My Latest Obsession

So you could pretty much say I'm the ultimate blog stalker. I love hearing about new blogs or people's lives to fantasize about. Sounds weird, but it's true. My latest obsession has been Hailey Haugen. A girl who just got engaged to a good lookin' British man and who appears to have the ultimate life. Now don't worry, I know her life's not all sugar plums and candy canes, but still, hers is a fun life to dream about! After all, she's gone to Ecuador, England, and Norway. But seriously, her engagement story is SO cute. Just watch it yourself here. You will die it's so cute.

I'll wait right here while you watch it.

Did you watch it? Okay good. WASN'T IT SO DARN CUTE?!
Here's another video. She waited for him for 2 years while he was on his mission. Love it. There's lot of other little videos of the two of them that are just beyond creative and adorable.

Are you obsessed yet? If you are (like me), just go here. Hailey and her brother do engagement/wedding videos all the time and they are just so great (plus the music is awesome in each one). It makes me want to get creative and make videos of my own!

K, but seriously, if you didn't watch the engagement video, I'm giving you another chance now. It's my favorite. And I love how she recorded it without even realizing it was her engagement because she thought it was her idea in the first place... just like the dude says at the end... "Inception!" Oh, and my other favorite line..."How did you get that?" after he pulls out the ring from the camera she'd been carrying around all day. haha I admit I've watched it way too many times, but it's just that good.

Washington

Boise Idaho Temple

Blessed bathroom break

Columbia River Temple

Gum Wall at Pike Place Market

Delicious Russian Piroshky

Asparagus is big up there right now

Seattle

Old antique shop

Gig Harbor

Ryan and Megan's Wedding!

Snapshots at the wedding

Some waterfall I can't remember the name of...

Leavenworth...cute little Bavarian town

The real Australian Tim Tams. So good.

Someday, when I can cook, I'll say this. ;)

Tractors!

Cute lil' farm

Aplets and Cotlets tour

Cousins!

Shoshone Falls in Idaho

For a complete, accurate, funny description of the trip, visit my sister's blog.

Some pics via Savanna

What a Week

This week was pretty fantastic. Here's why...

I won tickets to Stadium of Fire with Brad Paisley and David Archuleta! Okay, I didn't win, but I reacted for the winner! Here's the scoop. We had a Keys to Success Assembly at school and they were giving away prizes. They told us to text a certain number and if you received a call, you won! I really wanted the tix because I love Brad Paisley. And David Archuleta for that matter. I was sitting next to Melissa and she told me, "If my phone rings, you can answer it." I guess she figured I'd have a better reaction or something. I said okay, not thinking anything would actually happen. But not 2 seconds later, she handed over her ringing phone. I couldn't believe it. I answered and sat there, watching the guy who called me mouth the same things I was hearing in the phone. All I could say was, "no way." Then he told me to stand up. Duh, Jess. They're not gonna know who you are if you don't stand up! So that's when I started freaking out. I didn't realize just how excited I was until I saw these pictures. Get ready...

Wow. You may now refer to me as, "Spaz of the Century."

Images via Annie

Needless to say, Melissa and I will be going together, and we're SO excited! We're a good team. Apparently she texted in at a Bee's game and won some cash, and I've won tickets to several concerts, so combine us together and we've got it made!  

Next up, the Royal Wedding. I figured that since it's referred to as "the wedding of the century" and only 1/3 of the world's population watched it live, you probably haven't heard about it. So I'll just fill ya in. Prince William and Kate Middleton got married on Friday. I didn't get up to watch it at 4 in the morning like most of my friends did, but I watched plenty of coverage throughout the day. It really was a fairytale wedding. Kate is such a gorgeous duchess, and I absolutely LOVED her dress. It was simple yet elegant. Classy but modern. I think it fit her perfectly in every possible way.

And whaddya say to those hats? I got a kick out of 'em, that's for sure. They kind of reminded me of the stepsisters from Cinderella.

  

Images via Google and here

And today is my sister's birthday! She is nine. Crazy! I love my little Roo.