Finally Catching Back Up With Life

My oh my has it been a while! So much has happened in the past two months. It seems like ever since we got engaged our lives have taken a 180. To begin I have a new job, Aaron and I are moved out, and so much more.

One of the main things is Aaron growing out his hair, he is going through a Bret Michaels stage.

. . . . . Just Kidding :)

Wedding stuff is so much fun to plan, and then on the other hand I can not wait for the wedding to just be over and to be married already. I can not believe we have just 15 more days!

Well where to begin, the last place I left off was Thanksgiving. It was a good one, we were able to have a Thanksgiving meal with both families. I love Thanksgiving it is probably one of my favorite holidays. It was kind of weird to think of it as my last Thanksgiving at home.

After Thanksgiving we had our engagement pictures, must I say that I love getting pictures taken. You can see them here.

We love Brody Dezember, our photographer. He is amazing!

This was the first time I saw are names together, it was on our photography contract. I looks so weird :) but I also love it

Christmas

Then came Christmas, I must say it was kind of sad knowing it would be my last Christmas at home as well. It was a good Christmas though, got to love house stuff. It is so funny how the types of things you get for Christmas change at different stages of your life. I will miss the clothes stage :)

This was our little Christmas tree, we did not have time to put up our big one. It was so cute.

New Years Eve

This new years eve was so much fun, we went up to a cabin in Ogden. It was a nice little getaway. We all stayed up until midnight, even Paetyn.

New Year Toast

We also had our "Groomals" and they turned out amazing. I must say in all but one bor two pictures you can tell how freezing we were {especially me.} Once again we love Brody!

We have just been super busy, it seems like there is so much going on. We are super excited to finally be married.

P.S we love our webcam! Happy Wednessday!

And So The Story Was Told . . . . .

We are engaged!!!! It is finally here and official!! After 4 years of dating it is about time, right?!

On Nov 20th the plan was to go out to dinner to the Gateway with all of Aaron's siblings. We were the first to arrive so we put our names down on the list at Happy Sumo.

{Now you must know that it was so rainy and windy and cold! Poor Aaron had not planned on such yucky weather.}

Once our names were down Aaron asked me if I wanted to walk around and shop a little while. Thinking I would say yes, so he could get me down to the fountain where everything was lit up with lights and the water was going and it being so beautiful down there. I said NO :)

{Little did I know everyone was waiting down there hidden, ready to take pictures of the wonderful moment, FYI we were on the total opposite side of the Gateway}

Finally Aaron convinced me to walk around a little bit so we headed down to the fountains. I was miserable, it was raining and cold my hair was getting wet.

YES I was being a little bit of a drama queen

So Aaron gave me his coat to wear because it had a hood.

I was still freezing and not going for it :)

Once Aaron realized he wasn't getting me any further he decided to just forget the fountain and proposed right there. Realizing I was wearing his coat {which is where the ring was} He unzipped his front pocket and pulled out the ring

I was so surprised! I made a gasp and he knelt down on one knee and told me he loved me and asked me if I loved him and if would do something for him. He asked if I would make him the happiest man in the world. Of course all of my answers were yes and then he asked the big one, Will You Marry Me?

It was wet and cold, I was freezing but it was perfect! I would not change a thing!

Yay so Happy

Love that Aaron has a big wet spot on his knee from where he knelt down

Nothing like Sushi to celebrate

Thanks everyone for being there

In the car so excited!!!

I absolutely LOVE my ring

I love you babe!! You make me so happy!! I cant wait to marry you!!

One Last Celebration

I love birthdays!!! I had once last birthday celebration with my family. We also celebrated my cousin Anna's 9 birthday.

I loved my cake. It was way super cute and so delicious.

Yay for more presents

Happy Birthday to Nesha and Jason!!!

P.S. I love being 21

Halloween Crafts

So I got together with Aaron's sisters, mom and Carlee, and we had a craft day. It was so much fun and such a good idea. I made Halloween "Boo" blocks, they turned out so sticking cute! I love them. I cant wait to make more for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Alyse and Ruby made a candy corn wreath {super cute!} Mindy made pumpkin bats {way cute} and Carlee was there to help and make cookies :)

It was so much fun but I didn't realize how tiring crafts make you. I love crafts and it was nice to take a break from sewing and to do more crafty things.

Here is my supplies needed. It is really inexpensive which is one of the best parts.

Supply List:

• Desired paper
• Stickers/what you want to decorate with
• Ribbon
• Hot glue gun
• Mod Podge
• Desired sized wood blocks {best thing to do is go to Home Depot and look in the scap bins, find yourself a piece of wood. decide what size,my blocks are 4X3.5X1.5. They will cut the wood there for you.} Price = $0.54
• Letter stamps and craft paint{or you can use vinyl lettering}
• Sandpaper

1. I cut the scapbook paper to the right sizes
2. Then I Mod Podged the paper onto the wood. { I put paper on everything except the bottom}

The blocks should start looking like this, here is side #1 of the block

Side #2

3. Once the paper was all on I sanded the edges of the paper to distress and antique the blocks

4. Then I decorated the blocks how I wanted. {There are so many things you can do to decorated, NO LIMITS}

Side #1 "Boo" side

Side #2 "Trick-or-Treat" side

I absolutely love them! They turned out so cute!!

Finally 21, and legally able to do everything I've been doing since 15

Well that is not quite true. LOL But it is true I am 21 now. Geeze I never thought this day would come. I remember thinking when I was little that being 21 seemed so far away and so old. Well I am here now :)

P.S. I never thought my 21st picture on my driver license would be with braces!

It was quite a birthday and so much fun. I had to work on my birthday but that was quite alright. Aaron brought me Cafe Rio for lunch and flowers. My parents also got me flowers and we had root beer floats at work. { they were so good, my favorite} I figured now being 21 since I couldn't drink real beer at work that root beer would have to do :)

Ashlee, Jason, Austin & Lincoln also came up to work. They brought me balloons and had root beer floats

It was a good day

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Wendover

Aaron turned 21 in May and my parents told us that when I turned 21 that they would take us to Wendover. So the day after my birthday we headed to Wendover.

It was a lot of fun. We had fun gambling, needless to say we didn't come home millionaires. It was a nice little trip.

Yay driving to Wendover

Dinner at the Rain Forest Buffet

Our room was so nice. We loved it

The best part was the Jacuzzi hot tub right next to the bed

It was so nice

Thanks Mom and Dad for taking us, it was a lot of fun

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We went up to A.F. Canyon to celebrate my birthday with Aaron's family.

The weather was perfect Fall weather

Mmmmm delicious messy smores, my favorite is with Reese, hence the brown teeth.

Yay for presents!

{Got to love Ryan in the back, Classic}

Love the Ikea gift card

Super Cute rug

Thanks everyone for coming and for the presents!