Bridal Shower

My friends threw a bridal shower for me in Rexburg. It was a lot of fun to see all many of my friends from school one last time before I 'make my vows' -- so to speak. We started out playing a get to know you game called "I Have Never." My favorite part was throwing the saltwater taffies at other people when they said they had not done something I had.
We also played the game where Kaity Kobayashi and Katie Wilson -- who threw the shower for me -- asked David a bunch of questions about himself and about me and I had to guess what he guessed. I did a great job... ok, not really. I probably missed just less than half. But he got about half wrong on his answers as well -- There's a lot of things I still don't know about David, but luckily, I get eternity to learn about him. :-)
And then we opened presents. It was a lot of fun and my friends got me a lot of great gifts.
This gift was definitely unique. It was my 'lingerie.' It made me laugh. I will say this though, David was rather disappointed I didn't get better 'stuff.' (Hint, hint) jk ;-)
I really enjoyed my bridal shower. Kaity and Katie did great jobs planning it. I look forward to going to their showers some day.

We are now counting down on single digits. I have to admit, it's a little scary. This is the day a girl dreams about while growing up. How will I fall in love? How will I know I've fallen in love? Will I ever meet my Prince Charming? And it's just amazing to think that I've found the one I want to grow old with. I am a little nervous about what the future holds for us -- with schooling, job-hunting, and eventually raising a family ahead of us. But I'm also excited to see what we can do together. Heavenly Father has blessed me so much throughout my life. With His help, I have been able to do some things I never would have thought possible, like being in 2 church pageants, visiting almost half of the states in the U.S., even doing an internship for the Mormon Times. I'm excited to see what adventures the Lord has in store for the two of us as we unite our lives together. I'm excited and ready to take on this grand adventure!

Valentine's Crush on I-15

On Valentines Morning, David showed up with this beautiful rose with the remaining number of days left till our wedding day written on it. I was so excited! It was a perfect start for this day that we'd planned.



















But when do things ever go as planned???







The plan that we made was to drive to Ogden to pick up our amazing engagement pictures (which you have all seen, if not you should). We had to do it that day because we had an appointment to design the invitations that next Monday. We would then spend the rest of the day registering, shopping, and psyching ourselves up for what would happen 42 days later (getting married if you missed that) But as was said before "But when do things ever go as planned???" (triple question mark emphasized)

We woke up to snow that morning -- lots of snow. We figured that we had better put the most important things first. We decided to leave early for Ogden, take it slow, and then see how much time we have for other things. On the way up disaster almost struck -- we forgot the tunes!!! But we had the radio so it was ok. As we made our way into the Salt Lake City area the snow got worse and the road became snow packed. As the road started to curve David suddenly hit a patch of slush and lost control of the car. The car slid across 2 lanes while doing a 180 degree turn. We were heading strait toward the cement divider when at the last second the car turned and we missed it. We slid to a stop, faces and nuckles white and hearts up in our throtes.

We were facing the wrong direction, on the side of the road with a blizzard outside so we did the only rational thing we could think of, we got out of the car and took pictures for you all to see.

So that was our romantic near death experience on valentines day -- we made sure to kiss to make it romantic. We figure that aparently someone wants us to survive long enough to get married. It also brought into perspective how fragile life can be and how much we truly believe that we are eachother's heart's coquet and here to finish eachother's duet (what movie?)

Engagement Photos -- Thank you Aunt Janice and Jami!!

Updates

Ok, I just thought it'd be fun to let you all know what is going on with the wedding plans. Since we've moved it up 4 months, things have been happening a little fast. Luckily, I have my dress and David has most of his tux. We even have our beautiful temple scheduled. But that's just a small part of all we have to plan for. So here are what we've gotten done so far this week:

We found this beautiful arrangement at Taipan Trading, it's a really cool store that my friend, Greg, recommended. So we're going to have a different candle arrangement on each table. My mom had some rose petals at home that we can use and some of the glass jars will have white sand in them. Also, we'll have electric candles so we can use them in the church buildings.


Also, we have been really worried about where we are going to live when we move up to Rexburg this summer. We made a few offers on some housing but were always a little too late. Today I was looking on the BYU-Idaho bulletin board and saw an apartment for $400 dollars -- a really nice deal since we were looking at places for $500-$600. We talked to the tenant about it and made the offer. It's really close to campus, has a big kitchen and lots of storage. The bedroom and living room are kinda the same room but that's ok. We'll have a bamboo shade to cover the bedroom when company comes over. Also, the tenant is throwing in a couch and the bamboo shade for about $50 and the bed comes with the apartment. What a deal! It's not very big but we feel it'll be perfect for our first apartment. We're very excited. :-) Here are some pictures the tenant emailed us.


That's it for now. But I'm sure we'll have more to post soon. We're getting our engagement pictures taken this weekend so I'll put some up when we get them. Until next time...

Bored with nothing to do...

I love my job, don't get me wrong... but I have to do a night shift at least twice a week. During this time I get everything ready to post online (for the Mormon Times Web site) and then I wait... and wait... I can't post anything till midnight for some reason so I usually stay until 12:30 a.m. (1:30 a.m. if things aren't going well). This is me, waiting for the time to pass by.

We're going to the temple and we're gonna get married!

I haven't posted for so long, I don't know where to start. I'll start out expressing gratitude to my parents and Venita for helping me out so far. My parents came up last weekend to go through the Draper Temple open house, meet David's parents and take me wedding dress shopping.

The Draper Temple is beautiful. I think we picked a winner. It was wonderful to see the whole thing. We've been watching this temple ever since we decided to get married it's just grown on us so much. I love it. And I think my parents enjoyed it as well.

When I called to schedule the temple for July 28 and found out it was closed for cleaning, it really hit me hard. We have had such a hard time figuring out a good schedule for everyone. I've always wanted to have all my brothers and sisters there when I got married -- just to kind of complete the family. I think it's so wonderful how much our family has grown throughout the years. We've grown up, and in a way, grown a little apart. But we'll always be a family, always. And I wanted everyone to be there to celebrate the happiest day of my life. But after changing the date so much and finding complications with everything I tried, I just decided to go for what was best for David and myself. And when I did, it just all worked out. The temple has a sealing room that fits 85 people -- which is perfect for us. That way, any one who wants to come is invited. I really love this temple and I'm so glad we're going to get married on March 28, 2009.

We're going to the open house again on Valentine's day. It was David's idea -- very romantic I thought. His parents are going to go through it with us. That'll be really fun. I really like his parents. Living here in Utah has helped me become even closer with my future in-laws. I think my parents and David's parents really got along well. We went to his house for breakfast and his mom had fixed an amazing breakfast. She even put out her nice tablecloth. It was cute and very nice. Once our parents started talking, there was no stopping. They talked for about 3-4 hours straight. I lost track.

I know this is probably going against tradition but I've already shown David the pictures of the wedding dress. So I feel it's ok to show you all. I went to GownbyPamela in Orem, UT. They rent out gowns. I got the gown, the hoop skirt, a corset, a tiara, and a vail with the dress. It was a bit expensive but I only get one wedding day so I wanted to have something I really loved.

I decide to rent the gown because I didn't want to have it sitting in my closet for the rest of my life. Yes, it's a good heirloom. Yes, you could have it to show your children/maybe even have your daughter wear it when she get married. But I will have pictures. And I want my daughter to pick out her own wedding dress that is unique for her. Also, I was able to get a really expensive dress for a cheaper price. I really like this dress.

So that's what's going on in my life. Today I'm going to go shopping with Venita for centerpieces, shoes, ect. It'll be fun. And we asked Aunt Janice to take our engagement pictures. I think she does a really good job and we'll have a good time.

Also, our wedding colors will be red (a deep color of red, not bright. I won't be picky on the exact shade, but I prefer it to be a darker red... not bright) chocolate brown (there wasn't a chocolate brown available in the font colors but I'm guessing you all know what chocolate brown looks like) and white.

It's about time...

Enough said.