Story of my life: February 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011

The Proposal

It all started Friday morning. My roommates had gone flying with Chris and texted me about how one of their planes broke and they almost landed in a field and how scary it was. I chalked it down for another cool story and went to work a double shift for the day.
When I got off Chris picked me up and we decided we wanted to watch a movie for the night. We arrived at Red Box and he realized that his gas light was on. After frantically searching for his wallet to pay for gas he told me that they had done a zero gravity drop while flying and his wallet had been by his feet and had probably flown behind him (it was an elaborate story & I ate it all up). So, we made our way to the Logan Airport.
We searched the plane they ended up taking after the first one broke and with no avail. There was sadly no wallet in there. We the proceeded to look inside of the airport lost and found for awhile (Chris has a tendency to lose his wallet just as much as I lose my phone so this was honestly nothing out of the ordinary). After failing to see his wallet in the lost and found it dawned on him that it could be in the broken plane. So, we went back out into the hangar.
When we reached the plane he instructed me to look in the front and he would look in the back. So I hopped into the plan and immediately saw his wallet & then I saw the little white box right next to it and my heart skipped a beat. I got sooo excited as I pulled the box out and opened it smiling the whole time. Now, you can guess what I found......

A ring?

No, you're wrong and probably just as disappointed as I was. It was chocolate. I tried to act excited because well every girl loves chocolate but, every girl loves a proposal to the man she loves more. So, her urged me to eat the chocolate and under it was a paper that said look behind you, and now, the rest is history. Although things did not go all the way as he had planned it was in my eyes the perfect proposal and I could not be spending my life with a better man. He also did an amazing job designing the ring by himself and it is beautiful and more than I could ever ask for.

So the official date is April 29, 2011.... Yeah so I am a little crazy no biggy. Our wedding website is:

http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/ChrisGivens&KaydeAuger

This is where all of our info and such will be posted from her on out.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

I SAID YES!

I am now an engaged woman to my handsome fiancée (first time I have ever typed that word) Christopher Givens. It was a long awaited but very pleasant surprise. I could not have wished for a better guy and I am soo excited to start our journey together!! For now, a picture of the ring. All I wanted, besides him of course, was a canary diamond I got that and so much more he went above and beyond anything I expected.

Coming up next....how he asked.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

& then it snowed

These past few days, until last night, have been beautiful in Logan! It has been in the 50's and sunny and so so warm. Warm enough and beautiful enough that Lori, Nat, Trent, and I jumped into our shorts and ran outside.

That was until last night when mother nature decided spring was not yet around the corner and dumped many inches of snow on this lovely land. The forecast now looks like this.

& let me just tell you Iphone weather app has not lied to me yet.

Valentines Day was so great! Although I had school from 9-5 it was all worth it.

I got home and my bed was made and on it was a rose with a lover letter (typed, very chrisish thing to do), and a coupon book that he made himself. It is so thoughtful and has cute little things like doing all my laundry, and a trip to frozen yogurt. It was the perfect gift!

He then picked me up and we went to Goucho Grill, a Brazilian restaurant that is amazing!

Here is how it went down. This little stick devise shown above is what gets you food. if its green every few minutes waiters stop by and chop off different types of meat from this big skewer and it is amazing!

Then I got this pretty rose on the table as well.

We were served sparkling smoking guava juice that was so very delicious

& then to top it off this amazing cheese cake with chocolate covered strawberries. My favorite part!!

Monday, February 7, 2011

LOVE

I love Valentines Day!!!

First of all I would like to shout out to the amazing Chelsea Dean. She is not one of those single ladies that despises Valentines Day she loves it, just like me!!

Remember way back when in Elementary school when you would give out Valentines to all of your class mates and decorate cookies and secretly hope that the boy or girl you had a crush on would give you a Valentine. Those were the days.

The older you get Valentines day turns into this whole amazing day but...only if you have a boyfriend. I would like to argue that it's not. My favorite parts are making Valentines for everyone I love and telling them how great they are, eating candy hearts that say nice things to you, and lastly thinking up great ways to let people know they are loved. Oh, and lets not forget the cool red & pink socks you can wear all day long!

Now, I have reached a dilemma. What great Valentines day ideas do you have to tell my family, Christopher, & roommates happy Valentines day? What are your favorite things people have done?

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Box Seats

Last night I decided to leave Antarctica (a.k.a Logan) to go somewhere a few degrees warmer...Salt Lake City.

Chris's accountant is pretty baller, also just a jovial great guy, and has box seat tickets to the Jazz Games. So he offered Chris, his manager, most of their office, and their wifeypoos and girlyfriendpoos an option to go chill with him in his box seats. Any normal person would probably not turn this down, even if the Jazz isn't your team really so... we didn't.

Let's just talk about how cool box seats are, and also how weird.

Cool Part: We got a meal! We had pork chops, salad, rolls, different varieties of pie, veggies...

Weird Part: and also sweet potatoes with pears. Really just an odd combo

Cool Part: All of it was free!

Other Cool Part: At half time they trade dinner out for half time snacks. You know the usual; popcorn, nachos, etcc... and still free! It's just spectacular.

Weird Part: As your watching the game from the box seats there are people right under you who paid twenty dollars for their seats and have to listen to you eating & conversing. While the box seats cost who knows how much and are even higher up.

Sadly, the Jazz lost. I would like to repeat I am not a die hard Jazz fan but, I would choose them over Texas.

All in all it was a blast hanging out with everyone and having my first experience at box seats during an NBA game.

On a happier winning note...THE AGGIES BEAT THE WOLF PACK!! Great job guys. I am a bit nostalgic I did not get to see our Aggies kick some booty and hear our amazing crowd. Lucky there is ESPN & Youtube for moments like this.... I honestly am contemplating being one of those old people that comes back with tickets to the Aggie games!

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Girls+ Dinner=Good Conversation

After a few weeks of planning some of the girls in the Speech Communications Department decided to have a nice girls night out and have dinner. We picked Cafe Sabor. A great local restaurant with excellent food. It was such a blast just having girl talk (obviously we are good at this its our major & the poor waiter gave us the mean eye because we had stayed after paying to talk for so long), munching on chips and salsa, and laughing.

Carne Asada burrito yumm yumm

Rachel, Madison, Chenae

Mary, Kayde, Heather

all of us girls

Tomorrow nights plans. Box seats at the Jazz Game! yeah baby!