Threes

They say good things come in threes. Well, whoever "they" are, I think they're right!

First, I found out on Monday that the Goo Goo Dolls (my favorite band) are coming to Phoenix in August! I have missed them the past 3 times that they were here. But I bought tickets on Wednesday and Austin and I are going! I'm way excited. (just maybe not to see the funky hair)

Second, we have an apartment! We found out yesterday that we were accepted. It's a little place, one bed one bath, in a complex called Rancho Murrieta in Tempe. (Rural and Broadway) But it has a lot of closet space, a decent sized kitchen and an in-unit washer and dryer. It even has a little patio :)

I am not the greatest at using photobooth but here is a backwards shot of our apartment. It's cozy, but best of all it's OURS!!!

And third, the best news of all... Today is 7 weeks until the wedding! 49 days! We have been counting down and it feels soo good to get under 50 :) I can't wait!

Officially a slacker

Admittedly, blogging has not been high on my priority list since I started this new job.

I am interning full time 3 days a week at the Phoenix Business Journal and 2 days a week at the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism, a national center housed at ASU's downtown Cronkite school.

My time has been rationed in a completely different way. I'm doing the 9 to 5 thing everyday, but it turns into the 8 to 6 thing with travel time. But, although it's not quite what I thought it would be, it's not bad. I'm getting a lot out of it and I'm building good contacts who will hopefully help me get a job in a year.

On the wedding planning front, things are going well! We are working on collecting all our addresses right now. And I'm designing the invitation. It's almost finished.

Taking the pictures for the announcement was tons of fun! Here are some of my favorite shots:

Calling all Potter Heads

I'm a proud Harry Potter fan. I've read all the books and really like them. Seen the movies, most of them at midnight opening day.

But, I thought this was a little much....

So school is nearly done for the summer! I have two more finals next Monday and Tuesday.

Outside of work and school, Austin and I went to two of his brother Cole's concerts this week. Cole is a pretty amazing musician. He sings in the top choirs at Marcos de Niza; they actually got an invite to perform in Carnegie Hall this year!

Tuesday's concert was the most advanced choir. It was great; very talented people! Thursday's was the "pops" concert (popular music) and three different choirs performed songs from that show GLEE and Michael Jackson. Pretty entertaining :)

And tonight we are going to First Fridays and I am so excited! I haven't been in months.

What an art filled week!

It's the final countdown

That's right folks. Spring 2010 semester is over in three school days! Next week I have my last 2 days of classes and then a couple of scattered finals. I cannot wait!

Me, mom and Janie have been doing some wedding planning in between all the homework and jobs we have. Mom is swamped with girls camp and Mormon Prom coming up quick, and I have school and work all week, but Friday mornings have become our planning times. As of today, we officially have 101 days left 'til the wedding! :)

It's been way exciting! I never really thought I'd get into this kind of thing, but it's fun picking colors and finding centerpieces and stuff. And I really love looking at wedding dresses online :)

This Friday and next Friday we are going to try some on.

Well, my blog has been stagnant and unchanging, but my life sure hasn't!

Dum dum da dum :)

Well, it's official! (as you all know by now) But Austin and I are engaged!! It has been completely wonderful and I am so excited :) Sorry for the week long delay but here is our story...
Last Friday, Austin and I both took a day off work and went up north, with the intent to hike near Show Low, have a picnic lunch and just get away. I have to admit, when Austin asked me to go I had a pretty good suspicision that this was why. But the day before we left, plans kept changing. We looked online and found that the forest we wanted to head to was closed seasonally and woudn't reopen til May.
So we modified a little and headed up early Friday morning for the Rim area. But alas, when we made it up to the turn off for the Rim Road Lakes, it was barred and locked. So...we were kindof at a loss. I gave up hope that he would be asking, because all the plans got frustrated.
We spent the day in various places, four wheeling for a while,

having lunch at Kolh's Ranch,
visiting Chrisopher Creek, but ultimately ended up deciding to head to ShowLow anyways.
On our way there, we saw the turn off for Snowflake, AZ. Austin said he'd never been to the temple there so I said, Well then let's go!
We wanted to stay until it got dark to look at stars (we have both taken astronomy and agreed that stargazing for class in the city is not as fun) So we had several hours to kill.
We arrived at the Snowflake Tempe at 3:30 and walked around for a while. We sat down on a granite bench behind the temple, overlooking the back fence and the rest of the city.

Austin then told me we should play a game. He was going to draw something in the dirt and I would guess what it was. And vice versa. So he sent me down the steps and around the other side of the temple while he drew.
After a few minutes of waiting, he came and got me. I walked to the back fence where he had drawn and started at the ground for a bit. Suddenly I realized what he had written.
I caught my breath and turned around. He was sitting behind me on the step, holding the ring.
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> It was beauiful and so perfect. The whole day had been. And I was so relieved that he actually did ask!! :) He even suceeded in surprising me

I want to be Jack Bauer!

Ok, so I'm not a big TV person. I love the show Veronica Mars, but since it was cancelled 2 years ago, I haven't had any shows I watched regularly. Usually the Office, but that depend on the week.

However, my tune has changed. I am officially hooked on the show 24! It is so good! For years I have heard people talk about it, but I'd never watched it.

Austin and his mom love 24. They have watched several seasons and have some on DVD. So right before the season started, they caught me up a little and we started off with a 4 hour marathon of 24 season 8 (the last season, of course, because I finally jumped on board)

If you've never seen the show before, it is about a man named Jack Bauer, who is pretty amazing. He specializes in counter-terrorism tactics and is just plain good at doing the right thing. It's very intense and fast-paced which I love. The show runs in real time, each hour long episode makes up one part of the 24 hour day (one whole season covers one day)

I'm definitely addicted. It's become our Monday night tradition to go over to Austin's after FHE to watch the new episode. This week, however, we were gone Monday and Tuesday and so we just caught up last night.

And wouldn't you know it, this week's episode was a 2 hour special! IT WAS FANTASTIC!

I know I'm a total dork, but I was glued. It was so exciting!

I can't wait til next Monday! :) Must have 24!

Random Dancing!

Have you seen the Nick show iCarly? It's a silly show (although I have to admit I find it hilarious) about a girl named Carly who runs a web show with her 2 best friends. They have this segment on their show called "Random Dancing" where crazy music plays and everyone has to, obviously, dance.

Yesterday at work I decided to try it :) It was sooo cute! My kids love to dance, we do it alot, but yesterday was even better. I have made multiple CDs of kid friendly, yet popular and upbeat songs to use, but yesterday our boom box busted.

So I jumped on the computer in my classroom and used the projector speakers instead. I was looking for music online, but I had to avoid district firewalls so I ended up on this obscure but awesome website called televisiontunes.com. If you are looking for any TV theme song (and I mean ANY, recent or past) they will have it! It was a blast :)

Looks like we will be doing a lot more Random Dancing in the future :)