I'm getting married in the....(8 mornings from today) MORNING! =]

Oh this is fun! So I've sucked majorly and big time at the "picture blog" but I'm sitting here super bored at work and I have a lot I can post about!

I'm Marrying my best friend in 8 days!!!!!!!!!

So we are getting married on

September 1st 2011

in the Los Angeles temple at 10:30 am

So these are not our rings. Preston's is more manly looking and mine is beautiful!

This is kinda what my bouquet will look like

I'm really excited to marry Preston. I'm kind of scared about such a huge commitment and quite honestly it really doesn't feel real. I guess I always thought that when I was gonna get married I would just feel a lot differently. I don't feel grown up enough to get married. Not really. I don't feel like I've done enough planning and worrying and freaking out about the wedding as you always see on shows and "Bridezillas" and everything. I feel like I've barely planned anything! Which is kind of sad I guess. Maybe it would have felt more real if I had to freak out about feeling like everything has to be PERFECT, I haven't really cared about much....haha I've been more freaked out about the actual marriage itself than anything else! I'm just scared for that huge commitment!! I just have to keep telling myself, its Preston and he is everything I didn't know I wanted, and everything I need. He's my best friend and he matches with me perfectly. I also am mostly just worried about if I'm gonna look good on my wedding day! I just got my hair dyed yesterday and I feel like it looks super super blonde barbie play boy bunny ish. but hopefully it will calm down. I'm going to Bakersfield on Thursday with Linda, even though we probably won't get there till Friday and then my Bridal Shower (second one) is that night. Then I'll probably just be doing a bunch of stuff to clean and get ready for the reception.. and Then Wednesday next week we'll have to get our marriage license and then drive down to LA to get my endowment out and then Thursday we'll get sealed, we're staying in a Hotel on the beach in Santa Monica thanks to my wonderful Grandma, then Friday is the Reception and Saturday we're flying to Miami and staying the weekend till monday at 5pm when our cruise for the BAHAMAS leaves :) ah! I can't wait! I've never been anywhere cool! haha I can't wait to go to Miami! and I can't wait to be with Preston for a week straight!

I'M SO EXCITED FOR NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!

I really can't believe its already here! then I'll have a super hot husband that I get to be with for eternity! Well I'm kind of out of things to say for now...I feel weird cause this is exactly like a journal entry and I've also discovered that I am a super boring blogger. Maybe I should just make this a private blog from now on.

smiley faces should always be yellow.

why can't I figure out how to change the font of any of my posts anymore??!!?! uuuuggghhh!!!!!

Thought process:

I love pictures.

I suck at writing in this blog.

Writing about pictures and finding ones I like, is. easy.

Conclusion?

**dramatic pause**

Picture of the DAY!....well more likely, ...picture of the whenever-I-get-around-to-it! Yaaayyy! and honestly since no one reads this, this is more of a way for me to save all my favorite pictures in nice and neat little posts on one little site I can access at anytime :) like an online scrapbook! Plus it will make it seem like I blog a lot! which probably isn't that cool but..I'm cool...also,I do what I want, I want to do this...so its cool.

So picture numero uno:

to me this is exactly the kinda of thing I picture in my mind when I think of my perfect day, there is a place our stake goes for Girls Camp that this reminds me of too and whenever I think of getting away and going somewhere perfect and beautiful to just be alone in nature and away from the world, I think of going to Big Meadow. And theres a song that we used to sing at girls camp that I always loved too, The Mountain of the Lord. ahhhh I can't find the lyrics anywhere!!! i'll keep looking and post when I do. Anyway this picture is awesome. I love sunsets and perfect weather.

=) <---imagine this is yellow....BECAUSE IT IS!

Dr Kelso "nothing in this world worth having comes easy"

This show is awesome. And it may or may not make me cry sometimes...haha But this particular episode I watched today and with whats going on in my life lately I felt like I could relate to this a lot....By now with this situation it doesn't really matter anymore so its become a lesson learned a little too late, and something to work on for later...

Nothing in this world worth having comes easy, and I think thats the way God intended it to be.

Nothing is perfect. Especially relationships, but the ones that really matter are worth fighting for. I learned that the hard way and I really do believe that relationships aren't perfect, you have to do a lot of giving, and forgiving but in the end its worth it, if you're willing to work for it.

and on a lighter note, this is one of my all time favorites, cause I can relate to it so much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTSNVh-ah-4

I do that very same thing at least six times a day.

:]

One of the greatest challenge is to overcome the feeling that we are unimportant. That we are not special and unique. Do you think for a moment that Heavenly Father would sent one of his children to this Earth by accident without the possibilities of a significant work to perform?....My dear friends you are a royal generation. You were preserved to come to earth in this time for a special purpose. Not just a few of you. All of you. There are things for you to do that no one else can do as well as you. If you do not prepare to do them they will not be done. your mission is unique and distinctive for you."
-H. Burk Peterson

Continue in Patience

How come I never get to witness anything like this? oh yeah...

Gorgeous wedding gown: Check.
Stroller with dyed poodle: Check.
Gold slippers: Check.
Dyed beard: Check.
Parrot on head: Check.
Fuzzy ankle accessory: Check.

You would never see anything like this in Provo.

Yet another reason why

I need to move.

:)

You Gotta' be!

Songs always have a way of bringing back memories that you haven't thought of forever, or even remember all that well, but the minute you hear the song its like your right back in that moment. Sometimes that really sucks. Like a love song that makes you remember all of the good, and positively none of the bad things about a past relationship. Or another song that you listened to so many times during a particular phase in your life, like for example, I can't listen to Fall out Boy or Cartel or the Academy is or any other of our gangster hip hop music, without being taken back to Jr. year of High School driving around Bakersfield with Reagan. Or Lollipop by Lil Wayne without remembering my first summer out of the house living with Reagan in Provo. Or Just got started lovin you, which always reminds me of my first boyfriend and hanging out with him every night!

Music is so amazing! This particular song takes me right back to being 7 years old and going to Rio Bravo with my best friend Mika and our moms. I guess its pretty sentimental to me cause it's one of my first real memories I have of music. And it takes me back to such a simple times in my life where I didn't have anything to worry about but whether or not me and Mika were going to get in a fight that day or not, and if we did get in a fight how I could keep her from biting me! I wish I could go back and talk to 7 year old me. And tell her to stay young and naive and innocent as long as possible. Stay away from boys and listen to everything my mom tells me. And tell her not to be afraid of the pool vacuum or monsters roaming the streets, to practice the piano more, and beg mom to let me take gymnastics. Graduate early, it's the best thing you will ever do. Finish BC asap and buy a cooler freaking car, with AC! Don't quit soccer, play volleyball as much as possible, be nicer to Jenna, NEVER get a perm and stay away from any guy named...well quite a few names. haha. anyway this is a good song. It makes me feel like a little girl again and honestly gives me a reason to try and conquer trials in my life, if for no other reason than that I know 7 year old me would want me to.


Listen as your day unfolds
Challenge what the future holds
Try and keep your head up to the sky
Lovers they may cause your tears
Go ahead release your fears
Stand up and be counted don't be 'shamed to cry

You gotta be, you gotta be bad
You gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser
You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together
All I know, all I know love will save the day

Herald what your mother said
Read the books your father read
Try to solve the puzzles in your own sweet time
Some may have more cash than you
Others take a different view
My, oh, my
he-eh-y

You gotta be bad
You gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser
You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together
All I know, all I know love will save the day

Time asks no questions it goes on without you
Leaving you behind if you can't stand the pace
The world keeps on spinning can't stop it if you tried to
The best part is danger staring you in the face


Remember, listen as your day unfolds
Challenge what the future holds
Try to keep your head up to the sky
Lovers they may cause your tears
Go ahead release your fears
My, oh, my
He-ey-y

You gotta be bad
You gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser
You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together
All I know, all I know love will save the day