I am starting now.

Okay. SO it has been about a year and half since I have done a blog post. My life got away from me a bit. I started dating an incredible man and married him. I’ve been married for about ten months now. I graduated college and got my Bachelor’s degree in English Education. I am now a certified teacher. I moved to Idaho Falls to teach. Basically I found work, love, and life. It has been a wonderful year and a half and I wish I would have shared it more. I am starting now.

 I shall start out with a little bit of our love story:

All the way back in January 2013 my roommate started dating her now husband. She wanted to set me up with either his brother or his friend. I met the brother and thought he was pretty cute. He was a bit awkward from only being off of his mission for 6 days, but he was witty and I liked that. We went on a date, which was kind of uncomfortable and that was that. Not another date.

We went our separate ways. He dated A LOT… he likes to tell me this fact. And, I went to Ukraine and studied abroad. When I came back to school in the fall my roommate Kristina was about to get engaged to the man of her dreams, Zach. I was SO excited for them. Kristina was VERY persistent in wanting me to date the brother. I said that maybe we would go on a date when he comes back to school in the winter.

I then asked her why she was being so persistent and she said, and I quote, “You guys are perfect for each other, you are both so nerdy.” ... I am not so sure what she meant by that... 

I put this in the back of my brain and said maybe later…

In October of 2014 Zach was coming up to visit Kristina and little did she know he was also going to propose. All of us roommates were SO excited. The day came for him to get there and he decided to bring his little brother up for the trip.

There I was in my living room watching a movie and in walks in Zach and behind him… Zebadiah Teichert. He walked straight into my living room and my heart.

He looked good. Like really good. Like wow. I am turning into a valley girl just thinking about it. There was flirting for the few days he was there. An exchange of numbers, and a lot of texting and calling for the next couple weeks.

I have to tell you, I liked him. I “like-liked” him. Everyone always says “I don’t like games” but we all play them in relationships. This is perfectly different for us. One day I decided to tell him that I liked him and to actually not play the game of “Does he like me?” and “What does this text mean, it has a wink smiley face?” …. Don’t act like you have never done that.

I was having flash backs of telling Billy Wilson I like-liked him in 2^nd grade. That did NOT go well. But, I had to get over Billy Wilson sooner or later so, I did it, and he said he liked me back.

And like the spectacular poet Walt Whitman said, “We were together. I forget the rest.”

Hallows Eve...

October is probably my favorite month of the year. It's fall for one, you eat everything pumpkin in sight and most importantly it's Halloween. There are few things in this life I love more than Halloween. My family gets all kinds of into it and some would say we are mentally insane but I call it family bonding. 

I have a lot to catch up on, because Halloween for me isn't just a one day affair. It's all month and it never stops. My roommates and I decided one night that we were going to have a fun night no matter what. We decided to go to this dance party going on at one of the apartment complexes, but one problem, we needed costumes... So Kristina, who hardly ever comes out with us because she is engaged and would rather spend her time talking to her betrothed. I mean who wouldn't? She provided us not only with our costumes for the night but she then wore the greatest costume I have ever seen. She was none other than a pregnant prostitute, I mean could it get any better than that? I think not. I will save her from the embarrassment and not post a picture but I am sure you can use your imagination. Jac went as a ? Something? and I went as Workout Barbie. Let's just say I got really into character...

We danced our pants off and then maybe illegally went to a gym and jumped on trampolines and danced on the balance beams and had a killer night. One of the best I have ever had here at college. 

Here is a little taste of the night we had.

The next night I went to probably the best thing I have seen in my whole entire life. Seriously I think I died. I am a ghost and I died when I saw the amazingness. I literally forgot how to use words. I went to see a rock opera called Deep Love and it was incredible. After the show I met the two men who sang in it and I literally said to them and I quote, "It was... so... ahh... I forgot how to use... the words in the mouth... I love you." I don't even know, I totally fan girl-ed out, and I am not ashamed. 

My friends and I at work decided at we needed to have a pumpkin dinner and so we had the best pumpkin dinner ever. Soup. Cookies. Rolls shaped like pumpkins. Pumpkin Crack bars. Jerica puts crack in her food to make us all addicted. It was perfection.

The next week I left for home and got to spend some time with my Granee and Aunt and Cousins which I loved. I left for home and got there on the beloved day (Hallows Eve) Sara picked me up from the airport and we got food because at that point I could have eaten my arm. I got to my house and it was decorated to perfection. The festivities were starting. It is really hard to capture everything that happens so here is just a taste and also my father being... himself. 

My little brother scaring the pants off of everyone and Rylee being a star. She seriously is so committed to the bit. It's terrifying. 

After all the scaring Sara and I went to Halloween party as a cowgirl and an Indian. It was presh. We are besties. Be Jel.

After Halloween my mom and I decided to go to the Ballet. It is a tradition that we started when I was 12 to go to the Nutcracker every year but we love the ballet so much that sometimes we go other times of the year. We went to see Cinderella and it was beautiful and everything I love about the ballet. 





When we got there we had a couple minutes to spare and there was a festival for The Day of the Dead going on, so we strolled through the street and I bought a couple of rad looking rings. Best. I love hanging out with my mommy. 

A few loose ends from the past couple weeks...

 Aparently the internet thinks I look like Rihanna. Not once. But twice... I'll take it. 

Tyson or better known as Macklemore likes to have birthdays and dress up in kitty footsies. 

Sometimes when things in life get a little hard and you need to move on but you aren't sure how... I've come to the realization that it is a lot easier to burn it.

 So. Again. And not intentional at all. We have decided that we have known each other for so long that we have the exact same wardrobe. Showing up to work matching for the 12th time this semester is cute right?

I like red lipstick. It makes me feel pretty. 

I hope everyone had a killer Hallows Eve. I know I did. 

I'm on drugs...

 This is literally what my life has looked like for the past week and a half. This cold is so stubborn and will NOT go away. I mean I know I am good company and a ball of fun but seriously cold... It's time to move on. Although this cold has pretty much taken all my energy away from me, I still have had a pretty great week. Although I whine to myself daily that I wish I had my mommy to take care of me, my roommates have really taken care of me. They make me hot honey water and soup and put up with my nasty cough until the wee hours of the morning. They are angels. Sunday was amazing... Its better said in pictures...

3 pumpkins and a couple broken knifes later... Kristina finally got her roasted pumpkin seeds and two really cute jack-o-lanterns for our porch.

Jac decided to make some cake pops. They were delicious but Jac may or may not had a mental breakdown making them... Oh goodness I love that girl.

We all unintentionally matched at church. Adorbs.  

There were zombie guts...zombie guts everywhere...

So basically a crappy week full of coughs and sleepless nights turned out to be amazing with a heart to heart with my BFF Jerica and watching the Walking Dead.. AH if you haven't watched it then you need to stop whatever you are doing right now and watch it. I mean finish reading my blog and then go watch it. If you don't watch the show, then get your life together and take 3 days of school, work or whatever pointless thing you are doing with your life and watch it. I am sorry I just have strong unbreakable feelings for The Walking Dead. 

Jerica also is the bestest friend in the world. She sent me on a scavenger hunt and it led me to a Kit Kat and if you know me then you know that's the way to my heart. There may or may not be a swear in here... if you are my mother reading this, shield your perfect eyes. Daphne is our blue cat lamp... Jealous? I thought so. 

Sometimes we match and we show up at school and realize that we are on the same brain wavelength... we are besties and we look good in stripes. 

So...even though my life ended up looking like this for a while I can truly say that I am blessed with great friends and I am happy. :) 

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall..

This past weekend was extremely eventful. Let's see. My roommate got engaged after careful planning and sneaky tricks on my part, I went down to Utah to my favorite place in this whole world to see my family, I had a lot of laughs and to top it all off I apparently found out I am having 5 children, and I found out who with... Let's just say it was a pretty big weekend for me. 

First, my beautiful roommate got engaged to the man of her dreams. They are honestly so perfect for each other and one of my favorite couples on this planet. I mean they are up there with my parents but not quite as close to William and Kate, but who is really? Zach spent so much time and effort planning and executing his proposal. He started talking to all us roommates a while ago and he made it so special. He printed out pictures of the two of them and love quotes from her favorite movies or ones that he knew she liked. He made a sign with a quote from one of her favorite songs, "I'll earn your trust making memories of us" He put them on the wall in our hallway like a little gallery and I sneakily got her out of the house to a movie. And if you know anything about Kristina then you know it is nearly impossible to get her out of the house for more than an hour. I accepted the challenge and got that mission accomplished. She came home and she walked down the hall to the song from the wedding singer, "Grow old with you" and he proposed and there were tears, tears everywhere, from everyone. It was magical. 

Later that night we were all talking about this trick you can do to predict how many kids you are going to have and in what order and what they are going to be. It is a trick with a pencil, string and a needle. If you want to know more about it, go to YouTube, it's insane. So we were telling all the guys about this. Zach, Kristina's now fiance said he didn't believe us so we showed him. It was exactly what it was before and then we tried it on Zach and it was the exact same as Kristinas'. We tried it again on everyone else. We lastly tried it out on Zeb, Zach's brother... It was the EXACT SAME AS MINE!! In result I kind of had a mental breakdown and ended up like this...

Let's also just take a minute and see how one, I found my roommate leaving for the weekend and two, how I found her coming home.. 

Last but not least, I spent time with my family down in my favorite place in this world. The best part about that statement is that I can say it now. I have been around the world a little bit and I can say firmly that my favorite place in this whole world is my Granee's house in Holden, Utah. First of all, my favorite person is there and it's always treated me right. It is perfection. 

Like F. Scott Fitzgerald so brilliantly said: "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."

Pumpkin Cookies, Conference, and Bat Wings..

I may or may not have had the best weekend in a long time. I spent 8 hours watching General Conference, which was the best one I have ever ever seen. I made pumpkin cookies because it isn't fall until pumpkin cookies are made. I also got a little carried away with decorating my house for Halloween because I am overly obsessed with Halloween thanks to my good old dad. Also, I wanted to be like my mother for just 5 minutes because she decorates to perfection and is just so incredible when it comes to anything. Here are my adventures this weekend :)

This is what I know for certain:

I know that I love life.

I know that there is too much beauty on this earth, there are too many miracles in this life, there are too many times that I have felt a grander love that is above an earthly feeling, too many tender moments in my life with no other explanation than a higher being. A heaven and Father in that Heaven who loves me. Who knows me. Who would do anything for me; even send his most beloved son to this earth to die for me. I know that I have a Savior who died for me because I am worth it. I know that this isn't it. This mortal life isn't the end when we die. I know that I can return to a loving Heavenly Father. I know this.

I know that one day I will be married, and I know that one day I will have a family. This is something that is becoming almost an outdated notion in this world. Marriage and having a family isn't “cool” but I do not want to be “cool” if that is what that means now. I want a loving marriage with a faithful husband who has the same outlook on life as I do. I want to have children, yep you heard that right; multiple children. And I know this to be true. If I work hard at a marriage, it will not fail. If I work my hardest to be a mother, a great mother, I know I will have a loving family. I know that the only way to have this, is through loving my Heavenly Father first and foremost.

I know that I am not a perfect being. I know that no one is on this earth. However, I do know that if I serve others, I do good works and come unto my Savior, I will be able to become perfect. I will be saved by grace if only I work to do so.

I invite others to come to know. Who have questions about life. Why are we here? What are we doing here? I have had these questions but now that I know for myself, I am at peace.

There are so many things I still do not understand but what I do know fill those other things with faith. I have faith that I will one day understand and know.

I am not trying to push my faith, or my religion on anyone. I am merely inviting others to find out for themselves and those who want to feel peace about their existence, to look for an answer, however that may be. However, like President Uchtdorf said in conference this weekend, “If you are looking for a place of belonging…there is room for you here.”

I know for certain I am happy.