I am a slacker

I'm a horrible slacker that doesn't ever update my blog.  However, here's what's been happening. 
-School started!
-We took engagements!  (by the fabulous Matt Olsen!)
-We registered (at Target)!
-Got more wedding stuff accomplished!
-Wendy got moved in!

Anyways... also, while you are reading this, if you haven't gotten me your address send me a message with your address attached so I can get you an invitation as soon as we get them.  Thanks! 

I have...

A NEW APARTMENT!!!!

And it is FABULOUS!!!!  I'm so excited.  Except for the moving part, which is what we are working on this weekend.  But we've already moved the big stuff which is great!  On to the rest of my room.  I will post pictures later!

Oh my goodness!

It's August already!  Can you believe it!?!?!  I know I can't!  But I'm excited!
Here are things that are going to happen, or already have happened this month!

- 1st Wally & Vicki Meiners Family Reunion!
- Kyle & Amy's Wedding
- Tamara's, Vickie's, and more Weddings
- Dan moves back to Moen
- I move into our new apartment!
- Engagement pictures!
- Hopefully going to the Hogle zoo!
- School starts!!!!

Now we just get to get them all done!  Woot!  Sad thing is, 1/3 of the month is already over!

Busy Busy Busy

I feel like there's so much to do!  Trying to plan a wedding is fun but stressful too!  I'm trying to get as much done as possible before school starts so I don't have to do as much of it during school.  So far, I've gotten a couple of things done.  We ordered my dress!  I'm really excited about it.  It was a slightly frustrating experience finding a dress because living in Utah, girls tend to get married when they are like 18-19 and they are super skinny.  While I'm not fat by any means, I have hips!  And it is really frustrating to try to find dresses when most sample sizes are a 6 or 8, when you need at least a 10 to at least be able to see it on.  But we ordered the dress I'm going with and it should be here in October!  (Then just alterations and we're good to go!)

We also set a date, in case you didn't know.  We are getting married November 19th in the Logan temple.

We've also decided on some of the food items for the reception, and I believe both reception and open house sites.

Now its on to the rest of the planning.  If anyone knows of a good photographer in Utah or Idaho, let me know. Also if anyone knows of a good DJ that would travel to Rupert for a reasonable price.

I'm engaged!!!!

I'm not even kidding!  I'm officially engaged!  And if you are reading this and didn't get a message or something from me, I'm sorry.  There are just so many people to tell.  But its exciting!

Here is the story.
July 14, 2010
After we both got done with work, we made dinner.  It was delicious!  We made open faced grilled cheese sandwiches.  Swiss cheese on rye bread with tomatoes on top!  Then we went to the zoo!  Logan's zoo is pretty sweet.  Its based on donations so its not too big but it has some cool stuff!  My favorite is the wallabies!  They are just SO cute!  Plus there are a lot of baby birds there right now!  Which are also incredibly cute!  After the zoo, Dan started this zombie application on my phone.    So we were heading to some destination and we ended up getting stuck in a dead end.  But there was this awesome park there that we decided to walk around while we waited out the zombies.  Well the zombies got too close and started chasing us so we had to run back to the car as fast as we could.  We almost had to peel out of the parking area!  Well then we ended up finishing our route to the amphitheater on campus!  This is a place where Dan and I have gone many times and talked and looked out at the Logan temple.  It's kind of "our place"  so it means a lot to us.  Well, we got there right at sunset and I was taking pictures of the sunset with my phone (while Dan was digging around in his pocket haha).  Well I turned towards him and he got down on one knee and told me that he loves me and that he wants to spend forever with me.  And then asked me to marry him!  I, of course, said yes!  And we hugged and kissed (gross I know) and then took a few more pictures!  It was perfectly us!  I love that man!  

 

Life is Fantastic!!!

It has been an awesome month so far.  I can't even tell you how great it has been so far.  I've been working on my thesis somewhat, mostly trying to get things figured out so I can actually make some progress on it later this summer.  And my professor is back from his Uganda trip which is great.

Earlier this month, Dan and I went to Rupert to meet up with my whole family!  It was nice to hang out with everyone!  We played some new games that Dan and I introduced to my family and played some scum as well.  We also got to go FISHING!  It's been so long since I've been fishing, 5 years in fact, and I don't really count that because it was at a planted pond.  But it was fun.  No one caught anything but it was fun to help the kids fish and we roasted these AMAZING marshmallows!  They were gigantic!  Not even kidding, its like the size of at least 4 marshmallows put together.  They were so yummy!  (Yummy yummy time!)  It was great!  On the way home, we stopped by Shoshone for ice cream!  I love the ice cream from there!  It's soo good!  And huge!
Here is Dan and I with our cones!  He got the large and I got the small!

The next week I got to spend in Rupert dog sitting!  It was nice because I got to go and visit with friends I haven't seen in a while, like Kristin!  And I got to play with baby Slade, (Ash's cute son!)  I also worked on my old bed.  I scrapped off the old stain that was on it and then painted it white and started to distress it!  It looked soo good!  I'm excited to use it this fall!  I still need to distress it some more but it was a lot of fun!  I want to work on more things like that!  There's this fabulous website that Brian introduced me to that shows you step by step how to do different things like that!  Its so cool!

Happy Birthday!

To Daniel!!!

I sure hope he had a great day.  I know I did. 

This weekend, we spent Friday night burning up almost ALL of my homework from the last FIVE, not kidding, five years of school... It was fabulous!  We had friends meet up with us at second dam and just burned it all!  We roasted marshmallows and had smores while we were at it. 

Then on Saturday, we went to Ogden to his grandparents, the Shirley's, 50th wedding anniversary.  It was a lot of fun!  I met almost all of Dan's family at it and can remember everyone name, even if I can't remember their faces.  The went to Lindon for the rest of the weekend.

On Sunday, Dan's birthday, we went to church and then came home and took a fabulous nap!  (Well, Dan did, I read.)  And then Dan's brother Kyle made dinner for the whole family.  Granted everyone helped but it was his ideas.  Dinner was amazing!  It was a Mediterranean type dinner.  Greek salad and such.  It was great.  Then we ate homemade ice cream and toppings and Texas sheet cake!  Then we played a lot of games! 

On Monday, we drove out to Tooele to spend Memorial day with Phillip and his family!  It was a lot of fun.  Phill cooked us burgers for lunch.  Then we went outside and played baseball for a really long time!  And Dan and I even raced on the wiggle cars!  That was awesome and I totally beat Dan!  Then when we went back inside, Dan and I made some cookies for the family and we played Sorry!  It was such a close game!  Phill ended up beating us though, but just barely.  Then Dan and I headed back to Logan.  On the way, we stopped by Zupas, which was Dan's first time.  He really liked it, but ended up getting food poisoning or something from there.  Which kind of sucked but he's doing a lot  better today. 

Overall, it was a great weekend, except for Dan getting sick.  I'm excited to see what this weekend brings because this will be the first weekend we've been home for the whole weekend this summer so far.  Should be fun!