30 Day Challenge--Day Eight

Day 08

A picture that makes you laugh

 

So this picture is rather staid but I kept thinking that I would be mutilated for putting some of my others online.

30 Day Challenge--Day Seven

Day 07

A picture of your most treasured item

So technically he's not an item but with this all I could think of was the movie "Leap Year" where they talk about what one would grab in the 30 seconds case of a fire.And I'm not going to spoil the entire movie by what I was about to continue on. However, those I think are my most prized possessions. And none of them are are things. Weston's the only thing I have a picture of at the current moment. (Go Figure.) I would also grab:
Giselle
My cell phone
Purse
Scriptures

30 Day Challenge--Day Six

Day 06

A picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day

 It may be a little sad that I'm not able to think of a physical person that I would change places with. But really, well, I'm happy with my life. I really have never wished to be someone else. Except for when I was little. Then I wanted to be Kitty from X Men Evolution. IT was one of my FAVORITE TV shows. I remember my little brother and I would play and choose with X Men character we got to be--and who we would date. I was always Kitty, and would date NightCrawler...I think Braden was always IceMan--he dated Rogue. Silly I know. But it was always so fun. 

30 Day Challenge--Day Five

Day 05

A picture of your favorite memory

Originally I wanted to do sliding down the rain gutter at my Grandpas house. We used to have the FUNNEST time there. One of us would, without fail,  rip our pants. The slide is right by the kitchen sink so someone would always try to spray us. However, I don't have any pictures of the slide so I'm going with another great and fun memory that is a candid shot forever:

So technically it's 3 pictures and a 1000 memories.Good times.

Day 04

A picture of your night

This one does make me have to think. Is it what I did last night? what I'm doing tonight? Is night when I was sleeping or is it my evening? I decided on this though:

This is a cute little kid on Google--and how I've been most nights lately (Falling asleep on the couch--completely out.)
See, being engaged I want to spend as much time as possible with my fiance. (I'm sure people understand.) I work during the day and he works and goes to school. Weekends often I have school or it's wedding planning. So the best time of the day for us to be together is at night. And it's difficult to send each other home. It's actually one of the the things I'll be so grateful to be married for... : My sleep schedule will return to actual sleeping. Right now anytime I sit down to watch a movie, or do homework, or just sit down I want to fall asleep.

Photo Challenge--Day Three

Day 03 

A picture of the cast from your favorite show

I happen to have a tie between two shows that I LOVE! 

Bones

 And Big Bang Theory

 

30 Day Challenge--Day Two

Day 02

A picture of you and the person you have been closest with the longest

 

My momma & I. My Mom is one of my BEST friends. She is so much who I hope to become and is such an inspiration to me in my life. I really hope that I can turn out to be just like her.

30 Day Photo Challenge--Day One

To reduce stress I am going to do something completely fruitless and just, well, fun. I've decided it's been too long since I've tried to  be creative and so I'm going to try it again.

Day 01

A picture of yourself with 10 facts

 1. I am an ultimate romantic and because of that I do not believe in Happily Ever Afters.

2. As a teenager I didn't want to get married until I was 28 and didn't believe that I wanted kids. Now I am getting married at 21 and, while I do not want kids within the next few years I am excited to start a family. And think that it is the most important accomplishment any man or woman could venture to have.

3. I love love LOVE the career that I'm going into. Marriage and Family Therapy just fits with everything I value about life and encompasses all the ideals and ideas that I love to learn about.

4. I don't think that friendship should take a lot of work. I have friends that I can see once every year or so and we just hit things off. And I have friends that I have to stay in touch or else I lose touch and friendship.

5. I prefer small groups of people I'm close to rather than large groups that I could potentially make friends with.

6. One of my biggest pet peeves is girls who think that education isn't important because "all I want to do is become a Mom"

7. I love to work with people. While I'm an introvert, I'm a social personality all the way.

8. There is a small part of me that still squirms whenever I hear sirens or see flashing lights--even on television. Even though I haven't had a panic attach in 2 years.

9. I have been in love more than once.

10. My fiance proves to me everyday that I made the right choice in waiting for him to come along. I have never been more grateful for the years of experience and time I've had to myself so that I could live and learn and grow by myself. I'm also grateful for all the people I dated that made me worry about the men I attract--because it makes me even more grateful for him.

Wedding Dreams

So slowly but surely, my wedding is coming along and I'll be so excited to have the next 70-odd days to be through. My colors are green and purple (I know huge surprise) and I have been so blessed with how things are coming along.
However that does not mean that I have not been stressed!

Not trying to brag or anything but in the past I have:
Worked 2 part time jobs (that equaled approximately...20 hours a week), worked on Sterling Scholar portfolio, taken 24 college credits (including which was Human Anatomy & Chemistry--and my lowest grade was a B), 3 high school classes (albeit, really easy classes), maintained my family life and friends and my at-the-time boyfriend.

I have also:
Began my Jr. Year of college at 18, moving 2 hours from home, maintained 16 credit hours, worked 20 hrs/week, tried to befriend roommates, struggled with panic attacks, deal with being away from home AND working with my boyfriend whom I couldn't see and was waiting to go on a mission drama.I also dealt with my childhood best friend getting pregnant and going through the stress of figuring out what to do while I was her biggest support system in the area. ...not to mention a couple of teen-sitting stints from HELLO.

Then there was last year where I was trying to mend my broken heart while working full time and taking an EMT class. Or just a few months ago when I was juggling work, classes, friends and a boyfriend.

With all these things that I've done or gone through they brought experiences for sure. And sometimes they were hard and sometimes I was stressed. But I worked through them normally okay. Most of the time I would look back and realize how crazy it was in hindsight rather than during the fact.

But now...oh boy oh boy...
I can't even imagine what it's going to be like if I have children. But between work, planning a wedding, grad school, arranging things for school for the summer, painting and creating a home, helping him with his school work, arranging time between our schedules to be with each other, working with 5 or 6 different perspectives on how things should be for a wedding. Things have definitely been crazy. But I love them. AND I am so grateful for this time. But I won't complain at all when things start to slow down.

Of  course, if that happens I'll go insane again and have to find something else to make me mindlessly busy. I just work better that way. And really, I don't think I'll ever have a dull moment with Weston. Life will always be interesting, but in the best, most wonderful way that I could imagine.

More pictures of my ring

I'M ENGAGED!

Oh my goodness. Talk about events.

I just made the biggest decision of my life last night. And officially:

WE'RE GETTING MARRIED!

I want to shout it to the world. Climb up onto a roof top.

We've been talking about marriage

for the last little while now, we'd even set a date

but Weston hadn't proposed.

I'll admit I wasn't the least bit gracious about it.

In fact, I was pretty much rude and frustrated.

But he wanted it to be a surprise

and boy was it ever!

He'd asked my Dad to take me out to lunch

so that he would have time to plan.

Luckily I never went home afterwards

although I kept thinking about it.

We'd planned just a nice night lazing about

When I got home from work I was surprised at the scene before me

Candles along the stair rail, windows, red and white table cloths

Roses and candles sticks and dinner.

And one very handsome, oh so special, well dressed man.

He gave me a kiss and I just looked stunned.

Then told me to go change into whatever I wanted.

I didn't know what at all to wear.

What does one wear when her boyfriend proposes to her?

We tried to eat a wonderful dinner.

Mostly we just grinned at each other like the fools we are.

But it was delicious and still fabulous.

Then we went for a drive and ended at the Manti Temple.

I know it's corny and overdone but I have always dreamed

of being proposed to at this temple.

See, I first held hands with a boy there, had my first kiss,

I was going to be married there.

I always knew it would be the perfect place to get engaged.

And it so was.

He gave me roses in the car then we trekked up the steps

to one of my favorite spots on temple grounds.

We talked for a little then he got down on one knee

and asked me to spend eternity with him.

I said yes. (Big surprise there.)

My ring, well, it's just stunning.

He did a really good job. We looked at rings and 

I pointed out the ones that I liked and the styles

But he picked it out all by himself.

Afterwards we went to my family's house and told them,

called his family (who are simply amazing)

and then told the whole world.

I still want to shout it on rooftops though. 

I LOVE THIS MAN! 

WE ARE GOING TO SPEND ETERNITY TOGETHER.

To build a life, a home and a family together.

Those are the greatest accomplishments anyone can achieve

And now, we're going to start.