10/1/09

I feel like I have joined an elite club. The Engagement Club. It's like, all of a sudden, all the engaged girls I know, as well as all the engaged girls in my classes are all bff's. Comparing colors, dresses, reception venues, invitations, the list goes on. I find myself talking to girls I haven't talked to before, because now have one thing in common - wedding planning.
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A day later.

I just went back and reread some posts from last year, mainly winter semester. It's so funny to me how life turns out. But I love it. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

An interesting thing... I became aware of an internship opportunity for this summer in my Intro to Family Processes class. There is a research project called the Flourishing Families Project. My professor is one of the professors in charge of this project. They have 500 families in Seattle, WA and 200 families in Provo that they study and collect data from in order to see what sorts of things make families happy and stay together, etc. At first I thought you had to be available to go to Seattle, which obviously I wouldn't be able to do. (although, that would be sweet as they pay for housing, and it's in Seattle, and it's also a paid internship). But I found out that you can do just the Provo families, so I'm going to go to the Info Meeting next week and find out more about it. It's roughly 20 hours a week, and they pay $200/wk, which is roughly $10/hr. It would also fulfil my internship/capstone credit, which would be fantastic! So, I'll see how that goes.

.... One more day later - it's now October 1!

Can you believe that it's October?! Wow! And the cold weather... I love it. I have been so sick of being hot all the time, I'm ready for fall and fall colors. I love wearing long sleeves and sweaters, so it's the perfect season for me. Kyle hates it though, he definitely loves the heat, so it's kind of funny. The one thing I do hate about the cold is walking through the rain, and having a cold nose and cold ears. I get awful ear aches when it's cold outside, so I'm not looking forward to that at all.... Hm, Kyle and I got library cards, which is awesome. He had to keep me from checking out about 8 last week. So I got three, but now I'm done with them, and we're going back tomorrow to get more. I am such a reading freak. I can't get enough of books. But I have this problem where when I start a book, I can't put it down, it's all I can think about. Not so great for homework and such. Speaking of homework - I have not missed an assignment yet this semester. It's kind of a big deal. Also, on my first test for Family Processes, I got an 88%. This is a miracle, I'm so proud of myself. Ok, so on my Marriage Prep test I got a horrid score... But I'm trying not to dwell on that.

Life is good to us. Kyle and I are happy. Sierra-West said that my ring will hopefully be ready next week! *cross your fingers* and Kyle's mom Holly comes out next week, so it will be fun to finally meet her and spend more time with the Hanson's! :)

Oh, life

Kyle called the temple yesterday, so we officially have an appointment. May 6th, at 10:20 am. We're also cool enough that we're booking so far in advance, that we're the first ones on that day, holla! Haha, so that is the exciting news of the week!

Bah, I always have such good things to blog about, and then I forget when I sit down to blog.

Oh well, moving on.

I have a test to take tomorrow. And then one to take on Monday. Thus starts my crazy semester, other than reading and small assignments. Once this starts, I'll be on track with at least one test or one paper a week. Yes. I love college.

My findings of the week.... Are first, if I don't do a minor (which I am thinking I won't, in the interest of time and money) after winter semester I will have 7, or 8 classes to complete my degree. 5 of those classes are available online through Independent Study (where I work! so I know all the ins and outs there). Then I'll only have 4 (or 5, I don't remember) left. I'm thinking about doing summer term (2010) to get two more of them out of the way. So, I will do 5 classes online while we're out and about at grad school. I can possibly even do my internship? Who knows, it might be a possibility. Which means, I will only have 3 classes (2 if I do my internship out of state, and 1 if I am adding a class) to complete. So we could come out here for a summer, I could finish up, and get my diploma. Sweet! That is the plan. So I may not graduate until like 2012 or something, but whatever. It's fine. I'm excited about my plan. Or trajectory, if you will. Which reminds me!!!

Yes, Heroes started on Monday. It was interesting, yet so good. I'm excited to see where this season goes. I kind of stopped watching in the middle of last season since I got crazy busy, but I can't wait to watch all of this season, plus catch up on season three! (Oh, the reason trajectory reminded me of Heroes... Claire's crazy roommate had a trajectory of her future).

Also, these:

are my new addiction. So good! I eat them at work all the time. Speaking of work, it's going great, I really love it. Tuesday and Thursday nights are my favorite. There's not a ton of people working, and there are not a ton of calls coming in either, it's just chill.

Ok, well I think that's about it. My life is pretty bland, yet pretty great.

Oh, I'm also ready to have my real engagement ring. Dear Sierra-West, please hurry up and make it for me!

Untitled?

Kyle and I watched this movie on Friday night (or maybe it was Thursday...) In any case, it was weird. Super, super weird. It was creepy, like a scary movie should be, and weird, since you had no idea what was going on and...
**spoiler alert**
once the aliens came into the picture, well, it reminded me of Indiana Jones 4. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to anyone, but it was interesting, and had a good.... idea, I guess.

I still haven't seen the movie yet, but I read the book. Over the weekend. I loved it! I couldn't put it down. Ask Kyle, it was all I was doing. There is a super twist to the ending, different than the ending in the book, and there are a couple extra characters. Even if you've watched the movie, I would definitely recommend this book to anyone. Amazing!

Other news of the weekend.

The BYUvFlorida State game was a bust. Awful, terrible, humiliating and disappointing game.

That's all I have to say about that. 19th in the rankings.... No good.

I'm getting a little more into wedding planning. Or rather just thinking of specifics of what I want. We're going to call the temple this week to book our wedding, yay! :) It's so crazy, and fun. Hopefully since we still have like... 7 months, I can take it all in stride, and not get too stressed or become a bridezilla, haha. I also can't wait to get my real band for me ring... Jenny's wedding is October 13th, so I am using her wedding day as the date that I hope to have it by.

Also, I got a new calling in my ward, I'm the Primary teacher! Every third Sunday, the families of our bishopric come to church with them. So, I get to teach Primary. We have six kids to teach, one 2 year old, one 4 year old, one 5 year old, one 8 year old, one 10 year old, and one 11 year old. So, as you can see, it's quite a range in ages. There is also a Primary president, a Nursery teacher and a helper. You wouldn't think it, but with those 6 kids, we need all four of us in there! So, it should be a lot of fun. I taught my first lesson yesterday, which went well, considering how much effort it takes to keep the kids under control, ha.

New Blog!

Kyle and I have a blog, it's kyleandbritthanson.blogspot.com - there's not too many posts on it yet, but as we go along with planning and things, I'll be updating it. Kyle will maybe occasionally post too :) I'll still be blogging here too, so check back whenever you want to!

PS

Kyle took me ring shopping for my birthday, I just didn't announce it on my blog. Now you know.

I said yes!

Wellll, it's official.
Yesterday, September 13, 2009
Kyle Scott Hanson asked me to marry him.
And I, of course, said yes!

The story, in brief, goes like this.

Kyle came to church with me yesterday, since my church is earlier than his, and we were planning on going up to Salt Lake to visit his best friend's family and then going to his brother's house for dinner. We wanted to eat lunch before we started our small journey though. So on Saturday, we had planned to go on a picnic, but Kyle said he was "too tired" and how about we switched it to Sunday after church, and go up by the temple? I was totally ok with that. Note that it is not uncommon for us to go on picnics, or to go visit the temple grounds. So nothing was out of place there.
So, after church we made pb&j's, got some chips, and went up around the back side of the temple, where there is a sort of hill overlooking the temple. We laid out our blanket, ate our food, and then chatted for a little bit. We had brought my Eternal Marriage manual with us, so we could read a talk (also not uncommon, we try to read a talk every day). Kyle was like, how about we read this one today? Which happened to be about Love and Unity. I thought he had just picked one at random... (hahaha) so we read that. When we got to a certain point in the talk, Kyle said something to the effect of he loved me and wanted to marry me. Now, we're cheesy like that all the time, so I said the same thing back and settled down to finish the talk. At about this point, he was kind of starting to get up, and told me to stand up. I was all sorts of confused, considering we hadn't finished the talk yet. I started standing up, and asked, "why?" He said because I want to ask you to marry me! He asked me, and I said yes without even thinking. I was so in shock that it had happened! After that, he took me over to his car, where he had had his roommates Sam and Garyn come and left a dozen roses, and a card on the seat. Sam and Garyn were actually hiding up in a cul-de-sac taking pictures, so then they came down and Sam took a few more.

The rest of the day was pretty crazy, we were both a bit in shock. Me, since I had no idea that it was coming, and Kyle, that he had actually done it! Crazy! He was seriously so sneaky, and so good at hiding it from me! We went up to Midvale, and visited with Kyle's best friend Blake and his wife and family. Then we went over to Nathan and Melanie's for dinner. We tried to get people to see that I had a ring on my finger but we were both too excited so I'm pretty sure we ended up just telling everyone. After dinner and hanging out at Nate and Mel's we went to ward prayer to see the Bishop and Bro V to tell them, and then down to Spanish Fork to visit with my mom. Busy day!

So, I had picked out my ring, and Kyle had the final say on my diamond and everything (such as sizing) should have been good to go, but because my ring size is so small (a size 4) the jeweler dudes decided it would just be safer to just make a new one in my size, so no diamonds fell out or anything. Something like that. So, that takes 4-6 weeks. Kyle decided he didn't want to wait that long, so I just got the diamond set in a simple solitaire setting until my ring comes in! It's still so pretty though, and the diamond is gorgeous, very sparkly, and colorless! :)

Our date is May 6th, which is exactly two weeks after Kyle graduates from BYU with his Bachelors in Psychology (minor in Business Management). So there's the story. We're so excited!!!