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. 

Happy Birthday to Amanda and Me

My birthday was on Thursday. It was a great day, mostly because of Seth. He:

1. Made me breakfast

2. Gave me a rose

3. Filled my car with balloons

4. Took me out to Tucano's

5. Went to Color-Me-Mine with me

6. Gave me a sunflower

7. Spent all day with me
8. Bought me chips and cottage cheese

We also took a little nap after Tucano's because we'd stuffed ourselves so much that the only energy we could expend was on digestion. So awesome.

Someone also put a Happy Birthday sign up on the door and I've yet to figure out who it is.

Joseph knows and he adamantly refuses to tell me and it is driving me absolutely insane.

I am a very nosy person. I like knowing everything.

I also got a parking ticket! I should have put a little sign on my car. "Today is my birthday. If you would like to give me a parking ticket next week I will gladly accept my responsibilities. If you do it today I will hate you forever. Sincerely, Janette." It's only $10 if I pay it within a certain amount of time so I guess it's not too bad.

Happy Birthday to Amanda too. This is the second year we haven't been together on our birthday. It's still not as good without her, but I suppose Seth did make up for it.

We pick up our creations from Color Me Mine on Monday. I will post pictures of how fantastically creative and awesome they are.

Seth and Janette's Trip to Arizona!

This is a longer post than I intended it to be.
Don't worry though, the majority of it is pictures. I figured they would be a lot more interesting than a long rambling post about everything we did this weekend.
Let's begin.

We left about 9am Thursday morning and arrived in Arizona around 7:30 to much jubilation and glee. My family sent us to El Rico's, an extremely delicious family-run Mexican restaurant down the street from my house. It was a requirement that we eat there before the weekend was up.

David and I showed him the cows in our backyard. Not so exciting to me, but Seth liked it. He wanted to know if it was my job to slaughter them and get the meat for dinner.
I said no.

Thursday was also Katie and David's last day of school so I got to see them all Friday as well. I abused David a lot this weekend. He told me he would never trade me in for a brother. I think I am quite violent enough for him.
David also roped Seth and I into playing video games with him frequently. I think it may have had to do with the fact that he was bothering us 24/7.

Friday we helped my mother clean out her classroom and then went out to dinner at Logan's Roadhouse. We planned on going swimming but as it was muggy and overcast (it was actually raining when we arrived on Thursday! - Seth was shocked) we decided not to.

For some reason Seth was fascinated by the fact that people just threw their peanut shells on the floor, and that it was acceptable. He wanted to be sneaky and get photographic proof. So, this is not actually a picture of me, but a picture of the floor.

While we were there my brother David made us both read his new book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Hilarious book. There is a part in there that says "Shel Silverstein looks more like a burglar or a pirate than a guy who should be writing books for kids." and Seth thought it was SOO funny he made me take a picture of him with it. Yeah... I know, I know. He's weird.

I woke him up Saturday and I took a picture of it for my own amusement.
We went bowling with my brother David but unfortunately forgot the camera. David won thanks to 2 strikes in a row on his last turn. I, of course, beat Seth. I was almost afraid we were going to have a repeat of the last time we went bowling and Seth would come out of nowhere and beat the pants off of me, but thankfully my pride was spared. By at least 20 points.

My family had a barbecue Saturday night. It was an "everyone meet Seth party", disguised as my Birthday party. I love this picture even though both of us look ridiculous. He's very fond of taking pictures of this sort. (the ridiculous kind)

That is my sister Katie being weird. Yeah, Seth fit right in with my family.

I tried to get David to take a picture of us after church in our nice clothes but apparently I picked the worst photographer ever as absolutely none of them turned out. I do like this one though because it looks like the force of Seth's shot is blowing my hair back.

So Seth was fascinated by the cacti. We have tons more pictures of them that he took. We drove out towards the mountains so we could take some pictures like this. Very silly.

We also went and looked at the Mesa temple because Seth had never been there before. There are about 40 shots of this particular one, as the woman who we asked to take it couldn't figure out if the camera was taking it or not. Oh wells. Lots to choose from!

Monday we planned to leave at 10am and we headed out the door around 11:30. This was due to several things, of which me, Seth and my sister Katie are to blame. I really wasn't complaining though. I was not in a hurry to leave my home.
On our way out of town we stopped by In-N-Out. Seth had never been there, thus it was a necessity that we stop here and eat. We both thoroughly enjoyed our food.

He had to take a few more shots of the cacti as we were leaving. Seriously, he loves them.

We got back to Provo on Monday around midnight.

And that was our trip.