5 fav photos

Today is one of those days. I pretty much SPRANG out of bed this morning and have been going on HIGH SPEED ever since

. I LOVE today!! I can't help but smile. 

The sun is Shining and its warm and I'm wearing one of my favorite shirts and I just found out I have tomorrow 'till midnight to complete an 8 page paper! (BONUS!!)

Oh, anddd I rocked my final speech last night and I get to see my handsome fiance tonight. (seriously, 2 days feels like a lifetime when we can't see each other.) 

LIFE IF SO GOOD!!! 

Let me share some photos that make my heart smile.

P.S I keep replaying a song over and over. here are the lyrics:

"In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on highway 9,
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin out over the line
Baby this town rips the bones from your back
Its a death trap, it's a suicide rap
We gotta get out while were young
`cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run"

birthday scenes

Holy I am slacking lately.
LISTEN. Life is a little Insane. Actually really insane. but in the best kind of way.

This is my last week of official classes and then it's HELLO to summer and GOODBYE to school. I can't believe how this semester has FLOWN right on by. It's been great but I'm onto bigger and better things.

Here are some of the things I've been up to:
-Staying busy working at the shop and at the gym
-Apartment hunting with my fiance. (whom I adore) but don't ask me how we will ever agree on where to live.
-Trying to squeeze in schoolwork.. when it's convenient :)
 -Talking to a travel agent lady who claims she can get us a GREAT deal to MEXICO for our honeymoon. PERFECT!
-Coming home at midnight and seeing my mom made my bed and shedding a few tears knowing my time left at home is limited.
-Planning a little trip to Florida with my bff Sophie.
-Thrift shopping and being overwhelmed by the idea of decorating our own apartment!
-Dancing in the middle of the street with the love of my life
-Going to aerobic classes. trying to be in TIP=TOP shape for summer. considering, well, some BIG things are happening.
-Shopping for modest summer clothes. (goodbye whole wardrobe of tank tops and shorts)
-Day dreaming about what it will be like to be married to Nate
-Trying not to go crazy thinking about how much I have to do before July 20.

Here's the thing. Planning a wedding is actually a ton of fun. It only gets not so fun when there is stress behind it and you start thinking "I have to do this, I have to do that." Yeah, there is a ton to do. But I am really just trying to enjoy the ride and know that everything will fall together perfectly. I honestly can't wait!! Nothing about our wedding is going to be "typical" or your common run of the mill kind of Utah wedding. and I seriously love that. It is going to be FUN and EXCITING and MEMORABLE and a celebration of Life and Love!!

Multiple times during the day I have to ask myself "How did I get so Lucky?" How did the best thing of my life literally just fall into my lap? I have no idea. All i know is I wouldn't trade it for ANYTHING. here are some birthday scenes:

birthdays

For some reason every year when my birthday rolls around I get a bit sentimental.

 I always get sad thinking another year of my life is coming to a close. I'm so weird that way.

 I want to be young forever.

 So let me reminisce a bit about being 20 years old. 

It was BY FAR my FAVORITE age so far. 

I traveled across the world. met the sweetest children alive, who will always have a piece of my heart. I became closer to my family than ever and enjoyed the time we got to spend together.

 I met new friends who instantly became like family.
I spent one last crazy summer with my friends who matter most and did the kind of things you can only get away with when you're young. 

 I learned what it felt like to live FREE and I hope I always live this way. 

I met the man of my dreams, fell in love and got ENGAGED.( holy. didn't see that one coming.)

In a lot of ways I found myself and my place in this world, even if just in a small degree. 

So here it is. my top 20 photos from my 20th year. 

It's safe to say this was a BIG Year for me. 

"What they don’t understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you’re eleven, you’re also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one. And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you don’t. You open your eyes and everything’s just like yesterday, only it’s today. And you don’t feel eleven at all. You feel like you’re still ten. And you are — underneath the year that makes you eleven.

Like some days you might say something stupid, and that’s the part of you that’s still ten. Or maybe some days you might need to sit on your mama’s lap because you’re scared, and that’s the part of you that’s five. And maybe one day when you’re all grown up maybe you will need to cry like if you’re three, and that’s okay. That’s what I tell Mama when she’s sad and needs to cry. Maybe she’s feeling three.

Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one. That’s how being eleven years old is."

― Sandra Cisneros

load the car and write the note

Well we are off to the cabin for the weekend!

 Our first weekend spent together as an engaged couple. 

Wait. 

actually it's our first weekend together..ever

.(the pitfalls of dating each other for 2months before making it official)

But I am EXCITED! 

Hopefully Nate isn't scared off by my fam because lez-be honest. We can be slightly out of control sometimes. (But maybe that's why he fits in so well.) 

Yesterday my dad asked me all concerned "soo are we going to have to be on our best behavior..since.. ya know.. Nate's coming." 

I just laughed.

 i love that everyone can let their guard down at the cab and their true colors shine.

 Family bonding time at it's finest.

 I Think if Nate was going to be scared off by us it would have happened by the second date. 

Wish us luck, this will be a true test!