History

I was looking back through past posts on my other blog, trying to find something, and I came across this post. Basically I talked about how my grandma and my great aunt are amazing. My great aunt lost her husband in a plane crash when she was in her early twenties. The crazy part? Clark's great uncle was the other man who lost his life in that same plane crash (on my birthday). So, we're kind of connected by history.

Wedding Update...56 days

Our reception is now being held in my Grandma's backyard, which is straight up the street and across the tracks from the Barnwell LDS church.

My dress got delayed again by a week or two. What fun!

Our invitations got here, so those will go out on time. I'm not actually absolutely in love with them, but Clark's hot. :)

We are taking pictures a couple of weeks after we get married, instead of the week before, just to aid in stress management and to ensure my dress doesn't get dirty or wrecked before the big day.

I found my flower for my hair - it's on eBay and the auction ends tonight - wish me luck! Haha. I have yet to find my shoes - but since my dress isn't getting here for a couple of weeks, I still have some time. I thought I would be able to find green shoes pretty easily, but so far not so much. I might end up going with silver.

My sisters are wearing matching dresses and those are ordered so that's great! I'm picking up the fabric for the little girls' dresses on my way home to Canada in a few days, so those dresses will be getting sewn. They're going to wear the cutest big black flowers in their hair! Check out JRaeBows on facebook - Clark's cousin makes them and they're so cute.

Google Reader

Okay, if you haven't been using Google Reader to do all of your blog stalking - you need to check it out! It is so convenient to have all of your blogs in one place, and to know if they've been updated without having to go check each URL. I still click on the blog sometimes to go view it so I can see the cute background, etc. You can even find out how many people are subscribing to your blog!

Also, if you have a blog, check out Google Analytics - it's fun to see how many people are viewing your blog, and where they're from. It has a map overlay feature with a map of the world and dots to represent viewers. On this blog, Clark and I have had visits from France (he served his mission there) which is cool, and on my other blog I had visits from Egypt, France, the UK, and New Zealand. Egypt was probably an accidents, but it was still cool. :)

Anyway, I just came across the coolest thing when I was ordering our envelopes. The website I ordered from gives you the option to subscribe to an RSS feed of your order info. So, I can now track the progress of my envelopes in reader! So convenient. And yeah, I'm a nerd. :)

School Project

I'm getting desperate enough that I am using Clark and I's blog for my school project. For my research class, my partner and I are looking at female university students who have babies and still go to school.

SO, we have a really quick survey that takes about 5 minutes to complete, and we need students who have had a baby in the last year, and who reside in Utah county, to fill it out for us. We need 100 responses, and so far we have about 30. So, if you know anybody or know anybody who might know somebody, please pass this link on:

https://byu.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_2l8gz60jmPZDInq&SVID=Prod

Thanks!!!

2 months to go!

months to go!!






Everything is coming along, which is great! I am trying really hard to focus on school--I think I have the biggest case of senioritis EVER! I was reading a friend's blog, and her husband was talking about how it took effort every day to drag himself out of bed and make himself go to school. I totally relate! Well, I have it easy....he's finishing law school. :) But, it's so hard. Ugh. I know it will go by fast and then I'll look back and get all nostalgic about BYU, because I already do, but it is just so hard to be here when all I can think about is being with Clark and planning our wedding.

I'm going home again in 9 or 10 days, and I can't wait! Clark and I are going to Calgary for the day on Saturday, so I can go to Sephora and so we can watch Bri in her tournament. Sunday we'll be addressing invitations and Bri will be practicing with my hair. It will go by so fast, and then when I get back down here - 3 more weeks of actual school and 4 weeks until grad!

Tunnels

Today I went to my recreation facilities class thinking it was going to be any other boring Thursday afternoon. BUT, the manager of the aquatic facilities here at BYU came in to talk to us and after talking for awhile, took us on a tour of the pool area. And the bet part - we got to go down in the tunnels! I didn't even know they existed, and apparently this facility is almost one-of-a-kind, because it's way too expensive to have tunnels built just for your pipes, etc., and pools just backfill with dirt and cover them up. This pool is 45 years old, and it was pretty cool. They have windows into the pools, because when they built it BYU had a synchronized swimming program so the coaches would go watch what was going on under the water. They're trying really hard get the okay and funding to redo the whole place because it's usable life was supposed to be only 30 years and it's just really old. Once they do, those tunnels will be gone forever!

No running

Okay, Clark and I aren't actually running in the Moonlight Run. I checked my school schedule, and that is just not a good weekend to go on a road trip. So, I'm going home for a visit the weekend after that. It happens to be a good weekend to be home, because my nephew is being blessed, and my sister is playing in the Shooting Stars tournament in Calgary, so Clark and I are going to Calgary for that.

Wedding Update: The reception location just changed! To where? That's being decided today. I'm surprising myself with how little that stressed me out, and other plans are coming along. Invitations are getting ordered this week!

I just got home last night from a quick trip to Canada, and it was so good to be home1 this morning it was so hard to motivate myself to get back to life as a student. Ugh. Luckily, the class I thought I was skipping was cancelled; I had just forgotten. :) Three more weeks until I go home for the last trip until I'm moving there for good.

What I talk about the most...

Here is a collage of the words used most often on this blog (courtesy of wordle.com):

Wedding Update

Here are the basic wedding details:

Who: Clark and Kinsey
What: They're getting married!
When: May 16, 2009, 10:00 AM (74 days from now)
Where: Cardston, AB for the ceremony, and Barnwell, AB for the reception
Why: Hmmm....hard one.

Colors: Green, white, and black. Spring-y, light green.

Other Stuff: We're getting our pictures done ahead of time, so we have more time on the day of, and so that I can spend hours and hours and have the pictures I want. :) We're getting married on a Saturday morning at 10:00, and taking pictures with our family and friends outside the temple after 11-ish.

Reception: The typical 'wedding luncheon' will actually be held at 5 at the reception site, and then the reception will take place from 6:30 to 8:00, when Clark and I will make a getaway (hopefully) in a horse-drawn vehicle of some sort. We're going on our honeymoon to Vegas, where I get to go shopping and Clark gets to go to the ESPN Zone. And vice versa.

If you're a girl, you'll probably keep reading, and if you're a guy, you probably didn't make it this far. :)

Dresses, etc: My dress got delayed, so I don't have it yet, but it's on its way. I'll get it at the end of March, and then they're going to rush my fittings so that it's done in time for grad and moving home to Canada! I still haven't found my shoes. If you see any spring-green (think apple, not kelly green) shoes, let me know! I haven't decided on my hair or the veil yet (I want a flower - should I do a veil?)- I'm going home this weekend and will hopefully squeeze in a hair trial. I don't have bridesmaids, but since I'm such a huge fan of pictures, and coordinating outfits make better pictures, my sisters are all consenting to wear black. And maybe green sashes. And my nieces are wearing green dresses with black sashes, and black flowers/bows in their hair.

I'll be going home this weekend, and then one more weekend at the end of March, if all goes well, and then that's it until I graduate! Crazy. My poor mother has to try to execute her perfectionist daughter's vision via email and phone calls. I know it will all turn out great. :)