Welcome To My Life

You know that saying "you can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy"? Well, just take that sentence, multiply it by 5 and welcome to my life. I absolutely adore  my fiance, and one of the reasons I love him so much is that he is country to the core, but sometimes I sit back and wonder what the heck I am getting myself into.

When we're in Salt Lake we can pretend to be nice, classy people who go to the Opera on Monday nights

{P.S. We are not Opera people, we are people who will go to the Opera in good faith and then leave at intermission}

And we can pretend we're that really cute couple that dresses up to walk around the park for an hour...

 {P.S. I think we're that really cute couple regardless of where we are, but I might  be biased. Maybe}

And then we go up to Idaho and suddenly, we're this couple...

I stand around looking pretty and taking pictures while my fiance does all the hard work...

And then he decides to put me to work...

He's a smart boy, he's already learned if there's one thing I'm good at it's holding things and standing around supervising work being done. My job was to hold the screws.

And then stuff like this happens....

If you can't tell... this is me driving in the car, following my fiance as he drives the lawn mower down one of the main roads in Clifton

I think the rest of my life is sitting right there in front of me. At least I like this view! 

{Plus, he's pretty cute from this side too.}

I think I'll keep him, even if my job is always to hold the screws.

Yes We're Engaged, No This Is Not A Joke...

Ever since we went "Facebook Official" with our engagement our phones have been constantly blowing up between Facebook and texts and phone calls. And for the most part people have been really excited for us. But we have been asked a few times if this is a joke. So no. This is not a joke. We really are getting married!

The other question is people wanting to know how we got engaged so here goes {plus a little background}...

Landon and I met randomly a few months back when I went on a date with his roommate and our mutual friends threw a Wii Party a few days later. The girls were all "come so you can flirt with Adam!" Adam and I obviously didn't pan out and I think we both knew that was going to happen from the get go so no harm, no foul. Anyways, I'm at this party and in walks Landon. And as corny as it sounds we both did the whole "go to a mutual friend and find out everything you can about them" thing. 

We really should have just started dating right then and there but he tells the story that I disappeared for months and would randomly reappear. I say I just had no idea he liked me.So after months of that we finally had a day where we really hit things off. Talked for hours, held hands, had an unofficial first date kind of thing. Then I went missing again {at this point I was fully aware that he liked me but had no idea what I wanted to do about it} Repeat that last part a few more times and we get to about a 1 1/2 months ago... Landon came down to my apartment one night and we talked for hours about just about everything. A week later we kissed and about a week after that I finally got him to define the relationship and ask me to be his girlfriend. {not that there was much persuading that had to be done}

About 2 weeks into being official I took him down to Provo to meet the gang and then he took me up to Idaho to meet his family. At this point I'm pretty sure we both knew we were going to end up getting married {well, I knew and he claims he knew by then too....} 

And as for the proposal..... one night we were just sitting around talking and somehow the conversation just turned to marriage. Neither of us really remember how exactly, but suddenly it was like "hey, let's get married". At that point we both sat back and looked at each other asking if this was seriously happening but we both felt really good about it. So the next time we went up to Idaho his family already knew we were going to get married, and wonderful mom offered us his grandmother's wedding ring to use. I put it on right then and there and refused to take it off. {The funny thing is when this conversation with his mom went down, Landon was out in the field working with his dad, came in for dinner and all the sudden just stared at my hand} He pitched a little fit about needing the ring so he could propose for real {he ended up doing it without the ring}

So for the official proposal I suggested we go for a walk around the block since it was so nice outside. And as we were coming back from our walk he led me to the backyard where there is a nice little patio with grape vines and a swing {it's kind of our little place we go when we want to talk without being distracted by roommates} And as I went to sit down on the swing I turned around and he was on one knee. He asked me to marry him and I said yes!

Anyway, long story short, I really love him and think I'm gonna keep him.

Idaho Take Two

I have a confession to make. I'm in love with Idaho. {bet you all thought I was going to say with Landon... well I love him too, but this post isn't about Landon. kind of...}

We made another trip to Idaho last weekend. Again, mostly because we could. But Salt Lake is such a madhouse during General Conference weekend {364 times later, we still can't direct traffic and pedestrians} so when Landon asked if I wanted to go I didn't object much. 

We left Friday night after Landon got home from the gym {he's on a new gym kick and I'm just loving the idea of gym germs during flu season, needless to say, I don't accompany him on these jaunts} which meant we didn't hit the road until after dark, I have suspicions that it was all part of Landon's master plan to avoid more of my video camera antics. 

After rolling in pretty late Friday after a long week of craziness we practically went to bed the minute we hit the door. And Saturday was just as low-key. Between sessions of Conference Landon went out to the field to help his dad work and I hung out with his mom and ran some errands. Sunday was just the opposite. Most of his siblings came over {I had already briefly met most of them, so it wasn't totally overwhelming} and it was definitely not low-key! 

I absolutely love it up there, I've told Landon more than once I would live up there in a heartbeat but sadly,  it would be hard for him to find any work relating to his major or me to find any work relating to mine up there which means we all but had to cross it off the list of places we could live.

All in all, the trip was wonderful. Nobody tried to feed me to the cows, I survived family initiation, and being up in Idaho where we don't have to worry about school or work at the moment always leads to good and meaningful conversations.