later on! Since we only had saturday the weekend went by way too fast! We usually are able to hang out sundays for a few hours...so it was kinda lame! haha,... but I can't wait for next weekend and then in a couple weeks we took off three days before the weekend together so that we can have a little vacation and have an extra long weekend together (5 whole days!!) I can't wait!

oh and p.s. sad story, the day after he proposed i lost a diamond at work! amazingly enough i found it! and so the sad part is that after i just got my ring..finally! i have to give it up for the jeweler to send it out to be fixed...for 5 DAYS! ugh! sad huh? I was so mad! oh well i just can't wait to get it back this friday, im dropping it off in the morning. :(

Anyways, my weekend was short and sweet, but james and i had fun and really are enjoying being engaged! :D

So, question for my few followers... who did your wedding photography? where was your reception (and ceremony if somewhere other than the temple?) And well...where did you start with all this planning?! hahaha...

The Proposal...

2009-07-30T01:44:00.000-07:00

Okay, so here is how it happened! :)

James went and talked to my dad on monday night, they said it went well but between James being nervous and my dad being kind of sad, i think they were both having a hard time! hahah. But it was cute and I'm so glad that he asked my dad, I know that meant a lot to my dad! :) So, anyways, I knew that he was going to ask soon but I didn't know when he really would.

I went down to his house and had a few hours to hang out so we decided to go and get some lunch. We were about to leave, when he stopped me in the hallway and said that we should go to Snow Basin maybe this weekend or the next and ride the gondola to the top. So, this convinced me he would ask me then... but somewhere during the conversation he mentioned that he may have to work all weekend (and he works graveyards) and then eventually said "Well, I didn't want to do it this way but I don't want to make you wait..." Then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him! :) I was so caught off guard, that now that I think of it I wonder what my facial expression was! LOL!

I said yes, and then he said he really wanted to take me to snow basin and ask me that way, but since i already knew about him talking to my dad and since he may end up working the whole weekend he didn't want to make me wait any longer! It was just a sweet and simple proposal in his hallway, but we plan on going up to Snow Basin when we can, to celebrate! :D

So, now we are ENGAGED!!! And I couldn't be happier! I'm so excited to plan the wedding! We are thinking that March 12th will be the big day!

The cutest part was when he walked me to my car and when he was about to shut my door he said "Well bye fiance! I love you" hahaha... that made us both laugh, it was cute! :D

YAY!

2009-07-29T16:47:00.000-07:00

So it finally happened! James and I are engaged!!! :D I couldn't be happier, and I love him so much! We are thinking March 12, 2010 will be the big day! YAY! I am so excited to start planning our wedding! I already have a lot of ideas, and now i get to put it all into action! Im so excited! :D Best day ever!

my blog is cute now!

2009-07-23T20:43:00.000-07:00

YAY! i figured out how to add a cute background to my blog! now it looks much better! haha... so not much to say, i don't really have followers, LOL.

Hmmm...didn't know that! haha...

2009-06-11T20:37:00.000-07:00

okay...so jenny since you discovered my blog maybe you can help... i am new to this and i have no idea how to get a cute background for mine! help?! also its kinda funny i had no idea that by leaving my comments it left my name as a link to my blog! hahah kalli informed me of this yesterday, good thing too because i had forgotten my own blog's address hahaah... yeah i created it but didn't plan to really post on it until my boyfriend and i got engaged! lol...anyways help me make my blog cute! :D

Starting a blog!

2009-03-22T15:02:00.000-07:00

I decided to start a blog for James and I, we will hopefully be ENGAGED soon! and then I can update all the wedding info on here! YaY! :D