Engagement Photos

Duke and I got our engagement pictures taken a couple weeks ago and I have a few to post!! I only got a few, bc she takes 6 weeks to edit them all. So I'll post more later. But for now, here are a few of the ones I liked! oh and our photographer was Catherine from http://woodlandfieldsphotography.com/. Also it was extremely humid and i was sweating my face off just so you know.

Florida!!

Last weekend I was in florida with mr. loverboy!! it was a lovely little weekend if I do say so myself! This above picture is on our way home from the airport in mobile--2 hour drive, no AC, and 90+ degree weather. So we bought an ice bag for the way home. It was pretty funny. You gotta do what you gotta do!!! 

pretty flowers duke brought me at the airport

The next day we went sailing!!! Well duke took a refresher sailing class, then i met up with him to go sailing afterwards. It was SOOO FUN!!!!! we are gonna get pretty serious about sailing. So be ready.

In case you've never been to Pensacola--the beaches are BEAUTIFUL!!! the town...is GHETTO. Some parts are nicer than others, but the main city is scary. In that context, we saw this car below:

this pizza was AMAZING!!!

 Other fun things we did were: Get our engagement pictures taken, did some gift registries, sat out on the dock in his backyard, motorcycle rides to the beach, beach volleyball, jumping off his dock, made yummy food, just hang out. Florida's fun. Here's more pics:

this is duke's backyard

He is so handsome!!

YAY!

life is crazzzzzzzzzzzy

I feel like the busiest person in the world right now. My days consist of going to work, planning a wedding, desperately trying to squeeze in a workout or seeing friends, and sleeping. The last couple weeks have been a good whirlwind though. I was able to go to Utah for a whole week! I worked on wedding stuff the whole time of course. Went to my friend Rachel's wedding, which was beautiful! And got to spend time with Brittany, Jules, Tyler and my other lovely friends in Utah. It was great. Here is a summary in pictures:

sticker says "ain't skeered"... however, i was.

It was fun and productive!!! yay!

wedding update

We do have a date! August 27 we will be getting married in this pretty building:


Then a reception in my uncles backyard in cedar hills to follow!

This week I'm actually in Utah, visiting my sister, working on wedding plans and going to a friends wedding on Saturday! And although it was 49 degrees and raining yesterday (this is not an exaggeration) I'm happy to be here! I'm crossing my fingers for 70 degrees today. I got my wedding dress yesterday! Altered and ready to go! Happy about that, feels like I'm finally making some progress. Since I've been here I've also eaten at Red Iguana (yummy), yogurtland, took my ring to be resized (weird not wearing it), went shopping with my sister (and left with nothing), and visited my grandpas grave (memorial day).
I'm also very excited to be off work this week! Even though I woke up at 730 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep (my body is trained well). And I'm still the only one up...funny how things change!

Now I've just got to plan everything else for the wedding and I'll be good! 87 days!

walking to work

I pulled up google maps the other day and I realize that I walk 1/3 of the way to work each day. Here is a diagram:

and yes, that is pretty accurate to where I park everyday (i tend to get there late...eek)

Happy Mother's Day

My momma and me Oct 14 1986

I'm soooo grateful for my wonderful beautiful mom!!!! Everyone says I'm just like my mom so obviously she's pretty great. I'll always be thankful for the million times I locked myself out of the car and she drove to come unlock at school and beaver lake (1hour round trip for her) and for bringing all my homework assignments and books to school I had left at home.  THANK YOU!!!!! 

I LOVE YOU MOM!

My Mom in Hawaii 20 years old.

Me in the same shirt 18 years old! Definitely got our money's worth with that shirt!

the beauty dept

The last couple weeks I had been going through one of those phases that I think many girls go through from time to time. A phase where, everytime you look in the mirror you think, "ew, why do I look like a dead person?" or "why is my face breaking out like a 13 year old boy?" or "why does my hair look worse than limp spaghetti noodles?" or just a general "ew" feeling when looking in the mirror. It happens from time to time. And although other people probably think you look the exact same, it really only ever matter what YOU feel like, and personally I like to feel good about myself.  After consulting with my sister and we decided at times like these the remedy is finding a new hair style, new makeup look, buy some new nail polish or accessory, just SOMETHING to make you feel better. Anyways on that note, I'm totally loving this new blog that Lauren Conrad is behind: thebeautydepartment.com. It has tons of good hair and makeup tutorials and tips and basically just all things beauty. And it has some great design behind it too! I recommend checking it out >>

Normal

Story of my life. 

In 9th-12th grade my friends and I kept a quote book that I recovered from the attic recently. I found a quote from my lovely self in a conversation with brittany and stacy:

"Guys, sometimes people think i'm....*whisper* normal"

we are who we are