Dates

Matt and I have become like identical twins.

There was one day were we had 3 of the same ideas.
For some reason I can't remember 2 of them but I do remember that I bought socks and some of them were white and I thought. I think Matt and I should decorate these socks tonight cause I hate having tons of different brands of white socks and having to try and match them.
Well I told Matt my idea and he was like that's weird. Can I tell you what I wanted to do for out date tonight? I wanted to decorate socks.
Yup. We are a match made in heaven.

 Then we had serendipity frozen hot chocolate.

The next day I got up early to prepare home made chicken noodle soup.
I'm pretty sure I get some sweet pre-wifey points for this dinner.
I cut the carrots into heart shapes and I made the noodles from scratch. (I'm going to act like making noodles from scratch is really hard, but it's not)

Here is the finished product. Some of the carrots didn't quite resemble hearts but it's harder then one might think. It was delicious though.
I love Matt and the fun little dates we do. We just enjoy spending time together and every day with him is like a date. I hope this kind of relationship carries over into our marriage. Which is in 78 days!

Engaged to be wed.

I'm engaged.

:)

A friend wrote me an email the other day mentioning how she noticed that I hadn't blogged in awhile and that the same thing happened to her when she was getting pretty serious with her boyfriend so she assumed that was the case with me. 

Well she was right. Blogging became the last thing I wanted to do because when I wasn't with Matt I was trying to catch up on the homework I hadn't done yet. Lots of great things were happening that I could blog about, I just didn't feel like I had the time.

Anyway, I am engaged.

And it's wonderful.

This is something I've wanted for so so long. There have been many blog posts published or unpublished about that want. I can't believe it's actually become a reality.

I'll just skip to the chase and tell the engagement story.

We went to Utah this last weekend and I was meeting his mom for the first time.

I was pretty sure it was going to happen this weekend and I could not wait. I was so excited to have a ring on my finger to signify that I was taken and adored by someone.

So the night he asked me to marry him we went to Red Robin for dinner, which is a favorite of ours. 

During dinner he told me that he was sorry, but that our date that night consisted of doing things outside (it was around -15 Celsius so you can just imagine how thrilled I was)
But he said they were on our list of date ideas so I was excited to find out.
He took me to temple square and the moment we were out of the car I was looking forward to the chance to be inside the visiting center, although I knew that wasn't on our list of date ideas, I was hoping for some sort of pit stop.
Instead he kept me outside the gates of the temple and took me around a corner where there were horse carriages lined up.
Immediately I knew that was what his plan was.
But I didn't want to make it to easy for him by being excited and asking him if we were going on a carriage ride. So we started to walk by, when one of the drivers asked if we wanted to take a ride. Matt tried to play it off cool like that wasn't what we wanted to do and asked the price and for how long. Neither or us felt like a 30 minute carriage ride and got her to settle for a 20 minute one.
Matt had planned to propose while we were in the carriage but our driver could not stop talking. And it was all about her horse. Matt was not impressed.
So we decided to go to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, which was not on our list of date ideas, but a good place to go none the less.
We went to the top floor where it over looks the temple.
There we talked for awhile about the temple and marriage and I jokingly said "Have I made you want to think twice about marrying me?" And he said something along these lines "well I thought it over once and decided yes and then I thought it over twice and the answer was still yes, so upon this third time, my answer is still yes. So I guess now is as good as time as any," as he starts fiddling in his pocket and gets down on one knee. I just stare and say You've got to be kidding me. And he asks if I'll marry him, and before I can say yes he's slipped the ring onto my finger (I guess I didn't have a choice) and we were hugging and kissing and I finally managed to say Of course I will.
Matt's heart was beating so hard and fast and his knees were shaking. It was like we had never talked about it before and he had no idea if I would say yes or not.
Lots of people ask me if I knew he was going to propose that night.
While I did not know for 100%, I had a pretty good feeling about it. Especially because he was acting a little weird the whole night. It actually made me start acting a little weird cause I was just waiting for him to do it.
Anyway. We are getting married April 20th in the Cardston Alberta Temple. I couldn't be happier.

Christmas In Canada. Part one.

Matt came to Canada to meet my family.

They loved him. He loved them.

He loves me. I love him.

Mushy gushy.

Here are photos of our time in canada.

 We went to Waterton. But we didn't get to see much of it's beauty cause there was a freak mini blizzard inside the park. And now one was around to help us get a picture of us in front of Cameron Falls.

 We went "pinning" We bought clothes pins and wrote merry christmas on them and went around Wal-mart sticking them on people. It was so much fun. Cheap and fun date.

We built our first house. It was delicious.

And this was Matt's idea. I love that I'll have a man that will do girly things like this with me for the rest of my life. Every once in awhile he'll paint my nails. Okay he'll paint one and then get tired of it.

 Here are my Christmas Nails. I'm sad for this season to be over. I've enjoyed painting my nails christmas colors and wearing my christmas earrings. You can bet I will be on of those old ladies that wear oversized ugly christmas sweaters, with matching socks, scarves, and earrings. It's totally happening. I can't wait.

And I got this sweater In honor of Matt. It says California love and has their state animal on it. I actually love it. And wear it almost everyday.

On the topic of Matt. My family loves loves loves him. They think he is some sort of saint and question if he is human. I love it. He is seriously so good to me. I often wonder the same thing as my family. He just seems a little too good too be true and I don't know how I got so lucky. He's certainly getting the short end of the stick, but hey I'll take it.
Well Ladies and Gentlemen that is it for my update.
Have yourself a Merry Christmas Eve.

Christmas Love.

Christmas at school has been so good to me.

Look at all these goodies I've gotten!

Given to me by, Boyfriend, visiting teacher, girl I visit teach, room mate, and secretary at work.

Feeling so loved.

I love Christmas.

Picture Post

A post dedicated to pictures. Mostly for you Adria, since you are the only family member without facebook who might not ever see my pictures.

 Matt and I at the Boise temple dedication

 Black friday shopping. Nothing worth staying up till midnight for. But I needed to experience it at least once.

 I don't know how he fell asleep like that...

 Jazz Game

 Salt Lake Temple Lights. BEAUTIFUL.

 On this morning I wasn't particularly nice to Matt because I was really stressed and did some things to hurt his feelings. But he's such a great forgiving boyfriend that when I left my house later this was written on my car. Then later that day after classes I found my favorite chocolates in my car. He's too good to me.

 TIM - TAM SLAM

We really are the most attractive couple on Campus.