V-Day Dance

Last year Nic and I spent our first Valentines Day together. A few days before, we went to a Valentine dance! I got a new dress for it and Nic, being the cute boy he is, got a vest and tie to match me :) We danced the night away and had so much fun!

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So this year we hear they are having it again but spaced it up until the very last minute.. so I didn't end up wearing a new dress, just one I happened to have in the closet, and it wasn't quite as fancy as last year. I was still excited to go until I showed up. This is how they decorated the place:
1. blue and white streamers
2. a few strands of lights that hung WAY to low that we ran into every five seconds ha
3. fake christmas trees
Sounding very Valentines Dayish to you??
Hmmm.... then they had a jazz band that no one knew how to dance to haha
We were hoping to make the most of it and then all our friends decided to leave and go bowling instead.
So we ended up just going home and watching the good old Bachelor!
Not quite as successful as last year but MAN did I have a good lookin date!

The only picture I get with Nic and I'm laughing like a big old goofball

Well... better hopes for next year!!

Clean as a Whistle

I know this may sound weird but I have been begging Nic to try one of those nose strips that cleans out your pores (I'm totally OCD about keeping them clean).... SO as part of our date night the other night we bought some!

Not only are they HANDY DANDY but they WORK LIKE A CHARM!

Mister addicted to AMP

Those noses look pretty dang clean to me!

Teaching with Technology

I LOVE being in my major because I now get to take classes that I actually enjoy!

But, for some reason I wasn't really looking forward to teaching with technology.

I didn't really know much about the class but not only is it a yucky three hours but it's also a night class. I thought it would be WAY different then it is. I'm LOVING this class!! It has actually been one of my favorite classes I have taken in my program so far :) SO I thought I would share a little creation that I made with you....

We were taught how to use a free program called Animoto where you can create picture/video slideshows and it's FREE to teachers.. love it. For our homework assignment we got to make a personal one, and I have been wanting to make a slideshow of Nic and I to play at our reception. Perfect opportunity?? I know right!

Needless to say, it is still a work in progress because I have to add baby/childhood pictures of each of us but here is where we actually started our lives together!

Enjoy :)

Our Story

the DRESS.

what's the third most exciting thing about getting married??????

That's right!
the DRESS

Top 3 Most Exciting Parts About Getting Married:
1. I get to marry the biggest HUNK in the whole world!
2. the RING
3. the DRESS

I'ts been 7 months now since I got the first two which are both total bliss and then came time for the planning. Over Thanksigivng break I got to go dress shopping with my MOH, MOB, MOG... if you don't know what those are, you're in for a treat when you get to learn "wedding jargon"... Yep, it has a whole language of it's own.
Anyway, I picked my dress at the very first store and one of the first few I tried on.

It's true what they say, try on anything and everything because you never know what you might fall in love with.... SO true for me!

After ordering it, they said it would take up to 5 months!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!?!
I was a little disappointed at first, but a happy camper today when I got the phone call....

it's HERE!!!

3 months earlier than expected! :)

Can't wait for Spring Break to go home and try it on all over again...
Nevermind, can't wait until May 21st when I get to wear it for him :)

Double Date!

On Friday night Nic and I decided it was time to see our great friends Mindy and Beau since it had been forever so we went on a double date!

... I know what you are thinking next, maybe this girl actually took some photos this time, NOPE, forgot the camera yet again... :/ hopefully next time!

Since we are poor college students, we had to choose on of the following:
Eat Out, Play In OR Eat In, Play Out

We settled on Eat In, Play Out!
They made us a yummy dinner...

IT WAS DELICIOUSSS!!

Then, it was up to Nic and I to choose the activity! At first we planned on going bowling until we went to three different alleys and they were already full. Well it would have been great if we had a PLAN B. oops.

We finally came up with something that turned out to be even better than bowling! who knew!

Kickin' it "old school"

(too bad our skates weren't these sweet colors)

That's right! We went roller skating at Deleta! I hadn't been skating in YEARS and I was a little more than shaky at the beginning ha. They had a few different contests, one where there are several numbers on the floor, you stop on a number when the music stops, a wheel is spun, and if you are on the right number... you get a ticket!

Mindy had this genius idea of all of us splitting up on different numbers to up our chances. It worked! We all got a free drink :)

After roller skating we decided to play:

Nic and I had never played before and didn't exactly have beginners luck but it was such a fun game!

After two-rounds of the game Mindy and I played on their IPads (now I am dying to have one) while the boys played 007

Thanks Mindy and Beau for a fun-filled evening!

Ice Skating

There is nothing better than starting the new year with a little ice skating!

The Group :)

Bara and Rossy Boy

Smash and Joseph

Meggie Moo and Nicky Poo

We LOVE ice skating

BFFAF

Ross was trying to "get lucky"

2011

We are SO happy this year has finally come, the year we get married! It has definitely been long awaited. With four and a half short months left we had A LOT of planning we needed to get done over the break.

Tux's check.
Cake check.
Shoes check.
Bridesmaid Dress (hopefully check).

Centerpieces check.

Napkins check.

And Registered CHECK!

We had so much fun registering, who knew we needed so much stuff!

Nic: "After I scanned you the screen pulled you up as PRICELESS!"

hahah soo cheesy, I couldn't stop laughing after he said that!

He had WAY too much fun with that thing.

I admit, registering was a little overwhelming at first, but it turned out that we had similar taste in everything and weren't one of the other ten couples registering that day arguing over whether or not their house would need art work on the wall..... I mean are you serious. haha

Okay Okay we didn't agree on EVERYTHING.

But there just happened to be only 1 item we did not see eye to eye on.....

The DYSON DC25: a VACUUM.

Ok people this piece of equipment was 500 DOLLARS.

Are you kidding me?!!

There is NO WAY anyone in their right mind is going to want to buy this beast for us off our registry.

Nic seems to think that we HAVE to have it and scanned it of course when I wasn't looking. DAH!!

So we go home and my mom is just about the most frugal person you could meet when it comes to money so I'm thinking, HEY, I'm totally gonna bring this up in front of her and she will take my side. Yeah... I was sorely mistaken.

I just about died when she not only agreed with him but told me that my parents spend $1200 DOLLARS on their vacuum!!

That is just plain crazy to me!!!
Yeah Yeah, I get that it will last longer and (Nic: "AND it only weighs 15 pounds") and yadda yadda but I'm still sticking to my initial reaction.

Dear Dyson DC25, if you are really going to make my future husband that happy... YOU BETTER BE WORTH EVERY PENNY!