HOME!!!

I flew the red eye into JFK and got home this morning! It was sooo nice not having a layover like I usually do when I fly into Bradley. A big thank you to Dan's dad for picking me up!! It's awesome (and humid) being home :) and I have my 1st day of lifeguarding tomorrow so hopefully that goes well!

You know it's finals week when...

*People actually show up to class *Everybody has more to do now than any other point in the semester *You open the $100 textbook you haven't touched since you bought it at the beginning of the semester *You are studying on a Friday night *Taking a shower is considered a study break *You spend more time in the Testing Center than you do in class...

Sooo busy with finals and getting everything done before the end of the semester! At least I'll be home in just a little over a week :)

100 Days...

Until the love of my eternity comes home!! I miss him sooooooooooooo much and I'm totally counting down the days! He is the best and I'm soooo proud of him! I was looking at these classic pics his dad took of us back in Summer '09... and I was thinking our next photoshoot will probably be engagement pics!!! How exciting is that!? I LOVE YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH DAN AND ABSOLUTELY CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO BE HOME AND BE WITH YOU AGAIN!!!!! XOXOXOXOXO

4th of July!!

I was soooo excited this morning to open my AMAZING package from Dan!! He did such a perfect job and I can't believe he found so many cute, festive things for it!! I wanted to post pics so he and everyone else could see how much I LOVED it!! Thank you sooooo much sweetheart!!

Red, white and blue cuteness!

Taking all my fun presents out :)

Sooo cute and patriotic!

I love this cute Bath and Body handsoap! It's apple pie scented!

Cute hand sanitizers!

Opening the adorable patriotic cookie cutters!

Love them! Dan and I want to have cookie cutters for all the different holidays :)

Dan sent me the cutest patriotic baking mixes and supplies! Soo fun!

He also found these adorable patriotic Disney treats! A keychain, bracelets, an anklet and buttons!

Reading his perfect card!

I'm sooo impressed he found a card that was not only read, white and blue, but totally perfect for us!

ALL my treats!! I can't thank you enough Dan!! This was soo amazing and made my day soo fun :)

I can't believe everything Dan does for me and I'm soooo lucky he's mine!! I LOVE YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH HONEY!!!! XOXOX

Also, here are the cute, funky stars I made to decorate my room!

I hope everyone had a fun, festive 4th of July!! :)

Summer Fun...

My roommate Amy's family got sealed on Friday and then her sister got married on Saturday and they invited me and Kayla down to join them for a BBQ and roasting S'mores! We went to Amy's grandparent's property and then road in the back of a truck through the Idaho farmlands they grew up in.

It was really beautiful!


And quite windy :)

We all piled in on the way back and then enjoyed BBQ, making S'mores and eating leftover wedding cake :) Yummy! We also had fun bouncing on their trampoline!

They did a candy bar at the wedding with over 200 lbs of candy! They had tons of leftovers and gave the rest of it to us lol.

Wow! We have a lot of candy...

We also took wedding cake and each put it under our pillow... hopefully if the tradition works we will dream about our future husbands! I better dream about Dan! XOXO

Things I Love About Summer...

Today was the 1st day this year where it was actually in the 90s! I got Coldstone to celebrate and I started thinking about some of my favorite things about Summer...

1. Cookouts! And S'mores and Stewart's Orange Cream Soda and Dan's mom's potato salad!

2. No School! (Except this year where I have to be in school half the summer, almost done though!)

3. Walking barefoot in the grass and having a cute pedicure!

4. Ice cream! Yummm vanilla soft serve is one of summer's best guilty pleasures :)

5. Sunglasses!

6. The beach! And hammocks and laying out and being tan :)

7. Water balloons! Soo fun!

And I totally want these cute summer letters, seeing them just makes me think of summer fun :)

P.S. Bought my plane ticket today to go home for summer break!! I'm soo excited!!

5th Anniversary!!

I can't believe that Dan and I have been dating for half a decade now! I love how we've grown up together and he really is my other half. He sent me the most loving, AMAZING package and I had sooo much fun opening it and I wanted to post some pics :) I also wore the classic orange shirt that I wore to the YM/YW picnic back in the day...

He TOTALLY outdid himself and even wrapped everything in the cutest Disney paper and attached little notes too all the presents!

Opening all my awesome presents!!

Yummy dessert gum! The Key Lime Pie one is my fave gum :)

The classic candies Dan and I ate during Cars on our 1st date!

A DVD guide to the Disney parks! I can't wait to watch it!

The yummy Bahama breeze candle! It smells soo good and tropical!

I can't wait to play this Disney Apples to Apples! Soo fun :)

Reading my adorable card!!

Dan found the cutest vintage Disney anniversary card!! Love it!!

ALL my incredible presents!! I can't thank you enough Dan!!! You are amazing!!

I'm sooooooo lucky to have Dan and can't picture my future without him!! Happy anniversary sweetheart!! This is just the beginning and I look forward to an amazing eternity with you!! XOXOXOX