And we keep on living life!

Well, the biggest news now is I am pregnant! At this point I am 11 weeks along! I love knowing that we will have a little one of our own! I am not a fan of all the morning sickness that goes with it all! I don't throw up, but I just stay nauseous all day long! I am not a fan of that! I am definitely growing but I do not feel our little ones kicks yet so I am just feeling fat. I know that one day this feeling will change! Until then, I will just love our baby!
Nick is on his finals week and I could not be any more happy! He spends just about all of his time in the studio, or with his second wife who happens to be a really good friend of mine's husband. Tanner Snow is majoring in the same thing and Mandi Lanier Snow has been feeling the same ways... in more than one! She is pregnant too and I think 11 weeks past me. SO she is able to tell me about her pregnancy and what to look forward to. I am so grateful for the friendship that we have with them!

We also were able to get our christmas tree! I love it! We decided to make a tradition and each year we will add decorations to our tree. We have all purple and silver and I love it!

Good luck every one on your finals!

Honeymooners

Our honeymoon was amazing! We were able to be in Park City until Monday morning. We woke up, and were on our way! We made a secret stop in Heber City, Utah. We just needed to grab an inhaler for me and cookies for us! Once we got those, we were on our way to our next destination! We went to Cedar City. It seemed like the drive just kept going and going! There was a car that the people in it were so cute! They were recording our decorated car and waving to us. We had lots of people honking and such. It was kinda fun. :) Once we got to Cedar and found our hotel, we went to Sizzler to eat some dinner. That night I asked Nick if we could go horse back riding one day. I just had the urge to go riding. Nick is not a huge fan of horses. He agreed. I told him not too soon, but just one day. The next day we were going to Bryce Canyon. When we finally got there, I went to the restroom and when I came back a man at a desk was like "you ready to ride?" I was like "Ride?" and that is when Nick surprised me! he had planned since May to go horse back riding in Bryce Canyon! I was so happy! I could not believe it! We went on a two hour horse back riding tour. It was so much fun. On our way back to Cedar we stopped at a few places that were scenic routes or what ever. They were breath taking. Wednesday on our way home, we wanted to stop in Ephraim to say hi to friends. All of them were busy in RA training.... So we sat and watched for an hour and then we left to go home.... FUN!

I'm keeping you forever and for always!

Oh man! It is wedding time! I could hardly breathe! I was so excited to be married to my best friend! I thought the whole time "Finally! I get to spend forever with you!". Here is how the day panned out:

7:00 AM woke up and talked to my roommate Kia for a little while
8:00 AM tried to stay calm, there was so much time before I was going to get married! Got ready, hair and make up only.
9:00 AM Ate breakfast with the family. I could not remember what it was, but it did taste good. This would be my last meal as a single person. :D
9:30 AM my mom asked what time we really needed to be there. Earlier I told her 11:00. She said is this just giving us a cushion so we are not late? I said yes. we needed to be there at 11:15. WHITE LIE.
10:00 AM we were supposed to leave.... did we???? NOPE!
10:45 AM Finally! We left! we needed to be there soon!
11:47 AM this was the true time we needed to be there, we were only two minutes late! Pretty good call on my be half right???
1:30 PM Got sealed to Nick, my best friend, for time and all eternity!
3:00 PM Luncheon at the Lion House. It was so yummy! We had salad, roles, veggies, chicken, and a really yummy cake for dessert!
4:45 PM Met our photographer for some final pictures of just Nick and I.
6:30 PM Off to Nick's parents house to get changed out of church clothes :D
7:00 PM Drove to our favorite restaurant, Olive Garden, and had an amazing meal! Our waitress just got engaged and she was super excited for us! She even gave us a free dessert!
7:45 PM We reached our honeymoon destination. It was a BEAUTIFUL condo in Park City, Utah.

Reception Time!

The end of our reception, the sky looked beautiful!
My best friend Cassie Benson caught my flowers!

She also had crutches, which shows just how amazing she really is!

Renee, Nicks grandmother

Christian and I were extremely goofy that day!

Nick and I'd families, we just never did get a good picture

Ha ha! This picture makes me laugh, I told him not to get it on my dress, so he was being careful.... Was I? NOPE!

My beautful cake!

The sky after it rained!

Our dessert! Brownies, frosting, and my favorite, Raspberries!

We greeted people the whole time, we got so tired of standing!

The veiw from up top

Two of my favorite girls! Cassie and Kia
They were also a couple bridesmaids of mine :D

My cute mother in law

This was at the sign-in desk

My flowers were Cala Lillies and Lavender Roses

Yes, we do take life too seriously
huh?

Nick looks.... afraid. I do not think he was though

My brother Christian and I

The food was amazing! Chicken salad sandwhiches, fruit, and a really yummy drink

This was at the gift drop.

Our tables! They looked so great and we got such a great deal on em!

I will just start off by saying how beautiful my reception was! It rained for maybe ten minutes. After that we had a double rainbow right above our reception place. Nicks grandmother, Renee, was so willing and happy to have the reception at her place. It was amazing! She basically lives in a garden. It was perfect! We got so many gifts and so many guests! Thank you everyone who came!

List of things that went wrong

There were so many things that were hard for me, but even harder for Nick. I felt so bad for him. Nick's family automatically welcomed me! I felt so loved. When ever I walked into a group of his family, I was instantly greeted with a hug! Nick on the other hand did not get that warm of a greeting. Our engagement came as a negative shock to my family. Some people really was okay with it. However, most of them did not. Nick is still to this day trying to get everyone to be more welcoming. They have all accepted the fact that we are married, they just do not like it very much I guess. Here is a list of things that went kinda crazy during our engagement:

date was changed 5 times:
May 15
June 25
July 23
June 25
August 7

Why was it changed so many times? Simple, everyone thought that it would be hard to plan a wedding for May, so we moved it to June. My parents said that the flowers would not be good in June. We were asked to move it to "late July, early August". We moved it to July and my parents were not happy with this. They pulled out financially, so we moved it back to June because now there really was no way we could have it in May. My dad later convinced me to change it to August to make my mom happy. I even let her choose the date. She chose August 7.

Nicks ring trouble
I ordered a ring for Nick online. It was a great price and they would do free engravings, shipping and handling. I was so excited. I had it engraved to say our wedding date. Once we got the ring, we had changed our date. I tried to call the company to see if they could change the date. They tried in a ring there and said it would not work. I had to RE ORDER a new ring. I did in later July and I accidentally got the wrong ring. But it was okay because we both thought that it looked even better.

Money issues
Every one knows that money is a horrible thing. It will only create DRAMA and trouble for every one. Our wedding was no different. My family once again pulled out financially. At first, I was so upset about this. They wanted so many things for my wedding and wanted me to pay for it. Nick and I decided that it is our wedding and we did what we wanted. We wanted a small reception. So we made it that way. I was lucky to be working at a place that paid me well, so I ended up putting $1800.00 into the wedding out of my own pocket. Nicks family put a whole lot more into our wedding than I did. I am eternally grateful for them all.

Bridesmaid dresses
The dresses seemed to be the messiest thing! I told the girls to just wear a lavender top and a white skirt. The outcome was periwinkle blue dresses. Don't ask how that happened. It just did. :)

Nicks ring trouble part two
Once we got to the temple for our sealing, Nick gave me his ring ( I had him holding it for security purposes). He told me to give it to my dad. We went into a room to sign papers, and I accidentally left it there. We had it seemed, all the temple workers looking for the ring. LUCKILY by the time our sealing came, the ring was in our hands.

This is just a readers digest of the troubles we faced. :D

The real engagement

When Nick came to get me to talk I was so scared. I just knew that he was going to break up with me! We drove to the Manti Temple which was only seven miles away. When we got there it was 11:30pm and 13 degrees out side. It was COLD! Anyway, once we got there Nick gave me a little red plastic heart. He said that this heart was his and he wanted me to keep it. Then he took off the fake engagement ring. He asked how serious I was about serving a mission. I told him that I wanted to serve a mission, but I would not put off marriage for a mission, if it were the right choice. I thought that he did not like that answer because he just got out of the car and started to throw snow balls. I thought that he was crazy. He was in a t-shirt, pajama bottoms, and flip flops. It seemed like he was mad and I felt horrible about it. I saw Nick put the ring in a snow ball and I saw him throw it! I was so shocked! This ring was not ours, it was my roommates, Kia, who was so nice to let us use it! He called me outside, so I got out. I was in a winter coat and winter boots. I was still way cold! Nick put a snow ball in between our hands. He made us hold the snow ball for what seemed forever. I was kinda yelling at him to get in the car. I was afraid that both of us were going to get sick from being in this cold with a snow ball in our hands! Eventually, the snow ball started to melt. As soon as I felt the ring, Nick proposed! I was so shocked! I could not tell if this was a joke or for real, once he convinced me that it was real, I said yes in a heartbeat!
I went to my roommates and told them what had happened! We were all so excited!

Feb 21-22

Sunday Nick and I thought that we should go to the bishop to let him know that we were dating. We went and told him in between Sunday School and Sacrament Meeting. After we told him, he said "Is there anything else you want to tell me?" We said no. He asked if we were sure. We said yes. The bishop went on with a story how he and his wife dated not very long, they got engaged and her parents did not like it. She was supposed to go on a mission. She was from a big family, etc. At the end of the story he asked again "Is there anything else you want to tell me?" We said no again. And he said okay.
Later that day we were making dinner, once dinner was done and we were cleaning up, Nick said wouldn't it be funny if we pretended to be engaged? I thought that would be way funny! So, we went to the temple and took "engagement pictures". I got to my apartment and I told my roomies so they would be in the loop. They thought they should take some engagements too. So, we went to the bell tower and pretended to get engaged. I almost cried. it felt so real and it felt so right. When we got back, we told the RA's. They were shocked! They did not know what to say. I forgot who said it, but someone said "you don't even know his shoe size, how can you love him!" I still don't to this day!
The next day at school I was on a high, I felt so good about being engaged. But I did not wanna tell anyone because it was fake. I tried to stay quiet, but at the same time things felt so real that I did tell a few people. Word also got around Nuttal Hall, Nicks dorm. It seemed like most the girls there liked him so it caused quite an up roar.
Later that night, Nick texted me saying that Jenn found out that we were engaged. I called Nick to see if everything was okay. He said that things were not and that we needed to talk. I was so afraid. I ran into Kia and Tori's room and explained the story to them and that we are probably going to be broken up after this conversation. They thought that it was okay, after all we only dated a week...

February 9-16

Around this time, Nick and I started talking more and more. But not about our love life. I would listen to him as he talked about issues he was having at school and with girls he thought he might have liked. It was usually pretty easy to listen to. Here is how the week kinda was:

Feb 9

Movie marathon. We watched disney movies :D I tried to make it a date, it did not work out that well. The first movie, we were on the same love sack. I thought things were going great. But a mutual friend of ours that Nick liked walked in, he went down stairs to "get water". When he came back he sat on a different love sack. The end of the second movie, he was gone.

Feb 11

Had a very good discussion with Nick about life, things that were hard, girls, school, everything that seemed to be on his mind came out of his mouth. I was falling madly in love with this boy. He seemed far from love, or at least loving me.

Feb 12

Nick asked me to meet him at the 'Tute so that he could talk with me. I went and he was just so sad it seemed to me. He seemed really tired. It came at the perfect time because it was a long weekend for a holliday. I told him to go home and get a blessing from his dad for comfort. I said that he should come back and let me know how it went.

Feb 16

Came back from the break and went to the temple as a ward. I totally forgot to ask him how the weekend went for him. So, I texted him and asked how it went. Nick asked if he could come over later that day to tell me about it. I said that would be totally fine! He came over at 5:30 pm. We talked about simple things at first. Then he randomly said that he decided to give up on dating. I thought "WHAT! THAT STINKS! I WANTED YOU TO FALL FOR ME!". This is what came out of my mouth: "As long as you know that it is a commandment to get married eventually....".

That night, after talking for hours, we somehow ended up holding hands and cuddling. He asked me if he could ask a question. I said yes, and he would not ask the question. I was like, well how about you text it. He did, but would not show me. I eventually asked if I could see it and he realized I did not have my phone. He showed me it. It asked if I had ever wanted to kiss him. I told him I never thought about it. About an hour later Nick and I shared our first kiss. From that moment I knew that we would be together. I am not sure why. I just felt like that was how it was going to be. The song HISTORY IN THE MAKING was stuck in my head. I loved it! We decided that we should maybe start dating. I was so happy!

February 8, 2010

This night was going to change my life forever. I guess that is why I was so dang nervous. Nicole, me and a few others showed up early to get things set up for the dinner. The Chicken Cordon Bleu we discovered would take tons longer than we had anticipated. We were panicing about this new insight. Solution: Start dating pannel when people got there, and by the time their questions ran out, the chicken would be cooked! Did it work? HECK YES! The way that the night played out was the audience would ask a question, and every one had to answer, unless it was directed to a specific person on the dating pannel. So many questions were asked that night. There is only one that I remember, or have any reason to remember.
The question came from a girl who REALLY liked Nick. She asked every one in the pannel.

Question: "How is your love life?"

Every one of us answered. The RM couple started, they talked about how amazing life was and that they were so happy! ( This couple was very happy I guess because they are to be married 9-24-10) Congrats Nicole Reush and Ryler Masco! The second couple was the couple who has been married for years. They ended up both crying. It was a very touching moment. Then it was my turn. I just said with a big grin on my face "SINGLE!" Nick went next, he said kinda quietly, single.
Then we heard from the back
"You two should date!"
It was the bishop. I kinda laughed about it and thought, "hey, time to be funny!" So, I rubbed Nick's shoulder, to his suprise, and I said that we have actually been talking about it quite seriously. Nick turned bright red, he was so embarresed because we had never talked about this topic.
Wow, this one joke would change things quite a bit. Thank you Bishop!

Family Home Evening and My Calling =D

For my calling at church, I was the Activity Co-Chair. A way cute girl named Nicole and I were in charge of picking way fun activities that people would want to come to. We did this once a month. YAY! It was a really fun job. In January, we decided that for February we wanted to do a really fun thing. We wanted to have a formal dinner and a dating pannel. Way fun, I know! So, we got the dating pannel together. We had an older couple, a return mission couple, a pre mission coulple, and then a couple who represented the single return mission people. We had all our ducks in a row. Except one. I was the female for the single couple, and I still needed a male. Well, as you can imagine at Snow College, the pickings are few for a male that I needed. I had the choice between two guys. The first guy, I will not mention his name, told me that he loved me every second of the day it seemed. He would grab my leg, and tell me that I was georgous. I was flattered yet scared. The second guy was Nick. Oh boy oh boy was I wanting Nick to be with me up there! At FHE (Family Home Evening) I was planning to ask him if he wanted to be on the board. This would require some serious flirting. I was more then happy to provide that! At FHE, we were in the same family. This made things pretty easy. We were watching "The Other Side of Heaven". I was flirting with him a lot. I eventually asked him if he wanted to be on the pannel and he said yes!
I origionally wanted everyone in the pannel to do something funny. So, I was asking Nick what he wanted to do and he would not tell me. I was a little nervous for this dinner.

Here is the menu:

Chicken Cordon Bleu
Tossed Salad
Baked Potato
Fruit
and a dessert, i believe it was cake of some sort

Then came the noticing

In December, my roommate Kia and I went to the temple with our ward. I was so tired because we had to wake up at 4:00 am. I was not too happy about it, but I was excited to go and be apart of the temple. When we got there, I noticed the boy who blessed the sacrament water, I found out his name was Nick Palmer. I also saw that it seemed every girl was fighting for his attention. So I lost interest in him. He seemed to always be "serious" with someone. I did not like that one bit. At this temple trip I noticed something that was...strange.... there was not a girl in his hand. Girls were wanting him, but he was not too interested it seemed. For some reason, he sparked my interest again. :/

We all left for Christmas break, and once we got back from Christmas break, there would be another temple trip. The ward tries to plan the trips once a month, and this was the only time that we were able to get one.

Something had changed during the break. Kia and I ended up going in Nick's car with a bunch of giggling girls. I was not too happy about this. However, this would change my life forever. When we got to the temple, Nick jumped out of the car and opened my door. I was shocked. I was just right behind him, but that had never happened to me before. When we got to the temple, he held the door for all of us. Nothing too great there, I know. When we got out of the temple and to the car, he once again, opened my door.

I have no idea why this got me WAY interested in him. But it did. I kept my eye on him from that time until now lasting forever.

Before we met....

Well, I have always been a boy-crazy girl. I have had some crazy relationships in the past that have ended quicker than I could say "Yeah, he's mine". One day I decided that I would just focus on school and in September I would go on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I was so excited for it! Everything seemed to be going well. I had a position as an ARA (Assistant to the Resident Assistants) at Snow College. I was super excited for this school year. I knew that something was going to change my life this year. I would either 1) go on a mission or 2) get married. Either way, I knew that I was going to be going through the temple to receive my endowments. I have always been so excited for this!

Anyway, the Sunday before school started we were all in Sacrament Meeting. I have a tendency of looking at the guys who bless or pass the sacrament. I think the reason that I do this is because I know that they are worthy of dating. :D I saw this really cute guy up there. He was tall, dark, and super handsome. I kept my eye on him for some reason. When he blessed the water, I could not get his voice out of my head! The following Wednesday, I was helping at the "Meet your Bishop Night". I was in charge of taking pictures of every one in our ward. This cute guy never showed up. At the end of the night, a girl came in. She was the last one I needed to take a picture of. So I asked for her name and she said Jennifer Palmer. I got all the info that I needed and then took her picture.

The bishop randomly said that she had a brother in the ward. For some reason, I asked if it was the guy who blessed the water. She thought about it for a moment and she said yes. I asked if I could have his name and number.... she did not even think about it before she said no. I was not too hurt because I was not "In the market" for dating any ways.

Life went on as we knew it. All the way until December that is.