Colt and Kayla

Day 24

2011-11-25T17:48:00.001-08:00

24. I'm thankful for my Savior. I'm so grateful for the sacrifice He made for us!!

Only one more day!

2011-11-23T20:07:00.001-08:00

21.sleep. Mmm... I love me some sleep
22.a holiday vacation from work to spend time with my family and rest
23.sweet newborn babies who remind you just how amazing life and the gospel is!

I'm Thankful for...

2011-11-20T17:54:00.001-08:00

17. Modern medicine. Thank heavens for pain medication!
18. A sweet husband who'll hold me when I'm feeling sick
19. Water. Amazing what having enough of it in your body can do!
20. For my mom and Glenna letting us crash at their house for the weekend as we weathered the storm and taking care of me too :)

Thankful Day #16

2011-11-16T21:41:00.000-08:00

16. I'm thankful for hot chocolate. Even though drinking it without any food in my body makes me sick, it is oh so good. MmMmM...

Ashley's Baby Shower

2011-11-15T19:45:00.000-08:00

My bestest friend, Ashley, is expecting her first baby on December 15th and I was able to throw her a baby shower! My first every baby shower that I've ever thrown, and I must say I was quite proud of how it turned out! Thanks to Pinterest.com (and if you don't know what that is you best check it out, you'll thank me for it later ;) ) I was able to get a couple ideas for the shower. I made it a onesie theme, every since Ashley and I were little, ok we weren't THAT little, we would gush over how cute onesies were. When we worked at sears portrait studio together, we'd walk around and look at the cute little onesies that they had on display and day dream about the day that we'd get to dress our cute little kids in them. That day will soon come! So it was only appropriate that I made it the theme of the baby shower. She's expecting a cute baby boy, baby Porter :)

These awesome cake balls and pretzels were made by my friend Kayla (check her out here)

I had a great time throwing it for her- I still have a hard time believing she's having a baby! I can't believe we're at that point in our lives already. Crazy stuff ! :)

Day 15

2011-11-15T19:41:00.000-08:00

15. I'm thankful for eye drops-especially after finding out your contact has a tear in it and has been scratching your eye and irritating it! boo. but yay for eye drops :)

Day 14

2011-11-14T21:48:00.000-08:00

I'm thankful for power naps after work! It's so nice sometimes to just come home and relax, you know you need it when ya zonk out the second your head hits the couch!

day 13

2011-11-13T18:03:00.000-08:00

13. I'm thankful for long naps and cuddle time with my hubby :)

Thankfullness!

2011-11-12T21:16:00.000-08:00

So I'm slacking but I figured It's better late than never to start my countdown to Thanksgiving with a list of things I'm grateful for..so since I'm so behind I've got a few to catch up on:

1. I'm thankful for a handsome husband who treats me like gold and loves me despite my weaknesses

2. That I have a job!

3. I have a roof over my head, and a warm bed to sleep in every night

4. For a sweet brother who is serving the Lord as a full time missionary in California. He's such a great example to me

5. My other sweet brother who is starting his papers and will be going on a mission in April-man how'd I get so lucky with so many awesome men in my life!?

6. My sweet dad who works so hard in everything he does

7. My awesome mother who takes time out of her weekend to help me throw a baby shower and helps take some of the stress off of me by getting things for it!

8. Sweet Glenna who is always so willing to help out with anything and everything!

9. Ibuprofin- my go to medicine when I've got an ache or pain!

10. Socks that keep my feet all nice and toasty

11. For my brother-in-law's girlfriend, Natalie, for taking a leap of faith and listening to the missionaries and making the decision to be baptized. And for her and her sweet baby coming into our family's lives

and finally 12. for the Gospel in my life, I don't know where I'd be without it. I'm so grateful for it and the direction it gives to me in my life.

There. :) Officially caught up! Now if I can just stay caught up..... ;)

My little brother..

2011-09-24T10:00:00.000-07:00

....is now serving as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Words cannot describe how proud I am of him and how excited I am for him to embark on this awesome adventure. Nathan entered the MTC on September 21st, which ended up being the most draining and tiring day ever. It was a whole different ball game being on the other end of this, someone asked me which was harder-being the missionary leaving or the ones that're left behind. I definitely have to say being the one left behind was definitely a lot harder. As a missionary you're swept up into the MTC and kept busy all the time, with not too much time to think about the things going on at home and busy with more important things to do. Here at home, you sit and think about that person non-stop and wonder what they're doing, and how they're doing. Definitely harder. It's killing me that he's not emailed yet or anything too, I sure hope his P-day's soon so I can at least hear how he's doing. Then again, it's only Saturday so it really hasn't been that long since he's entered. In 6 months my other little brother will be leaving on a mission too and I'll have to go through this all over again *sigh* so weird. My little brothers are growing up :( Anywho, Below are some pictures from the last time we were with Nate for 2 years :

My Family: Dalan, Mom, Nate, Me and Dad

Me and Nate :)

Pictures taken the night Nate was set apart as a missionary

Colt, Nate and I at Sizzler before dropping him off at the MTC, this was the last time Colt and Nate saw each other and said their goodbyes here, that's when it all started-once Nate started crying, we were all goners.

Dalan and Nate-being Dalan and Nate :) Best friends that won't get to see each other for the next 2 1/2 years, serving the Lord

Stacey

2011-08-19T14:27:00.000-07:00

My cousin Stacey Buhler Hess was recently hurt in a freak accident this past week. Stacey is a loving,caring, amazing mother who has two adorable young daughters. On August 16, 2011 she was doing another thing she loved to do, riding horses, when the unthinkable happened. While riding and trying to train a horse, it got upset and headed straight for a fence. Stacey was trapped with her foot in the stirrup and was trying to get off the horse when she was bucked off. She suffered a severe concussion and was taken to Logan Hospital where they then took her by life flight to McKay Dee Hospital in Ogden. Stacey was unable to answer what year it was, thinking the year was 1983 and she was 16 years old and was unable to recognize those family members around her. She suffers from skull, sternum, and sinus fractures which were all causing very bad bleeding and also suffers from a bruised lung. The part of her brain that was most affected was the personality part of her brain so we all await to see how much damage was caused. We continue to wait to see what happens, they have moved her now from the ICU and into another unit and she's now remembering who people are and is regaining some memory. They continue to try to find out and talk to her more but she is only awake for short periods and then falls back asleep. The hospital anticipates her remaining there for at least 7 days.

Unfortunately, they do not have insurance and will be in desperate need of help. Please consider helping this small family in need. They will have a heavy financial burden to carry after this and need all the help that they can get. Even if it's just a few dollars, every little bit helps.

Right now you can go to any Zion's bank and donate in the name of Stacey Hess,or click here: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/15881 and donate through PayPal. Thanks so much for your help and your prayers.

God is good :)

2011-08-03T19:50:00.001-07:00

Colt got a job! After 3 months of looking and living off of our savings we were blessed for Colt to find a job on campus at UVU in vending! It was a difficult time for us, a very trying time, but we learned so much from it and how to better rely on the Lord for guidance and strength. As Colt would tell you he felt like the Lord kept on leading him to all the wrong jobs, just to test us so we would fully put our trust in His hands. Every job that he did have interviews for never called back, or we'd never be able to find a job that would work with his schedule and then this job came along. I literally looked everyday online while I was at work for a job for him and the second (and I mean second) the job listing for this vending job was posted I submitted everything for him-only a few days later did we hear back and did he get the job that very day. It works perfectly with his schedule for school this fall and is super flexible-not to mention that he's off every night and has weekends and holidays off-just like me-so we can see each other more :) I feel so blessed to have such a faithful husband, he's such a great example to me and such a strength in my life. God is definitely good, life is good-the gospel's true, and nothing else matters! :)

Two years and going strong!

2011-07-03T23:02:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone! So instead of just reading everyone else's blogs I figured I'd actually catch up on mine again-I had to revamp the design of it since the last time I was on here was around valentines day apparently. oopsie.... Anywho. As of June 27 Colt and I have been married 2 years now! YAY! Go us :D We decided to go down to Moab and stay a night down there, when we were dating that was our halfway point that we'd meet up at and drive either back to New Mexico or up to Utah. We'd never really stopped and enjoyed the town itself since we were always just traveling through. It was a lot of fun, even if it was for a short time. We went to dinner and walked around downtown and had fun looking through the shops. Colt's family also met us for a day down there and we got to go to Arches National Park to see, from a viewpoint, the Delicate Arch. It was so hot that I'm glad we only attempted to hike to that viewpoint instead of the actual arch itself! We headed back home the day before our anniversary and then spent our anniversary here at home-Colt surprised me with breakfast in bed and we went and got massages later that night. It was a fun little 3 day weekend. It's amazing how fast time has flown by! I can't believe we've been married for 2 years already, it seems like just yesterday we were planning the wedding still and getting married! It's been the best two years though (haha ;) ) and I couldn't ask for a better and more amazing husband than Colt.

Quick update on the rest of what's going on in our lives-Colt is unemployed as of May, so if anyone knows somewhere that's hiring for a part-time position ( we'll take anything at this point) let us know ;) Also, my little brother Nathan finished his mission papers and received his mission call to the Roseville, California Mission! He leaves September 21! I'm so proud of him and am so excited for him to go! I wish I could go with him and I keep finding myself reminiscing about my mission and just wish I could tell him everything I learned and how amazing it was-but that's something he'll quickly find out on his own :) I'll leave you with this video of him opening his mission call :)

we're alive!

2011-01-18T22:07:00.000-08:00

I promise! I really suck at this blogging thing lately, I keep looking to see if everyone else updates their blogs but then I don't even do it myself! I promise to be better. :) Since I blogged last, Colt and I have survived a semester of school and are onto another one! This semester, however, I plan not to overdo it and only took one class this semester :) And it's the best class of course ;) I'm taking a photography class! After my first day of class though I was a little skeptical after finding out it's going to be a black and white film class, but after another class and some much needed venting to a wonderful husband (who is amazing at reminding me that I will be able to get through this class and helped me believe in myself), I came to the conclusion that this class will actually be pretty sweet-and so far it has been! Colt is taking a lot more classes than I am of course, going to school full time and working part time, although that's about to change too! Today he got a call back from a company in Provo called Progrexion, wanting him to come and work for him! We've been waiting for a week and a half or so to hear back and were wondering if we'd ever hear back, turns out they were waiting for his background check (he barely passed ;) ). He starts working there Jan. 31st! The best part of it all is that he'll be able to be home with me every night! I get to see him more! YAY! :) After 3 months of working there he'll also get benefits which'll be nice, even though we already have 'em through my work but if I ever wanna go back to school full time I could! :) And one more awesome thing-it works with his school schedule! I can't tell you how amazingly blessed we feel to have such a wonderful opportunity come into our lives. It's all thanks to a wonderful, loving, Heavenly Father and a very in tune husband who decided to follow the Spirit and go forward in faith.

Well, that's all I have time to update on for now, it's late and I've gotta get up for work tomorrow morning-yuck. I'll leave you with a sweet picture of us at the IMAX 3D theater at the Jordan Commons ;)

One more week...?

2010-08-18T18:59:00.000-07:00

As I was sitting here looking over what books I need for my classes this semester it hit me: I start school next week. Whoa. Really weird. I suddenly got nervous, worried about getting to my classes, finding my way around, getting all of my homework done and getting good grades. It sometimes seems like just yesterday when I was down at Snow College making new friends and loving the college life, and now here I am going to UVU (a MUCH bigger school might I add!). The whole thing's crazy to me, but at the same time I'm excited to get going again! It'll be nice to be working towards something again-and hopefully I can fit in a few fun classes along the way (can we say a photography class!?). It's gonna be quite the adjustment to go back and have both Colt and I going to school, one big plus though is that Colt will be working less-which means more time with me!! I'm so excited to be able to see him more!

2 weeks from today we'll be in New Mexico getting ready for Colt's little brother to come home the next day! Crazy! It'll be fun to finally meet him and to be able to see him and Colt together. Colt's always talked a lot about his brother and how close they are, I feel like I already know him. We've got some fun things planned for being down there, I'm putting together a slideshow of what he's missed in our family as well as in the world the last two years-if you have any ideas of some good stuff to highlight in it let me know!

Blessings

2010-07-31T21:32:00.000-07:00

I can't believe it's already August! Where in the world is this year going? It's practially Christmas time! haha Ok, maybe not but before we know it it'll that time of year again.

We've officially registered Colt for school and got everything figure out for him to be able to go, what a relief! It's been a long year having to wait for him to be able to go, but now we're able to have him have in-state tuition which is a big blessing. We also are blessed to be able to be getting financial aid to be able to have him go which is nice. I'm so excited for Colt to be able to go finally and to be able to work less-more time at home at nights with me! :D In the process of getting Colt signed up for school I also became a little antsy and have been trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. I'm sick of doing the same ol' things: going to work, coming home and cleaning or watching tv and only occasionally getting to see my hubby and spend nights with him. Having the same ol' routine everyday was starting to get to me and I was needing a change. Colt felt strongly that I should go back to school, I was a little skeptical seeing as he's going to school full time and working less. Someone needs to be working full time and for me to be able to go to school at the same time seemed impossible. I began to explore my options: I could A) go to school, hopefully finding some night classes open so I could still work full time or B) I could move to a different branch at work to switch things up a bit-there had been a position available at a different branch that opened up. It became quite the stress for me, even after praying about it over and over again I still didn't know what to do and was getting so frustrated. I finally arranged to go to the school and talk to a counselor and see what my options even were. I had decided that if going to school this fall and working full time still wasn't an option than I'd move to the other branch. The day that Colt and I went in there the counselor that is over my major(Early Childhood Education btw) wasn't there, so we set up a time to see her the next day-only to get a call that morning saying that she had called in sick and so I had to reschedule for the next day. The worst part was that the morning that I was supposed to go in was the same morning I was supposed to let my work know if I wanted to move. I was so stressed, literally making myself physically sick over it trying to figure it out. The night before Colt and I had prayed together and he had prayed that we'd have the faith to do whatever it took to do whatever decision that the Lord wanted us to. Not even realizing it, I ended up telling my work that I would just stay at the branch I was at and have the faith that I would be able to find classes this fall and I'd be able to go to school. After deciding that I told Colt what had happened and he reminded me of the prayer we had had the night before, I hadn't even realized the significance of that! The next day we went and saw my counselor at the school and it was so much fun, I couldn't stop smiling the whole time I was in there- I was SO excited about the idea of being back in school and felt so great about being there. I love that the Lord never leaves us alone. Here I was thinking that I was alone, not recieving an answer and then through a loving Heavenly Father (and husband) I was encouraged in the right direction. That same night after seeing the counselor Colt and I started looking up classes for me and found a couple that I could take. Before it seemed impossible that there'd be any of the classes I'd need that were available this late and close to school starting-but with the Lord's help anything's possible. I've signed up for a night class on Tuesdays and Thursdays and also a Saturday morning class. I'll still be able to work full time this fall and be able to take classes! We'll see what happens in the spring, I may also go to school full time but we'll see what we'll be able to financially take on after this semester :)

This next coming week we're off to our annual Bear Lake family reuion with the Buhler side of my family, I'm so excited for a vacation! We haven't been camping all summer either so we're excited to use our new tent! Next month will be an exciting one as well, Colt's brother Kevin gets home from his mission in Mexico and I finally get to meet him. We'll be heading down to New Mexico the first of September and get to see his mom finally and relax and enjoy another vacation! Life is good, the gospel's true-Nothing else matters!! :)

Very Blessed

2010-07-07T20:39:00.000-07:00

Man-I'm a big slacker! My problem is that I always feel I need to have pictures to post along with my posts, kinda hard to believe coming from me right? :P Well, I finally have internet at our apartment, so I now have no excuse for not updating this more often!

Since I blogged last Colt and I had our 1 year anniversary! Super crazy! I still can't believe it's been that long, it's gone by SO fast! To celebrate the day, we took work off and headed down to St. George and stayed at the same hotel we did for part of our honeymoon. It was a lot of fun to just get away and relax-and sleep in! Colt and I have a full sized bed at home, and both of us are big sprawlers while sleeping so we have had to get used to sleeping in a fetal position for the past year to get any sleep at all :P One of these days we'll get a california king :p ha! At the hotel room we were so excited to find that we had a KING sized bed!! Talk about exciting!! (pathetic too, I know) I haven't had that good of a night's sleep in a very long time. I think, sadly, that the king sized bed may have been our favorite part of the trip lol. Besides enjoying the wonderfully awesome bigger bed, we did go out and enjoy St. George as well. We ended up buying tickets to see Tarzan at the Tuacahn theatre down there. For those of you who don't know or haven't been to Tuacahn I highly recommend going there and seeing something there! It's an awesome outdoor theatre, we had acrobats flying above our heads during the performance, as well as a pretty background of the red rock mountains behind-so neat! We also enjoyed the pool while we were down there and even got to meet up with some of our friends down there and check out there cute new house and puppy! (thanks again Holden and Emily for the fun!)

For the 4th of July, my family got tickets to go to the Stadium of Fire in Provo. I've always loved going there to celebrate, they do such a great job of reminding us what the 4th is all about.

This year Carrie Underwood was the main performer! I was so excited! She was as amazing as she is on the radio and on her CD's! She sang the song 'Jesus Take The Wheel' and towards the end of the song there was a key change and she started singing 'How Great Thou Art', it was a very moving experience, I'll be honest I may have been trying to fight back a tear or two when she sang it. It was a great reminder of how blessed we are to live in such an amazing country and to enjoy all of the freedoms we have here-God truly does love us and blesses us more than we tend to realize.

Last but not least, we just bought another car! Colt's sweet mom has been letting us use her car for the last year and with his brother coming home this September( see the countdown on the side of our blog ;) ) we were wanting to get a new car so that we'd be able to give it back to her and he'd have something to drive when he got home. The poor car's been through so much, as you all know from the earlier posts, so hopefully it'll still be kind to his brother when he gets home. We ended up buying an '06 Suzuki Verona for an awesome deal and walked away feeling even more blessed that Heavenly Father is watching over us and has blessed us yet again. The blessings of tithing we're sure of it. We also found out that all of my credits from Snow College have transferred to UVU!! I was so excited! I'm hoping to take night classes this coming fall, seeing as I still need to work full time and Colt is now scheduled to take classes full time this fall. At least it's something though right? I still haven't decided what I want to be yet though. My declared major as of now is Early Childhood Education, but we'll see if that's what I stick with-I still wanna do something with photography and take some classes in that. I suppose we'll see where life ends up taking us next!

Crazy May

2010-05-19T18:25:00.000-07:00

What a month! May has always been a super crazy month for us-birthdays and holidays(maybe just one holiday..) gallore!

It all starts though in April-the 29th to be exact. For Dalan's birthday we met up with Mom and the gang and went to Mi Ranchitos in American Fork, I hadn't been there since before the mission and it hasn't changed a bit! You still get the free suckers when you leave, pretty sweet :)

Colt and I at Mi Ranchitos on Dalan's Birthday ^^

Dalan getting their ridiculously yummy fried ice cream-at the expense of embarrassment of being sung to of course ;)

Then it's onto the Mothers Day celebrations. We ended up meeting up with Mom and went to the Market Street Grill in Salt Lake City for Mothers Day Dinner-Yum! They had a special going on, and I highly advise only going when they have the specials (before 5)otherwise you're going to be paying a lot. The special was for $19.99, you get your choice between steak, salmon, or halibut, and then dessert is also included (a scoop of ice cream). Colt, Dalan and I all decided to get different ones so we could try each others, I got the steak and wasn't impressed at all and would've rather gone with Colt's halibut! I've never been a fish person but they sure converted me!

Grandma and I waiting for our food^^

3Generations-squinty eyes and all :)^^

The goofy boys-never a dull moment with them!^^I feel blessed that they get along so well and are so close.

The following day, Monday, was my birthday. I was originally born on mothers day, random fact about moi that you may not have known. So We celebrated w/ my mom on mothers day as well for my birthday. For my actual birthday day though Colt had planned the whole day out for us-and kept it a secret as it went along. The day started out with him making my favorite breakfast food-french toast-and bringing it to me in bed. He even put little strawberries on the side making it all pretty, and he did an awesome job too, it was super yummy! Then it was onto getting ready for the day and off to the chiropractor for me to get adjusted (a present to myself really, I feel like a healthier person after I walk out of there and I'm all aligned!). We then went and exchanged a shirt for a different size and then it was off to lunch with my sweet dad. After that Colt surprised me by taking me to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy! I'd been talking about wanting to go there for awhile and I was surprised he'd been so good at planning it!

There, we got to see all sorts of fun stuff, jellyfish (some of my favorite), sea horses, penguins(another favorite), sharks-we even got to pet the starfish and sting rays! I felt like a little kid, I know it's pathetic how excited I get about going to just an aquarium, but I've always loved stuff like that.

It was also fun watching Colt too, he seemed to get into everything just as much as I did :) Then it was off to getting In-N-out for dinner and having my Dad and Dalan over for pie and presents :) I'd have to say this was the best birthday I'd ever had-and all thanks to my amazing husband. I was grateful to have the whole day to spend with him too and do whatever we wanted-a very rare occasion :) I'm pretty much the luckiest girl in the world to have him as my husband.

The day after my birthday was then my dad's birthday, followed by my brothers choir concert and another busy weekend, and then today is my Mom's birthday and tomorrow is my best friend Ashley's birthday. Talk about crazy eh? *big sigh* There you have it, and you can now see that I have had a very good excuse as to why I haven't blogged in about a month. Hopefully things will slow down a bit for us! Colt's birthday is next month and so is our 1 year anniversary! Can you believe that? It's gone by SO fast! So I'm sure I'll have many more awesome things to blog about in the future :) Forgive me for my lack of blogging up until now?

more car troubles? gr..

2010-04-10T10:59:00.000-07:00

So for awhile we've known that Colt's car has been having issues, we just didn't wanna have to deal with it since we were busy trying to figure out my whole car situation. We finally decided to tackle his car this last week. We knew there was a problem with the transmission, so Colt took it to a transmission place and had it tested and sure enough it was a part of the transmission that was having problems. Everytime Colt would slow down it'd get stuck in a gear and then overheat the engine-no bueno. My sweet Dad decided to research to see if he could fix it for us-seeing as the people at the transmission place wanted to charge us almost $700 to fix it, when the part alone was only $300. Luckily he said he'd be able to do it, so we went ahead and bought the part for it. We (and by we I mean my dad and Colt) started fixing it Tuesday night. After they had torn it all apart we came to find out that the part that we'd ordered online wasn't the right part for his car-big bummer. Colt then had to go pick one up on Thursday that was the right one for his car, and they continued working on it that night (all the while my dad was kind enough to let us borrow his truck for Colt to get around). After putting in the right part and trying to start it up they found that it wouldn't go into drive....gr...Dad then went in on Friday morning to where we'd bought the part and found out that they'd had some people say that they had the same problem a couple years ago and it may be a faulty part. The guy helping him was trusting enough to lend dad an expensive tool to check to see if the part was bad and sure enough it was! So this morning we went and took the part back and dad and Colt are at it again under the car trying to get it fixed. I just pray that this will work, I'm so darn sick of car problems, and I most definitely don't wanna go car shopping again. Although I'm sure Colt wouldn't mind, he's enjoyed driving my Dad's truck around and now wants one of his own...probably a little out of our price range right now :P
This week has been quite eventful, I failed to mention that on Monday I woke up to hearing this little scratching sound. I woke up a little more and listened, and figured out it was just a mouse in our window sill just making noise. Then I realized that if it were in the window, there would be a rustling noise since it's full of leaves. I woke up Colt to tell him there was a mouse in our room and then looked down to find that there was indeed a mouse right next to his head!! EWWww! I jumped back and in turn scared the mouse away. I told Colt to find it and get it out of the room, Colt spent the next couple hours trying to catch it and trap it somehow but didn't end up having any luck. Later that night we went and bought 6 mouse traps (maybe I'm a little paranoid?) and set them up around our house. We've yet to find and kill the stinkin thing so we both haven't gotten very many good restful nights of sleep at all this week. I'm scared it'll get back on our bed....sooo gross. Hopefully we'll catch it soon...I just hope it hasn't made itself at home-or that it got stuck somewhere and I'll be cleaning our apartment one day and find it!

Tomorrow should be a good day though haha :) My mom, brothers, glenna, and my grandma are all coming down for dinner. I'm going to attempt to make crock pot chicken burttios...yummy! I've never made them before so I hope it turns out! I'm also gonna try making a yummy dessert too, I'll have to take pictures -only if it turns out that is-and let you know how it went!

Brian Regan

2010-03-23T10:09:00.000-07:00

For Christmas this last year I surprised Colt with tickets to the Brian Regan concert and put them in his stocking as a stocking stuffer-he may say however that it was just as much of a present to myself as it was to him :). For those of you who don't know who Brian Regan is he's a comedian, an absolutely hilarious comedian. What I love about him is that he's very clean, all of his jokes are so original and are about everyday life-making it easy to relate to.

When Colt and I were dating-driving to and from New Mexico to see each other-we'd pop in one of Brian Regan's CD's and it'd take up a good 2 hours of us just laughing and then the rest of the trip quoting it. I was worried he may do some of the same jokes-although I wouldn't have minded cause they're still pretty funny and never seem to get old-but I was quite pleased that he didn't do any old jokes until he came back on for the finale (then he did the "Say eight!" skit-you can Youtube it if you haven't seen it :) ). Colt and I were laughing SO hard the whole entire time, I walked out with sore cheeks and abs from laughing so much. We definitely plan on going and seeing him again when he comes back out to Utah. It was such a fun date, and a much needed one for us since things have been so crazy lately.

^^^This was taken from where we were sitting, smack dab in the center which was awesome. We were a bit early so we decided to take some pictures while we were waiting :)

Yay Brian Regan!

^^We tried getting the stage in the background but Colt's so darn tall it made it difficult, so we settled with this one :)

drum roll please!

2010-03-19T11:51:00.000-07:00

I have finished my photography blog! HOORAY! Granted, I'm sure there will be many changes in the future to it, but for now I have at least something to post the pictures I take so that ya'll can see 'em :) Let me know what you guys think about it and what changes I can make to it-if you think there should be any. Suggestions are very welcome!! :) Thanks for letting me share my excitement! :)

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long time no blog!

2010-02-14T18:29:00.000-08:00

Sorry it's taken me so long to update this thing! goodness! I put these pictures on here with the intent of blogging about them quite awhile ago. So here I sit, FINALLY updating this. I hope y'all will forgive me?

Life is calming down a bit now, things were crazy there for awhile. When it rains, it pours right? With the car crash, a surprise root canal, and various other health problems we're starting to get back into the swing of things. We ended up finding a car-finally, after 3 weeks of searching! It's a 2000 Nissan Altima-surprise! Exactly the same as my old car, although this one's a GLE, which just means we've got a sun roof in it now and leather seats :P It has only 51000 miles on it too, we were quite excited, AND it was in our price range! Now, however, we've got to fix Colt's poor car. The transmission is going out in it, him and my dad are gonna work together to try to fix it, just gotta get the parts. Hopefully that'll do it, if not then we'll be buying yet again another car. Yay....

Above are pitures of my totaled car :( I couldn't get at very good angles cause there was a fence right where I wanted to be to take it, but there it is. That was the scariest thing ever, I still find myself looking behind me everytime I slow down to make sure that the people behind me are also slowing down. Pathetic I know.

Awhile back Aly and Zeph Isom (below) came and visited Utah, they had a family funeral to go to-not the most exciting thing to come to Utah for. The Isoms were in my 1st area on the mission, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Aly was like our little mom, taking care of us when we were sick and both of them were always so willing to come and help out with us when we were teaching. We loved spending time with them and I have some great memories with them. Anywho! We ended up being able to meet up with them and catch up, it was so much fun seeing them again and remembering our time in Tennessee, makes us wanna go back there really soon...now if we could only save up the money to go :P

Of course there was the Superbowl game as well, I told Colt that if the Colts made it to the Superbowl then I'd buy us t-shirts. Below's a picture of us with our sweet T-shirts on. Even though they didn't win, it was still fun to dress up and have my brothers over for a little party-yay junk food! I'm still paying for it....
Colt and I recently purchased a Rec. Center pass to American Fork Rec. Center, we were so proud of ourselves for saving up for it. Just the other night we were able to go to use it together for the first time, which was fun-despite the fact that I didn't wanna go and was grumpy about it. I'm grateful for Colt pushing me to go anyways and dealing with my grumpiness. :) Lately he's been working a lot more too, they ended up firing one of the closing managers so you know what that means...Colt gets to work every night so I don't get to see him other than on my lunch break and on Sunday...Yay..Although this weekend I DO get to see him on Saturday-he has the whole day off, we're going to go see Brian Regan in concert! I bought the tickets clear back in December and put them in Colt's stocking as a stocking stuffer, so we've been waiting quite awhile to go!

Because of all the time I have away from Colt too, all the nights he's gone, I've started working more on my photography-I finally came up with a banner for it, problem is I can't test it out at my house since we don't have internet there, we best get on that. I'm excited to reveal it to you guys though once it's done and I finish editing some more pictures to post on there :)

That's about it that's been up with us, I'm ready for a vacation-just needing a break from work and from the craziness ya know? Somewhere warm and tropical...I'm just ready for summer to be here, I'm so sick of the cold! Anywho, there you have it. I promise I'll be more dilligent in keeping this updated :)

Car shopping? Boo.

2010-02-10T15:26:00.000-08:00

About 2 weekends ago Colt and I ventured off in search for a new car for him, his dear transmission is failing on him and gets stuck in a gear and then heats up the engine-wonderful right? However, what we didn't expect is that instead of looking for a car for him, we're now looking for one for me. Awesome, yeah? No....not so much. Here's the story...

On Friday, February 5th, I was excited and anxious to get off of work and go home, although I knew it'd only lead to me doing laundry at my dad's and more work. I got off of work and was on my way home, minding my own business and thinking about what the night had in store for me, when BAM (literally) I was stopped at a red light and the car behind me, CLEARLY not paying attention, rammed right into me, sending me into the car in front of me and leaving me smashed right in the middle of them. I was stuck in a honda oreo-both cars ended up being silver Honda Accords. I was in complete shock and tried replaying what had just happened in my head, which in turn led me to just start crying. People stopped to check if I was ok and asked if I was hurt, I just responded my head hurt and they left to go find help. I managed to get my phone which was under a bunch of my other things that had been flung all over my car, and called my dad. Colt was at work and I knew that if I tried calling he couldn't answer, especially since it was a Friday and JCW's is always super busy. I managed to at least get out "I just got in an accident, it's not my fault" out to my dad and he was on his way. After that a nice EMT guy came over asking how I was doing, took me to the ambulance and calmed me down (after 20 min. of my hands just shaking) and then my dad arrived to help me take my stuff out of the car. Once I saw my car again I started to cry, pretty pathetic but I loved that car. It was the first car I'd ever bought by myself before and I had such good memories in it! We managed to get most of the stuff out, watched the tow truck tow it away (it was completely totaled) and then drove back to our apartment to meet up with Colt to take me to the hospital. The rest of the night was spent in the hospital, having x-rays taken of everything and checking everything out. I was given some medicine (yay loratab and muscle relaxers!) and told to keep an eye on it and if it got any worse to go back and see them. Saturday was filled with all sorts of phone calls to insurance companies, trying to figure out a rental car and not being able to get one until Monday, and attempting to rest in there as well. Needless to say, it was definitely NOT the weekend I had thought it would be.

We found out yesterday that the girl behind me's insurance company is covering everything, so that's a relief. Now we get to start the car hunt again. Yuck. For now I'm driving a red VW Bug around that's the rental companies, I'm supposed to return it by this next Monday, hopefully all will get settled that quickly through the insurance company and that they won't try to pay barely anything for a very excellent condition car. *sigh* being grown up is no fun sometimes. We're now on the lookout for a car for me, and then in the near future for a new car for Colt. Just our luck eh? I'm just glad that everything's worked out ok, especially that I'm ok and only walked away with what I did!

I've taken pictures of the car, when I get access to internet w/ my laptop I'll post them on here so ya'll can see the damage, hopefully by then I'll be able to post a picture of my nice newer car :) Whatever it may be, we've got my cousin that works at a dealership here looking for us which is a relief. At least we know with him that we won't get screwed over by him, cause if he does he has to face us for quite awhile :)

There ya have it, the lastest update from the Rothlisberger clan...not the best of news to update you with, but we're still alive and loving being married-stresses and all! :)

Drum roll please....

2010-01-20T10:39:00.000-08:00

The results are in! I had my scope a couple weeks ago and finally heard back from the biopsies that they did and found out that they came back negative (for whatever they tested them for)! The scopes went really well, I quite enjoyed being out on propofal (no wonder Michael Jackson liked it so much!). It was a fairly quick procedure too, at least that's what my mom and Colt say. They did find out that my stomach as well as my esophagus were inflamed, probably due to the fact that my stomach is producing a lot of acid. Also, they found out the lining of my stomach had worn pretty thin due to the same thing, so they gave me some *yummy* medicine to re-coat the lining of my stomach as well as had me double the dosage of acid reflux medicine I have to take :P So far so good, today I have a follow up appointment w/ the GI to just kinda go over what my tummy's doing. Should be fun ;).

Other than that fun news, not much else is going on. Colt and I are still working, we'll be getting him in school this fall-yay for in state tuition finally! :) That'll be quite the adjustment for both of us, I'll be honest-I'm quite selfish when it comes to sharing him w/ work, so it should be interesting to see how I handle school :P Nah-as long as I get at least some time with him then I'll be good. We've recently had a cool growing/learning experience. One of our close couple friends are getting a divorce, they've been married about the same amount of time we have, and it just broke our hearts. Colt and I are very much the kind of people that tend to take on other people's problems and want to help them, so when we found out about it, both of us had a couple restless nights where we would just wake up thinking about it. We came to the conclusion though that there's nothing we can do other than be there for them. Throughout this experience, I grew a greater love and appreciation for the relationship I have with Colt. We've taken what we've learned from the mistakes around us and applied them to us-so as to not ever repeat them, and because of that have grown closer and have a stronger marriage. I just feel so blessed to have such a wonderful husband, one that unselfishly serves me, works countless late nights to provide for us, and who loves me unconditionally. I wish and hope that every girl is as lucky as I am.

(And just because I don't think a post is a post w/ out a picture! ;) This is of our first time going snowmobiling with my dad and dalan :) )

Our 1st Christmas!

2009-12-30T13:06:00.000-08:00

I can't believe Christmas is over! It seems like just yesterday I was scrambling to get all of the Christmas presents done! You work so hard leading up to the day and then BAM, it's over. We had a very good Christmas this year, our first one together *awww* :P. I got off of work Christmas Eve at 1:00 and then headed home, packed up and headed on out to New Mexico that night. We got there right at 8:30 and got to open our homemade gifts that we'd done for each other as well as pajama pants. Then we watched Four Christmases, twas a good movie! Colt and I definitely related, seeing as we have 4 sets of parents! The Sunday before Christmas we went to my mom's and had Christmas with her as well-I haven't gotten the pics from that yet from her so when I do I'll put 'em up for ya. They're super cute.Anywho! Back to Christmas eve! We finished watching that movie and they started another one but I was super tired, so I was a party pooper and went to bed:)

Christmas morning was fun, we were waiting to hear from Colt's brother, Kevin, he's on a mission in Mexico. We had breakfast and then opened presents while we were waiting for him.

Don't you just love his hair? hehe...I did it for him that morning :) Colt got a new phone for Christmas from his mom, one that's exactly like mine actually! He also got a couple of shirts and a nice new coat. His mom gave us a pretty new comforter for our bed-again I'll have to post a picture when I get it! She also gave me a couple shirts as well! We got a gift card from his step-dad as well as money from his step brother so later the next day we decided to go and use them! We got Colt another transformers toy ( I had bought him one for christmas as well) and the 4th season of Supernatural ( i had also got the first 3 seasons for him). We also bought me a white shirt to go under a vest his mom got me. We made quite he hauling this year!

^^Us on Christmas day :) ^^

Colt's Grandma Belle made us each scarves and made Colt a beanie for Christmas, it's probably her last year making them for us so we had to take pictures for her so we could send them to her :) She made Colt's beanie and my scarf match each other :) The rest of the trip we played games, watched movies and hung out with each other. Colt's mom made a very yummy Christmas dinner as well! We went to Colt's home ward that he grew up in on Sunday and had everyone coming up to us and talking to him. He also got to have one of his old friends Micah come over and got to visit with him a little before we took off to go back to good ol' Utahr. We got home around 9:09-I only know the exact times cause of the GPS that we have, we try to beat the time that it originally posts and see how much time we cut off from that time...haha good times. The first thing we did was put on our sweet new comforter :) I was glad to be home, but then sad to be away from Colt's mom and sister as well. We went to my dad's last night for Christmas. They gave me a bunch of frames so now I can put our wedding pictures up in our house! YAY! They also got me Adobe Photoshop Elements 8-I'm super stoked about it, now I can really be a pro! I just need to learn how to make a watermark to put on my pictures and then start working on making a blog for all my photography!! :) If ya'll still have any ideas on a name for my photography lemme know!!

So there ya have it! That was our first Christmas! Now its onto our 1st New Years together! :) We were going to go up to Idaho to visit our friends up there, but with the lovely Utah weather we're having as well as what the forecast says for Idaho we figured we best wait till it clears up. ALSO we just found out that I get to have 2 scopes done next week, so we need to save all the money we can get to put towards the lovely deductible we get to pay. YAY money. I'll let y'all know what the results are of the scopes. I went to the doctor yesterday and had a bunch of tests done w/ my blood and all came back looking great! So hopefully we find out what exactly is going on with my lovely body soon! :) Wish me luck!

Another Car month?

2009-12-11T14:38:00.000-08:00

It's not October again is it? I didn't think so....so why is my car being silly again? Lately as I've been driving it and turn on the air to try to get warm, all I got was this big ol' wiff (sp?) of gas. I got worried that I was getting some weird posioning after I started getting dizzy, nauseas and having big ol headaches after I got out of being in my car. Well, luckily-as I've mentioned before-I have a wonderful dad who is kind enough to take care of our mechanical needs and he looked at it for me. We found out that the leak was caused by my air conditioning (hence why everytime I turned on the air it stunk) and it was leaking freeon(sp?). Apparently one of the little clasp thingys broke off cause of the cold, hence letting it leak and cause the nasty smell. So that's a good thing I guess-the good part being it wasn't a gas leak or something worse! Luckily we can wait till April/summer ish to fix it :) Much better than car month and not being able to plan for it! Ah, the joys of car repairs!!

On the bright side, Christmas is 2 weeks away! YAY! And I got a Christmas bonus! Which is awesome cause we were all planning on not getting one this year, but YAY for more money! I have all of Colt's Christmas shopping done, so all I have left is the family gifts now. I must say I will be glad when Christmas is over, it's so much work! I didn't realize how much work into it on your own, the Christmas tree, the ornaments, the presents, ah....the joy of Christmas..I'm glad I started shopping when I did though, that was a big relief to have Colt's stuff done with! I'd post a picture of our cute little tree, but I don't have it on this computer, so next time I'm on a computer w/ it I'll post it, we were pretty proud of ourselves! For now though, I hope ya'll are having good luck w/ Christmas shopping- only 14 more days!!! :)

GO COUGS!

2009-11-28T19:06:00.000-08:00

I said I'd post pictures of our little rivalry we had going on at the credit union-here they be!:)

Nikki's office ^^ It was Nate, her, and I that were for BYU in the office, GO COUGS!
Kris' office^^^

I started putting up blue streamers in the back but then they came and covered it with red(see below)

Nate had a friend make this up for us and they came and of course covered it with red :) Needless to say it was a fun day, and of course it's even better that BYU WON! :) 26-23(thanks Kina!) baby! :) I'm very grateful they did, cause heaven knows how I'd get crap for it on Monday!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

2009-11-26T14:59:00.001-08:00

1-I'm thankful for...a yummy thanksgiving meal that was made for the hubby and I
2-the chance I got to sleep in a bit today :)
3-a husband that puts up with my crazy habit of Farmville and humors me by watching me play it :)
4-a mother-in-law that I can talk to on the phone for almost an hour and still have lots of things to talk about throughout the conversation.
5-I'm thankful for Thanksgiving! It's a good excuse to get the family together and spend time with them :)

I hope y'all had a great Thanksgiving with your family and friends, may we all remember each day the things that we're thankful for and recognize the Lord's hand in our lives! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

GO COUGS!

2009-11-25T11:16:00.000-08:00

1-I'm thankful for.. a job that allows me to have fun-we're celebrating the rivalry between BYU and the U. I'll post pictures when I can at my dad's tomorrow for Thanksgiving :) GO BYU!!
2-For a husband that works super long shifts just to bring money home for us
3-For good friends coming and making an out of the way stop to come and see us cause they love us :)
4- A warm coat that I can put on when it's freezing outside
5-My wonderful family-we've got our faults and are crazy, but I love them for it.

Simplicity.

2009-11-20T15:19:00.000-08:00

1-I'm thankful for.. a lunch break at work to take a much needed nap!

2-My dad letting me go over to his house tonight to do the heaping pile of laundry I have to do

3-A husband that pushes through and goes to work even though he barely has a voice

4-The chance I got to go see New Moon for free from my cousin-Thank you again!

5-The amazing simpleness of the Gospel, sometimes I find myself making things too difficult, then I always get a little reminder that it's all about the basics

5:15

2009-11-19T15:23:00.000-08:00

I'm thankful for...
1-the cool new red pen I found to use at work today, there's just something about using a new pen that makes working more fun!
2-an awesome lunch I had at Iggys with my sweet dad-I highly recommend y'all go there :)
3-having a husband that gets as excited about sharing missionary experiences as I do and can understand my love for Tennessee because he shares that same love.
4-a cousin that gives me free tickets to see New Moon the day before it actually comes out :)
5-Music, there's nothing quite like hearing a song and it explaining what you wish you could've put into words yourself
6-Amy(co-worker). Amy + cough syrup=priceless and lots of enteratinment
7-money to be able to buy christmas presents for the hubby.
8-a warm car(once it gets warm) to be able to drive home in everynight when it's freezing cold outside
9-a friend who tells me how to get free christmas cards!
10-laughter. it's the best medicine!

It's officially 5:15! Only 15 more minutes to go till I get to be off of work, and for that I'm also grateful!!!

Thankful

2009-11-18T13:59:00.001-08:00

So I've been reading a friend's blog and she's had the cute idea of posting what she's thankful for each day(thanks Meghan!) , I've loved reading hers and then thinking about what I'd put if I were doing it for my own blog. I decided to stop wondering, and just do it! Although there's only a week left till Thanksgiving, I figured it'd still be worth it to post it anyways :) And who knows, it may-hopefully-countinue after Thanksgiving!

1-For a job that pays me for holidays and allows me to enjoy the weekends off as well
2-Getting mail today, I still love-even after the mission-and look forward to getting mail everyday, it always puts a smile on my face! Pathetic? Maybe :)
3-A sweet husband that makes me lunch despite being sick with a nasty cold
4-socks, I highly dislike my feet being cold
5-Silly co-workers that'll make faces at me and make me laugh, work wouldn't be fun without 'em!
6-A loving dad who sets a great example for my siblings and I.
7-a sweet mother-in-law who I know I can talk to about anything and loves me

November?

2009-10-26T14:43:00.000-07:00

Holy cow! Time sure flies! I can't believe it's almost November already! It's weird to think that Halloween is this Saturday too. I have yet to decide what I want to be for it though, I have to dress up for work. Colt's probably going to be a pirate, and I wanna win a prize at work so I need a really good costume. Hopefully I'll figure out one soon-it's only a couple days away!!

I thought I'd post some pictures from this last month, I posted 'em on facebook but I figured I'd add 'em on here too. On October 10th we drove up to Colt's dad's house in Randolph, UT and got to see his cute half sister, Sage, get baptized. It was pretty neat, the last baptism I'd been to was on the mission for a 9 year old girl-so close to Sage's age and it was fun being able to go to another one and reflect on how amazing it is to be a member of the church. It was so much fun to be able to see Colt's family and watch Sage make that life changing decision to live her life after Christ.

We ended up heading out of Randolph that same day and got to go see my friend Marianne at her wedding reception, she looked so pretty!I wish I would've brought my camera in with me to take a picture of her. They had the cutest wedding video playing that we sat and watched for awhile, they interviewed them both together and asked them questions, it was funny watching 'em, I wish I would've thought of that for ours! O-well, ours was still super cute too :)

At the end of September my friend Emma and her Mom came out and visited us. Emma came out in the summer and then decided to move back out here, so this last visit was to set up everything for her return back to live here. We also of course had fun and were happy to help her have her first carving pumpkins experience. We went and got stencils and a carving kit and went to town, they all turned out pretty sweet!

^^Emma and her with her pumpkin, a cute ghost with a tree^^

^ ^^Colt with his pumpking, a cute bat^^^

Dalan had a choir concert, I can't believe how much he's grown! He just got asked on his first date and dance this last weekend. We got to go help him last night and answer her back, I'm excited for him to go! Nate's birthday's this Friday, Oct.30th, and he'll be 19! Sheesh! That really makes me feel old. He still seems so little/young to me! I'm still not sure what to get him for his birthday (man, I'm slackin at getting everything done;halloween costumes, birthday presents-yikes!)

^^^Me and my boys at Dal's Choir concert^^^
Colt and I took a drive up the canyon a couple Sundays ago, I had in mind an awesome drive up the canyon-since he'd never really been-but it ended up being a not so fun drive. The drive itself that is, the company of course was great. Apparently everyone and their dog had the same idea that Sunday so it was super busy and slow going, not to mention stressful too (I'm not super fond of driving up the canyon anyways, and since Colt had never been up there I was driving). We stopped at one point though and got this picture, I'm quite sad it's got an ugly glare on Colt's face, but nonetheless it still was a cute picture and I figured I'd post it anyways.

This next month will hopefully be not too crazy, all we really have is Thanksgiving coming up. I get the day of Thanksgiving as well as the day after off so that'll be fun. We're just sticking around here for Thanksgiving, come December we'll head to New Mexico for Christmas to visit Colt's mom-we haven't seen her since the wedding and miss her so much!

Today is 4 months of being married-WahOooo! :) Time sure flies by! I can't believe it's been that long, where'd the time go? We've both learned and grown a lot in these past months though and still have a lot to learn. I love being married to my best friend and being able to go home at night (or some nights) and just talk about everything that happened that day and goof off. There's rarely a night that we don't go to bed laughing.

So there ya have it, I hope everyone has a Happy Halloween!!

Car Month?

2009-10-16T15:47:00.000-07:00

Colt and I have officially titled this month "Car Month". Why you ask? Lately we've had our cars decide to come up with a million (ok, maybe not that many) ways to break on us. Just this month for my car:

My radiator cracked, therefore causing us to replace it. Replacement: $130
My front tires are quite bare, in fact so much so that they're about ready to blow, fixing those tomorrow. Replacement: appx.$150
The brake pads in my car started wearing thin, making this gross and unattractive squeaking sound everywhere I went, bringing with it many odd stares at passerbys. Replacement-$20
New windsheild wipers, my old ones were torn and weren't very effective. Replacements-$16
My car's registration needs to be done by the end of this month. Replacement-$107.50
Emissions needs to be tested for my car to be registered-around $25 ish

Colt's car:

Transmission problems? A lovely light on the dashboard indicating something internally wrong with the car Replacement? Still undetermined.

Naming October Car Month: Priceless. Ah, the joys of car repairs. Luckily we're blessed to have my father who's a mechanic and is gracious enough to do all the work for us and can tell us what's wrong with it, I can only imagine how much we'd have to spend this month if he couldn't! O-well, at least we're getting these all taken care of now instead of during the holidays right?

So that's what's been going on, we've been busy working and getting all those car repairs done. My friend from Australia left this past Wednesday so we'd been hanging out with her as well, once I get to my dad's computer I'll have to post pictures from those as well! Tonight, however, I'm going to have a relaxing night at home (unfortunately w/out the hubby, he's workin!) and make cookies and watch a movie. I think it's due time for it, no?

Happy Fall!

2009-09-23T08:31:00.000-07:00

Hello! So I finally got some pictures updated and decided to post 'em on here, this is just a little of what we've been up to lately :)

This last Sunday we went up and met Colt's dad and family up at the Utah State Fair, his dad was showing his cows in it so we got to go up and see them and hang out with them for the day which was fun.

We ended up going over to the mechanical bull and colt's siblings all rode the bull, below is cute little Stetson on the bull.
This is Jace on the bull, he hung on pretty darn well, I was impressed, the bull was going pretty fast too and he just kept holding on!

This is cute Sage, she did an awesome job hanging on as well while she was on there, she told us before that she'd make some good faces for us while she was up there but I wasn't able to catch one, this one's of her dad helping her on the bull :)

Below is my crazy husband, we were sitting around in with the cows and just relaxing and talking and I whipped out the camera, this is the result of turning it on him :) Yup, he's mine. I love him!

Below is miss sage, she got those glasses at the fair and was looking all cute, I couldn't help but take the picture.

One Sunday we ended up going to visit my mom for dinner and got wrapped up in playing rock band, Colt was a good sport and did the singing part even though he didn't want to.

Above is Colt and Dalan playing catch, or posing rather during a break from catch. Colt and Dalan are usually doing some kind of sport whenever Colt has the day off, him and Dalan have gotten into Tennis recently and sometimes play basketball too. I'm grateful for the relationship Colt has with Dalan, I know it's hard for him (Dal) to be the only one out of our family, besides Dad, living at that house so it's nice to have Colt near for Dal to hang out with, as well as for Colt to have something to do during the day when I'm working.

The next coming weeks are gonna be crazy, I'm taking pictures the next 2 days for friends, have a family wedding to go to, have my friend from Australia coming out next week-as well as having a physical therapy appointment for my arm that day, a Jazz game to go to, the BYU vs. U game to go to, General Conference, Sage's baptism, 2 weddings, 1 baby shower, and one of my best friends coming home tomorrow from her mission in Brazil. Talk about crazy!! By the end of October things will hopefully calm down a bit! I've also got to figure out a sweet Halloween costume..any ideas? Oh! This is what I really need help with! With all the photography I've been doing lately I've decided it'd be a good idea to start a blog and post 'em and ya'll can give me your opinions and such. However, I need a sweet name for the blog and my photography-Any Suggestions? I was thinking using my midde name, Daun, in it would be sweet. Any suggestions are welcome!! :)

Also! Happy Fall everyone, it's officially the start of fall-starting yeseterday, I LOVE this time of year, I'm excited to go to corn mazes, carve pumpkins, see the leaves change and stay warm in hoodies :) YAY for the fall and for the holidays coming up, I absolutely love this time of year!

Not so exciting update :)

2009-09-17T09:25:00.000-07:00

It's been awhile since I've last blogged! I keep up with everyone elses but fail to update mine, so here I sit trying to play catch up and now I'm not sure what to write about. I'm sure that there's a lot that I could write about, but my brain's having a hard time pulling it all out. So I suppose I'll just start typing and hope it all makes sense!

Colt and I are just still working, we're just payin' the bills and working on saving up enough for Colt to get to school in January. We've got a loan to pay off down at San Juan in New Mexico before they'll transfer his credits up here, which is a bummer, so we're working on that now. Gotta love money. We're also looking into buying a townhome in provo, we're still tossing the idea around(which we've kinda gotta hurry on if we want the $8000 tax credit) and trying to figure out if we could work it out. We'd love the extra room and have the opportunity to OWN it rather than just pay rent. It's a cute little place too, 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bathroom-I suppose we'll see. It's just crazy to think that we're even considering it and that I'm at this point in my life :p I'd be reeeally sweet to do it though, I just am not sure if we can afford it yet. Dumb money. I'll keep ya posted on that :)

Our friend Emma from Australia is coming back out at the end of this month with her mom to search for a job and get things taken care of here, she's wanting to move out in December here to stay. That'll be fun though to have her here again :) While she's here we'll be going to a Jazz game as well as the BYU vs. U game, I'm quite excited :)

Colt's kept busy during his time off during the day hanging out with my brother, he's recently gotten into Tennis with him. They've enjoyed that quite a bit, I wish I could play with them but my arm's still being stupid so I'll have to get that better first. We're trying to eat a bit better though and excerise, what's with getting married and gaining weight? Good gravy.

My friend Christina gets home from her mission in less than a week, I'm so stinkin excited to see her again, it's crazy to think that she's never met Colt either, that'll be fun :) I think they'll get along quite well.

Colt and I recently got extended a calling to be in the Primary working with a group of mentally challenged kids, it'll be a challenge and a good learning experience for us. That's about all that's really new, we're just keeping busy and enjoying spending time together when we can. Tonight we're gonna head to the temple together, I'm quite excited about it :) I love when I get to spend time with him and have him home.

Anywho, I'll write more later when there's something more to write about :)

Live off of Love

2009-08-13T09:51:00.000-07:00

Hello!! 's been awhile since I've blogged last, which I did warn y'all about in my last blog. Life's been crazy busy since the last time I blogged. I promised pictures, however in order to do that I'd need a working laptop (mine decided to die on me) and the internet. So when I get to dad's sometime to add pictures on, I will.

Colt and I were able to go to his best friend's wedding, Nick and Kelsey, 3 weeks after getting married in California. We left that friday night before the wedding right after work (5:30p.m.) and drove straight through, needless to say it was a very long drive! The wedding was the next morning in San Diego (we were staying in Corona), so we woke up and drove there. It was neat being able to see someone else sealed, just a week earlier it was us and it was nice to sit back and watch instead of being apart of it. We got to go to the beach after, in between the time till the reception, and play on it. We then raced back for the reception and hung out there for awhile, then headed on back to Corona and went to bed. The next day Colt and I got to hang out with an old family friend of mine who took us to Universal Studios in Hollywood. It was fun having her come, she knew the place pretty well so we didn't waste any time just wandering around. The next day, Monday, we headed to the happiest place on Earth-good ol' Disneyland! Colt and I spent the day there, after taking a short break back in Corona. It was fun to be able to go there with him, and just go to California with him in general. It was a very good break away, a 2nd honeymoon really.

2 weekends after that I went up to Bear Lake for the Buhler family reunion, it's been a tradition for 56 years! Colt couldn't make it cause he had to work, but it was fun to see family while I was up there. There's never a dull moment that's for sure, and always some sort of drama :p I got to go jet skiing and we played in the water a bit. We only stayed up a day, I headed back with my brother Nate that Sunday and swung by Colt's parent's house in Randolph, UT. It was fun visiting with them for awhile since we don't get up there too often, then I headed back and got to hang out with Colt the rest of the day. Things were starting to calm down after then, but then of course it wouldn't be my life if it slowed down and I got somewhat of a break...

Last week on Thursday my Dad called me while I was at work, I was able to sneak away and answer it luckily and dad informed me that my Grandma Buhler had been life flighted to a hopsital in Murray and was put on life support. He told me that they'd be taking her off and wanted to know if I wanted to come up and say my goodbyes to her. Luckily I have an awesome assistant manager who let me leave as soon as I found out and head up there. Colt was able to also get someone to cover his shift until 4:00 and head up with me to the hopsital. We got there and there were some of my aunts and uncles there and my poor grandma on life support. That was a difficult thing seeing, after the doctor had come in and informed us that once they took her off life support it may be pretty quick that she'd go, my uncle mark gave a family prayer and then the nurses and doctor came in and took her off life support. We went back in the room and were expecting her to go quickily, however she's a fighter and began breathing on her own. They moved her up to a bigger room, cause as time progressed there became a lot more of us in that small room. I took colt back to work, then headed back up there and walked into a room packed full of family. Everyone sitting on the floor, chairs, even grandma's bed with her. The whole time Grandpa just sat at her side, occasionally he'd get teary eyed as he saw another family member walk in or when he'd looked at her. I stayed until about 8:30 that night. During that time grandpa requested that they give her a priesthood blessing telling her it was ok. My Uncle Tom gave her the blessing and told her to go home to her Heavenly Father, that we'd all be okay and that we loved her. We then sang to her a bit as a family, it was such a spiritual experience to watch her, and to be there with my family. We became so much closer because of it. All that night I couldn't sleep, wondering if she was gone yet or what was happening. At 8:18 Friday morning, my dad called me and told me that my grandma had passed away 2 minutes before that. The night before I had had such a hard time sleeping and coping with it, Colt gave me a priesthood blessing which comforted me very quickily. That same feeling came over me as dad told me she had passed. I knew she was in a better place and I was so grateful to know Heavenly Father's plan for us. I cannot imagine what it would be like without that knowledge, I knew what she was doing, where she was and what was going to happen. What an incredible blessing!! And to know that I WILL see her again is an even more amazing feeling.

Her funeral was held this past monday in Kaysville. It was a really good funeral, as good as they can get I suppose. My cousin, who's the oldest grandkid, got up for all of us and shared our memories of Grandma that we'd written on slips of paper for him. He ended up sharing one of mine, which was this: Grandma making it to my wedding, after showing her this picture of us at the wedding she told me she didn't like it, I told her it was a good picture, but she didn't think so. After showing her ones with her AND grandpa in it, she would say "oooh, i like that one!", every picture with grandpa in it she loved. The one piece of advice Grandma gave me before getting married was that we were gonna have to "live off of love". Grandma's love for Grandpa was incredible, I only hope that I can follow in their footsteps in my marriage. They've certainly paved the way for the rest of us.

Beulah Bennett Buhler 1927 ~ 2009 KAYSVILLE - Beulah Bennett Buhler, 82, of Kaysville died Friday, August 7, 2009.She was born March 22, 1927 a daughter of Harold E. and Elizabeth Cook Bennett. She married Russell Walter Buhler March 1, 1946 in the Salt Lake Temple. She was reared and educated in Kaysville. She retired from HAFB after 30 years of service where she received numerous awards. She was a member of the Kaysville 9th Ward and served in the Sunday school, Primary, Mutual, Relief Society, and as a visiting teacher. Surviving is her husband Russell of Kaysville: three sons and three daughters: Dean R. Buhler (Kristen), Hyde Park; Mark B. Buhler (Sue), West Valley; Don W. Buhler (Kaye), Highland; Mrs. Tom (Arlene) Hughes, Ucon; Mrs. Owen (Linda) Mason, WA; Susan Thatcher, West Valley; She also had 27 grandchildren and 44 great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by two sisters, Mrs. John (Dorothy) Miller and LaRae Bennett, one brother Dale C. Bennett, son David, parents, and grandson Jake Thatcher. Funeral services were held Monday, August 10, 2009 at 11 a.m. at the Kaysville East Stake Center. Interment followed in the Kaysville City Cemetery. In lieu of flowers we ask that you do something special with your family. Condolences may be shared at: http://www.lindquistmortuary.com/

I'll work on getting more pictures posted when I get the chance to upload 'em over at my dad's house, but for now the only picture I have available is this one of Grandma and I on our wedding day. :)

Busy-ness!

2009-07-17T10:47:00.000-07:00

'ello! So by the time I post another blog, I'll have a TON to blog about. Tonight Colt and I are heading to California to see his best friend, Nick, get married. We'll be staying in California until Tuesday of next week. Saturday is their wedding, and then we're gonna see if we can sneak in some beach time that day ;), and then Sunday we're going to meet up with an old family friend of mine, Little Judy as we call her, and go to Universal Studios in Hollywood and spend the day there. Then come Monday we're gonna go to good ol' Disneyland! Talk about crazy busy eh? Not to mention we're driving there and back (yay for a 9 hour drive!). I'm super excited about it though, it's like a 2nd honeymoon for Colt and I-I plan on taking many more pictures this time than I did in St. George!

That weekend after we get back from California we're gonna try to go up to Colt's dad's house for the 24th of July to see them (that's if Colt gets work off). THEN the following weekend after is the Buhler's family reunion at Bear Lake that we do every year. I missed it last year due to being on a mission and am super excited to go. However, Colt may not be able to make it because of work for that one either so I may be going up by myself. We shall see of course. So expect lots-o-pictures in the future. We also got all of our Wedding pictures back. They're sending us the cd which'll probably arrive while we're in California, so when we get back I'll post some of those. To see all of them though you can go to http://www.lindsayjanestore.com/ and then find the album with Colt and I on it and type in the passcode, which is Buhler. We're getting a 16x20 print to put in the house, it came with our collection, so I'll also be posting the options on that and taking a poll to see which one ya'll think we should choose.

So there you have it! Things just haven't quite slowed down for us yet. Colt's working nights mostly, so I'm at home cleaning and getting the house organized. By the end of this month we should have a new couch! Maybe then once I get a bit more organized I'll post some pictures of our cute apartment. Married life is great, craziness and busy-ness included, I love that I get to see him everynight and not have to say goodbye. And he's mine...hehe..nobody elses, call me selfish but it's true!

Anywho, it's off to California we go, in about 24 hours I'll be able to enjoy the amazing beaches of San Clemente, and of California in general! Until then, have a wonderful weekend!

Wedding pictures! (sneak peek at least!)

2009-07-13T19:06:00.001-07:00

Here's the photographer's favorites that she posted on her blog, http://www.lindsayjanebyharmony.blogspot.com/ I didn't post ALL of them, but here's a few for ya ;)

I love this picture-we were completely tired by the end of the night, Harmony-the photographer-had us take a last picture, and this is what we gave her. One of my favorites for sure :) Hope you enjoyed them! We'll be getting the rest of them soon, the cd w/ all of them on it, so I'll post those when we get 'em. :)

I'm Married!

2009-07-01T14:13:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone! I just thought I'd post a blog to let ya'll know that I'm MARRIED!

I've officially been married a whole 4 days! WahoOOo! :) Saturday was an amazing day, quite a long one, but still the most amazing day of my life! It started at 4:00 that morning, after only getting 2 1/2 hours of sleep, when my mom and I headed over to Ashley's house to get my makeup done, then off to my hair appointment at 5:30 to be at the temple by 7:00. Talk about crazy, I was so sleepy! We got to the temple at 7:00 and waited for Colt to get there, only to find out that his poor dad had gotten lost to pick him up, so he was at the temple at 7:30, needless to say I had a hard time not stressing out, and it wasn't until I saw him and was able to sit awhile with him that I was able to calm down :P The sealing itself was amazing, and it was awesome to see so many of our friends and loved ones there. The the rest of the day was just as awesome, we took pictures outside the temple for an hour and a half ish and then went to the brunch that his step mom and family had put together for us which was awesome, then Colt and I attempted to get a quick nap in, which lasted maaaaybe 45 minutes. We got a phone call that woke us up and then niether of us could get to sleep with a million things running through our heads. Then it was off to the reception which turned out quite pretty, and then off to SLC for our first night up there. We were both exausted by the end of the day, I think I'm still trying to catch up on sleep from it! We headed down to good ol' St. George the next day and had an awesome time down there-shopping, swimming and we went and saw The Proposal-very good movie, I highly recommend it! We headed back to our apartment in Lindon yesterday and now we're back at work until Friday when we go to New Mexico for the smaller reception, YAY for another break!

So there's my short little update, the picture above is from my mom's cell phone. I have more on a camera that I let Ash use to take pictures on but don't have internet at our apartment to upload them up, so once I get the official ones I'll find a way to put 'em all up on here. Once we get the sneak peak from our photographer too I'll be sure to post the link on here-I'm excited to see them! :) Thank you everyone for all of your support during the stressful months leading up to the wedding and for helping out for the wedding, and for just being there for us! We love you all!! Welcome to the next chapter in our lives!

2 more days!?

2009-06-25T13:36:00.000-07:00

So yesterday I attempted to post a post (ha!...) and for some reason it didn't work, so I decided to just post again today!

Only 2 more days!! until I am a married woman!! Good heavens, how crazy is that!?! Man, I'm not exactly sure how to feel at this point, I have a billion(yes, there ARE that many) feelings going through me! I'm excited, nervous, stressed, anxious, sad, extremely happy, weirded out, all the other normal emotions (at least I hope they're all normal) that come along with getting married. People will ask Colt and I how we're feeling and all we can say is "weird". It's just a whole new concept to wrap your brain around, it's like when I was on the mission (of course I'd refer to this...). There would be moments when we'd be tracting, or teaching a lesson, or in a meeting filled with other missionaries and I'd have this "I'm a missionary" moment. Where it just hit me that I was a missionary, then I'd get this overwhelming feeling to work harder and determined to become better. It's like that with getting married, I have moments where I'm getting stuff ready or just talking with someone about it and I have a "I'm getting married" moment, and I just kinda blank off and get this feeling of nervousness and excitement all at once. It's a whole new chapter in my life. I used to say on the mission everytime something big would happen that another chapter in my life was beginning, cause it was a huge change-transfers, new companions, etc.-and I begin yet another chapter of my life in 2 days! It's so exciting, and all so new! I'm glad that it'll be with Colt that I get to start this new chapter, there's nobody I'd rather go through the rest of this life-and then some- with. We've already been through difficult times and have managed to come out stronger together, I'm excited to see what else lies ahead of us!

Things are coming together for the wedding, it's all the little details now-cutting the fabric for tablecloths, picking up the tuxes, picking up pictures for the displays, painting my toenails and nails-all that fun shtuff! I work today and tomorrow, call me crazy but we'll need the money, so everything will be done after I get off of work at 5:30 everyday and on my lunch break! Crazy stuff! Tomorrow is when everyone's coming into town, and even Colt works until 10 tonight and then 9 tomorrow night. They're throwing him a surprise bachelor party tomorrow night, and I won't get to see him tonight since he's working so late, so pretty sure I'll be lucky if I get to see him before Saturday at all. Crazy stuff. I've been working on getting our apartment ready. I finally have a closet to hang all my clothes in(I'd been living up in our entertainment room for the past 6 months)! YAY! And I got all my stuff back from Tennessee finally, so I've been able to get things slowly looking like a house. We don't have a couch yet so we have 2 chairs kinda just pushed together and our lovely TV can get 22 channels, 4 of which are usually working and 2 of those are spanish channels. :) Good times, there's nothing like being a newlywed (or almost newlywed). You literally are just living off of love!

So there you have it, by the time I probably blog again I'll be married to Colt! I'll be Kayla Rothlisberger. How weird is that? I think that's really the only word I can use to describe it all. I'll post pictures as soon as we get working internet at our apartment or I make it over to my dad's to use theirs! We'll be gone until Tuesday for our honeymoon (staying in SLC our first night then off to St. George and Vegas) and then next Friday's our smaller reception in New Mexico! WahOOo! So until then, I'll blog atcha later ;)

Bridals!!!

2009-06-01T18:16:00.003-07:00

K everyone, I got a sneak peak of my bridal pictures!! Here's the link if you wanna check out what she wrote but I'm gonna put the pictures on here for you too for you! Enjoy!! :)

Long Time No Blog!

2009-05-26T15:30:00.000-07:00

Hello! It's been awhile since I last blogged on this bad boy, I'm not sure really what to update you on cause it's been that long. My bad :(. For one-Colt is officially up here-YAY! I moved him down the weekend of my birthday and then this last weekend he went back down to get some more stuff and see his sister graduate. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to go down with him because I couldn't get work off. That was a bummer, it worked out though I suppose cause this past Saturday I a bridal shower that my mom threw for me and I also went and got my bridal pictures taken! YAY! What a crazy experience! I chose to not have him in them, for those of you who read one of my blogs awhile ago where I was debating on what to do. We (my friend Marianne,Ashley, and my friend Emma from Australia-more on that later on) ended up going and getting my hair done at 9:00 that morning, driving to the bridal shower and doing that. That was super weird, everyone was there for me, I wasn't at someone else's bridal shower, I was at my own. My Mom and cousins did an awesome job decorating and coming up with games. One of the games was called Pin The Junk On The Hunk-haha!
Apparently my cousins found this, they ended up taking a picture from when we went to Temple Square and cutting his face out and placing it on this. It was pretty funny, I'm not sure if you could tell or not, but that's Colt's face placed on some random ripped dude's body. Each of us were spun around and handed a pair of boxers and tried to pin it on. Several people tried, my grandma included (haha!). The person who got the closest then won a gift card to Wendy's. After everyone had gone we concluded that I had indeed been the closest and won the gift card. :) The other game they had played, and I'll spare you a picture of this, was the bubble gum game. For those of you who have never played it, what happens is the bride is asked questions about the groom of which she has to answer, if she gets it wrong she has to put a thing of bubble gum in her mouth. Well, my mother decided to buy Bubbleicious gum, the biggest and juiciest of them all, no? I got about 6-7 out of 24 questions wrong, and that was enough to make me sick. I looked like a chipmunk! They ended up having to grab me a napkin cause I was drooling so much-hence why I'll spare you a visual. All in all it was a fun bridal shower.

After that we ended up going to my mom's house and chilling for a bit until it was time to finish getting me ready-fixing the hair, doing makeup, painting my toe nails, the whole bit. We then went and got my bridals taken at the International Peace Gardens in Salt Lake City. Funny story-when I had told my mom that's where they wanted to do(after going through sessions that I'd picked out and had liked) it she said it sounded familiar and she wondered if she had had hers taken there too, only to find out after talking to my grandma that indeed-she had hers taken there too before she married my dad. Crazy eh? Anywho. I was super excited about these cause the photographer's the one that I've always wanted and they do such an awesome job. I literally felt like a princess during the session and am super excited to see how they turn out. I couldn't have done it though without my awesome friends, Marianne's sister did my hair and Marianne was amazing enough to take care of that for me, Ashley did my beautiful makeup and Emma was a great support and good at getting me to laugh behind the camera. I'm lucky to have such awesome friends!
I'll be sure to post a couple bridal pictures when I get them back, pretty sure Colt doesn't check this bad boy often, if at all, so I'll be able to sneak these up here. I'm so super excited to see how they turned out, I've been checking her blog all day to see if she's put 'em up yet. I'll get them by Saturday at the latest though! Anywho.

My friend Emma, the one on the far right, came all the way from Australia last Wednesday. Colt and I picked her up from the airport. It's amazing the differences we have between our two countries! I didn't realize just how much food we eat, and just how big everything was! We really are a super size it nation! Her small drink in Australia is the size of our water cups here, so imagine her face when she got a medium combo at Arbys and the drink was huge and the fries, called chips there, were curly. She ended up bringing some food from Australia to share with us, we had a Tim Tam Slam party on Sunday. There's a drink from there called Milo, like a hot chocolate here, that they make and then they have these yummy cookie things (kinda in a wafter shape) that you bite each end off and sip up the Milo, twas yummy and quite chocolatey(my favorite part!) It was fun having her around though, we went to BYU, up Provo Canyon to Squaw Peak to show her the whole valley and to top it all off we went to Temple Square and she got to see the SLC Temple. It was so fun watching her face when she saw the temples, I often take for granted just how close they are to us. When she saw the Mt. Timp temple her mouth literally dropped open and she was speechless. We really are blessed to live in such a beautiful country. The other thing she pointed out, going off of that, was that there are American flags flying everywhere, in Australia they only fly them on 2 holidays. Here, people have them hanging by their doors, in their yards, everywhere. It makes you appreciate where you come from, and who you've become because of the things that you've grown up with. The awesome thing is, that no matter where you're from, the Gospel ties you all together. That's continually the same and I'm grateful to know that and for the opportunity I have to be apart of it. Thank you Emma for coming and for letting me show you around my home state, and for being such an awesome friend!

So there you have it friends, there's been my busy life the last little while. I'm slowly getting all the loose ends for the wedding. We're working on getting the announcements back hopefully this week. Tomorrow marks one more month till we're getting married. Holy crazy! There seems to be so much to do, did I mention already that I'll be glad when it's all over with and I can just be with Colt? Ah...that'll be the day :)

Busy Busy!

2009-05-06T13:10:00.000-07:00

WAaAhOoo! As you can tell, we officially have our engagement pictures! My awesome friend Ashley Blackham made the cute header I have now, I really need to learn how to do those. Although, I have been playing a lot with them, I'm making the wedding video for our reception. It's nice to be able to have the cd to be able to do that! I love a lot of them, it'll be hard to choose just one for the announcements! Today after work, Ashley and I are going to go pick out our announcements! Exciting stuff eh? I thought so too! I also found out today that my dress is ready to be picked up! YAY! I'm thinkin' about picking it up later tonight, if not tomorrow. That's so crazy to think about! I've officially scheduled my bridals for May 23rd, I was gonna shoot for the 29th but we're having issues with me getting that off, so to be on the safe side we're gonna do it the 23rd and then if I do get the 29th off that'll be a bonus cause that's also Nate's graduation. So pray either way that I get the 29th off. I'm super excited about my photographer, they did my friend's wedding awhile back and I absolutely loved 'em, and now they're doing mine! They're called Lindsay Jane Photography, she has multiple photographers under her and the one that's doing mine is named Harmony. To see their work just click on the link off to the right on my page here. Things are slowly starting to peice together, the closer I get I guess that's what happens :) I'm just ready for it to all be over I'll say that much, the stress of it all is not to bueno to handle.

This coming weekend I get to go to New Mexico to, hopefully, pick Colt up and bring him back to good ol' Utahr to stay. How exciting is that!? I must say I'm quite ready for it, it'll be nice to have him close and have his help with the wedding. Speaking of him and the wedding, this last Saturday we went to the Allyse's Bridal's Wedding Giveaway thingy at University Mall, hoping to maybe win a $50,000 wedding. As we stood there listening to peoples names get called up for winning mini prizes, they announced the next prize would be a free 18 hole game of golf, cart included, at the Talons Cove in Saratoga Springs. We started joking about the fact that we'd win that one because we both aren't huge fans of golf and as we turned back to listen to who had won, they then called our names. Haha! I suppose that's what we get for joking about it. So we didn't win the $50,000 but we did get a game of golf-I'm just excited about the cart being included, how fun will that be? :p

Later after the bridal show thingy we ended up going up to Colt's dad's house in Randolph, Utah. We stayed the night up there, went to church with them, and then ended up coming back Sunday night. It was a lot of fun to go up there with them, it was neat seeing him with his siblings and his dad. The last time I was up there I had just gone up with his little sister, Deanna, for the weekend to hang out with 'em a bit, so it was nice having him with me this time :)

I must say, I've been keeping pretty busy with all this planning. Not to mention May is already a busy month usually anyways. We've got so many birthdays coming up! My step mom's is tomorrow, mine's on Sunday, Dad's is monday, Mom's is the 19th, then Ash's is the 20th. Then come the 20-26th, my friend from Australia, Emma, is coming to visit and stay with us! Crazy stuff! I'm excited for her to come, this'll be her first time time America, that's so crazy to think about! I've lived here my whole life so I wouldn't know the difference so I have no idea how she'll be feeling. It'll be fun though to have her here and show her around and such. The poor girl will have to deal with going to a bridal shower on the 23rd though that mom's throwing for me. Talk about busy! Like I said before, I'll be soOOOo glad when this is all over and I can just relax and breathe!

Timing is Everything...

2009-04-29T13:12:00.000-07:00

When I first got home from the mission, the stake president and my mission president were in limbo as to what to do with me. Considering the fact that my arm wasn't making progress and I'd been home at that point as a missionary for almost a month, they were debating on whether or not to release me as a missionary. Eventually they did release me as a missionary, obviously :P, but in the process of that they, along with my bishop, had put a request in for me to be a temple worker. I was excited about the idea, it would've been something to do and what better way to preoccupy my time than serving in the temple. It wasn't until about a month ago that I got a letter in the mail from the Mt. Timpanogos Temple asking me to call and verify an appointment time to go and see a member of the temple presidency on April 28th (yesterday). I assumed that they were just now getting to me about calling me to serve there. Well, I went to the temple last night and the guy who took my recommend said "oh, you get to meet with President Brown." and smiled, giving me the impression that I was meeting with the temple president himself. That made me a little nervous. I proceeded to go to where I was told to go and was directed to a couch next to a door marked "President", while the doors on the left and right were marked "Counselor" and were dark. I had indeed been scheduled to see the temple president himself. He then came out and shook my hand and led me to his office. He had a sheet out in front of him and then said that I'd been recommended by my bishop and stake president, and then asked me to tell him about myself. Ha. SO then I told him about how I'd gotten back from my mission and had surgery, then had more complications with my arm so we started new treatments for that and those hadn't helped. Then they eventually released me and I began working again and such, not to mention I began dating and am now engaged. He looked all surprised and said "oh! Well then, this isn't something you need right now!" and then asked who the lucky guy was and where we'd met. I then told him we met on our missions and told him his name. Then the sweet old man proceeded to talk about the Lord's timing, and how amazing things are and how they just fall into place. He then asked when we were getting married and where and I told him June 27th in that temple. Then he wanted to know if we had found anyone to seal us yet and I told him we had thought about our old mission president but had found out he couldn't do it anymore. When I told him that he said that he didn't wanna intrude but if he didn't have anything else that morning during our sealing, he would love to do our sealing and then asked if that was ok. Uh duh! :) I told him of course, we'd love that! He checked his schedule and sure enough he was open that morning. We then went and made it official with the receptionists and he told me that that was probably the reason I came to that interview, for him to be able to do our sealing. Funny thing is, on the way over to the interview I had that exact thought pop in my head about him doing our sealing for us. Although at the time I had no idea I'd be meeting with the president. God really is apart of every little detail of our lives, if we just slow down and realize it we would be able to recognize them and appreciate them more often.

Engagements!! (a sneak peek at least!)

2009-04-27T08:49:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone! This past weekend Colt came down so we could have our engagement pictures taken on Saturday. The plan was to have them at 2:00 that afternoon, but apparently the weather hates us (Colt did say it was going to be just his luck that it'd rain on a day like that for him, that or our wedding-which I pray that it won't!). It started pouring a little before two, and by the time we got there (the Star Mill in American Fork) it was pouring. Ashley and Jacob came to help us out and were armed with umbrellas and all. We ended up calling Brinn (our photographer) and pushing pictures back until 3...and then come close to 3:00 it was still raining. So we decided to just push it back until Sunday when hopefully it would stop raining. So since we had nothing else better to do, the four of us got a bunch of stuff together and decided to just go and try to take a couple pictures in the rain anyways with my camera. We braved the cold and took a couple and then the rain ended up stopping around 4:00. Brinn ended up calling and asking if we'd be up for trying it then, so we decided to give it a go! Needless to say it was absolutely freezing and our pants were wet, my hair was curling, but I do believe we got some good pictures. Brinn posted a couple of pictures on her blog today, there will be more coming and put onto a website so we can order them, and then we'll be recieving a cd with the pictures on it in a little while too (which we get for free due to me scheduling our session in time :) ). So there will be more to come for sure! But here's a sneak peek if you go to this website:

http://www.photographybybrinn.blogspot.com

I like her style of photography and I'm excited to see what else comes when she posts more on the website and I get the CD :) I hope you guys enjoy them as much as I did, I kept checking all day Sunday hoping that they'd be up, pathetic I know. So there you have it!! :)

68 More days?

2009-04-20T07:15:00.000-07:00

Welp, it's the beginning of yet another wonderful week. It seems like it was just barely Friday, funny how the weekends just always fly by. This last weekend I went with Erin for a short trip to New Mexico. I must say, driving down with someone makes for a MUCH more entertaining and fun drive! There's just something about not having to drive by yourself that makes it much more enjoyable. Erin and I left Friday night after I got off of work and took the long drive down to New Mexico, getting there at 2:00AM. We would've been there at 1:43 AM (thanks to my handy dandy GPS estimating what time we'd be there) had it not been for the fact that somewhere in Colorado I was caught going 82 in a 65MPH zone...yeah oopsie. The cop ticketed me and we proceeded on our way, paying extra close attention to how fast I was going and making sure I was at exactly 65MPH. The next thing you know we drove past yet another cop who was hiding in the dark, I didn't think anything of it, cause I was very much paying attention to how fast I was driving. As we continued on, the cop then turns on his headlights and began to follow us, I started kinda freaking out, after all I wasn't doing anything and then he proceeded to turn his lights on and pull me over. He came up, introduced himself as deputy something or other, and then told me I was going 65 in a 40 zone, I asked him when it had turned 40 and he said he was sitting right under the sign, obviously I hadn't noticed, after all I was clearly paying attention to how fast I was going to make sure I was obeying the law. I explained that I had just gotten pulled over 2 miles before that, he asked for the ticket and then proceeded to say "Well, I guess I won't make your night any worse than it could be" and then let me go on my way. Thank heavens for an understanding and nice cop! I'm not sure what I would've done if I had gotten another ticket, the first one was already pretty expensive! So had we not gotten pulled over we would've arrived in New Mexico much earlier..I'm not bitter or anything ;)

Saturday morning we got to sleep in, very much needed too! We then got to have breakfast/lunch with Colt when he took his lunch break. He had made us ham sandwiches and then headed back to work until later that evening. Meanwhile, Erin and I listened to music and jammed out to her Ipod while we waited for Deanna to finish getting ready for the day. I had brought my nice camera and we ended up going and taking her Senior pictures. We found an old barn with a sweet old Ford truck that we took a couple pictures by, as well as an AWESOME old adobe house. Inside, the wood was fallin apart, as well as the ceiling, there was an old telephone we found, old dusty magazines, I seriously could've played in there all day! We had a lot of fun taking her pictures though, she's very photogenic which made my job a lot easier. Below are a couple of my favorite that we took:

This one^^ was taken by that old barn that we had found
This one ^ was in that amazing adobe house that we found, pretty sweet, no? ^haha so cute

After taking the pictures we got to come home and play around with them a bit, which is almost just as fun as taking them! I forget how much I love photography until I have an opportunity to do it more and to play with pictures, it was really good practice being able to take her pictures, after all that is what I wanna go into. It makes me excited to go to school and take some classes on the more technical stuff and get started on my portfolio a bit more.

Later that night when Colt came home we ended up going to Safeway in attempts to find something to eat, about an hour later we finally just ended up going to Subway and taking it back to Colt's house and watching Made of Honor and Hitch. Twas a very fun night! Sunday morning we went to church and then ate lunch and headed out, Erin and I got home around 11:40ish. Pretty sure I've decided to take a bit of a break from driving/long road trips. Luckily I won't have to too much longer, Colt will be coming up this weekend for our engagement pictures. We're getting them taken on Saturday by a lady from Tennessee who was in the ward that I served in. I went out and bought Colt a new shirt (see below :P) and now I just get to try to figure out what to wear. I'm debating too, I wanna cut my hair a bit. Just a trim and fix my bangs, but I'm worried if I do it this close to the engagements I may hate it after and really not feel comfortable in the pictures. Although pretty sure right now I'm about ready to just shave my whole head, so I suppose that may be a good decision.

Anywho...The weekend after this one Colt will be up here again and then the following weekend is mothers day weekend (as well as my birthday!) and we'll be down in New Mexico so he can talk to his brother on the phone, who's on a mission in Mexico. So luckily I won't have to handle too much more driving, I'll be glad when it's all over and I can just be with him on a more regular basis.
Speaking of that, 68 more days until the wedding day!! Holy crazy huh?! Time is just moving along, and there's still a lot to figure out! Ashley and I got together last week and kinda planned and talked a bit more. I'm still trying to figure out what to do for centerpieces, so if any of y'all have an idea lemme know. Or for decorations period. I'm kinda struggling in that area, although I know it'll all come together, I just stress often for no reason. As far as decorations go, my flowers will be gerber daisies and I'm thinkin maybe having pictures of us on the tables as well. Any other suggestions are welcome :)

SO there you have it. There's the latest update on my life! Exciting eh? :)

Conference Weekend

2009-04-07T18:37:00.001-07:00

Don't you just love Conference weekend? I remember when I used to be little and in order to get me to watch it and keep me entertained, my parents would make these bingo sheets and have us play bingo. It worked though, it got us to pay attention! Looking back now it makes me sad I wasn't all that into it until after my mission. You gain a new love for it when you're a missionary, everything seems to make more sense and it seems like everything they say you can apply it to one of your investigators. This last weekend Colt was able to come down and my friend Erin was able to get tickets to go to the Saturday afternoon session of conference. Going in we knew they'd be good seats, but we didn't realize how good of seats they were until we got there. We ended up being about 6 rows from the front and sat near right where they all walk in. Talk about incredible. Below is a picture of just how close we were!

This was Colt's first time ever going to a session at the conference center, it was really neat to be able to go with him. There's just something about actually going to the conference center and being there that makes you appreciate just how blessed you really are. Being among so many saints and knowing that we're all in this together is an incredible feeling and so exciting. I felt overwhelmed knowing that I'm apart of the only true church. It made me wanna go out and be a better person and spread the gospel to everyone.

This is Erin and I waitin' for the session to start. It was super fun to have her come along with us, it's so nice having her around to be able to hang out with. She understands what it's like to be a return sister missionary and it's incredible to see how far we've come. We miss our Christina friend who's still out serving in Brazil, but it's neat to see how we're still friends after all these years!
Later that day, Saturday, after conference we ended up going and hanging out with Nick and Kelsey, Nick is Colt's best friend and him and Kelsey(his fiancee) came down and stayed the weekend with us too which was fun. It was mine and Colt's first time meeting Kelsey and it was fun to be with another couple and to see Nick and Colt together. They headed back home Sunday morning after eating breakfast at Kim Conant's house with us and then later Sunday night Colt and I had the chance to go visit my Grandma Buhler in the rest home that they just put her in. The last time I had gone and seen her was a difficult time, I hadn't seen her like that and it just made me think a lot about what I'm doing and what I have done in the past with my life. She just laid there giving me advice and told me that Colt and I would have to " Live off of Love". She told me that her and grandpa didn't have much, but what they did have was love. I left there choking back tears and praying that she makes it to our wedding. I know that if it's the Lord's will then it'll happen and we'll all be ok. Grandma instantly approved as Colt walked in on Sunday though, saying that he was sure cute and then later asked him a couple of questions about himself, and to no surprise he passed the test :) As we were leaving she gave me a hug goodbye and told me she'd try to make it, while brushing my hair out of my face-yeah, seems like a movie scene right?-and I told her she would be. I've learned a lot from watching Grandma and Grandpa together, Grandpa treats her like a queen (that was a bit of advice she gave Colt and I-"Our motto is if i treat him like a king, he'll treat me like a queen") and they're so cute together. Its moments like those that you realize just how fragile life really is and makes you step back and take a look at what you're doing and what you need to change. It seems like an endless list but thank heavens for the gospel and the knowledge that we have that comes along with it!

All in all it was a very good weekend, it was rough driving Colt back to Moab to meet his mom-she was so sweet, she had been driving all day and ended up driving another 3 hours to meet us in moab to pick him up!-the more I'm around Colt, the more I love him and the more and more difficult it is to not have him around, we have to keep reminding ourselves that this will all be worth it in the end. I must say though, I feel very blessed right now in my life-I have so much to be grateful for.

YaY weekend!

2009-04-03T10:19:00.000-07:00

So my friend and co-worker Amy pointed out that it's been 3 days since I've updated my blog, I know right? What's this world coming to? I decided to update it for her sake. Although there hasn't been much going on. Yesterday I did get to go pay for my dress and put it on again. This time though I went with Ashley and Erin to get their approval and their opinion on a little tiara thingy or not. We decided not to get it cause there was just too much bling-ish going on. I got to be poked in the butt too (I say it as if it was a privilege) by the lady who's doing the alterations. Good times I tell ya. It was fun though to hang out with them and Ashley offered a lot of ideas for decorations and such for the wedding. Inexpensive, if not free, for that matter. It pays to know people I've learned, and to be loved. Colt's always joking about how many people love me, I didn't realize just how many until recently when all sorts of people were stepping up to offer help and suggestions for the wedding. So for those of you who are reading this, thank you for loving me and for all of your support. I feel blessed to have so many people in my life that care about me and are there for me.

Colt is coming up this weekend-Finally! I'm super excited to see him, it's only been 2 weeks but it seems like it's been forever. Pathetic? yes. Do I care? Nope :) We get to go to a session of Conference this weekend too, the Saturday afternoon one, and I'm super excited! He's never been and I'm excited to go with him. I'm just plain ol' excited for conference in general. I remember on the mission being super excited about it and writing billions of notes and receiving revelation for our investigators. It'll be fun to watch it again, although this time I'll be a little more focused on me instead of investigators :) It'll be a busy weekend though, but I'm excited. YAY weekends! They always seem to go by way too fast though. Anywho. I'm bout ready to start rambling so I best just stop while I'm ahead. :) I'll be sure to take pictures this weekend and post 'em on here! :)

Randomness..

2009-03-30T09:46:00.000-07:00

What a weekend! Mom and I went on Saturday to check out the bridal show at Thanksgiving Point. I'd never been to one before and it was quite the experience! There were a lot of different vendors there and all sorts of drawings going on-hopefully I win something! :) It was good to go though, it gave us a lot of good ideas. The only problemo is that I still don't have a budget, so I wasn't quite sure if I could afford some of the things that they were offering or not. After checking out the Bridal show, mom and I were in the mood for me to go and try on dresses. That was quite the experience. We ended up going to Allyses Bridal and one of my friends from High School, Loran, works there and just so happened to be working when we went in. I got to point out a couple in a catalog to try on and away she went getting all of them and putting them into a dressing room for us. I can't tell you how weird it was that I was trying on wedding dresses, and even though mom said she was trying to hide it, I could tell it was an emotional time for her as well. About a year and a half ago Ashley and I decided to go try to find me a church dress and Allyses carries those as well, so we went in looking for some and Loran was there and told us we could try on anything we wanted. You can't just tell a girl she can try on anything in a bridal store without expecting her to try on a wedding dress right? So Ash and I got a couple for me and the first one I tried on then was this really pretty dress, I walked out and just felt beautiful, we took pictures and I didn't think much of it. Well, when we went back on Saturday that same dress was there so it was the first one I tried on this time, Mom told me that I shouldn't even try on any others because of how much I was smiling in the one I was in but I tried anyways and tried on more dresses but kept coming back to the first. We put the first one back on and started playing with viels and such and I felt like a total princess. We decided there was no need for me to look elsewhere cause I honestly just fell in love with that one.

So, I officially have my wedding dress! :) I posted a picture of it, and Colt has seen it already-or at least just this top half, so I may just do bridals with him, I have yet to decide..Yes, me and my indecisive self again. We have to do an alteration in the tummy area (it's a little small but it was the only one left and will only have to be taken out just a little bit) but that's the only thing, I was quite excited! So now comes the rest of the planning. I went up with Dad and Kaye to look at the Mt. Timpanogos Park after trying on dresses and got to see what it actually looked like in person. It's really beautiful up there, and I'm excited to see what it'll look like all green and such :P We kinda tried planning out where things would go and stuff but we'll see how it all works out. Things are slowly falling into place! Now comes all of the other little details!

Yesterday I got a phone call from my mission presidents wife trying to confirm the rumors that were going around the mission and asked if I was engaged, I told her that I was and she was so excited. She then went off on how amazing Colt is (although she called him Elder Rothlisberger) and how on the mission Colt had the opportunity to go to the position of Zone Leader when he was with a struggling companion but chose not to. She told me that that said alot about Colt's character and that she really admired him for that. We talked a bit more about how to get the rest of my luggage home and then President Hutchings came home from a meeting and I got to talk to him. Everytime we talk, we always end up laughing. He asked me if I was engaged and he was so excited, he then proceeded to also go off on how amazing Colt was and how he was on his high calibur of missionaries :) He said that he'd be seeing the other missionaries that night and would announce to them the happy news. It was fun talking to them again and it just brought back a flood of memories from the mission. It's crazy how things happen, I would've never thought that I'd be here right now. It's amazing how God prepares us for the things that are to come, looking back now and at all the things that brought me to this point , I can see why I had to go through the things that I did to be where I am now. I'm grateful for those things and that I've been prepared for this time in my life. I'm soooo grateful that I followed the promptings that I had to go on a mission. I can't imagine my life any other way, and yes-I'm gonna go all sappy on you, I can't imagine my life had Colt not come into the picture. 3 months seems like forever almost, although depending on the day it seems like it's too soon and there's so much to do, but having him down in New Mexico is killing me. I get to go down there this weekend though for General Conference to see him, I seriously live by each time I get to see him next-Pathetic right? But looking at the grand scheme of things it'll all be worth it in the end!

So on a really random note, I've decided to set a goal of working out 3 times a week. I've vocalized this to Colt and he pulled a missionary on me and committed me to doing it and even promised me blessings, and he's even following up with me too ( haha I love that we can do that :P ). But I figured I"d put it on here as well just so it's more official. It's been cold lately and so I've found plenty of excuses to not do anything, but really I could probably find something to do at my own house. I also use the excuse that I can't do much because of my arm, which I can-I just can't do what I'd like to with my arm being all lameo. I can't do any weight lifting cause that'd just kill the dumb thing but I could always make one arm a little buffer right? :P Also, this morning I was on my way to work and had to leave an extra fifteen minutes earlier cause of the weather and didn't have enough time to actually kneel down to say my prayers so I said them on way to work outloud. As I was I prayed to be more Christlike in my actions and words, especially since as I was driving people were riding my tail. It's amazing that once you pray for something like that you really stop and start to realize all the little things you do that you didn't catch before. Even while being at work today I've noticed little things that I've done. So that's another one of my personal goals, to be more Christlike in the things I say and do-especially when it comes to working and driving :P Alright, I think I've rambled enough so I'll end this here! :)

Hmm...Elope?

2009-03-26T13:14:00.000-07:00

Ok. So I've finally decided on the colors. Below is an example, and you can tell in the one with more pictures that there's a hint of brown in there too-I found that it was the green I was missing when I was trying to figure it out. I have a bed spread that has these colors and I've always loved them, so there you have it. I decided the reason I wasn't really feelin the brown and blue was because of the lack-o-green and it wasn't too happy-ish. So Y'all can let me know what you think of thoese but I think this is the final decision. So I'm sitting at work and once again thinking about everything and am beginning to become a bit stressed. Everyone wants to be involved in some way or another and lets be honest, it's difficult to make sure everyone has a part without completely taking over the wedding. This is mine and Colt's day and that's what's most important. It's just becoming hard already to please everyone, which in no way will ever happen.

I can now see why people just elope-less stress and drama going on, maybe it's worth it? :P All I know is that I'll already be happy when it's all over. Tonight I get to go and hang out with Ashley which will be nice considering she just did this whole wedding bit 6 months ago, and luckily she knows me well enough and can help me stay sane and figure out what it is I want. Yay for best friends! So on a side note, I've decided it should be summer(and no, not just because I'd be married by then). It's been way to darn cold lately, it took me a good 45 minutes to get to work today because of the lovely snowy weather. I had to take my brothers to school this morning and on the way there we spun out, which made good entertainment for them but on my part was a bit scary. I mean come on, the first day of spring was last friday, you'd think we'd be able to have decent weather right? Ah, the joys of living in good ol' Utahr. So all in all that's the latest update. I'm stressed because I can't please everyone, nor will I, and I'm sick of the cold weather. So I suppose since I'm in a venting/ranting mood ( don't say I didn't warn you), lately here at work we've been cracking down more on people and the checks that they give us. Also to cash them we're asking for more positive ID (drivers license), instead of just asking security questions (ex: birthday, address, social). Heaven forbid you go to a bank/credit union and you are asked for a form of identification. We have people though who decide to make this a big deal and get pull a little fit because they have to pull out their ID. If it were my account, I'd be grateful for the fact that they've asked me for it, after all I do want my money safe. *sigh* Ok, I think I'm done for now, if not then I'll just blog later :P

Bridals?

2009-03-25T20:46:00.000-07:00

Ok, SooO now that I'm home I thought I'd add pictures of the reception center that I'm gonna go look at, figured it'd give everyone more of a visual of what I was talking about. When I go i'll take some more pictures and figure out if that's what I really want. In the meanwhile I'll just post these up here. The one the left here is just the outside grounds of it, and the other one is of the indside of the building..More than likely we'd be doing it inside because Colt says that knowing his luck it'll probably rain. And knowing Utah weather, it will. So I suppose we'll just see what I think about it when I go up there, I'll keep y'all updated!

So. I'm sitting here having fun playing with the background of my blog and can't help but try to figure out if it's really blue, baby blue and brown that I want(for the wedding colors). Seriously, sometimes I wonder why I'm so indecisive. You'd think I'd just make up my mind and move on, but for some reason I'm having issues. I should just say I've stuck with that and that's it, which is what I'll end up doing. *sigh* So much to do :P My mom's been texting me and I'm glad to hear that her mind's going a mile a minute just like mine, we tend to do that and get over stressed about things that really aren't worth stressing over. Yesterday I was able to go to the temple and it was neat, as I sat in there I still had the same worries and concerns but I just knew felt peaceful and not stressed about it and knew that it was all going to work out. I just have to remind myself of that, it'll probably be a lifetime thing to get over too.

Kim Conant came over tonight too, she brought her cute little kids over and had dinner with us and we started looking at some dresses online. She has a friend that designs dresses and some of them are absolutely beautiful. I now have a couple of ideas on what I wanna look at. SO another question for y'all. I know that some brides for their bridals have the groom in the pictures with them, but then some don't because they want to have it kept a secret until the wedding day-there's few surprises in life. So what is everyone's opinion on that? Pictures are the most important and the biggest thing that I want out of all of this, after all I'm not obsessed with them or anything right? So having him in them with me would be good because I'd have more pictures with us together, but then keeping it a surprise would be fun too. Let me know what y'all think! I'm off to bed now, better get some sleep for another day of work :)

June 27th!!

2009-03-25T13:49:00.000-07:00

So I'm sitting here at work and can't help but think about the long list of wonderful wedding details that I get to plan out. Colt and I hadn't picked a date quite yet cause we wanted to pray about the date and then decided, and we have officially picked the date of June 27th! Crazy stuff! Now comes the fun part-planning it all out! This'll be an adventure, especially coming from a girl that hasn't necessarily had every detail planned out or had a "dream wedding" in mind. My biggest thing that I know I've always wanted was a lot of pictures taken, so a really good photographer and a lot of pictures to have after to remember the day by. Other than that, if you were to have asked me what kind of flowers, what the cake should look like, centerpieces, etc. I would've looked at you (and may still) blankly and have no idea what to say back. I always thought it'd be neat to have a reception outside, but didn't care if it were inside either-wow, so decisive right? I was talking to my dad the yesterday about possibly using our new backyard if it were ready by then and he said it'd be open for us to use. We were talking again this morning and he told me that him and my step mom had been talking and she had the idea of using the Mt. Timpanogos Park up Provo Canyon for the reception, the reason being is that I could have it either inside or outside there-so we'll see how it goes. Things are slowly falling into place. Mom and I are going to be going to a bridal show at Thanksgiving Point this weekend to check out stuff and get some ideas for me, I have an idea on colors-for all of you who read this you'll have to let me know your opinion, which I'm not sure there's many that do. I'm thinking of having my colors be a dark blue, a tiffany blue ish/baby blue ish, and brown. When I'm not at work I'll have to add pictures of the reception center but alas-I'm at work and I can't save any pictures onto this computer. I've put my the colors I'm thinking on here, obviously-you can tell by the text :p So lemme know what you think!

Annnnd....another chapter in my life begins!

2009-03-23T14:56:00.000-07:00

Wow, it's been awhile since I've been on here so I figured it was due time for me to get on here and update this. A lot has happened since I last blogged. For one-I'm no longer a missionary. That was an interesting experience, but I can see now why the Lord gives us the trials that He does. I had a feeling that when I got home that that was the end of my mission, as much as I pushed it aside and tried not to deal with it, and that was confirmed to me when I went to the temple. As I sat there and prayed I asked our Heavenly Father if going back on my mission was the right thing that I needed to do, and as I did so I got the answer that that was it. Surprisingly I handled it very well and I knew that's what He wanted for me. It was a neat thing to experience. As hard as it was to accept that, I know that this is what He wants for me.

SooOOo to add to the update-I'm engaged! ha! Funny how life happens eh? I met Colt on my mission, he was actually one of my district leaders in my first area. He left to go home in October to New Mexico. We became really good friends out there, that was probably my favorite district. We were always having a lot of fun together and laughing. After he went home he wrote me couple times, and then after I got home we began talking again. After I got released I decided to take a road trip down there with some friends to go and see him for the first time post-mish and the rest is history. It's been amazing to see God's hands in all of it, He literally is apart of everything that we do. I feel so blessed to have Colt in my life and to have someone that I can completely be myself around. He makes me happier than I've ever been and I'm sooo excited to be able to be sealed to him for time and all eternity.

I wanted to post on here how the proposal happened:

On March 19th, Colt came and picked me up from work-he'd been here the last week hanging out-and we were going to head off to have dinner with my mom. Well, as I got in the car he informed me that my mom had cancelled the plans, I asked why but he said he didn't know why. He then said that he had a picnic for us instead, so I agreed and had an idea that something was up. We then headed back towards home and he told me that he was in the mood for a frosty. I then definitely knew something was up-for those of you who haven't seen/ don't know, recently on the news there was a girl who swallowed her engagement ring in a frosty when her fiance was trying to propose. It became a big thing, them being on the Today show and Ellen even.Well it turns out that that girl was one of Colt's ex girlfriends, so when he said he wanted a frosty I then began wondering if he'd really do that. He then went into Wendys, leaving me in the car wondering what in the world I'd do if he really did do it that way, and then came back with two vanilla frostys. We then drove to a park right across from the Timpanogos Temple-the same place my dad announced that him and my step-mom were engaged, and had a blanket and a picnic basket for us. We went and found a spot, previously picked out, and he pulled out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for us. Colt and I have this song, called Peanut Butter and Jelly by Insideout that is kinda our inside joke, we had listened to it on the mission while helping him clean his and his companion's apartment and it just became our song, in a way I suppose. Well, we ate the sandwiches, all the while I was watching his hand to see if he'd secretly try to put the ring into the frosty. As I went to get another bite of my sandwich, however, there was a little peice of plastic sticking out from the sandwich, I then knew that the ring wasn't in the frosty. As I saw it he pointed out that there was something in my sandwich and the song began playing in the background. I managed to pull out the bag and sure enough, inside was my ring. He had me try opening it, but alas-my hands were sticky and slippery from peanut butter and jelly and so I handed it to him, only for him to also have a problem trying to open it (hehe..his hands were shaking too, so cute!) and so he finally bit off the top of the bag and pulled the ring out. He then got on one knee and asked me if I would marry him, and....I said yes!! :) From behind the tree then emerged my two little brothers, their own peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in hand to join us for the picnic :)

We're thinking about getting married June 27th in the Mt. Timpanogos temple, Colt will be going to Utah State this fall and we'll be moving to Logan-that's the plan so far at least. I can't believe how much goes into putting a wedding together, luckily I have awesome friends and family that're helping.

Currently I'm working at Alpine Credit Union again, at the south Orem branch this time though. I love working here again, it's surprising how fast it all came back to me too. I work with some awesome people-one of my coworkers, Amy has suddenly become one of my wedding planners and is very helpful and good at keeping me calm and not letting me freak out/stress about it all. Not only that but also a good friend, it's always fun with here and makes working much more enjoyable!

So there's my very much shortened version of what's been going on in my life lately. I know that without a doubt that God put Colt and I in each others paths, He's shown that multiple times to us and I'm grateful for the opportunity which I had to go on a mission and to be able to meet him. I can't imagine what would've happened had I not gone on my mission and hadn't listened to the promtpings that God gave me.

I will keep this updated now on all the wedding details, my little rants and raves and frustrations about it and such and about how amazing it feels to be engaged! :) Again..welcome to another chapter of my life!!

Makin' Use of My Time...

2009-01-13T15:36:00.000-08:00

So I've decided that while I'm chillin' here at home, I might as well make use of the time that I have to update this thing, however I'm not sure how many people actually pay attention to it! Nonetheless, Here i sit and am updating my lovely blog! I'm still here in good ol' Utahr, which at this point I thought for sure that I'd happily be back in Tennessee doing the Lord's work, but alas-I'm not. I've recovered well from my gallbladder surgery, I'm at the phase now that I'm able to eat, it's just an adventure doing so! There have been many things to add to the "Do Not Eat" list, including bananas, sugary cereal, and poptarts. The list seems to grow longer each day, but I guess I shouldn't complain-the majority of the things that are on that list aren't probably good for me anyways, so hopefully that'll help me stay thin and healthy ;). The reason I'm still here is due to the fact that since July I've had issues with my wrist and elbow. Before I left on my mission I had played volleyball in singles ward and did something to it, welp I guess after playing it again on a P-day I reinjured it and since then I've had issues. I have a severe case of Tendonitis, which is ever so much fun. While I was out there they did everything possible on me-from steroids to cortisone injections and physical therapy. I'm now in physical therapy agai doing a procedure called Astym, which hurts like none other. We're now in the waiting game to see if it'll work, meanwhile my fate is being decided by my stake president and mission president on whether or not to release me while I'm here. I must say I didn't ever expect this to be part of my mission! Whatever happens I do know that the Lord's in all of it. I'm ready and anxious to get back out and work, I mean come on-I only have 10 more months!! We'll see though, the sooner the better! In the meanwhile I'm at home and just do my studies and then sit around wishing I had something to do :) I do have amazing friends though that keep me entertained when they can so that's been a bonus. I did get to go to my mom's house this last weekend and play with her, it was nice to be able to talk to her and just hang out. I actually had an opportunity to teach an 11 year old girl a first lesson while I was there! That was pretty exciting and made me that much more anxious to get back out! Life is good though and the gospel's true, nothing else matters!!

This is me at my moms, what can I say, I'm a weirdo :)

Missionary in Utah..

2008-12-30T13:11:00.000-08:00

Well, here I sit 7 months later in good ol' Utah. This definitely wasn't what I expected! My mission has been the most incredible and amazing thing that's ever happened to me. The reason being that I'm home is that I'm having my gallbladder taken out today so instead of having me have the surgery there, they shipped me home to Utah to have it done and recover among my family. It was quite the blow and a hard thing to handle two days before I was sent home. I wasn't quite sure why it was happening, other than for the obvious reasons that my gallbladder's only functioning 13%, but as I recieved a blessing before I left from my Zone Leaders I then realized why it was that I was coming home. I don't know anything specific but I do know that the Lord called me home when He did for a reason. It's been a weird adjustment, seeing friends that are now married and the other many changes that have taken place. I didn't realize just how much of a missionary I was until I got home. It's been fun seeing everyone though and being able to talk to them, it almost already seems like my life in Tennessee was just a big dream! I was in my second area before I left which was McMinnville, Tennessee with Sister Ford as my companion. She's from Lindon, Utah and is the sweetest person I think I've ever met. We get along great and we have a lot of fun together. My first area was Murfreesboro, Tennessee and I was there for 6 months, I really grew to love the people there and that area but it was a nice change to move onto my second area as well. I've had so many amazing experiences I'm not sure where to even start. I'm not sure if anyone even looks at this but I thought I'd give it a try! So life is going great, it's crazy how quickly it changes! God sure has a plan for everything, we just have to have the faith that He's got it taken care of, as long as we're doing our part. I'm grateful for my challenges and for the opportunity it gives me to become a stronger and better person. I know this is part of God's plan for me, years from now I'll be grateful for those trials and appreciate who I became because of them. :)

Lead Kindly Light...

2008-05-27T15:04:00.000-07:00

Hello! So this will be one of my last posts in awhile, seeing as I enter the MTC tomorrow morning at 11:30. It's weird to be sitting here, sending out emails for the last time to people, packing up my room and thinking that this will be the last time I sit like this for quite awhile. There are so many emotions running through me it's hard to pinpoint them all! Nervous, excited, anxious, worried, ready, sad, and tons of other ones. It'll be an amazing adventure and experience to go and to serve the Lord and the people of Tennessee. Who knew my life would lead to this point? It's funny where life takes you, I certainly never thought I'd be going on a mission and be at this point in my life. But alas, here I am! It'll be hard to say goodbye to everyone, i hate saying goodbye-so I suppose I'll just say see you later when I do. I keep reminding myself it's not like I'm dying, I will see these people again. Although, people do change and things will be different when I get back. But life is change. I keep reminding myself and randomly singing the song Lead Kindly Light. The phrase "lead thou, me on" keeps popping into my head. I am putting my whole trust and heart into this mission, knowing that this is what I'm supposed to be doing right now and pray that I can be the best I can be. So if I get time to update this while I'm gone and post some pictures I will. If not I suppose I'll see ya in 18 months :) I'll be home by next Christmas, it won't be too much longer and I'll be sitting here again talking about how hard it was to leave Tennessee and the people I grew to love. Until then, See ya later :)

Random rambling..

2008-04-21T21:52:00.000-07:00

Welp, here I sit again-and to be honest who knows what I'll write/type about! The days to my mission are slowly ticking down-exciting, but yet scary at the same time! It's weird to think I've reached this point in my life already. When you're little you think about times like these, and now that you're at that point you never thought it'd be quite like this. I get to go through the temple and recieve my endowments this weekend, and I'm soo excited! Life's changing rapidly and it all takes some getting used to. I'm excited for it all though, for once I know that this is what I need to do and that as long as I put my trust in Him, everything's going to turn out great. There's so much I need to work on, I was reading over tamara's blog and she listed things she wants to work on, goals that she wants. My list seems never ending, I'm glad that we have moments where we can learn those as we go, cause we're all definitely far from perfect! 36 days till I leave-good heavens where has the time gone!? I just hope I'm ready and get all I need to done before then-I can't even find my immunization records yet! I keep trying to remind myself not to stress so easily. So on the flip side, and not so serious side, I got back from a vacation with my family! We went down to Sand Hollow and went boating, four wheeling and just hung out and such. It was a lot of fun, I got sunburned (i know, shocker huh?) and am paying the consequences but who knows, maybe i'll get a killer tan before i go (ha!). It was fun to be with my brothers and to talk with 'em, knowing that was the last road trip before I go. They're growing up quick, by the time I get back Nate will be getting ready to go on a mission! Why do i keep getting older!? :P My family will also be on tv this coming saturday night at 11. While we were up there channel 2 news came and stopped my parents and filmed them and asked them questions, so that'll be fun to see! :) we're famous! ok..not really but that'd be cool-actually, it may not be as cool as we think, but that's a whole other topic! I'm off to bed now before I start rambling even more! :)

Ma First blog :)

2008-03-30T15:58:00.000-07:00

Welp, I've decided to start a blog just for the heck of it! I'll keep things posted on here of what's going on with everything, the mission and I suppose just life in general! Dad's going to be keeping a website updated for me when I'm gone and I'll post that on here but I just figured that this can be my own little thing I'll try to updated up until then and while I'm gone! So it's been a long haul but I'm going to be leaving to serve on May 28th. It's going by a lot faster than I thought it would, the next thing I know I'll be out there already! I've found out as well that I'll only be in the MTC until June 16th! Only 2 weeks! I hope I can learn everything I need to by then! I'm excited though to be able to have the experience to go out there and serve and teach those that are looking and searching for that happiness and help them to find it! I have a lot to do though to get ready! I bought my luggage this weekend as well as some more clothes! I get to go through the temple about the beginning/middle of april! :) I'm super excited for that. Oh! So a couple of weeks or so ago I got onto the tennessee nashville mission website and logged myself in, putting when I'm going and such and noticed someone leaving the same day and that was a sister missionary! Turns out she's from Utah too and we've been emailing each other and such-well we hung out for the first time (after meeting once at the sister missionary mall :P ) and it was a lot of fun! I'll post a picture up on here, it's crazy to think we may be companions down the road! Funny how things and people come into your life when they do! But I'm super excited to be going out there to serve and to learn more about the gospel as I do!

Colt and Kayla

Day 24

Only one more day!

I'm Thankful for...

Thankful Day #16

Ashley's Baby Shower

Day 15

Day 14

day 13

Thankfullness!

My little brother..

Stacey

God is good :)

Two years and going strong!

we're alive!

One more week...?

Blessings

Very Blessed

Crazy May

more car troubles? gr..

Brian Regan

*drum roll please!*

long time no blog!

Car shopping? Boo.

Drum roll please....

Our 1st Christmas!

Another Car month?

GO COUGS!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

GO COUGS!

Simplicity.

5:15

Thankful

November?

Car Month?

Happy Fall!

Not so exciting update :)

Live off of Love

Busy-ness!

Wedding pictures! (sneak peek at least!)

I'm Married!

2 more days!?

Bridals!!!

Long Time No Blog!

Busy Busy!

Timing is Everything...

Engagements!! (a sneak peek at least!)

68 More days?

Conference Weekend

YaY weekend!

Randomness..

Hmm...Elope?

Bridals?

June 27th!!

Annnnd....another chapter in my life begins!

Makin' Use of My Time...

Missionary in Utah..

Lead Kindly Light...

Random rambling..

Ma First blog :)

drum roll please!