Its the most wonderful time of the year!

I am really bad at keeping this updated. 

Anyways there is so much going on, school is going so good! I am now a "phase twoer"! So excited, it is nice going and doing something you love so much every day, it will be even better when I get paid for it after I graduate! Which is in MARCH! holy crap how much time flies, it crazy to think that almost a year ago I will have been living away from home. Looking back at the short time I have been gone I feel like  have grown so much and learned more than I ever have, emotionally and especially spiritually, I love it! 

Wedding planning is crazy good, time is flying so much it seems like May is just around the corner I know it is 5 months away, but oh my goodness 5 months is not that long, I seriously I am so excited! Knowing that I get to marry my best friend and be with him for time and all eternity is the happiest feeling ever, it is still really surreal to think that this is all happening it sounds corney but I really do have to pinch myself sometimes to make sure I am awake and that it isn't a dream. I am so grateful for my Mamma and all her effort to make this so special for us because I don't know what I would have done without her! So thank you Mom, love you!

Speaking of my mom this time of year has been really hard for me, as much as I love nothing more then spending time with Matt's family it has been very hard for me to be away from my family for the holidays, it is so weird. I guess it is a good adjustment but I miss our fun traditions and am sad I won't get a chance to do them all with them this year, but I will get to see them for a short time which will be good! 

Umm let see what else, oh I got a new job and like it a lot after changing jobs three times in less then a year I finally found the right fit, who would have thought it would be a bowling ally, but I really do love it! It is really fun and it fits my personality really well!

Also My roommates and I have done such fun things from going to dinner for birthdays to seeing the lights at temple square to decorating our apartment for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas! Whoo Hoo, I love the festiveness!

Yay! Yay! Yay!

Well hello friends! 

This has been a long time coming, the update well lets just start with the BiG news and not leave in in suspense.... 

I am engaged!!! :)) 

Yes I am so so happy and am so excited!

Hopefully the question you are all asking is "how did he do it?"

Well here is the story, Matt and I went to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point with two of our cute married friends. Way fun double date right, so we walked around the museum for about an hour and then decided to go get something to eat and the cafe` was closed, so our friends decided that they were going to go walk around and I thought Matt and I were going to go with them but Matt insisted we get ice cream from the little ice cream parlor next to the closed cafe`. So we had been eating our ice cream for about 15 minutes when I had told Matt, "We should go find Jason and Jamie we are being rude not spending time with them here." and Matt being the adorable guy he is said, "oh no they are fine they probably need some alone time." So I brushed it off and about 5 minutes later we left to go walk around the gardens still at Thanksgiving Point, and there they have these pretty archways with flowers everywhere and it is very pretty. So we were walking down a path and there were lights on them and I am so oblivious I had looked down at the lights and said, "oh that is cool they have lights up, but they are really bright!" (Not catching on at all) which Matt could tell I had no idea yet. Then we walk around this little bend and there is a bend and sitting on the bench is this...

my very own "enchanted rose" like from my favorite movie Beauty and the Beast, so I still have no idea! I commented on how pretty I thought it was and how cute it was and then was going to keep walking but Matt was pulling me back and I didn't know why until he told me to look closer in the vase and hanging on the leaf of the rose was my BEAUTiFUL ring!!! I froze up and just kept saying "Really? is this Real?!?!" Little did I know that Matt made this for me the bottom part is a music box and plays the "Beauty and the Beast" song! So Cute right ;) Then he pulled my ring out and knelt down asking for my shaking hand as I was crying and asked me to marry him... of course I said... "YES"!!! 

Now bring on the planning! I am seriously so happy I can't stop staring at my hand and haven't stopped smiling from ear to ear! Matt I love you so much, Love doesn't even do what we have justice I am so excited, grateful, and blessed to be spending Time and ALL Eternity with you! <333

Love you xoxoxo

To my ROOMMATES!

I would like to take this time to share how much these lovely ladies mean to me! My roommates are the best this that has happened to me since I've moved out. I was so terrified when I was being told all of these awful stories of ridiculous roommates and horrible experiences when it comes to roommates and I got the luck of the draw! The lord having his hand in my life he absolutely knew that I needed to live with these amazing girls! They all have made my experience here so much fun! I really don't think there is a dull moment in our apartment! Best of all we get along so freaking well it is WONDERFUL!! Girls can be so mean and viscous sometimes and the fact that there are no tiffs or corals just makes our living together so much better! These girls I love so much, I think of them as my big sisters that I never have being the oldest in my family. Thank you all for being such incredible examples to me! I love you :)      

FiRST DAY OF SCHOOL!

In the words of Finding Nemo, "First day of school, First day of school!"

Let me just tell you it was AMAZiNG!! I truly have no other words to describe it because it was just AMAZiNG!! And the fact that I have been waiting for it for 8 stinking months and have been so excited there were absolutely no disappointments! So I'll just give you the play by play of my day... it began with my waking up at 7:00am to get ready and was so excited/ nervous that I got sick to my stomach. But that did not stop me, I walked to school and arrived promptly at 9:00am, was taken back to my class room where my class is a total of three, yes three.. the number includes me. My classmates are great! I really like the other two girls and am glad that my class is so tiny because that means that my learning leader and I will have more one on one time so I can make sure I kick butt and can pass with flying colors :) Anyways my favorite part of the time was defiantly when I got my kit! Holy WOW, it is freaking awesome!! Everything I dreamed it would be, all my tools are BEAUTiFUL, oh are they beautiful! I am so incredibly excited for this journey of my life, and the experiences of a lifetime I am going to get to have while being at this fabulous school! I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for the support and encouragement I am very great full for it :)