The Moment You've All Been Waiting For........ :)

We're ENGAGED!!!!!!! :)

March 1st Jeff took me flying during the sunset...

Beautiful snow-covered Cache Valley!

View of Logan from up above Logan Canyon!

I love USU's campus!

Sunsets are so much better from the sky :)

And finally, after two hours, the help of our two good friends Jenni and Darrell, and 14 cans of red spray paint.... He proposed!!! :)

The Ring! I love it.

I love this boy!

And I can't wait to spend the rest of forever with my Best Friend!!

Taya's Birthday Party

So these are kind of late... but here are some pictures from Taya's 2nd Birthday Party a few weeks ago.

Lex always has the funniest faces in pictures...

Brynlee loves the plastic

Love this one!

These little stinkers don't like to cooperate for pictures

Grandpa and Lex

Gotta' Love Love :)

First of all... what do I love?!.... This WARM weather!!

Currently it's 56 degrees outside! Hello sunshine! However, sadly tomorrow on the forecast is rain... and then snow... I'm hoping the weather man is wrong.

You know what else I love...? My man :) Sorry i'll try to keep the cheesiness down to a minimum. I hope everyone had a great Valentine's day. Mine was Wonderful. I was quite impressed with Jeff.

He gave me flowers :) Yah ignore the wilting rose... I don't know what it is but whenever he buys me flowers they start to die within like two days. I blame it on my apartment and the lack of light.

So we went out to dinner at Olive Garden (one of the three nice restaurants in Logan ha ha). Dinner was yummy and we witnessed a couple get engaged - it was kind of random and actually a bit weird... ha. I know of like a billion couples that got engaged last night. Ok maybe not that many ha ha.

To plan our night Jeff had a bunch of ideas and had me choose between them, only I didn't know what I was choosing. He gave me options such as hot or cold? Light or dark? Childish or child like? And then I got to choose. I thought it was clever and it made it so fun and exciting! The anticipation was killing me all day!

For our first activity we went to Aggy's Sports Grill where they have a fire pit outside and we roasted marshmallows. Ha ha! Not sure if that's legal or not :) But it was so fun!

For our next activity we finger painted portraits of each other! That was the childish choice and it was perfect, I loved it!

As you can see they are exact replicas of ourselves. I was actually quite impressed with mine ha ha. Don't you think it looks just like him?? Well... minus the ears... ha :)

We ended the night listening to songs that made us think of each other. It was cute!

Mmm... I love that boy :)

Hardware Ranch

Sorry we haven't been doing anything exciting enough to blog about lately due to me being sick for about a week and a half now, and both of us being busy with school and work. However despite all that we did find sometime last Saturday to venture up Blacksmith Fork Canyon to Hardware Ranch.

Hardware Ranch is a little refuge area for the elk to come and get food in the winter months

We doubled with my friend Julane and her man Ryan

You ride on a sleigh pulled by these beauties throughout the refuge area so you can see the elk up close!

See all the elk in the background? I know it doesn't look like many but they usually get about 500 elk there. That day was actually a smaller group (300) due to the lack of snow and warmer weather.

St. Louis

Christmas in St. Louis was wonderful! We had tons of fun! I really enjoyed getting to know Jeff's family. They were a lot of fun and made me feel very welcomed and comfortable. Here's the highlights of what we did:

St. Louis:

The Gateway Arch

City of St. Louis

The great Mississippi River and Illinois

At the very top of the arch - 630 ft. high!

The Dred Scott Court house, where the Dred Scott case took place.

St. Louis Zoo:

Despite the fact that half the animals were gone due to it being winter, it was still a lot of fun. The animals that were left were all very active and entertaining (my favorite was the monkey house).

Camel - seriously foaming at the mouth... gross.

Deep in thought... (sorry it's blurry)

Inside the Penguin house (Jeff loves penguins)

Butterfly House:

Jeff and his little sister Hannah inside the Butterfly House

The "owl" butterfly

Felt like I was back in Hawaii with all the beautiful tropical flowers and serious humidity

Nauvoo/Carthage Day Trip:

Frozen Mississippi

Nauvoo temple. I have always really loved this temple.

I went to Nauvoo with my family many years ago (before temple was built) and I've always wanted to go back there someday. It was only a three hour drive from where we were at in St. Louis so me, Jeff, his dad and younger sister took a little day trip. We went to Carthage Jail first. Standing in that room was the first time I had really felt the spirit as a little girl, so it was really awesome to go back and feel how strong that spirit is again. Also, due to the winter time, both Carthage and Nauvoo were almost completely dead, so it was nice to not have crowds and pretty much have the entire place to ourselves.

It was cool to go back to Nauvoo as well, and see the temple now standing there. Due to the lack of time we were only able to visit a few a the houses and buildings, but we made sure to stop by all the ones with free souvenirs of course.

My favorite part of the trip however was going and doing baptisms in the Nauvoo temple. This was a dream come true for me! It was a neat experience and that temple is just so beautiful inside! All the workers were super friendly and talkative too :) They told us that the Nauvoo temple's baptismal font is the biggest of all the temples. That's because they used the measurements from when the temple was first built. And the reason why they made it so big back then was because they were trying to get so much work done that they would often have three baptisms going on inside the font. Pretty interesting huh?

Hello Christmas Break

My christmas break has now officially began, and I am welcoming it with open arms!

This year I'll be celebrating my Christmas in St. Louis, Missouri with Jeff and his family. I'm pretty excited for this little vacation and for the opportunity to really get to know his family better. I do feel bad that I'm ditching my family for Christmas though... Sorry Mom! But we've got lots of fun things planned and I can't wait!

We are actually hanging out in the airport right now waiting for our flight in a couple hours. We both fly out today and then i'm coming back on the 28th. Yes that is almost 2 weeks! I'm a little bit nervous... but mostly excited! :)

Graduation Photo Shoot

We had a lot of fun doing this graduation photo shoot for my friend. Thanks Steph for the practice and Congrats on Graduating!