A recap of 2012!

Wow, I am so glad this year is coming to an end! It has been pretty crazy so I hope 2013 will be much better! Here is a recap of what happened this year.

I got accepted to my dream school but ended up hating it.

Stayed in and ordered pizza for Valentine's Day. 

 Saw The Vow with Kyle

 Did a sushi making class!

 Kyle transferred to BYU-H and I bawled my eyes out. I went into depression mode.

 Mom and Lyn visited me in Provo to cheer me up!

 

  My beloved cousin, Alice Demske Hansen, passed away. 

 

The family came up to Utah for Alice's funeral. We were able to go exploring in Salt Lake City!  

 

Decided to abandon my apartment contract and plane ticket to road trip home early with the fam back to Texas! {So glad I made that decision}

Went to my cousin's high school graduation!

Spent my birthday with my family but no Kyle :( I got a canoe though! haha

Went wedding dress shopping with my family! {need to do a blog post on this}

 

 Took a road trip to Minnesota with my family. This is the log cabin my aunts and uncles grew up in.

 Spent the 4th with family!

 Moved to the great state of Hawaii to be reunited with my love and go to BYU-H!

 I got engaged!

Made some great friends!

 

I got two new beautiful baby cousins! Jamie and Ariana!

 

Married my soul mate!

This year has been bipolar to say the least. Kyle and I went through our toughest phase in our relationship and I have made the worst grades ever in my academic career. Yet I spent an amazing summer with my family and got married in the Laie Temple! I am so excited to see what next year has in store!

Peanut Butter.

When our family came to stay for our wedding, they stayed in a rental house and bought TONS of food. So when they left we got to keep everything that was left over. While we were putting it all away in our new apartment, we found an almost full jar of peanut butter! Now it wasn't the small jar either, it was a big, brand-named jar of peanut butter! We were so excited because we don't usually buy peanut butter cause it's like $6 a jar! It's embarrassing I know.

So today when I went into work I saw a gift on my desk. I got a card, Bath & Body Works goodies and a Costco-sized jar of peanut butter! I had told my boss the story when it happened and she remembered.

It's amazing how such a small gesture can make someone feel so special. I truly believe that this is what Christmas is about. It's not about seeing who can spend the most money, but really showing someone that you care by remembering that they're poor and buying them a huge jar of peanut butter ;).

The semester is over!

So I wasted my Friday night by making a 74 on my finance final tonight -_-. Not exactly how I wanted to start my weekend but hey, the semester is over! I was actually not as stressed as I usually am for finals. I think having so much anxiety from the wedding made finals feel like nothing. I feel like I worked a lot harder this semester than I did during the summer. I literally spend on average 12 hrs on campus everyday. I had class starting at 8:40-10 then work til 5, dinner, then accounting and finance labs until 11. Even though I feel like I worked so hard, my grades still won't show for it. It's so frustrating to me because getting a B is like getting an A for me now. Hopefully next semester I will be able to kick it up a notch. But in the mean time, I get to spend Christmas in Hawaii with the love of my life! :)



****sorry I don't care if you think all my posts are boring now because I'm not getting married anymore.

Orchestra!

Since it's the end of the semester our orchestra was able to perform two concerts last week! All semester we have been working on Handel's Messiah. It's an oratorio with like 50 something movements, lucky we only played about half of them. I am so glad that I was able to participate in orchestra this year, it was really fun! I had the best stand partner ever, my roommate, and got to meet a lot of cool people! Now, my orchestra experience wouldn't be complete without that one special person who all orchestras have! It's the person who...

Thinks they're the soloist and the star of the show and play as loud as they can!
ALWAYS came late to rehearsal!
PLUCKS and TUNES while the conductor is talking!
Doesn't follow the right bowings!
and....RUSHES!!!

And of course they were in the 1st violin section. Nonetheless the concert turned out great and I can't wait to see what's in store for next semester! ^.^

Family Ward.

Yesterday was our first Sunday at church! Now since we are students, we have the choice of going to a married student ward or a family ward. If you know Kyle, you know he definitely did not want to go to the student ward. I really didn't care.
So since Kyle and I moved to Kahuku people would ask me what our new ward was but I had know clue. I just told them that we lived by the hospital and they'd go, "Oh you're in Kahuku 1st ward! That's the best ward!" So, we go to church and man is it huge! Since Kahuku/Laie area is so small, we saw professors, co-workers, and fellow students. One of the ladies that works in my office is the relief society president. She is a hoot.
After church the bishop wanted to meet with us and the other new couple that just moved in. He's from Fiji and has a super thick accent. He's super nice though! Anyways, we loved it and are so glad to be in a family ward again!

Lazy Weekend.

Wow, so this weekend was great! It was the first weekend Kyle and I didn't have to worry about wedding stuff. And what did we do? Watch movies, eat, and play with our iPads. Friday after work we bought some groceries and went straight home. Kyle actually let me watch Ice Princess ^.^. Then on Saturday, we got to sleep in. It was so nice! Made pancakes and eggs for breakfast and watched some more movies. We didn't leave the house until like 5 so we could meet my roommates at Kahuku Grill. It was fun:) Then we came back and watched more movies! Then today, Kyle and I watched more movies. Oh man it was nice. I should be pretty rejuvenated for the week. School is over in just 2 weeks! I am BEYOND excited!

Wedding Planning.

Okay so as you could tell from my other post I had a VERY hard time planning my wedding even though it was super small. Although I know it's not going to happen, I never want to plan another wedding in my life. I hope Kyle and I will make enough money to hire wedding planners for our children. After the wedding was over, I had never been more relieved in my life. I was so stressed throughout the whole process and I was in school. You know how some brides lose weight because they're so stressed? Well that was me, even though it didn't look like it haha. Everyone told me I lost weight. It was cause of the stress. So a lot of my peers are engaged or dating seriously and I want to give a little wedding advice, so here it goes.

1. Start saving now! Weddings are so expensive. Every time I wrote a check I wanted to throw up because I felt like I was signing my life away. Also everything adds up.

2. Trust your instincts. Once you make a decision on colors and style, don't question it and stick with it. My engagement was only three months and the envision that I had evolved over that short time but everything just came together.

3. Have low expectations. I see all these girls have these elaborate Pinterest boards and Style Me Pretty weddings are like $75,000. Yeah, no thanks.

4. DON'T GO TO DAVID'S BRIDAL. I went there just to get a feel of what I wanted but they were super pushy and overpriced. Also if you're Mormon, they don't have a lot of modest options. So if you're in Utah and not even engaged go to a Alta Moda bridal and buy something on sale. I'm not kidding, I wish I had done that.

5. Don't break the bank with your dress. I know this sounds terrible because its like the most important component of your wedding but you wear it once. I am so glad I paid less for my wedding dress than my senior prom dress. Now I don't have to feel guilty about it when it just sits in my closet. I honestly would've been happy wearing a potato sack. I just wanted to marry Kyle. Although if I had decided to buy a more expensive dress I probably wouldn't have regretted it.

6. Just elope. I never understood why people would want to elope but now I do. It's so much easier because you don't have to deal with all the expenses and family drama. You'd be surprised too at how much your family will support you. Just make sure you have a nice photographer so you can share pictures.

7. Etsy is your best friend. Not a DIY kinda person? Don't worry, you can just buy it off of etsy and voila it's done!

Okay I can't think of anything else, hope this helps. If any of you future brides need help you k ow how to contact me;)







 

I'm Married!

So the whole week before our wedding day, I was dreading its arrival. It was just coming too quickly and I knew it was just all going to be over in 8 hours. And it was. But it was the best 8 hours of my life! The night before I couldn't sleep because I was so stressed out and nervous. Now sleep and I are best friends and I don't lose sleep over anything so you know it was bad. And it wasn't because I was having doubts or anything, it was because of the stupid wedding itself! Like all the flowers, my hair, the restaurant, everything. You don't exactly get a dress rehearsal for your wedding so it was kinda freaking me out that I didn't know how it was all gonna go. And I HATE PLANNING. Before this wedding, I couldn't even plan a surprise birthday party if I wanted to. I was basically a guy, I didn't know what colors coordinated and what style I wanted. Luckily on the day, everything was perfect! Kyles suit and my dress, which got finished the week of the wedding -_- looked great! I LOVED my flowers which I was really worried about because basically all I did was send a few pictures of what I liked. The restaurant we ate at had the perfect ambiance for the day which we never even had tried their food before:/. Now all of this sounds really irresponsible but it was hard! I had only been on the island for a few months and didn't know where anything was, didn't have a car, and didn't have family on the island to help me. Kyle wasn't too big of a help either-_-. Every time he tried to help we would never see eye to eye because we have totally different tastes but I still love him:)

So for the actual marriage part, it went by so fast. It's like we walked into the room and the next thing you know we're married. Like that! Then we came out of the temple and all our family was there and it was so exciting:) it was so weird because I've been to so many weddings and you just look at the bride but then this time I was the bride! It was so crazy. Then Kyle and I took pictures for about an hour with the amazing Chris Simons. You have to book him if you're in Hawaii. I'm still trying to be patient to see the rest of the photos but from what I've seen they look amazing! :)

Then we all ate at a restaurant at Turtle Bay. The food was so good and pretty! We did the usual cake cutting and took some more pictures on the beach. Then it was all over! Just like that! I would do anything to relive that day for just once. All of the hard work put into it and being with family. Oh, and marrying the love of my life:)