While I have a minute

Please excuse me for being tragically behind on blogging.

It’s been a real treat to be alive lately. Overwhelming and wonderful and scary and a million other words, all at once.

Here’s a few simple updates for you.

Valentine’s day was fully of love love love. Working, new watches, my favorite restaurant, guitar serenading, movie, and lots of gush.

Then for Randy’s 21st birthday we hit The Garden, where 2 years ago Randy asked me on a date for two years in the future. Awe. 

I went to my last basketball game as a BYU Cougar this weekend. It’s a very surreal, bittersweet thing to have all these lasts. 
Excuse me while I spend President’s Day saying yes to the dress. Seriously, it was fate and the best thing ever, and I’m smitten with it!  

We had a killer birthday party for Randy last night, and it was so fun to be reunited with my girls from freshman year! It’s so crazy to think what we’ve all been doing for the past year and a half, but it’s even better that we got to chat the night away last night. XOXO.
Now my friends, a word on having it all figured out. I don’t have it all figured out. Randy and I don’t know where we’re going to be living, how we’re going to afford anything, I have no idea where I’ll get a job when I graduate, or IF I’ll get a job for that matter. There are these huge changes coming up, and I want to have a plan. I want to know where to get a mattress and magically have the money to buy one. I want to know where we’ll be living, where I’ll be working, I want to know how to get through these HUGE projects I have to finish before I graduate. I want to be a better friend and sister and daughter and fiance. And also I want to plan my wedding and figure out a honeymoon.
I constantly need reminding that there’s a plan, it’ll work out, I just have to have a little faith. And even if it’s not my plan, there’s an even better plan ahead. 
Happy Saturday everyone.

Lovey-Dovey Day

I’ve been hearing it all week…”I hate Valentine’s Day.”

People are entitled to their opinion. But…

I love this holiday!

And you should too!

What better chance do we have to tell all the people in our lives, just how much they mean to us.

I’ll be honest, Valentine’s Day was hard when Randy was on his mission. I wanted someone to send me flowers and take me out to dinner and hold my hand. But it also taught me that all kinds of love are important, and people need to know that you matter to them!

So I have so many people that I should shout-out to and tell them how much they mean to me. I don’t have time to do that, and you don’t have time to read it, so here’s my love letter to all of my dear friends on this lovey-dovey day.

To my lovely friends,

Thank you for supporting me, loving me, letting me be crazy and random and emotional. Thank you for showing me what friendship means. As you get older, it’s easy for friendships to fall apart, and it becomes obvious very quickly who your true friends are. Thank you for being there as I’ve figured out who will stick around. You mean the world to me.

To my family,

I lucked out, and got the best family known to man. Thank you for supporting me as I’m planning a wedding, loving me when I’m a pain, and always being ready to talk and listen. You all inspire me and make me want to be better. I am so happy I get to spend eternity playing Boggle and eating caramel corn with you all!

And to the love of my life,
Randy, every little girl wants to marry the prince and live happily ever after. Thank you for making every fairy tale, real. It’s a different type of fairy tale, neither of us are perfect and there are times we seriously drive each other crazy, but the best part of the fairy tale is that in spite of all of that, we stay together. You once said to me, “I love you for a million reasons, but I know I want to marry you because I love your ugly. I love the parts of you that nobody else gets to see, the vulnerable and sad, hurt, and upset parts.” Thank you for showing me what love really is.

Now enough sap, excuse me as I finish my work day looking at my new watch, and getting ready for date night in the city!

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Spread the love.