Hair for bridal shots

Did bridals today, talk about curly! I also had a TON of fun, don't know how I'm going to choose just one picture for the guest book table....we may have two :) (no these are not bridal pictures of me in the dress, just the back of my hair :D I'm not ruining the surprise for anyone!)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/slvrchic83/Boredom%20Takes%20Over%20the%20World/Back.jpg

I couldn't find the other ones!

Overdue Update

Thursday, Friday and Saturday were such busy days, I can hardly believe I even had a Sunday (which was busy too).
Uber long update:

Thursday I did homework all morning at my mom's work (had to catch a ride with her since my clutch broke down on my car a few months ago, and won't be fixed for a little while longer due to expenses on the wedding :) which is totally worth it in my opinion). Then afterwards we had to head over to Salt Lake City to present a Cued Language presentation at the ALDAcon conference (Association of Late Deafened Adults conference...national conference). after which we had to come straight home and work like crazy on some newspaper stuff for Studies Weekly.
Friday, I had to get up and catch a ride with my brother Michael to Salt Lake City (SLC) to drop me off at Bryan's while Michael was on his way to work. After that Bryan and I went and picked up the engagement pictures on disk, looked for rings for him, finally found one! Then we went and put my name on his checking account, then got the tuxes set up for all the men at Men's Wearhouse. After which he dropped me off at the ALDAcon again to make a presentation with a coalition that I am on about what we do in the state of Utah. After that, we dropped off the engagement pictures at the invitation lady's place, which took longer than we thought it would, then we sped to provo where Bryan did some stuff with my brother Michael while I was doing homework for three hours, went out to dinner around 930 with my family, and went home (made it home aorund midnight). I was exhausted.
Saturday I had to get up at 7:00 to get ready to leave at 8:00 to go start looking for dresses, my first and only appointment was at 9:00. My mom and sisters came with. Luckily, I found everything I wanted in that ONE store, and the dress fit perfectly, no alterations needed, nothing, it's awesome! I'm really excited. I tried to find a pic of it online, but I can't find one, so guess I'll just have to wait until I have pictures from the wedding. Then we went looking for bridesmaids dresses, what a freaking pain in the neck. We may end up having them made for us instead of buying them from a store. We did a girl's lunch, then dropped me off at home in which I had 30 minutes to shower and change and stuff for my bridal shower at 3. Went there, and was there until 730 (the shower itself was over at 430, just got so caught up in chatting with all the girls, that it started dying away around 7). Came home, went out to dinner with bryan, and did homework for the rest of the night.
Sunday, Church, nap, homework for the rest of the day, and i rewarded myself to watch part of Ocean's Eleven with Bryan, that was nice.

I can't believe it.....only 24 more days until I get married. :) I'm so excited! YAY! :)

Stress

Well I guess it's not really a why do I do this, but more of a, how in the world do I manage to make myself so busy? This week has been crazy all week, and tonight, I started breaking down and was ready to have a huge fight over something small and ridiculous, so my mom took me out to eat to help me to just calm down and breathe for a bit, it helped....a lot. Still, when I got home, I was getting so uptight and frustrated, that I got mad at my chair cause I couldn't get the stupid handle to pull out so that I could rock back and forth in my chair. Eventually got to the point where I was sitting on the floor and pulling on the handle while pushing the chair with my feet, yeah, that insane. I got weird looks from family members all around. But So far, I hav ebeen able to do every assignment and reading before the class starts, and I have not fallen asleep in any class, and it's the second week, so that's a very very good sign. I also actually enjoy all the classes, and the homework, it's just so much to do, I can't wait to get the independent study class done then I'll have 6 classes instead of 7 to do. But, this is the happiest I've been in a long long time, and I'm enjoying it. I feel I'm doing well so far with classes (knocks on wood), I enjoy the classes, I'm getting things done, even though I still have billions to do. I've managed to go on no more than 4 hours of sleep every night this week, which is something I haven't done in a very long time. I keep telling myself that once I'm married, things will calm down cause then I won't have things to do with the wedding every weekend, that's part of what's driving me up the wall cause there's just so much to do and everything is just so freaking expensive. 
and my cat just bit me. ow.

Good things

1. Got invited to be the Early Childhood Representative for the Student Advisory Council at BYU, got invited by the program director himself (also my instructor)!
2. Bryan and I found a place to live and now have an apartment to live in, he moves in October 1st. :D
3. May have found the reception center to have the reception in near the Salt Lake temple, gorgeous, and very victorian. I love it :) 
4. 33 more days until the wedding. :) 
5. I got a bright red day planner, a purple back pack, and a pink and white striped binder. :D I have to be a girl sometimes. :)

**EDIT
Also 6. My friends in LA are safe, luckily all were out of the town when Katrina happened.

California

First off, if you're bored enough to see all the photos from this trip to SF, go here:and the pics start near the bottom with the first picture being BayBridge. :) 
http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/slvrchic83/California%20Trip/
Now, I'm home, long car ride, but I wasn't driving so I was lucky enough to sleep for 2 of the 10ish hours of the drive. it was nice. brief summary of what we did. Friday - drove there. Saturday - Went to napa county fair. Sunday - Went to church, ran errands, and ate chinese. Monday - Went to SF and took picutres, Lombard St, Golden Gate and ate lunch with Dale. Tuesday - Beach in Santa Cruz (I think), very very very cold. Wednesday - Gave the two big dogs baths...long story and I want to kill Bryan. :) Thursday - Bry worked on the car with his dad, I went to pick up Bri and Jay with Bry's mom, then went out for Bry's birthday dinner, came home and relaxed. Friday - Great America after being lost for over an hour..not Bry's fault though. Saturday - Went to Yosemite, took Jay and Bri home, went home. Sunday - Drove home. 
Very short summary, overall, I had fun, it was long, but I had fun. :) 
Now back to reality...and YAY Engagement pics are being taken tmrw!!! YAY! :) only 45 more days til I get married! :D

solution

perfect solution to an awful day

Call it cheesy all you want :P


-Chicken club car sandwich from Dairy Keen (yes, Keen, not Queen)
-Vanilla coke
-French fries WITH fry sauce
-Finish 3 lessons promised to self to finish before Friday night (did it Thursday night YAY!)
-Snickers shake (still haven't eaten yet, going to after I start the 4th lesson for this week :) ).
-Sight read/practice piano music that came in mail today
-Have SO's b-day present arrive in mail today
-Be told by professor you are right when you're sure you're wrong, but you cannot find any other reason and now reassured you aren't stupid after all
-Skittles Smoothies
-Diet Pepsi
-Have a folding clothes party with sister while watching movie below
-Man of the House (great movie with Tommy Lee Jones)
-Catch the end of the meteor shower after movie (watched alone as sister was asleep)
-Find another state quarter for quarter collection, only 10 more to be back up to date with all quarters since 1999
-Do more laundry and fold more clothes, begin packing for long anticipated CA road trip, leaving Friday night
-Go to bed after long, exahusting day/almost content and satisifed night.

the only key ingredient missing?

Bryan.

Blanding

So it's been a while since I've truly updated on anything. It's been quite busy. I left last week Tuesday (july 26) to go teach an Intro class in Blanding, was there until Thursday, got home Thursday night (drove with my brother, and it's one of the most boring drives you could ever think of). The day I got home, There was a guest at my house already fromt he night before. A friend of my sister's was staying until EFY started on Monday, we also had the boy from England fly in the same night I got home. He's here until the 17th I believe. So we've been trying to keep them entertained and get work done and so forth. Then Monday my sister's friend left, later that afternoon we all left to Ogden for the cueing camp, Camp CueTah. We all worked there doing something, whether it be teaching, video production or counselor. We just got back at 1130 pm last night. We now have not only the boy from England, but a woman form Minnesota with her daughter who has Down Syndrome with us for now. They stayed the night last night, they leave in a few hours. We also have a man from Washington staying with us as well, he's here until Monday. Then on Tuesday or Wednesday mom has asked me to see if I can get the boy from England to a water park or something (tonight we're doing a parade and a rodeo). Then Thursday my family leaves for Lake Powell, all but me and one of my sisters, she has to work. Then I leave for California with Bryan Friday night, and will be gone until the 21st. I'm looking forward to it, but I wouldn't mind having a few days at home where the house was just back to normal. yeah...I just want the normal household back for now, it'd be nice. 
Camp was great, lots of fun stuff happened, update more about that later as now I have to go shopping to entertain more guests....:)