finals.

Finals, I have four words for you

I don't like you.

There's something about studying subjects that I have no need for, that I hate. For example, I'm in a Human Anatomy class online through BYU-Idaho. Don't ask me why I chose this class...I wanted to get my associates and so I had to take a Biology credit, so I decided to chose this class over Biology. Dumb idea. Really dumb idea.

My teacher is great. He's nice and helps his students out when in need. The only problem is he really loves to assign tests. Hard tests. I am generally not a very good test taker, so this has been a bit of a challenge for me this semester. This finals week though...pure torture.

This teacher has decided to assign 2 tests this week. That's right, you heard me...2. Who does that? Who assigns 2 tests to an online class the week of finals? A crazy professor, that's who.

Anyways...needless to say I've been studying my booty off for the past week. The poor fiance has barely seen me and he hates it. Hopefully though it will all pay off with a good grade on my final, and a passing grade in that class so I never have to deal with it again!

Wish me luck because about this time tomorrow I'll be sitting down at my desk at work about to take the test...AHHH!!

Good news though...Chris and I get to fly home on Saturday to Minnesota for Christmas and we are very excited! It's going to be freezing, but definitely worth it.

Metrodome collapse from inside the stadium - Minnesota Vikings dome

This is crazy!! My poor home :( Chris and I are crossing fingers that they fix it by next Monday. I bought us an early Christmas present to go see the Vikings play the Bears.

Metrodome Roof Collapse Video From the Inside Metrodome

christmas at temple square

Chris and I went to see the lights at Temple Square last night with my family. It's my favorite time of the year! I love living here in Utah so that I am able to do things like this more often.

We went with my uncle Steve and his wife, Laura, and their girls Regan, Avery, and their little boy Evan. We also went with my grandparents. It was so much fun! The girls loved the lights and cute little Avery was holding hands with Chris and I and she wanted us to swing her the whole time. It was such a great night. We had a lot of fun together and are super excited to be heading home to Minnesota on Saturday for Christmas with my family.

Here are some pictures from our night :)

 

the conference center

 

 me and the fiance

 my cute little cousins Avery and Regan

cutest little boy!

My friend Kelly shared this on her facebook today and I loved it and though I'd share it with all of you.

Enjoy :)

wedding, wedding, wedding!

I have to admit something - - - - I should be doing homework right now but...

I can't think of anything else but my wedding! Most of the day today at work I surfed the internet just looking for ideas for mine and the fiance's engagements as well as my bridals. We met with our photographer, Kelly, last night and it got me so excited to think that it's finally time to get into gear about all this! For a while I felt like things were so far away from happening, but it's already December!

But since I've been planning like crazy lately, I've already got our photographer picked, our videographer picked, and the reception center picked. So the big stuff is done...but now the little, yet still important, decisions to make for this event of ours!

Here are some of the things I'm loving right now, and thinking of incorporating into mine and the fiance's day:

This part of the wedding took me FOREVER to figure out...I had my mind set on purple and green, but it's way too common and for some reason didn't want them anymore. So after LOTS of searching I have decided that my colors are going to be yellow and gray. I have come across a few blog posts on this site, and it was love at first site! I didn't even think of these colors and I had no idea they were as big as they are now. I'm so, so excited for this! I am also thinking of accenting it with a navy. I have always loved navy :)

These are my absolute favorite!! Instead of trying to find where to buy them, I'm going to make them myself. I want to make this wedding a very DIY (do.it.yourself) kind of thing. At least the stuff that I can make, I want to. But these are the latest fad and I sure do love em!

Thinking of having something like this for the fiance...it's different and I love it!!

Thinking of something like this for our cake. It's simple and clean and I love the accent of the dark gray ribbon. The fiance and I went for a taste testing the other weekend and we have a good idea of what kind of cake we are going to get. I may want to sample another place just for fun!

So that's what I have so far. Wedding planning is so fun but I had no idea that it was this consuming! I am loving every minute, but I have to be honest and say that I can't wait for April 7th to come and to see it all play out...but I also can't wait for April 8th and to finally be Mrs. Paige McNulty!