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Engagements are here! I love them! Here are some of my favorites that weren't posted on my photographers blog. :)

I think we like each other just a little. ;) What do you think?

Engagements!

Ok so I don't have them personally yet...but if you visit this blog it will take you straight to them. I think they're rather adorable myslef, but you guys will just have to see for yourselves. :) I hope you like them as much as I do! I'm excited to see the rest of them.

Day off

Yesterday I had a day off. It was really nice, both in weather and just having a day where I could do what I needed to. I woke up around 8, which is huge for me since I'm not a morning person at all. Early classes for both Tyler and me this semester is messing with my head I think. It was nice being up though, then I didn't have to rush to get ready. I could take my time. So I got dressed, fixed my hair a little bit, and watched a couple episodes of Friends. The night before I had a small emergency...while I was closing the gate to the branch I broke a nail! It hurt so bad! I called Tammy as soon as I could and told her what happened. I needed it fixed ASAP cuz me and Tyler were taking our engagement pictures Wednesday afternoon. She was able to fit me in on her lunch, which meant I got to go back and visit good old Lomond View Elementary. I always forget how tiny that school is, it seemed so huge when I was little and was at school there. We turned that Faculty Room into a nail salon for a few minutes. The different reactions from the teachers were really funny! The difference between the reaction from girls versus the guys was amazing. One teacher came in, female, and said that was her favorite smell in the world and immediately after that another teacher stopped in, male, and he could barely breath...seriously almost gagging. Crazy! Personally I love the smell of fresh acrylic nails, it's wonderful. Anyway I got my nail fixed all pretty again and headed back up to Logan to get ready for pictures.

Chelsea took us to a bunch of her favorite spots around Logan. Most I didn't know existed, little alleys tucked between the old buildings. It was super fun. We'll have a lot of fun ones to choose from I'm sure. I'm excited to get them back. I'll post a few here when I do and the rest I'll probably upload to Facebook. So watch for those. :)

After pictures we stopped by Avonlea on Main Street to pick up a little suit I had ordered in for Hunter and Dain to wear at my reception. So cute, I'm so excited! Then we stopped in the branch and opened a Wedding Account, hopefully that will lessen the amount we get in cards and stuff at the reception...plus it'll make it easier to keep track of since I work at AFCU. Since we were in Macey's we grabbed a few groceries to make dinner and then spent the rest of the night watching Scrubs. It was a good day off, it felt like a real day off too, no work AND no school! Super nice!

Sick Day...

Saturday I stayed home from work, sick. I felt fine the night before, and I was at Tyler's till about 12:30. He finally made me go home and by the time we had read and stuff it was about 1. I woke up randomly at 5 am with a massive headache, sore throat, and a stuffy nose. It was pretty awful. I tried to go back to sleep, but couldn't so I decided that I'd go downstairs and watch a movie and maybe that would put me back to sleep. I was awake for about an hour longer before I finally started to doze off again, and even then I didn't stay asleep for very long. I figured since I felt crappy and didn't get a lot of sleep it would be best if I stayed home, so I called work and told them I wouldn't be coming in. I haven't taken a sick day since before I moved to Cache Valley almost two years ago...I don't get sick that often. I felt kinda bad but then again...it's better to stay home than be barely functional, right? I sent a message to Tyler and told him that I called in sick and asked if he would come take care of me. He came right over...with a can of Chicken Noodle Soup! Isn't he the sweetest? He also brought along Arrested Development and Futurama. We then proceeded to be lazy bums and watched a lot of movies. We watched Harry Potter 1 and 2, Snow White, Shrek 2, and several episodes of Arrested Development and Futurama. I kept telling Tyler I was sorry that I was boring and was asleep a lot. He would tell me that it's ok cuz I was sick and he would rather me be asleep and get better than be at work getting other people sick. See, he's so sweet! So that was Saturday. Sunday I still felt crappy but a little better than the day before so I went to church with Tyler. His ward starts at 9:30 and he has Sacrament meeting first. I was secretly hoping that we would just go to that and then go home but then he went to turn in his tithing and the Bishop stopped him and said he wanted to meet with us after church for a minute since we're engaged now. Gotta have the "Engagement Interview" ;) We decided that since we would have to come back anyway we might as well stay for all of church. Darn. Anyway Tyler found the ward clerk and scheduled us at 2:45, so we had some time after church to eat some lunch before we had to go back. We got done eating at like 1. I laid down on the couch and fell asleep again and didn't wake up until Tyler said it was time to go. It was a good interview, Tyler's bishop is a nice guy. After that I broke into my room mate's room (with permission of course!) and grabbed Friends off her shelf so I could watch it. That's what me and Tyler did the rest of the afternoon...watch Friends. I love that show! It's wonderful. We finished season 4 ("I, Ross, take the Rachel... *GASP!!!!*), unfortunately Karlie (my room mate/cousin) took season 5 home with her over the break, so we have to live in suspense until she gets back! That's ok I know what happens. ;) All in all it was a pretty boring sickly weekend...I'm still not completely better :( I hope I get better soon cuz me and Tyler are taking our engagement pictures on Wednesday...I doubt I'll get better that soon though. Sad. Hopefully I won't look gross and sicky in the pictures...that would be the worst. I don't think I will though. I have a good photographer. :)

Surprise!

So I have the best fiance ever!!! Today he came to the branch to have lunch with me, this isn't the surprise he comes to lunch with me all the time, especially on Saturdays when he has nothing else to do all day while I'm at work. I didn't notice it right away when he got to the branch but as we were walking through the parking lot to my car I noticed he was holding my hand funny. He had his pinky tucked in like he was trying to keep it warm or something, he'll do this with his thumb all the time...but never his pinky. Weird... I was like what are you doing and then I looked at his finger and on it was my newly sized engagement ring!!! He had gone and picked it up on his way to meet me at work! We weren't expecting to have it back until Monday at the very soonest. I was super excited! There may or may not have been squeals of delight and jumping up and down right there in the Macey's parking lot (ok there was...I was excited, ok. Judge me.). It was the greatest surprise ever!! It was perfect timing too cuz now I'll have it when we go down and see his family this weekend!

I love Tyler so much! He's the greatest, sweetest person ever! I'm so lucky to have him!

Tragedy!

Ok so this really isn't a tragedy at all. It'll be better later anyway. I just have to be patient. Not one of my strongest points sometimes. Me and Tyler took my ring in to be sized yesterday afternoon. I didn't want to do it in the first place cuz it meant taking it off and being without it, but I don't want to lose it either cuz it's too big. It was a sad moment, especially when the lady that helped us told us it wouldn't be ready until February 22nd!! A whole week away! She told me that sometimes it's done sooner than that but they just like to give the worst case in case it really does take that long. After we left Morgan Jewelers we went and wandered the mall for a while, then we went to dinner at Chili's. During dinner, Tyler reminded me that we were going down to Centerville to see his family this weekend since his sister will be in town. Then we realized that they haven't seen my ring yet and will want to see it while they're here...and we took it in to be sized and won't get it back till after the weekend. Oops!! They'll just have to settle for a picture I guess...cuz that's the best we can do right now. If it had been earlier we have gone back and gotten it back...but they had already closed. Dang!

So here is a story...

all about how my life got flipped turned upside down. I'd like to take a minute just sit right down and I'll tell you how I got engaged in my little college town. (that was rad.) =D

So as my clever little intro may have mentioned, I'm now engaged! It's so exciting right! Anyway here are the deets. I knew Tyler was picking up my ring sometime Monday afternoon and I also knew he was planning on calling my dad that night as well. I didn't think he would propose the same day though. In fact I figured he wouldn't. He told me many times that once he got my ring he would probably carry it around in his pocket for a week before he actually proposed. I told him when I first showed the ring that I wanted that I didn't want to know when he bought it or anything like that cuz I wanted to be surprised. Yeah...that didn't go so well, even if he tried to do it that way my curiosity would have gotten the better if me and I would've bugged him till he told me anyway. So surprise is out the window at this point. Anyway, I got home from work that night knowing what all went down for Tyler that day. He came over to my apartment and asked if I wanted to get pizza with him cuz he was hungry. I had already eaten but I said I would go with him anyway (ok I did end up eating a slice and a couple pieces of crazy bread anyway...). I knew he bought my ring that day but I didn't know if he had it with him or not. While we were waiting for our pizza I got curious and started checking his pockets. I checked all of them! His pants pockets, his jacket pockets, even the hood on his jacket...no luck. Grrr. Then we got in the car and drove back to my apartment. I started on some homework, slightly disappointed when I couldn't find my ring. He leaned over to me and told me that he did have it on his person and that if I could find it then I could have it. I got excited and checked all his pockets again. Nothing. I went over by the door and shook out his shoes. Nothing. I checked all the belt loops of his jeans. Nothing. I checked all the seams of his shirt. Nothing. I checked his socks. Still nothing. Then I had an idea...ya know that little tiny pocket that they tuck in the normal pocket that's barely big enough to put a tube of chap stick in? I hadn't checked that one yet. I started to go for that one and Tyler immediately said, "Hey, stay out of there." I knew I had hit the jackpot! I didn't pull it out yet though. I'd let him do that part. ;) So I went back to my homework trying to finish as soon as possible. I couldn't focus anyway. A little bit later we started watching Arrested Development and as we were sitting on my couch he started playing with my Claddaugh Ring that I had been wearing before. He would take it off and wait a minute before he put it back on. My hand was under a blanket so I couldn't see what ring he was putting back on my finger. Every time I checked, it was never the real one. After he did this like 20 times I took my hand away so he would stop torturing me. Another few minutes went by and I was starting to get antsy and a little annoyed that he hadn't just asked me yet. It was torture I tell you! ;) Then he grabbed my chin the way he always does and said, "Hey, look at me... Katie, will you marry me?" I smiled and said yes. Then he put my ring on my finger. =D It wasn't anything elaborate or this huge planned out thing, in fact we weren't even home alone, all my room mates were just in their rooms at the time. It was still pretty cute though. So, yeah, that's the story.

We'll be getting married Thursday May 19th in the Logan Temple. I'm super excited! I never thought I would say that a Monday was a fabulous day...but this one was! =D