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state of bliss you think you're dreaming

So.. I have some HUGE news!!! (warning: LOTS of pictures)
Tonight, Joshua, Jayne, Michael and I went to Color Me Mine to paint again because we love it. But unfortunately they were closed so plan B, we went to Boondocks (were there for hours, got lots of free stuff!), grabbed Pizza and went to watch fireworks and its the 24th so OF COURSE there have to be fireworks involved.
We love fireworks!



While we were there we got tickets from the arcades, Mike told me I should get this ring so I will have one and we'll call it good.
(yeah right...)

I wish I could find my cord to my camera but I can't so these are the only pictures you get to see from Boondocks. You get the idea...
We had fun.

We can never get enough of each other.


Watching fireworks



SO.. Here is Mike just cheesing it, holding a ring. Hmmmm. I had NO idea, I was COMPLETELY oblivious to everything ALL night long.

OF COURSE, it all makes sense now. We're engaged! It's all kind of a blur to both of us. Given I was completely caught off guard and he was so nervous.
He asked me to be his wife and I said, YES! We have known for a little bit that we want to spend the rest of our lives together! The Temple is already booked and siblings are buying plane tickets. All the plans are coming along nicely. But now it's official and I get to tell the world that I am marrying the most amazing person in the whole entire world! I couldn't be more thrilled. I am so blessed and so lucky to have found him. Gordon B Hinckley once said, You will find your spouse at institute. Prime examples..
We met in dating and courtship!
It was quite the emotional night for all of us. I love him with all my heart. FoReVeR. Josh and Jayne of course were a part of it.. They did so well as to not letting me know a thing. Jayne and her giddyness for us, so proud of her! I wanted to be so so so surprised and he did just perfect!
I love you Michael! And thank you for loving me! :)




He has great taste. :)

I love this picture because of all the emotion you can see in his beautiful face! He is adorable. And he loves me :) So through all of the excitement we actually ended up missing most of the fireworks haha oops

We are so giddy and so in love! We went to Cold Stone because we love it. They were so cool, we got ours free!!!
**Thank you Josh and Jayne for being amazing photographers in this very special moment of our life! I am grateful to all the pictures and every little moment and emotion that you captured. Thank you for being apart of this night.
We all LoVe him and EVERY member of my family couldn't be more ecstatic for us!!!! I love you guys! What a joyful emotional, very peaceful event we are all getting to go through! He has a great family and they are really excited as well. They are all so loving and I am excited to be a member of the Blackhurst fam. Oh and ps We are getting sealed in the Draper Temple on
October 17, 2009!!!!

its great:

its great- to feel and actually know how much he loves me
its great- to get complimented everyday
its great- to see the emotion in our relationship
its great- to hear the sincerity in his voice
its great- that his life revolves around me
its great- that we've always been on the same page
its great- to be able to LoVe with all my heart for who he is and receive it back
its great- LIFE, life is great!
its great- that my cheeks hurt from smiling
its great- to know that without a doubt i am where i am supposed to be in life
its great- to see the excitement and enthusiasm
its great- to feel how much he cares about me
its great- to be in love

creations

So I hear no one can read what I have typed. So hopefully if this works then great, if not, then it does not really matter cuz the pictures are what counts. We went to Color Me Mine and spent 6 hours there. It was a blast, probably one of our funnest days! The bottom picture is them all done, Yay! Everyone did such a good job.


(P.s. We really like them and they are moving.. to Seattle. Both of us are upset about it. But we do already have our trip planned!!)

exhausted after a vacation

I went with the Blackhurst family to Fish Lake for a few days. He has a great family, It was a lot of fun! (lots of pictures to come) We stayed in Mike's parents mission friends cabin just a few minutes away from Fish Lake. We did all sorts of activities! It really was quite fun, except the factor that we didn't get any sleep, but who needs sleep when you are with family...

We went horse back riding. It was a really pretty trail. We ended up on top of the Mountain and got to ride on this for a while. Even with how tired the horses were from climbing they still wanted to run! Which is my favorite thing.

I got to ride Cowboy, he only has one eye and was still a great horse to ride; Once they all settled down, that is.
(It was the first ride of the summer)

We went fishing and caught fish after fish after fish! Here in the picture is Mac and Travis. When he's gotta go, he's gotta go.


This was only half of the room, and the night before was even more packed. It was a tight squeeze to have all 6 kids and their families but it worked. Like I said we didn't get much sleep. We all slept basically in one big room, given the loft upstairs. All the married adults were in the beds upstairs. A couple slept in closed bedrooms downstairs. Almost all the children slept downstairs in this general area. I slept in a different place every night, depending on where I put my air mattress so I wouldn't get woken up by people walking by. But it never helped!

We did bottle rockets, the kids loved it. And I love this picture!

We went shooting, this is me trying to figure out this specific gun. Travis told me to stop looking like a ballerina holding my elbow up lol

So there really is a weight limit on hammicks that are only screwed into a tree a few inches. Mike and I were on it and Pam (his mom) wanted to get on in the middle to seperate us. I think it was Buster that was pushing and sure enough we landed flat on our backs. This picture of endless children is after it had broke and got put back together. We had to do rotations so all 15 weren't piled on me at once. They surely tried though, you'd think they wanted it to break again.

Early on our horse ride I saw these twisted tree's and I loved it but didn't get my camera out in time. We hiked up the same trail and sure enough we found them! So we carved our initials in it.

We kept hiking, climbed on a water tower to get these views. It was beautiful up there. We had a great time and couldn't be happier. After almost 5 days strait together we still can't get enough of each other.

Did i mention that i am dating...

And I have the coolest boyfriend in the world! His name is Michael. We met the day after my birthday in institute (dating and courtship, of course lol) It took him a good month to finally ask me out, I had to withhold myself from saying that day,"You haven't asked me out yet, so here's my number." We obviously had it on our minds at the same time, I immediately said yes, we went out the next night and we have been dating ever since! The longest we have gone without seeing each other was 3 days and that was just barely this last weekend. I think it is funny how life happens. I am enjoying just dating and having a healthy relationship. He treats me aboslutely amazing, is extremely genuine and he is such a good person! ...Sorry for the cut off picture, i just love his face :) lol

Father:

I am so glad that I was able to go to St. George and spend the weekend with my dad and mom. I enjoyed getting away and just being home. I LOVE the feeling of home, I miss it and I miss my parents a lot. Life is fun and can be very exciting but there is nothing like the time I get to spend with family and getting to go home. I love you dad! You are an amazing father! (Sorry fam, I just had to post this on my blog as well as our family blog)

six months

It has now been exactly six months sense the divorce was final. I can't believe all that has happened, where I am at in life and how fast it has gone by. It was also my parents 32nd Anniversary. Congrats to them! So, I went all day without realizing or thinking about it, it was tonight when I went to the temple how the temple worker read my name.. So I looked at the computer and sure enough it was still wrong, it had gotten changed but it was still wrong. I got everything fixed ages ago so it irritated me that it was still showing as that!
"They say time is a healer, its more like a concealer for a scar. Cuz it never really leaves us, it can always find us where we are."
-When I'm Alone, By Nevertheless.
Lately I have felt that I have woken up from a REALLY bad dream that still haunts me from time to time. So, I really was a little angry while going to the dressing room but it was because of that, that I realized what the date was and that brought me joy! It was then that I realized how blessed I am, how much I am loved. And I know that I am at where I am supposed to be. I had lost myself while I was married but I am back, happy and living again!
I have always said that everything happens for a reason, I still truly believe that. I would question every now and again why I would choose to have gone through what I went through, looking back and knowing clear as day what I should've done. But I didn't, and I really feel that I was supposed to go through that. I wouldn't be who I am and I wouldn't have the life experience. I still would do it all over again to be where I am at today. (plus and minus some things) Because I am tough and I can handle the hard things. They say time is healing, so I am patiently waiting for my time to continually go by. I know that hitting 1 year will be a big stepping stone and I look forward to it already.
P.S. ....
Side note of my thoughts:
I have a completely different perspective on love and relationships. I did not know even a fraction of what love feels like, let alone what a healthy relationship was until now. I now can see what couples will work and wont. I can see the giddyness and love that is in some couple's eyes. And those couples will be happy and last forever. Those are couples who truly are in love! And want to keep growing there love for one another. What an amazing, powerful thing love is for those who are 1) In love, and 2) Revolve their lives around the savior and aren't stupid! Stupid people kill me. But thats a whole other post that won't be at this given time.

Concerts: Document #2

This Concert consisted of The Classic Crime, Owl City, and Relient K. Cas and I saw Relient last time they came well over 3 years ago. This time was SO much better!!! We were much closer and they played amazing songs, not just covers. It was a completely different feel. Through dealing with mean girls, pushy boys that were not going to get through, massive hair in my face, being a little short and claustrophobic, stinky chid breathe and worst of all being drenched with sweat.. It was intense and so exhausting but we survived and it was well worth it and a blast!


The Classic Crime


Lead singer of Owl City

bOwLiNg...

I am so excited my video's uploaded!!! It's never worked before, so it's kind of a big deal. Ha So Josh, Jayne, Mike and I went bowling last Saturday. We had a lot of fun with our second game. There is 1 of each of us. Enjoy!