Wedding obsession

The only thing I can think about is wedding plans. Bryce called me the other day and said, "remember that one time that we got engaged and then I never saw you again". I guess I have been a little obsessed lately. But I got a lot of things taken care of this month. My photographer is Kevin Lunt. He gave us a really good deal. He will do whatever we want for only 750.00 http://www.kevinluntphotography.com/gallery.aspx.

I got a videographer with creativ productions. I was looking on the internet and I came to their sight and saw one of their weddings that they did and I just started crying. It was love at first sight. http://www.creativproductions.com/

I also ordered my cake. Cake testing is probably one of the funnest things to do. I went to granite bakery http://www.granitebakery.com/. They had some of the cheapest cakes and they had the most selection. I got Keylime and custard for the bottom layer, coconut fudge for the middle layer, and chocolate carmel for the top layer. It was so yummy, but not great for someone trying to diet!

soccer game

Kit took Bryce and I to a Real Salt Lake game he also introduced us to some of his friends who own their own photography business. He said that he would put in a good word for us and see if he would give us some kind of a deal, but the truth was I already had researched them and they were a little pricey, but for what I wanted everyone was a little pricey. Is it too much to ask to have engagements, bridals, temple, and reception pictures taken with no time limit or location limit? The soccer game was a lot of fun. It was in the new statium and at one point Kit got the whole crowd cheering. It ended up being a tie, which I think is kind of gay, but I was amazed at their ball handling skills. I am going to need to practice some of those skill for when we are married!!!

my new career choice

I started out going to college to be a math teacher (even though I still count on my fingers). After I got a math tutoring job I decided that maybe that wasn't for me after all. So then I decided to get into the PTA (physical therapy assistent). In Utah they only offer that program at SLCC so moved back home, found an aide job for a phisical therapist and enrolled in the SLCC PTA program, but after about 3 classes I realized that I hated the director of the program and that I didn't want to spend the next 3 years with her. At this point I was a little discouraged and so I took a few years off of school. Last semester I finally went back and took a few classes to finish up on my associates degree so that I could enroll at the U and major in family health and consumer science and minor in Family finances. I took a few classes and LOVED it!!! Everthing I learned was so applicable to life. I was really excited to be in a major that I loved and that I could use everyday even if I didn't make a career after it. Well once again my plans changed after Bryce proposed I dropped out of my summer classes because I didn't think that I would have the money or the time, and so for my final career choice I have chosen to become a statistic and. I am a little bummed about not being able to finish college, but maybe someday I will be able to go back even if I am a mom and I have a wheelie back pack! (all the mom's are carrying those these days. I guess if you are a mom at college that is the cool thing to do!)

Here are a few statistics for you:

• In 2002 only 51% of the kids who graduate from High school also graduated from college with at least a Bachelors Degree. The numbers have been decreasing since then
• The average college student changes their major 3 times before they graduate

My first freak out!

After the excitement of telling everyone the big news. I started to freak out I only had 3 months to plan this thing, and I had no idea where to start! I went over the Gotberg's house and Debbie helped me out. She had married two of her girls already and one on the way. She pulled out all of her books and let me look at pictures and what not. She informed me that I need to get a Utah wedding book and it would help make sure that I wasn't going to forget anything. http://www.utahweddings.com/ I was over at her house until 2 in the morning. I freaking love them!!! So the first thing I did was pick up a Utah's wedding book, and a million of other wedding magazines. I decided the first thing that I needed to do was pick out a dress.

I went with my friend Mallory and it was a disaster. We went to frenzees and David's bridal. Don't ever go there!!! It put me in panic mode. I became obsessed and spent the rest of the week going to bridal shops. I finally found my dress at bridal expressions. Once you find your dress you have to buy it right away. So I begged my mom to go back with me on Saturday so I could show it to her, get her approval and hopefully buy it.


Wedding dress shopping was exhausting, but I was relieved to check that off the list. One down 5 million things to go!

Dropping the bomb

Since everyone was coming over for mothers day it was the perfect opportunity to tell them our big news. Telling Bryce's family was really fun! His mom was the first person we told. Her reaction was a mixture of screaming and crying. Brooke and her friend were there too. Bryce introduced me to Brooke's friend as his fiance it took Brooke a minute, but then she saw the ring and gave my a huge hug while jumping up and down. He told Penney that I got a manicure and they did a really bad job. He asked her to look at my hand and see if maybe she could fix it. She looked at my hand really confused and said I don't see anything wrong with it. (Thank goodness I probably would have felt dumb if she told me that I suck at painting my nails). I had to point to my ring finger and tell her it was most that finger. She too started screaming and picked me up. haha I was surprised that she could lift me. I loved all the screaming, and jumping, and excitement. However my family was a little different I'm pretty sure they just sat there and smiled. My mom's smile was probably because when I told her that I needed to tell her something she thought I was pregnant. Thanks a lot mom!!! Even my boss at work was more excited than my family was. I didn't even have to say anything. He noticed the huge rock on my finger and started freaking out. I loved it!!! There is nothing better than telling people the best news of your life and having them be almost as excited as you are! I'm glad you Erickson's are happy because pretty soon I am going to be one of you. I couldn't ask to be part of a better family!!!

The proposal

I went down to Bryce’s room one day and his laptop was opened, on his screen was driving directions to get to Ensign Peak. I thought it was unusual and I was wondering what he was up to. He was talking to Megan on the phone, and I could tell that he was hiding something. He told me that Megan was wondering how to get to Ensign Peak because she wanted to go with her family, which I thought was a little strange. I kind of hoped that he was planning on proposing, so I thought that I would help him and go along with it. I told him that I had never been to Ensign Peak and that I would really like to go, and so he said that we could go this weekend. Saturday came and it was raining. I went down to Bryce’s room all excited, hoping that he would be up and ready, but he was asleep. I was like what are you doing? We are suppose to go to Ensign Peak today, and all he could say in a groggy voice was maybe some other time. I was so disappointed, and I told myself that I wasn’t allowed to get my hopes up like that again.
The next Tuesday the temple called me and wanted to confirm my address. I thought that it was a little strange at first, but I had lost my temple recommend so I thought that maybe they had found it and they were going to mail it to me, but then they said that they wanted to confirm my fiancé’s address. I said who? They said Bryce Erickson? I said I know who Bryce is and I know his address, but he is not my fiancé. The sweet little lady was really confused and didn’t know what to say, and I was like who is this, did someone put did someone put you up to this, and I started laughing. The poor lady just didn’t know what to do or say, and I really thought that maybe it was Kit’s secretary or something playing a huge joke on me. So I decided to ask her a few questions. I asked her what Temple she was calling from, she said Salt Lake. I told her that I had heard that the temple was closing for a few years, and she told me that was just a rumor, so then I asked her what day I was getting married, she said August 28th. I thought that was a pretty good day to get married so I asked her what time, She said 9:00, and that is when I told her that she better cancel the appointment because I didn’t know anything about it. She told me to talk to my fiancé and then to get back to her. So I called Bryce right after that. He had just gotten off from working a graveyard shift at Jordan Valley Hospital, so he wasn’t very happy when I woke him up from sleeping, but I couldn’t help it I had to tell him that the temple called me and told me that we were getting married. I mean it’s not everyday that a girl gets the temple to propose to her. I asked him if he thought that someone in his family was playing a joke on us, he was relieved that I had come to that conclusion and told me that he would investigate it, but until then not to tell anyone about it. So as soon as I hung up the phone with him I had to erase it from my facebook page. I thought that it was a hilarious joke, but Bryce didn’t seem to think it was that funny.
On Thursday I was suppose to be studying for one of my finals, but I just couple help think about the idea of getting married, and the more I thought about it the more sad I got thinking that it could be just a huge joke. Just as I had finished picking out my wedding colors and assignments for everyone Bryce called me and told me that he had talked to Megan and it wasn’t her, but he said don’t worry I will find out who did this. I just started crying, and I told him I didn’t care who did it and I didn’t want to talk about it anymore. His response of course was, “are you crying?” I told him that I didn’t think that it was a funny joke anymore, but I didn’t want to be a bad sport, so I just didn’t want to talk about it. He then tried to tell me why it wasn’t a good idea for us to get married. I really didn’t understand his logic, but I couldn’t worry about because I had to go take my final, which I didn’t do as well as I thought I was going to do. I guess that I just had too much on my mind. He told me that he take me hiking that weekend to make me feel better, or anything else that I wanted to do. He said that we can play tennis or go biking, but I thought, “No you can’t propose to me at a tennis court”, so once again we made plans to go to Ensign Peak.
I got up Saturday and painted my nails (just in case I was going to be taking some pictures of my hands) I tried to get ready, but I didn’t want to get overly ready after all we were going hiking. He called to make sure that I was still planning on going, and I thought okay this is a good sign; he’s not going to be asleep again when I go over there. When I got there Bryce was dressed nice a little too nice, but I didn’t want to say anything I was just going to go with the flow, but once again thought this is a good sign. So we got up there, and everyone was looking at me like they knew me, they seemed friendly enough so asked one of the girls to take a picture of Bryce and I. As she was talking the picture I could see out of the corner of my eye a little picnic that had been set up. I thought how cute someone is having a picnic up here, but before I could say anything Bryce said that he had planned a little picnic for us. There was a blanket set out for us with flowers in the shape of a heart and Café Rio sitting up there. He told me that He had walked up here earlier that morning and set this up, which I thought was impossible, but I didn’t want to ask any questions yet. Then he told me not to look behind me because there was some guy filming us, and I thought oh Megan is up here so I just sat there waiting for him to propose, but we just sat up there talking a little awkwardly. Then he laid the bomb on me and told me that he was sad that I didn’t get a very good valentines day and so he wanted to make up for it, which would have been cute, but I was expecting him to propose to me dangit! So all of this was for a stupid Valentine’s gift? You have got to be kidding me. I was just about to give up when Bryce got a phone call. It sounded like a guy, but when I asked him who it was he said it was his mom. I thought, “Okay lying is good, he is still trying to hide something”. By that time the guy, who was not Megan had left, and so had everyone else. It was just us up there, and before I could realize what was happening he was on his knee and he opening up the box, he was telling me how much he loved me, and he was saying some other stuff, but all I could do was stare at the ring. I then realized that he hadn’t been talking for a while, it took me a minute to come out of shock, but of coarse said YES! We sat up there for awhile to let me soak it all in, and then we decided to tell our families. The whole thing was very surreal

Happy Mothers Day Eve

For mother's Day this year Bryce's mom is getting a new daughter and my mom is getting a new son. Yep that's right we are engaged!!! Bryce already called the Temple and arranged the date for August 28th. That is only 3 months away so let the Craziness begin!!!