my project

i have been working on a way fun art project for the past couple of days.

i am taking a history of creativity class this semester to fullfull one of my generals. it has been so fun. i really like studying all of the arts and technology stuff in the past centuries. instead of having a final paper due at the end of the semester, we have a creative project. it isn't due until the end of april, but after i figured out what i wanted to do i just couldn't help myself.

it all started with this (a picture of my cute husband)

which led to all of this

and finally after three days...

BAM!

everytime.

i thought i would enjoy some popcorn tonight... and i burned the popcorn AGAIN! it happens everytime... it really does. i don't know what my problem is. i do not have the ability to microwave popcorn. lame. way lame.

El Paso

This is our fish. El Paso. He is a Fancy Goldfish, at least that's what the little note on the tank said over at Animal Ark. He is the newest addition to our little family.

Here he is... just swimming around...

El Paso

So what's with the name?? I tell you. Last year Jeremy got me a fish for Valentine's Day. I just love fish. Not for food though... sick! just for pets. We named our fish "Reuben the Great" after we went to dinner at Jason's Deli that night and their was a sandwich called "Reuben the Great." We thought it was perfect!

Fast forward to tonight.... Well, Reuben died a while ago and we had an empty fish bowl... time to get a new fish. Yep! So we bought our fish, got him all set up in Reuben's old tank, and went to dinner at sammy's.



It was our first time trying it and we will definitely be going there again. Such a cool place and they have amazing pie shakes where they acutally put a piece of pie in your shake. Delicious! I ordered a Oreo Mint Pie Shake and Jeremy got a Blackberry Cheesecake Pie Shake. Mine was better. :) Try it... soon... (and invite me and Jeremy to come along).

Ok, back to the fish...with our new little guy we decided to keep up the tradition or rather start the tradition of our fish-naming techniques from last V-Day. We thought that it would be appropriate to name the fish after something on the menu at Sammy's. There wasn't a huge selection of burgers and sandwiches with super sweet names (they were still way good), but we saw "El Paso" on the menu (some chicken grilled sandwich with guacamole, etc) and after a quick vote it became the name for our little guy. So El Paso it is.

p.s. El Paso means "the step" in spanish, according to Jeremy

Our LOVE Fern

Almost exactly one year ago, for Valentine's Day of 2008 I got Jeremy a LOVE Fern along with the movie "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days." (He got me a pet fish- it died in November, but we are going to get another one soon!) Anyways, this is our LOVE Fern today! We just repotted it a couple of minutes ago... on our One Week Wedding Anniversary. How cute?! haha. Our LOVE has obviously grown just check out how big our LOVE Fern has gotten...

(it was looking way cramped in its original brown ceramic pot... the new one is from IKEA)

PICTURES!

Aaaaaahhhhhhhh! hurry......CLICK HERE. I LOVE THEM! My cousin JOSH AND HIS WIFE KRISTY took them and they are so GOOD! They are based out of Seattle and are willing to travel and they love doing weddings.. SO SPREAD THE WORD! Every couple deserves awesome pictures that capture their wedding day PERFECTLY! THANK YOU GUYS!

quasi got married...

a couple days ago.

its really here...

the big day is tomorrow. what big day will it be? it will be the day that i marry jeremy (the super cute boy in the picture below).

everybody talks about the day they will get married and how it will be incredible. it just has to be. we are always looking forward to it even as little 5 year old girls... dreaming about the boy, the dress, the temple, the colors, the party, the dancing. we sometimes have every detail planned out before we meet the boy(not in my case). its kind of weird to think that my big day has arrived. it is happening tomorrow! the day that i have been looking forward to my whole life is actually here. i think i am still a little surprised that i am at this point in my life. but of course i love it! it feels like jeremy and i have been engaged for such a long time. we are definitely not the typical byu couple. we started dating in october of 2007, dated for 9 months, got engaged in july of 2008, engaged for 7 months, and we are getting married in february of 2009. he is so perfect! i am so excited! life is great and...
tomorrow is my big day!

bam!

i took a test today in the testing center (well two actually... school's been crazy!). i finished the test in about 20 minutes and turned in my bubble sheet to one of the many students working there. i made my way down the stairs towards the exit where there is the tv monitor that lists about the last 20 peoples' scores. they are listed by the person's school id number. i made my way to the monitor to see my score and something incredible was there. it read next to my id number: 96% FANTASTIC! i was dumfounded, speechless, in awe. this has never happened to me. i looked and looked again making sure it was indeed my id number. it was. the screen refreshed to show more scores of the students who were trickling down the stairs to the monitor and i got another one: 96% AWESOME! whoa! life is good. i always dream of doing well enough on a test to receive one of those coveted messages... this is the first time i have seen something so happy next to my test score. it sure felt good.

Open House!

i'm running out of blood

jeremy and i went to genetic counseling today to see if our future children will be plagued with all of my genetic issues. i had to get more blood drawn to see if there was anything else wrong with me...and i set a new personal record for number of vials taken at one time:

16

bridal showers are fun...