Things be Windin' and Gridin'

This marriage thing is really benefiting me in many ways. I feel like I am increasingly getting smarter. I feel like its forcing me to do things that I have never done before. It is really good for me! 

So update: We sold our apartment thank goodness! We are signing a contract for an apartment tonight! I am excited to get all this done and figured out. Still don't know when we will be moving in. But hopefully it can be when my family is here so they can help us move. ;)

I am waiting to hear back about a job that has potential. It kinda sounds like I would be on call until I could actually pick up a shift. We will see. The guy I called said he would push my name along and hopefully in the next few days I will get a call. I will see what is all going on when I get an interview. Because I am not sure that the hours are going to work out for me. 

Me and Daryl went snowboarding on Saturday. It was a lot of fun. Naturally though I forgot to bring my jacket! I am so dumb. So we bought one. It ended up being like a youth XL and only costing like 34 bucks! Better than the other ones that were there. But it was kinda funny cause I was telling Daryl on the way up how I always forget to bring something. And there it was the jacket. ha. It was really cold and windy and we got real sore. But it was nice to get back into it. 

We have just been looking at apartments. We had this fail happen. We were the first to show interest in this apartment and this lady said she would call us by Tuesday and let us know after they showed it to a few more people. So we call Tuesday and she says we still are deciding. Then she txts me Wednesday and says a couple came by last night and signed a 2 year contract. THAT was the whole point in us calling you last night! You could have told us LAST NIGHT when we asked! Dumb. Whatever. Wasn't meant to be. It was just our first choice and we were waiting on it. But I think it was a blessing in disguise because this other apartment opened up that was cheaper that we really liked. So that is the one we are signing the contract for tonight!

We went to Daryl's Christmas party last night. It was great! We got to eat some delicious food! So that means that I didn't have to cook! ;) Then Daryl rode the bull to try to win 500 dollars. It didn't go that well. But he was sure a champ. Got some bruises on his hand to show for it. There was also a cool dance crew that broke dance and stuff there. It was a lot of fun to see. Then there was a sweet dance competition that made me giggle. There was lots of competitions and we walked around and watched them. It was a pretty good night!

I feel like that is pretty much it that has been going on here. I have been having some wicked heartburn lately though. Thank goodness for TUMS they work like champs on the heart! 

Well our plans for this weekend are to go to the ward Christmas party on Saturday morning and then go snowboarding at night. Tonight I have no idea what is in store. But we always end up doing something crazy! 

Thank goodness Finals are over!! We are both done and hopefully getting A's all around. Scholarships!? I leave Monday to go home and spend sometime with the parents alone since I have been married. I am excited and for the holidays! Merry Christmas!

-P.S. Everyday I am reminded what a great hardworking husband I have! I am soooo grateful. He does so much for me! Love him like crazy!

Lucky for Love

I wanted to dedicate this post to my better half. My husband. Daryl Klingaman. 

Warning: This might be a little too cheesy for your liking. 

I am one lucky girl. I married the boy of my dreams. I hope everyone can find a happy marriage. One that makes you want to put everything into it. I was surprised how everything worked out between us. It was definitely love. 

The first time I met him I was awkward. I had talked to him before and I was just excited to spend some time with him and see what he was all about. He was sure all that and a bag of potato chips. I remember that first hug when I said hello. I remember how my heart felt in my shirt. I remember feeling so impatient on that long drive down from Ogden to Provo. You had me at hello could do it for me. That explains how I felt to the t.

He was such a gentleman. Opening my door. He even called me pretty. We went out to eat with some of his friends when I first arrived. Then we went back and hung at his place for awhile. We sat on the couch talking about our lives. We didn't stop talking. We connected in a way I have never been able to before. I was so giddy over his smile and that curly hair. 

He took me to dinner and we went and played mini golf. We are joking around with each other and having the best first date ever. He even kissed me on the cheek when we were playing mini golf. I was head over heels for this kid. How could one date determine so much for me. I am not one to crush on a boy so fast I thought to myself. We ended the night by walking around the duck pond. We told each other everything. I had never gone so deep in topics with somebody. We ended the night with a kiss. Yes, first date and a kiss. 

That had my mind spinning. Is he a player? Dang it. I am really falling for him. I was ready to wake up the next day and start things from where they left off. I was so confused. I was falling for him but my heart was in a nervous state. I didn't know him quite well enough. I just wanted us to be good friends. Someone I could turn to. Someone I could have fun with. I never meant this to turn into something like me falling big time for this guy. 

After that first weekend I was hooked and so was he. We just wanted to be together every minute we could. We lived so far away we only got to see each other on the weekends. We called, txted, skyped all that we could. Our schedules were so different. By the second weekend of hanging out. I knew I loved this boy. I cared so much for him. I felt like I was definitely crazy.  It had only been 3 weeks. How could I feel this way. 

We fit so perfectly together. I had never done such cool things with someone. I had never felt this clicking with someone happen in my life. I was in love and I was kinda scared who knew it. I was worried about what my family would think. I had just met this guy. I wanted to tell them everything but I was sure they would tell me I was crazy. I could faintly hear my brother telling me that I was too young and naive to know what love was. Finally I spilled the beans. If my family loved me they would understand. And they did! They loved him from the minute they met him. How could you not? He is Daryl Klingaman.

I'm lucky to have someone like Daryl. He would do anything for me. I can trust him with everything. He is my other half. My best friend. He can do anything. I mean anything. I've never met someone so driven and hard-working. He is so caring as well. He knows just what to do and say when I have had a hard day. I can't wait for the hours to be over with work and school until I get to see my baby. I count down the minutes. I wish I could spend every second with you. We have so much fun together. No one makes me laugh so hard. We have the best time together and every minute we are apart my heart hurts a little bit. My love for Daryl is never ending. I am so glad I got married to my best friend and was able to make a convent to be with him forever. I would say I have the perfect relationship with my spouse. I wouldn't change anything. I am grateful for someone to love me for who I am. My flaws might be large but he gets through it and loves me for me. I am so grateful for my husband who is my hero and my rock. I will love you forever and always. 

Te amo para siempre :)

Watch out for convenient parking spots

I learned something the other day. Don't ever pull through a parking spot when going to the grocery store. You come out with your groceries and you can't access the back of the car. It's really awful. I looked like a fool as I was loading them into my back seat through a small opening between me and the car beside me. Very embarrassing. Never again. 

Another thing that is going on is...that school is almost done for semester! Had my last class today! And finals next week. I only have two and really only have to study for one. So it won't be bad at all! I am excited for Christmas Break! We are going to Washington for a couple days for a friend of mines wedding and then heading to Indiana to spend Christmas with Daryl's family. I haven't ever been away from my family for a holiday. So that will be interesting but I am excited to spend it with the Klingaman's!

Daryl and I have decided to move! The only problem is hopefully we can sell our place. We have been looking around at apartments and are going to visit some today so hopefully one of them will be good for us! I really hope we find one. Can't say I am going to miss this place much. It is a tiny cute apartment but I am ready to move on! There are a few problems in it. Like the dryer isn't ventilated outside. Pretty sure that is against code and a fire hazard! It gets like 120 degrees in there when you run the dryer. Oh, and the dryer is located in our bathroom. Is it the worst? YUP! It causes all this humidity it is crazy! I wish we would have known that when we moved in. We will always check out dryers from now on! That humidity is another question for us. Ever since we moved into this place. Either Daryl or I are home sick. Our stomachs are always bothering us. We are kinda wondering if we are living in mold because of what the dryer is doing and how the shower is set up. Mold is not a good thing. Hopefully that is the cause of our sickness and not the stress of school and work.

We are going snowboarding tomorrow! I am pretty excited! I haven't been in forever and I am going to be so awful! I am excited to get back out and try it though! Daryl is a hundred times better than I am. I can already tell. We went sledding and he brought his board and I could just tell. So hopefully he will be patient with me and it will go great!

Since school is over and that whole job thing failed me. I am going to work on some DIY projects. Hopefully I wont ruin them! I didn't do much today but school and set up some appts to go look at places. I was just taking a rest. I do miss having something to do like work doing the day. I feel like staying at home isn't ever good therapy for anyone. When you know you have time it's just like you waste it more. You know things need to be done. But you think about how much time you have and you think ahh I will do it later. It always happens with school work too. It's like you check facebook, and instagram like every 5 minutes for what? Nothing. Do you really care about peoples lives and what they are doing? No it just takes your mind off of yours for a minute. I decided something. I love being busy. I love having something to do. Sitting at home isn't good for me. It makes me like less productive. 

That's all I have. Just documenting my life. Peace.

That wife word

We have been married for almost 4 months now! Crazy stuff! I have realized somethings in our marriage.

• Cooking ain't no thang

I have always been worried about it. Yeah, I'm no Martha Stewart but I can do it! 

• House Cleaning No Problemo

I really actually like cleaning. It makes me feel so much better when the dishes are done, carpet is vacuumed, and the bathroom is so clean you wanna kiss it!

• Laundry easy peasy 

As long as I am constantly doing laundry I will remember to take it out of the dryer. It seems so much easier though then when I did it at home. We won't talk about what it was like when I was a single.

I never said I was good at any of these, I just said I could do them! 

So I burn a lot of things I make. So I clean once a month. So the dishes set in the sink more than dishes ever should. So there is pee on the ground in the bathroom. Jk. We aren't that gross! One thing I have realized is I can be a wife. I can do the things I need to do to keep this family functioning. I am still learning but I am trying and if anything I have realized it is that trying is better than doing nothing. Daryl appreciates it when I'm trying. He doesn't care how good it is. He cares that it's done. 

Here are somethings that would make me a better wife/mother:

1. Learning how to thread a sewing machine (they make things automatic now and when     you can't figure that out. It is just sad.) So I'm working on that.
2. Sewing on a simple button on a shirt. (Yes, Daryl does this for me)
3. Taking the laundry out of the dryer the first time it buzzes. (Not keep turning it on 5 times because you forget and have to let the wrinkles fall out again)
4. Cleaning the shower. (It seems so simple but do you do it when your naked in the shower, like before you wash your body? Because It just seems so awkward to do it clothed to me)
5. Not burn a batch of cookies. (Yes, every time I've made some. They burn)
6. Going alone to grocery shop. (I feel so awkward at the grocery store alone. I feel like everyone is looking at me like a pre-teen and judging what I am buying. So I wait for Daryl then I go)
7. Doing things out of my way for my husband. (I mean we do fun things together but I swear there isn't a creative bone in my body. I am always like I wanna be sweet then he bring home a taylor swift cd for me and makes me dinner. What's wrong with me?)
8. DIY Project. (I have these pinned for days on my wall on pinterest. I will make one of them one day, I am just scared I will screw it up and waste all that material..then what)

I am just going to stop there. I could go on for days on that list. 

My husband can do EVERYTHING! And if he doesn't know how, he will figure it out. I guess that is what you get for marrying someone better than you! 

The Marriage

Life just got so busy so fast when we got back from the whole wedding festivities. I have been so awful at writing. But I just wanted to talk about the wedding a little bit.

August 15th 

• Driving to Washington.

We started early and headed out. Got some gas and were on our way. The drive takes about 12 hours. Not too fun in the car but it is great for some conversation. We were just so excited I think that will be the best car ride trip I will ever take. I couldn't believe in a day I was going to the temple to take my endowments out! Then the next day going to marry my best friend! We got in about 7 pm or so. We ate a little bit and Daryl headed up to bed.  I was pretty tired myself but stayed up talking with my mom for a while while she showed me all of the decorations that she bought and was using for the wedding. I ended up going to bed shortly after talking with my mom. But I laid awake most of the night. Tossing and turning. 

August 16th

• Meeting the new fam bam

My brothers and sister in laws arrived shortly in the morning. I headed with my mom over to a bridal shower for me just down the road that some ladies from church were throwing me. While I was doing that Daryl was running some errands like washing the car and getting his suit dry cleaned. The shower went well and I had a lot of fun. Our photographer came over for about an hour after the shower to talk to us about the wedding pictures. Then we hung out with my family for a little bit until Daryl's family got in from the airport. I got the chance a week or so before the wedding to meet his dad and little brother Peter. But I had yet to meet his mother, his brother (Jacob), and his sister (Sarianna). He has another sister Elise but she is out on a mission right now. Still yet to meet her! So we talked with my family while we waited for them to arrive. When they arrived around 9 or so. We met them out their hotel. I will admit I was a little nervous. But I thought well they are stuck with me now!!! ha. just kidding. but for real.. So we walked in the hotel and we said hello to them. We went up to someones room. His aunts were both there and it was late to them so everyone was kind of goofy. It was a great meeting and I loved them immediately! 

August 17th

• Wedding Day!!!!

It was everything I could have imagined and more.  I got up real early and my cousin Brittney did my hair.  She did a nice braid and curled it and my hair was pulled back in a low ponytail. One of my good friends who does really well at make-up came over and did my make up for me around the time my cousin was doing my hair. It was about 5:30am! After that I grabbed a bar and me and Daryl were on our way to the temple to be married. Our wedding was at 8:00am. But it was all the way in Portland so we had lots of traffic to fight through because of the rush hour. We got there in plenty of time. The wedding was so great! The guy who married us was so serious. It kind of scared me! He was just way stern but a nice stern man! After we were married we went outside the temple together hand in hand. It was so great! We took lots of pictures and then everyone left and we took more pictures alone. After we were done we headed back to my house where we had some of the family come over for a lunch type deal. We were so hungry that we stopped to get gas and got doughnuts and energy drinks to stay up through the rest of the day. I felt so sick by the time we got to my house! I didn't eat too much at first but then was able to eat more. We ate and we had awhile before we had to be at the reception place for more pictures. So guess what we did? We took a nap! It was so glorious and without that nap I don't think I would have made it through the rest of the night!
     We headed to the reception center after that nap and I had to put my dress on and all of that again. We took lots of pictures before it started outside and it was hot that day. In Washington, it is usually nice in the summer hottest it gets is like 80's. But it was about 95 that day! Crazy! It was hot wearing that dress! After the pictures we went inside and hurried and grabbed a plate full of food before people started coming up to us. We were able to eat before too many people came up. We stood up and stood in a corner in the room for awhile while people came up and greeted us. After about 45 minutes the DJ started to start things with the music. We had our first dance to my most favoritest song ever- Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls. Then I danced with my dad and we the song we danced to made me break down and cry! I didn't think I would cry but I did! My dad did a pretty good job at holding it together but I couldn't and by the end I was smiling and so was he! Then Daryl danced to a song with his mom and it was sweet and she cried while they danced a little bit.
     Then the fun began! We danced the night away! It was so fun! Our DJ came through big time for us. He played a lot of top 40 music. I saw my mom, dad, and brother break it down! My brother sure had a classy dance! We recorded it and I sure can't wait to show his kids one day! It is soo good and the crowd just ate it up! My whole family danced and it was just a blast! Then we ended the night and everyone was outside with glow sticks waving us goodbye! We hoped in our car and it was a night that will always be remembered!

What is this disease?

I got off works weeks ago to go to Washington for the 4th of July. Daryl did too. Had never been I was excited to show him Washington. And that weird Portland, Oregon. I really don't think I have seen a weirder city that Portland. It is sooo different from other towns. It is just pure weird. It is something hard to explain if you haven't seen it. If you haven't been Portland is a must see. I promise you. You will get the weird chills.

Anyways, So basically I was just really excited to take him there! I was excited to get a week away from work and just relax. With my boy and my family. But of course when you plan on something so perfect as that. It surely doesn't end up being exactly what you in-vision. 

The week before we were supposed to go. I wake up on Monday and I have this horrible sore throat. Well I have definitely had a sore throat. But usually its from my nose being so stuffed up and clogged that I end up sleeping with my mouth open all night. So you wake up in the morning and every time you swallow you are like..this is so lovely. I love noticing when I swallow. Who knew I even swallowed this much. You all know that feeling, But you end up getting up and eating and sometimes that takes care of it. But sometimes it will lag around with you for a couple days. But it's gone in no time. So naturally that is what I was thinking was going on. So I go to work and come home that night and I am hanging out at Daryl's with him and I notice I am just kinda achy but I don't pay too much attention to it. I go home and go to sleep.

Wake up the next morning and my throat isn't just a little sore but it is very painful. Looking back now I really don't think I have had a sore throat for years other then a stupid one that lasts a few days from my nose being all clogged. It is hurting pretty bad and I get out of bed and I am just achy. I am like great. I think I am getting the cold that my roommate Katie had. She had a sore throat and cough for about 3 weeks. I just think well drink some OJ and get lots of sleep and I will be over this in no time.I pop some pain relievers in for the aches and I am good to go.

Go to work and my throat is killing me but I pop in some gum and it takes the pain away a little bit. I get through work and come home. Waiting for Daryl to get to my house from work. So I start doing the dishes and loading up the dishwasher. Daryl walks in and right about the time he walks in. My body instantly starts aching. I look up at the clock and notice it has been exactly 6 hours since I took the pain relievers. It was crazy how as soon as it hit that 6 hour mark the pain was back. It was really bad this time. I felt really shaky. I sat down on the couch with Daryl and we started looking at stuff on the computer together. I get so cold. I put the blanket on but this isn't enough. I have to put on sweats and a sweatshirt. But then again. I am still shivering. I end up going into my room and putting on another pair or sweats underneath the pair I have and a jacket over my sweatshirt. I mean I am freezing. Daryl makes me some soup to eat and I take meds again. 

That night. I couldn't sleep whatsoever. My throat was killing me and my body was just pounding with aches. When I woke up for the good the next morning I headed to an urgent care. I know my body well enough to know when this is a stupid cold or something big. And it was getting worse. I go to the doctor he tells me I have a bacterial infection. Gives me some antibiotics tells me I will be feeling a lot better in 24 hours. 

I go home and sleep which is hard to do with a sore throat. Btw my throat is only sore on one side at this point. It is the weirdest thing. It is really swollen and filled with puss as the doctor said and I have white sores in the back of my throat. I take the medicine and don't do much that day but sleep and watch tv. Wake up the next morning and I am still very very achy. I get in the shower and I can barely stand up and I am just shaking. I do not feel any better. I actually feel worse. That night I call the urgent care and tell them I am not feeling better but worse. I am achy and have no energy and just hurt everywhere. The lady tells me sometimes it take 48 hours and call her if it hasn't improved. I have my dress fitting and thinking about how there is no way I can stand up for 30 minutes while they alter a dress I call in and cancel and schedule one for the next day.

The next day I wake up and am even worse shape. It's Friday now. I still feel bad for Daryl. I have never been this sick or hurt all over so bad. I will admit I ended up crying a few nights to him. Poor boy. I mean Friday I can't even really pull myself out of bed. There is no way I can go to a dress fitting. I forgot. I started to get some weird sores in my mouth that started making it hard to eat. There were some small white ones on the side of my cheek and one large one on the bottom of my tongue. So when I woke up in the morning I had more sores. I didn't really have an appetite which was a good thing because no matter what I put in my mouth it burned. I was so sick feeling I told Daryl I wanted to go to the doctor again. He ended up coming home from work and taking me to the doctor. What a sweetheart. We go to a different urgent care and I get my blood drawn and he tells me it sounds like mono but we will see when that blood work comes in tomorrow. Tells me my throat looks really bad and those sores look painful in my mouth. But tells us to call him tomorrow to find out about the blood work if they don't call me by one.

Saturday was the day we were leaving for Washington. We decided to just go. Which I was glad because I was excited for my mom to be able to take care of me. ha! We left for Washington about 10:30 and Daryl was driving. I felt pretty weak so Daryl was planning on driving the whole way. Which is 12 hours! He is crazy! About one o clock I call the doctor and ask him about the blood work. They tell me someone will call me at 4. So about 4 someone calls me and basically says they didn't test my blood for mono. I mean really? Sounds like they lost it or something. I was pretty annoyed as was Daryl. I still didn't know what was going on with me. We stopped at McDonalds and I got a yogurt and a smoothie. Everything just burned when touching those sores. It was not fun. I was pretty miserable. We ended up getting to Washington around 11. Daryl was a stud and drove the whole way! I tried to stay awake the whole drive but failed. We got home and went straight to bed. 

We ended up going to the doctor first thing in the morning. Did some blood work told me it would be ready in a couple days. And the lovely doctor prescribed me some medicine so I could eat. It was this nasty mouthwash stuff. It literally numbed my whole mouth up. I was to do it before meals and every 4 hours. My mouth was just really hurting. I had no idea what those dumb sores could be. The mouthwash helped but not really to eat. I could still kinda feel things and it stinks to not taste your food when you eat but it was better than nothing. 

Washington trip wasn't the best for Daryl. I drove him around Camas. But I slept a lot and was weak still. About Wednesday I started to feel better. My sores were starting  to go away I wasn't AS achy. I got a call that day and found out I did indeed have mono and I got some viral infection that made those sores on my mouth. They basically told me that it had been over 72 hours and they couldn't give me anything now for the sores and with mono there is nothing they can really do. But let it run its course. 

We ended up staying in Washington longer than expected which I was glad about because about the end of the week I was able to do a few more things. I went to work all this week and have been doing invitations and looking at houses. I am pretty tired still. I get achy here and there but it is getting better. I heard it will be like this for about a month or two. I feel like I am doing pretty well. I haven't done much physical activity but I am definitely more tired than usual.

That was the sickest I have been in a really long time. I am glad that is over. But they said my sores in the mouth would probably end up coming back. Which stinks! Now they are stuck with me forever. Although, it seemed like a bad time to be sick. I had work off all week which was nice so I didn't have to take work off. The trip didn't go according to plan. It was nice to relax but I wish I could have shown Daryl more. But I know that we have other times to do that! 

I am glad Daryl was patient with me as well as my family. It was nice to see my parents and Kaden and Sarah when we were in Washington. We will be back there again in a month! For the Wedding! Wahoo! :) 

                                                            Just sick && tired

Finally feeling better and excited to roast mellows!!

Wedding Plans

Planning a wedding is a lot stressful then I thought it would be. I mean it's fun to find a dress and get the place you want to have the reception at. But that about does it for me. If I can't find what I am looking for then I start to hate it. I think I have spent 100 hours going to stores or looking online for bridesmaid dresses. I think I finally have that figured that out though. Hopefully. Also, finding a place to live. Should it be furnished? What can I live with? What can I live without? It is a lot more expensive looking for married housing. But it is a good thing there will be two of us. I also don't know what how I really want to decorate the tables for the reception. It's like I have this idea but I can't explain it. I am getting married in a different state then I live right now. My home town; Camas, Washington! It's rough to plan things like that being so far away.

But big news! I have my dress, cake, mainly decorations, and a place to live! And hopefully bridesmaid dresses now! We sent invites in to be printed and we are taking a look at them today well (the proof). They should be done tomorrow and we can start address them out. Seems like when things are almost finished more things come up. I still gotta figure out who is going to do my hair, buy Daryl a ring, set up some appts at church for my wedding. But I know it will all work out. Things don't have to be perfect. As Daryl says to me..."At the end of the day we will be married and that's all that matters." That is true. It is the most important thing. I love that.

I am so grateful for Daryl and my mom and daddy. They are so patient with me through all this and just want to see me happy. I love them to death! Thank you!!! :)

Happiness & More Happiness

It is Thursday and as you may know I got engaged last Saturday! I thought I was happy before being engaged by dating a wonderful man and talking about marriage. But no one told me when you get engaged it becomes even better! I am more happy than I would have ever imagined in my life! If someone would have told me I could be this happy. I wouldn't have believed them one bit! My life has always been wonderful and I have been blessed a lot in my life. I have a wonderful family. 2 older brothers who are happily married and have the most wonderful wives ever! And 2 magnificent parents. They have taught me so much in my life. They have showed me what it means to love and treat someone right.

Anyways, enough of that mushy stuff I do love my family! They are the greatest! I am happy to have another wonderful person to join my family. Daryl is super wonderful and what I have always looked for in my life. The weirdest thing about being engaged is talking about your future lives together. Me and Daryl the other night were talking about media and how we felt about it with our kids. What we would allow them to watch and not watch in our household. Talk about weird!? I mean I am 20 years old. I don't wanna think about little Klingaman muchkins running around yet. Speaking of that. My new last name will be Klingaman. I mean this is something you wonder your whole life.What your last name will be! I found out mine.It is kinda scary when you are dating someone. You know, you look at there last name and are like Taryn Birdman or whatever there last name is and it really determines what you have to deal with your whole life. Like Birdman not the best last name. Your kids will be asking you all the time...where do we keep the birds? Like is daddy the birdman? Why are you a man too? You know these are all important things to think about. No offense to anyone that has the last name Birdman. But it is not just that I mean what if your kids names that you have loved your whole life don't work with that! Like what if it rhymes or just sounds stupid. That is also disappointing. Klingaman. It a sweet last name. I decided I did well. I mean my last name Willie I have always been sad to give that up. My parents were those one's who thought a middle name and a maiden name was confusing so they just dropped giving me a middle name. I have heard all kinds of crap without a middle name. But good thing is now I have will a sweet middle name and last name.

It was just so weird to me talking about something really important like that with someone. I mean I have been off at college and really on my own for a couple years. You know how easy it is to decide what you wanna do? SUPER EASY! You just say! That is what I wanna do and you do it. Then you meet someone and it's different trying to make someone else happy and caring what they feel. I haven't had to do that. It is nice not making all the decisions yourself. Not that I have really made super big decisions with Daryl yet but that children thing really got me thinking. I mean like I am going to have babies one day! I remember being little and thinking someone in high school was the oldest person ever! I have reached beyond that point my life and it is just amazing how time flies. The older I get the more time seems to go! That is the worst! I like to enjoy the little things in life and sometimes I build up going on a vacation like when I went to Hawaii this past spring break. I was so excited to go and get away from Ogden and then the trip came and went. It was so fun! I enjoyed it so much. It is crazy it has been a good 3 months since that trip. I keep thinking about how excited I am to take Daryl to Washington over the 4th of July! Take a nice week off work and relax and then I start thinking about how fast it is going to go by! We will be back at school and working in no time!  Time might go by fast but I am really glad I have found someone to enjoy it with!

I just wanted to share my feelings on how happy I was! Life is really going my way! And Daryl makes me the happiest girl ever! :)

AHH I never filled in when the wedding is going to be. AUGUST 17TH 2012! I am so excited! That will be one of the greatest days of my life! Can you imagine how happy I will be when I am not engaged and am actually married. I can't imagine my life getting any better. But it keeps getting better! And I love it! :)

This is where it all begins!

I got engaged this past weekend! I always told myself that I wouldn't get married till I was 25. But you can't stop love. So this is how I remember the engagement going. I will start with Friday night.

I worked until 7 that night. My boyfriend got off work at 6 (or so I thought) So I started heading home and called him. He answered and said hey! I am just going to shower and than I will be right over. I said okay and drove home. I live in Provo and work in Orem. So that is a good 25 minutes home. I arrived home and sat down on the couch. My roommate Katie and her boyfriend were home. I started having small talk with them while waiting for my boy to arrive. Time started going by really slow. Soon it had been 10 minutes. I felt the anxiety building up in me. Finally I stood up and started pacing back and forth. I started telling Katie and Ryan that I felt like he was going to ask me to marry him that night. I came up with all sort of ideas of why tonight was the night. He randomly made dinner reservations that night. Which was very out of the blue and also we were going ice skating later that night. These plans were all done by him. He had kept saying to me all week. Friday let's go on a real date and have some fun. So that started replaying in my mind. I started to tell Katie and Ryan all of these reasons why it was tonight. I mean why was he showering!? He showered this morning! Also, Why was he taking forever? If he showed up in nice clothes than I was for sure he was doing it! After 20 minutes I was falling apart. Texting him and asking him what the heck he was doing, why was he taking so long!? I couldn't handle it. I was pacing back and forth and driving myself crazy. I just don't want him to do it in front of a lot of people! Then I will go red and get all embarrassed! I started saying. I started wondering if I should change my outfit! Was this a good outfit to be wearing when you get engaged!? All of these thoughts were filling my mind and started really stressing me out. I was just going off to Katie and Ryan about all of this! 

Finally after about an hour. Guess who shows up? My boyfriend Daryl. Might I add he was dressed nice. I hugged him and told him he took long enough! And proceeded to ask what he was doing for an hour? He didn't say much but getting ready for our date. I started to get weird because I couldn't express what was going on in my mind to him and ruin a possibility of him surprising me to get engaged. We left and headed to the restaurant. I wish I could tell you that, that was where my paranoia stopped. But it wasn't even close. We had reservations in a downtown restaurant called Little Italy's. We walked in and Daryl didn't even tell them he had a reservation. Great! I thought. Everyone already recognizes him because he had this all planned out. They just took us to a table and no questions asked. I started noticing every waitress and waiter. I was convinced that they were all staring at me. Waiting for the moment when he asked me. I can not even begin to tell you how weird I was acting and Daryl did notice. He asked me a few times why I was acting so weird. I just laughed and told him he was crazy. We ordered our food and I noticed there was guy  playing the accordion going around the room. I started thinking about how that was how he was going to get me. He was going to ask that guy to come play a song and than get down on his knee. In front of all these people I thought! I will not let that happen. The guy got closer and I leaned over and told Daryl to tell him not to come over here and that I hated people. He just laughed at me. I had a momentary scare when he came in between our table and the table next to us and said there are 2 things that you should know about this place and I felt the heat begin in my face and race down to my palms where they started to get clamy. I just felt so hot all the sudden. He then stated something about how after your meal you had to get desert because it was the best out there. I calmed down a bit after that but not enough because I could barely get myself to eat my food. Dinner was over and ice skating was next. We headed to my house to put our leftover food in the fridge. We sat down on the couch and waited till 10 before it opened to ice skate. I was pretty tired and he kept asking if I didn't want to go.I didn't want to not go. Especially if he was going to ask me to marry him! I couldn't ruin that! So I hopped up and said let's go!

We headed to the ice skating rink at seven peaks. When we drove by the lights were off and there was no sole in the parking lot. He looked at me and said well I guess we aren't doing that. I started to get nervous for him and asked him what we should do!? He simply stated, Let's just go to bed we are both tired. I kept searching his face and wondering what could possibly be going through his mind. We got back to my place and sat down on the couch again. We both looked at Katie and Ryan and told them that it was closed. I searched there faces to see if they felt disappointment for him or anything. But I wasn't really coming up with anything. We said our goodnights and were going to hang out tomorrow so I left it at that. As I laid in bed that night. I felt disappointment. I was kinda disappointed that he hadn't asked me and I thought maybe next week. 

I woke the next morning to a text saying that we had plans today and to be ready by noon! I got up and cleaned the house and showered and was ready by noon. Daryl walked in and the first thing I noticed was that he was wearing jeans. Now, it was supposed to be 90 degrees and I looked at him and said why you wearing jeans! He said because it was cold this morning when I went to work. I was just agreed and let that go. Then I noticed when I kissed him that he had just used mouthwash. Now you don't have to be a genius to know the difference between gum and mouthwash. He told me that I was crazy and it was gum and he hadn't gone home from work. I just rolled my eyes and said alright Daryl. We left and when we got into the car I noticed something else suspicious his water had just come out the fridge. It was super cold. And  I looked at him and said you didn't go home huh? He just looked at me and was like gee! yeah I want home! I said I knew it and laughed!

We started our long journey and he wouldn't tell me where we were going but that we were going to eat. We drove down to Orem and tried to eat at fudruckers. "The world's best hamburgers" But it was closed so we ended up going to Texas Roadhouse. Then after that we headed on the freeway and he would not tell me where we were going. We ended up at Thanksgiving Point. Which has the "World's greatest dinosaur fossil casts" We walked around there and took a picture in front of the dinosaur at the front entry. Then he told me that we were going to go to Salt Lake but we didn't have time and we were going to see "The world's greatest organ" But now we were going to Park City "The world's greatest snow on earth" I was like are we really? Why we going all the way up there? In my mind I started to think. This is the day, he is going to ask me today! I mean why would he be taking me all over the place like this? So we arrived in Park City and we got out and stood in line. I kept asking what we were standing in line for and finally he told me the zipline! And that I really couldn't be surprised! When we tried to buy tickets it was sold out. So we ended up buying tickets to the coaster. The coaster is like a 1 seater roller coaster. We went on it and it was pretty fun. After that we played some mini golf. Which I did awful at. Our first date was mini golf and we tied. I have always given Daryl a hard time because everything that we have done. I have beat him out. Except mini golf. But this time he totally won by a lot! Then we got a snow cone and headed to the car. We took a lot of pictures while we were eating the snow cone. It was quite funny. We never got a good picture!   But then he used my phone to guide us back to Provo. We were driving along and I kept thinking in my mind. I wonder when he is going to ask me in Provo? This huge date can't be for nothing. As we were driving he suddenly turned off really fast and said I think I remember a nice lookout over this water here. I was like alright. We parked and started to hike up this trail. As we were walking I was telling a story and totally wasn't paying attention. Daryl ended up saying what does that say? Daryl and Taryn!? I looked and to my surprise there had been a picnic set up. He said look here. We have jimmy johns which was the world's greatest sandwiches. And Godiva chocolate which is the world's greatest chocolate. And he bent down and said since you are the greatest girlfriend ever. Will you marry me and have the world's greatest marriage ever!? I said yes! And we hugged! Now let me tell you something. You don't rehearse this moment over in your mind. It only happens once and the things that you do when you are in a moment like that can be surprising. When Daryl asked me to marry him and I said yes. We both stood there for the longest moment ever and both just stared at the ring. I finally picked it up and put it on me! Ha! I mean I was waiting for him to put it on me. But supposedly he was waiting for me to jump on him and hug him like they do in movies! Before he did that. I did do that but after I had the ring! Ha. Stupid Movies are ruining normal things! Ha but it ended up being a great night! And I was so happy! Our friends Katie and Ryan filmed the whole thing. It is very cool to have on video! And I am glad he had it recorded! After watching the videos I can tell how happy am I! That was one of the most memorable times that has happened in my life! I am so grateful for Daryl and all he does for me! And I am excited to start our life together! :)

The moment he asked

Where the magic happened (How beautiful) 

Us together after the proposal

So HAPPY!!!!!!!

MY WONDERFUL FIANCE! 

The Beautiful Ring!