Winding Down

Well it seems the older i get the faster time goes. i'm sure many of you have experienced this situation. Well i'm been engaged now for almost three and a half months. thats longer than any of my previous relationships. and i keep getting more and more tastes of what married life is all about. trying to make the other person happy. and sure that doesn't always work and the get mad at you for something you don't remember doing. i often hear myself say. "what did i do this time" then i kinda giggle and that makes matters worse for me. :) so much fun. but i'm also excited for whats to come. we have her dress bought. and our honeymoon booked. all i need now is my tux and to buy shirts for my brothers/ groomsmen. everything is falling into place nicely. i love it so much. the tip of the iceburg i know. soon enough there will be kids to worry about and an imature father to take care of them:) i can't wait. life looks good and i'm ready to keep grabbing it by the horns and wrestling it down.

Out of touch

Sp basically i havn't written in like.... forever. not that i'm lazy i promise. it just seems like i've always got something to do. school is halfway done. and i'm ready for it to be done. preparations for the wedding are going good. We took some engagement pictures but can't figure out what we're gonna do with them. we have some ideas but that's were it stands. tell me what you think.

There and back again

Well the road trip is over and i'm kinda sad about that. i really enjoyed getting to spend more time with my fiance, and also getting to see her in various different situations and moods. but you should be happy to know we're still engaged and we're still going to the temple. so mom you can stop asking :)We left friday the 10th and got back today which is the 18th. we drove trough montana to Mennesota. which was during the night. and i did most of the driving. well i drove from 10 o'clock to 7 in the morning. i know 9 hours isn't that much but during the time i'm usually asleep. i thought it was impressive. so anyways we spent a couple days with her pregnant sister and brother inlaw. played tennis raquet ball volleyball and frisbi. had a barbq, went to a really good baseball game. and celebrated easter. so it was pretty cool. the highlight of my trip was visiting gramma and grampa. it was great. and i think they enjoyed meeting my fiance. and then when we tried to drive back we ended up hitting a snow storm in cheyenne Wyoming. which had closed the roads for 60 miles. so we ended up going around after we stayed at the best friend of one of elaina's aunts. small world

Woops

Well as everyone knows i have been donating plasma for the last 2 months. with out incident, (sorry kassie if i spelt that wrong) well i went in about two weeks ago to donate, and with my luck i got the new guy. yay. so anyways he's way nice and he's chatting up a storm with me. and i think it's pretty cool. well right when he sticks me he says...... uh oh. and i said uh oh? and he said, " your vein moved." lol really it can do that? so wierd. so any ways he completely misses but trys to re adjust, and does ok but in his words when he checked the flow of blow. " ...... it could.... be beter, so he moved the needle, and said the same thing in a repition of about 8 times. not even exagerating. so finally he calls someone else over and they do it in one try. go figure. but thats not even the bad part. i guess on the second or third try he scratched or punctured the wall of my vien on the other side. so i ended up with what you see in the picture. and the picture was the first day. it got even bigger and darker.

Elaina Lynne Duvall

So apparently according to my parents i havn't informed or written enough about Elaina. Dad said he wanted more pictures cause he couldn't tell what she looked like and that my family wants to know what she's like. what they don't know is that pretty much everyone but them and deni's family has met her in person already, So i promise i'm not trying to show her off or anything, just trying to make my parents happy. so here we go

Elaina Lynne Duvall, Born dec 31 1989 in her house, the mid wife got stuck in another town and couldn't get there to catch her when she came out. she is the youngest of three kids, the oldest being a boy named wayne, he's 25 married and has a little girl. and her sister Erin is 23 and married and is currently expecting a little boy. She grew up on a farm and kinda turned out to be a tomboy. she loves the outdoors and camping. i can't figure out this part. she's a germ freak with things like eating of of another plate or sharing a straw. yet she has no problem eating things off the floor or completing dares if money is evolved which would include such things as liking the floor on a school bus, sucking on someone's toe, etc, etc. So as you see i won't get that one for a while. She played baseball when she was younger, but where she really excelled was in band, she plays the trumpet and is extremly good. she went to nationals several times. She's scared to drive a big rig for parking reasons. don't get it but what ever. she has trouble seeing while she drives at night like dad does. she doesn't need makeup to be pretty. and she hates the color pink and swears that when we get married our kids won't wear it. (we'll see) She doesn't cook much but wants to learn. She's shy when you first meet her, but once she's comfortable she comes out of her shell and is very playful. She is 5'5" and a 132 lbs. with grean blue eyes. She likes computers and games. her family plays cards ( even her dad does.) so she kicks my trash at any kind of speed game. but i never was really that fast. which is kinda sad on my part but what can i do. We share many common interests and points of views, She loves seafood so you can take her to eat with you when you go to red lobster. I think i'm about out for right now.

Swimming

One thing i love to do is play in the water, And lately i've been doing that cause my apt has a pool. and people like to go swimming with me when i go. it's a lazy excuse for exercise but it works. Elaina and her roommates like swimming too. way fun

The Question

I'm Pretty Sure my whole family knows that i'm planning on getting married on the 22nd of August. we've already had to switch to the Spokane temple because the Columbia river temple will be in cleaning from the week before to the week after the date we chose. The funny part in the whole thing is that her mom is already planning things and it was her mom that called the temple and found out it was closed and then booked us with another temple. I think i don't have to worry about impressing the parents or end up like the protagonist in all those comedy movies where they meet the parents for the first time and barely escape with there lives and family jewels. anyways planning brings up tons of questions you had never thought about before like. for instance where will we live what will we do when this happens, when, where how and who. this instance it was who. I wasn't exactly sure so i called my dad. I know that the guy buys the girls ring. but does the girl buy the guys ring. As far as i know it's still debatable. These are the winners we've picked.


I'm enjoying the feeling of being needed, and spending all y spare time with Elaina. we've even managed to score some classes together for next semester. So things still look good and great and amazing.