The house

victorian house built in 1884. entire second floor. claw foot bathtub. balcony. huzzah! purrrrrrfection.

not that i am counting or anything (12 days! yussss!) but the. wedding. day. is fast approaching. i am excited to:

start buying milk and cereal

not have to say goodnight and go to a separate house

have my own kitchen

have a cupboard full of spices

decorate

walk around barefoot and not be grossed out by the kitchen floor

it also doesn't hurt that:

i get to spend eternity with my bestest friend

i think we are both nervous. i think that's normal. i was always told that it was good to be nervous for my races because it meant that i cared about them. i think this is like that. i care about this man and i care about making him the happiest one there is.

while showing some friends the house on saturday, wools said to me, "you guys are married now, i can feel it. your maturity level has increased since you moved in."

i don't know about that, but i think it has definitely made me start putting a lot more things into perspective.

There has been an awesome miniseries on tv the last couple of weeks called vietnam. it is all about the vietnam war and it includes real footage firsthand accounts of what happened there during the war. i have been completely captivated by this series because it has made me feel more of an appreciation for my mom. my mom was born in vietnam and experienced the war at it's peak. she was lucky enough to get out of vietnam in the nick of time when she was only 21. I remember growing up and listening to my mom tell me stories about things she saw and went through over there: having to take care of her parents entire farm and her younger siblings all by herself only to have American soldiers come and burn down the farm and kill the animals (so the communists couldn't use them), having nightly "school" meetings so the communists could brainwash the children into thinking americans were bad and communism was good, coming home from school only to find out her neighbors were dead, hiding in bomb shelters and listening to bombs go off all night, living in constant fear and not knowing who to trust. seeing the footage from this show makes me cringe to know what my family and my mom went through over there. she is hands down the toughest woman i know, not just because of everything she went through in vietnam, but all the courage she has shown throughout her life. my mom truly is my hero. i am so grateful for all the soldiers who fight for what they believe in and fight to help keep people like my mom free.

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can't wait.

i finally feel like i can begin a countdown to the big day! the weeks are beginning to fly by and i couldn't be any more happier. we got our engagements and bridals/groomals taken.... i think that has been my favorite part of the wedding process. with the help of some great people in my life everything is pretty much planned. i am so grateful for them because i am indecisive/have no idea how weddings work.

in other news, i finally have proof that my dad loves justin more than me. he bought justin a super nice full-suspension mountain bike for his birthday/wedding/christmas present. so nice. i am only slightly jealous, only because i am sick of riding a hard tail. but most of all i am happy that my dad is so excited to have another son.

ummm.... school is good. running is good. yada yada yada. nothing too new is going on. it is freezing in logan and it makes me not excited for winter. it has finally hit me that i am graduating this spring and i am freaking out a little. i am trying to figure out what to do with my life and it is kinda scary! this growing up thing is exciting but i wish there was some sort of manual or something that listed off all the things that are expected of me or all the things i need to be doing because i feel like no one is telling me!

back to wedding stuff (cause i can talk about it on here all i want its my blog):

1. i am excited

2. i feel weird about everyone staring at me all day

3. i am worried i am going to cry so much my face will just be a black blob from my makeup

4. bluegrass band, cinnamon rolls, hot chocolate bar. yussssss!

5. i can't wait to wear my dress and feel like a princess. and justin is gonna look way fly.

i know i know. i am being way into myself right now. shoot me.

more peekchurs:

just a teaser cause i know everyone really cares and there are TONS of people who read this blog. haha. hahahahahahahahahaha.

my final year of school has just begun and i am already tired of it.

but i am not tired of these babies!!!

mine is the green one. justin's is the grey one. his is faster but mine is cuter. it's a trade off.

in other news, i am engaged!!! i found a dress!!! and a place to have the reception!!! we have planned our honeymoon!! so things are coming together nicely but at the same time i don't really know what i am doing. my parents haven't ever planned a wedding either so they know anything. its quite the adventure trying to figure it all out. :)

perfect.

this reminds me of the beast's library in beauty and the beast. i want.

love.

”I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” ~Audrey Hepburn

i finally gave in.

taylor and i

the team

last weekend i ran the ragnar wasatchback race from logan to park city. it was such a blast! i ran on a team comprised of mostly women from ogden. we called ourselves WOO (Women Of Ogden) and then later came up with a clever name called Blue Bayou (if you think about it hard it's pretty clever). We started at 4pm which was one of the latest start times. and finished in a record setting AND winning time of 21 hours 56 minutes. i got one hour of sleep and ran about 16 miles. my first leg was up trappers loop in pitch darkness. my second leg was around rockport and was actually a really nice run. my last leg was from the top of guardsman's pass down to deer valley, a steep 7.7 miles with one large hill thrown in there for extra fun. my legs are dead. and that large hill? i had to walk/jog up it. so embarrassing. all in all it was such a fun experience. i got to run with some of the best/most talented runners around. some people said it wouldn't be very much fun because our team is comprised of competitive people, but that is actually what made it so fun for me. i love competition.

i had an old blog, but i felt like i outgrew it. i feel like a completely different person than i was when i first started my last blog, and i would like to start this one with a clean slate.

this summer is going to be the best one yet. i can feel it. i am currently living in ogden with 4 other girls, working for the forest service and am trying to run super high mileage this summer. that about sums up what my summer will consist of, oh, with the addition of many adventures and hangout time with justinboy.

i ended the track season at regionals on the magical hayward field! that famous track at the U of O has never been very magical to me. in fact, i can honestly say, i probably have ran my 3 worst races in college on that track. it was so exciting to make it to regionals, but so embarassing to get the pitty clap (haha, that's what i call it when people are finishing so far in back that people feel awkward watching them, so they clap to give them support, when really it is quite demoralizing to realize that you are finishing last, and all these people are just feeling sorry for you. it's quite pathetic). but with all that behind me now, i am looking forward to the summer and fall training. i am really excited to run and make this year the best that i possibly can. i think it means so much more to me now, knowing that my running career is going to come to an end shortly. i will never have this opportunity again, and i want to take full advantage of it.

i got this! yeah! woo! yeah!