Oh the Bridal Showers!

I feel so grateful for the many, many bridal showers Adam & I were thrown by those people that love & care about us. We are so grateful for all of them. They were VERY much needed. I'll put more pictures up of the other ones, but this is the last bridal shower I had. It was my "special things" shower hosted by my 2 sweet, yet conniving sisters. Oh how I love them both, but as these pictures will tell, they made it their duty that night to embarrass the stew out of me & it definitley worked.

We played games & opened presents & they all shared advice for me. It was a lot of fun that night. We played a game where you have to lick the doughnut that's tied to the string without it breaking & whoever won was supposed to prove who the best kisser was. Of course, I won!

Then, there was another game that I didn't particularly enjoy, but oh how they laughed at me while I was trying to do it. I'll let you figure it out yourselves, but my reaction was hilarious now that I look back on it. Here's that game...(By the way, I did good.)

You want me to do WHAT?!
Awwwkward!! haha.
Yesss! It's OVER!


All in all, it was a LOT of fun that night & I'm so glad I got to laugh & spend some time with some of my closest & dearest friends. Thanks Meggan & Cortney!

Engagement Pictures

Engagement Pictures

The morning of & the week before, Adam & I broke out & had probably stress related zits everywhere it felt like & it was so early in the morning that I look Chinese in most of them, but hey! with Alan Purser's photography skills & a little photoshop action ANYONE can look good! haha. They turned out pretty good.

The Engagement

For those of you that know me pretty well, among other things you are pretty aware that I am really hard to surprise & keep secrets from. Mostly because most people are terrible liars & I can read them pretty well. So, a week after we had ordered the ring, we were back at home & seeing each other every day still & things were back to normal. Well, except for the fact that it was EXACTLY a week after we had picked out the ring & I KNEW it was already supposed to be in & ready for pick-up. Well, that night we were both really tired & he had to go give someone a blessing so it was a little bit of an off-night. Long story short, it didn't happen that night. So, the next night was temple night & he had told me he didn't care what we did afterwards, so I assumed it wasn't gonna happen that night either. Well, that night when we were walking out of the temple, we were the last ones to leave & he grabbed my hand & lead me around to the back where all the benches are. We read our patriarchal blessings to each other & both cried & had a warm feeling cover us & everything felt very right & good. So, after I got myself under control, he got down on one knee & asked me to be his for time & all eternity. Of course I started crying again & I said "Of course!" It was a beautiful night & the most perfect proposal I could ever have imagined. We shared a piece of our hearts with each other & promised forever from that moment on. It was perfect. I'll never forget that night.

The Final Test

So, after tons of dates & the long awaited first kiss...One night after a long week without him (he was busy helping at a band camp)...I realized how much I loved him & that I couldn't possibly imagine him not being in my life. Little did I know that he had felt that way before he kissed me & knew he didn't want to kiss me unless he was sure of something. So, the words came out of my mouth before I even knew that I felt that way & from that moment on, the idea of being married for time & all eternity actually felt like a reality & I had found a man that made eternity still feel like not enough time being with him. The last test though was a trip to St. Louis with my family, just to see how he meshed & also to introduce him to Meggan & Ben & Kate. Well, that weekend was fun & as you can probably imagine, Adam passed with FLYING colors of course & even got a little competitive with the boys. Everyone loved him & it was a GREAT weekend. This is actually us on Meggan's car watching fireworks on the 4th of July. That was the day that we went ring shopping & picked out my engagement ring. What a GREAT day that was!

Dates, Dates, Dates!

So, Adam & I went on date after date & saw each other almost every single day since our first date & just couldn't stand to be apart. It wasn't just all infatuation as you might think, but instead we both found not that we weren't complete people without each other, but that when we were together, we became something greater than we were or could ever be by ourselves. The timing was just perfect...And in that, I mean, it wasn't in either one of our plans & slapped us out of nowhere. It was perfect. haha. Everything happened when it was meant to & we both felt good about being with each other from Day 1. We were more compatible & more perfect for each other than we could ever or would've ever picked for ourselves. Thank goodness the Lord knows what He's doing. I'm grateful for him every day.



Now, I know you're probably about to vomit from too much cheese...(cause frankly, I used to be quite the cynical single woman myself...actually it wasn't too long ago...) So, I'll move on...haha. He taught me how to hit at the driving range, we went walking at parks, looked at mission pictures, ate Mexican, sang along to the radio, went swimming, made a few trips to & introduced Adam to Jerry's snow cones, and saw each other almost every day. No matter what we did though we had a blast & couldn't get enough of each other. The conversation was incredible & to this day we laugh all the time.

The Beginning Of Us...

Well, I know it's been a long time since I've updated this thing, but I'm sure you all know why, so here's what we've been up to.

Well, this is Adam... He's in the band at University of Memphis

He plays the clarinet. He has a great enthusiasm for the band.

This just makes me laugh.

Anyways, so he's been in the Singles Branch for a few years & so was I, but we didn't ever talk at all the either one of us remember until back in May. When we all went out after Temple night, I just remember his quick wit & clever comments impressed me right off the bat. The next night he came & heard me sing with some mutual friends at a concert of mine. I wasn't sure at first just cause I had basically given up on guys & was tired of dealing with the drama of it all & a friend of mine liked him, so that also just screamed drama, so I left it alone for a while. But then...what do ya know? That friend actually suddenly moved away. A mutual friend set us up, we went on a double date with them & had a blast just talking & laughing & finding things in common & the conversation was intelligent & just easy. We hardly talked to our other friends at all. After that night, he asked me out again & Then, like they say....the rest was history.