Engaged!

The next few months flew by with wedding plans and triathelons, and finding a new place to live and moving!!

These are just a few of our engagements. We took some in Dowtown Salt Lake City, and some out at The Great Salt Lake.

Should we get married?

May 13, 2012
Bryan's roommate (and eventual wedding photographer), Daniel, took this photo. We were in Byran's room talking on his bed. At this time I was trying to decide for sure if Byran was the man I was going to marry. Bryan didn't even know what I was going through but because I was a little scared of marriage it was a tough decision for me and I had been struggling with it for a while.  We had talked about it a little but nothing serious. Two nights later I went to talk to my Bishop and Byran came with me. The Bishop asked me if I wanted to spend every minute of every day with Bryan. I knew at that moment that I wanted to marry Bryan.
We sort of got "unofficially" engaged that night, May 15, 2012. 

Road Trip and Disneyland

Bryan and I drove down to CA at the end of April for our annual Disneyland trip and to see Ben and Janae in OCMCO. It was such a blast and the first time my family met Bryan. We got to the hotel at about 2 in the morning and woke Mom up to meet Bryan for the first time.  Then we all crashed and went to sleep. Sharing a hotel room with your girlfriend's mom who you just met could have been awkward but Bryan was cool about it, of course.

Bryan and I had a serious discussion about our relationship on the way home from that trip and it was when we both said "I love you" for the first time! 

February, March, Etc.

 Bryan gave me a rose for our first Valentine's Day. The card says "Screw V-day, but here is a rose anyway, smiley face.

 Sometimes Bryan would stop by my house on my "off" week and leave me messages on my car...

 Byran was so excited to find these pink shoes in the womens section Target, sadly he returned them.

This pic is of the Brigham City Temple that we took on our way up to Bear Lake to go snow boarding. Sadly as soon as we got there we got a call that Bryan Roberston was in a car accident so we turned around and headed home. Gorgeous little Temple though!

February 7, 2012 Glass Blowing

 Bryan took me on a glass-blowing date at Holdman Studios. It was really cool. I mean hot. Like really hot.

 We watched them as they retrieved a blob of fiery, white-hot glass from a crucible on the end of a long pole. He said the glass was about 2100 degrees Fahrenheit... I asked him if he ever got burned and he said everyday. (Notice he's only wearing 1 glove, I'm guessing the other hand has no nerve endings left...)

 Then we had to roll the pole around as the blob cooled a little and try to keep it centered.

 Then we got to choose the colors of the glass and they rolled the blob in bits of colored glass and re-melted it. Once the blob had color we had to pull the blob with tweezers as the glass cooled.

 Then right before the glass cooled completely they stretched the glass blob to create a stem.

The guy helping us made it look so easy but it was NOT because we had to work really fast before the glass cooled. The total time from when he pulled it out of the hot crucible until the glass was completely hard was about 2 minutes. There was amazing art around the studio and if I had a spare $400 I would have purchased one of the platters...
Holdman Studios also does stained glass and they've done a lot of the stained glass in some of the newer Temples like Manhattan, Idaho Falls, San Antonio, and the re-done Laie Temple.

January 29 and February 12, 2012 Byran Cooks!

Bryan LOVES Chinese food. He made me a few meals and I LOVED that. We called it "woking" with Bryan. He always keeps me laughing.