So, Kiss Me

A friend of mine from Tokyo is a photographer and she offered to take mine and Kjarom's engagement pictures. I am beyond happy with how they turned out. I want to get a ton of them blown up. You can see the full gallery on her website at www.redpetalbykara.com, but here are my favorites:

Eat, Sleep & School

Minus the eat and sleep. No, really. I just started my Dental Hygiene program and I'm in 8 classes going to school every day from 8-5. It's like a full time job! It's tough already, but I guess it'll be worth it in the end.

BRUSH.

FLOSS.

EAT HEALTHY.

(:

I ❤ to see the temple...

CONFERENCE

Wow were there some really great talks or what? Elder Holland is my favorite. He ALWAYS says it just how it is... There are no hidden messages. My boyfriend's grandparents scored us some SWEET tickets. We were sitting just about 18 rows back. Such an amazing experience. If you have yet to actually go TO conference, I HIGHLY recommend it. Here are a couple pictures from the day (:

My Husband

I got a little bored last night and decided I wanted to make a list of qualities I want in a future boyfriend/husband, so when the time comes I won't have to worry about finding Mr. Right.

1. Return Missionary

2. Athletic

3. Tall, dark and handsome

4. kind

5. great sense of humor

6. a supporter of my goals and dreams

7. passionate about his work/studies

8. sweet and loves to hold me

9. a little boy at heart -- has a child's innocence and innate trust in the world

10. highly-tolerant; open-minded

11. sweet to his mother

12. well-read

13. LOVES TO TRAVEL

14. remembers things I say

15. someone who always looks after my welfare

16. has a great deal of respect for women

17. a hopeless romantic

18. loves to give me back rubs

19. smells good

20. LOVES MY FAMILY & friends

21. fiercely loyal and honest

22. someone who dresses well

23. has a STRONG testimony and temple worthy

24. someone who openly considers me his best friend

25. someone who surprises me with nice, little meaningful things

26. outdoorsy and adventurous

27. has wonderful, expressive eyes

28. courageously pursues his dreams

... more to come I am sure.

future set in stone

If you heard the rumor that I got into Dental Hygiene school, you're RIGHT! After a year of not knowing what in the world I wanted to do then another year of prerequisites I have finally been admitted into the dental hygiene program. I start at the beginning of May and it's basically year round, but I'll be DONE with my bachelors after 22 months. After I finish the program chances are I'll get right into the new world and start to work. BUT I may come back to BYU and get ANOTHER major in either Public Health or Communication Disorders.

UCDH

Where I will be doing most of my clinical work (:

New beginnings (:

Fall semester has already started.  I can't believe how fast time flies by.  I wish I could just be done with school!  Still got tons more schooling to get through before any of that happens.  Anyway, here are so new pictures since my last post (:

Katelyn (my niece) and I on our last night at Bear Lake

My awesome friend Sean and I at the last Bee's game of the season.

YES this is my new room and YES I have a walk-in closet.

Human Anatomy

Wow!  I can't believe that summer is basically over.  I feel like I never even had a summer because I was SO SO busy in school.  Everyone thought I was crazy for deciding to take Human Anatomy (one of the hardest classes at BYU) during a summer term.  BUT I'm SO happy I did.  Forgetting about the thousands of hours I put towards this class, I actually really enjoyed it.    This class has actually made me change my major.  I really hope to go into nursing.  So right now I'm in that stressful part of college life trying to apply to a million different programs to see where I get in.  I just can't wait to get past all the prerequisites and push forward to the REAL stuff :)