LESS THAN THREE WEEKS!!!!!!!!

Holy cow there are only eighteen days left until THE DAY! There still is so much to do and so much to plan!! I'm trying not to freak out about everything and just enjoy the process but I admit there is a little bit of freaking out at this stage!!

Fortunately I was able to take a little break from all of the wedding madness and help Quinn out with a project for Scout Camp. For camp, they are supposed to bring 10 decorated clothespins in order to trade with some of the other boys. This year the theme is safari, so we decided to decorate the clothespins as jungle animals. I admit I am pretty proud of what we made--I think they look great! I secretly don't want Quinn to trade any with the other boys...

In case you can't tell what they are, on the top row we have a toucan, monkey, hippo, parrot, and lion, and then on the bottom we have a zebra, giraffe, elephant, tiger, and crocodile. Oh yeah. Hopefully you like them as much as I do!

I hope to upload some more pictures from the family reunion as soon as I can, and I will share more stories about that soon!

Awesome week

It is official! I have just finished the most awesome week of my life! Seriously, it was awesome. After seeing Chelsey for the first time in months, right after I got off the airplaine, I finally realized how much I missed her. Even if we did have a mis-communication after I got off the plane, I was so excited to see her that I got all worked up. I tried to hide the tears from her, and I'm sure she didn't see me ;) Rather than go through all the events of the week, for they were many, I want to tell you my favorite parts of the trip.

First of all, I love Chelsey's family. Her immediate family especially, but her whole family in general is just awesome. I loved every moment I spent with them. They were warming, kind, friendly, fun and just plain awesome! It seemed almost second nature for them to pull me in and make me feel like part of the family. I could tell that each one loved each other and were grateful for the time they had to spend together.

Secondly, I loved spending time with Chelsey's immediate family. They are awesome and I really feel like they care about me like my own parents. I love them, and I am excited to have them as part of my family now. I appreciate all of the teasing, even though it was quite a bit less this time? I'm wondering if Chelsey made some sort of threat or something. Card games were a blast, and I enjoyed learning Rook even though I am not very good at it. I loved playing in the sand with the girls, and jumping over the waves. I loved riding bikes with Quinn and playing Dominion (even though I called it Domination :) I loved joking with Mike and playing curses with him (who is especially funny. Who knew?). I throughly enjoyed Monica's frantic demeanor when anyone but herself is driving the car, and I enjoyed being her teammate for rook. And Chelsey, where to start? Well, my favorite time with her was probably the long walk we had on the beach . Mostly in silence, just enjoying being where we were with each other. And lets not forget finding kites with each other in the garage ;)

Thirdly, I enjoyed seaside. What a fun place to be! I was a bit skeptical of the little tourist town at the beginning, but with the houses so close to the ocean, and the awesome arcade, and who can forget the bumper cars and bicycles? Well, lets just say I'll be coming back for more.

Looking back on last week, I am filled with emotions. I am extremely happy that I got to spend that time with Chelsey's family. I am so grateful to Heavenly Father for placing such a beautiful, wonderful woman in front of me who has such an incredible family. I feel like I really lucked out with this one, and I know more than ever that Chelsey is the woman I want to marry and spend the rest of forever with. I love you Chelsey!

TOMORROW!

Tomorrow I get to see Owen and then we are going to the temple and the beach on Wednesday!

Thank goodness this day has finally arrived!

I cannot wait until tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bored at the Fireworks Stand

So I am at the fireworks stand right now and the luckiest thing happened-we discovered that some building nearby has wifi! Woohoo! Now at least I won't be COMPLETLY bored out of my mind...maybe...

Anyway, it's almost July 13th! Yes! I am so excited to see Owen-phone calls after 9 just aren't doing the same.

I realized that it is very tricky to type on this iPod thing. Sorry if this post is very brief! It's already taken me 15 minutes to write these few lines.

So there is a new girl working at the fireworks stand this year named Braman and she does something that I thought was pretty neat. Whenever she meets a new person, like on a plane flight, in a class, or working at a fireworks stand, she has them write something about themselves in their journal. Sometimes she get their contact information too, and then she has a collection of all of these different life stories. She asked me to write in it, so I wrote about how Owen and I met and how I am so lucky to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She said she had just started a new book or else I probably would have sat there and read the whole thing. I think I should start something like that. Who knows what I might learn?

Alright, my thumbs are getting a little tired of this-I don't think that I could ever be a heavy texter...