Compliment that was.

I've been waiting for something non-weddingy to blog about. I have at last come upon it.

Today at work some guy told me "the force seems very strong with you."

I didn't quite know how to respond so I just smiled and nodded in a "oh yeah, I get that all the time" sort of way.

I told Seth about it and he says the appropriate respond would have been, "NERD!"

This is the first time anyone has told me this. I think I'm more proud of it than I should be.

Rings

After two or three days of ring shopping and many snooty salespeople, we finally found the rings we wanted at a local family store called Losee Jewelers. The couple who own the place are retiring and everything was 50% off.

Yeah, seriously. Score!

Here is my engagement ring.

And here is my wedding band with it. I know a lot of girls are just getting one ring with no additional wedding band but I was aching for that extra band. Good thing we found one I liked that was inexpensive. . .

And here is Seth's ring.

Yes, we took these pictures under the stove light. It was the only place with good enough lighting.

Color Me Mine

As promised, here are our pictures from Color Me Mine.

My mother made fun of me a lot when I told her that Seth and I were going here for my birthday. Little does she know that Seth is not a typical male and he thoroughly enjoyed painting his cup. I am so lucky!

We also painted a little broken piece of ceramic. I'm going to put a magnet on the back. Our first refrigerator magnet! How precious.

Seth painted his cup castle style, with a stained glass window. It looks so cool.

This is my plate, in honor of my birthday.

I paint my name on everything because I love my name, it is the best name ever.

Oops.

I believe I already wrote a post about how clumsy and ungraceful I am.

This post is just going to back that one up.

That's cottage cheese all over Seth's floor.

I sort of accidentally dropped the carton and it exploded when it hit the ground.

It was a very sad event because of the loss of both my cottage cheese, and my pride.

Seth found it amusing.

It happened last night.

I went on my first date with Seth on May 30, 2008. I know because I wrote about it in my journal. I thought you might find what I wrote amusing so I copied some out for you. 

"Tonight I went on a date with Seth Winsor, from the ward. I really enjoyed myself. I was rather surprised Seth asked me, I haven't really hung out with him ever. Just had the hi, how are you surface conversations. But I found he is really easy to talk to. . . . 

We went to go see Laugh Out Loud, an improv group at BYU. I'd heard they were not very good so I went with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. And then we went to the Creamery and then we came back to Campus Plaza and watched a movie. And he was sitting so close to me! It was making me uncomfortable, I kept trying to make it so we weren't touching without him realizing it, but I think he did and I felt really dumb. It just seems weird to me, I was sitting there thinking, what if Seth and I were dating, then it would be normal to sit so close. 

And then I was like ew, no. Seth and I are only friends. I've never thought of him as anything more, it just seems weird to me. "

I made the mistake of telling Seth about what I wrote. He likes to bring it up quite often. First, how I dreaded our horrible date because I thought Laugh Out Loud wouldn't be good, and second, how I thought he was disgusting because I wrote "ew" when I thought about dating him. 

But I guess he won me over in the end because we started dating on August 12, 2008. 

"I went on a walk with Seth tonight. ah! We held hands. It was sweaty. And we talked. About us. And I feel weird now. So I guess we decided we are dating. This is weird. We were both just like 'so...what's going on? I don't know. I've never done this before. I guess we are dating now? I guess. I kind of like you, yeah, I kind of like you too, etc, etc.' Honestly, I have no idea how we even got to this point and didn't continue on in our cluelessness."

*singsongy voice* Awkward...

But almost one year exactly from our first date, on my birthday, we decided we wanted to get married. 

And almost exactly one year from when we first started dating "officially," we're getting married. It will be on August 14 in the Mesa Arizona Temple. And we are super excited and super happy and I am probably going to be really annoying and stressed for the next couple of months but I cannot wait to be married to Seth. And you  know what the best part is?

I get to start a couples blog.