.So Much To Be Thankful For.

I am ESPECIALLY thankful for this guy!

I can't wait to marry him.

He is amazing & has been so incredibly helpful these last weeks w/ all the crazy wedding planning.

I am so thankful for an amazing supportive family who are ALWAYS there for me.

I am thankful to be marrying in to such a great family as well, I couldn't ask for a better family to join.

I am so so grateful for the gospel and all the happiness it provides me in my life.

I am so grateful for good friends who are supportive of me and so much fun to be around.

I love this time of year, because it reminds me to reflect and allows me to see how LUCKY I really am and how many big and little things I have to be thankful for. I am truly blessed!

No Words Needed.

There isn't a need for words but I will share a few anyway...

My Official Ring

i love it.

Wedding Update.

So for those of you who don't know when the big day is yet, it is on Dec. 29th! Plans are coming along quite nicely. I found my dress on Friday, and lucky for me it was the second one I tried on. I tried on about 10 or so after, but none of them were it and I couldn't get the one that is now "mine "out of my head. Chelsey took our engagements on Saturday and they turned out great. I'm DYING to post them, but told myself I didn't want to. I am keeping them a surprise til invites go out. I think its way more fun that way. I don't want to send out my invites and have the pictures be old news. The few of you who have seen them--you should feel lucky! :) Now I need to find a photographer for my bridals & the big day! If anyone has anyone they'd recommend please let me know! 

He Put A Ring On It.

I'm ENGAGED!!!

Tyler & I finally decided it was time to get married!

We are soo excited & happy.

As for the engagement story...

So...Tyler and I have been talking about this for a while and we actually started planning things out several weeks before we got engaged. He got permission from my dad and then a week went by. Meanwhile, I was getting kind of upset, because there is only so much planning you can do before you make it official and announce it. I started bugging him about what he was waiting for and that he needed to get on it, but he wanted to catch me off guard I guess so he took his sweet time and definitely caught me off guard. All week long I had been dressing up--even changing out of my sweats on the days I had dance (this I never do w/o a good reason) Monday rolled around and it was no different. I got all cute and went to school. The problem was when I left my house the weather wasn't too bad. I left in a t-shirt and shrug...definitely not rain gear. By the time I got to school, it was pouring rain. Luckily I had a light jacket in my car I was able to throw on, but by the time I got to my first class...My hair was no longer straight thanks to lots and lots of rain...and my feet were soaked along with the bottom of my jeans. Everything that could have gone wrong this day, did. By the time the evening rolled around I had had it with the day and broke down in tears. So, there goes my makeup. Tyler wanted to go to Santaquin and was acting so funny, because he was trying to sell his car and had forgotten a guy was supposed to come and see it--meaning we would have to wait to go down to his parents. He tried canceling on the guy and I kept telling him we could go down another night that it was important to show the guy the car since he was driving down from Salt Lake. He tried rescheduling and the guy got really pushy and made it clear how interested he was. I thought Tyler was crazy for trying to blow him off, but in the end he decided to stick around and show the car. What I didn't know was that we were supposed to be going to dinner before heading out to Santaquin, but that wasn't possible since he had to show the car. Anyway, we went down to Santaquin...me makeup less...and wearing the biggest warmest hoodie I could find of Tyler's in his closet. We got to the house and I was upstairs with his mom, and him and his dad went downstairs, little did I know, they went downstairs and outside. They came back up a while later and sat back down with us for a bit. Tyler went to the window and mentioned that it had stopped snowing. His dad immediately was like--you should go look at the lights! (you can see a lot of the valley from their deck.) I thought it was sorta weird though, because it was foggy out. Then Tyler said I should come with him, at this point, I completely knew something was up. My suspisions were correct. He took me outside & we talked for a minute and then he walked me to the edge of the deck and had me look down...he spelt Marry Me? with glow sticks in the snow. Lucky for him, he had his dad's help who corrected it after Tyler started to spell merry instead of marry...haha. Then he got down on one knee and well...you can probably figure out the rest. :)

 So for a long time Tyler has always joked that he was going to propose with a watch with diamonds rather than a ring...so when we began talking about getting married he asked me if he could propose with a Nixon Player because it has a real diamond in it. I told him no way, but that I would settle for the Nixon Chalet even though it's diamonds weren't real. So since it has always been our joke, he got me my watch too!!!

A Birthday Post.

It's this girl's birthday today!

YAY for being 21.

I told her she could come with me to the liquor store, but strangely she seemed uninterested.

I could not have asked for a better friend than Chelsey. 

We have been through everything together...that in and of itself sums up how great she is.

She has got the cutest sense of humor, she can always say something to make ya laugh. She is very quick witted. 

She knows what to say to make you feel better on a bad day. 

She has plenty of blonde moments which make knowing her all the more fun! 

(Chels, I'm never gonna let you live down Moses & the Arc. And most recently that test you took.)

I can't count the fun moments we had growing up.

We were always brewing up ideas & occasionally getting into mischief.

I Love You & Our Amazing Friendship!

I hope you have the best birthday ever!