6 months ago

I sat next to a boy I liked on a couch and put my head on his shoulder while he studied and I read. Little did I know that day would change the rest of my eternity. Respect grew to like, like grew to love, love grew to marriage and sealed together for time and all eternity. If I have learned anything from Connor it's that God has it figured out and we have to much potential in our faith, charity, love, understanding and goodness that we know no bounds. Here we are six months later engaged to be married and three months away from that blessed day! I'm so grateful for Coco and her friendliness and the fact that she invited people over to our house that day and that Connor was one of them. I'm so grateful to Mike Carter for placing Connor as my home teacher and listening to the spirit in that endeavor. I'm so grateful for Connor for taking a leap and seeing me for what I'm trying to be, for loving me almost instantly, for being forgiving and understanding and full of goodness towards me and others, for persevering and making his one romantic relationship something to write home about. I feel so lucky and blessed to be around these past six months and to get into marvelous habits and search for life and love together. In six months from now I'll be married and be on the eve of my 24th birthday. Time flies when you're having fun. 

Disneyland!!

So we went to Disneyland on Tuesday :) it was one of the best days of my life and we had little lines, great food and did everything we wanted to! AND I ate two soft pretzels shaped like Mickey Mouse! I love these goons and I rather enjoyed getting to know them better and to have a day to just play and enjoy the fact that we're young and carefree and we didn't have to wedding plan at all that day and we just talked about food and Star Wars and got the bejeebers scared out of us by Kylo Ren and goofed off and made Connors siblings gross out a few times and went home happy and tired and well worn out. My goodness I love this life and these people that will be my family in three short months! Eternity is looking pretty bright! 

These days I feel more loved

Tomorrow we go to Disneyland, but tonight we went to dinner with Aunt Melanie, Skip and Melissa. I had a good time and thought it went well, afterwards we wandered around the Irvine spectrum for a few minutes and looked at a beautiful Ferris wheel then boogied down the deserted street while the music was still blaring from a store nearby. It made me feel more as though Connor is the one for me because I feel like he has no issue doing silly things, but sometimes my vanity gets in the way of being goofy. Thank heaven he lets me feel like we're in our own little world and even the people who can see us don't matter. He adds spice to my life and makes me feel loved, wanted, desired, cherished, interesting, good, kind, charitable, intelligent, happy and safe. He is everything I could have hoped to want in a spouse and I am excited for the next three and a half months to zoom by so I can be with him forever. The covenants we make when we are sealed are the most important I will make in this life and I am SO grateful every day that he is the one I will be making those covenants to. We work together to come up with solutions, we laugh at the same things, we come around when our views vary. I look forward to marrying my best friend and better half on August 13th!