not so good a day...

this picture is of Maddy and has nothing to do with post, but it makes me smile, and I like pictures better than stories... so here is a picture, becasue there is a long story to follow...
Well, I had an interesting Saturday...
It started off great. Josh and I went to Kneaders with some friends. Great french toast! I don't really remember what we did after that, but it was good because I was with my best friend. Then he had to leave to go to work early. This meant I had a lot of hours all by myself to fill up with something. I borrowed a book from Josh so I decided to read it by the pool. It got way hot so I moved inside. I have two swimsuits, one I like a lot, but it is discolored from the chlorine pools, and the other is nice, but I don't love it.
So, I decided I had a couple of hours to go shop for a swimsuit--hopefully finding one on sale. I headed to the mall and found a great swimsuit, real cute, and a cute coverup to go over it. I was happy. I hadn't spent that much money, so I was proud of myself. I don't like shopping all that much sometimes because finding clothes is hard, but I was happy with success. It was now like 5:40 and I needed to be at my aunt's house in Orem by 6. I rushed home to get my book so I could read when my cousin was sleeping.
Well, this is when they day went wrong... my engagement ring broke.. is this common? One of the prongs broke. I was driving when I noticed it, I don't remember doing anything or catching it on anything... I was sad, and mad. I have only had the ring for a little under a month and a half. White gold isn't supposed to break like that! It was too late to go to the store to talk to the people there, so I jsut put it in the ring box and ran to my aunt's house. Well, now that I was upset about ring, as I got into my car I noticed that someone had side swiped my car. There were huge white streaks all along the driver's side of my car. What the heck!! How wrong could this past 10 minutes have gone! I was upset even more, so I called my dad. He assured me I wasn't the only one having a bad day... he was all alone this weekend while my family was camping, and he moved 2 queen sized water beds and a king bed around our house and switched rooms. As I was talking to him I missed the turn to my aunt's house and ending up driving about 20 extra blocks.
Watching my cousin was fun. He was calm and real easy to watch and we had fun. So I came home and my roommates and I decided to go out for ice cream at the Malt Shoppe.... They gave me the wrong shake.... a perfect ending to a weird day.
I wouldn't say my day was terrible, but it was weird and not so good. It had it's okay moments, but overall it was just a day of weird emotions....

yikes!! time is flying! I am going home in less than a month! I'll be leaving for home on the July 20th. It will be hard to not see Josh for about three weeks before the wedding, but I think everything will turn out ok. My mom and brother came up last weekend and we had lots of fun. We got a dress, got invitations set, and got ties for the boys. I was lucky enough to love the first dress I tried on, so it was pretty easy!
That saturday I also had a great day. Lyssa set up a great morning. It was Russ' birthday so she set up a time where we could go to a paintball field and have a fun paint fight. It was fun. I'll post a picture, but it is blurry... sorry about that, I guess the guy taking it didn't know how to focus...

Josh and I went to the batting cages... fun, but holy cow, it hurts your hands so badly!!

Alyssa and Shelene, we had a bonfire and I don't know what they were doing here, but it was fun!

Things Work Out

"It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It will all work out. If you do your best, it will all work out. Put your trust in God and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us,....If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers."
- President Gordon B. Hinckley, March 1, 1997

So close

well, everything seems to be going by pretty fast now. I only have 2 days of class left. Such a relief! I have a big paper to write, but I think I have been able to do sufficient research for it so I am hoping it won't be too bad. All I have left in my biomechanics class is my final, in history I have to write a one page paper and a final, and in english it is just the one paper!! YAY!! spring term is coming to an end! This time next week I will be taking my final then heading up to SLC to pick up my mom so we can find me a dress!! It will be fun. I hope I find one that I like pretty quickly so that it isn't too stressful, I don't like stress....

Pictures

These are just some of our pictures. We had fun taking them, now we just have to choose one...

Because I have time

With two papers and an assignment down I am ready to start my last full week of school. Granted, I have to finish of Friday and then I get the glorious weekend, and then the week starts. It went really fast. I guess that is good, but then again I think it went fast because of the stress from the wedding. We still have 70 more days. Last night Josh and I took our engagement pictures. Kathy Tenney, a wonderful photographer and family friend was willing to take us around Alpine and shoot some pictures. I haven't looked at all of them yet besides on the camera screen, but I am excited and I think they turned out well. I'll post a couple when I get the CD of all of them, but that will probably be in a couple of days. The one thing we did for the pictures is try to make it so we didn't look too white. Neither Josh or I is very tan, although we would like to be. It was funny because sometimes KAthy would take a picture look at it and say she needed to turn the flash way down, I think this is because we were so white, but owell. It made me laugh. Notice in this picture how my face looks whiter, but my arms are tanner... I guess my body tans unevenly... Haha... this is not a great picture of us, hopefully our engagements turned out way better.

5 more days

Only 5 more days of school. I hope I last. Making it through these last two weeks will be hard. I have two papers for English, 3 for History, 3 quizzes and 2 assignments in Biomech, plus a final in each. Oh, it'll be tons of fun!!! I am looking forward to the end though because that is when my mom comes!! She'll come to town for a day to help me look for a dress. I am excited to talk to her in person and not on the phone. This past month I have been on the phone more than I have ever been!! I can't believe how fast spring term has come and almost ended. Each day I learn so much in each class that it really feels like I have been here for forever. Please, let this month past fast!