one down!

oh guys...

i know my endless rants about how madly in love with scotty i am are probably getting so old and so annoying.

but i am SO madly in love and i dont care if you think it's getting old or annoying!
heres the coolest thing about today:

exactly a year ago, scotty and i decided that we were "official" and that we didnt want to date anyone else.

so for a whole year straight, THIS GUY has been the only one on my mind!
oh gosh look at him. he's so cute, huh?
i can't believe today is our one year anniversary. and not because "time flies by so fast!" or "it seems like it was just yesterday!" ... but because in all honesty, it feels like it should be our 10th year anniversary or something haha.
i know it's cliche, but i feel like i've known scotty my entire life! our love and friendship is the strongest i've ever felt, how have we only been dating a year?! haha.

we have had so many laughs and good times over the past twelve months. i used to think my insane level of giddiness would wear off after a while... but it just keeps getting worse! i hate spending any time away from him! (my mother will back me up here)

i really dont know how i got so lucky. i dont know what good deeds i did previously in my life to deserve such a handsome man as my fiancee.
i dont know why scotty thinks that he is lucky when i am CLEARLY the one getting the better end of the deal here!
i dont know if i will be able to survive the 2 months and 15 days away from him before our wedding while i'm at school. i dont know if we'll ever come to an agreement on a basketball game (note byu/unlv rivalry picture below) and i dont know if i will ever get sick of staring at his adorable face.

but what i do know, is that in exactly 106 days i will be marrying my sweetheart for time and all eternity in the las vegas temple (typing that makes me giddy, too). and i could not be more excited.

happy anniversary scotty boy. i love you!

HP7P2

i literally just got back from harry potter 7 part 2.

i am still giddy.

you may or may not remember that i happen to be a loyal harry potter fan.

it seems like just yesterday i was all hyped up about part 1... and now it's all over.

it's all over.

EW! those words are like fingernails on a chalkboard.

in attempt to overcome the sadness i feel when thinking about the harry potter series being over, let us go through my thoughts about the final movie.

1. i forgot how much i LOVE professor mcgonagall. she was outstanding!

2. hermione and ron's kiss after destroying the cup was definitely a favorite moment (and right before that, when ron opens the door "harry talks in his sleep" ...haha)

3. almost started to like malfoy... until he crossed the line when voldemort said "come join me" .... punk. wish he died instead of fred.

4. remember when harry, ron, and hermione were in the room of requirement and malfoy's stupid little friends set the room on fire? was anyone else thinking of aladdin escaping from the cave of wonders!? oh my gosh it was all i could think about haha. essentially it was the same exact scene except harry was on a broom and aladdin was on a carpet.

5. snape made me cry. snape's love for lilly made me cry, too.

6. i miss the old dumbledore.

7. i thought the last little bit (19 years later) was precious. to be honest, i completely forgot about that whole chapter being in the book until after the movie was over haha. then it all came back to me. harry's son was adorable.

8. i hope 10+ years from now nobody tries to make some stupid sequel about the kids. i'll die. you can't add on to these 8 movies. (does number 7 count as two movies?) you just can't.

9. neville longbottom = champ

10. all in all, i'd just wrap it up with the word "amazing"... my jaw dropped, my eyes watered, my heart pounded, and my eyes were glued. very well done.

i dont know what to do with myself now. no more midnight parties to buy a new harry potter book, no more racing with friends to read the book in a matter of days, no more fighting with mitchell to take turns reading, and no more midnight premiers drawing a lightning bolt on my forehead. it's been a bittersweet night for the potter fans.

i can explain.

listen...

i'm sorry.

I KNOW!

i'm sorry!!!

i haven't blogged in forever.

i've had like one post in the past month and a half.

forgive me?

-if your answer was "yes," feel free to stop reading here.

-if your answer was "no"... proceed.

but i have excuses!

here's what i've been doing lately instead of blogging:

1. working 40 hrs a week

2. looking at wedding blogs

3. creeping on wedding pictures on facebook

4. exploring the wedding section of pinterest

5. traveling to utah to have engagement pictures taken

6. reading bridal magazines (i have about 12 in my room)

7. daydreaming about scotty

8. feeling different materials for chair sashes

9. discovering that there are A TON of different shades of pink (pink, baby pink, coral pink, dark pink, shrimp pink, bubble gum pink, fuchsia pink, hot pink, cherry blossom pink, flamingo pink, i cant stop seeing pink)

10. attempting to become domestic by cooking and cleaning

11. going crazy by keeping a day-by-day countdown til the wedding. (136!!!!!!!!!!!!)

12. annoying everyone i come in contact with by talking wedding talk. (it just comes up.. like word vomit)

13. wasting the past 10 minutes to fail at finding a youtube clip of the scene in mean girls where cady talks about word vomit

14. sleeping

15. changing my mind every few days about what the wedding announcements will look like

16. practicing for the day when we will register at target (so we have a plan of attack)

17. playing fun games on my new iphone

18. eating

19. reading articles on how to design a wedding favor that is practical, and at the same time meaningful and cute.

20. trying on my wedding dress every few days to make sure i'm not getting any fatter

21. debating cake or no cake (i want to have a cake cutting but i dont really like cake)

22. writing in my journal lots and lots so i dont forget this special exciting year of my life (nothing will ever be quite like this!)

23. shopping at michaels with mother to buy supplies for a cute DIY centerpiece idea

24. meeting with different reception decorators every other night (sometimes for two 1/2 hours at a time)

25. stopping to stare at the temple when i'm on the top floor of the regional justice center and feeling all giddy inside

that's all i got.

was that enough for you?

yes? good. thank you for your understanding.

no?! bite me.

isn't it about... time?

hey! hey! hey!!!

remember this?

yeah. i do too.

and exactly four months after the iphone was available to verizon and practically taunting me with every other commercial, i made the best purchase of my life.

i'm kind of really really really excited about it.

trying to fall asleep last night was hard.

anyone have apps they recommend?

wanna play words with friends?

facetime?

i'm so cool now :)

haha just kidding...

but really.

farewell, my friend.

a wise woman once said, "devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it." now, i don't know about "daring," but i'll be doing something later on today that i can't believe i'm doing- watching this woman's farewell show.

oh oprah, how do i begin to convey my feelings for you to my blog readers?

i'm not exactly sure when or where this obsession started... but the farthest i can trace it back to is early middle school. i remember coming home from school almost every day and watching the oprah winfrey show with my mom- it became our bonding hour. and in 8th grade english class, we had to write a professional letter to a company. i wrote one to harpo asking for tickets to the show for my teacher and myself. (although we never heard a response, i got an A). then freshman year, leah and i were absolutely thrilled to meet Stedman Graham when he came to speak at bonanza. i will never regret ditching class for him. i still smile when i think about the fact that i've hugged someone Oprah has hugged.

it was very exciting. even more exciting than the night leah called me and told me that her mom was staying at the same hotel as oprah in hawaii. oh what i would have given to fly there and stalk her down. then sophomore year came around, and i was assigned an 8 page biography on anyone i wanted. you guessed it: oprah winfrey. as if i didn't admire her enough before, writing the biography changed everything. i learned specific details about her humble beginnings and childhood that i had never heard. i learned about charities and scholarships and service projects that she put on without even announcing on the show. she gives so much more than we know. she truly is inspirational. i wrote all of this in my paper, and then emailed it to oprah. even after my multiple letters/emails to her, i never made it on the show. so this is the closest i've gotten to her:

a wax figure. i guess it will have to do. junior year reminds me of watching oprah with friends. one of my favorite episodes is oprah & gayle's road trip. the fab five and i had a party to watch the road trip episodes together! oprah and gayle are so funny, we were all laughing the whole time. and when we found out oprah and gayle had matching pink crystal pinky rings, leah and i bought ourselves some matching pink crystal pinky rings. leah is my gayle. year after year, we watched her favorite things episode and envied every person in the audience. senior year, oprah was a vital part of my daily routine. with most of my friends gone for college, who better to turn to than opie? (that's her childhood nickname, incase you were wondering). then i moved to college, and realized that my life was lacking without oprah due to my tv-less dorm room. i ripped out a picture from her magazine and thumb tacked it to the wall on my desk. the picture was of her at the very beginning of her career. i kept it there all year to remind me that i can do anything i set my mind to. it made me work harder. i know this is dumb and cliche and weird, but in a way i feel like i grew up with her. yes i know she is 37 years older than i am. but i remember her 50th birthday celebration, and she inspired my ideas for girls camp as youth camp director. i wrote poems about her in high school, and she introduced me to dr. oz. we laughed together, we cried together. she shared her "ah-ha moments" and i read the O magazine monthly. i was there when she found out she had a half-sister! she may not know it, but i say we have a pretty solid bond. some of our favorite things are josh groban, the color green, ipads, chicago pizza, chips, playing scrabble, and ugg boots.

i can't believe today marks the day of her last show. no doubt this will be a day i remember for the rest of my life. everyone remembers significant days like this. "where were you when the berlin wall fell?" "where were you when you heard the news about 9-11?" "...when princess diana died?" today can just be added to the list. sometimes i hope that an "OWN network 2" will come out and just be reruns and reruns of oprah shows. did you know she has recorded over 5,000 episodes? they should be compiling them into a multi-disc collection like they did for the 20th anniversary. and when they do, i'll be first in line to get it. but until then, i say farewell to oprah. it's been a great 20 years. don't laugh at me when i bawl my eyes out watching the final episode later on today.

love you long time.

more lovin:

http://cathyzielske.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/05/what-she-has-meant-to-me.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/business/media/23oprah.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto

third time's a charm.

the past 6 months and 2 weeks that i've been engaged have been quite busy to say the least.

every couple weeks or so my main priority changes.

for a while it was a dress.

photographer. (shout out to STEPHANIE PATTERSON!)

hoop skirt.

food.

colors.

food.

dj or no dj?

you get the point.

there are about a billion things left to plan and i keep jumping back and forth from cakes to colors not having any idea what to do.

last month's plan of attack was to find the perfect shoe.

once upon a time in march, i fell in love with this beauty.
gorgeous right? i have been obsessing over these glittery pumps since the second i laid eyes on them. however, slight problem. i had to use every ounce of self-control inside of me to refrain from buying these shoes. i try so hard to save my money... but somehow it all disappears. this summer i've made a goal to only buy things that i need so i can make better use of the money later for things like food, or rent. i figured these $100 could be spent somewhere else, and i would sacrifice for a more frugal shoe.

not to fear! my personal-shoe-expert/best-friend leah found these online for a steal! what do you know? the same thing for half the price. genius. the only thing missing was the enzo angiolini stamp of awesomeness, but i can live with out that. perfect, right?

wrong. apparently i have a horrible sense of guestimation in size/scale... if you get what i'm saying. show me a picture of a building and ask me how tall or wide it is and i have no freaking idea. ask me how many people are in a room- i dont know. i have issues with estimating things. so if you looked at this picture and thought "that heel is really high" you are one step ahead of me. the heel was insanely high. high enough to make me taller than scotty, which is not okay in my book.

so in my pseudo goldilocks and the three bears scenario, i move on to the third choice.

from target.

a whopping $27.

perfect height.

and juuuuuust right.

i have a feeling my glitter pumps and i will live happily ever after.

mommy

happy mothers day, all.

if you haven't met my beautiful mother.... your life is probably significantly suckier than mine.

remember this? and number two in this list? oh and how could we forget this one?

my mom is the best. if that's not enough evidence for you, fear not. i could keep going for days.

first of all, look at how cute she is

she's so pretty. i know, i know. it's hard to believe that she's my mother when she doesn't look a day over 25.

i love the weird crap we do together. we used to love going to the gym together. we love talking about going running together. we love ice cream/fro yo. we love costco trips. we love laying out together. we love watching oprah and ellen together. we do stupid things like the master cleanse and are each others support systems. she is my biggest supporter. she is always so good about pushing me to do school work, real work, and to not drop out of college.

she is the best advice giver. i tell her my problems and she can always fix them. i love that about her.

she is so cute. she is always talking to hummingbirds outside or our turtles. she has names for all of them and we like to make fun of her (but only because we love her)
we love how she gets a weird british accent when she's mad.
she's always been such a great example to me. she has such an amazing testimony and is so faithful. she has taught me how to serve others. my mom is the most selfless person i know. i have so many memories of her taking food to people, or dropping her plans for the day to go help someone in need.

so to my own personal and all-time favorite chauffeur, cook, alarm clock, nurturer, teacher, doctor, cheerleader, financial adviser, photographer, friend, and secret keeper: HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!