Have you seen this man?

Because it's my fiance and he's pretty much the best looking guy ever!!! Look at those eyes!

Exhausted

I've had a very busy and very straining week. Sunday was non-stop action with church, my mom's car breaking down, baking brownies for dinner group, 2 visiting teaching appointments, attending dinner group, and finally scary movies with Tyler. Monday was gym, taking Auntie Beta to the doctor, work, My Thai with Tyler, and creating the wedding event on Facebook. Tuesday was trying to secure a high profile speaker for our child care conference in October (many many phone calls), tanning (yes, tanning), gym, printing out my Sunday School lesson, and finding out that Nate now has a moratorium on daytime calls because his family is over their minutes for the month. Wednesday was gym, work, and up to Ogden for a night hike with Nate at the Ogden Nature Center, Village Inn and drive home. Thursday was tripping out of bed into a face plant, totally dropping the ball on a project at work, having it saved by my co-worker, leaving work early after a stress breakdown, then up to Logan for my cousin Tai's game and dinner with the cousins afterwards, and getting home at 1:00am. And now I'm at work again where I've already completed another project and had a meeting and tonight we're planning on Super Nachos at one of my friend's house that I have to go shopping for, and get gym in there somewhere. Tomorrow is home teachers, make-up for engagement pictures, engagement pictures, Walt pictures, and double date with Carissa and Jonathan, and lesson plan for Sunday for church at 9am.

Next week, I'm not going to do a darn thing.

Engagement Pictures

This Saturday is Picture Day!! Nate and I will be posing for the lovely Bethany of GlamourGraphics. Check out her blog. I especially love the Romeo and Juliet themed ones. Nate and I went shopping for clothing last week. We found some stuff that was brightly colored and super summery so I'm way excited.

Also, any of you that are my facebook friends have seen the balloons and bubbles pictures that my friend Walt Sorenson took of me (click his name to see his website). It was really fun because we've known each other so long and he could get me to laugh so easily. Anyway, I set up a time for him to do a similar photo shoot for Nate where he gets to bring some ideas and outfits he thinks defines him and have some fun looking all debonaire and awesome. Love it!

I want this song on my playlist

Still Recovering

Went to San Francisco this weekend with my fiance and his brother and his brother's friend. I'm still dead tired from the 17hour drive home because of bad weather and closed canyons (Nate didn't get home until 25hours after we left SF and then STILL had to go to work, poor thing).

Before I left, I made my first venture into the world of wedding dresses. Can I tell you that's been my biggest fear? I went to Mary's Bridal over on Highland Drive and had a gander at their stock. A couple of things I learned:

-I am not as large a size as I thought I was (YES!!)

-A starch white dress is NOT becoming on me, but the Ivory color looks HAWT!

-Lace-ups make your body look AMAZING.

-Lace on an ivory dress will probably not show up very well in pictures so I'll probably want to go with some sort of beading.

-Short sleeves, thumbs up.

-I have to keep in mind that the end of June is going to be blazing hot so pay attention to how heavy the material is.

I did find a pretty awesome dress. I'm going to go shopping some more this weekend because I'm going to need to find a dress soon to have time for alterations or shipping.

I've also started organizing all the junk/stuff/adverts from the bridal shows I went to and will be selecting a cake and flower place. Nate and I still haven't come to terms about him having groomsmen, but I'm pretty set on it. AND I need to make an appointment for engagement pics at the end of this month. I won some packages that I'm going to take advantage of and see how they turn out.

And lastly, I turned in my passport application yesterday. My picture TOTALLY looks like a mug shot, but I thought it would be funny for the next ten years to see it.

I just really like this picture I took of my friend Wendy

Keep Thinking...

I've logged on here three days in a row because I keep thinking of something I want to write on here, but I don't remember it during the daytime, apparently. I'll just babble and see if it eventually pops up.



Nate and I are taking our first trip together EVER tomorrow with a lovely drive to San Fransisco. All right, I admit that SF is NOT my favorite place after a less than pleasant trip there when I was 19. All I gotta say is hills are awful and chinatown scared the bejeebes out of me. Nevertheless, I had to coerce Nate into a road trip somehow before we got married and Wicked tickets in one of his favorite places with 6-month advance notice seemed to be the only way. We're not even married and I've had to change the way I do things. Who needs more than 4 weeks to plan a trip? Geez Louise! Anyway, I'm counting down the hours until 4 days of freedom. We are now at 21 hours and 40 minutes. Hal-le-lu-jah!!



I don't know if I've revealed this to my small blogging community, yet, but I have a personal trainer. Her name's Kim and she's adorable. I haven't lost much weight-wise but I can lift twice as much now as I was able to 4 months ago. To quote myself, " I may not look like a supermodel, but I could easily knock one out." My energy, as you can imagine, is through the roof. I feel like I get no sleep, but I don't even care. The weirdest development in my exercise routine thus far is my knees. I've been concentrating on doing elliptical/arc trainer/bicycle/low-impact stuff because my knees are so bad, but I had a craving to start doing some time on the treadmill this last week. A-MAZ-INGly enough, my knees feel better than they have in a long time. Stupid waste-time physical therapy. It was probably making me worse. Anyway, back on track, I learned how to bench press today and I may become addicted to it because of how cool it looks.



I went and took some preliminary photos of Wheeler Farm. That's going to be so much fun. Tyler (my fiance stand-in) came with me and we started looking at a layout for tables and such. There's a big opening in the middle where you can look down on the first floor from the second floor...patio...thing. We thought it would be cool to have bunches of colorful balloons floating up through it for part of the centerpieces. I LOVE balloons. I'm excited to see if we can get it to work.

Invitation Shopping Online

I've decided I really really like the pocket fold wedding invitations. So, I did a little perusing online and found a few ideas. I figure Kini and I can get some do-it-yourself ones and we can put them together...together over Spring Break.

And on a side note, while I was perusing I found these really cute purse and flower idea for bridesmaids...

I got another some more pieces of advice:

You should choose a wedding dress that you feel like yourself in. Don't get something that doesn't fit your personality just because it's "traditional."

If I had to do it over again I would have gotten a wedding dress that I absolutely love. I got one that my mom kinda cried over but I didn't really love.

Thursdays are Unproductive...

...unless you take into account that I've gotten the high score on 3 computer games I like to play. Yay!? I believe Thursday is the day when the rest of the week catches up with me. And then I become as useless as a solar powered flashlight in Alaska.

Last night Talisha and I went up to Logan to visit Nate. It was pretty uneventful EXCEPT I finally got to go to the Bluebird. Unfortunately, I don't see the big deal. Unless you count the candy. The candy looked awesome.