My Life in a Nutshell: 2017

Since my last post 3 years ago my life got pretty crazy and I just never found the time to post anything new, so here is the condensed version of the past 3 years. In 2014 I applied to Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Portland Oregon and I was accepted. Four months after my last post I moved to Portland away from everything and everyone that I ever knew to basically start my life over. I went there with the intention of just going to school reconnecting with my nieces and come back to Utah..........Hahaha God had other plans for me.

When I first moved there I stuck to my plan I continued with my weight loss journey spent time reconnecting with my nieces and spending time with my Great nephew and my 2 twin Great nieces. Then Halloween of 2014 I invited a guy from school over to my apartment to hand out candy to trick or treaters and I thought he was pretty cool. He knew pretty quickly that he was going to marry me. We continued "hanging out" because a boyfriend just wasn't part of my plan!

By November 25, 2014 we officially became a couple. We were pretty inseparable we spent our first holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years) apart. Then then summer of 2015 he went on his Externship (it's like an internship) and moved to Montana for 12 weeks, that was the hardest and longest 12 weeks of our relationship. We did it though he came back in September of 2015 and on October 24th 2015 we took a trip to the Portland Oregon LDS (Mormon) Temple and we walked around looking at the beauty of everything there then we sat on a bench where I wanted to take a non-goofy selfie with him and he said he would after he asked me a question so I looked at him and that's when he asked me to marry him. Of course I said Yes.

Then in February 2016 I started my Externship I moved back Utah and he moved with me and while I was finishing up school we started planning our BIG DAY! Then on September 8, 2016 we were married in the Salt Lake City Temple for Time and all Eternity. It's funny how God changes our plans in an instant, and makes you realize how wrong you were with what you thought you wanted. He really does know what's best for us.

In my 2 years in Portland I made so many friends that I'm so grateful to have they add more color to my life, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I love all my crazy friends from college and I miss them. I also gained a new family that I love so much and can't wait to see what life has in store for all of us.