Announcement!

In case anyone hadn't noticed yet...I'M GETTING MARRIED EXACTLY 1 MONTH FROM TODAY!!!!!




I just might a little bit excited about it. Only a little though. It's hardly worth noticing, really. ;) JK!!! I'm super excited! I can't wait! I remember when me and Tyler first got engaged I thought May 19th was FOR-EVER away and now it's almost here! GAH!!! School is almost done, I can't wait...I'm so done it's not even funny and, OF COURSE, the semester is now moving slower than frozen molasses running uphill. One more week of classes and then finals and I'm DONE! I think I can make it. I have my Temple Reccommend Interview on May 3rd and I go through on the 13th (yes, I realize it's Friday the 13th...I did it on purpose. MUAHAHAHA) that will be exciting. Then a week after that is the anticipated ocassion of MARRIAGE! Life is so super great and so super busy. I'm excited for everything but at the same time I kind of just want everything to be done at the same time. That might only be because there's the week we're spending in Disneyland after we get married that has also got me very excited. =D 

It should be a good time.

Only...

5 weeks, or a month and 6 days, or 36 days, or .1 years...however you want to look at it, that's how much time I have left before me and Tyler GET MARRIED!!! I'm so excited I can't even tell you! It's gonna be just great! Our announcements are in the process of being printed so that's done. I have temples reserved for both my Endowments and the actual ceremony. I'll go through the Bountiful Temple exactly a month from today. That's cool, right! Life is so great! Wedding plans are pretty much done. I'm doing Bridals next weekend and I have my family Bridal Shower. More stuff, YES!!! It's a grocery shower this time (as is Aardema family tradition) so hopefully I won't have to stock my shelves too much more after that and I might even get some good receipes to start my own little book or something. I'm not good at experimenting in the kitchen like Tyler is, I need recipes to follow. :) Another exciting thing, we FINALLY have a place to live! It's down around 500 S 300 W. I'm not for sure about the exact address but it's that general area. It's a nice place. I'm happy we found something, now I can stop stressing about it. ;) Now all we really have to do is finish the semester and wait for May 19 to get here. I hope it goes by fast!

Hey look!

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!