Preference

One time Preference was nothing less then a great time! Enough Said! Tiffany made an amazing meal and our dates this year could not have been more fun:)

How cute is the new HAPPY COUPLE!! I just love them!

Creativity

I LOVE CRAFTS!!

I absolutely have found an increased love for vinyl lettering and crafts! While some projects have turned out better then others I love trying new things. I love making decorations and picking up little things for my soon to be little home. Pier 1 Imports & The White Barn are my FAVORITE new stores!!! I could seriously buy everything in those stores. The wonderful thing I have found about crafting is that any mistake makes your craft unique and usually it's only you that ever notices the insignificant flaw. I also really love antiqued furniture and I look forward to learning how to do this. Let me know if anyone has any cute Christmas craft ideas or websites!! I'm looking for new things to try all the time. I think it would be fabulous to start a crafting group I would love it!

These are my favorite super easy to make and make great visiting teaching gifts for Christmas!

Halloween

Halloween

So I haven't had two minutes to sit down and blog! But I wouldn't want to miss out mentioning HALLOWEEN this year! Halloween is seriously my absolute favorite!!! Don't be mad that I start looking for costumes in August. Unfortunately for me this years costume was a downer... but I did loved seeing some of the crazy costumes people came up with this year. I especially love pumpkin carving and carmel apples.. simply yummy!!

Carmel Dipped Apples

Prep time

20 min

Total time

1 hr 20 min

makes

5 servings

What you need

5 apples (1-1/2 lb.), washed, well dried

1 pkg. (14 oz.) KRAFT Caramels

2 Tbsp. water

Make it

INSERT wooden pop stick into stem end of each apple. Cover large plate with waxed paper; grease paper with butter.COOK caramels and water in large saucepan on medium-low heat until caramels are completely melted, stirring constantly.DIP apples in caramel; spoon additional caramel over apples if necessary to evenly coat apples. Let excess caramel drip off. Scrape bottoms of apples; place on prepared plate. Refrigerate 1 hour. Remove from refrigerator 15 min. before serving; let stand at room temperature to soften slightly. Refrigerate leftovers.

Kraft kitchens tips

SHORTCUT

Try our recipe for Easy Caramel Apples with our easy-to-use KRAFT Caramel Bits.

COOKING KNOW-HOW

Wash and dry apples thoroughly so that the caramel adheres to the apples.

SPECIAL EXTRA

Rolling caramel apples in 10 coarsely chopped OREO Cookies will add 110 calories and 5 grams of fat, including 1 gram of saturated fat, per serving.

Linney's costume was awesome I loved it!! She made it all by herself

Harry Potter anyone. She was the real deal let me tell you

My Kels was one sexy little witch

I wish you all could have seen this for real. I wasn't mad about the multiple battery packs lighting up her costume

I attempted to get Ben into the Halloween Spirit. Carving is the best with low lights and spooky music!

Ben was all about the free hand. He clearly wasn't letting me see until he had the finished product.

One Happy Girl

So after about a month of back and forth the date is official!

FRIDAY MAY 06, 2011

Although many have given us a hard time I do believe everyone is different and this really is a perfect time for both of us. I've been super busy working saving up while Ben's in school. Were both looking forward to May when Ben's done the school year and we can relax!

Everything is booked including the Honeymoon! Playa Del Carmen here we come:) Were both so excited! I'm trying to get scuba certified so we can go while were in Mexico which i'm super excited about! Planning has been the funnest I love it! & I still have a million things to do. We got Ben's suit this week he looked so dang sharp. We've also had fun shopping for furniture and a few things for our soon to be humble abode.

Now I gotta keep hunting for a Dress!

I really like this one

Don't be mad that Letta offered me her's;)... from the 90's

Did I also mention how fun looking at pictures for a slide show has been.....

I still can't believe this little girl is getting married. But i've been looking forward to this for a long long time

COMING SOON TO A BLOG NEAR YOU. The date has been Set!

FUTURE MRS. O

Has anyone ever stopped and pinched themselves? Thinking Is this seriously for real? Is this my life? Could I ever be this lucky? This happy? Do I deserve this? I hope I don't sound like a sass or "look at me!" This post just really makes me happy because writing this would mean officially I can announce I will be the Future Mrs. O! Our little secret is finalllyyyyy out! Were so very excited for this big step and I am so happy to be doing it with my best friend. I feel like i'm a very blessed girl to have found someone I can share the rest of my life with. Ben and I were talking the other night and neither one of us would have EVER thought we would marry someone we went to high school with. Ben wrote me a few times on his mission but we never hung out in high school, we just had some of the same friends. It is fun to share this experience with all of our friends as both Ben's friends and my friends know both of us quite well. I still feel way to young for all these big changes but I do think everything happens at the right place and time, which is why i'm saying BRING ON THE FUTURE! and I guess being 23 by the time I get married isn't to bad.

(None of these are engagement pictures those are yet coming)

We've been asked all sorts of questions and the fun part of it all is I got no answers!! I guess that's the fun of starting off.

Set a date? - Still in the works as I have learned weddings take a lot of preparation time! I'm busy working two jobs and Ben is starting school here in a few days.

Staying in Lethbridge?- Ben has atleast one to two years at the University here in Lethbridge then were most likley off to join the Saskatchewan crew of newly married's who have husband's in school. Then hopefully were going to dental school from there!

I love my Carhartts! Ben got my name put on the back:)

Were are totally getting a dog! We fell in love the minute we saw him I thought a dog was a good trial run for a few years before a child. haha

That's all she wrote!

I love to SHOP!!

3 Reasons I LOVE TO SHOP!

1) The Rush!!!

2) Spending quality bonding time with the girls!

3) The perfect outfit for the right occasion and feeling like a whole new Woman!

I still don't understand why Shopping is a "Woman thing" Why do Women love to shop so much anyway? Thoughts??

I had to laugh Linda called two days ago and said " Ashley I just had to call you there is a new store down town with killer deals and I know you can't give up a good deal" GUILTY!!! I love Sales with all of my heart drives Ben nuts!! HEHE. T MINUS 14 DAYS till Arizona and I can't wait to do a ridiculous amount of shopping!!! I am guilty for buying things just because it was too good of a deal and no other good reason:) Recently I have discovered I also love shopping for men!!

Some of the things I've picked up Benji this week:).. and I may or may not have picked up a few things myself.

I fell in love with this dress it looks much better on and it's probably the most i've ever spent on an outfit.. in my life no joke but I'm excited for the chance to one day bust it out for a special occasion!

I also loved the shoes.. actually I just really love Aldo

Call me a Perv Pants for putting this up but seriously these are Underwear I found today HOW FUNKY ARE These!!

I really want some True Religions well see what we can do in AZ! I just think think their pants are sexy! I love the huge stitching.