Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Wedding

We Got MARRIED!!!!!

It was short. Simple. In the mountains. Very much on a budget. I think in total it was $100.00. Including the dress and what not. Yep, we're awesome.





Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Auto accident

I got myself in a car accident. Can't remember much about it, I lost that memory to my concussion. Only missed one day, hopefully thats all I will need.
Crash happened while I was on the job, totaled both cars, my works car and the other girls. Idk how bad she was hurt, she was conscious and what not when the ambulance took her away after having to cut her out if her car for fear of a back injury. I hit her drivers side tire with the front drivers side of my pickup truck.


It was not the proudest moment of my life. So my fiance watched me and my sister's kids (I had already agreed to watch them before the accident) Luckily he's an EMT and wouldn't freak out if something weird happened to me because of the concussion. I had really fun twitches for like 2 months afterwards :( yea, not fun. But only when I was falling asleep, and they were way worse then the normal leg twitches and you wake up situations. Anyways, they did a CT scan. They said I was normal and all that. 

Work Fun

I work in the office/shop where things can get a bit monotonous. So what do we do? Shake it up!
Practicing our fish-tail braiding
Saw this sign and I had to laugh. Exactly 2 1/2 miles. not 3.
IT guy's last name is Belnap. and apparently a Belnap got this formula named after him. I have no idea what its for.
So he made me a name card that said AMANDA backwards
This was just too funny. Yes it is easier to lay across the entire desk than to walk around a couple more feet and sit in the chair
There is a tree growing in the middle of the Stop sign post. No joke.
Sometimes I can mess up words. that is supposed to be "We can sit in the shade of the steeple"
He turned 30. so we decorated his office in black balloons
I found this in my window one day. It was taped to the outside.

Fishing That Became Swimming That Became Hypothermia

So back to the last weekend in May my sister and her family and I went to a lake way up in the mountains to go fishing. My brother in law wanted to do some fishing. I call it boring fishing, where it is too much sitting watching the pole and not enough having the pole in my hand. I am more of a cast and reel kinda gal. So he had multiple rods out (officially one was mine and one was my sister's). We never caught anything. Mainly I helped my sister watch her two kiddos on the beach keeping them from falling into the water. The water was way too cold for them and we hadn't brought swim floaters or anything for them. During my watching time, my sister yelled out "Grab that box" the wind had caught our box and launched it into the shallows. So naturally I splashed into get it. The mud was deep and quickly caught both flip flops in a couple steps. I did get the box. I returned for my flip flops. I only ever found one. And it was about a foot deep in mud.
I think my sister got a pic of how deep the mud was. I remember it being up mid shin. 
As mentioned I was getting a bit bored my my brother-in-law's fishing technique so I tied on a lure, not the fake flavored cheese like stuff he was using and tried some cast and reel a bit farther down the bank. I was trying to be cautious of some rocks in the shallows. But of course I got caught on them. And because my shorts are already soaked from earlier adventures I ventured out to get my lure. I got about half way there before I realized that the rocks suddenly dropped off a bit farther down. so instead of just getting my shorts wet, I would hafta do some swimming for a couple feet to get to the rocks that had my lure. I go for it. I am a good swimmer. I hadn't been noticing my surroundings and only barely was able to navigate around a canoe headed right for me being steered by a little 10 year old who obviously did not have much experience behind the paddle. If I remember correctly I had to shove the boat way from me to keep it from broadsiding me. Yea, not the best driver. Anyways, the dad who was also in the boat asked if I needed any help - I was wearing a fishing hat and didn't look like I was planning a dip for the day. I said yes, If he could grab my string and pull it away from shore to unhook the hook. After some entertaining maneuvering they were able to do just that with me calling out directions, while perched in chest deep water a few feet away. I then, with hook careful not to hook myself, I returned to shore. I was REALLY cold. cold enough that I could not feel my feet, which was bad because as it turns out I cut them up really good the the submerged rocks, but luckily I couldn't feel how cold they were. I went up to a bathroom area (I think there was innumerable amounts of rattlesnakes I had to walk past with bare feet, and lots of cacti and other thorny plants) and used the hand dryer to dry off some, but mostly I rapped myself in a beach towel and waited to go home. The sun set shortly there after and we all hopped back in the car to return home. In total I was cold and wet for about 2 hours. I was having a hard time warming up so once I got home I wrapped myself in a few fleece blankets, wool socks, sweatshirts and sweatpants and worked on bring my core temperature back up to normal.



The Lake

A flower.

Timp Half

I am a failure as a blogger. I must enjoy doing things than talking about them, and I seem to be doing a lot of things.

So we are registered to run a half marathon on the 27th of July. And I haven't run in a month - I got busy hanging with Gordon, and the time flew by- so we started running on Tuesday. I am so sore! It is rather embarrassing that I have gotten so weak so quickly.

IDK what my hair was doing in this pic...

So we ran the thing. And neither of us died. But this was the week after my auto accident - which I'll blog about shortly (yes I know I'm getting this all out of order). So I was mainly working on staying up right. Gordon stayed with me. Most of the time. The last mile I finally convinced him that I wouldn't die or collapse or anything, so he sprinted ahead, then came back and throw me onto his shoulder and ran me to the finish line, where I am proud to say I crossed all by myself. Well I think I was still holding his hand. Turns out was met with some old friends that we weren't expecting, and very present surprise.
We spend the rest of the weekend wishing we never had to walk again. or go up or down stairs.

Oh, and we got shirts and metals for completing it :)


Monday, November 11, 2013

Engagement July 2, 2013

I got engaged! most amazing man EVER!

We had been talking about marriage, and we both realized the other knew they wanted to marry the other person. So Gordon (Fiance) told his grandmother, who then surprisingly gave him her wedding ring. He didn't know she still had it, she had been a widow for many years. Gordon called me up and asked me if I was available to see this ring his grandmother gave him. I was honestly concerned when I heard that. If it was ugly, how do I not accept Grandma's ring? I was very concerned I would end up offending someone. So I cautiously looked at the ring.
IT WAS PERFECT!

My elder sister, Kassie, even said that if was to choose a ring, in a full jewelry store, I would have picked that one. It looked like "me."

So one day, a day that I thought the ring was still getting re sized, Gordon took me up the side of the mountain, we could see the sun setting over the valley and lighting up the Timp LDS Temple into a beautiful pink. Gordon's friend came along with us, and caught the entire scene on videotape. I have not yet seen the tape. I will add it to the blog once I get a chance.

So as we were hanging (in hindsight Gordon was a bit tense) I noticed part of the lawn was perfectly sloped for a good roll. So naturally I rolled down the mountain. And Gordon followed me. Maybe a bit too closely, I had to dodge out the way at the bottom. So as I regained my balance I walked over to Gordon who was a bit father down the hill and was still on both knees. As I walked over I reached my hand out to help him up. He caught my hand. And looked me in the eyes. And I could see all the nervousness and love there. And I probably looked like a deer caught in the headlights as he pulled his other arm from around his back and had a graceful velvet jewelry box, and inside it the ring. My ring. My wedding ring. He then asked me, using my name if I would be his wife. I somehow found my voice and said "yes." 

The rest of the story involves kissing, and him picking me up and twirling me in joy and me tearing up from the almost tangible love and joy that we could both feel. But I'll leave out those kinda sappy details.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Update

Hey all! I haven't posted in a while, so quick update on my life: I am married, and moving to Fairbanks, Alaska. Any questions? Feel free to ask them in comments.