ENGAGED :)

YUP it's true... Oct. 14,2010 S proposed to me :). I couldn't be happier!!! I'm so excited to become my best friend's wife and to live happily ever after with him. He is truly an amazing man of God, and I couldn't ask for a better man for me. I'm so excited I barely got sleep last night. So I'm off to bed.. but I had to put it on my blog, IM SO EXCITED!!!

We're hoping for May 21,2011... So I have like 218 days to go! :S

Hats :)

So i've been making hats.. and i LOVE it :) :)... its soo mcuh fun to do!! S's neighbor F taught me how, and she is such a great teacher.. here's 2 of the ones I've so far made, im currently working on one for S now :). Hope he likes it!!!

24's a good number :)

My list of what I would like to accomplish as a 24 year old..



*Shrink an inch

*Lose 20 pounds

*Move out of my dad's place

*Pay off ALL debt

*Get E'ed

*Get my MRS degree ;)

*GO TO FREAKING HAWAII ( this one I WILL accomplish)

*Plan the best fajita!

*Have my foot size shrink a few inches

*Do something drastic to my hair

*Go to Fairbanks

*Eat at Double Musky

*Go to Indiana(happening in ONE month )

*Have the best 1st Christmas with Scott :)

*See my best friend miss seven sleeps herself again :)

*Go on a steakmoon(NDA i figure you make steak fajitas so a steakmoon is what happens with fajitas right?!?)

*Cook more and more

*make lots of hats!!!

Almost 24

I will be 24 in 5 days, and I feel as if this past year of being 23 has dramatically changed my life. So, i think I'll reminse about my 23rd year of life.
Last year at this time I was confused, and heartbroken and totally not even close to walking with God. I was depressed, and poor and frustrated with life. I had two roomates, one that I got along with really well and that was the extent of my fun. However, I wasn't happy there's definetley a big difference between having fun and being happy. I made a lot of sinful mistakes last fall, and I'm just so blessed and thankful that God is a forgiving God. When I look back now, I realize that if I hadn't gone through that I may have not been so anxious to reconsile to God and get my life back. I know that what I went through last fall wasn't what God wanted for me, and looking back not what I wanted for myself, but it's what caused me to break completley to bring me back to the throne of God and His grace. :) SO cool He is! I ended up hurting my roomates and breaking a lease that they weren't happy about, and losing a good friendship, but Jan. I got re baptised, turned my life over to God, and not even two weeks later met the love of my life S! It's amazing what God can do when you turn your heart back to Him. These past 7 months have been the craziest, and best months of my life. We have our frustrations, like when the ice cream in the freezer melts and I think it should be thrown away, but S wants to try and re freeze it :). Or when noodles fall in the sink and I refuse to eat them :) haha. But seriously, I have grown SO SO much and S and I have grown so much together, and we couldn't have done it without the grace of our Lord. As I look back to last year, and how much I was hurting, but struggled to hold on to that hurt because it was comfortable, I see now that when I let go and let God, all things are possible. I challenge whoever reads these- if your comfortable in a situation, but you know it's not right, then be bold step out of that comfort zone and make a choice to let go and let God. I promise you'll end up better in the end. He can do great things.
In the next few days I'll write my list of what I want to do in my 24th year. :) it's good so stay tuned!

Apartment :)

S found an apartment YAY!!! it's in Peters Creek and right next door to some very good friends of ours. :) it's a one bed. one bath and def. older apartment, but he likes it and so do I. We started moving in stuff last night, and let me tell you S has a lot of crap, but we got a good load over to the apartment and he will move all the big stuff today. I'm excited that we will have our own place to hangout at, and he has his own place to call home. Maybe someday it will get to be my home too! ;) Also, S started actualy work in the NICU this past weekend, and let me tell you 12 hours without him is NO FUN! Sat and Sun he had to work, but I managed to stay busy shopping,lunch with my mom, and scrapbooking. I got three pages done in my scrapbook and I found a lot of ideas too for new pages, so I'm excited to continue working on it on the days he works. My birthday is in three weeks and yay I'm excited! I don't have any big plans as of yet, but I know S will spoil me, and we will def. be going out to dinner, and his dad is going to bbq me whatever I want for dinner too! :) S likes his job so far and I'm very thankful that he likes what he does, and he gets paid so well to do it. I'm wishing I could start my dream job, but I think God has different plans for now ;). My dream job has some things that come before it, but it will happen eventually, I have NO doubt about that. :) Im excited for a weekend off with S in his new place, and then next week for my very best friend to visit me! YAY!!!!

I'm still alive :)

Sorry it's been so long since I've written, though I'm pretty sure I'm just saying sorry to myself because I don't think anyone but me reads these. S got the NICU nursing job and I couldn't be a prouder girlfriend. So, because he got a job we have been looking for apartments for him. It is such a difficult thing looking at apartments in AK. If only he didn't have a budget, and we had more options. There just isn't a lot in his price range. I know that God will provide though, it will just take patience, somethign I'm not great at :). If only there were endless options like I'm sure there are in LA, or NY, or Boston or Florida or something. I do love craigslist and the apartments there. Like this one in Boston. Stainless steel, gorgeous hardwood floors. Love it! Check out this bathroom in NY city. :) wow... if only I had a million dollars and didn't know what to do with it... so fun looking at expensive places and pretending your rich.
I promise I won't neglect you so much blogspot anymore. Afterall it is September my favorite month, things are BOUND to happen to write about :).

Ponderings

I like that word pondering. It makes me feel like I'm really thinking hard, and using my big ole head for something. :) I have been pondering a few things lately and would love imput, or not whatever.
~Why is it that I feel so useless lately? Not like useles at my job, not useless as a person I can still do things, but lately I've felt useless as a Christian, like I should be doing more. Going to a bible study, teaching children's church, something to feel more use full :). I go to church(which I love my new church by the way) and I usually get something out of the sermon's and or worship and S and I read every night a chapter(we are reading through the Bible in a year), but I'm just feeling like there's got to be more I can be doing. Exspecially after this past weekened helping out at kids camp, I have forgotten how much i LOVE working with kids, and miss it. TERRIBLY! I miss seeing the kids faces glow, and light up, and grow and search for answers. I miss being a part of a study where I get to discuss and grow myself. S and I are reading through the 5 love languages, and that's been really good and I have learned a lot through that. Hopefully,maybe I can continue that growth somehow, someway.

~Also, why do I feel so happy lately? Yeah I might be feelign useless, but I'm loving everything in my life. Okay, so the question isn't why am I so happy I know the answer to that one, it's obvious that God has extremely blessed me this year and exspecially the past 6 months ;) <3, but why did God decide to bless me? Why me? Last year I was No where near where I should have been following Christ, I was lost lost lost. Still figuring out exactly what I thought I wanted in life and taking an extremley wrong path. I know God has compassion on His children and loves us no matter what, and I'm not sayign I'm not thankful, I just wonder why me? I'm so glad He did and has put a whole new direction and love and spirit in me to be back to the path I was on 5 years ago and then help the growth. I feel as if I have grown so so much in the past 8 months and am so happy and joyful and blessed!

Just a couple of ponderings ;)

KIDS CAMP!!

So, this past weekend I had probably the most fun I have had in a while. Our church puts on what's called kids camp once a year for fri-mon and kids ages 6-13. It was so much fun to watch the kids learn about God. What really got me is watching these kids listen so quietly and intently to the videos they were showing. Kids are such sponges, just listening and learning and taking it all in. They are so much fun! And extremely EXHAUSTING!!!! But, all in all we had a blast. My handsome S was a counselor/nurse and it was fun watching him be interactive with the kids too. He will be such a good dad someday! ;). There were also a few incidents with injuries and nurse S was right there to help. All in All great weekend :).

Even cleaning the bathrooms was fun! haha
oh and watching S get pelted with green chalk balls was highly entertaining as well. :)

One Heck of a week

It's been one of those weeks... I think it's a number of things.. ONe because it's week after vacation, two because I STILL have my cough from 3 weeks ago(and yes I'm too stubborn and poor to go to a doctor), and three because I'm a girl and once a month us girls just..(need I say more?).

So I have been exhausted going home every night, S and I are watching this which has been freaking hilarious and kept me fairly upbeat, but I'm just plain freaking tired.

I need a nap what about in this beayootiful home. Yes? I think so.

Off I am for the weekend (well tomorrow after ANOTHER LONG DAY OF WORK) to this place.
Talk about an exhausting sounding weekend after a long week. Me and S are helping out with a camp for kids through our church. S is a counselor and I'm a helper, hopfully I'll have strength and a good attitude. Both, I'm currently struggling with.

Exciting News to Share....

Sorry for the blogging lull, I've been on vacation, which was awesome :)! S and I went to the ocean, and to SF and to the "mountains" of Cali. and we had a lot of fun, and I came back with a little tan.

But that's not anythign crazy exciting compared to this. My very bestest friend whose blog you can find here.. www.7sleeps.blogspot.com is coming to ALASKA!!!!! :D :D :D It's been a year and 6 months since I will have seen her and def. VERY DEF. overdue BFF time :) Im soooo excited to see her!!! We have been friends since 8th grade but best friends since our freshman/sophmore year. We have had so many crazy times together, and we always make the best memories together..

Can't wait to see you NDA!!!

Loverly Monday

It's Monday once again, and it's SUNNY!:( This is really rather depressing because it wasn't very nice all weekend, and Friday was nice and today is nice. How is that supposed to work? How Mr. Sunshine am I supposed to enjoy you if I'm INSIDE in an office??


Here's my random links of the day...





If ONLY I could wear this and look stunning in it... LOVE it and the color!





mmmm love me some popcorn! I was really bummed I missed out on this at Bear Paw.





So I finished it and I think it turned out so cute do you think I shoudl go into a diaper cake buisness? Can't wait to see what everyone at the baby luncheon thinks!

what do you think??

I've been hunting for a new carry-on bag..

here's some cute ones I've found on my new favorite site etsy.com

*how modern and cute is this one?
*Love it!

*This one is just so different, and I love it!

*This one is just darling too!

Why are there no good stores in Alaska? :(

Read,White,and Bleu

This weekend was a blast for various reasons. Tried on a bridesmaid dress, went to a wedding, saw a parade, and fireworks, and celebrated a birthday.

S and I had fun creating our dream things last night... including a dream car

and a dream home. This one is gorgeous!!

S's brother B and his girlfriend A made these yesterday for their dad D's birthday. Tequila LIme cupcakes. YUM they were SOOO delicious, I loved it. What a fun recipe and idea.

Today I'm wearing a pair of vera wang gladiator flats, and I just love them. I just have a little problem walking in them, haha. They are soo cute though! I love flats, flip flops, anything that does NOT have a heel. I'm tall so I feel like heels are not an option. What is your favorite pair of shoes?

My project of the week/month? A diaper cake... I have a baby luncheon shower in two Saturdays. I hope mine turns out like this one

How cute is this?? Any diaper cake makers out there? Any suggestions??

Blessing 187-For new pillows :)

My mind is blogged...

I have had a blogging lull. I'm not really sure what to blog about so this will be random Thursday.I find myself expecting things to be very bad lately, financially,emotionally,physically, whatever... and yet God is teaching me to not always watch out for the worst. First of all I had a Dr. Appointment earlier this week, something I was VERY nervous about, and anxious that the Dr. woudl find somethign wrong. Of course, that didn't happen everything looks extremely normal, and I'm pretty dang healthy :). Then my paycheck. We get paid the 1st and the 16th, and I was super afraid that my paycheck was going to be extremely low, and I wasn't going to have anything to pay my bills, and what not. God again is good, because my paycheck was just high enough, and also I'm getting a couple extra bucks here and there to help out some folks, and I'm doing a housesitting gig starting next week. did I mention God is good? Then, I got a call about a wrong mailing address from my car insurance, so I called back and asked for the correct one, and while I was at it, asked what my new monthly payments were. Before my payments were EXTREMELY i mean VERY high, and God again is good, because they got lowered a 100.00 a month! That's WAY awesome!! I am struggling right now with catchign up on bills, but I know I am extremley blessed and God always takes care of me.. :)How are you taken care of??

Blessing #181 For an awesome walk with my amazing man last night :)

here's my throwback for Thursday NDA :) Good Times in Seattle!

You've been framed!

I love LOVE pictures, I take them ALL the time, and someday me and S's house is going to have quite the pictures in it. I love looking for frames, unique ones that have their own personality. Check out these

corner frames! How cool is that? I think it would look awesome in a bathroom. I think this one would look awesome down a beamed wall, where there might not be a whole lot of room to do much else on, and how they have patterns in the frames, that's pretty cool too.

This one is probably my favorite. I love the whole string pictures together idea, and I think it would be so cool to have a photo shoot for just these grouped frames together.

I cant wait to have a house to decorate with these!!

Blessing 177-Hangout time with Jenna

Blessing 178-For awesome worship, and catching up

Blessing 179-For living,and loving.

Things that make me laugh

Friday's things...

Dancing in the rain always makes me laugh, and it's something I always try to do when we have a hard rain.. In fact not too many weeks ago (Memorial Day Weekend) We had a hard rain for a few minutes and S and I def. got soaked. I wasn't exactly dancing, but I was definetly laughing. :)

Do you ever see license plates, and take forever to decifer them? Well, I love trying to figure out license plates, and S and I often discuss back and forth what eachother's decifer is. This normally has me laughing by the end of it. There's one I found that says blonde and it's upside down :) hehe, that to me is awesome.

I love a good corney joke too, do you ever hear a joke and it's so corney you just have to laugh? My dad and I normally email eachother back and forth corney jokes (or text them). last night I got a text from you guessed who and it said what's a librarian's favorite kind of dog? A LAB! hahahahaha. Oh come on, you had to at least smile!

But my most favorite thing that I laugh at is tickling. I pretend to hate it when S tickles me, but I honestly LOVE it :). Who doesn't love to be tickled by their love?

Laughter really is the best medicine :).

Blessing 176- For laughter. :)

Bookworm Love

I just love books, don't you? How can you not? One of my most favorite things in the worls is to curl up for several hours in bed and read a good book. It seems these days that I have S distracting me from reading, but I still get some done. Right now I'm in the middle of Stranded in Paradise by Lori Copeland.

It's a good book, full of romance and disasters and HAWAII. Someday me and S will get there!

I found this picture..

This is a hut made entirely of donated books. How cool is that? I want one in my house someday. Acutally for reals, I do want my own personal library with the cool looking library shelves like this would be breathtakingly gorgeous. Check out that bay window nook to read on! I love it.
What is your favorite read? I always need new suggestions. I'm totally a fiction girl, and I prefer Christian Fiction, however I do love Nicholas Sparks, and the Twilight series.

Blessing 175~ For a fun date night with S, and for dried mango YUM!

Tired

Today I am just exhausted... I'm craving a vacation and one of these. I also wouldn't mind a this to relax on :). Check out those cute little bungelows. If I ever make it to Hawaii, I want to stay in a bungelow type thing.
I love looking at photography, any photography at all. I love seeing how photographers put things into perspective. My favorite is def. when people are phtographed. I love scenic pictures, but there's somethign about trying to figure out a persons emotions, and thoughts in a picture that I just love. I love Kristen Taylor's stuff, check out the second blog from the top. The 6th picture down under nicole and andy are married. Check out N's face, I bet I know what she's thinking. :)this one by Tara Whitney is too cute. I love the kids faces!!
I am currently eating one of my favorite healthy snacks. I'm not really a fan of mangoes when they are fresh, but dry them and YUM! Now doesn't that look good?

Blessing 174! That Me and S have ntohing planned for tonight!

I think we might do some of this and we are def. pushing ourselves to do this.

What do you have planned for tonight?

Everbody's Doing it!

I caved. Yup, everybody is blogging these days. So I gave in.. It might be revamped several times before I'm completly happy with it, but right now I like it. I decided to name it hilo's love life, not because I want to endlessly talk about me and S, even though we both know S will come into play in this blog quite a bit, but I want to enjoy the loves of my life, and enjoy sharing them. So I hope you enjoy reading. Plus I figured I could write down my blessing's of the day on here to, and maybe incorporate those into my posts.

Blessing 173~For at least one sunny day, and for hugs mochas!