!~T.W.O.W.E.E.K.S~!

so lately... we have been planning the wedding! and everything is just about ready to go.. just the litte things left!! its been stressful and only gettting more and more stressful as days go by. . but... it will get better!! we are down to 2 weeks from today!! we are sooo extremely excited!! we have a basement apartment in idaho falls by the river! its a pretty good location! and its just that much more incentive to get out and either run or walk because we are so close to the green belt!! its great! and we are close to the temple so we can attend that pretty often!! its going to be great!! We finally got the announcements in the mail last night.. and that is such a relief!! We just wanted to thank all those who have been supported and offered their help and love to us all!! we really appreciate it!! We hope to see lots of you there in 2 weeks at the reception!! its in my neighbors back yard.. so pretty much just right behind my house from 6 to 8:30!! so your all invited!! We cant wait for 2 weeks. its such a great feeling to know that we're going to be sealed for time and all eternity to the love of our life!!

UPDATE!

ok... I have been extremely bad about this whole blogging thing. I have slacked off for over a month!! ahh... So here is the last little while in review....

As you know.. Skylar and I are getting married!! We finally set a date that worked for both families, since they are both super busy this whole summer.. We picked July 17th!! In the Rexburg Temple! And it is SET!! We are sooo EXCITED!!! I can hardly wait to enter the temple for the first time.. I am anxious to have the feeling of peace come over me and feeling the spirit sooo strong is what I want! After finally getting the date set and reserved at the temple, we started the wedding planning!! After months and months of looking for a dress.. I finally found it at Margene's. The funny thing is, is that the dress I bought isn't even close to what I imagined wearing on my wedding day! But, apparently thats how it works for alot of girls is what the girls at Margene's told me. After the stress of the dress, we picked out Sky's tux. But, guys are so easy going that it was easy for us to accomplish that part of planning. We then moved on to deciding what the brothers and sisters are going to wear.! We found shirts and ties at JCPenny for the brothers, and my amazing grandma is going to make the skirts for the sisters! I am sooo excited to see the final result! My grandma is truly amazing at everything she does! I love her to death! Then we decided that the dads will have matching ties with the brothers, and the moms can wear whatever they would like, as long as they are in the c olors!! :) Then we moved on to picking out flowers! We are having Floral Classics do them! And they have been soo good to work with us on what we want and giving us their opinion on whether or not our ideas will look good! But, we just finalized all the flowers and its going to be stunning! We have started on the center pieces for the reception! Which are going to be sooo fun! Its going to be a very enjoyable project to work on! Thanks to Skylar, he has helped alot with those! Thanks to Cari Webb for taking our engagement pictures! They are awesome! And we had a blast taking them! She is great at what she does, and its even more fun because she knows us both and she knows our personalities! As for the rest of the wedding plans, they are coming along! We have tons of ideas, now we just have to put them into action! It has been a stressful road, and the stress isn't over! And thanks to the dads and skylar for being patient with the girls and our stress levels!! :) I will be so glad when the planning is over! Huge thanks goes out to my own mother whom I adore and love with all my heart, and also to Amy, the best future mother-in-law a girl could ask for. They have both been patient with us and willing to jump on something that needs done! Thanks guys for all your help!! I know its long... but this has been pretty much our lives for the past couple of months! We can't wait for July 17th to be here - and we are praying for good sunshine weather!!

?Winter? or ?Spring?

This is at about 1 p.m on April 15, 2009!!! Can you believe it?! SNOW!! I thought it was SPRING!?!? ... I must be wrong!

A tree outside my office.... with snowThe sidewalk... and some trees... its crazy! you cant even see the grass!

The snowflakes were GIGANTIC!! It was soooo crazy!

this is about 6 pm the same day.. its off the trees and starting to go away!!

the same tree outside my window.. snow... gone.!

THEN.... all of a sudden it started snowing about 9:30 pm.. and went for most of the night.. and this is what we ended up with!

Snow on the Morning of April 16th. There was soooo much!!

you can see how much snow we got over night...


The tree outside the door... the snow was weighing it down so much!

This tree had just blossomed with cute pink and white flowers about 2 days .. and now they are dead.. poor things

You can see how the snow was sooo heavy.. it was weighing down sooo many branches...
and sooo many of them were broken off the tree and in the road.. it was one crazy night!

So being the crazy people we are, chelsie (a girl i work with), and i went and acutally measured the snow... it is a whopping 10 inches... WOW!

What a crazy last couple of days... Sunshine.. High temps... Rain.. and then the next thing you know we end up with snow covered cars, roads, and yards. But its bound to get better!

!~EaStEr 2009~!

Easter this year was a blast! The weather was GREAT!! I went up to Sugarhouse (Which is part of SLC) to my friend Stephanie's house for dinner!! I made a jell-o salad and made a bunny head on top with marshmallows!! it was sooo cute.. and delicous!! We had pot roast, potatoes, carrots, salads, cobbler, brownies, cheesecake, rice krispie treats, and much more!! it was SOOOO YUMMY!!! After dinner me and steph hopped on the piano and serendaded everyone with our skills! and one of the other guys, (I don't remember his name) played his guitar!! haha It wasn't as good as you think, but it was fun! Then we had dance lessons by "YOSEF"!! haha his real name is joseph, but since there are 2 of them, we altered his name! That was hilarious to watch them dance! After the dancing ceased, me and steph walked to the park that is around the corner.. and there we had fun!! as some of the pictures explain!! yes, we are dorks! but we love it!! and we have come to the conclusion that being the dorks we are- make us who we are today! we just have to love life! I met a lot of great people that day! and especially Kim - Stephs friend. She has inspired me to look on the positive side of life everyday no matter what. She has been thru the unbearable and you wouldn't have any idea what she is dealing with unless someone told you. You would think her life was just grand. Thanks Kim for being an inspiration to sooo many people with your faith and happiness!! Overall, Easter was great! (except I didn't get to see my family) ! But it was good! I can't wait till next Easter!!!

Easter!

So on my way to work this morning, traffic was AWFUL... I'm pretty sure Utah is big on the whole Easter Egg Hunts. Just a little FYI.. In Salt Lake City, there is an Easter Egg hunt with over 20,000 eggs put on by American Family Insurance and the Jazz. WOW!! that is soooo many eggs!! It takes a lot of people to put that on! So I'm sure SLC traffic was a lot worse than Orem. But the Hunt in Orem is literally right down the road from my work.. and there were kids EVERYWHERE with their bags, bucket, and baskets! they were all pretty cute and ready to get the candy and eggs. I miss those days when I went to the City of Menan Easter Egg Hunt. Hopefully my mom will save me my easter basket and not let the siblings get into it!!! Lets all remember the real meaning behind the easter season and that its not all about the candy, or dying eggs. Lets remember our Savior. And what he did for us. Let us all be thankful with all our hearts for the Resurrection. He did it for us, please don't take it for granted.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYBODY!!! :]

eNgAgEd!~ and LOVING it!!

On Christmas Eve 2008 we were at Skylars house for the Thompson family Christmas Eve get together. We were playing with all of the cousins and joking around with his aunts and uncles. His mom then asked him to run to the store for her to get some more crackers for the cheese ball she had just made. (It was delicious!!) She said she didn't think she had enough. So he told me to get my coat and we'd run to the store.. I kept asking myself where in the world we were going to get crackers this time of night (It was like 6 or 7) on Christmas Eve. But I went. He asked me to drive since the "dirtymax" was blocked in. So we hopped in my car and headed for good ole Broulims in Rigby. When we got the end of his subdivision where we had to turn left or right, I went to turn right, and he told me to go left. At this point I was extremely confused.... But I went along with it and just gave him funny looks. We played the "game" where I drove, and he told me where and when to turn. I'm pretty sure we wasted half a tank of gas and he got some really confused looks from me. After the long drive around.. we headed for Hwy 20. Headed Northbound. He told me to get off on the 1st Rexburg exit. Again.. I was confused because the grocery stores are all after the 2nd exit!! But I did as he said. Before I knew it we ended up in front of the Rexburg Temple.!!! It was a cold and snowy night... with an "Idaho" breeze!! It was then and there that he told me he wanted to take me there and spend the rest of his life with me. Of course I totally and completely agreed!!! After basking in the moment and taking it all in, he jumped in and said we had to hurry and get the crackers for his mom.!! All of the driving around made no sense to me and I am still confused to this day about it!! But we headed for Broulims in Rexburg to grab the crackers his mom had said she just "HAD" to have, and headed back to his house.. That was the best Christmas Eve I've had!! I am sooo excited to get married!! We are thinking July 10th.. but I will keep you all posted!!

Seniors '08

Now we have reached that time in our lives where we enter the last year of high school. We have dreamed of this day most of our lives. I was so excited to be out of high school!! And so was every one else in the class of 2008!! At the beginning of our senior year, I was dating a kid from the little town of Parker. (For those of you who don't know... it's a tiny little town located west of St. Anthony and close to the Sand Dunes) Then came October 22nd. I got a text saying "Hey! Whats up?" I had no idea who it was, so I responded asking who it was. I received a text back informing me it was Skylar Thompson. I was shocked. I had seen him a couple of times here an there but hadn't talked to him since the harvest ball our junior year. We started talking and I asked him why he decided to text me randomly. He replied, "I honestly still haven't gotten over you since 7th grade, and every time I see you at Yellowstone Do It Center working, I get the chills and I always ask myself what I would do to get you back." WOW... is all I had to say. I was speechless. I wasn't sure what to think, much less how to respond to that. So then I'm sure I said something stupid, but he asked me if we could hang out sometime. Uh... I had a boyfriend... would that be considered cheating?!? I didn't think so, since my boyfriend couldn't hang out that night anyway, so I told him I would hang out that night.. but that was it. Nothing more. Again- little did I know what the future was going to bring. So I went over to his house and we just chilled for the night. During our talking that we did, Skylar asked me when I was going to break up with the boyfriend I had. He tried to convince me to do it, but I told him no. I will be honest, I really felt bad that I was hanging out with Skylar over my boyfriend. But it really got me thinking over the next couple days. And then... on October 24th, I broke it off with my boyfriend from Parker. And regardless of what you all may think- including Skylar, I didn't break if off just so I could be with Skylar, in fact, I had no intentions of hooking up with anyone after that for a while. The following Sunday I headed to Boise for my state newspaper convention. While I was there, Skylar and I talked day in and day out, just like we were old friends. I came back on that Tuesday and it was Halloween. And, of course, I went to Skylar's house for the party. But I am pleased to inform you, that nothing happened that night, and we didn't hook up. But..... 10 days after I broke up with my last guy, on November 4th, 2007, Skylar asked me to be his girlfriend again.. this time it was over the phone that night, and not in a note... we're improving on the people skills by now!! And yes.. I told him I'd think about it. So we kept talking and then right before we hung up... I told him yes.. I would be his girl friend. After that night, we were inseparable. Our parents had to fight us to keep us away from each other for a night. The days and months went by and it was finally graduation!! We had finally made it to the day we looked forward to from the time we were little!! On May 21, 2008, Skylar picked me up and we headed up to BYU-I for graduation. On the way up.. he handed me a shoe box that was wrapped. He told me I had to open it right away. So I did. Inside I found another box, wrapped. So I unwrapped that one as well. Inside was a ring box. I looked at him and gave him the "what is this?" look. He told me to just open it and tell me what I thought of it. So I did. Inside was a promise ring!! I LOVE IT!!! I put it on and I refused to take it off!!! It is sooo pretty!!! I still couldn't believe that he got it for me.. It was awesome tho. Then we walked across the stage and received our diplomas and had the best feeling ever.. knowing that we had accomplished a great task that lead to us GRADUATING!!! It was sooo awesome!!! That night was the all night party... it was a blast as well! Then for the next few days, my life was spent packing. I was headed off to New York the beginning of June to be a nanny. Skylar wasn't very happy about it and it was hard for both of us to say good bye. But still... we talked day in and day out while I was gone. It was one of the hardest summers of my life.! But we stuck together and I'm glad we did. When I returned, (another one of those happiest days!!) I ended up living in Orem, Utah. (Where I currently live, but getting ready to move home.) I love this kid to death. We have been through soooo much more than we would have liked to.. but we have stuck by each others sides thru it all. Unfortunately, our relationship has been long distance since June 08, (please don't feel bad) and I don't recommend it to anyone! lol.. Its been a challenge, but we've grown so much from it. But it will get better!! I know it will!! Ü