Last time. I hope.

Dear friends. If you recall from my last post , I had to create a new blog just so I could (in a very round about manner I might add) get to this blog. SO. Since my new blog actually shows up on the dashboard page i'm just going to use it. I promise this will hopefully be the last blog you can follow. If you so choose.  The link to it , if you'd like to find out what i'm up to is :

http://afton-apinchoflove.blogspot.com/  - Which actually works because then I can have one blog for all my interests. Namely Family , and cooking. A pinch of love kinda works for both. I'm clever huh !!! I try. So. If you like to eat. Or just want to find out about my family life...( right now it's just my parents and sisters , but eventually it will merge into my new family. you know. In laws and babies. and hubby. Not in that order . I fully plan on having a hubby before babies.)

So moral of the story is. You should follow me. Because maybe one day i'll have something interesting to say.

Unsure

I'm not quite sure why blogger made me create a new blog..( yes, i have a 4th blog called a pinch of love) just so I could write in this one. I'm debating just writing in that one. It actually shows up on my log in. Oh well.

Today we did my bridals. They are GORGEOUS. I'm kind of in love and can't wait to post the rest to facebook after the wedding :) Gregg is supposedly going to do " a LOT of apartment hunting" this week. We're shooting for getting me out there around the 27th at the lastest. the 22nd at the earliest.

This weekend is my Bridal shower. 60 days to go and this is completely real to me. I'm excited and ready. I can't wait to start my life with Gregg.

In other news i'm aggrivated with T-Mobile. Looks like we're going to be running some articles and saying that the only way we won't run articles telling EVERYONE what they've done , is to pay me the 1500 dollars that they're trying to make me pay. Well not anymore , but they're obstructing justice and my uncle lawyer says we've got this one. I almost want to be like look you're obstructing justice, your employee screwed me over and you've been giving us a lot of trouble. Write me a check for 2000 ( although secretly i'm thinking I deserve more like 3000) to cover the 1500 dollars they owe ME for putting up with them , plus and extra 500 for my troubles. I'm being a snot. sorry.

Okay well i'm done ranting. Talk to you guys later?

Love is in the air...

I just realized that the only picture on my whole blog is the main picture. Sorry folks. My computer has been having a temper , so i've been relying on my Moms computer. I shall add a few maybe Sunday or next week when life isn't so hectic. Wedding planning. It takes time.

Yesterday Grandma , Mom , and I worked on bouqets and boutineers. Today we're working on MY bouquet. I'm really pleased with it so far. We'll see how it looks when it's completed though. Tomorrow we're taking bridals. So look forward to those on the blog and on Facebook.

I'm super jealous of peoples whose blogs are like way popular in blogger world , but I didn't start this blog to become a big blogger girl , I started it for my family to be able to see what's going on in my life. I suppose it's serving it's purpose. Correct ? Gregg , my love , is looking at apartments today. We're both praying we find " the one." Join in if you like. We could use all the prayers we can get.

I have an interview out in Utah as soon as I can move out there for a job Gregg is 95% sure i'll get. I have yet to blow an interview , so i'm pretty confident in myself. We shall see though. Don't want to get to self assured that I blow an interview for the first time. Gregg is jealous of my skills though. I'm " gifted" as Gregg likes to call it. Wow am I sounding cocky or what ?!

I think i'm going to go and find some munchies. Maybe take a nap. Try and text Gregg to see how the hunt is going. Later my friends :)

Late Nights with Gregg

I have come to love my late night chats with Gregg. Mostly because i'm getting in bed earlier. Also because we just talk so much about anything and everything. We never run out of things to talk about and that makes me extremely happy. Last night after our typical hour and a half long " I love you" , " I miss you" , and " you're pretty" conversations. After the what new plans have you got for the wedding conversation , we struck gold.

Here's a little background to how this conversation got started. All the way to my interview with the stake president , I had this really firm , knowing peace , that one day Gregg and I will end up in California. I don't know for how long , but I knew that we would end up there. I kinda just blew it off as oh Afton , you are dreaming again. It will never happen. Then later that night I hear this. " Afton , I want to move to California one day... I really love California weather and I think i'd like living there."

After exclaiming HEY I was just thinking that earlier today , we got onto the subject of the gospel and about how good the Lord is to those who are faithful and obedient. We talked about how the Lord always watches over us and will let us know what is right for us if we're willing to listen. Nothing good in my life could have come to me ( same for Gregg) if I wasn't ready and willing and worthy to let it. Anyways , It was a great conversation and I wouldn't trade these late nights with Gregg for anything in the world.

Sweet Surrender

I have the hardest time coming up with clever blog titles. That's not what I wanted to talk about though.

As I'm blogging Sister (Brett) is playing TaySwifts Fairytale for me. It's one of my favorite things about being home, the bonding time I get with my sisters and parents. It's bittersweet. I guess knowing that i'm getting married soon and won't be seeing my family as much makes this all so important and special to me. The other day my daddy took me on one of my last daddy/daughter dates and I teared up a little bit. I'm so beyond ready to take this next step in my life , but i'm not ready to let go of what I have. As Brittany Spears put it , " I'm not a girl , not yet a woman."

Anyways... to continue on with sappy Afton moments ( i'm sorry , it's just the extremely high amounts of hormones racing through my body , thanks to being a girl and birth control. I've decided I dislike BC , but I dislike unplanned pregnancy more , so I deal. ) TMI , sorry. Back to the subject...

I was scrapbooking engagement pictures last night. Scrapbooking is my new favorite past time. I'm getting good at it too! Anywas as I was looking at the scrapbook and the pictures I thought how cool it is that i'm giving my children , and grandchildren , and great grandchildren this blessing. This book to look back at and say " these were my grandparents etc. " I think that's so cool. That future generations will have this . What a blessing that is. So many great memories are stored in that book. Those memories will be preserved forever and my future generations will be able to share in all those memories.

Also 4 weeks until I move back out to Utah to be with Gregg. I was talking to him last night and telling him how I wished the next 4 weeks would go by faster. Gregg asked if I had anything to keep me busy. I replied well I have my grandparents in town till the 8th , then I have my Bridal shower on the 11th. That alone will put us 2 weeks into it. After that I'll be busy packing what seems like my whole life up. Things are happening sooo fast. Tonight alone I have my interview with the stake president to get his signature for my temple recommend. Then i'll be done with that. It's crazy to think how fast this is creeping up on me.

Oh and my new calling! On Sunday I will officially be the new Relief Society Chorister! I'm super excited to have a calling I will enjoy for all of one month. Oh well , 1 month is better than nothing right ? I have to go now though. Got to find the website for the Bridesmaids hair accessories. Okay , love ya'll lots. BYE

Sunday Social

Oh wow today was... good. Hot but good. My dads parents left our house this morning at the crack o' dawn. It was nice to see them for a few days though and get some nice hand me down clothes :) We left for church where I finally got a calling. ( A month before I move back to Utah. really ?) I'll tell you guys what it is next week. I'm super excited about it though.

My friend from when we were knee high to a grasshopper was at church today visiting her family. She's married and I haven't seen her in forever ( you know how it goes. you get married you drop of the planet.) So it was super nice catching up. I still love that girl more than anything and i'm thinking we need to talk more often.

Then I came home and took a lovely nap. Okay not lovely because I was sweating but it was actually pretty good in a murder-mystery dream way. I absolutely love when my dreams take me on adventures. This one was good too. Walking around a church solving a murder mystery and getting wedding gifts rocks my world.

Then I woke up and well , I miss Gregg. SO MUCH. It gets harder and harder to be away from him everyday. Which is weird because before he came to visit we're like yeah I miss you , but not super bad. At least that's the vibe I got. I guess because the wedding is getting closer and what not things are getting harder. Mostly for me it's because I miss being able to cuddle him and tell him everything. He's my best friend and I miss him a lot.

Anyways. That's me. Missing my best friend. Waiting on a call to set up an appointment with the stake president. Waiting. Always waiting.

Friday May 27th 2011

Today Shall go down in blogger history as the day that Shae Audrey graduated high school. My cousin graduated with honors from her high school yesterday. I was so proud and may or may not have cried just a little bit. It's so crazy that we're all growing up so fast. In 2 years my baby sister will graduate too. That was graduation though.

Yesterday also , We brought Gregg's ring. We went to the Mart of Atlanta and after walking around a few stores we found Gregg a $200 dollar ring. Since we were buying it at the mart buyers price ( The price actual stores buy them at ) It would originally cost us $89 dollars. Thanks to my mothers AMAZING bargaining price we got it at $64 dollars plus tax. Yeah my mom is awesome like that. Take that all you future brides !

Also our invitations came in the mail and now I have the fun job of addressing every. single. one. 9 down , 241 to go. well 240 , since I screwed up one envelope already. HAHAH. Anyways. I should probably jump on that. Among other things. So yeah. I'm gonna go. LOVE YOU !!