Tis the Season

I can't even explain how happy I am that it is finally Christmas Season!! I'm really weird about not doing anything with Christmas till after Thanksgiving, it ruins the authenticy of the season for me. So I was really excited when we got back to get a Christmas tree and decorate the apartment. We got our Christmas tree at Home Depot with a gift card we had and we bought a bunch of Christmas decorations at Bed Bath and Beyond because we still have so much money to there, and both of our moms gave us cute decorations, so it was fun to decorate. Getting the tree turned out to be a little bit of a hassle, with defective lights and running to a million different stores, but the end result was totally worth it!! I love our apartment so much right now, I make us study with just the lamp light on with the Christmas tree lights and the lights around the window on because it's so cozy and relaxing!! Why isn't Christmas season longer??? We have been watching Christmas movies all the time and for our date last week we went down to Salt Lake and ate at Texas Roadhouse (my all-time favorite restaurant) and went to Temple Square to see all the lights and it was soo pretty!! It's getting a lot colder here, but only one wimpy snow fall!! I need snow!! Christmas season needs snow!

Kinda blurry but this is our Christmas Tree!...

Right when we were taking a picture of both of us, my camera died, but here is one of Scotty at Temple Square

Give Thanks

This year for Thanksgiving we went down to L.A. to be with Scotty's family. It was a nice, relaxing break and was fun to see all of the family...(well minus Brian and Lyndsay, who we really missed!) I'll have to admit it was a little different being away from my family for my first holiday, but it was a great trip! We were able to go surfing, see movies, shop, relax, and eat lots of yummy food! Here are some of the pictures from the week...

Tagged!

10 years ago...
1. I was practically the biggest tomboy around
2. I had braces
3. I had glasses
4. I was the only girl to play baseball with the boys
5. I was in love with Justin Timberlake and Lance Bass (too bad he turned out gay)

5 things on Today's List...
1. Take a Stats test
2. Work on thank yous (we take forever, I know)
3. Make Dinner
4. Work on the stockings
5. Get my background check paperwork and fingerprints in the mail

5 snacks...
1. Cereal
2. Toast
3. Instant Breakfast
4. Ice Cream
5. Cookies

5 things I'd do if I were a millionare...
1. NEVER work again
2. Buy a boat and lake
3. Travel a lot and take my parents
4. Shop a lot
5. Secure my kids

5 Places I've lived...
(well I guess the two...)
1. Boise, Idaho
2. Provo, Utah

5 jobs I've had...
1. Coldstone
2. Nanny
3. Worked with a four year old boy with epilepsy
4. Lawn-mower
5. Air Van: Deliver packages to HP employees

Fall Fun

This fall has been full of changes, learning, adapting, but mostly excitement and fun. We have been busy with school but have definately found some time for fun! We have had lots of family come and visit and we loved all of the visits! Our favorite thing in the fall is that it is football season! We love going to BYU football games...in fact, when we were discussing what date we should set for our wedding he suggested our date (August 29) and the first thing I said to him was, "You know there is a BYU football game the next day right?" I think I sealed the deal with that comment. We also love to watch all of the other College Gameday games too. We love our weekly dates, hanging out with all of our family that lives here, being with our friends, and just hanging out together. My favorite thing about this time of the year is all of the holidays!! I am kind of a freak when it comes to holidays...I have to decorate, have the right smell for the season, and do all of the activites for each holiday. So we have had fun with all of that, I'm just looking forward anxiously for Christmas Season! I was also able to get into the BYU Nursing Program which was such a relief and exciting news after 2 and1/2 years of very hard work. It's nice to have a path to graduation finally...even if it still is a long one!! :) I'm really bad at taking pictures but here are some of the pictures we have from this fall...

The Honeymoon

We went to Sun Valley, Idaho for our honeymoon. We only had a couple days so we picked somewhere close but it was such a nice and peaceful place. It is a resort that a lot of rich people and celebrities go to especially in the Winter to go to their ski resort. The resort is a cute little village and our hotel was directly linked to it and our hotel room was really nice! It was a nice surprise to see how big and nice it was!! The town itself was so pretty too. It was so nice to just relax and be away from reality for a few days, we only wish it could have been longer!!

This picture is kinda weird looking but it's one of the few that I'm not blinking in!

The back of our hotel

It was so pretty!!

August 29, 2008

We got married on August 29, 2008 in the Boise, Idaho Temple. It was a much anticipated day and we were so glad when it finally came! I got to be with Scotty for the whole week up to the wedding so we just worked hard on trying to get everything ready and to stay busy so it would come fast! The night before the wedding Scotty slept with his family in the hotel, and I well, attempted to sleep. I barely got any sleep the night before because I was trying to think of anything that might go wrong so that it wouldn't, was anxious, a little nervous, but mostly excited. Needless to say, we were both very exhausted the whole day but so happy and excited that it didn't affect us in the least and we had the best day ever.

Just out of the temple

I think this picture is so cute...

The girls...

The boys...

First dance...

ENGAGED

Me and Scotty got engaged on June 17. We had to do a long distance relationship/engagement for the summer, which was the WORST!!! So June 17 was the day I flew into California for one of trips to see each other. I would get so excited whenever one of those days would finally come!! We had already looked at rings and knew we wanted to get married at the end of the summer so I knew the engagement had to be soon but he still got me off guard. My flight got in pretty late that night, so I figured this couldn't be the night and that was the furthest thing from my mind because I was just so happy to be with him. So we got upstairs to put my bags in the room that I always stay in and on the bed there was a present and flowers. I was really suprised that it was going to happen right then. So I open the present and in it is a book (its a shutterfly book) so it had a picture of us on the front and each page a picture of us and something really sweet that Scotty wrote and at the last page it had a picture of Scotty on one knee and said "Will you marry me?" This book is amazing and anybody that hasn't seen it, needs to!! (p.s. props to Lyndsay who came up with idea and helped Scotty with it!!). When it got to the last page Scotty got down on one knee and proposed. And no I didn't cry...at that moment. I felt so overwhelmed with happiness to just be there with him and then now engaged!! But about an hour later after the party had calmed down I was up in his room and reread it because I went through it so fast the first time and then that's when the tears of happiness came.

Just Friends to Dating...

So I thought it would be a good idea to tell the story of how we met and started dating. Soo...my freshmen year summer term at BYU I was roommates with Ashley Anderson. From that point on we became best friends. Well it just so happens that Ashley and Scotty are cousins. The year Scotty went back to school, he would come hang out with our group of friends every once in a while and would have Sunday dinners with us most Sundays. There was absolutely nothing between us most of all the first semester. Then one night in December around finals time I was over at Ashley's house and he came over but Ashley and my other best friend Sara were in the other room with a guy in one of their classes studying. So Scotty and I just hung out and were talking in the other room and the the topic of my "love life" came up. At that time there was another boy that I was interested in and I was all frustrated by the dating game. So I was asking Scotty for some advice and somehow by the end of the night we had started the flirting game and he got my number. I didn't think anything of it and didn't think he would actually ever use that number but the night I got back from Christmas break he texted me and we started texting all the time and talking a lot more. Now when we hung out with the group we both had the idea of each other in the back of our heads, flirted a lot more, and could tell that there was definately some interest from each side building up. Then one Friday night we both finally did something about it. The night started out as a group of us went hot-tubing and then went back to Ashley's house to watch a movie. Me and Scotty of course sat right next to each other and then after it everyone was asleep. We ended up staying up till 5 in the morning. I know you are all thinking we were up kissing the whole night, but that wasn't the case, we were just talking, laughing and having the most fun we both had had with someone in a long time. But then came the goodbye, the awkward what does this mean? and is he going to kiss me? point of the night...well he didn't, he hugged me and kissed me on the forehead and I was happy with that. Now the next night is a completely different story....we did hang out all night and we did actually kiss that night, and from that point on we knew we had crossed the line of just friendship. After about a week of texting, talking, kissing, and not really sure where this was going to go Scotty asked me out on a date. It was the most comfortable date we had ever been on and everything was just clicking. He even made the bold move to hold my hand in public around the mall while waiting for the movie! From that point on we started dating and were pretty much inseperable.

These are some pictures of Me and Scotty when we were just friends...

Halloween 2007

Sledding...Bowling...