Very Eventful Easter Weekend!!

Easter weekend was very eventful! Not only was it easter, but it was Claire's (my new niece) blessing!! I somehow convinced Jesse to come to Colorado with me for it. So we hopped in the car Thursday around 5. I drove the way up, Jesse was in the passengers seat, and my mom in the back. The drive was lonnng! But we finally arrived around 11:30 pm. I would say that's pretty good driving on my part ;) Anyways we got there and just talked for a bit. Camille showed me her new house since I had never been there before. Then we went to bed. When we woke up Spencer made us his famous egg sandwiches. They were delicious! After that we got ready and went and looked for the bears that live up the road from Camille. (Yes, real live bears) We didn't see them, but we did see some beautiful herds of elk and deer. After that we went back down to Camilles. Jesse and I started up a game on Mario on the WI. Jesse is a sore loser, but honestly we both sucked. Then Angela and Cliff showed up so we hungout with them a bit. Then we went back up to see the bears with them and John and Chelsea... well we saw them!! It was soo cool. A big brown one and two baby cubs! After that we went down into town and ate at the only Chinese place in Rifle, which is actually really good! Then we headed to Wal-Mart to get some easter stuff and headed back to Camilles. Cara and Todd them arrived late that night and me and Jesse got to be lucky enough to sleep in the trailor with them (which wasn't hard cause the trailer is nicer than my house!) That morning I woke up to Jesse saying, "Guess what is outside Alyssa?!", me, being the fantastic guesser that I am said, "Snow?" He, then said, "YA!!" I then peeked out the window to about 4 inches of snow covering the ground.. GREAT! 85 degree's in STG and we come to Rifle for a vacation to snow! Well, it didn't stop us from still having fun. Around 1 pm everyone got there for lunch. Including all of Spencers family, and mine! It was good to have everyone together. Then after a lot of people went home we decided to liven things up a bit with DANCE REVOLUTION2! It was soo fun!! Jesse is the best dancer with that game. He beat me! Well ok, on one dance! But my dad was actually really really good too!! So was John!! (I will post pictures asap!) Later that night we colored some eggs and made HOBO dinners! Delicious! Then we went to bed.... the trailer's heat wouldn't work so we ended up sleeping in a 32 degree camper.... it was nice and cold :) Easter morning was great. Went to church where Spencer gave Claire a beautiful blessing. I got to see the Moss family which was good to catch up. Then we all headed up to Camille's again for lunch! After that we made our long, but eventful journey back home...

Jesse drove this time. When we left Rifle it had started to rain. I fell asleep, not unusual. When we got an hour passed grand junction I woke up cause it sounded like golf balls were hitting out car. It will huge balls of hail! I asked Jesse if he was ok, he then said, yes, we're fine! So I fell back asleep.. about a few minutes later I heard Jesse say, " Oh my gosh, look at those cars!" I then woke up and saw the cars sliding about 30 feet in front of us. I looked at Jesse and he said, "I can't stop either! Be ready!" I started freaking out and telling Jesse not to hit the car! Lucky enough we slid about two feet passed it! He pulled off about 50 ft away and started running back to see if they were ok. I then tried to find some shoes to run back, and my mom started calling 911. When I got to the collision, Jesse and the guy who crashed into the one car was giving the man in the passangers seat a blessing. I then knew that they weren't ok! I peered in and saw a huge contusion to his head and he was unconcious with his eyes rolled back. Jesse said he had a seizure when he opened the door. The driver was also unconcious but finally woke up, yet, he didn't know who he was, where he was, or why he was driving. We then realized that both the cars had brothers in them. They were following eachother home from camping. The bother that crashed into them had a huge gash in his arm with a piece of glass in there. I ran back to my car to get my first aid-kit my dad got me from the hospital. I helped clean and wrap it up while others were helping the other brothers. The ambulance didn't arrive till about 30 minutes later!! My mom texted them and asked how they were doing and the two brothers driving checked out ok, yet the other one had to be life-flighted to the U of U! You are in our prayers Tyson!
When we left the weather was still pretty crappy. In Beaver we hit another storm and saw two roll overs and another bad crash! We were SOOO happy that Jesse was driving and we had his gaurdian angel watching over us that day!! We were also SOO happy to get home.

Other than that Easter was a blast. I thank the lord for blessing us that day to help and serve those around us and to be able to have walked away from what could have been a faital crash! It was amazing to see Jesse be able to help with that blessing cause it probably saved Tyson's life.

I will post pictures soon!!

I just need to VENT!

Today is just one of those days that you feel like you are the bag in the kick-boxing class. Everything and everyone is hitting you at once! I just want to completely pull my hair out and scream! Why?, you may ask? Well probably because I have 36 days till i'm getting married, I  have a frustrating job (when others don't do their job), and I physically just haven't been feeling it.

Getting MARRIED! First off don't think I'm not excited, because I totally am! But it's just that MARRIAGE is not easy, and I honestly don't think it's going to be a cake walk by any means. I know it's something you have to work on, and I know that marriage is falling in and out of love with that same person several times. I know that once you get into a fight and just seem to not love that person for that one minute that you do fall back on that quality friendship that you do have!  That is one thing that me and Jesse do have.. an AMAZING friendship. He is my best friend... and I couldn't imagine my life without him. So the days like this where maybe sometimes I wonder if I'm doing the right thing, I think about the wise words of my sister Camille, "When you think of the father of your children do you see Jesse? When you see your life could you see Jesse not being in it?" Those are some serious questions, but easily I said, I couldn't imagine a better father, and I could never live another day without Jesse. He is the one I know can put a smile on my face (even when I am holding the wendy's cup up to my mouth trying to not let him see me smile, and when he rats me out, I laugh and water comes out of my nose onto his lap) I love Jesse, I am so blessed I get to be with someone with such a big heart. I just get worried sometimes with technology now days..  you know.. like we have all the necessities to make us entertained with our phones, i pods, i pads, tvs, etc. But where is just the "Let's just have an US night!" NO tv, No phones, etc. Just talk.. talk about eachothers day, eachothers goals, just life. Ah, I could go months without a tv. I really never watch it. But I understand I am not the most entertaining person, especially when I sleep as much as I do when I sit down, but I would love to come home to Jesse everynight and just have it be US! A perfect marriage, a perfect communication, a perfect understanding.... OK OK, I know PERFECT is non-existable. But a girl can wish right?! Anyways,I know I will have an outstanding marriage with Jesse and we will be happy as can be. I am very lucky and blessed. I thank God for him each and every day and night. :)

Ah, feels good to vent. I need to write a book, except I would never be able to write an ending. Everyday I learn something new that I would love to share with someone, if not everyone. I would love to have time in the day to sit and learn the piano and guitar and write songs.  I love singing, I need to do that more too. So much! But my wrist is starting to hurt (stupid health problems) like seriously, I'm 19, I will be in a wheelchair when i'm 23 with the way my health is going.. JOY! I just need to start meditating, and listening to Josh Groban (which I am doing right now). I need to set a side a little sesh with me, and the lord and talk. And read good, uplifting books, and pray. I definitely need to work on.. ME! That'll be my goal.

Well, I think I am done venting, I also feel like I just pulled a ton of bricks off my chest.

Thanks Blogger.

Sincerely, Alyssa

38 days... but who is counting?

So my job is so fun.. but really boring sometimes. So it gives me time to think about everything that I need to get done to get ready for this new big step in my life. Well for one, I got my invitations done (THEY ARE ADORABLE) but i'm still waiting for them to get here so all of you can agree with me. I still need to go find a temple dress, and get some XXXX-SMALL garments. JOY! Other than that, I am pretty much done with getting ready for my wedding. For the most part now I just have to get ready for our new little home. We are just waiting to get some furniture to put in there. I have been looking at home decor and Alice Lane is my favorite place to look. I LOVE EVERYTHING about Jess's blog. She is a fabulous designer. I can't wait for my headboard from my mother in-law. I will put up some examples of kinda what she is making me. The first one really looks like it! Also notice the adorable RUGS!!! :)

Lately I have just been feeling stuck though. Being engaged really sucks. I came to the conclusion that being engaged is like being on the edge of the cliff before cliff diving.. just waiting to jump in. And yes, since Feb. I have been soooo ready to jump in. Only 38 days. It feels like forever.. but it's next month! WOOO! But being engaged has been beneficial in other ways. Getting used to eachother, and finding out the little things that might just bug! Not too many things, but yes, there are some. I just wish sometimes guys thought the same as girls. Just that they would agree with all the complaining and say, "yeah, I agree!" Instead they just look at you like you're weird, or just making a big deal out of nothing.. which sometimes is the case. But still, sometimes I just want to tell Jesse somethings ARE THAT BIG OF A DEAL TO ME! haha. I usually do, and so he's learning to just agree with me. Ha the other day I was listening to Brad Paisley and came upon the song, "I'm Still A Guy." I believe he wrote that song JUST FOR JESSE!haha. By the way, Jesse did slay a dragon recently. It'll probably be hanging in our house, so be excited to see it when you all come visit. :)

But I am so excited to marry him still. I feel like we are married. Except we don't get all the bonus's. Like falling asleep together and not having to go to seprate rooms. Or having to drive into town everyday from La Verkin. OR just being able to go to OUR house to be together. Ah, can't wait for these 38 days to (hopefully) fly by!


Anyways, I feel like I rambled on long enough.


38 days................ but who's counting?


LOVE THESE ROOMS!

Ah, adorable headboard!

LOVE THE RUGS!

Wish I was rich enough to decorate like this!

One step at a time...

Well, we have a little more than a month left!! We are both so excited and are ready to start our new life. Jesse is also excited to be done with school and head to the lake every morning with his brothers. I will also be excited to go to the lake sometimes, maybe I can jump the wake sometime!! We are coming along on the wedding plans... everything is done, but .. the INVITATIONS. I guess no one will be coming to the wedding, haha. JK it will be done soon enough! I had my first bridal shower last weekend. It was soo good to have all my sisters down, and most of my family there!! They finally got to meet the awesome family I will be marrying into, so now they know why I brag all the time about them! My awesome soon to be mother in-law is making us a head board for our room! I AM SO EXCITED!! Cara also got us a beautiful picture of the St.George temple, Jesse loves it also! Just so you know we have our little home too! It's only two blocks away from the temple, so PERFECT location for both our jobs. It's a two bedroom apartment, wood floors, washer & dryer, dishwasher, and one bathroom! Perfect for us! I am getting so anxious to move in and start making it our own. Also, we got a new car, for those who knew that I wrecked my old one. haha. Poor Sharky! We got a 2006, maroon Camry! It's fabulous. It's nice driving a decent car that is actually owned by us. Jesse unfortuntally had to sell his pride and joy durmax! The sacrafies we have to make.. sorry babe. He's looking for an older truck he can just pay off so we only have one car payment. So life is coming together! I also decided to put my love (CHEER) aside. It wasn't really going to work with me trying to give my first year all I could, and support Jesse as much as he'll need me to. I will miss it, especially the girls, but it's crazy how your priorites change once you find someone who you want to put their needs before your own. We'll have a lot more time, and a lot LESS stress with me not coaching!

But I think that pretty much wraps it up for now!!

We're still super excited to get married..

One step at a time!