THis is one of my absolute favorite pictures of the entire day.


I Love Being Able to look back and remember the amazing day we had when we got married. The pictures and the memories are something we will always cherish. It was such a perfect day! Getting ready for the wedding was a fun, despite all that craziness. We had so many ppl help us with our adorable candy booth, the food and the decorations. It was BEAUTIFUL!

The PlANNiNG:)

We had a lot of fun leading up to our wedding, but along with that came a bit of stress, it didn't help that we were both working and full time students. But, in the end every bit of it was worth it..I couldn't believe how amazing everything turned out and I was so grateful for the help that everyone offered, it wouldn't have been the same without all the help! Our moms both pulled off everything and did an amazing job with everything they took on. we love you all! First we had to decide who we wanted standing next to us....We had a pretty dang good looking group, and a fun one with all of our most favorites! We wouldn't have had it any other way! :)
We were able to have Brandon's brothers(Jason & Jared, and of course our best friend Lorin was right there with us! ), and their wives (Brie and Sarah) along with my sister Justyne and my best friend Ashley! They definitely provided some entertainment especially when it came to dancing!!!

WEDDiNG BliSS!♥

This dress, was definitely a stressful process, I like to think you could never tell but the sleeves were added to it, We ordered extra fabric that didn't come in until not even two weeks before I was beginning to think I would be dressLESS for my own wedding! I'm not sure too many people would appreciate that..!

Got Milk?

Married life, it's great. But its about to get even better!
We've spent the last couple months...ever since we were married living
in a little guest house where we feed cows, wake up to cows, and wake up to
them several times every night and if it's not the cows, it's the dang refrigerator.
Funny thing is we were generously given two fridges by family members which could easily replace this annoying thing but time after time we've put it off and continuously let it get to us. Anyways, our good news..It is a 75% sure thing that we will be in a house we happened to fall in love with by the end of January. Maybe I'm just so excited because we've had 22 offers in and this is the most hope we've had all along! And the best house we've seen so far. Can anyone say 22 is the new luckyyy number?!

Full Time...

Let me just tell you words can't even begin to explain how excited I am for these next couple weeks. Reason number one SCHOOL. It has this way of stressing me out beyond belief and ohhh yea, keeping me up till 4 am..ha hence the time.

& of course I cant forget Christmas! It will be mine and Brandon's first Christmas together and I'm very anxious for it and the fun we are able to have with the family. We decided we'll skip presents this year and embrace the true meaning of Christmas & eachother.

We close on our first hous the 30th..So that's Christmas enough for us:)

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Here's something worth writing about, as I'm sure few are wondering--But the word is out TO PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE!

I'm Engaged, To the most wonderful, perfect, amazing guy I have ever met in my life and I couldn't be happier :) Bet you didn't see that one coming!;)

Well here's how this all went down..I planned this vacation to San Diego with my parents and my younger brother and sister, kinda last minute so Brandon( eventhough i begged and bribed him to come)..."Couldn't get off work" ya...RIGHT! Little did I know he was sitting at home planning out things for this little surprise he had planned.

I was in Cali..hanging out with my mom shopping and just relaxing on the beach and when Brandon drove 6 hours there and happened to make it in the room next to me I even shared a few phone calls with him..Little did I know we also shared a wall, haha how he pulls these things off i have no idea!

But Saturday night (7-18-09) at around 7 we went to the beach just to relax and watch the tide come in...without getting sunburned AGAIN! Yea apparently no one believes in the use of sunscreen anymore..Or we just never learn! Anyways...my mom was being all paranoid about me getting my clothes wet, and here I was like whatever it's not like we're doing anything special..and then all of the sudden she's in this major rush to get off the beach. I'm clueless right..so I just go along with it not thinking anything of it!
Well 7:20 we arrive at Solana Beach, the sun is setting and its beautiful..It was quite a trek down the long stairway and we all kind of stopped to look out at the ocean as I turned to go down the second step I see a very familiar person sitting with their back turned on the last step..Boy was I excitedd! I went running down the 2nd set of stairs going "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERe?!" I was relieved when he turned around confirming that it really was Brandon, Plus I had missed him like CRAZY!
He handed me a note that referred to our conversation earlier in the day..it said " You know how I said I only loved you 96.78%? Well take ten steps and see how much my love grew. Ten steps later I pulled a bottle out of the sand that again gave me a percentage, and again said his love for me was growing....The final bottle led me to a blanket where I imagined we would sit to watch the sunset together. But Brandon had other plans! He's so unpredictable...but always surprising?!idk. WEll he pulled up the blanket and a box laid underneath, immediately i began shaking uncontrollably.

After a bit of a struggle I finally got the box opened...and I saw the ring and was just in shock...He got on his knee and asked me and in his words"I attacked him"...I like to say it was just a huge hug...& of course I said yes!!!!! who wouldnt?!

WHAT CAN I SAY??! I LOVE HIM MORE THAN ANYTHING!
*credit to my mom for getting some great pics and helping pull this off- you didnt give it a way!* I Love you!

MMMMMM;) Baseball Games && Ice Cream.

Perfect combo righttt?
and you know what made the night even better.....
I was with BRANDONNNNNN! yess I know it was just amazing even though the Dbacks lost..We weren't too surprised anyway! GO FIGURE.

But the best part of the night...
The Dessert....MMMMMMmmmmMM Delicious! We went to Nielsens and had lots of fun joking around and making faces as you can seee here

My Birthday

So I knew for my birthday this year that I'd most likely be with Brandon and that he would come up with something good! He always does, I just was completely clueless to what it might be.

IT was a huge surprise and I didnt know what was coming.. I kinda liked the idea of that and was hoping no one would give it away, but sure enough LeAnn called me on Thursday, We always call eachother randomly so it was nothing out of the ordinary. She asked if i had a minute and then proceeded to tell me how she went in Brandon's room and found tickets to Cavalia sitting on his bed. She started to tell me all about it and how exciting it would be and how much she wished she could go..while I'm on the other end of the phone with this worried look on my face going..GREATTTT. How the heck am I gonna act surprised about this.? But I made it my goal to make sure Brandon didnt find out I knew, so he could feel like he completely surprised me like I knew he wanted to.



Well the next night rolls around..I'm all set to go to Cavalia and Brandon finally shows up an hour after he told me he would, and still plans on dinner. I'm freaking out but I can't say anything.. I just knew we were gonna be late and I didnt want $200 tickets to some horse show going to waste. haha



But I sit at dinner acting completely oblivious to the entire thing! I thought I did pretty good. WEll finally, 7:45 we leave the restaurant in Queen Creek and have to drive to Phoenix...in 15 mins! ya rightttt.

Well two Camera flashes later on the freeway and driving wayyy too fast.. we make it to the exit in pretty good time, go to turn off of the freeway and Brandon has me pull an envelope out of the middle console that says" may all your dreams come true tonight"...I pull out to tickets to "CAVALIA" and dont even bother to read them but act like I am while still trying to figure out what to say. ha how funny. WEll he turns on the light and finally I see that the tickets say Rascal Flatts..







Lets just say they got me good! I've never been so surprised in my life.! I had been dying to go since I found out but the tickets had been sold out. The night was absolutely amazing..and I was convinced even more that I have the most PERFECT
boyfriend EVERRRR!



Not to mention the beautiful ring he had me pull out from under the seat later that night, that is his promise to me for the future..whoooooo, what a night!!!

TiMe To CaTcH Up..

Its been a few months, and I haven't posted anything but so much has happened. It's funny, the more you have to tell the less time you have to tell it..I guess it always works that way. Most of my life isn't a secret. Brandon and I tried keeping things on the DL, not wanting to deal with all the questions we expected to have coming our way when people found out, but now everything about him and everything that's happened to me since I met him has been nothing but a blessing to me. He's the boyfriend, the best friend, pretty much everything. And.....I couldn't think of having things any other way.



Since Bran got home, I'd say we've pretty much been together every single day....At least once, I think its safe to say we're pathetic when it comes to how much we miss eachother but I guess thats what LOVE is. Hmm..

Well among the fun things we did was a lil surprise hike he planned one night. It didnt turn out like he wanted...The cave he was trying to take me to was now blocked off..but i thought it was amazing anyway, the view was beautiful, we got some cute pictures and as always, we shared some good laughs throughout the night.