Road Rage!!!

Okay, so Angry drivers stress me out so much. You can even ask John it drives me crazy. :) But today I had an experience with an angry driver that just made me laugh. 

So, I was driving home from Salt Lake after dropping my little sister off at my grandparents house, and I was trying to merge onto I-80 off of 13th south. And once you get on the freeway you have to get over as soon as possible because your lane turns into an exit only. So I am getting up to speed. Well probably passing it. I am just about to get over and I see a cop car pull into the lane I need to get in . So I wait patiently for him to pass and when my time comes to get over. I do it real quick. Because we all know if you hesitate then you have lost your chance and have to wait. So I get over and am going the speed limit maybe over and this Jeep with California plates decides he needs to get over NOW!!! and he isn't even all the way past me and starts to come over barely missing my front end and then slams on his brakes. (John tells me all the time how good of drives Californians, so when this happens it just makes me laugh maybe they are good or maybe I just really suck. I figure its them) But anyway, after he does this to me I get a little frustrated because A. he didn't need to pull right in front of me almost causing and accident and B. who slams on their brakes going 70 miles and hour after barely missing the front end of a car? So this lovely driver decides to get over to the next lane so he can get off on the exit I was trying to avoid. So I (learning from the best) decide to speed up and give him a mean face. and just as I am passing him ready to stare down. I see this guy in his 20's giving me a not so nice finger and calling me a not so nice word for a female dog. And what did I do, you ask? Well I will tell you what I did. I started laughing. I don't mean a smile but a full on laugh to the point of tears. I don't think my reaction is the one he was counting on but it definitely will be one that he remembers!!! I wish that when people did "mean" things like that they could see what they look like. I mean seriously it is the funniest thing to me.  So from now on if I see someone getting angry with the way I drive then I will be sure to let them know how stupid they look by pointing and laughing!!!! 

Well that is all from my rant on road rage. (No offence to California drivers, just this one) Okay now I am done!!! Life is going great I love my life and I am loving coaching!!! 

Firsts.......

Okay, well I am lying here in bed while John is reading his book trying to figure out what to blog about. I started going through my pictures that I just uploaded from our new camera that we always forget to take with us. And wouldn't you know it I found three different FIRST for the two of us together. So, here it goes I am kinda tired so if none of this makes sense please don't judge. ;) 

Okay, so first off this year we had our very first 4th of July together! For the day we went to Grantsville to help out with some parade stuff. (My basketball girls were driving around selling drinks so we were there just in case they needed us) The parade was also a first for us but for the sake of time and the fact that they happened the same day I am just going to say that it is one first not two. So we were sitting along the parade route just waiting for things to get going and it started to get windy and rainy and I was super upset because I had straightened my hair for the day (for those of you who know my hair, know that when it gets wet i look like a lion or something crazy) so John decided to be nice and let me wear his BYU hat! and let me tell you I am definitely not a hat kinda girl, they just don't look good on me! During the parade there were a ton of floats and little things put together by local organizations, (all-star teams, bands, libraries, stores) one float had people throwing candy and one guy looked right at John and threw him a piece of candy as he yelled go BYU (John was wearing a BYU shirt) needless to say John was super excited. After that is when he started acting like a little kid during Christmas. You see John LOVES cars, when i say loves its more of an obsession. So i guess its a tradition out here in Grantsville to have a car show but there were tons of cars and John had me taking pictures of all of them!! He was so excited! After the parade they had all the cars parked in the grass at the High School and again John had me take pictures of practically every one, including engines! After that we went and help supervise a little blow up basketball thing that my girls were doing to earn money, then went home and had dinner with John's parents and Grandpa! It was definitely a great first of many Independence Day's!!!

So John decided that he wants to do his own post one of these times so I am going to let him post about all the cars!!

Yes I know I look fantastic!!!

John's got his "Blue Steel" face going on!!

The next first is, a concert. My dad won tickets to the Pioneer Day celebration concert that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir did so he took John and I, and my little sister Megan. It was so great we got some pretty sweet seats. (well they were on the highest balcony but they were front row!!!) But they didn't have enough leg space for dad so Megan and him sat in the row behind us. Before I get to the concert I have to say that we sat next to the best people....the guy next to John thought that he was the conductor the whole time and was waving his had with the music in a motion like he knew what he was doing. And the girl I was sitting nest to was a complete know it all. she was talking to her mom or some lady I hope it was her mom because I know if some random girl was talking to me I would have gone crazy. anyway this girl thought that she knew everything about the concert and the people singing and the orchestra and the building and.....well you know everything. It was driving me nuts but what really got me was during a few of the songs she starts singing like she knows what she is doing and it sounded awful (okay, that is a little harsh she didn't sound bad it just overpowered the singer so i couldn't here what it was supposed to sound like!!) But I was not angry at these people or begrudging I just found it funny the way people act in public. Anyways back to the FIRST, the concert was great the whole thing was a tribute to the troops and they had some video of so veterans talking and telling their stories and I found it absolutely wonderful. I even got a little teary!! After the concert Dad took us to get ice cream and we were so excited to go to Leatherby's. When we got there we waited in line for a little bit and then got seated it was so hot in there and so busy. We waited 20 minutes before we even got water and then another half hour till someone came to take our order and when the ice cream came out mine tasted old and freezer burned. But in this period of time there were probably three or four tables that got up and left or who didn't like their food and left. it was really sad. :( But no matter how much things didn't seem to go right that night I thought it was great. I enjoyed spending some time with my Dad, Megan, and John!! I am so lucky I have a great family!! 

Someone wouldn't take a serious picture with me!!

Dad and Megan before the concert!

Dad and his girls after the concert!!!!

Me and John after the concert don't you love payback!!

(I will show you a not serious face!!)

Dad and Megan after!!!

Okay, so for the last first this was probably the most fun for me!! I decided that I was sick of being blonde. Don't ask me why I just go through phases where I need to change something and I was feeling like it was my hairs turn!!! (It is almost always my hairs turn) Anyways, I asked John if we could color my hair for family night a couple of weeks ago and he was all for it. So after he got home from work we cleaned off one of our counters and got into grungy clothes. I mixed up the first bottle and was just gonna have John point to hair where I might have missed a spot, but no John was so excited that he took the bottle away from me and started squirting and rubbing it into my hair. Don't worry he did let me help squish it around. But we got through the first layer or so with only a little bit of dye on the back of my neck. When we got to the upper layers around my face is when the fun really started!! So, while John was squirting I was trying to run it into my scalp to get all of the hair but John didn't like that to much. He wanted to do it all by himself which turned into both of our hands rubbing my head and his slowly moving down to my forehead. I was a mess and he  just kept going because he was determined to make sure that he didn't miss a single hair. Well this went on for a little bit but he kept getting in the way of my hands or if you ask him I was getting in the way. So I stopped trying to help and just let him do his thing. But nope he was still making a mess. I guess with the gloves he was wearing he couldn't really feel where he was getting so he moved down to my forehead even more and by the time we were done I had dye covering my forehead, on my eyebrow (not the whole thing just a line) down my arms on my ears and covering the back of my neck. it was great!!! LOL But we got it all situated on top of my head and waited and then I showered and when I was done it was a lot darker then I was hoping but it turned out really good and has faded a little to a better color then black!! ( I am super bummed we didn't get any pictures during the process but we got an after shot!!) 

It looks a little red in this picture!!

Well needless to say these last few months have been amazing and I am enjoying life and the wonderful adventures that come from being married!! I can't wait for more!! Life is great and I have an amazing husband!!!

Lions and Tigers and SPIDERS oh my........

Okay, well I want to start off by saying I absolutely hate spiders (when i say hate I really mean loath and am deathly afraid of them) . 

Well with that little fact about me out in the open i will tell you all about my two incidence's with spiders this last week. So last Thursday I was sitting at home doing some cleaning and I was just walking back into the front room after making my bed, and out of the corner of my eye I see this gigantic spider. (So gigantic to me probably isn't the same for people not deathly afraid of spiders, but it was really big) So i freaked out, i don't know why they creep me out so bad they just do. But the funny part of this story is the way I freaked out. I mean it was just sitting on the arm or our love seat and I was jumping up and down around the house hyperventilating and not knowing what to do. I was so terrified that it was going to jump up at me if i tried killing it and then eat me to death or something so I found the biggest shoe i could find without having to leave the room for fear that the spider would be gone by time i got back. The only shoe that I found that would work was John's church shoes so I grabbed one and walked over to the love seat and moved all the cushions , and of course the spider moved and i freaked out again. but I manned up and started swinging the shoe at him. I wasn't sure if i got him or not I may have closed my eyes but i just kept swinging until i felt it was dead. And it got stuck to the bottom of the shoe so I just threw the whole thing towards the front door. and didn't go over there at all. So I was still freaking out and my heart was beating so hard that I had to just sit down and take a breather. The best part about this story is not that I was able to kill the spider it is how wonderful my husband is. When I told him about it he laughed because after the fact the way i acted was pretty funny but when he got off of work he came home and turned the couches inside out trying to get the rest of the spiders out!! He was great. I sure am lucky!

Okay so now for the good story. So, last night we were laying in bed reading and I had finished the chapter I was reading so I decided to go get our blanket out of the dryer and as I was opening the door, I saw movement on the ground, and wouldn't you know, there was another one of those spiders on the floor. So of course I freak. I scream and run back to the bed. John freaks because he thought that someone had broken in or something. and was like kinda frustrated that I screamed because he got all freaked out. But I was still freaking out because there was a giant spider on the floor and I didn't know what to do. So he got up to take a look at it. oh but wait he didn't kill it he decided that he wanted to get a better look at it so he put it in a cup and examined it. then he said he wanted to look at it some more tomorrow so he put it i a Tupperware container and was gonna leave it on the counter. I vetoed that one real quick so he put it on the back porch. But after that I was still freaked out and just couldn't calm down for some reason. So I just laid in bed while John held me and finished his chapter. When he was done I still was kinda freaked out so we just laid there with John holding me and trying to calm me down. Now that I think about it. I am super lucky to have a husband who is so strong and not scared of spiders to take care of me and to hold me when I am freaking out. I don't know how I got so lucky but I sure do love it and thank Heavenly Father for it everyday!!!

So that is my spider experience that i really hope never happens again. 

Well the rest of our life is going great!!! We are finally getting settled into our little house and figuring out how this married thing works. We are enjoying our new ward, there are a lot of nice and friendly people in it!! Our nephew Conner King Warr got blessed this last Sunday and John's dad got put into a Bishopric out in Provo. So life is busy but really amazing. I am learning to sew. I sewed my first button on last week and it worked. It may not have looked so pretty on the back side but i know that it is not going to be coming off anytime soon. I am also doing a lot of cooking, which I love to do so that is nice. We have tried a ton of different recipes and we are finding ones that we like and ones that we probably wont every use again. So all in all life is amazing. I love my little family!!!!

Two Weeks and Two Hours!!!!

Well I am sure you guessed it, we have been married for 2 weeks and 2 hours!!!!

These past two weeks have gone by so fast and I haven't posted anything for a little while so I will give a little update on the past two weeks. (when I say little I don't necessarily mean little, I mean I will let you know how amazing life has been and I don't care how much space it takes!!!!

Okay so wedding week was totally crazy, My MOH (Maid of Honor) Sheri Sharp, got into Utah on Monday night and she was a total life saver. She has helped with many weddings before and knew exactly what needed to be done so that I wouldn't be a complete wreck all week. I am so very grateful that she was able to come it meant the world to me. Then on Wednesday my other MOH (Matron of Honor) Heather Briggs got in and Things were going great she was amazing as well she went right to work along with Sheri to make sure things got done. I love them both so much they have been such great strengths in my life and I am so thankful for them!!!

I Love these girls!!!!

So wedding day went amazing, there were no glitches that I am aware of and that is probably a really good thing!!! The weather had been bad all week so we couldn't have the reception outside (which kinda made me sad) but both John and my families came together on Thursday night and helped us set up everything it looked wonderful when I left at 9:30 to go to sleep. They didn't finish until midnight I believe. So at the Temple it was amazing all of our Families were there and they look so pleased with us. The weather outside of the temple for pictures and such was not horrible. It was a little windy and overcast but not horrible at all. We got all of our family pictures done and then moved on to our individual pictures. it was really nice and relaxing. no matter how much I hate taking serious pictures I really enjoyed taking these ones. Maybe because of all the bliss from getting married and everything or maybe I am just a natural at taking pictures!?!?! ;)

After pictures we headed to the reception, it turned out wonderful. I was so pleased with how well it turned out!!! and I was even more pleased with the Cakes!!!!! So I am assistant coaching volleyball at Grantsville High School, and our head coach does cakes and she is absolutely amazing. We weren't going to have a real cake we were just going to order sheet cakes from Costco. but at the last minute (like a week before) I decided that I wanted to get john a surprise so I thought what he would like and he is always talking about corvettes and how he  loves them so I decided to see if Stefanie (head coach) could make a cake corvette. I sent her a picture and she said that she would see what she could do. Then she asked if I wanted her to make me a cake that was for john and I to cut and eat. So she did and they turned out so good :) John was so surprised and so excited that when we went to eat it like a week later he couldn't bare to cut it in half so I had to. :)

So the reception was so amazing and the food was so good, and the company was amazing!!!! I want to thank everyone who was able to make it. You helped make our special day absolutely wonderful!!!!


Well after the reception (I wont go into detail don't worry) we went back to our house (yes we have a house how cool is that) and John had given Mark and Shanna the keys to our house and had told them to make it pretty or something like that. I never asked what he asked them to do but when we got home there were rose petals on the floor into the bedroom and he had gotten our new bed set up and all of the new (used) furniture moved in. it looked absolutely wonderful :) I was so happy!!!

The next morning my parents drove us to the airport and we flew to San Diego. It was real nice we got to stay on the beach and It was a blast!! We were there for a whole week. We went to the beach a few times, watched the sunset, went to a diner at the end of the pier, went to the San Diego Temple, and of course went to Disneyland!!!!


Ruby's Diner!!!

John was super excited if you couldn't tell :)

The view from our condo!!!

There has to be a sunset kissing picture its a law or something!!!!

My first ocean sunset (well that I remember at least)

San Diego Temple (talking to Mom, my bad)

Kara's cousin Strider got us into Disneyland and took this picture for us!!!

Of course the one ride I just had to ride was under some sort of construction or something :(

Look Mom, i'm a big boy now I can ride all the rides!!!!

I have the best husband in the world, he stood in line with me for and hour and a half to meet Rapunzel and Flynn Ryder!!!!

Well that about sums up the past two weeks of my married life. Now it is back to real life!!! :)

Oh and the most exciting news so far......I am an Aunt!!!! Shanna and Mark had Connor Warr
Thursday June 2, at 6:21 pm!!!!
Also, my brother Ryan and my sister-in-law Sarah are expecting their first child as well!!! There are just babies popping up all over the place :)

Life is great :)

"I Love to See the Temple!!"

Well, it is officially wedding week. (okay well it is actually a few days into wedding week) 

As of right now there is 2 days 21 hours and 16 minutes!!!!!

Well, we got our marriage license since my last post!!! 

This last weekend was probably the most stressful part of this whole wedding planning stuff. I had to write a talk for church, buy food for the reception, and figure out what I am going to do with my hair. Now separately those things are not stressful but when you add them all together at once it is insanely stressful. So John has to keep reminding me that the most important part of this week is going to be the Temple and that nothing else is going to matter. So I am trying to keep telling myself that it cant be perfect, things are bound to go wrong I just have to enjoy the day and what the deeper meaning is!!! 

So this week I am not stressing hardly at all. I am just having a good time not working and moving my stuff over to my new house!! My MOH got in last night and I am so excited!!! We got the dresses for her my little sister and my other MOH. They are so cute we love them!!!

We also went and got pedicures this morning, even though you wont see our feet because of our wicked awesome converses!! It is still just nice to go out and do something for you to make you feel good!!! 

Well I gotta go do some more wedding stuff!!! I love my life and cant wait for Friday to be here!!!

  

So much to do!!!!!

As of right this second there is only 21 days, 21 hours, and 41 minutes till the wedding!!! (its a good thing i have a smart phone that will do all that for me cause numbers and Rika don't get along.) 

So, with only 21 days left until the Biggest day of my life, (so far anyways) there seems to be endless lists of thing that we could be doing or rather should be doing. But with all these list there just seems like there isn't enough time to do everything. I mean we have all of the major things taken care of already i.e. Temple, reception site, cake, announcements, and all the really big things. So we could not do anything else for the wedding and be totally fine, well kind of. We don't have a DJ yet, or Food and that type of stuff so it would be a really boring reception, but I think that we will finish so that people actually show up!!!

So moving on to stuff that is going to be easy to finish up and completely not stressful. The Marriage License!!! Okay so that is really all that I can think of that is not going to be stressful because all we have to do is drive down to the court house and answer some questions and i am pretty sure that is it!!! But knowing how things like to turn out for me something is bound to go wrong. I just hope that it doesn't. Well It looks like we are off to the Court House, wish us luck I will let ya'll know how it goes!!!!

The Hasty Heart

Well, it is getting closer to wedding time which of course means endless stressing right? Okay, so maybe not for everyone but for me I am pretty sure I am going insane with all this stress. And John being the best fiance on the planet is more than willing to do whatever I want him to, so that I don't have to worry about it. Let me tell you something it is kinda nice not to have to worry about doing every little thing by myself because unlike all the weddings I have seen John really does want to help and is not just saying it to make me feel better. 

So this week is a little bit more stressful because Ryan and Sarah got married on the 16th!! (YAY, for another sister) so while my parents were in North Carolina dodging tornado's, I was stuck at home with the kids trying to keep them out of trouble. So that was pretty stressful all by itself. And to add on top of that this Saturday we are doing a Utah reception for them and I am going to the Temple. Yes, both pretty stress free things right? Wrong, first I am going through the Temple tomorrow, and I have been working all week (graves of course) and I have gotten hardly 4 hours of sleep every morning this week. So that makes things hard at work. And when I am tired I get really grumpy and things piss me off more then usual. So while this should be a time of happiness I am just frustrated with the littlest things. But don't get me wrong I am super excited to go through I am just a little grumpy as of right now. (that should change as of 2 o'clock this afternoon, YAY for sleep!!!) So that is making my life hectic and with the reception on Saturday night and Sarah's Bridal Shower on Friday, we have so much to do in so little time. We have to clean the house so Ryan and Sarah have a place to sleep, cook turkey for the sandwiches, make the sandwiches, decorate the cultural hall, and then hopefully have time to relax!! But that isn't it along with the Reception comes the fact that Ryan is taking his car and the truck back to LA, (where he is stationed at) So we have roughly 4 days to pack up the majority of my stuff and move it to John's house. You think that wouldn't be stressful, but I have so much stuff I don't know what to do with half of it. and I have to make sure I don't forget any of my shoes!!! But along with me moving most of my stuff out, I have to help in my parents house getting stuff put in the truck to take to the dump. So that pretty much sums up why I am stressed out of my mind. 

So I have a friend from High School who is in the play The Hasty Heart at Hale Center Theater in West Valley, and he posted on facebook that you could get tickets for only $10 if you use a promo code and his name. So I have been wanting to see this play since I first got the event invite on Facebook. it sounded pretty funny, but the real reason is that I absolutely love plays. I don't know what it is about them but they just make me happy and relaxed. Yeah strange I know. But I had mentioned to John the whole $10 ticket and that if he wanted to we could take a break from everything and just enjoy ourselves. I didn't know if he would actually want to go watch a play. But I asked anyways, and he said that we could go, I was so excited!! And I know that he wasn't really sure if he was going to like it because he told my little sister Megan. :) But when we got there it was just so nice to be away from all the stress and noise of the world, I was instantly relaxed!! And as the show went on I didn't once think about how stressful the rest of the week is going to be. I just kept thinking how much I love spending time with John and how it was just nice to sit and relax not doing any sort of planning!!! At the end of the play I asked John what he thought of it and he said that he liked it. So I am hoping that he was being truthful :) 

So tonight was great, I loved the play and I loved spending time with John!!! Life is going so great other then all this stress. I am finally where I am supposed to be doing what I should be doing even though there were people out there who didn't think it was possible for me. If it weren't prideful I would tell them "in your face" but I know that I don't need to say anything or do anything different then what I am doing now so I am just going to stick with that!!! But Life is great only like 29 days and 9 hours till wedding day!!!! I am so excited to be marrying my best friend he is the greatest!!! 

That's all Folks!!!!

Blog-imony

Okay, so I am not positive but I recall hearing a talk this weekend during General Conference about bearing your testimony all the time and I remember something about blogging your testimony.

Well to be completely honest I am not sure how well this is going to go. I am not ashamed of my testimony in the least bit. I just worry about peoples feeling to much. So I am going to ignore how other people are feeling about this subject and just let everyone know how I feel about it. 

Again during Conference, John told me how in Priesthood session President Monson spoke about the Book of Mormon, and that he told everyone that if you haven't read it yet you need to read it. That right there got me thinking. I don't think that I have ever read the Book of Mormon from cover to cover. And I told John that and he told me that we would have to change that starting tomorrow (Monday) I didn't even think anything of it, I was just planning on reading a little tonight while I was working. But this afternoon after we got done working out and got cleaned up, John had his scriptures out ready for us to start reading. So we started reading the introduction and took turns until we had completely read the whole intro. While we were reading I had the most amazing spirit come over me. It was like I was getting this huge hug and it was taking my breath away. (that made it a little difficult to read) But if I didn't know that the Book of Mormon was true before, I know with an assurity that it is one-hundred percent true. I know that I have struggled with these little doubts that are put in my head every once in a while. But I am always really good about being able to stop them before they get to big. But after reading today, there is no doubt in my mind that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the true and everlasting Gospel of Christ. I know that if I can keep the commandments and someday (soon) make the Temple covenants and always strive to be more like Christ in everything I do I will be able to sit across from him in the judgement seat and know that I have done everything in my power to return to my Father in Heaven and have relied on the Lord for everything that I am not yet capable of doing. I am so very blessed to have a fiance who is so in tune with the Spirit. I really don't know what I would have done if he had not come into my life at the time that he did. He really is the most amazing person I have ever met and I know that I can see myself with him Forever!! and I thank Heavenly Father for him everyday. I know now that if I ever have any doubts in my mind or just questions that I can go to John and he will be able to help me understand. I know that there are Living Prophets on the earth today and that they have been called by God and that the words that they speek to us are directly from the mouth of  God. We need to listen to what these messengers have to say and not just only say that we will do what they ask. But actually DO IT!!! I Bare witness to these things that I know they are true. and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

The Best Day Thus Far!

Well, I'M ENGAGED!!! Yup you read correctly!! So this post is gonna be all about how wonderful last night was and how much I love my "fiance" 

(Just a side note John told people to read my blog to find out how it all went down. That is a lot of pressure on my part. I mean what if I forget something, or add something, or don't do it justice?) So this is my warning that if this is a crappy post you can blame it on the pressure!!!!

The Ring!!!!!

FYI- pictures do not even come close to doing it justice!!!

So we decided that we wanted to do a date night last night with just the two of us outside of Tooele. So we had it all planned out we were going to go into Salt Lake for dinner and then to walk around the temple. (By far one of my favorite things to do!) So we were going to eat at this restaurant that John heard about that supposedly has the best Philly Cheese Steaks. (Johns favorite) but a couple days before I asked him about it and he said there was a change of plans that we weren't going there anymore, and he wouldn't tell me where we were going to go. So I was confused cause he was so excited about this other restaurant. So i dropped it. So he picked me up from my house and we headed into Salt Lake. We stopped by my grandparents house to say hi and introduce John to them. That was really good, my grandma really likes him and my grandpa didn't give him to bad of a hard time. After we left there we headed for Olive Garden. Oh I forgot to mention that while driving to my grandparents house he decided to tell me where he was going to take me for dinner. So I was super excited and I could tell that he was because of the diet he was on he hadn't had a chance to eat any good food so it was bound to be a great meal!! And of course it was, we couldn't even finish all of it. In fact we only ate a couple of bites from our main course, and doggie bagged the left overs. So after dinner we drove up to temple square and started walking around. We walked around for a while went into both visitors centers (Looking for my old roommate) and we went and sat on the couches looking at the Christus Statue for about 10-15 min. it was nice!!! After that we continued to walk around the temple and stopped at the reflecting pond and just took in the amazing sight for a good 10 min. It was amazing, the Salt Lake temple is by far my favorite!!! After that we walked back to the car and he told me that we were going to go to a look out that he used to go to in High School. It was a quick 5 minute drive. We got out of the car and walked to the overlook. It was breathtaking, you could see the whole Salt Lake valley!! We sat there and talked about trains and how small the temple looked compared to the other buildings. And then he started telling me a story about how that was almost the exact spot where his grandparents got engaged (this is when I started wondering if he was going to propose but then I thought "No he doesn't even have the ring yet" so I continued listening to his story) He told me how his Grandma was probably the most amazing woman he has ever met, and how he has only met one other person who was as amazing as her. (remember I may not have the story absolutely word for word) And me of course being the blond that I am sometimes asks who? LOL Of course he says me. and then he got down on one knee and the rest is history. No, for real I remember him getting down on one knee and pulling out the ring. But I could maybe tell you one or two words here and there that he said. except for something about marrying him. Now I don't know if that is normal but I couldn't even believe what was happening. It was like those movies where people will be talking to someone and the person sees there lips moving but no sound is coming out. It was quite strange to be honest. So I said yes of course and he put the ring on my finger and we just sat there and kissed a little and looked and the view for a little bit. It wasn't until after we were looking at the temple and everything that I got a little teary eyed. I honestly never thought that I was going to have the opportunity to marry the man of my dreams, in my favorite temple. So that kinda hit a soft spot. I was just so happy in that moment that I didn't even want it to end. So after probably 15 minutes of taking in what just happened we went to the car and started texting everyone. Everyone seemed really excited for us. A couple of my favorite responses were from Megan (my little sister) and Shanna (John's brothers wife, my future sister-in-law). So I will start with Shanna's response first. (remember it is not word for word) John sent everyone a text saying "SHE SAID YES!!!!" (but with like 30 more exclamation points) :) and Shanna says- To what? are you getting married oh my gosh I had no idea. something along those lines, and John just laughed because he was getting ring advice from Mark (brother) and told him to keep it on the DL and John figured he would tell Shanna but I guess he didn't so she was totally shocked (I hope it was a good shocked of course). And now Megan's response, so you have to understand that Megan is 13 and in the teenage "I'm to cool for school" phase. So I sent everyone a text saying "I'M GETTING MARRIED" and her reply was....."I know" and that was it. I was like are you serious right now? So I replied and told her that there was a ring now and all she said this time was "AHHHHHHH" and I didn't hear anything back from her after that. So again I am hoping it was a good AHHHH not a bad one. LOL

Well needless to say I had an amazing night. I got engaged and I got to spend a big chunk of time with the love of my life. I was really shocked I had no idea it was coming yet. But I am the luckiest girl in the world. :)

And I am so in LOVE!!!! 

P90X "/

Okay well hear it is, a post that has nothing to do with love!!

So while I was at work tonight I was talking to my co-worker Hillary. (we get off on some crazy tangents) and we started talking about working out i think and how running on treadmills suck and how we hate having to go to the gym. I remembered someone talking about p90x in one of their blog posts and how they felt really good about it. Well I decided to look it up on the Internet and see how much it would cost for the DVDs well I looked on amazon and it was like $300 so I was like heck no techno. Then I found the official site and read all about what each DVD works on and what your potential results could be, and we were both sold. so we decided to go ahead and order it for of course 3 EASY payments of $39.95. lol I really hope that it comes in the next 7 days while I am still super motivated because if it doesn't I may have just wasted a big chunk of change. Okay so realistically no matter when it comes I will be motivated to use it I am just more motivated at this moment in time :) I am also super pumped to start getting back into shape, my goal is to be back in the kind of shape I was in high school by the middle of June!!! But I have a hard time at being constant with working out, we pretty much have a love hate relationship. I love the feeling I get from working out but I absolutely hate the body aches after! Well I have to get back to my work chores so I will keep y'all updated on the whole work-out thing!!!

Trading Places

So there is no special inspirational song for this post, but it still is a love struck one!

  Has someone you loved been sick to the point that, you wish you could trade them places?

Well I can say that I am feeling that right about now. So these last couple of days John has had a chest cold, and last night while I was at work I got some stomach bug and was truly miserable. I went home early and slept all day. I felt a little better after waking up but not terribly. When I asked John how he was doing he told me that he was miserable. :( Immediately I was trying to figure out what I could do to help him. I even ignored how I was feeling because I was so worried about him. I know you are probably thinking "Rika, he just has a chest cold." and yes I know that a chest cold isn't the worst thing that could happen but I still hate that he is feeling so sick. If I could trade places with him so that he wouldn't be sick I would do it in a heart beat. Seeing him sick makes me so sad, it kinda makes me hurt inside. I have never really felt this way about anyone, and it makes me want to do everything in my power so that I don't lose him or the feeling I have for him. Also I must mention that John is probably the most amazing guy ever, since I was feeling sick he wanted me to rest so I could get feeling better but I insisted on coming over. (I just had to do something to take care of him) So I went to his house in my sweats (not the most attractive attire I might add) with no make-up, and you know what he told me? He told me that I was still beautiful with out make-up!!! I am pretty sure I might have been blushing :) But in all honesty I am the luckiest girl in the world!!! It is not everyday that you find someone that will love you for who you are and not care if you dress up or dress down. I love life so much!!!

Okay so one of these days I will write a post that is not all about Love :)

"When you say nothing at all"

Okay so here I go again with the "lovey dovey" posting, sorry to all who find this depressing. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_M6a3enqnE

Okay so I am sure that everyone who likes country even the tiniest bit knows the song "When You Say Nothing at All" Well like the past few posts songs just come on the radio and inspire my posts. Well no surprise here, but I was driving to work tonight and what do you know this song came on the radio. And I was just so touched by it. Usually this song makes me want to gag because I never thought that couples were really like this, well now I can testify to you there are couples like this out there. I was talking to John a couple Sundays ago how bad I am at voicing how I feel about him and how happy he makes me, but how I can find a song that says what I don't know how to, and then I can blog about it. Well tonight I was trying to find the words to say to him how happy he makes me and how much my life have changed for the better since he has come into it. Or how I could just look into his eyes all day and know that he feels the same way about me and would do anything in his power to make me happy, and of course at the time I couldn't get any of this to come out of my mouth. Then this song came on and all of these words were coming and it was kinda overwhelming. I want to call him and tell him right there but I just couldn't. I don't want him to miss out on sleep because of me. So there I was sitting in my car on the verge of tears wanting to be able to tell the man I love how I feel about him face to face and not through some email or song or blog post. But I just get so tongue tied when I am with him. I hope that's a good thing. "/ But anyways, my life is so good right now I have the best boyfriend, the most amazing friends and family. I couldn't ask for anything more!!!

"At last I see the light, It's like the fog has lifted!"

Wow, so I don't know if it is kosher to always talk about how happy you are or how amazing your boyfriend is, but I am going to do it anyways I hope I don't offend anyone!!

So my life seems to be getting better and better as the days go by. Until today I have been so worried about things coming crashing down like they always have. But as I was spending time with John tonight I just couldn't find anything to worry about, and all my fears were gone. I know that I relate my posts to songs quite often but right now I feel like so many songs can sum up my life better then I can. So a couple of weeks ago John took me to go see Tangled, and I absolutely loved it. :) and when I was at work that night I bought the sound track off itunes. (I'm a sucker for love songs) and on caught my eye called "I See the Light" but I just thought it was a really good until tonight while I was driving to work I heard it and I was like OMG that is exactly what I felt like tonight!! I mean I have been through so much and I remember always seeing those couples madly in love and not noticing anyone else around them, I was always so jealous of those people because I never thought that I would have that. Once I thought that I had that, but it wasn't like I had thought it wasn't perfect and I was always worrying, and for good reason because not to long after it started it came crashing to a halt. So I was really bitter about love for the longest time. Until recently I really had given up, until John came into my life. Tonight while we were just cuddling I looked up at him and I just go this overwhelming sense of peace, or maybe it was joy I don't even know what it was but my heart was seriously over flowing with love. I thought that I knew what love was until tonight I found a whole new meaning of love. Like the song says, At last I see the light, it's like the fog has lifted. I truly know what love feels like and I don't ever want it to end and i don't think that it will. :)

So that is my rant on my truly wonderful life right now!!!

"Thank God for all i've missed, cause it led me here to this"

Well it has been a really long time since I posted and a lot of things have been going on in my life so I will give a quick run through of my life from the past 5 months. So since July I have driven back to VA, and moved into an apartment back there, drove to NC to spend time with Sarah Wiggins (my brothers fiance) back to VA to try and get into school. That didn't end up happening so I was looking for a job and found one at Apple bees, worked there for two days and had to quit because of this horrible feeling I had. After that I kind of had a rough patch and wasn't living in the best situation so I started thinking it was time for me to come back to Utah. so I talked to my family a lot I talked to Sarah a lot and went and stayed with her for a little bit and decided it was best to move back home. So I packed all of my stuff up and said my goodbyes and headed home. My car broke down when i was in Ohio with my Aunt getting ready to leave. Once my car got fixed I made the long trip to Utah. I made it home and started working at my old job, I drove down to Arizona for my best friends wedding and had a lot of time to think about what i needed to do with my life and the things I needed to cut out. So I decided that from then on I was going to try and be my best self! In December I got to witness Ryan and Sarah's engagement that is where I really decided that things in my life were changing. I started going to the singles ward and doing things with them, and that is where I am right now in my life. I just started dating the most amazing guy I have probably ever met. He is an engineer and super sweet!!!! Tonight at work he was supposed to be sleeping (i work 11:45-8am) and I get this text from him saying guess what?, me of course thinks that something bad has happened like his new house was burning down or something like that. But nope he responds saying "You are absolutely beautiful, and I just realized that I don't tell you that often enough" I was in awe.....I have never had any guy tell me that. I have had the biggest smile on my face for like 45 minutes and I am pretty its not gonna be going away anytime soon :) and this brings me to the title of this blog, I heard this song by Darius Rucker on the radio the other day called "This" and it fits my life perfectly. because right now I am realizing that everything that I thought I was missing out on when it was happening was really just leading me to this point in my life :)