Halloween and... ???

We had a very fun, busy Halloween extravaganza this year. Our first little activity was the pumpkin walk. We had to wait in line for about an hour, but it was fun and all of the pumpkins were really cool. Our favorite was the "Up" scene.

Our next activity was a Halloween party for my work. My classroom was the "mad scientist lab" and me and Brad gave out tattoos. My boss was a ruler because she is the ruler of the school. I thought that was cute! We also had to make a pumpkin for a contest. Sadly, we did not win.

Next was a Halloween party that Brad and I had at my house last night. We spent all day getting ready for it. We made dinner in a pumpkin, rolls, salad, spider cookies, eyeball deviled eggs and homemade rootbeer. I had fun seeing baby Mckayla and Hayzl. 14 of our friends came for dinner and then we sent them out on a picture scavenger hunt.





While they were gone, we cleaned up and started getting ready for the rest of the party. I was downstairs setting up some stuff on the ping pong table and talking to my parents and some friends. Brad came down and we had some stuff to take upstairs. When we got to the kitchen, there were a dozen roses, a little box and a piece of paper. He told me that he wanted to get me a little present for our one year anniversary (we met on halloween last year at a party I had at my house). So I opened up the box and pulled out a necklace that had a really big ring on it. He said, "you know, the size of the rock shows how much I love you." And I was like, oh ok, thanks. And then he said that since I wrote a list of reasons why I love him, that he made a list of reasons why he loves me. So I read that and then we were just talking and he pulled out the real ring, without me noticing and got down on his knee and asked me to marry him. I said yes of course! :) I am so happy!!! He did such a good job at surprising me. He told me that the ring I liked had been bought and wouldn't come in till next week probably. When, in reality.. he really had had it for about 2 weeks! I really believed him, even though nobody else did, so it was the best surprise!

My mom had been in on it the whole time so she was downstairs all ready with the camera. I never thought I would be dressed as a mummy the day I got engaged so it made for some good pictures. haha I could not stop smiling, even when he tried to kiss me.

When everyone got back from the scavenger hunt, I tried to hide my ring so that we could tell them all at once. But, I was telling Brad a secret and put my hand up to his ear without thinking and my friend, Mariana saw it and said, OH.. MY... GOSH!!!! Then everyone ran over and started screaming when they realized. It was pretty funny.

After all that, we played a game of musical candy and then voted on the best costume of the night. We all crammed in the family room to watch the movie, "Godsend". (thanks for the recommendation Lins!) It was a good, scary movie and a very fun night!

Here are some pictures of my ring! We get married on December 31, for those of you who don't know! :)

My Love!

Ok, so I know this may be a little cheesy and I know most of you already know this, but just so you all know, I am in love with Bradley James Wheelwright. There are many things that I love about him. Me and my friend from Fisher's Island made lists of why we love our boys and this is what I had, and then some more that I have added since:
-He is funny
-We always have fun together no matter what
-He makes me a better person
-He is a hard worker
-He cares about my feelings
-He loves me and my family
-He is easy to talk to
-He treats me good
-He makes me happy
-He takes care of me when I'm sick
-He is honest
-He likes outdoor activities
-He is strong in the gospel
-He knows what he wants
-Everybody loves him
-He has a strong testimony
-He always has a positive attitude
-He is loving and caring
-He uses his money wisely
-He is determined
-We have a lot in common
-He loves his family
-He is smart
-He is good with kids
-He does not get mad easy
-He never has temper problems
-He is so good looking!!
-He is the perfect height (barely taller than me- but I like that)
There are many more, but I don't want to bore you all. Thanks Brad for all you do for me and for putting up with me. You are the best and I couldn't ask for a better boyfriend!

My Car!

I finally got my own car! Yipee. I am so excited to not have to share with Jake anymore. It will be very nice. I am loving it so far, the only thing that is not good is it doesn't have a tape player in it so I have no way of playing my ipod yet. I'll figure something out, but for now.. thats the only thing I don't like. I bought it from a cute couple in bountiful and only had to make an extra trip down there to get it. We were already in Salt Lake when we went and looked at it the first time and took a test drive. It is a Mitsubishi Gallant '05. Well, I will do a better post later but I know that some of you wanted to see my car, so I decided to hurry and do this one.

Catch Up!

I'm home and I've been as busy as ever. I have a ton of pictures, but don't worry, I've been busy making collages, so it doesn't seem like quite so much. The last couple of days on Fisher's Island, we had as much fun as possible, we went to the beach, went crabbing, went to pizza/bingo night at the club, and said goodbye to our friends/family. It was very sad to leave that most wonderful Island, and all of my friends, but I hope I can go back someday!

We spent a week at the Keenan's house in Delaware. The girls had art camp that they went to every morning. We went to a couple of cool places, my favorite being the coolest garden place thing that was huge. The lily pads were sweet! We went to their grandparents house to swim and eat a couple times and we went to the mall to get Lucy's ears pierced and to go to cheesecake factory. I also bought my lap top there and was pretty excited for that! My other computer completely died, so I'm still waiting to find out if I can get all of my pictures, music and everything off of it. Hopefully!!

It was a little wierd to be home, and I was not used to a lot of things. It took me a couple of days to get back into the swing of things. My friends made me a cute sign the day I got home, and so did my mom.. but I can't find the picture we took. The best part was being able to see Brad a week earlier than was planned since he came home for a week for a family vacation. We only got to see each other for Saturday night and Sunday morning before he went back to Texas, but it was so much fun! It was a little weird seeing him after almost 4 months of just talking on the phone. We didn't do much, i just loved being with him finally. And, of course I loved seeing everyone else, one of those many people being Lydia- who changed so much! She is such a cute baby. And the car shopping has started for me. Too bad that cute black car just won't do it.

Brad and I got to spend the weekend he got home (the second time) at his family's cabin. It ended up just being his parents and us, but we had a lot of fun! We got there on Friday night, made and ate dinner and played a fun card game. In the morning we had breakfast, me and Brad went three-wheeling, hung out and went to a lunch with everyone else that has cabins up there. We caught 4 mice while there, which was pretty exciting! It was a fun little weekend. On Sunday, I helped Brad move back to Logan. We went to church and then to Grandma's for dinner, then we started school on Monday. Brad bought me a new back pack for my birthday that I love.


This past weekend was a very busy, but very fun weekend. It started off by going camping with all the Skeens, Searles, and Gma. We were in the most amazing place, which we are keeping a secret! ;) We set up our 'four room family vacation home', made our dinner, and played glow-in-the-dark ultimate frisbee on Friday. I was devastated that Lydia wanted my mom and not me. On Saturday, we had a handcart race and the boys played football. We went on a fun hike with everyone and on the way back, we saw a rattle snake. We were sitting in the back of the truck going back to our campsite and Brad heard it off the side of the road. We backed up and were looking at it and then the camp host came down to kill it. He chopped his head off and buried it, then chopped off the rattle to give to Caleb and Jaken. They ended up taking the body in a bag too. It was pretty gross, but a story to tell. I think the part that freaked me out the most was the fact that even after you chop the head off, it can still bite you up to 24 hours, just the head. And the body was still moving even without the rattle or the head. FREAKY!!


On Saturday when we got back, we went to the Aquatic Center to swim, for the first time this summer. And since today was the last day, it was sadly also my last. Me and Brad had fun going down the slide and doing tricks off of the diving board.

Today, for Labor day, we had a delicious breakfast, then went for a bike ride on the river trail. Our friends, Derrick and Kelsey came with us. Then, we went out to the Skeens for lunch and a few games. We went to Zepes on our way home for the best treat ever. Then we headed over to Al's for their big sale and bought a few things. We had dinner, even though we felt like we had been eating all day.

Goodbye

One of my guy friends here took me and Addi paddle boarding last week. It was not as hard as we thought it would be. We thought that we would fall in, but luckily we didn't! It was a beautiful night and Darvil was nice to take us out and take pictures for us.

One day, when we were not going to the beach, I decided that we would go explore instead of sitting at the house. First, we went to town and got some ice cream at toppers. Then we went to this secret garden place that has a really cool tree and a little lake. The girls had fun running around there. Then we went to the museum. It was pretty cool, but we were not there long. The girls wanted to see where the bunker was that my guy friends took me to. Then we headed over to race rock and south beach. When we got home, we washed all 5 cars with the boys. It was a fun, eventful day!

After the beach one day last week, their cousin asked us if we would like a ride in her car, also known as the 'jeepny'. Isn't it awesome?

Halli and her friend enjoy playing with stingray, crabs, jelly fish and making dribble castles when we go to the beach. The stingray was washed up on the beach, crazy huh?

What can I say? I get bored while the girls are playing with creatures!

My last day of church. These are the people who pick us up from the ferry to go to church and let us come to their house after church to eat and hang out. They are such a nice couple and I will really miss seeing them every week.

Goodbye Rocky Ledge!

More Activities

I know, I know.. you are all very surprised to see this. So am I! Especially since it is 1:15am. My computer, and my phone for that matter, both have problems. Sometimes they decide to work, and sometimes they don't. So, I have to take advantage when they do work! I have been very busy having fun this whole summer! I cannot believe that in just one week from tomorrow, we will be leaving this beautiful Island and in 2 weeks from tomorrow, I will be home! It's a good thing that I already have lined up a babysitting weekend with my favorite family in September. And of course I will get to see Brad, and everyone else!

We've done a lot of play-dates with friends. They were playing the laughing game with Halli's friend, Thyrza.

The kids got the 'doggie bowl' at toppers ice cream one day. It actually comes in a real dog bowl! I thought it was pretty funny and they love getting them.

Bachelorette party! So happy that I had friends to watch it with and so happy that she picked Roberto-- love him!! :)

This is the last week of lessons for the girls. They enjoyed, or not so much at times, going to sailing, tennis and golf. And I enjoyed watching them and relaxing.

We come to the big club at least twice a week to eat and play. Halli loves to climb on the rocks and we discovered another beach while doing so. There were so many jelly fish one day, and the kids caught at least 15 and put them on the beach and were playing with them. I was pretty grossed out!

Halli did a glow stick regatta that was pretty sweet, besides the fact that it was not dark. It was fun to watch her sail though and there was a pretty sunset. It did get dark by the time they were done. She had fun decorating her boat and getting glow sticks.

Me and the birthday girl. Lucy turned 10 on Monday.

She had a party with a few friends and they jumped off the dock. It was pretty windy, but they still had fun.

The girls love my friend, Addi, so Lucy invited her to come to her party too.

Yup, that would be the Weymouth boys. Philip, Carter and Jamie... gotta love them!

They played capture the flag, flew a kite and some other fun game in the back yard for a while. It was fun to watch them and a bonus to watch the beautiful sunset!



These would be two of the most awesome, beautiful beaches I have ever been to- Isabella and Chocomount. It is even better that there are never many people there since everybody goes to either Hay Harbor, or the Big Club all of the time. We don't go to them much, but I don't know why!

Angry

I just wanted to let you all know how I am feeling right now. My phone is broken. I don't know if it is my charger, or my actual phone, but it won't do anything. I plug it in and it acts like it is going to turn on, but then turns off again. I have tried everything! Any suggestions on what to do? And on top of that, I got on my computer this morning, and now that is not working either. Everything I click on says that it has a virus. And the worst part is, I was planning on talking to Brad on skype if my phone was still not working, but now we can't even do that! I do not know what to do. I just hope my FI friends are smart and can help me figure it out. I can't go 3 weeks without talking to Brad!