I - I Love Mike Free!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am officially marrying the most amazing man on the planet! I'm sorry for those of you who missed him, but he's mine now, and you'll just have to take your pick from the "second bests." =)

When am I marrying Mr. Perfect? Oh, three months from... TODAY!

(...this is where we pause to celebrate and admire the adorable love note found on my door this morning!!!)

Yes, after much waiting (some patiently, some not so patiently... probably more the latter...) we have reached another month mark! I feel like Sadie waiting for Josh, "we're in month 9 now!" Thankfully I do not have to wait two years for my Prince Charming, but it's still nice to see another month successfully pass by! We haven't gone stir-crazy yet, and have even managed to have a lot of fun!

I love you Mike! =)

H - Hilarious!

I am quite convinced that I have the silliest roommate and sister ever! These two quite enjoy taking pictures together, most of which are ridiculous and include one or both of them sticking their tongue out or making some other silly face!

Enjoy!

Notice how Kenzie is always on the left and Elizabeth on the right...



Weird huh?


Even when you throw Barrett into the mix they still keep to their own sides.

Believe it or not, they also know how to take cute pictures together!

See?

So much fun!

I love these girls!

They're so cute! Even when Barrett is making a creeper-ish sort of face.

Sometimes they're totally random and weird...

Like when Kenzie tries to pretends to scare Elizabeth while E's not looking...

See??

On very rare occasions they sometimes they decided to be normal. =)

I love my cute, sweet, funny, crazy, totally random roommates!

=)

G - Gowns, Gems, and Gâteau

I bought my wedding dress! As much as I'd love to post pictures of it, Mike reads my blog (hi Mike... I love you!) and it was determined that he will not see the dress until the day of the wedding... thus no pictures.

However.

My roommates went with me to pick the dress up, and had a blast trying on things for themselves! Just see for yourself!

Three cute girls in three very different dresses... Ariella's face is the best!

Kenzie's lovely yellow dress... complete with Christmas socks!

Cute! I love this one!

Who'd have thought Ariella would like trying on dresses? ... Not me!

Elizabeth LOVED this dress! She danced all around the store in it, not paying attention to anything around her as she dreamily twirled from rack to rack... it was cute!

Ariella just being silly =)

Kenzie tried on a dress that was so big for her that she could turtle inside of it. We laughed for quite a while!

Cute girlies! =D

Sadie found the dress of her dreams! Doesn't it look fantastic on her??

SO flattering... I love the buttons down the back! And the train, and the fittedness... and everything else!

So... I realized the other day that Mike and I have been engaged for a few weeks and I STILL hadn't posted a picture of my ring yet.

So here you go!

A far away and a close up!

I LOVE my ring... out of literally about 100 rings I tried on, and TONS more that I looked at, this one was my favorite! I love how the wedding band interlocks with the engagement ring part (pictures to come later when I'm allowed to have that part!)

Thank you Mike for letting me pick it out! I love it... and I love you! =)

Along with all the other wedding plans, I've been looking through wedding cake ideas. Nothing official has been decided yet... nothing unofficial either for that matter! However, here are a few ideas I've found that I like. Enjoy!

I don't love the green (obviously... this IS me we're talking about!) but I do like the swoopy, drapiness of it!

SUCH a cool idea! A water fountain on your cake?! I love it!

I actually don't really like this one, I just like the idea of swirls and flowers, but not the way they're done here

Again, swirls and flowers, this time incorperating the drapiness of the first one... at least to some degree. I really do like this cake!

This is probably my favorite! The swirls are just right, and I love the white frosting flowers. Obviously if I had colored flowers, I would do them in blue, because hey, this IS me we're talking about! =)

G - Great Gatsby

Preference: Great Gatsby Style!

... it was fun!

Mike and me ready for a great time!

Elizabeth and Barrett... they started dating right after this!

Kenz and Zac... they had SO much fun together!

Ariella and Alex... they're so adorable!

And here we are! It was definitely a night to remember!

=)

F - Free... Forever!

Tonight the wonderful Mike Free asked me to marry him... and I said YES!!!

Here's to becoming "Free"... forever!

101 Date Ideas

Mike and I were in need of some date ideas, so I went through who knows how many different dating websites and, using them as the springboard, came up with 101 fun things to do!

Enjoy!

1. Make popcorn balls
2. Cook dinner
3. Go on a walk
4. Make snowmen
5. Have a handstand contest
6. Take a video of ourselves and put in on YouTube
7. Tell a story together, switching back and forth
8. Color pictures
9. Make blankets
10. Find a trampoline and jump on it
11. Go grocery shopping
12. Write letters to someone
13. Skype... it doesn't matter who
14. Find a need and fill it
15. Watch a movie we've never seen with the sound off and make up what the characters are saying
16. Watch a movie we have seen and try to quote it
17. Go bowling (we have 1 free game each semester)
18. Pick a random class and go together
19. Study
20. Get ice cream
21. Feed the ducks
22. Hike the Y
23. Tell embarrassing stories
24. Make something to wear out of duct tape and go out in it
25. Make cookies and ding-dong-ditch them
26. Play a card game
27. Share our favorite scripture stories
28. Write a song
29. Nicklecade
30. Go to the library and look at books
31. Play frisbee
32. Go to DI or garage sales and find something fun
33. Sledding
34. Go to a petstore and play with the animals
35. The Zoo
36. Go out to lunch
37. Have a picnic in the frontroom
38. Laugh Out Loud... the comedy group, but lauging is fun!
39. Dance
40. Look at the stars
41. Go to a show at the planetarium
42. Play on a playground
43. Find a photo booth and take silly pictures
44. Take pictures without the photo booth
45. Ice skating
46. Play pool or ping pong in the lounge
47. Do a puzzle
48. Window shop
49. Design something
50. Play a board game
51. Design a t-shirt and get it made
52. Make new year's resolutions
53. Have a nerd night and teach each other something
54. Listen to each other's favorite songs
55. Thumb war
56. Staring contest
57. Fly kites
58. Make ice cream in ziploc bags with ice and salt
59. Quiz each other on ourselves
60. Watch the moon rise
61. Rent a tandem bike
62. Dress up and have a "fancy dinner"
63. Come up with something to do for each letter of the alphabet
64. Go to Timp cave
65. Work out
66. Find somewhere to volunteer and do it
67. Carve pumpkins, or apples, or something else
68. Play with legos
69. Go to the temple
70. Temple square
71. Look in the reflecting pool at the JFSB
72. Spend time with people in the hospital or an old folks home
73. Go TP-ing
74. Make stamps out of potatoes and make pictures
75. Take a class together
76. Go to a concert on campus
77. Make our own mini golf course
78. Go swimming
79. Visit the Bean Museum/Dinosaur museum
80. Write notes, put in helium ballons and let the balloons go
81. Make a CD together
82. Look at pictures of when we were little
83. Go to a sports event
84. Roast marshmellows on the stove
85. Try to drop eggs from the balcony without breaking them
86. Rubix Cube
87. Pick a skill to learn together and make a plan of how to do it
88. Babysit
89. Scripture study
90. Make breakfast together before school/work
91. Decorate cupcakes while blindfolded
92. Make a calendar with pictures
93. Write thank you cards
94. Homemade playdough
95. Bake something yummy and eat it
96. Have a snow sculpture contest
97. List each other's best qualities in ABC order
98. Sing songs while we walk
99. Go on a walk... flip a coin to choose which way to turn at the corners
100. Give blood together

and last, but certainly not least!

101. Come up with more date ideas... =)

E - Eeek!

I was talking to Michael last night about what life is like at each of our respective homes. Amidst talk of Christmas traditions, trampolines games, favorite pets, and jean blankets, he told me about scorpion hunting. Yes my friends, in Mesa Arizona there are enough scorpions around that people go out and hunt them to keep them from coming in the house... SO creepy! I wondered how you would find something small that is the same color as the dirt... especially at night like they did. The answer: black lights. As freaky as it sounds, scorpions glow in black light!



Freaky huh?

D - Default Boys

I can honestly say I have never been so excited to write a blog post in my LIFE! How do I sum up my best friends in just one post??

It all began once upon a time (i.e. the first week of school) when there was a spider... Yes my friends, a spider, and being the silly girls that we are, my roommates and I ran to find a boy to kill it. Like I said, it was the first week of school and we honestly knew NO ONE, so we left Emily to watch the creepy thing and Kenzie and I set off in search of a rescuer. Mercifully the Lord sent us... Chris.

Christopher was brave enough to kill the disgustingness that was creeping across our ceiling, declaring, "It's okay, I have three little sisters."

And it went from there! We had their apartment over for dinner two weeks later... and the week after that... and maybe the week after that. They quickly went from being our backup plan if all else fell through to being our only plan no matter what else came up!

Here's a little bit about each of our Default Boys:

Barrett (aka Barritto) is majoring in something interesting (like neuroscience or genetics and biotechnology.) He’s hilarious in his own “quiet” way, can eat more ice cream than anyone I’ve ever met, wears the sweetest snuggie ever, and will beat anyone willing to play at Super Smash Brothers. He listens to the best music, like Jon Schmidt and William Joseph, and is great at whatever he sets his mind to.

Chris is considering a double major in English and Biology... I’m not sure what those have to do with each other, but apparently Hug-hes likes them both. He’s one of those great people who can be both funny and serious, and will go out of his way to make people happy. He’s working on giving “normal” hugs, and while he’s getting there, there’s still plenty of room for improvement. ;)

Daniel may look like your typical math major, but you should see him dance! He’s insanely busy trying to fit everything into his life while trying to make a difference in the world. He often drops by just to say hi and see how we’re doing, or to help us finish off brownies, birthday cake, or whatever other desserts are plaguing us. He also gives some of the most sincere compliments I’ve ever heard.

Jared is hilarious! Affectionately known as Ju-Reed, he’s probably the default boy we see the most of since he’s not in school this semester. He once said it would be funny if we had a whole wall of our apartment dedicated to him… so we decided to make one! It was definitely a conversation starter to say the least. It stayed up for almost a month, until it started to irk us that Jared was always staring at us from the front room wall.

Nathan has the biggest ego of anyone I’ve ever met! He’s got more than enough self-esteem to go around, but likes to share it with others. He gives the funniest dating advice I’ve ever heard, and is a genuinely caring person. His public health major requires him to take many of the same classes I have taken which always fun. While he doesn’t believe in killing bugs, he will escort them from the premises free of charge.

We watch movies together.

We play games.

We go grocery shopping.

And make cookies.

We eat delicious Asian food made by Daniel

We visit each other at work.

We support each other in our hopes and dreams.

We carve pumpkins.

And go trick or treating.

We go get pie on Wednesdays.

And take lots of silly pictures.

Lots and LOTS of silly pictures!

We go out on dates.

Or go to the hot tub.

Or just do nothing at all.

But it's always fun!

We love you guys!!!