so fitting...

love this movie

and this song is especially fitting.

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!

i sure can't.

okay so maybe it's not perfectly applicable.
for one, i sure hope kolton is not chasing down all the women in London tonight, or at a brothel for that matter.
but we ARE getting married in the morning. and he had better be at the temple on time!!

p.s. sorry for the foreign language subtitles (spanish, maybe?)

baby it's cold outside

i love this song.

and this video is truly a treat.

enjoy!

weak sauce

I have a problem.

With onions.
I have gone my entire life wondering what people were talking about when they said cutting up onions makes them burst into tears.

I've just never understood that.

Then, last year I was making dinner with a friend when he asked if I would dice up the onions, "Unless", he added, "it makes your eyes water."

"Nope" I proudly announced. "Onions don't affect me one little bit."

About thirty seconds later I couldn't even see said onion because I had tears (and mascara!) streaming down my face.

Talk about putting your foot in your mouth.

Today, I had a similar experience.

I was helping amy with dinner and she asked if I would dice up the onions. Being prepared, I grabbed my glasses. (I don't exactly know what this was going to accomplish, maybe block the noxious fumes from my eyes)

Unfortunately, this attempt failed.

And I ended up with tears (and mascara!) again streaming down my face.

I am such weak sauce.


a sad day and surprise

Yesterday was my last day of classes here at BYU.

Talk about a sad day! I have loved it here so much and I'm going to miss it SO much. The last few weeks I have been trying to soak everything in. The walk up the hill to campus, the lovely weather, long hours at the library- I've even tried to enjoy nutty, demanding professors with silly assignments. I've tried to soak it all up so I can remember it all when i'm freezing my buns off in Rexburg, Idaho.

I'm not quite done here at BYU, however. I still have to take four finals before I'm home free and will no longer be a student here.

But don't you worry. I have already informed Kolton that we will be back to visit. For what, I'm not sure. We'll definitely think of something.

On to a happier subject.

Last night I took some Nyquil trying to kick the nasty cold that won't go away and it knocked me out. This morning I woke up to my roommate coming into my room. I sat up in bed to say good morning when I noticed that she was carrying a table. She was followed by my other roommate holding the other end of the table and the rest of my roommates filing into my room.

The table was all decked out with french toast, syrup, muffins, bacon, and orange juice.

We had ourselves a surprise breakfast-in-bed bridal shower!

Oh my heavens. it was so sweet of them, and I just love these girls.

We all sat down on my bed and enjoyed our delicious breakfast and just had a lovely time, with me sitting in amazement over the fact that they had completely surprised me. (I like to think i'm pretty intuitive, but I did not expect this one little bit)

After we finished off our delicious breakfast they gave me a gift. It was....

This lovely cookbook!

I saw it in the bookstore the other day and  have been raving about it ever since I discovered it.

so they went out and bought it for me. And it is chuck FULL of chocolate dessert recipes. Since dessert is my favorite thing to bake, I find it very fitting.

Holy cow, I love these girls.

I'm so sad to be leaving them in a few days because they are all so sweet and thoughtful and we have all just had a ball this semester staying up late at night talking, cooking together, goofing around, spouting off one-liners, and just all sorts of other fun girly things. I am going to miss them a ton. But, like I already said, we will be back to visit a lot. :)

And that's all I've got to say about that.

p.s. I get married in eleven days. ELEVEN!

girls weekend

I have always been a big fan of girl's nights, but girl's weekends are even better! This last weekend Wendy and her girls, Amber, Kenzie, and Nat and Madison came to Salt Lake to meet up with my Mom, Tylee, Addi, and I. We had such a lovely time!

I had met up with my family on Friday evening to go to the Jazz game, then on Saturday morning we sent the boys home and went to the mall with the cousins.

Oh my heavens, it was SO much fun! We went to Anthropologie in honor of my grandma and loved looking at all the funky trinkets and clothes and other wonderful things that we could never afford (one day....) things like:

and this:

and this:

And many, many more.

Holy cow, I love that store.

We also went to Music and the Spoken Word with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir which was splendid, and to the First Presidency Christmas Devotional that evening-which was also splendid. I love Christmas music and the talks were all so wonderful.

All in all, it was a great weekend with the girls and we're hoping to make it a long-lived tradition.

before i dash to class...

I gotta be quick lickety split on this story but I promised I would share and....a promise is a promise.

so.

When dear Kolton and I went to sign our marriage license we were all nervous and giddy and trying to sign our names just right and neatly (okay, so maybe that was just me) when a couple walks in behind us and sidles up to the desk right next to us.

"We're getting married!" the man announced. "We just talked to the judge, he said to sign us a marriage license and he'll marry us today." (all of this was said in a country twangy accent, by the way)

These folks must have been known in the county courthouse because there were congratulations all around. with comments of them needing to buy a big Thanksgiving table to fit all of their newfound family around it.

So the receptionist started to rustle up some papers and they got to signing.

I was peeking over Kolton's shoulder at this funny couple and noticed the soon to be bride just texting away (letting all her friends now she's getting married in about ten minutes, I'm guessing)

We left soon after that so we didn't get to see much more of this couple. But I'll have to admit.....I was a little jealous of them. As we walked out to the pickup I tried to convince Kolton to just let us go down to the courthouse and get married that afternoon.

But he was having none of that.

And I was kidding of course.....well, kinda.

Now don't anyone worry-We're not going to elope anytime soon. It sounds tempting, but we will resist. We already paid the decorator. (hee hee)

We'll just wait nineteen looong more days. (NINETEEN!!! holy mackerel!)

And we'll see ya on December 21st!

And now I'm off to interior design!