Engaged!!!!!

Can you even believe it?!? I'm so excited and happy, I can hardly focus on my finals! haha, but I will. No worries.

This is the picture that Mark took of me and Grant before we went up to the mountain top where he proposed!

We're both so happy, and Grant loves loves loves you all so much! Thanks for all your support, I know I'm kinda young, but I appreciate everyone being so great! I love you all!!

Poor Grant!

Well yesterday I got out of class and went to meet Grant in a lab in the JFSB and when I got there he was laying on the floor under the computers. He was so sick. He had already thrown up a couple of times. I went and got his car and drove him back to his apartment. He didn't want to go to the doctor, but I was pretty worried about him because he's not a baby about being sick. He was white as a sheet, he couldn't keep anything down, and he was in quite a bit of pain. Finally, I convinced him to let me take him to the emergency room. We had to wait FOREVER to get in, and I didn't know what to do because he was just laying on the floor and he was sweating and it was so scary. Eventually they called us in and they ran some tests and did a cat scan on his belly and we found out that he had appendicitis! crazy! He was not doing very well, so I had to call his mom and dad and his brother and sister. They told us he was going to have to have surgery immediately! His uncle Forest and his cousin came and gave him a blessing and he started to feel a little better. He went into surgery at about 8 pm and got out at 9. He was pretty out of it, but I think he's doing a lot better now. He had lots of people come visit him, mostly cousins (he has 1 million of them) but me and mark stayed with him all the time. I took off finally at 1am. All in all I had been there 11 hours! Mark spend the night with him and then I went back in the morning. They let me take him home today at 1pm.
He's doing well. He can't move too much, but he's being quite a trooper :)
I know mom and dad and em have called a bunch to check how he's doing. Thank you guys so much for your concern and prayers. It was kinda scary yesterday, especially since it felt like I was kind of in charge of him, but I'm so grateful he's ok and that he won't have to spend anymore time in the hospital. I hate being in there again.
Well, I love you all!!

Pictures!

The Beast!

Well, Victoria has finally discovered "Princesses"! Cameron and Addison sent Victoria sing along songs Princess video and she has gone crazy! Oh she likes Ariel, Aurora and Cinderella, but she loves the beast. She lets you know it constantly. Her Dr. the other day was trying to see how her diet is by asking her if she likes a variety of foods, and Victoria responded with, "OH, I love the Beast!" Just today I had to explain to her that it is okay to love more than one thing. We have been telling her a lot how much we love her and her response used to be that she loved us too, but lately she has just been responding with the above response to the Dr. Finally today she understood that it is okay to love Mommy, Daddy and Reed as well as the Beast! So she says, "I love Mommy AND the Beast"

One of my favorite things about her lately is that she has learned to say "Thank you" when given a compliment. So yesterday she said she loved the Beast and I at a loss of responses to that statement commented, "that's because your crazy". Without a hesitation she said, " Thank you". I couldn't help but smile.

Reed is doing great too! He is now a month old and very alert and such a sweetheart. Victoria seems to be adjusting well, as are we all! We love our new addition to our family!

Guess who's...

Due Date: October 1st.

14 weeks along. Prego. Chunky. Feeling great!

Hare Krishna!

So Saturday was an interesting day...
The weather was great and I heard about this crazy celebration of Spring down in Spanish Fork at a Hare Krishna temple.
I got Grant, Brooke, Mark and Mark's new girlfriend Chelsea to come and we headed down in the van.
First of all, as we neared SF I could tell that traffic was backed up past the exit. awesome.
FINALLY we park, and we seriously walked two mile until we got to the temple. The temperature was dropping and there were hoards of people everywhere. Immediately some girls came up to us and sold us our "colors" to throw at each other when the time was right.
Then, we went into the temple and got "purification" dots put on our foreheads.








Then we went and found pretty much my entire ward. I still can't believe how many people were there. We danced around to the crazy music and then FINALLY they lit the bonfire.
BAM! It was like a bomb went off. No joke. I couldn't see the sky and I had chalk powder in my lungs and up my nose and in my eyes. It was crazy. We danced around the huge fire . At one point, Grant lifted me up onto his shoulders and together we equaled the tallest living creature of all time. ha!
All in all, a terrific day, but I am STILL finding that crap in my ears, and stuck to my scalp!
Hare Krishna!
oh and how did good ol' Utah respond to our celebration of Spring? It thanked us by dumping 4 inches of snow on us the next day!

And Then Chicago Totally Redeems itself!

Well, two Fridays ago, Mike and I went to the University of Chicago gym. I used my headphones to watch the attached tv on my treadmill and set my Ipod on the treadmill also. Once finished, I walked away, and absently left my Ipod for the taking. I realized my forgetfullness, and checked with the University's gym lost and found on the next Monday. Forgetting that I no longer attended BYU, I fully expected someone to turn it in. Plus, come on it's almost five years old! Who would even want it! Well, no one had turned it in. The man there told me to check back again. I thought, "Sure, someone is going to take it home, check out my music, and then bring it back!" I was pretty sad because it has taken me years to accumulate all of my music. I know I am a nerd! Mike said I should just get a new one, but I felt like I should atleast wait for a birthday, Christmas, or at least passing the cpa exam, which all are months away! Anyway, since I have been out of town in Utah helping with recruiting at BYU, which was so wonderful to see everyone (Maren, you should post some pictures), my first time back to the gym was last night. So last night was a week and a half since the dissapearance. I thought I would give it one more shot, but had no hope of going home with my Ipod. Anyway, someone turned it in! I am sure that the lost-and-found manager thought I was a bit of crazy woman, but I was estactic! So there you go, after a cold and long winter, some Chicago attitude, 10.5% sales tax, and thousands of pot-hole streets, Chicago totally redeems itself!