New Blog

Hello! We are now married, and our new blog is http://thesearshouse.blogspot.com/
It's just starting out, but I would love for you all to follow it so I can keep up with what is going on in your lives!
Love you all!

Anxiously Engaged

Some engagement pictures.... :) Tell me what you think!

True Love Will Find You in the End

I'm engaged!!! I know I should have written about it when it actually happened, almost a month ago, but I've been so busy! I'll tell it like it was just yesterday. So it was Sunday, August 29th, we went to church, and then after we were going to make dinner. Jameson said that he was going to go change out of his church clothes, but really he called my dad to ask permission to ask me to marry him. My dad said to him, "You don't have to ask me, Heck, I didn't ask Kathy's dad, I just asked her" (silly dad.... when he went back to family dinner, they asked why Jameson called him, and he said that Jameson hated the wedding colors I had chosen, and was too embarrassed to tell me. My dad is a liar.) So Jameson put the ring in his pocket (which I didn't even know he had purchased), and came over to eat lunch. We wanted to watch a movie while we ate, so I said we should watch Breakfast at Tiffany's. I had never seen the movie actually, and we were both exhausted and ended up falling asleep during it. We were both awake when he gave her the ring though, and I turned to Jameson and said "Lets get married" and he said okay and asked if we could go on a walk to 'our' tree. We go on walks a lot, and there was a tree that we always loved to pass on our way to the train tracks. We got there and were just playing by the water, and then I started to walk on. He stayed back a bit, and so I went back to him and hugged him. At first I felt his heart pounding like crazy, and thought that was a little off...then he said "I have to ask you something.." I just waited but nothing was coming. I just told him I loved him... and still waited. Then he said "Babe..?" and then started kneeling down, had the ring in his hand, and said "Will you marry me??" I didn't even let him get all the way to his knee before I said yes and threw my arms around him! He had chosen the ring, and I love it. It is all I could ever ask for :) And now I'm engaged to Jameson! We're planning on getting married December 21, in the Bountiful temple.

Time flies by in the City of Life...

It has been SO long since I've written, which is bad because I have had so much to write about. Well I finished another semester at BYU-I, and it was great. Better than ever actually. I'll start towards the beginning- in May, my roommate Megan Shaw introduced me to one of her family friends Jameson. I had seen him before and thought he was cute, and then after talking to him a bit he asked me on a date. I had the flu so I said no, but he was persistent and asked me again the next day. I was still sick but didn't want to turn him down again. We really hit it off and have been dating ever since. He is amazing (if you were wondering)!

After the semester ended I decided to stay in Rexburg instead of moving back home to BC. Life has been crazy since! I went to California for about 9 days with Dawna and her sister Danielle's family. The weekend after getting back I finally got the chance to take Jameson to meet my family. My brothers latched onto him like leeches! The next weekend I met his family who had come up from Houston, Texas, where they are from. They are amazing, and so fun to hang out with! His sisters are so great and very kind. His family is wonderful. We went up to Montana with them to visit Megan's family. It was beautiful and nice to just get away from life for a little while. We rode 4wheelers, went on a couple walks, and watched movies. Then this past weekend we went back to BC, it was really fun besides Jameson getting deathly ill...that wasn't very fun. Its great to be able to just get away from Rexburg for this 7 weeker that we have off of school.

Meanwhile, during the week, I work on campus cleaning dorms from 8-5, and Jameson works at Sam's club and SOS staffing. We usually only see each other for about 2 hours a day, which is hard...but we need the money. School starts again soon, and I'm looking forward to some new classes. It will be great to have some new adventures :)

California


Coming back from Provo


Montana









Utah

I wanna see Movies of my Dreams

This weekend was wonderful. Dawn and I went down to Provo to see my sister, and Kel. It was good to get away from home, and I'm sad that our vacation was so short. We went to dinner, international cinema (Mmm.. my favorite), and just hung out for a while. Rach is so cool, and I was glad to see her and Krister, as well as Anna.

It's crazy how things chang drastically in such a short amount of time. Like the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. My friend Zach's in Chile on a mission, and I was scared for his life when I heard there had been an earthquake. But turns out he's okay, and that's good. But there's other things that change...I can look back to a year ago and see how I liked different things, how I did other things in my spare time, hung out with other people.... But I enjoy change. Something that I don't enjoy is that for the past few months I have been sucked into online shopping. It just lures me in. The stores send me emails, and coupons, and I just think 'Wow, that deal is amazing! How can I pass that up?!' But it's bad. I bought jeans, pjs, a sweater, some boots, and..get this...some hot curlers, just because they were five dollars. What has happened? I just got so caught up in the good deal, that I forgot I was spending money, when I should be saving it for next semester. Well, that's done, so I guess I just need to make sure I don't buy anything else.

I have crazy dreams. Like real crazy. The other night I had a dream that all of the stake leaders from my stake got kidnapped by a Millonaire's daughter, and I had to save them. Where does this stuff come from? I think I have the most active mind at night, because I'm constantly dreaming, and I remember every detail. It's like a movie that never stops. I told my dad this particular dream (because he was in it), and he just looked at me and said "Emma, your dreams are so weird." I completely agree. I wonder if everyone dreams like I do...

love SICK

I'm sick, once more. I think I might have the worst immune system in the world. Okay, not the worst, but pretty bad. Even my bro Mike that has Crohn's disease, and a terrible immune system doesn't get sick as often as I do. Something's gotta change, and fast.

Things are starting to look up for me. My job really is fantastic, and I enjoy going there each day to just vent to the ladies in the office. They are wonderful! In fact, they would wear matching ford vests (keep in mind it's a ford dealership) and I always commented on how I'd like to be matchy-matchy with them. The next week, when I went into work, they had bought a Ford cardigan for me, so that I could match with them. It was so nice and really made my day!

Sometimes you don't realize what you have till it's gone. That's how I felt when I came back from Rexburg. It just makes you miss some things (friends) a little more.... especially when they're not there. But my family is awesome. I spend time watching certain movies with my mom, or playing games with my brothers, and it's just really fun, in a different way.

And then comes Valentine's Day. The day that so many people dread, or look forward to it. In some ways, I'm just indifferent. But this year, I do kind of wish I had a certain someone to look forward to spending it with. And once again, there is no one. I will once again be making heart shaped sugar cookies for myself. Oh the joys of being single.....

This is me last year... with a broken hearted cookie.

Utah... People working together

Well I'm home again, til the end of April. In some ways it's a LOT better than last winter, and in other ways it's not as good. I have a job, working at the same place as I did as a senior in high school. It's a ford dealership, and I love it, and the people I work with. It's really fun to be there again, and good to have Pam and Kris listen to me talk about my life every day from 3-6.

It's really crazy to see some people getting back from their missions, has it been two years already?? My friends Alex N and Alex W are now back and it's fun to see them every once in a while. Pretty soon all my mission friends will be back. If only they'd come up to BYU-I.... that would be nice.

The economy isn't being very good to my parents' business. And, all of our cars just decided to break at the same time. I'm starting to look for a cheap car to buy, if any of you know of anything that is available, let me know! Other things that decided to break: our furnace and water heater. Both are very needed, but, my dad's pretty lucky with fixing things like that, so that's always a blessing.

I'm bored a lot. I hang out with my little brothers frequently, and just a couple friends here and there. It's hard to come back from school, where there's always something going on, a set schedule of classes, hanging out with people every night.. to rarely seeing anyone but family. In a way it's good, because I can just stop and think about my life. Re-organize. Re-plan. Reconsider... what is it that I really want to do with my life? Hmm things are just slow moving right now, and that's hard for me. I miss my old roommates Dawna and Holla. I never thought I'd say this, but I even miss Idaho! Who knew?! Of course I love Utah and the beautiful mountains and my family, it's just different.