It's been awhile... but here you go!

So the last 2 1/2 months have been really crazy. Of course, what else would you expect from me :D The wedding planning is going really good, still haven't done a whole bunch but I did finally get my dress! It's ivory with I guess you could say renaissance or ornate beading (I'm not too good with beading types or material types so don't ask me what it's even made of!!) All I know is that I absolutely love it. It was definitely hard to choose between the two dresses I had picked out though because one was the fairy tale ever since I was a little kid type of dress and the other was this gorgeous dress and I am pretty positive now that I made the right decision to be pretty rather than a princess. Other than that I've finally asked my cousin Amber and cousin Leah to be my Matron and Maid of Honor and my sister Jessica to be my Bridesmaid and my sister Hunter to be my Flower Girl. I know that Amber and Leah will have fun planning my bachelorette party and can't wait to see what they will have in store for me! I've also booked my reception site. So I guess I'm finally heading in the right direction :D

The house shopping has gone great. We finally got accepted on a home and go figure that the house that we loved became available again the day before so we decided to go ahead and accept the first house and put an offer in on the house we loved (we had already tried twice for this home and been beaten out by higher bidders) well, we got accepted on it also about 3 days later and canceled the first acceptance and have been trying to close for about the last month. We were supposed to close on May 29th but the appraiser took until June 5 to come out. I was happy though because he valued the house at 10k less then what we offered. Then we had to wait for the seller (foreclosure) to approve the new price, they finally did on June 11 and now I'm just waiting for bank paperwork and the final ok from the FHA appraiser!!! We're trying really hard to close by this Friday but with the way things have been I think it'd be safer to say we will be closing next week. I'm going to definitely keep hoping though.

Last Monday was my 4-year anniversary with the company I work for. It doesn't seem like that long ago but wow does time fly. I started at this company 2 days before receiving my High School Diploma (which means it's been 4 years today that I received it!). It's crazy to think that the amount of time I spent out of high school is the same amount of time that I stayed in it as well.

Well, hopefully it's not that long before my next update but we'll see... so far I haven't been to good at it but then again I am just a newbie :D

It's been 3 months...

Well, it's been 3 months since Jared finally proposed to me and 8 1/2 months til the wedding!!! Not a lot of planning going on yet (on paper) but it's all in my head :D Our colors are going to be a chartreuse green, autumn orange and ivory and we are going to be accenting in brown. I'm not sure what kind of flowers yet but I've gone to try on dresses once and I found one that I'm pretty sure I'm going to be getting, just want my aunts and cousins to see it and give me their opinions too. This is definitely uncharted waters here and I'm still debating on how big the actual wedding will be. Just family between us is over 300 people being invited so I'm thinking that we're probably going to have to have a barbeque at a park or something!!! haha

Other than wedding plans and ideas going around I've decided to make myself busier and I'm going to be going to back to school full-time, I'm the receptionist and office manager at work (the only girl for the entire company so I do everything now), and I'm buying our first home!!! Home buying is so fun but so time consuming also. I found a house that we like and we are going to be putting in an offer tomorrow as long as our dads give it the go :D Hopefully this one will go through... Wish me luck!!!

Poppin' the Question

So now that everyone knows how Jared and I started together here comes the fun part - the engagement! of course I knew that it was coming but it was just a matter of when and how. First I thought well Thanksgiving is coming up, maybe around then, but no, and then Christmas and still no, so I decided to stop guessing and just let it happen. On New Year's Eve Jared asked me if I would want to hang out with his friends that night because they were all going to go up to the Las Vegas Temple to watch the fireworks on the strip. I agreed and so at 11 p.m. we headed up to the temple... with no blankets. After about 3 minutes of sitting outside I have the bright idea that Jared should ask Jake to bring some blankets, so Jared sends a text and about a minute later tells me that Jake is bringing them. Now, since he actually texted him I really didn't think he'd be doing it that night, especially since friends were coming and we wouldn't be alone. 5 minutes til midnight and I am watching every car that turns down the street and am losing my patience with Jake because I'm cold. Jared then asks me what my New Year's Resolution is and what I want from the New Year. I tell him that I want to drink less Dr. Pepper (yea, like that's going to happen) and work out more, the same one that everyone else has. The fireworks start to go off and then the big moment. He looks at me and tells me that he wants to start the new year off right, kneels down on one knee, takes a box out of his pocket and asks me to marry him. And of course I said yes. So now comes the wedding planning. November 20 here I come :D. --- by the way, afterwards, on our way home Jared finally tells me that he never actually texted Jake, instead it was Google... he did it to trick me so I would keep believing him! Well, it worked.

How we Met

Well, most people know that Jared and I have known each other and have been together for a LONG time but most people don't know the story of how we met. We actually met for the first time at a church dance. At the time he was dating one of my friends and so we didn't pay too much attention to each other. About a year later we met again because he started to date the same friend from the previous year. All my friends tried to get me to date his friends but none of them seemed to work and eventually he and my friend broke up. Well, a couple of months later the same friend asked me to try to get them to get together again so I arranged a small volleyball game at O'Callahan park and instead of trying to get back together with him, my friend brought a date so it left me and Jared together to play in the sand. When I took him home that night he asked me to go on a date with him and I accepted. We went to a movie (Starsky & Hutch) and the whole time I remember wondering if he was going to hold my hand at all and he didn't! We went on a couple of dates after that and eventually started to date exclusively. He ended up going to BYU following high school which only lasted a semester (I like to say that he missed me too much) and we've been together ever since he got back.