wedding, wedding, wedding.....

woooo! planning this wedding is really getting down to the nitty gritty!  flowers were ordered today, i finally ordered J's ring, and my guest book is slowly coming along.  i was just thinking about it and this will be my 3rd guest book that i have made!  i love making them but man are they time consuming!  i am really  not that crafty of a person but i think the guest books have turned out really nice :)

here are some of the pages i have made in other guest books: (excuse the glare on some of these pics)

laura and spencer's colors were pink and brown and they got married in december :)  it was a way fun book to create!

whitney and brant's book was so fun!!! i had so many fun colors to choose from and it was way fun making one of my best friend's guest books!  (it doesn't hurt that whitney and brant are super cute!)

well, i probably should get back to my guestbook so it'll be done by my wedding :)   just thought i'd share with you!

recent happenings

and again, my blog gets neglected!  but i don't feel too bad about it!  I have been a busy gal!  Most have heard that I am getting married in September and I can't wait!  I am marrying the most amazing man and I am so grateful to call him my fiance (for now).  :)

J asked me to marry him on the 9th of July and even though I was persistent in bugging him, I had no clue that it was coming!  We hiked in Capital Reef National Park and we took the same hike we did when we first started dating in early November.  It was beautiful and this hike was definitely better than the last!  I got a ring

out of it!

this was the view looking up the mountain

this was looking down...and this is the very

spot where John asked me to marry him.  

my gorgeous ring that JC picked out by himself!

the entire ride home, i couldn't stop staring at my ring and I couldn't believe that John and I were finally official!  i had already gotten my wedding dress picked out (with the help of my bestie Will) and I felt like i have a good leg up on the wedding planning.  it still has been smooth sailing and i really don't feel very stressed at all!  J and I have an apartment all picked out in Rexburg where we will be living for a little bit and I am so excited to decorate! 

there are so many other things to update on but like always, I have no time!  I really need to post again but you know how that is.... baby steps. :)

  

memorial day and a weekend full of memories!

i'm a little late on this update but i have been so dang busy with school!  it's crazy!  this past week i finished all of my prerequisite work for student teaching and i felt like every one of my teachers decided this would be a great week to pile up all the work!  but i made it through thank goodness!  

for this past memorial day weekend i got to go down to salt lake city with j and we had so much fun!  the weekend went far too fast but that's how it always goes it feels like!  so not fair!  here are some of the great memories we made over the weekend:

- we had the BEST sushi at tona's in ogden!! 

-we had great company there as well, my cousin Jana and her boyfriend Jason came with us!! 

we had fun eating salmon, fish eggs, philly sushi, and sunburn sushi!  and our waitress had crazy good hearing!   :)

-J and i played a ton of tennis :) we played at East High's courts in salt lake where High School Musical was filmed!  Alli was super jealous when i told her i saw Zac Efron ;)  J's dad also hit me with a tennis ball in the back of the armpit, haha don't ask me how i managed to get hit there because i'm still amazed 

this is the view from the tennis courts

another good story to go along with playing tennis is the keys accidentally got locked in JC's trunk!  J stuck a hanger through the driver side window, pushed the manual window opener and pushed the window down!  then Catherine climbed in the trunk and found the keys!  I was so impressed!!! 

-one night J's Grandma Mackley stayed up with all of us and played some dominoes!  I actually won by 3 points and J's grandma is so cute!! She gets so fired up!!! It was a great night of games!

-J's family goes to a Spanish speaking ward in Salt Lake and usually when I got with them I just kinda sit and chill there.  But this time I got to have a translator in sacrament meeting!  I kinda felt goofy with the little headset on but it was good to actually know what they were saying. :)

-for sunday dinner J's mom made my favorite meal without even knowing!  ham and overnight potatoes!!! YUM!

-on memorial day we had a little get together with J's mom side of the family at a little campground up in the mountains... it was a little chilly but so much fun!

we were fanning the coals to get them going

J was the bbq master :)

J didn't shave the whole trip and he looked like a mountain man

-on the way back to rexburg, we stopped and had in-n-out :) it was sooo good!  a great way to end a perfect weekend! 

sorry little blog, i've been neglecting you....

man!  i haven't been on this thing in forever!  boo!  but i'm back :) this morning i was reading through some of my friends' adorable posts and i decided that i need to get back on top of this blog!  so here we go... :)

i'm up here at BYU-I again and this semester has been pretty great so far!!! i am pretty busy with 17 credits, trying to make it to the gym 4x a week, and making memories every chance i get!  i have amazing roommates and an amazing schedule!  (tuesdays and thursdays i only have 1 class at 3:15-4:15 LOVE IT)  i love that JC is up here to and we spend so much time together!  it's the best!

something happened today (which isn't really a surprise because it happens almost EVERY day) and it really started to make me laugh thinking of all of the past comments.  let me explain.....
for almost every outfit i wear, JC has someone or something to compare it to.  some of the past people i have looked like in J's opinion are:

a beatnik poet-

the pink power ranger-

a biker chick- 

sometimes i wear "grandma scarves"-

edward scissorhands (he was talking about my hair)-

a lion (again talking about my hair that day)-

and today, it was good ol Captain Jack Sparrow- 

now, i do have to say that none of these compliments are rude and JC always prefaces them with "you look great, you just look like _______"  haha it is pretty funny to hear who or what J will come up with next! i'm so grateful that we can joke around together and he thinks i have a fabulous wardrobe ;)

checkin' people out

i am so lucky.  at my job at the eye doctors office, i get to check people out all day long!!! haha just kidding, i just get to take their $ and print out their prescriptions  :)  i really do love my job, most of the time :)

recently, i have been a little snippy with patients i feel like.  i really do not do it intentionally, but i feel that my patience is growing thin.  it has been mainly just these past 3 days but i feel like every overly sarcastic or pushy patient has come in to see us.  haha it is really not that bad because i usually see the patient for an hour maximum  but i gotta stay calm, cool and collected before i hurt somebody's feelings :)

But straying away from the negative.... here are some of the things i LOVE about my job:

-I love helping people pick out glasses!  (it actually isn't part of my job but people will ask me my opinion on glasses they pick out and i think it's so fun!  i have always wanted to be a personal shopper)

-I love when little kids come in for their eye appointments! (kids are my favorite and i love when they try to cheat and stuff on their reading tests)

-I love when people i know come in!  it is so fun to see a familiar face in the office... :)

-I love when the elderly come in and they are in a good mood :) haha this goes for everybody but I have encountered so many sweet people who just need to see!  i love them

-I love my coworkers :) Britany, Danielle, Shannon, the doctors.... they are all great :)

-I used to HATE taking readings off of glasses to get the prescriptions but now i love it!  it's really a random thing to love but i think it's interesting how they make glasses... i love finding progressive readings now that i know how!

I have to admit, i'm kinda sad that i'm leaving for the summer semester because i will miss my coworkers but i can't wait to be up at school!  I just love helping people see, one day at a time :)

checkers

my little sister alli is here for her spring break and even after being sick for a couple of days and not seeing much of her because of a busy work schedule we have had so much fun!  i swear, alli is one of the funniest people i have ever met and she is always a blast!  i'm so happy that she's here with me for one more week!  

right before al came up we were skyping each other and she challenged me to a game of checkers and i told her to be prepared to get smoked.  after i dominated she exclaimed "this game is racist!"  this totally random statement is so alli and she spouts out things like this all the time!  i love her!  

i definitely think her breaks from school are far too short but i love every second that i get to spend with her.  alli and i have the horrid habit of being a little irreverent in church and i even though we are 21 and 18 years old my mom still threatens to separate us!  man, i love my sister!  

skyping saves

what would i ever do without you? haha probably die

long distance relationships are so tough.   on the sitcom "how i met your mother" ted says it all when he explains long distance relationships as "an awful idea".  haha so true, don't get me wrong though, i am the luckiest girl in the world to be dating JC but i know that we both wish salt lake city, ut and parma, id were MUCH closer than 5 hours away.  

i am a big time talker.... i love phone calls, texting, you name it but one of the ways of communicating that i truly love is skype.  i love seeing faces and skyping doesn't use up my minutes on my cell phone, my mom loves that aspect since we share the minutes! :)  

J in his little baby blanket :)

one night when we were talking, JC just snuggled up in his little baby blanket and i just had to take a picture of him!  we will usually talk to each other at night because we both work during the day and a lot of the times we will both be in our own covers miles and miles away, i love it  :)

man, i can't wait till summer!  i have started packing and everything!