How was your weekend?

I love weekends.  It's really too bad when they end.
It's even harder now that I work five days a week, instead of four.
We got our camp trailer this weekend!
I pretty much love it.
And now I am just dying for hunting season.
You gotta see the FABULOUS hat I bought for it.
I'll try to post a picture soon.
Less than a month now.
Can you believe October is only four days away??

I got a cake order that I am really excited about!!
Actually two coming up.
October is going to be a busy month!!
And I already have three orders for November.
To everyone who has placed an order, thank you for feeding my obsession!!

Oakland lost.
Sucky suckers.
I still love them.
But how did Janikowski miss that field goal??
Really.
I luff him.
He might even be our best player.
What.  The.  Freak.

The rest of the year is going to fly by.
My lover and I have some exciting things coming up!!
Next weekend we are doing our homemade salsa.
It might be famous if we were nice enough to share it with anyone.

just ramblin'

It's been a long week.

We might be getting a camping trailer today!

My nephew's birthday is coming up and I am so excited I am making myself sick.

Does anyone else notice the lack of "r"s in Neon Trees' song Animal?
"Here we go again.  I kinda wanna be more than fwends.  So take it easy on me, I'm afwaid you're never satisfied."
Fwends and afwaid.  Does it sound like this to anyone else?

Almost nine months have passed in 2010.  NINE.
Where did they go?

I ripped my thumb nail so low it hurts to type.

I haven't put laundry away in about two months now.
It's clean and sitting in baskets.
What can I say, I am super wife-ish.

My final cake class is on Monday, and I will be totally certified!!

I just got asked to help do a wedding cake because they want my skills.
Translation:  I'm amazing.  Ha!

I'm going to try to talk my husband into staying home from work tomorrow just 'cuz I like to sleep in together.

I have two weddings to go to tomorrow.

I love weddings.

I just got a job making dog treats for Swag The Dog Boutique.

I love Fridays!!

ginger

Remember how I looooove red heads?
Sometimes I call mine ginger.
He acts like he hates it.
I am pretty sure he secretly loves it though.
Shhhh....
Anyway, I am thinking we should all help this cute red head out...
He has cystic fibrosis.
And he's up for a real big scholarship.
He needs your vote.
Go to Geri's (his wife) blog to get the details here.
And then spread the word!!

Eat Pray Love

Everyone kept telling me that I HAD to read this book.
When I saw Julia Roberts was in the movie I decided to actually do it.
I don't get what all the fuss is about.
It wasn't a terrible book, but it wasn't that good.
It's pretty much a woman whining for about 350 pages.
Who wants to listen to that?
There were about 50 pages that were actually really good.
And I really like a lot of the ideas that she introduced about living and the afterlife.
I really would have rather read it in a book of quotes though.
I do want to read it again, just to highlight things that I liked.
But I don't know if I can make myself.
Reading that book was a chore, and I had to make myself finish it.
I think one of the best ideas the book introduced was the idea that Heaven and Hell are the same place.
It's all just pure love.
The only difference is the journey you take to get there.
We are all going to die and end up in the same place, so we might as well make our journey our Heaven.
Spending your life lying, cheating, stealing, killing, etc. are all ways to make yourself miserable on your journey.
Do what it takes to make yourself happy.
Stop worrying about everyone else, or what everyone else says should make you happy.
I always felt weird for not wanting kids, but kids are somebody else's idea of happy.
Not mine.
Don't do things that others say will make you happy.
Only you know how to make yourself happy.
"Stop deciding with the mind what we want our hearts to feel."

My own shop

You should see my kitchen after I do a cake.
And last week I did two.
It looked like a tornado hit it every day last week.
My lover ends up cooking dinner, working around the mess I've created.
We've gotten pretty good at it!
But it is a pain.
So we are thinking about putting a shop for me in the basement!!
Our basement isn't finished and we've been throwing around ideas on what we'd like to do with it.
If you think a bowling alley has come up more than once, then you'd be correct.
We like to have fun.
Did you know one of our walls is a chalk board??
We are children.
Anyway, we are thinking about building me a kitchen down there!!
It was actually the Husband's idea.
He's pretty much a genius.
Imagine the mess I could make.
And I wouldn't even feel bad!!
I told him my kitchen needs a couch and a big screen TV though.
I like him keeping me company.
We could watch football all day together while I work.
Just like we do now.

the little things

The simple things in life are the best!
The things that make me the happiest are the simplest things.
Like my lover leaving the light on when he leaves for work.
Or my nephew not being able to pronouce the "th" sound.
So he clicks his tongue to say "thank you."
Stopping to pick sunflowers to put in the window at home.
Little things.
A few days ago I found out my lover's ears are ticklish.
If I breathe in them he squirms and laughs like crazy.
So I pinned him down and did it for half an hour.
We laughed like loons.
Like it was the funniest thing in the whole world.
Even now it still makes me smile.
It was perfect.
Things like that are what make life worth living.
I love our life!!

I'll take today over yesterday, anyday

The Gary Allan concert is tonight!!
It'd be a lot more exciting if I was actually going.
He is my faaaavorite singer.
His voice is yummy.
My favorite song ever is "I'll Take Today."
Mmmm.....
I need new tires on my car though.
And Christmas is coming up.
Oh, and we're getting a camping trailer!!
Next time Gary, I will be there.
If I wasn't married I might be in prison for stalking that man.
Thanks for saving me from prison lover.

Thanks to a schedule change, I will be working tomorrow.
And every other Friday from now on.
Someone was jealous of my four tens so they got taken.
Bummer.
Josh and I both work in aerospace.
Although his job is much cooler than mine.
He's a hydraulics mechanic.
I'm just a supplier.
Oh and a part time cake decorator.
Who is going to school to be a phlebotomist.
I'm kinda busy...
I hope to do cakes full time one day.
Wanna check out my work?
http://www.pretty-and-sweet.blogspot.com/
I've only been in classes for it for two and a half months.
I'm getting pretty good!!
Plus I looooove it!
I always like to have a back up plan though, so I'm going to school.
This is just my start to get into the medical field.
I'm hoping to end up in radiology.
Maybe.
That changes a lot.
I'm not very good about making up my mind.
My favorite candy changes every few years.
Picking a favorite movie is impossible.
How am I supposed to decide what I want to be when I grow up?
Or in a few years. I hope we never grow up.
Me and that sweet man are pretty good at being kids together.
I think he's the only thing I have ever been sure about.
There was never a doubt in my mind about him.

It's already been three months??

I thought being engaged for a year would seem like forever.

Why wouldn't it when you're waiting to marry the man of your dreams?

It came faster than I could have ever imagined.

Mostly because I got to spend the year with my lover.

Time flies when we are together!!

Plus, I love to organize and plan.

I had so much fun planning our wedding!!

I loved every second of it.

And it all paid off when everything went so smoothly.

We got married three months ago today.

June 13, 2010

Everything went off without a single problem.

We got married in the sand on Ha'ena beach.

Our ceremony was beautiful!!

We decided to do a traditional Hawaiian ceremony.

This is us washing our hands clean from everything in the past.

We are all that matters now.

Our future.

The whole ceremony was based on coconut trees and coconuts.

On the surface, there are thousands of individual trees.

Underground, all the roots connect into one living organism.

And that's how a marriage should be.

On the surface, there are two of us.

We are our own persons. Individuals.

But deep down we are connected; living and breathing as one.

Coconuts are what the first settlers lived off of.

Our officiant cracked a coconut with a rock...

Josh poured it on the ground for all our friends and family that have passed away that couldn't be there with us.

Then he fed me some, signifying that he'd always take care of me.

Then I did the same for him.

After, I poured it on the ground for all our friends and family that couldn't make it to our ceremony.

Palm fronds are what they used to make things like roofs, beds, shoes... things to protect them.

They gave us a woven frond that we each held with one hand, and with the other we held each other while the officiant walked around us chanting Hawaiian verses.

To end our ceremony, together we threw our coconut and palm frond into the ocean.

In Hawaii, rain is the only fresh water they get.

So, of course, they celebrate the rain.

It's said to be good luck to anyone who gets rain on their wedding day.

We got tons of it.

It held off for the two hours after our ceremony while we got pictures done.

Then it poured!!

So we hid in a cave.

It's also said that every rain drop that falls on your wedding day equals one time that you'll make love in your marriage.

We are gonna be busy ;-)

Yes, this is my fiance

We I spent the next year planning the wedding.

Josh is pretty shy and he didn't want to get up in front of a ton of people to say our vows.

My family is huge so there'd be at least a hundred people just for the ceremony.

So we decided to run away together.

We thought about doing it somewhere exotic.

But we decided we wanted to make sure it was legit, so we'd stay in the country.

We chose Hawaii.

It only took us about a week to decide we wanted to go to Kaua'i.

After getting there, we knew we made the right choice too.

We decided to give ourselves about a year to make sure we had time to get it all done.

We decided to get married on the two year anniversary of our first date.

I'm glad we did, because we did have a few problems come up.

Nothing major thought.

Like, did you know you have to have an appointment to get a marriage license in HI?

You can't just walk in.

Our flight was supposed to land on a Friday at 5:00 pm.

Their health dept. closed at 3:00 and wouldn't be open again until Monday.

We were supposed to get married on Sunday.

So we just had to change our flights to get there a day earlier.

I didn't complain :-)

Our engagement was so fun.

I'm glad we had a long one, because you only get to have a fiance one time!!

It was so fun to introduce him as my fiance to everyone.

It's such a pretty, meaningful word.

Plus, Josh HATES pictures.

Talking him into getting them every once in a while is tough.

So this was the perfect opportunity.

And I loved every second of it :-)

Got it right this time

The next year was fabulous.
Neither of us have ever been so happy!
We did a lot in that first year.
I got a new car.
We got a puppy together.
He got me my first diamond ring for our six month anniversary.
We got to know each other's families.
We got to celebrate every holiday together and learn each other's traditions.
I got diagnosed with pre-diabetes and he took amazing care of me.
We camped a lot.
I turned him into a wino.
He turned me into a movie addict--I used to hate the theatre.
I took him on a surprise over-night trip to Park City. It's still one of our favorite memories!
Everything was perfect.
We both knew this was it and we wanted to spend forever together!!
Three weeks after our one year was the 4th of July.
We sat there and watched the fireworks go off all around the lake again.
He told me it'd been a year since the first time he'd said "I love you" and that he loved me even more this year.
He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him!!
I (obviously) said yes!!
Our next day off together was his birthday.
That sweet man spent HIS birthday taking me ring shopping.
I couldn't ask for a better husband!!

Our house

After our fabulous weekend it was time to head home.
We pulled into my house and Josh helped me in with my bag and dog.
Walking into my house was like walking into a sauna.
It was 102 degrees!! My AC had gone out.
My house was only six months old, so it was still under warranty.
I called and they couldn't send someone out for almost two weeks!!
Josh told me I couldn't live like that and to just come stay with him until it got fixed.
So I did. And we had so much fun staying together!!
It was so great that even after my air was fixed we still stayed together.
We went to my house to check the mail and mow the lawn, and spent a night or two here and there.
But mostly we just hung out at his house.
After two months of this, I decided working 80 hours a week to pay for a house I never stayed in was pointless.
So I decided to sell it. Once it sold I was going to move in with my mom for a month until I got an apartment.
Josh said that was stupid, and to just stay with him until I got an apartment since I was already staying there anyway.
It took about a month, and my house sold on October 1st.
I can't believe that was almost two years ago!!
Josh explained to me that with the bad economy it might take months or even years to find an apartment :-)
For all we knew, it could take forever. So he said I could just stay with him forever if I wanted to.
I wanted to.
So his house became our house.
We pretty much moved in together after dating for three weeks!!
It was fast, but it was perfect!!

I love you

Three weeks after we met, it was the weekend of the 4th of July.
Josh had big plans to go camping with all his friends at Bear Lake.
I had plans to spend the weekend at my Dad's place at Bear Lake.
Weird.
He invited me to come hang out with his friends if I wanted.
I invited him to come visit if he wanted.
We ended up staying one night with my Dad and the other two nights with his friends on the beach.
We played beer pong, rode four wheelers, played football, swam...
It was such an amazing weekend.
We laughed so much.
Both of us had such a good time together.
Josh decided he wanted to be like that forever. Always having fun.
On the 4th we sat and watched fireworks all around the lake light up the sky.
He leaned over and told me that he loves me for the first time.
After three weeks.
I was scared.
But I knew I loved him too.
I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him teasing me.
The next morning when we woke up I wondered if he really meant it or if it was just the heat of the moment.
I was a little scared to find out.
He looked me in the eyes and told me he meant what he said.
I told him "Me too."