A New Apartment!!

So, Andrew and I are moving our stuff into our new apartment in Aggie Village! I'm so excited! Andrew is moving in, but I'm just moving my stuff in so I won't have as much stuff to take home to K-Town on Friday. It is way exciting. Even though it has ugly brown carpet (thank goodness it isn't 70s brown-red), and the tile in the entry way and the kitchen doesn't match, and the rooms are really small, and the toilet paper holder is in an awkward place... I LOVE IT!!! Here are some pictures. :DThis is me dancing in my kitchen area. Pretty awesome, huh? I love the French doors that lead to the back patio. All the other apartments have ugly, heavy, metal doors. It makes me feel like I live in a real place and not a pile of cinder block.

And this is the bathroom... Under the sink just to the side of the toilet is the toilet paper holder - it is in such an awkward place! Can you see it? I had to go to the store to buy a shower rod and curtain and the little hookies. Funny side story... This kid at the store was yelling, "Mom! F*** is a bad word! F*** is a bad word!" I laughed so hard.

This is Christina peering into the closet in the master bedroom. It is huge. After this picture was taken, I hung up all of Andrew's clothes and about half of mine. He said, "It is weird to have girl clothes in my closet." He is just jealous that I have twice as many clothes as him.

Here, I rest on the floor. This is going to be our room! It will be awesome. Whoever vacuumed the floor last did a great job of making all the lines straight.

This is our second bedroom. It is smaller than the other one. It is my craft room, my study area, and a place to put Andrew's hunting gear. A weird thing about the closets is that they don't stay in the runners very well.

And here I am in my future apartment with the man of my dreams. *sigh* WE ARE GETTING MARRIED IN ONE MONTH EXACTLY!!! I am very excited. So now you have had the grand tour of my new apartment. I bet you are jealous of the hotness of it.

April Draws to a Close...

Well, I had two projects due today. I turned them in. I think I did well, but I'll just have to wait and see. The only other thing I have to do on this lovely Finals Week is write a paper and turn it in by 11 a.m. on Thursday. Rough.

You can dance.
You can jive.
Having the time of your life...
See that girl, watch that scene,
Diggin' the dancin' queen.

I'm listening to ABBA. I love ABBA. I wish I had more to do. I could read the books I have on my shelf. The only problem is that I want to recline on the grass in the sunshine, and that is a problem cuz it is a little bit chilly outside.

Another problem is that I want to play with Andrew. He has a final everyday for the rest of the week, so he has to study. And I have nothing to do. I almost wish I had something to do.

I guess I could start to pack, but that is just a sad thing to do. I'm going to move half of my stuff into Andrew's and my apartment on May 1, where he will be living alone until I get to move in with him after May 29. Today is April 27. Will it ever come? Sometimes it feels like it won't ever come. But I know it will. Anyway, I don't like to pack too far in advance, cuz if I start packing, I'll need something that I haven't used all year that I just put in the bottom of the box. It is a dilemma.

Well, I had a fun-tacular Saturday. I got my bridals done, and it was such a blast! My photographer is Dirk (www.widdisonphotography.com) and he is hilarious and I love his work. Dad and Alison came. My dress is so so so so so pretty! I think we got some cool pictures. Me in front of a bright blue wall. Me in front of a bright green door on a bright orange wall. Me on a ledge of an old abandoned building. Me in a sweet action stairwell. It was just cool, and I am really excited to see them. It was fun to look so beautiful and to get babe pictures. :D

Then, I had a bridal shower with all of my roommies, past and present. That was fun. I didn't get as much lingerie as I was expecting, so that was good but still awkward. I also got tons of dish towels, which I guess you need a lot cuz you clean lots or something when you are married. And I got a waffle maker, hot chocolate mugs, and 3 sets of measuring spoons. And also some good smelling lotion.

Saturday evening, Andrew and I drove to the Maddox in Brigham City for The Dad's birthday dinner. I sang Happy Birthday to him very loud in the restaurant and he was embarrassed. We got him Bill Cosby, Himself and Aggie ice-cream for his birthday. I love those guys.

Anyhow... This blog is kind of naked and boring. Sorry, no pictures. Have a lovely week. THE DAY IS ALMOST A MONTH AWAY!!!

En-gag-ments Are Up!

Please observe the above slideshow featuring our favorite en-gag-ment pictures. We are so cute. I'm so excited to marry Andrew! I love him so much! I can hardly believe that I am getting married in 6 weeks from tomorrow! It is just kind of surreal. I am really looking forward to getting to know him better and having the opportunity to serve him more and to just become better friends. I actually think our engagement has made us be worse friends, cuz we are so focused on the wedding. So I can't wait for the wedding to be over. :)

Yay April

So, Christina told me to update my blog. This is hilarious cuz usually I tell her on Facebook to update her blog. In all honesty, I haven't had time. But my huge MGRP has now been turned in, so I can do a quick blog. :D

My birthday is on April Fool's Day, no joke, and yes, it does make my personality make a lot of sense. Andrew gave me a princess crown. Cuz I'm his princess. I love it. It is so sparkly, but not as sparkly as The Sparkly (my ring). I want to wear it everyday. I wore it on my birthday and it was wonderful to be a princess all day. Sorry the picture is sideways. ;)
I love my handsome prince!Me and Tasha have been working on a quilt for our friend T-Roy. Here is me doing a sexy pose on it. :)
And I was named the History Department's Student of the Year. My whole family and Andrew came to the awards ceremony, even though it wasn't too exciting to wait around for me to get a certificate.
Isn't he so handsome? I got him that vest and shirt for Christmas. I think he's hot.

So stay tuned for some engagment pictures!

Wordle For Andrew

This is a sweet thing I discovered at www.wordle.net! It is about the things I love about Andrew, of course, this list isn't comprehensive. It seems to be a link, even though I wanted it to be a picture. I don't understand.

Any Dream Will Do

Or not do! I had a terrible dream last night. Actually, it wasn't that bad. Well, parts were. I decided to be more positive about planning a wedding. The irony is that the day after this happened, my dad started demanding things of me for the wedding, so I got stressed and am trying to not get upset. Anywho... MY DREAM!! My wedding was planned, and it was going to be perfect. Except it rained so we had the reception in the late Grandparents Bredthauer's basement - and it is teeny! And I stepped on my wedding dress so there was a gaping hole in the front. And I broke plates and cups cuz I'm a klutz, and the cake was lopsided, and... This is the third in the wedding fiasco dream sequence. Luckily, they haven't all been right in a row.

Another odd recurring motif in my dreams of late are penguins. I have no idea why I've been dreaming about penguins, but every night, there is at least one penguin in my dream, sometimes a whole flock of them! Perhaps I'm turning into Mr. Popper and soon will have penguins in my bathtub. That actually wold be really cool (penguins, cool - get it?). If I had a pet penguin, I would definitely bring it to school with me. It would have a cute little leash and waddle behind me, and it would swim laps with me and go running with me. It would also bite people that annoyed me. :D A penguin would definitely be a very cool thing. I don't mean to say anything against Grendel the Gecko or Mark Twain and Squishy the Goldfish, I just can't take them around on a leash with me. Back to the penguins dreams. I looked up a dream interpretation online and searched penguins.

"To see a penguin in your dream, signifies that your problems are not as serious as you may think. It serves as a reminder for you to keep you cool and remain level-headed. Alternatively, a penguin seen in your dream suggests that you are being weighed down by your emotions or by a negative situation. You need to find some balance and inner harmony."

So says the dream interpreter. Perhaps the penguin dreams make sense. All my worries and frustrations with the wedding are not as big as I'm making them into. The part that says that I need to find some inner balance and inner harmony sounds like a good yoga session is in order. Maybe my pet penguins will want to do some yoga with me, too. :D I mean, look at these fellows...they are so stinking cute!Check out those bad boys. They will be my no-nonsense-attack penguins!And how cute! Some people dress up their dogs, but why not give your penguins a sweater!

Exhausted, Yet Feeling Incredibly Athletic

Here I am, heading out for a nice Springtime adventure! Me, my bike, my backpack full of important things, my i-pod, and of course, my helmet. Safety first! The purpose of this adventure was to decide if I want to train for the triathalon coming up.

Today I ran a 5K on campus. Yay running! But I am so confused. Last time in the cemetery when we ran, we only did the perimeter. This run, we ran up and down the rows a few times. So that means that either the last 5K I ran or this one is not truly a 5K. That is why I'm going to blame my 4 minute increase from last time! Gross. I need to run faster. 29:52 is still pretty good, and I haven't run very consistently cuz winter is finally ending. But in the raffle, I won a waterbottle and a t-shirt from last year's triathalon. Now I can trick everyone into thinking that I really have done one. ;)
And then I swam a half mile. I love it. Swimming is so stinking fun. I usually try to swim for an hour, but I only did a half hour today. My goal in the next few weeks is to swim a whole mile! Check out my goggle lines. Ignore my nasty zits. And look at my arms--I am starting to get swimmer muscles! Someday, maybe I will look like that Olympic lady who was old...was her name Dara Tores? I don't remember. I should have flexed for the picture.
Next, I biked up Logan Canyon. It was a beautiful day! That canyon is just gorgeous.
I stopped at Second Dam and had a yummy treat so I wouldn't die of starvation. I burned a lot of calories in my Springtime Adventure Workout! So I had one of my favorites...
ANTS ON A LOG!! This is probably one of my favorite treats ever. Check out the peanut butter all over my plastic wrap? I dropped my piece of celery when I was coating it with peanut butter. It was so tasty. I'm almost out of peanut butter. I can probably only get one more PB&J out of it. Good thing I am going to the store today. Now here is a picture of me eating one of my favorite snacks ever.
So what is the conclusion? Will I do the Balanced Man Triathalon (which women can participate in)? I will try. I did a lot today. I took breaks inbetween modes of exercise. I will have to work on that. And get faster cuz I am really slow at all of those things. Wish me luck and I will keep you posted!