spider

I was laying on the trampoline looking at the stars with aaron....i get up, and in the dark i see an image. There is no light so i can not see what it is, but when i take one step closer i see that it is a huge spider! What the heck! it was huge. I hate spiders, so after the photoshoot with mr. spidy i killed it with poison spray. I then put it in a cup to make sure it was still dead in the morning.


it had hair, and spikes on its legs, and a huge black dot on its red belly. freaky. and it had a big booty.


On another note, it was my dads 60th birthday on the 20th. That was the night he and my mom were flying in from San Francisco so there were no big plans or party. But he did call a good handful of times to each offspring and suggest that we make him a marble cake. It was fun! I went and got a banner and some caution cones (because he is so old), and made a cupcake cake! I've seen this pan around and had to get it! it is ok but one side cooked better than the other, so i need some perfecting. It was a good night of cake1 i love my dad!


Lastly, this Sunday it was about 99 degrees at our home, so we were all trying to stay cool. Everyone was over for dinner, so Tera Bailey and I went out on the newly remodeled 'grandpa' swing. Bailey was soo cute, making faces and singing all the songs she knew. Her favorite is happy birthday TYTY. ha, she knows his birthday is coming up. She also sang the temple song, the entire thing! it was adorable.

wedding wedding wedding

It is nuts that so much work can go into a three hour wedding reception. I mean, if you are fortunate to just want something and get it, thats great. But, I think for the majority of the population decisions must be made with money in mind. Anyways, I have a lot of wants...I must now find my needs. I want this. Maybe one like it for the entrance to the barn with flowers and stuff on it. very romantic. So if youa re bored my followers, look on craigslist for random antique things like this bench, i will buy it.

And I want these.......I think this may be a need. I may veto glass plates and ust get myself and my guests some fresh cold DC's. yummy!

or how cute and random is this phone? also found on craigslist.

I am not sure what I would do with this cute blue phone, but i like it. haha. I am basically home all day by myself making decisions. It could be a very interesting reception, seing that I am very impulsive and not creative. Any ideas? please tell me!
I get to hang out with Bailey all the time and love it! I love her!

thats all for now.

sad day

today i am sad because I had to give the puppies away to the pound. they will miss me. i went shopping and it made me feel a little bit better. what is even better is that i have not gone shopping for so long that everything i liked three months ago is now on sale! i bought this outfit.

i love anthropoligie...the end.

puppies

I think everyone has, or would like to think that everyone, has something that makes them super giddy like a 5 year old. For me it is PUPPIES! I love them. they are cute. they are cuddly. and unfortunatley the ones i fell in love with today are flea infested and homeless...look how cute they are?! I named them bear and scooter. But it changes to buster and hannah, or patches and daisy.


I a not a dog expert but I think they are pitbull chow mix? I assess this based on the jaw structure and fluffyness. i do NOT know though. So you are probably wondering why these pups ended up at our house?
My mom was coming home from church and noticed all the cars were swerving (spelling?) and honking to get out of the way. My mom looks closer and sees that they are two tiny little puppies! There was also a big dog with them (maybe the mom?), but forget the big dog! My mom pulled over, got out of her car and called the pups to the side of the road. They both willingly ran to her and got right in the car. When they got home from church they called me to come outside, and to my suprise there are tiny little fluffy animals running around in our driveway. This is when the 5 year old comes out of me. I got so excited! I took them up to my room, had a photoshoot, text people. You know the usual. No more than 10 min into toni play time, Tera noticed that that behind the fluffy cuteness was a layer of fleas! Sooo gross, and slightly sad because these dogs were clearly not taken care of. So I fed them some yummy cottage cheese dog food mix.

Then we gave them a bath, my mom ran to the store to get flea stuff in case they got into my room and we awaited my dad to get home. Oh man, my dad hates dogs! And we knew the entire time that we would be taking them to the humane society and not back to the cruel owners who let their puppies run the streets (one of them even has a little scar on its nose from street fights). My dad got home, and actually responded ok. He likes puppies. And what is better is that the puppies, especially Bear, loves my dad. Look at my dad just chillen with Bear.


Oh i just love puppies. My dad even said tera could keep one! what the heck? But she really does not have time to raise a pup, especially since these pups might be big and mean.. Im just saying that to make my self feel better because all day i have been hanging out with them, and wanting to keep them. I love puppies. I just do. I dressed them up, Shorty wanted to eat them and Hershy just played with them. It was a fun day and I will be sad to give them away tomorrow. I am pathetic I know.

dresses

Ok so trying on dresses was a complete failior.... i mean they look nice for huge white pieces of material, but I left with nothing but a huge paper cut on my arm (thanks Davids Bridal), and a wish to be shorter.
For every dress i had to imagine it three inches longer, with sleeves, and with a filled in back....geese that is a big imagination! I do not think i am very imaginative so it was hard. However, i did come out of the dress session with a feel for what I like and dont like in a dress. Thanks sisters and mom for being good sports about the entire thing....Hopefully next time will be a bit better.
Oh and this is my dream dress....of corse it is from a random girl on a blog that I stalk and i dont know where she got it. Ha!




The funny thing is that Keri ran into this girl in target. By ran into, I mean saw across the way. She thought she knew her then remembered that is was just from blogstalking so did not aproach her. Next time she needs to though. I like lace dresses!

My Anthropologie Inspired Wedding

I know I recently got engaged, but the truth is I have been planning and figuring out what I like for a while now. I have never really dreamed of this day coming (sad i know), only the ring...With the help of friends and family I think I have found my style. I LOVE all the antique looking wedding details. Here are some centerpieces and flowers I think I like.






Cute right? My colors are dark purple (not to be worn on anyones body), blush pink, cream, and green maybe? (only in decorations). I have done my share of blogstalking that is for sure. But the good news in that after much deliberation and changing of dates I think I am getting the date and place worked out nicely. Of corse the day i wanted originally 1-7-11 (free slurpees!) is the day my dad plays Vista, the cross town rival in basketball (big deal). My next option was the weekend of the 14th but then i would not get to have it in this adorable barn!



It is super cute. And I think I can do a lot with it. Or at least hope my creative friends and family can. Anyways, it is funny that I am blogging about all this. But, I sit at home most of the day and do this all by myself and have opinions all by myself. So if my followers (my sisters and rania, maybe ailish) have ideas let me know. thats all for now.

I'm Engaged!

It is 100% official! I am engaged and super excited to marry Aaron my fiance. So Aaron has been pretty busy with work so I did not think he would have the time to come visit me this weekend. Also, it is kind of a drag to come all the way down here from Huntington when I have to work both friday and Sat nights. Anyways...Aaron ended up coming and suprising me Saturday morning. I was still sleeping, and he was extraoridinarily excited to see me. I mean he is an energetic guy, but it was ealry and i was sleeping, and I kinda knew something was up (strange occurance #1).
The rest of the day we just hung out. He wanted to go to the beach or take the dogs on a walk (strange occurance #2), but I insisted that we just hang out and eat before I had to leave for work. Or corse I choose to eat. haha.
Around 2:30 I left for work. Right when I got in the car I called my sister Tera to ask if Aaron had the ring and was going to propose to me, due to the strange occurances of him coming down when he has a lot of work, being excited, and wanting to walk the dogs...She said she did not know (lie!) and was going to get back to me. Next step was to text Keri, I figured she would tell me the truth, she lied too!! I am glad they both did! good sisters.
It is funny when my family knows something. They are super excited so they do things differently that I noticed. They call me more than often, text me strange things and so on. I learned this from when my family thought my dog Shorty died and they were being a little to nice. The same thing happened on Saturday. About one hour into my shift I got a phone call from my dad. He was wondering when i was gonig to get off...I told him the same time I have gotten off my Saturday shifts for the last 3 years, 10:30...He said to get off earlier if I could because Aaron was alone (strange occurance #3). I continued working, hating that people do not know how to tip, and around 9 I got another text from Tera. It said "when are you going to be done? I want to make a delicious cake!" That was a fatty lie (strange occurance #4). So the next hour and a half while I was cleaning I was thinking about cake! i wanted it and needed it.
I am dragging this story out because to me it is all these things that made this proposal complete. So around 10:15 I left work and was on my way home. My rides home from work consist of calling AAron, when he doesnt answer I call Rania, Will, Ailish, really anyone who will talk to me about anything but hamburgers and fries.I spoke to Aaron quickly and asked who was there, he said everyone, including Bailey, Kaci and Brian, a little late for them to be over dont you think? (strange occurance #5). However, this night Will was the lucky one who got to talk to me the entire way home. I was talking away, forgetting about all the strange occurances, until I pulled down my driveway and saw this!

I know I already showed this pic, but it fit in the story here and I had to put it again. I quickly got off the phone with Will telling him "I think i'm getting engaged." I slowly approached the stairs, with a smile on my face the entire way. No dogs came after me, and I was kinda wondering where everyone was. The house was completley quiet and dark, very strange for the Millers considering that everyone was there. I walked up my candle lit stairway and just kept saying to myself, how romantic is this!! Sidenote: if you have seen Greys Anatomy when Derek makes a house for Meredith out of candles...this is exactly what I felt like. ha! Anyways, the path of candles continued all the way into my room. And there he was...Aaron all dressed up in a suit and tie with candles surrounding him. Sounds dreamy right? I approached him and told him "this is nice." Because for some reason I express my emotions with strange phrases, when I totally could have cried with excitment. He told me some really nice things about love and life, and love and to be 90% honest I did not remember anything he said! horrible. I was just too excited to listen, but knew it was good and saw a little white box in his hand that I was incredibaly anxious to open. I did ask him later to remember what he said, and he told me so that I could write it down in my journal. His speech ended with asking me to marry him and putting the ring on my finger (he went for the right hand first). I said YES...we were soo excited at that moment. A few seconds passed and next thing I know, he is opening an ice cold Diet Coke as a celebratory drink. This guy knows me too well! We drank the delicious DC, then I asked him what do we do now. He said walk outside, so I did. I yelled that Im getting married, and my family all cheered!!! It was the best because my family had front row seats to the proposal. they were out on the balcony that faces my room and were so quiet during the entire thing, I had no clue they were there. I am really happy that my family was all there! We took pics, I sent texts and called my peeps, and then we opened some sparkling cider to celbrate!~
Here is Aaron setting up before.

Me in my Rubys costume. I am kinda glad I was because I think it adds a little flavor to the entire event. And when i show people they can say "you used to wear that to work?" Key words 'used to'

We celebrated with the same cups my little sister used. They say eat drink and be married. precious


Boom... my ring! it is sooo beautiful!


disregaurd that huge hand and look at what Aaron put on my finger. Whoop whoop. Now I can oficially plan my wedding with a ring on my finger. I love it and Aaron sooo much~! cheesy i know.


there are more pis of the candles and such, but they are all on Aarons Camera. I will post them later...maybe. I feel so lucky to marry Aaron, and the next four months or so will be super busy planning a great party!