May 8, 2012

"and you wrote threeve. a combination of 3 and 5. simply stunning."

it has been over 3 weeks since my last post. which means 3 weeks closer to our wedding. which means that we are getting married in 3 weeks. which means that i am 3 steps away from emotional aneurysm. in 3 days, i will be ending my last day of work at the best job i have ever had.  luckily, i generally like the number 3. prime numbers are my favorite.

to say that things have been busy would be an understatement. the past 3 weeks have been fervidly burning with an insane amount of activities, emotions, developments and progression.  this guy graduated. 
he is cute and smart. his kind are so far and few between. good thing i said yes. i am so proud of him. now off he goes to 40 years in an office! yeah! jokes. like he gets an office right away.

he was pretty excited about his graduation present.  i was able to score an ipad 3 for him before they even came out to the public (remember how i said best job ever). my parents and i decided that straight A's at the Marriott School *vicariously bragging* deserved a little more than a cake.  
all of jared's family came to town and it was 48 crazy hours of kids, eating, playing and going to the zoo. a personal favorite.  it was great to spend more time with his family, i feel more and more comfortable every time we see them.
it was also jared's birthday. after 72 hours of more children, crying, burping, napping, and all other things kid related, imaginable (PLEASE NOTE: we do really really like these kids. we are just selfish and wusses so we cannot take much at a time)we decided to celebrate by going to dinner at restaurant that does not have kid menus.
oh the melting pot. it has been a long time. but i was sure happy to welcome fondue back into my life. we were there for hours. 7 men, a beckie, 6 pots of fondue, 3 plates of meat and cheesecake?  he seemed pretty happy about the evening.

later that week we went to the leonardo museum in salt lake (can you tell that we get out of ut county as much as possible...luckily gas is so cheap...). it was SO fun. the boys and i had a great time playing with all the gadgets, learning about technology, making stop action animation, etc. we geeked out for hours and  wholeheartedly agreed that it was the best $8 any of us had spent in a long time.
you really should try it out. props to the slc for bringing something like the museum to the public. the picture of above is of jared drawing a portrait of himself by looking into a mirror and tracing his reflection that bounced off onto another piece of glass. trust me, it was MUCH more difficult than it looked. so his final piece is far above average.
after some crazy weeks of moving, all these adventures, packing our stuff and sending it to vegas, wedding plans, registering (holy cow, it was fun but exhausting) and spending our last nights with dear friends, this is what he turned into.
i was in the family room and wondering where he and the puppy went. i wandered into my room and look what i found. sound asleep and drooling. both of them. it was kinda gross, very cute.
but now jared is in vegas, i am in provo finishing out my job and finalizing wedding plans.
so our relationship is a mixture of frantic texts and phone calls (we are kind behind on this wedding checklist of stuff we need to do...), face time, and trying to keep ourselves busy and stay sane.
as far as i know, the wedding is still on.  i try to be all "whatever, yeah i like him" about this marriage thing. but going by the montage of pictures i just posted of mr. husband, i think that we all know i am slowly but surely, leaving my shrewish ways behind.  it really bugs me how much i like him and it bugs me even more that he knows it. but i suppose the fact that he feels the same way for me (and is much better at expressing it than me) is some sort of consolation.

bridal shower is this weekend and two of my favorite people will be there. baby is coming with lisa and hillary gets in to utah tomorrow night! it will be a lovely, girly, pink, sugar fest.

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