GRADUATION!!!

 Happy to be done!

After 5 years and lots and lots of hard work I graduated from the University of Utah! Wahoo! My family came up for the weekend from St. George. It was a lot of fun to spend some time with my family. I was so excited to finally be done with school and I had a weekend full of fun! It all started with the actual graduation. The graduation ceremony was a little strange... First of all the speaker was a fellow graduating student and his talk was crazy. He basically talked about how the politicians in Utah don't value education enough. He called them all rodeo clowns, and told them he couldn't wait until some of us replaced them because we would do a much better job. Whether is It was correct or not, it was a very disrespectful talk. After his talk the bachelors walked, and despite being asked to stay seated after they walked 90% of them walked out. I stayed seated for a while while the Master degrees walked, but by that time I was basically sitting alone because all the bachelor degrees had left so I found my family and we left before it was over. It was a weird graduation ceremony but there were a lot of people who came to support me and I want to tell them all thank you for coming and for all of your support! Here are the pictures of Graduation.

My crazy cute husband!                          

My Mom and Grandma Hughes

My Mom and Dad

    

My Dad and Grandma Arlene. My Grandpa Ron was also there, but somehow we didn't get him in the picture.

My sister Kristine, her husband Sam and their two kids Jaxen and Alexa

My Husband and his parents

My Brother Nick

There were many graduation celebrations. Dinner with my in-laws the day before, dinner with my family before graduation, desserts at Applebees after graduation, and the Ice Cream Party I had on Saturday. It was a weekend full of celebrating. The ice cream party was also a lot of fun. I had a lot of people show up to that I want to to tell them all thanks for coming and supporting me. Over all it was a great weekend and I am officially Graduated from the University of Utah with a BS degree in Social and Behavioral Science and a minor in Nutrition. It is way nice to be done. A huge relief. I think I've felt every emotion in connection to graduating. I am kind of sad because I am going to miss the U and I love school. I am happy and relieved to be all done. And I am way scared and confused about what the future holds as far as my career goes. There is an internship in Pennsylvania, but I'm not sure if it's going to work out for me, I guess I'll have to wait and see. As for right now, I am enjoying the relief of being done. Here are some more picture of the graduation.

 So HAPPY to be done!

 CuTe

GO UTES!!!

Engagement Story

Today at work I was talking with my friend/co-worker and we were talking about our engagements. She told me I should blog about my cute engagement story so I don't forget any details and I can always remember it. I am a little biased, but I think I have the cutest engagement story ever! Lets start from the beginning.
Andrew and I met in July 2009 on a blind date (thanks Kell!). The first of October I was in Tooele watching LDS conference with Andrew and his family. After the Sunday afternoon conference Andrew and I went for a walk around town and Andrew started asking questions about marriage. I had only known Andrew for 3 months at this time so I hadn't thought too seriously about it. I mean I am a girl, so I had thought about it, but I wasn't planning the wedding or anything. I told Andrew I was a 4 seasons girl. And what that meant was I wanted to know my husband all 4 seasons (summer, fall, winter and spring) before I got engaged. Andrew was a little taken back by this and I don't think he like my answer too well. But I told him I would pray and think more seriously about it. Well, the first of November rolls around (a month later) and on a Friday night Andrew had driven down from Logan for the weekend (as he did every weekend since he was going to school at Utah State in Logan and I was going to the U in Salt Lake) anyways... Friday night Andrew shows up at my apartment with a beautiful bouquet of flowers. He said he just wanted to give me flowers, no particular reason, he just thought I would like them. Later that night Andrew asks me if I want to go look at rings in the morning. We hadn't talked about looking at rings before so I was a little surprised, but I knew I wanted to marry him so Saturday morning we hit the town and looked all morning at rings. When Andrew picked me up Saturday morning he commented on how warm it was, like summer. The ring shopping was fun! What girl wouldn't like trying on diamonds? I found a few I liked but I wanted Andrew to pick it out so I just showed him some style that I like. That afternoon Andrew told me he had plans to go to the temple with his mom so he dropped me off, but we had plans to go to dinner later that night. That night we went to dinner at Thanksgiving point (yum yum). In the back of my head I thought he might propose at the restaurant, I didn't think he really would, but it was in the far back of my mind since we had been talking marriage all day. Anywho he didn't propose at dinner. After dinner Andrew said he needed to stop at his sisters in laws to pick up a box for her. When we got there no one answered so Andrew told me to wait there while he went through the garage to get the box inside. So I waited and the next thing I know Andrew opens the door and the house is decorated like a forest in winter. It was a winter wonderland! Fake snow, fake pine trees, a fireplace, calming water fountain, and lots and lots of white lights. The place was all lit up with white Christmas lights which set a very romantic mood. Andrew pulled me inside and I was WAY CONFUSED! I had not idea what was going on and that is when he got down on one knee and took my hands in his. My hands were shaking like crazy! I don't remember everything that he said but I do remember this. He said that he knew I was a 4 seasons girl and I wanted to wait 4 seasons until we got engaged so He gave me spring bouquet of flowers the night before (spring) He dressed for summer earlier that day and commented on the warm summer weather (summer), we ate dinner at Thanksgiving point (fall), and now we were in a winter wonderland (winter). He said on day 13 we held hands for the first time, on day 28 we kissed for the first time, on day 75 we said I love you to each other and today is day 88 and I want to ask you to be my wife.Then he pulled out the ring I had picked out earlier that day and he asked me to marry him.
Cute huh!
We sent pictures of my ring to my family. They were out to dinner. They were so shocked that the next day they ALL packed into their cars and drove up to Salt Lake from St. George to see us.
I have pictures of the winter wonderland somewhere and when I find them I will post them.