Home :)

This past weekend was President's Day weekend! We didn't have any school on Monday so I headed home for the weekend :) It was really fun! I didn't have any plans! I left on Friday around 2:00 and made it home just a little before 4:00. It was perfect :) I saw my dad right when I pulled up to my house! It is always so good to see him! I miss him a lot always! My little sister was home from school, and getting ready to hangout with friends that night! She was nice enough to invite me along, so we all headed to the movie theaters to see the movie I Am Number Four! That movie is SO good!! I've never read the book before, but I absolutely loved it! I cannot wait to read the book!!!

Saturday was a pretty laid back day. I didn't do much. I went and got a new battery for my phone since the other one was tragically dying after two years of use, and two drops in the toilet (which there was nothing in by the way!) I then started to feel sick so I just went home and vegged for a while! It was fun! My mom finally came home and we watched the Investigation Discovery channel. We love the murder mystery shows! Sunday came and I went to visit Brady's church so I could see his plaque, and the scripture he chose since I've yet to see it! He's so cute :) I've missed being at his church with him. I headed home and went to church with my mommy :) I helped with her sunbeam class. The little kids are SO cute! She taught about the Holy Ghost and then we colored, and had a snack! It was a lot of fun seeing the personalities little kids have! We came home and got ready for dinner. My family had chicken noodle soup but since I hate most foods I just had the chicken. Yummy! My mother and I then watched some more murder mystery shows until we were tired and went to bed. I woke up Monday morning and got my haircut and eyebrows waxed (owie!) and then I came home and just hungout with my puppy and sissy till my roommates came to pick me up to go back to school!

I had a really good weekend spending time with my family :) I love my family a lot and I'm so grateful for them! My first nephew should be here any day now!! I cannot wait to meet this little guy! It's so crazy to picture my brother with his own little kid, but I'm really excited to be an aunt, and think of how exciting it will be to have another baby in the family. The youngest cousin is almost 11! It'll be great :) I'm really happy for my brother and sister-in-law!

I stopped by his house this past weekend.
This is my cute babe's car that has been sitting
there since he left. I miss riding in there, and
playing jello, and fighting over the radio!

I also received a Valentine's letter from Brady today :) :) :) You better believe it was gooshy! It was so cute! :) He just basically spilled his true love for me, but in such a serious way. He referred to me as "Ashley" instead of "babe" like he usually does. He just had me smiling the entire letter. I still smile when I re-read it :) It almost seems unreal though! It seems like a dream. I smile and I'm so happy, but after reading it, it just doesn't seem real because I haven't seen him in so long, and I haven't heard his voice, or tell me he loves me verbally in so long, ya know? But it still does it's temporary justice! :) It was the perfect Valentine's letter! It was the one I had been waiting for, for an entire week, and it completely blew me away! I'm so lucky to know him!

Halfway There

So I'm currently putting together my 9th block!

I'm supposed to have at least 16 blocks, and I have 8.

I'm really excited!! It's been a long road, but it's coming together!

Block 8

All of my pieces

My Valentine ♥

I miss my Valentine :/

Today I will be celebrating our love together :) I'm really excited to send his Valentine's package! I hope he likes it! He's getting it super late, but being a poor college student and all, I had to wait till I got paid!

Brady is my best friend. In fact, he's the only friend I have. I feel so alone sometimes. I love my roommates, and they're great friends, and I love spending time with them. But I have my days where I miss my friends from the old days, like Chey and Abby, and Matt and Bryant, and Becca, and Megan, and everyone else I used to hangout with. I especially miss the young women in my home ward. Those girls are my everything. Sometimes I want to cry, and just scream for Brady to come back and be with me. I just hate it without him sometimes. He made me so happy, he was my friend and I was content not really being with anyone else. Now it's just completely hard, and I have no one when I go home. I'm so glad to have my roommates during times like these!

Here is the video of Brady opening up his mission call. I think I've watched this at least a trillion times, just to hear his voice, and see his melting smile, and hear his laugh... ahhh.. I just love him very much :)

My family was very sweet and sent me a Valentine's package and I was able to go home and get some more treats and spend time with my family!! I was really happy too! My whole family was over for dinner last night! I loved it! I love my family! I'm the luckiest girl in the world!!

Anyway, I just love Brady very much. I know I post about it non-stop, but I'll continue to because I can't help myself, knowing I got the best man in the world ♥ He's just so special to me, and my best friend, there wasn't ever a day that could go by that I didn't want to be with him. I was comfortable with him, I was happy, calm, and I could be myself. He would be crazy and silly with me. He was always willing to go on an adventure, or go outside or play picture-taking-war on Skype! I knew I could tell him anything, and I did. We just connected on that level, and he felt comfortable with telling me anything. It was so nice to see that trust and honesty in action between us. Each day is getting easier, and I just know that my love for him is sturdy and strong, and it'll never change; vice versa. He never ceases to remind me of his love for me. I appreciate him and all that he does/is so much!! He's my lover, my man, my sweetheart, my valentine :)

Did I also forget to mention Brady & I are featured in this Valentine's Day post?! Well, go find our picture! :)

Valentine's Package

My mom is just the cutest :) I was on the phone with her the other day, telling her how I wished I would be home for v-day so that I could have one of her big sugar cookies she'd make us when we were kids. So I came home from school today with this package on the table!

My mom is just the cutest huh!? I opened it up, and there is all this candy and a card! When I read the card I almost started to cry. It was really meaningful, and I'm sure my mom teared up at the store!

Isn't it just cute though!? Now I get to tell Brady how my mother beat him to sending me a package :) Not that he was ever going to, maybe he won't ever, but still :) It's cute! I wish the one I sent to Brady was that cute, but you do what you can as a poor college student! Anyway, thanks mom & dad!! I love you!!

Happiness

Have

You

Ever

Been

Happy?   

Like you could jump for joy, like the picture above!?

And scream?

Well I totally could today.

And I want to.

So I think I will.

Today has been the best. 

Peace :)

Owie :(

Yup.

See that red dot on the tip of my finger?

It hurts. Badly.

I was making a hair bow yesterday, and somehow cut myself.

With scissors. I know.

But it hurts.

There isn't a single band-aid our there that fits the top of my finger.

It bugs me.

Also, it's right in the spot where it bumps everything.

Like typing for instance.

Yeah, it hurts.

This is the next block for my quilt :)

I love it! It's so cute!

It was a little tough to sew, but I did it!


Also, I'ma say how much I love my man :)

I love Brady. The feeling is so strong. Actually, a lot stronger than I ever expected. I went through my week, where I wasn't sure about anything. And now I am. I truly believe my prayers have been answered. I'm so happy when I think of Brady. I smile constantly, and I'm always gushing over him. Dang, he's sure good looking. I play the video of him opening his mission call, numerous times throughout the day because I can hear his voice. It's really weird to hear it, now that I've gone a little over 2 months without. But I make do with the videos that I have :) I'm just so smitten, and in love with him :) It's amazing. There's so much I could lose if we didn't workout, and I'm not ready for that. I'm always telling Heavenly Father how good Brady is, and that if he'll let me have him, I'll go through whatever it takes, whatever sacrifice/trial, as long as I get to have him for Eternity ♥ I am not sure if that's something I should be saying, but I mean it. My man is good looking, caring, thoughtful, intelligent, obedient, and perfect in my eyes and that's what gets me through each and every day :)

The Ensign & My Dream Wedding

Is it just me, or do you have a GREAT love for the Ensign magazine, that the Church sends out each month. Because I absolutely love it! February's edition was spectacular! :) I had a wonderful Sunday. It was full of the Spirit and happiness. Lots of thoughts!

I made it to church late, due to driving back from home. I was still able to attend Sunday School and Relief Society! It was really good :) I read the Ensign all throughout RS, I felt bad but it was so good that I couldn't not. I felt like the answer to some of my prayers were in this edition. It was great! I just smiled to myself, because it's something I've been praying about for a while, and the exact subject was posted for the world to read. This Ensign has just been really good to me, I'd like to share a quote found in the talk "Finding Answers" by Joseph Fielding McConkie. He says, "As we accept our lot and move forward with what the Lord has asked of us, we discover that we enjoy the company of the Holy Ghost, angels feel constrained to join us, and the heavens open to our vision." - I really like that. I need to depend more on the Lord, and the gospel. Reading my scriptures, and praying. Attending the Temple, and asking the right questions, making sure I'm standing in Holy Places, so that I can receive the Spirit of Revelation, and let the works of God come into my life.

I'm such a blessed Daughter of a very loving Heavenly Father. I was taught so much today, and I'm sure I won't be able to forget. I'm really thankful for my family, and all the sacrifices they make, to support me, help me out, and everything else a family is supposed to do. I've received a ton of council and I'm really going to do my best to apply it in my life. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

(Click here to read the Ensign.)

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Alright, so I know this is a little off the subject from the post earlier, but I just saw another girls blog about her dream wedding, and I know I want to say a little of what I'd dream to have :)

I'm going to either take my endowments out at the Jordan River or Oquirrh Mountain Temple :) Both of them have something to do with my babe :) :) And then be sealed to my sweetheart in the Salt Lake Temple :) That has been my dream since I was a little girl. There is just something completely different about the Salt Lake Temple. I can't tell you what it is, but I just know that it's different. Anyway, it's beautiful :)

I would then love to have my reception in the Joseph Smith Memorial building! :) Preferably in the evening, and maybe do a luncheon or something because I'm sure my parents and his will want to. But then I want time to spend with my babe before the reception. To just be us; to just sit and talk; and dream together :) It would be amazing!

I would want a videographer! Have you heard of those!? They're amazing! I mean, don't get me wrong. I still want a photographer, but I want a video of our wedding because I want to hear voices, and see people move, so that in the future, for the ones that pass on, I can look back and hear them and see them smile :) Plus, I'd love to watch that day all over again! Also, I want the song "True Companion" by Marc Cohn to be played during the video made of my wedding :) You know that song "Marry Me" by Train!? Well, I have mixed feelings about it. Brady kept it from me, because he was going to use it to propose to me, but he just couldn't wait, and I absolutely fell in love with it. So he would text me the lyrics and such before he left :) But now it's so overplayed and SO many people love it, that it draws me from it. It's the one song I will not dance to, or use for my video, at my wedding. I'm sure Brady will understand ;) Hahaha Our song will be "Anywhere But Here" by Safetysuit because that's our song! :) I love it!

My dress will be simple. Elegant, classy and modest :) I don't want bling, crazy diamonds, sparkly, a ton of lace, and all these designs. I just want one that is plain, white, with maybe some little design on it. I will not be wearing a veil. I can tell you that right now. I'm sorry, they look good on some people, but I just hate them. I will just have something cute and what not in my hair! I'm going to have my hair down, curled! I'll wear the earrings my babe got me, and (obviously) the ring :) Which, by the way, I want Brady to like it just as much as I do, so he feels like his money is going to something of great worth, that we're both happy with, and vice versa for his ring :)

For party favors/thank you bags/thank you treats, I want M&M's that have "Just Married", "B&A", A picture of the SLC Temple, and "Thank You" on the M&M's in our wedding colors :) Cute right!? Totally :) I hope I have super yummy desert at my reception too, and I will make sure that someone saves me some!!

I would love to have digital scrapbook pages done to have people sign when they come in! So that we can put them in a scrapbook! I want gerber daisies as my flowers, and the center pieces will have flowers, and pictures of Brady & I during our dating days!

Ahh :) I just cannot wait to marry my babe for time and all eternity! :) I just can feel it. 21 more fast Sundays, 22 Months and we can make it all come true :) We've decided May 2nd, 2013 :) Hahaha I know, silly. But I'm happy with him :) Oh boy. I'm going to stop gushing over him, cause I'm sure you're all sick of it!