Mother's Day

This post is going to be late but I don't care. I tried to fit it in on Sunday but I didn't have time to type it up. The posts I made were already half typed and all I had to do was finish them. I love mother's day. I have never gotten my Mother anything amazing for mother's day but I really probably should.

Last year I typed up some reasons why I love my mom so I don't want to repeat by typing another list. So instead I'm going to try and tell you some of the things I thought of this Mother's day (hopefully I won't wander too badly). After having Colin I think I have a whole new prespective on Mom's in general. Normally a Mom does two things for us, 1) They create us or give us physical life and 2) They give us their life, and by that I mean time, love, engergy etc. For now I have only been able to do the first half of that but I definitely look forward to being able to do both. I have never had a more difficult decision but I have never been more happy with the outcome either. This way we both get to live our lives fully. I love getting pictures of him and bragging about how cute he is! There is no cuter baby. Not only that but I am so thankful for Colin's Mom. I'm glad I found her and I'm glad she was ready to raise him the way he should be.

Now for a little on my Mama. I love her so much. I've never had a better example. She just loves everybody. She's always so sweet and nice, but she makes me look like such a brat! Hah let's just say someone knew I would have to learn how to be sweet and they knew it wasn't going to come from my Dad (jk I love you Dad). I have watched her go through many trials, most especially having cancer, and it seems like they only humble her more. Not only that but she's always smiling. That's probably where I learned it. My Mom was always good for a pick-me up or a note saying "I love you!" left in random places. I just hope I can be as close to my children as she is. I know they say the best parents aren't friends but my Mom was both. I always knew I could turn to her but I also knew she wasn't going to let me get away with anything. I love her.

You can't see her face in this first one but I still really really like this picture.

My Mama with me, my Brothers, and Suzy.

I hope I didn't ramble or wander too badly it was diffuclt to decide how I wanted to say what I had to say. My main point, Mother's day is the best!

The RING!

I got this over a week ago, but I haven't had enough time to post much since school started. David helped me pick it out. The ring I originally wanted was too small for the diamond David had (it's the same one his Grandmother and Mother had :). So our wonderful jeweler made one for us! I love it!! It's super sparkly and unique! I have been paying a lot more attention to the rings girls are wearing and about 90% (or more) of girls have rings that look like a different version of my old one. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I am glad its different. I don't usually go against the grain but this time planning everything I have been trying to do EVERYTHING different. Anyways enough bragging here it is 

Oh and the other neat thing about my ring is that it is all real! Every last diamond, I like that!

The News

Lately many of you have been asking me, "when are you and David going to get married?" That is a good question, and without getting into ALL the details (there's a lot more then there should be) here's our story. When David originally proposed to me our plan was to be married on July 12th in the Salt Lake City temple. Well too put it gently "things" have changed.  As many of you know I have been married before. Although it feels like a life-time ago it is currently affecting my ability to get married in the temple now :(

David and I were given a very difficult choice;

#1. Get married civilly and wait a year to get married in the temple 

OR

#2. Wait until October when they say they will get to my papers. Keeping in mind that October is when they will get to them. They told us it would take about 3 weeks after that to fully process them (whatever that means)

David and I playing with photo booth

And as always having a little toooo much fun 

David is leaving for Ohio in August for Medical school, which is another reason why we picked July. We didn't want to have to be separated for several months and have David go to school out East alone. But with lots of thought prayer, fasting and a couple of temple visits we have decided to wait. Bleh! It's really going to be difficult but we have decided that our relationship is worth waiting to start right, and for us that means waiting for the temple.

We are not sure on a date yet but it will most likely be the second week in December. It will be in the Bountiful Temple because that is where we did our fist session together (ah isn't that cute?). This is when David has school off and we can be with our families for Christmas then we will go back to Ohio together. It's a bummer but it will be worth it in the end. 

This is a good picture because I picked Daffodils as my flower along with the colors green and yellow. Initially I was thinking I would change them because the wedding will be in the winter but the more I thought about it the more I realized it would be really cool to just have totally unique colors. Not only that but David and I will take all of our pictures before he leaves for school in August so they will all be green and pretty. So it all works out. 

Shoot em up BANG BANG!

Today was the annual Christiansen shoot out. We go way out on the desert and we shoot stuff. What can I say I love guns :) they are soooo fun. Another thing that is always neat is seeing how good everyone is. Today David went with me and he is GOOOOD. He was 3 for 4 shooting clay pigeons, nice David, NICE ;) Here are the pictures of all the fun
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100%

Ok, I have officially made it past my first college test. This last Friday was my math test. I had been pretty worried, about going back to school this semester. My first math test was on a bunch of "logic" stuff. Which means there was very little actual math or numbers involved. But this last Thursday I studied REALLY hard and again all Friday morning before the test. While taking the test I was soooo worried that I wouldn't get the grade I wanted, which was an A of corse. They test was rough and all I could do was pray that I did as good as I needed. Then when I came out of the testing center I looked up at the screen and, I saw my number AND (tah dah!!) 100% Perfect score. WOW!!! I was so surprised that I decided to check my I# to make sure I wasn't celebrating someone else's score! And I wasn't, whew what I relief that was. It felt good I'm not nearly as rusty as I thought I would be so that is good too. Anyways I was so happy I wanted to cry so I decided to share it with all yall ;) I'm in English too so I had to throw a little slang in there too.