Excitement!

Tomorrow enters what I've termed "The Blast off Zone"  Because it's the final 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Weddingday countdown.  I finally feel like things are settling into place.  I have this week and next week of class, with a trip to the Anchorage Temple for my endowments, and then we leave for our wedding.  EEEK!  Its just felt more and more right every day.  I love Travis so much.  

When we get back, we should have an apartment-and I want to go to the ice park.  Yay! 

2nd, 3rd, and 4th Days of Valentines

On the second Day of Valentines I gave to my true love:
  

As I handed it to him I said without any explanation:

I've got a CRUSH on you!

On the 3rd Day of Valentines I gave to my True Love:

A Honey Bun for my Honey Bun!

On the 4th Day of Valentines I gave to my true love:

  

For my Stud Muffin

I have more coming, I was going to town with the puns while shopping for the next few days.  

I'm finding this to be a really inexpensive, low pressure, fun way to express to Travis how much I love him.  Like I said, this is our first time being together for Valentines, and with the wedding and everything coming up-this is probably my favorite thing.  Simple gifts for my sweet man that don't even take much preparation. I got the idea from a combination of other blogs and websites, but have added a personal spin to a few of them(that poem was all mine, and I've gotten creative with a few of my own materials and puns-and definitely simplified the presentation-but it works, and someday I can work up to the perfect presentation).  But definitely the highpoint in my day is when I get to see him and give him his daily treat.  Love seeing it bring a smile to his face, sometimes a chuckle, and its more than kind to my budget.

I finally had one!

I beleive in meltdowns.

Most of the time I stay fairly well composed, I hold it all togther, I function, I acheive, and I preform my heart out.  And I Do my best.  Well, wake up-best is never enough ever because I'm human and so from time to time, when I drop the ball, and mother nature decides to remind me of my humanity, I let out a good cry.  Poor lysie didn't know what to do.  So she sang me some songs, gave me a hug and blew me a kiss.  That helped.  But I still couldn't help myself from sobbing-I was also laughing while I was sobbing because of how rediculous I am.  But, it felt good.  I was trying to not cry when talking to travis on the phone, but that doesn't work really well.  Physiologically speaking, sobbing and laughing are the same.  I was a mess, and the dear wonderful boy just let me be rediculous without judging or trying to fix me.  Thats all I needed.  I knew he cared and I assured him I would be fine in the morning.  Life goes on.  He was so sweet though tonight, he brought me in the left over steak-and didn't eat before I got out of class to join him.  And then when I was home and sobbing and crying and laughing uncontrollably my mommy opened her arms and let me join her in a good snuggle on the couch.  I'm so blessed.

Progress!

The Temple is scheduled for March 12, 2011.  Logan UT.  YAY!
Its such a relief to have that part finalized.

The weekend before I have the Anchorage Temple Scheduled for my endowments.
Phew!

And then also today:
My dear wonderful sweet Aunt Renee (whom I have always loved and adored and admired) took on task of planning the reception and flowers, and talking to Grama about where we can get us some nice free/lowcost cake!  YAY!  (Apparently when eener got married grama traded quilting skills for cake making/decorating skills with a lady in Tremonton-woohoo, love that idea!!)

Also, Travis and I got some of the engagement photos done (YAY! Bro LeFleur in N. Pole ward) and Robin agreed to take me to Anchorage in a couple weeks for Wedding Dress Shopping.

My Friend Sam a mam said she'll do the Bachelorette party and Robin the bridal shower.  (Idk when those will happen, but probably coming up quick!)

And Uncle Dave will do the photo video for the reception-we just need to send him pictures.

:D  YAY!

The best part of all this is that means I can focus my energy on the big scary tasks like:
Me and Travis have yet to find housing (if you know of anyone with inexpensive mother in law type apartments or cabins (we have a very low budget, we are even looking at the low income housing-yikes!) please let me know!
And.....Health Insurance.  For me, its kinda a big deal.  Any options for newly weds other than UAF?  Apparently its all pretty much out of pocket.  :( sad face
And preparing for the temple
And preparing for my home
And not to mention school work and dance job (making money that will contribute to the expenses that are about to inflate!)
And all the other things that are big deals.

1 week left of my Last Christmas Break!

I should be done with School before next Christmas.  Hoowah!

I have alot to do-only 7 days left where I can get away with sleeping till 1 in the afternoon, and 7 days to try and get ahead on my procedure notebook/drug cards.  Oy.  And in 7 days I'll get to get back into a weekly rhythm.  Oy.  I'm, gonna be tired/pooped, but I'm pumped!  Bring it on semester from heck, your gonna be a blurry busy blast and before i know it, you'll be over, and I'll be getting married!  Hoowah!

I went wild this Weekend

 

These will be my flowers and my bridesmaids will wear green Dresses.    The boquets might get some additional color in the form of ribbons on the part where the ribbons go, but I havn't decied for certain.  I just know I love this!

With That out of the way:

I became a Mary Kay Consultant this weekend.

I think I've done it-I've lost my marbles.

Being a Mary Kay Consultant is to start a pretty involved buisness-this week I'll get my site up and running while waiting for my products to come in-that way, you my dear friends and family can place orders and you'll get your stuff just as soon as it takes to come into the mail.

Things I love:
Timewise System
Mineral Foundation
Microdermabrasion

On my Wish List:
Eye Cream
Satin Hands/Body


Thats just getting started
I know as I go I'll fall in love with more products because Mary Kay products are just amazing.
You'll try em and you'll love em to.
And the cost is actually pretty comparable to what you'd find at the Grocery Store, but the quality is 100 X better!

Anyone interested in Hosting a Party let me know (you get points that go towards a discount from your purchase)
I'm also looking for 4 models with different Eye Colors for my training.  (Totally Free Girls night makeover!)

White Tulips

Saw something like this at the store today, and I fell in love with White tulips!

I can't get enough!

Love the tulips!

Gorgeous eh?  I think I'll have tulips of every color in their own pots with the white tulips to tie it together!!

love the tulips with the roses and the loopy loopys

I think, white tulips will bring together the colors I've picked!

Confession

Travis and I finally picked a date, to me it seems forever away (probably cuz it is) but I kept flip flopping between options and finally said "Travis, here's the options, you pick" and so July 1st it is.

Really the only thing I have against July 1st is that its just about 7 months away.
July 7th solves alot of the problems we were coming up against with the other dates, so it makes sense yes, but it just seems SOOO FAR AWAY!  AHGK!

I like it though, its summer time, it gives family and friends plenty of time to make arrangements to come-its just so far away!  How does anyone do long engagements?  If July weren't 7 months away though, it would have probably been my first choice of all the option we were looking at.

But okay, next item:
Planning the stinkin wedding.
Confession of the day:
I have no idea how to do this.  I don't know that I want to do this part.  I can't wait to plan my life with Travis, but as for the wedding, oy.  I'm really glad the ceremony part is already taken care of (yay for Temples) cuz the rest of it, is just a bunch of fluff.

Travis doesn't seem to have much of an opinion on it, as already stated.  But, he says its me thats been dreaming of this day since I was little.  Confession#2:  I have?  I mean, yeah, the dress, the person, the life we'll have together, but no-I havn't had the whole day pictured in dreams since my earliest memories.  I just want it to be beautiful-with good pictures for me and Travis to cherish, and delicious cake to be enjoyed, and happy feelings and memories with our family and Friends.  Is that too much to ask?  Do I really have to plan the napkins and centerpeices and coordinate the colors like Martha Stewart?  I'm not Martha Stewart, but-if she wanted to add to her portfolio an inexpensive but beautiful Alaska wedding-she's more than welcome to expirement with mine!

I guess when I started trying to express this to Trav, he understood it as I don't care about the day.  Thats not true, I do want it to be a special day-and so, I suppose that means digging into that deep buried artistic/creative portion of my brain and picking pallettes and napkins and centerpeices.  :-P  Here's to adventure!

Leave your fun finds and creative Ideas in the comments below!

Newly Engaged

Its amazing how many people have said:
     "FINALLY"  or "ITS ABOUT TIME!"  or "We were starting to think it would never happen"

To them, I say:
   "You think its about time?  I KNOW its about time!"  But, also, I say:  "It was well worth the wait!"  

I love Travis SOOOO much!

I can't wait to be married to him!

Its funny, this working out the details stuff isn't as much fun as I thought it would be, because

1)Travis doesn't have much of an opinion on it, he just wants to be married and so I fear becoming bridezilla who just takes over and says do it this way that way and forget anyone who has anything else to say!
2)Theres alot of options!
3)I just want to be married
4)It can get expensive, and I have no money
   4a) I don't want an expensive wedding, just a nice one!
5)The wedding isn't what its about.  Its about me and Travis, and referring back to #1, travis doesn't have much of an oppinion reguarding the details.
6)All we've decided on is June, and Alaska-that way, its convenient for us, and it gives our family and friends time to make preparations to come if they're going to.  Just narrowing it down that far seemed to be a daunting task!

But, I guess once I start making decisions other things will start falling into place right?  oy.  Thats what the book Robin got me for Christmas says anyways.

Funny Lysie

All this, just Today:  

First, Lysie is getting dressed for the day.  I got her two shirts for Christmas (and a tea set, I'm not all boring).  One was Faded Glory Brand, and the other L.E.I. Brand.  Didn't think anything of it, but Elyse did.  She comes in with the grumpy face on and shows me the shirt with the L.E.I. tag and says "This isn't my Shirt.  Thats not my name!  My name is Elyse, E-L-Y-S-E not L.E.I."  And then threw a tantrum for a bit cuz the pants mom tried to get her to wear didn't quite fit right.  Oh joys of being 4 going on 14.

Then, in the evening, she's getting ready for bed, and is hounding me to listen, I keep telling her "just a minute" cuz I'm preoccupied.  Eventually, my attention is freed and so I turn to her and ask "WHAT?" Kinda exhasperated, and she says with a big grin- "You and Travis are gonna get married, and when your married I can have sleep overs at your house"  OH REALLY?  I can't say no to her though, so I told her she'll have to ask Travis cuz it'll be his house too.  She's hilarious.  Se wouhe's so smart, she figured out getting married means I'm gonna move-I think cuz Amanda moved. But then I asked lysie where she would stay when she came for sleep overs at my house (her and robin have "sleep overs" here but just sleep on the floor on a blanket in lysie's room) and if she was going to sleep on the floor, or on the couch, and she asked "Will you have a bed?" I Said yes, and she said she'd just sleep there with me-hahaha, no.  Then I asked her what color dress she wanted when I get married, and she answered "white"  hahaha, no again!  I explained that I'm getting married so I get to wear white and that she needs to pick a color. Started suggesting blue, green, yellow-and she piped up "Black"  hahaha, no. I kept trying to explain the idea of color and get her to pick green but she wouldn't have it.  She's pretty set on black, but I'll turn her-don't worry.  I'll turn her!