{Yesterday}

Let's talk about yesterday shall we?

Yesterday was our 2 year engagement

anniversary! Holy cow. He proposed by taking up to Cascade Springs up in the mountains

and we had a little picnic.

After lots of mushy gushy talking he popped the question. M

y response "Wait - what? Are you serious?" He looked a little shocked and then said "Umm.. yes." and then I laughed and said "Of course!" I was a little bit confused at first because he said he couldn't propose yet because he didn't have a ring - tricky man. He proposed without a ring.

And a couple weeks later this is how I got the ring. Yes, he had that book made with me and wrote on several pages of why he

loves me.

In the middle of the book he cut out a hole and

wrapped up the ring and stuck it in there. Amazing! I have the most amazing husband ever! I can't believe we've been married for nearly a year and a half now!! Best. time. ever.

And yesterday Sean made me a delicious breakfast as a gift - what a sweet guy!

{New Calling}

For those of you who are not super familiar with the LDS church, let me enlighten you a bit before you continue reading this post. In our church, nearly everyone has a calling, or a job to do. This helps everyone become involved, learn new skills, serve others, and help the church run smoothly. You do not sign up for this callings and you do not get paid for these callings. The bishop [the ward leader {ward being a small congregation that is formed based on geographical boundaries}] makes the callings through inspiration.

Hopefully that should help.

My last calling in my ward was ward choir director. I loved it. It was so much fun and we had a great group, performed amazing songs, had an awesome pianist, and it was great to serve and worship through song. This last Sunday I was released from choir director and got a new calling - ward organist. The ward organist plays prelude, postlude, and for the hymns during the main worship ceremony. I started to learn the organ last week - for fun. But, Sean is in the bishopric (executive secretary) and that information may or may not have leaked out to the bishop. Well, let's be honest, it did. I'm nervous, but excited. It's different from the piano, but not too different. I'm working on the feet (I don't want to use the automatic petal thing...go big or go home!) and it is coming along quite nicely.

So now this passive "Oh, it would be nice to play the organ..." has turned into an "Oh! I gotta learn the organ and have 3-4 songs down-pat this week!" It will push me to better learn the organ and I'm excited to do so. Little nervous - but it'll be great! What a great blessing for me to further develop my talents and learn new things.

PS to those of you in my ward - just sing and smile during those songs! haha we'll get through it together!

{Monopoly Deal}

Monopoly Deal happens to be the greatest game ever. Our friends who live next door [who have been absent for a few months and I miss them a ton and a half] introduced us to this game. While they have been gone for the summer we may or may not have taken it from their apartment and played it a lot. And now we, mostly I, have become obsessed. Sean and I probably play it on average about 6 times a day [Sean is great and humors me]. With just the 2 of us we can get through a game in about 5 minutes - it's a good way to take a break from homework. This is the card game version of Monopoly, it has all the fun parts about Monopoly [and more] without the terrible time commitment. Buy this, we did, and it will change your life.

{Green}

Green is my favorite color. Why? Cause it's great.

A few months ago I was talking with Sean and told him that I didn't have a favorite color! I panicked. I don't know why it is so important for me to have a favorite color, but it is. I have always said that my favorite color was purple, but it's really not. The genesis of my favorite color being purple started way back in first grade in Miss I's class. I had a friend named Andrea and I thought she was the coolest person ever and her favorite color was purple and to be more like her my favorite color was purple. Now I had an easy answer to what my favorite color was, purple. That is, up until a few months ago when I decided that I needed to find out for myself (sounds like church..haha) what my favorite color was. I determined it was green. I love it - it's fresh, natural, goes well with my skin tone, neutral, it's basically great.

So until I figure out this whole blogging thing with cute backgrounds (which I want one that is green, obviously) it will just be this plain green background which was one of the templates. (if you have any blogger knowledge about how to copy and paste the codes and make it all work, I'd love to know how! Thanks!)

{School Starts}

Well, I have been inspired. I will start a blog and blog about many things - some important, most of them probably not so much.

Fall semester started for me yesterday. It's going to be kinda crazy - I'm taking 17 credits worth of classes (18 is the max) and I'll be quite busy. My book list for this semester had 14 books on it! I'm only taking 6 classes and I have 14 books! Luckily most of them were novels (for my race and inequality class and my juvenile delinquency class) and I got them on Amazon for 1/3 of the price at the bookstore. Buying all my textbooks at the bookstore would have been around $900 but thanks to Amazon that price tag was quite lower. I love amazon. I probably spend too much time on it...along with craigstlist hahaha.

This is my second to last semester of my undergraduate career (I will be getting a BS in Sociology with an emphasis in Criminology and Juvenile Delinquency) - yes, I graduate in April. Yes, this will be a 3 year degree. Yes, that's even after switching my major after one year. Yes, I'll be 20 when I graduate. Yes, that blows my mind. No, I'm not sure what will happen after April. I'll keep you posted.

Since this is my first post I should probably do some introducing. Sean and I were married on April 30, 2009. We met after Sean moved into my home ward when I was 13 and he was 16. Was it love at first sight? That's a tricky question. To make a long story short, after he came home from serving an LDS mission we were engaged 3 months later and married 8 months after that. We have been happily married for nearly a year and a half and are both working on campus as we finish up our degrees. Sean is studying International Relations and also getting a minor in Business, the Global Management Certificate, and a Spanish Language Certificate - Yes, my husband is super smart and dedicated and awesome.

That is us in a nutshell! well - here we are on the blogging world!