happy st. patrick's day.

I'm not a fan of St. Patrick's Day. I am only wearing green because I think I get a treat in chemistry if I do. (haha - oh what I will do for candy. I'm like a little child.) But I couldn't think of a better title.
Anyways, we got to see some of our engagment pics yesterday! And I'm kind of in love with them so I'm putting some here.(I'm sorry about the kissing photo. I just think it's a cool shot.)

Anyways. They just make me happy. :) :)


OH.
p.s. I applied for graduation today!
Hallelujah.

It all equals FUN.

TWO new shirts. (I love mine!! And his too.)

One new umbrella-ella-ella. (and it's stinkin' cute! I wish I could find a picture for you to see.)

One ripped shirt.
(I don't know how it ripped exactly - maybe on a tree in the orchard that we kind of trespassed on to take pictures in. But hey, I fixed it! I hope you won't be able to tell.)

Mud on the pants (Also from the orchard. Good thing the shirt was a long one.)

One really talkative photographer. (She was really good at it - totally makes it NOT awkward, has really good ideas, and honestly, makes you feel like a model.)
(check her out! www.karlykim.com)

&

about

one hundred

clicks

later,


we are done with engagement photos.
(At least the first set.)

The best part? Abso-blooming-lutely FREE.

(Actually, not quite the best part. But second best.)

AND, it was way fun. I can't wait to get see them!

one ring, one knee, one question.

Remember this post? Turns out I need to rewrite the ending. Apparently fairy tales do come true. And somehow it is never how you think. And little did I know, what I wrote then as a silly story ended up to be me writing the future. If I may be so bold as to quote myself:

"together they would take steps into the future knowing that someday everything would all work out - and that even through the fighting and arguing and possible manipulation, there would always be laughter and charm and love."

Yes. Eerily creepy. And yet I predicted the future? Kinda weird. I'll have to do the rewrite later once I have time to stop and breathe.



In short, (and by short, I mean the condensed concise version) here is the story of what happened a little more than a week ago:

Basically, it was our first "date" all over again. (It was before we were actually dating, but we think this counts because we kissed that night and that is how it all began.) It is one of our favorite days ever, so I think it is perfect that we did the same things that night too.

Red Robin, Sammy's pieshakes and Deer Creek. Over summer, it went wakeboarding at Deer Creek, dinner at Red Robin, movie, pieshakes at Sammy's. And it was the same thing that night in a slightly different order except you can't really go wakeboarding right now because of 8 inches of ice on the lake.

I thought it was just going to be our 'official' celebration of 6 months. So when we started going to all the same places, I just thought we were reminiscing - same place for dinner, same place for dessert. Then we went up to Deer Creek and were sledding and running around and playing on the ice all by ourselves under this incredible night sky. Huge bright full moon and everything. I didn't think he had a ring because of what he'd been telling me for awhile, so when he did actually pull it out when we were standing on ice, I was shocked. I actually said no at first because I was so surprised.

Anyways, in exactly 3 months from today, we are getting married!! MAY 8th. In Bountiful. That seems so far away and yet there is so much we have to do in 3 months. School mostly. And hopefully everything else falls into place!

I still can't really wrap my head around the fact that I kinda predicted the future. I just think it's funny. But I am glad I did. :)

Break is over.

Christmas was a whirlwind. Lots of trips. Living out of a suitcase for 2 weeks. Flying in airplanes. Lots of driving. Idaho, Utah, New York. Train rides. And pictures. Lots of pictures. And since a picture is worth a thousand words, you get many pictures. And I will save my words for later.

Salt Lake Temple

American Museum of Natural History.

Little Italy

Manhattan BridgeRockefeller Center

On the Train

At the park across the street from my house

Times Square

The Intrepid

Brooklyn Bridge
Quickly! Best drinks ever.

And now school starts. 16 credits, 6 classes. Oh joy oh joy.

I didn't stick with the plan.

There are so many scenarios where this applies.

1. Football. 4th down and yards to go, told to punt. Bypassed logic and just went for it instead.

2. Kitchen. Supposed to follow the directions explicitly to the letter. Didn't. Chose gut feeling instead.

3. Work. List of things to do and not to do. Ignored the whole thing. Rewrote my own list instead.

4. School. Knew the "proper" way to get the answer. Disregarded it. Did it my own way instead.

5. Life. Kissed my best friend. Wasn't planning on it. Kissed him anyways.


And I hope I just didn't ruin one of the best things I ever had.

I believe in happily ever after.

I would now like to tell you all a story. And I wish I could read this to you out loud because I'm SO much more entertaining in person than in words(haha). You'll just have to pretend it's me reading it. Especially with all the theatrics I'd probably put in to make you laugh.

Fairy Tales Are True

Once upon a time, there was a girl. And a boy. After initially being introduced, they did not become fast friends. The girl just didn't know how to become friends with the boy. But she did want to be friends because they moved in the same circles, so logically, they should be. She didn't know what to do to overcome the great big wall she had built.

But then something magical happened. The girl didn't have to do anything special to become friends with the boy. They just started actually started doing things together with their friends and then the girl and the boy were friends. And they were for a long time.

The boy decided to disappear for two whole years. But somehow they sent messages to each other using snowflakes and rainbows so that somehow they would not feel so far away and end up not being friends anymore.

Then the boy decided to come back from the far off land where he had traveled and lived with others who are not like him. And instead of sending smoke signals or rearranging the stars, they got to talk face to face. But they mostly spoke through the enchanted and enchanting cyber kingdom of FbAoCoEk since they were still separated by a great wall that could only be overcome by those of unfailing determination and never-ending free-time.

The only problem of FbAoCoEk was that sometimes when the girl or boy said something to each other, things got lost in translation. Because of this tragic flaw, the friendship between the girl and the boy was tested. And pulled and twisted and tossed through a war. And somehow in one day, the boy and girl went from being friends to being 'more than friends' to breaking up and then getting back together and then breaking up again. This heartbreaking, devastating tragedy happened in the eternities of a short ten minutes. Woeful, heartbroken and betrayed, the girl did not know where to turn. Especially as she felt so alone in the cube that she was sitting in when it happened. And yet, because she got to talk to the boy that day she just felt like it made her day so much more exciting -despite the despair she felt.

The girl did not know how to handle it all. All the memories. All the messages in the sky and in the stars. Did nothing matter anymore? What happened to true friendship and always being there for each other? That boy broke her heart. And she didn't even know he could.

But, the story does not end here. The boy and the girl realized the flimsy and fake follies they were too concerned with and decided to put the past away and face the future. They decided to always be friends. And even if they weren't "together", together they would take steps into the future knowing that someday everything would all work out - and that even through the fighting and arguing and possible manipulation, there would always be laughter and charm and love. And the never-ending hope that fairy tales do come true. THE END

Saturday is a special day.

Saturday just happened to be awesome. I don't know if anyone else noticed. I think a few people did. I mean, come ON. It was the eleventh day of the seventh month. And what does that mean? It means it is a day to be celebrated. No, not because I survived the best five minutes of my life in a gut-wrenching, adrenaline-rushing, head-spinning, mind-blowing, amazingly awesome fall from 12000 feet above the majestic mountains, and then circled the sky around and around in a parachute and finally came to rest on the ground with a landing that was smooth as butter - no, it was a glorious day because I got my free slurpee from 7-11. Thank heavens. It was delicious. More specifically, the mango-apple + pina colada was definitely a highlight of my day. That smile on my face definitely says it all.

But seriously, skydiving was rad. I'm definitely, absolutely going again. This is half of the group that went. We jumped first.


How can you NOT want to do this again? More pictures to come when I steal the rest of them off of facebook.