Service with a Smile :)

Seeing Kenny leave for basic, surprisingly wasn't as hard as I anticipated. Of course I missed him but I just got so busy with school and working that I really didn't have time to mope. Last week it caught up to me. I was feeling very down, I missed Kenny terribly, I was stressing about wedding plans, and getting behind in my school work. Sunday came around and I was a mess, I just wanted Kenny to be here to tell me to stop stressing and get over it, haha he is so tender :) In Sacrament meeting the topic was on service. It was exactly what I needed to hear! The spirit was so strong and afterward I just felt recharged and ready to face the week! My new goal is to do little acts of service everyday. Like yesterday I cleaned the whole kitchen for my mom, although it didn't last long :) It still made me happy to know I helped out. It's like a little game now, I have to look for acts of service I can do and when I find them I get all excited! It's weird I know but it makes me happy to know I will bring a smile to someone's face. I now challenge YOU to do the same thing! These acts can be as simple as smiling at someone at the store who looks down, opening a door for someone, or baking someone cookies! I know we all get busy in our lives, (trust me I know, I am a full time student, with a full time job, and I am planning my wedding), but If we all take a few minutes each day to serve someone, think of the effect we could have! It will make them happy and in turn make you happy. 

Matthew 25:40 "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

Time to Catch up!

This is me playing catch up for a little while, there are things I haven't blogged about but wanted to do it now!   So on January 2, 2013, we sent Kenny off to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. That is where he will be for the next 4 months. It was so hard to see him leave but I have kept very busy so far. Right now I am working as a CNA/Med Tech, at Sterling Court Assisted living home. I love it! All of my residents are very sweet, they love hearing about our wedding plans! I am also attending Dixie state college as a full time student, right now I am taking the Advanced EMT course and I hope to be getting into the Paramedic program within the next year. And of course I am planning our wedding! So you see I don't have much time to miss Kenny but that's kind of unavoidable... I still miss him every single day! I received a letter from him on the 19th and I was sooo glad to finally hear from him! He sounds like he is doing very well, he says "A lot the guys here still try to do their own thing and it gets us smoked (push ups or whatever they want to do to put us in pain). For me, I actually don't mind it so far, I like how organized everything is, and the discipline they are putting us through." The first week he was there was just a lot of medical stuff, like eye checks, physicals, and shots... lots of shots... They told him to not bring anything, so when he got there he didn't have his immunization record so he ended up having to get 7 shots! Shots that he has already had but because they had no record of it they just did them all again... :( Poor Kenny's arms were so sore, but of course being Kenny he didn't complain a bit. He said the first week all they did was push ups and stand out in the cold... But now that he is done with all the medical stuff they get to do obstacle courses and probably more push ups. This week they are going through the gas chamber.. A room full of tear gas... I have no idea how he is doing all this! I would be such a wimp!!! 

On the way to the airport, his sister snapped this picture :) 

It is 5:30am so naturally we look FABULOUS! 

Last hugs before he gets on the plane :(

The Beginning of our Journey

I am an engaged woman! Kenny proposed to me November 30, 2012. So now I’ll explain how he did it! He picked me up for a date, and told me to bring a swim suit. We went to dinner at a yummy little bakery called Kneaders. While we were there he tells me a little about the date he is taking me on. He tells me we are going to make a list of places around town that we have been to together that have a special/funny or just random memory at. So while eating, we each take turns writing down a place. After dinner we went and looked at my sisters, In-Law's, condo that we will be living in once we are married. After that we started our date. The first place on the list is some apartments on the boulevard. So we pull up and park in the exact place that we had our first kiss, in front of Chandlers old Apartment.  The next place on the list is Menchie’s, this is Kenny’s choice. This is the place we decided we want to get married, romantic right? Standing in the Menchies parking lot hah. We go in and get some frozen yogurt then we get back to the date. The next place we went was sandstone elementary, across the street from that school is where Kenny proposed to me on our first date as part of the scavenger hunt, who knew it would really happen!! The next place we went was Green Springs park. There was three memory’s there, one was we went and played pickle ball there, and tied (we tie at everything we do). Another memory was we went there after 10 one night just to walk around and a policeman came and kicked us out hah it was pretty funny. The last one was not a fun one… It was also the place we broke up the first and only time, even though it only lasted for a day hah! Next place on our list was the Dog Town park, that was where Kenny told me he planned to join the Military, my stomach dropped when he told me that. The next place was a creepy old abandoned house in Washington Fields, he took me there one day to scare me, it worked!! The last place was the Elementary School in Washington Fields, I forgot what it was called but we took Toby (Kenny's dog) on a walk there one night and ended up running through the sprinklers hah (Kenny told me later that he was very impressed with me that night, he was surprised that I wasn’t afraid to get wet I guess hah). After that we were going to Auston Hafen's to go hot tubing, but Kenny went the wrong way. I asked him where we were going and he just said there was one more place I wanted to take you. So we ended up at the temple, I was confused because I didn’t know what memory he was thinking of (secretly I kinda knew what was going on J).  So we walked around for a little, then he stopped to hug me, then he asked me if I knew what memory he was thinking of, I said no, then he said "well I wanted to make a new memory" got down on his knee and asked me to marry him! I of course said yes! Now that is the beginning of Forever!  

This is right after he put a ring on it :)