Single digits

HOLY COW!!!! I GET MARRIED IN 8 DAYS!!!! ... just in case you were wondering! ;) I was so excited to check the weather yesterday to see what it will be like on the 31st! I hope it stays how it says now! Snowy on Thursday, sunny on Friday. Perfect! Just what I wanted! And, I just looked again and it is supposed to snow on the 1st as well.. amazing!
We've had a lot going on this past week. We had a Christmas party at work last week and the kids enjoyed seeing santa, drinking hot chocolate, making crafts, frosting sugar cookies and watching christmas movies. The kids were all so cute.
Brad had a Christmas party for his work as well and I got to go. It was an ugly sweater party and you could win cool stuff, like a big screen, Ipad, really nice coats and stuff like that. We played lots of games to win tickets and then we put the tickets in a bag of what item we wanted. We, sadly did not win anything big, but we did get 2 gift cards, and a nice watch. It was a fun night and it was fun to meet some of the guys that he lived with over the summer. We also went skiing one day last week together and that was fun!
Kylee and Brody are home!!! Yipee! They came a day early and surprised us. I have loved having them here! We had a little welcome home/christmas party with them and the Bundy's on sunday. After our delicious thanksgiving meal, we played some fun games and the winner for each game got a prize. We played a clapping game that got pretty intense and funny and also scum and sardines. It was a fun night!

After the shower on Tuesday, we went to Uncle Gary's house for a party because his daughter Haley is home from DC. We went on a sleigh ride, ate dinner and played some fun games. Me and Kylee had fun playing in the kids room and rolling down this slide thing that they have.
We had fun taking some awkward pictures with all 6 of us. These still make me laugh out loud when I look at them. I couldn't stop laughing in the one of me and brad, of which is supposed to be a serious one.
Then, we had to take one good one as well.

All of the sibling went skiing together today. We actually all stayed together all day and I thought it was pretty fun. I hope I didn't slow everyone down since everyone is better than me and I do not love doing as much powder and hard run like they do. After we got back from skiing, Brad left to go to Willard. He is staying there until either Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. I already miss him so much and I do not know how I am going to go 5 days without seeing him. I'm sad that we can't spend Christmas together, but we decided to do separate this year since it will be our last. This week is going to be a busy one. My to do list just keeps getting longer, no matter how much I can cross off, it seems like there is always something to add to it. But I am so excited for everything and I do not feel too stressed, hopefully my mom doesn't.. that is the real question!

Shower me with love!

I just had my last shower on Tuesday, so now I can do this post. I'm so sad that I didn't get any pictures from the shower that I had for Brad's family. We tied the quilt, ate yummy food, played games and opened presents at his sister Brooke's house. It was a very fun shower and I was glad I got to meet some more of Brad's family.

The next shower was with my friends. We ate, I had to eat gum for missing questions about Brad (I think I only missed 5 out of about 25), opened presents and had fun talking and hanging out.
Brad's best friend's wife also threw me a small little friend shower. We had some delicious lunch, then played a wedding matching game and opened presents.
The next shower was the ward one. We had it at the Roskelley's and had so many people shower up, it was great! They had yummy cheesecake.
The last shower was the family shower. Lindsey really outdid herself with all of the decorations. It was all very cute though, and Kylee made a cake for us! The theme of this shower was "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue". So that is why everything is blue, including my hair and most everybody's clothes. I also got something old, new, borrowed, and blue from my mom, sister, and 2 grandmas. We also played a game to see who was most like Brad, and it ended up being my Aunt Teresa! Everyone gave us some awesome wedding advice as well. It was a great shower!

This was the result after all of the showers except for the last, since we were able to move everything into our house that night. It is nice to not have it all on the side of my bed now. Oh, and for those of you wondering... We are living in a basement apartment on 7th north and about 2nd east, just down from campus. I am very excited about it, especially since we know the people upstairs and we will be in our friend's ward! I am so grateful to everyone who came to all of the showers but especially for those that threw them and all the hard work they put into making it a fun shower for me! Thanks everyone!

Engagements

I know many of you have been wanting to see some more engagements so here they all are! :) My cousin Sydney did the first 3 and my cousin Lindsey did the last 4. They both did such a great job and I love them all! Enjoy!

As of lately

Ok, so I know, I have been terrible at blogging lately. I have also been TERRIBLE at taking pictures, sadly. But I have been very busy. Here are some things that I've been up to after the engagement in no particular order.
This is a random picture that I found. I cannot figure out where or when it was taken, but I like it!

-I got to babysit some of my favorite kids over the weekend. I brought them to church with me and they were so good to just sit on our laps and be quiet. I was a little worried about it since they are not members and would not be used to sitting quiet for so long, but they did great! We also took them to hillcrest to play at the park. I did not know that they were getting a new playground, so that was fun to play around on.

-This Thanksgiving was a snowy one, and I loved it! There was a blizzard warning on tuesday so campus closed at 2. I thought that would mean I would get out of my test that was at 1:30, but no such luck. On wednesday I had work and then Brad and I went to the USU basketball game. On Thanksgiving day, we went to Grandma's for dinner and boy was it delicious! I had to steal this picture from my mom's blog since I did not take any pictures.. sad! My favorite part of the meal was the sauerkraut. It's always been one of my favorites. Now I just have to get Brad to like it!

After we finished at Grandmas, Brad and I drove to Willard to spend a couple of days with his family. On Thursday night, we went through all of Brad's high school and mission stuff that his mom had been storing for him. We got rid of a ton of stuff but it was fun to see some of the stuff that he had saved. I got my traditional jammies from Grandma on Thanksgiving so I enjoyed wearing those! :) On Friday, we all helped to clean out the shed that they have at their house. Then, that night we had a 'company' party, which turned out to be a surprise mission shower for Brad's brother. It was a fun night. Saturday was a busy day. It started off by going to the Ogden temple. Brad's brother was receiving his endowments, so me and his younger brother did baptisms, since we are the only ones that can't go yet. It was very crowded so it took us a long time, but we didn't care since we had to wait for them anyways. It was a very cool experience to get to do baptisms somewhere else besides Logan. I just can't wait till I can go to the temple for real though! :) Then, we had a bridal shower at his sister's house which was very fun and I got lots of good stuff! We also tied my jean quilt that I made when I was in YW. Again, I'm sad to say I have no pictures. :( Brad went snowmobiling while we had the shower. We drove back to logan that night and went to Harry Potter 7!! I loved it so much! I can't wait for the second part! But, I will be sad it's over.

-We enjoyed going to the temple as a family and doing baptisms. We also enjoyed joining mom and dad for dinner at Aggies and then the Christmas concert at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Lets see, some other things that we've been doing is getting ready for our WEDDING (which is in 24 days!!!) We finished taking all of our engagements, put together all of the announcements and sent them off yesterday, took bridals/groomals on Sunday, and much much more! I can't believe it is coming up so quickly, but I am so excited!