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Engagement Pictures Take 1

Walter's sisters, Annie and Michelle, took some pictures of us when we 4 went to walk around the Draper Temple Sunday evening. We weren't really planning on taking engagement pictures, but that is what we kinda ended up doing. We actually like a couple of them, but we are still going to take more next Sunday when we can plan it a little better and wear different clothes. BUT I still wanted to put these pictures up for a vote and see what everyone thinks. So here they are:

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Please let me know which one you like the best!

Get over to that comment box and VOTE!!!

Whos Walter (part 2)...

Walter is now my amazing fiance!

He proposed to me on June 26th at

a beautiful spot near Ensign Peak overlooking the Salt Lake Valley at sunset. We pulled off on the side of the road because the view was goregous and Walter wanted to take a picture of us with the valley in the background. We took the picture, then Walter looked to see if it was ok. I asked to see the picture too, and finally he turned the camera around while asking "So, what do you think?" And the picture

was a sign that read, "Kristen, will you marry me!!" Then he did the whole getting down on one knee thing and put the gorgeous

ring on my finger. It was very sweet and cute, and basically I loved it!! It was one of the most special and amazing moments of my life...so far.

So we have been engaged for a little over a month now, and I'm just now blogging about it. Sorry. But I think most anyone who ever reads my blog already knows about the engagement, so I'm sure no one is too hurt.

We decided to get married on December 23rd at the Salt Lake Temple.

- Yes, we know its going to be cold and everyone

is going to freeze taking pictures outside after the wedding (sorry family).

- Yes, we realize that it is very possible the weather will be bad.

- Yes, we also know that the 23rd is Joseph Smith's birthday.

- Yes, it is two days before Christmas.

- Yes, I do know that two of my sister's (sorry Courtney and Lindsey) were also married on that day.

BUT...With both of us going to school and working, and having family all over the country who have to come in for the wonderful occasion, and with August being too soon but April too far away, we decided that December 23rd is the day that works out the best.

Who's Walter...?

Walter is my amazing boyfriend who is coming (from Utah) to visit me and meet my family at the end of the month!

The Commons...

I'm in a dinner group with 7 other people in my ward. We take turns cooking dinner 3 days a week. Tonight was the best dinner group night EVER! Our good friend David Garcia surprised us by treating us at a little place on campus called The Commons (the new Cannon Center to all of you Cougars and ex-Cougars) the freshman dining hall. Sooo...Hannah, David, Phil, and I took a little trip to the Freshman side of campus. It was awesome! I can't believe how nice it was and how many options of food they have there. It makes me sad for all of my friends at BYU-Hawaii who have to suffer eating at the Cafe.

Spring in February!!

In my last blog I forgot to mention that while Kiara and I were at Temple Square on February 27th we spotted the first real (not planted) flowers of the year. They were little tiny purple things that you can barely see in the picture, but I was so excited (as you can see by the crazy look on my face) that I just had to take a picture with them. Kiara thought I was crazy...she's probably right!

The Big Yellow One is the Sun!!!!

Could anything be better then a Friday night watching Brian Regan....I submit that it cannot!!!

Last weekend, Kiara and I had the pleasure of driving to Logan, UT. It is about a 2 and a half hour long drive, but we love going on road trips together. We stopped in Salt Lake and walked around temple square for a while. We got to take pictures in front of the temple. It was super cold and windy, but I took my coat off to sacrifice for the sake of the picture (just like for Lindsey and Justin's Wedding Photos!)
I'm in the left picture and Kiara is in the one on the right.

Then we continued our trek up to Logan, and finally entered Cache Valley. The ground (but not the road) was snow blanketed and the valley was really beautiful.



Now for the good stuff...

We saw Brian Regan in the Ellen Eccles Theater and it was absolutely amazing. I only recognized 3 or 4 short pieces of jokes from his DVDs, so basically everything I heard was new to me...it was pure happiness. I honestly don't think there was a moment
that I wasn't laughing (I felt slightly bad for the people sitting in from of me, at least I have a cute laugh...hehe!). Our seats were not super fantastic, but we were close enough to see his facial expressions and seeing his face makes the jokes even funnier.

Do I need more proof then this pic?

We had so much fun together...can't you tell by the smiles on our faces ; )

The Birds part 2 on Valentines weekend!

Somehow that crazy bird (if you are confused see the previous post) managed to disconnect whatever tube it happened to be stuck in on its struggle to regain freedom. Not only did it pull the tube from the back of the dryer but it also ripped the tube out of the wall! So we four girls (Hannah, Sarah, Kiara, and I) were left dryer-less for a few days...oh the humanity!


On Saturday (V-day) Hannah's amazing brother-in-law's brother who is also our good friend, Steven, came over to reconnect our dryer tube. He fixed it in record time using as his only tools his own ingenuity and duck tape (of course, what can't be fixed with duck tape)! Which is slightly ironic since a duck is a bird and a bird is what caused the problem....humm interesting (I know that it is actually called duct tape, but Duck Tape is a brand of duct tape...just to clarify)! Also for your information Steve is not headless although the first two pictures suggest otherwise, and just to prove it here is a picture of him with his head.The rest of our Valentines day consisted of Sarah baking about 140 heart shaped sugar cookies (no joke!), Sarah and Annie, Sarah's sister, making creatively designed Valentines, Sarah and I icing the cookies, and then finally Hannah, Sarah, and I delivering the cookies.
All in all it was a pretty good Valentines day.

The Birds!!!!

Have you ever seen Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds? I assume most everyone has. Have you ever been attacked by a bird in an enclosed space? I assume that most have not. Here is my story:

On Thursday night, my roommate, Hannah, and I were spending a relatively boring night in the kitchen. I was reading my Physics homework, and she was cooking breakfast burritos. Then all of the sudden I see a bird swoop in from the back of our apartment in to the kitchen...straight at us. Let the screaming begin! Rewind just a bit...all day long we had been hearing a noise coming from our dryer vent. We assumed it was an animal most likely a bird, and our landlord was planning on coming over to help us get it out that night. Ok, back to the screaming...Hannah had no idea why I was screaming and jumping out of my seat so I yelled, "the bird's in the apartment!" It had somehow escaped the dryer vent and it was mad or scared or well probably both.

She may or may not have screamed, but I know for sure that she fell in the floor, pulled her hood over her head. And do you know what was the first thing she said while crouched in the fetal position? "Oh no!! My food! Kristen, cover it and turn off the burner" I covered the pan and turned off the burner (remember this...its important for later). All the while, the crazy bird is still swooping around our apartment. Diving at us, then feigning away...diving...feigning...then diving once again. I ran to my room (while screaming and dodging the bird) to grab my phone, keys, and some shoes so we could get out of the apartment and hide in the hallway. When I got back to the kitchen, Hannah was still in the floor, but she was a little closer to the door then before. I opened the door and told her to come outside. At about the same time, the bird (which was behind her in the kitchen) started to swoop once again, so I yelled, "Hannah! Crawl to the door!" For some crazy reason, she actually listened to me and the bird swooped over her instead of possibly hitting her in the back (accidentally, of course). So then we were in the safety of the hallway. The only problem was....the bird was still flying around our apartment...

We called Andy and Brett, friends of ours from the ward, and asked them to come over and help us get the bird out of our apartment. In a few minutes, they were here. When we opened the door, we realized that disaster had stuck again...something was burning. Hannah had been using two burners on the stove, and I had only noticed the one. As a result, we had one extremely blackened tortilla and pan on the stove. Andy and Brett scared the bird out the patio door in probably less then 30 seconds using an exercise ball (yeah I don't know why, but it worked) and a broom.

Our apartment was finally birdless, but it was now very very smokey and burnt smelling. We opened windows and the patio's screen door, turned on a fan, and turned off the heat. We froze for most of the rest of the night.

That's it...the end. Its longer then expected, but that's ok because it would have taken a while for me to tell you over the phone anyway. We sure do wish we would have had a video camera to record the whole thing.

I gave into the peer pressure.....and created my own blog

So I finally decided to break down and just get a blog. This way I can just tell all of you my hilarious stories at once instead of having to recount every tale to each one of you over and over again and possibly leaving one or two of you out of the funniness of my life. Although, I do love telling you my stories over the phone because then I get to hear your lovely laughter and get immediate feedback (hint, hint....that means I want comments). ; ) This will hopefully make keeping in touch with everyone significantly easier.

I do, however, want to remind you that I am in no way a writer or a grammarian (in spite of the fact that I am in a Grammar/Language Science class this semester!). I love using parenthesis and ellipses in my writing...so you'll just have to get used to it. I can't promise that I'll keep this up to date, but I'll try my best to write on here frequently and use lots of pictures so you don't have to read all of the time. Also, since there is not always something interesting going on in my life, I might back track and write stories and post pictures from last semester or my year in Hawaii. I hope you are excited because I know that I sure am!!!