It's Closer & Closer

First of all, since this is probably going to be my last post before Christmas, I need to say, MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL! Landon and I bought ourselves a surprise gift...and it's going to make our apartment the place to party for sure! I hope we all remember the true meaning of this season, and that's about Christ! We have a decoration in my house and it's such a good reminder. It says, "The magic of Christmas is not in the presents but in His Presence". May we all remember that!

Landon and I are only 17 days away from getting married! We are so so so excited! I can barely sleep at night just thinking about everything and how much fun it's going to be with him! The thing I look most forward to right now is going through the temple on Saturday! Not only is it going to be an awesome spiritual experience, we get to experience it together, both our first time going through! It's so exciting being able to do things side by side with him. It helps us grow so much together! I know the temple will be awesome though!

Now, down to what's been going on. Landon's been doing physical therapy 3x a week for his knee, which makes him think he can go play basketball. WRONG. But he learned the hard way. He went and played basketball with his company a couple weeks ago, and he hurt his knee even more. We all told him he probably shouldn't go play, but being the "tough guy" he is, he played anyway! Well there's your consequence sweety! Jk I do have compassion upon him I just hope he stays off of it from now on until its healed!! Jeez! Also, we finally bought Landon a suit! It has been such a hassle to find him something that fits him since he is short & stalky! And he's so picky with the style too..."I want 2 button, non-pleated, short, black..etc". So it's been quite the adventure trying to find him the perfect suit but to our luck we finally did! The Lord blessed us with Pomeroy's (the missionary store out in Mesa..WHY DIDN'T WE THINK OF THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE?!) But we found the perfect suit and now all is well. Finally relieved a lot of stress!

LASTLY, the honeymoon plans! We are going to go to Vegas for our honeymoon! It's going to be so much fun...gambling, clubbing, drinking....YA RIGHT! But seriously, I didn't realize all the clean fun stuff you can do there! I'm really excited to go. We just booked tickets to the Excalibur Tournament of the Kings which is a dinner show and you watch live jousting with horses and stuff. It's gonna be pretty dang fun. We also plan to do the M&M factory, See's Candy Factory, Coca Cola Factory, etc on factories. We're gonna some of the free shows at Planet Hollywood and ride the New York New York roller coaster. I'm sure there will be other cool things to see while we're there too. And we also plan to do a session at the Las Vegas temple! :-D. It's going to be a blast, I know it! The only problem we're running into though is you have to be 21 to book a room in any of the hotels with casinos (Anyone wanna hook us up?!) and both of us are only 20... Good news is, we found out the Las Vegas Hilton hotel only requires you to be 18, which is a blessing not only because we now have a place to stay, but it doesn't have a casino inside..so we won't have to be around that! It's all working out so smoothly.

Merry Christmas!

PS-Today is 1 year since Landon and I got back together! I'm so proud of how far he has come and how far we have come! Heavenly Father is blessing us with so many miracles!

Counting the Days!

I absolutely LOVE the holiday season! It's the highlight of the year for me and I can literally FEEL the spirit of it! Happy late Thanksgiving by the way! Landon and I ate at his parents house and ate food from the Philippines. Their Thanksgiving tradition is to eat food from a different country every year instead of the normal turkey and mashed potatoes, and this year it was the Philippines. It was REALLY tastey. Really cool tradition they've got goin! Then after we ate, Landon so kindly let me watch West Side Story..because I had NEVER seen it & I really don't think i'm that weird for never seeing it either. (If you haven't seen NEWSIES, then UR wierd! Best musical of all time in my book). But I definately liked West Side Story..until the end when Tony dies. Such a stupid ending. I will never watch it again because he died. They were supposed to elope and start a life together! Jeez. Hate it. I just liked the "America" song. Anyway, continuing on with our great Thanksgiving, we saw Twilight that night for my mom's birthday. No comment on that. Let's just say it didn't make me want to read the book.

Then the fun came. Arizona Mills opend at midnight for Black Friday, so what do me and Landon do? YES, we went SHOPPING! It was so much fun. It was SO crowded, and the sales weren't even that good, but it was just fun to be up that late shopping together. We didn't end up crashing until about 5:30, but it was so worth it. Such a fun Thanksgiving!

Well we're about 22 days til Christmas, 41 days from the wedding, and 3 days away from my bridal shower! Yay! It's gonna be like Christmas 3 times in a row! We're gonna feel so spoiled. I'm not really asking for much for Christmas though. I just can't wait until finals are over in 2 weeks to officially just focus on the wedding. It's going to be so nice.

I just have to get validation on one thing that has been frustrating me my whole life. Don't you hate it when you open up the fridge and there is nothing for you to eat, or that you want to eat to say the least? These past 2 weeks we have had basically just condiments in our fridge and every 5 minutes I go to the fridge thinking there is magically going to be food there, and there never is. So disappointing and sad. Must be the economy.

Whew!

Well this has been a busy couple of weeks! As you can see, one of our engagement pics is up at the top, and another one here. There are many other cute ones, but we don't want to make anyone jealous.. :-) No we just don't want to ruin the fun of seeing them at the wedding.

Anyway, let's see. Yesterday was my birthday (holy cow im 20!) and it was awesome. Landon and I were treated to the most delicious ribs in the entire universe. Landon ate a full rack, while I hate half! We were so fat and tired after but it was delicious to our souls. Later that night, Landon was a sweetheart and surprised me and took me to the place he first said "I love you" to me when we were 16. It was super cute.

OH! We got an apartment! It's freakin sick! Its right where the 101 and the 10 meet, and its a pretty new area. (Dysart area ring a bell?). Anyway, its really big for a 1 bedroom (983 sq. ft) and we're on the 3rd story but the best part is we're facing the pool! It's like paradise! We are so excited to move in January 2nd. It's going to be so much fun. Our official "first place"!

Lastly (i'm sure Landon will read what I read and make me add stuff I forgot) Landon had surgery on his knee last Friday and wanted me to share with you a beautiful picture of it. He tore his miniscus (spelling?) playing basketball like 5 months ago it took him forever to become humble enough to see a doctor. In spite of his pride he had to get surgery. He's doing really well. It was a good experience for me to be there at the hospital with him and take care of him. He's been a tough goob for sure and does more on his knee than he should. Of course, like all guys. This is a picture of his knee right after he got his stitches out..& we both watched the nurse take them out...talk about gross.

"This is Halloween"

Anyone remember the "this is Halloween" song from the movie Nightmare before Christmas? I swear it's been stuck in my head since the beginning of this month, and it won't go away until Halloween is literally overwith! For some reason I like it though.

Anyway, here is a picture of the pumpkin Landon and I carved that he is way proud of. It's his "Air Jordan" logo that he basically claims as his trademark. It really did turn out good tho. I broke some of the pumpkin while we were carving it and decided to play "pumpkin doctor" and fixed it. It looks fabulous, you can't even tell! I'm so proud of myself :)
Well Landon and I are passing out candy at his parents house on Halloween (Friday). This is actually a big deal because his mom doesn't pass out Halloween candy and tries to hide from the little children! hahaha! So I convinced Landon that the little children deserve candy since they take the time to dress up, plus its tradition! Jeez! So we're pretty excited to hangout on the porch with a couple chairs, put a TV out there, and pass out candy to the cute little kids.YA!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!!!

P.S. Who can tell me how to put a picture between my paragraphs, and not just at the top!? It's frustrating me!

10 Weeks To Go!

Landon and I are too cool and spent some of our Friday night at the Halloween Store. We're the sexiest Clinton couple. Actually, we were out "invitation shopping" and happened to see the Halloween Store and figured that would be a little more exciting. Well here's a little bit about whats going on. I'm pretty sure we're gonna be homeless on the streets to start out cause Landon probably has to get surgery on his knee cause he has a torn meniscus which will put him out of work for about 6 weeks if he has surgery on it! But we're praying that by some miracle his job will work with him and he'll tough it out. He loves pain, I think he just loves to feel manly though. We're getting our engagement pics taken next Saturday! It's gonna be so much fun. At least for me, since I got him to buy jean pants! He hasn't owned a pair of pants other than his church and work pants for about 4 years now. Seriously, I'm embarrased. All he does is wear basketball shorts and a t-shirt everywhere, even to nice restaurants. But somehow I think it's hott. Whatever. I just found out I can get my Associates in the Spring. Thats exciting news.

Funny story: Landon made our dog (Win) LITERALLY crap his pants. Or butt. He antagonizes him and scares him to death. He hates it. So 2 nights in a row, he has scared the CRAP out of him. Disgusting. But hilarious.

I guess thats all the exciting stuff. :)

I made a blog!

Man, I thought making a blog would be a lot harder but it's a piece of cake! Not really but I refused to make one until I got engaged because I felt like it was for married people. So, now we are official! We just got engaged on SATURDAY. Here is the story. So Landon tricked me cause we were supposed to go to Tucson with his family on Saturday but he lied and said Jeff (his little brother) had to go help at some Eagle thing. I was so dissapointed cause I wanted to go on that trip! Anyway, he asked me if I felt like hiking Camelback mountain instead and I said sure. So we started hiking and we both started to get super tired and I was like "can't we just do halfway this time" and Landon was like "yeah that's fine". So we hiked some more and we both were dying so I said "can't we just go to that cave thing and be done"? And Landon was like "yeah!". Little did I know this is where he was going to propose anyway! So.. we get to the cave and there is this HUGE sign that says "Faith, Will You Marry Me"? and I start freaking out and shaking and asking if this was the real one (Landon had been getting down to tie his shoe lately to pretend like he was going to propose, so I couldn't trust him). And he started to tell me how much he loved me and how he couldn't live without me and then he asked if I would marry him and I said YES!!!! :) of course. So our wedding is in 11 weeks and we are both stressed! Landon works full time and I go to school full time and I have NO JOB! But im looking. And now we have a wedding to plan. Awesome!