Wedding Invitations by Diana Hulme

Its been a struggle to get the invitations out.... but finally they are out! The very talented Diana Hulme (a very good friend of mine) designed these invitaions with the Tiffany blue. Oh I love them. She did a great job and has such a classy touch (something I lack). You can see her other work at DanandDianahulme.blogspot.com or see her wedding guest book designs at classicbondguestbooks.blogspot.com
Photos were taken by Emilie Campbell (another good friend of mine) It was hard to choose which one, because she took so many great pictures. Her website is emiliecampbell.com

Engaged in Englewood New Jersey

Well, my camera broke 3 days ago the evening of my friends wedding, so somehow I lost all the pictures I have taken in the last week. LuckilyI have a warranty so my camera is being fixed for free, or else I get a new one.

So without my pictures of the eventful past couple weeks let me give you an up date. John is selling APX Alarms this summer in New Jersey and I wanted to be able to work out there once we were married so APX offered me a job as an Office Assistant which is the typical job for the wives, and despite the long hours and the crapy pay I decided to take it so that I could be with John.

The interesting part is that we live separately for the first couple months, each with our own set of roommates, and then after we get married we will have our own apartment together. But it is working out ever so nicely and I didn't know that being engaged could be so fun. Yes we both work late hours and don't see each other too much. But every morning and every Sunday is a treat!

We traveled into the city (NYC) the past two Sundays and attended church there and spent the rest of the day just kickin around the city. Englewood New Jersey is a cool little city as well. This is our Apartment complex below It is taking us a little while to become familiar with our surroundings but everyday is an adventure. I love it.

Up date on Killing The Fat

I've been doing pretty well... some nights I have a weak moments and I indulge in a doughnut, or I crave french fries, but all in all I've been eating better and exercising at least 4 times a week. I think I've lost about 6 lbs since I last made the challenge to kill the fat over a month ago, and I'm feel good. John and I take our engagement pictures tonight so that should be fun.. But I hope to trim down just a few extra pounds before my wedding. :) I mean, if there is one time in your life you want to look your best and be the healthiest, it would be on you wedding day right? Yeah! That's the plan!
I have found that I only know how to take baby steps, it may take me a little while to change my habits from childhood, eating whatever and whenever I want and never worry about gaining weight, but I think my baby steps will be a long lasting result! I am learning to choose better foods when I eat, and to get out and exercise even when I don't feel motivated. It’s hard when I don't have a set practice given by my coach everyday, but I enjoy running on my own and doing different exercises that I feel are good for me. And spring is here!!!! That means I am always looking for excuses to be outside in the nice mild weather!! Oh I hope it sticks around! LIFE is Grand, wedding plans are coming along nicely, finals are almost over, and we take off to New Jersey this weekend for the summer....don't worry we come back to Utah to get married on June 30th in the Salt Lake Temple.. Wahoooo, I can't wait!

My Rugby Games

I got a few bruises, and some numbing on my shin which is still swollen...but it was worth it! :0

ENGAGED!

First of all I wanted to show you the Man of my dreams, and my beautiful ring before I even begin my story!

It all started with Johns spontaneous idea to drive down to Southern California for the weekend, just for fun I guess! So we just picked up and left! It was a great weekend too! We spent some time with his Grandfather (pa-paw) and family at his cottage in Laguna Beach; we went to a shooting rage, and shot a couple different kinds of guns with his brother-in-law Micah. We went to Huntington Beach with his buddy Corb and enjoyed the warm sunny weather.
THAN.....That night......Saturday March 7th
John took me out for a nice fancy dinner at the Salt Creek Grill not far from the beach.
John claimed he had an up-set stomach and kept getting up to go to the bathroom, he hardly touched his food. Although later I found out that he was making phone calls to family members in the bathroom making sure everything was going as planned.
And he didn't eat because he was so nervous...he lost his apatite!

After dinner we decided to take a stroll down to the Ritz Carlton Hotel where it sits up on a cliff over looking the beach. We had walked around there once before; it has beautiful landscaping and look out points, and being such a beautiful clear night.... what could be better than taking a romantic night time stroll to look out over the coast! LOVE!

At one particular spot something caught my eye as I looked down at the beach...... in the sand I saw colorful words pointing right in my direction saying "JULIE MARRY ME?" At first I couldn't quite see the "JULIE" part so I really wasn't sure if that was for me.

So I turned around to John and he was on one knee with the ring in his hand!!

Breathless, surprised, excited, happy, happy happy freaking out.....

Than he told me how much he loved me and asked me to marry him.... so i knelt down to his level and said yes many times..... :) Happy happy moment.....

The Ring was ridiculously blinging and sparkly.... he must have asked the moon to shine extra bright that night so that I could see the ring sparkle!Its a little too hard to see with the camera.... but this is where you could see the glow sticks on the beach "JULIE MARRY ME?" Its a very faint glow right next to my hair.

John is genius!

We walked down to the beach to meet up with "the engagement crew" John's family and friends. What a perfect night!

Here is some more of the Ring...

I LOVE JOHN KUPPER!

Just wanted to add in my favorite picture of John.

Rugby

I JOINED A WOMENS RUGBY TEAM!!! The Lady Steelers Baby!

Yup! I did! I know it seems crazy, but I actually love it. I'm love playing team sports. A lady I play volleyball with found out that I ran track at BYU and invited me to come to a rugby practice to see if I like it. She said that they had plenty of big girls and needed more quick girls.

I have never played a contact sport before so that worried me a little. But I decided to give it a try. Now I'm offically on the team! I've been learning the positions and plays of the game, and the part that is crazy is that I'm leaning how to tackle! Since I am a "smaller" girl and could easily get taken out by the bigger poly girls, they teach me techniques that help me take down anyone no matter what size... and I'm getting really good at it too!

I just never realized how much self gratification came from tackling! Yet, I also didn't know how sore you feel the next day! It's a really cool sport for all of you that have never watched a rugby game. It like a combination of soccer and football.. sort of. I will be playing "winger" position which is the very back position of the line up next to the side line. They tell me that this is the "fast running and scoring" position so I'm not a main tackler although I may have to do it ... and people will try to tackling me....I'll just have to sprint and dodge all those girls ha ha.

I'm pretty excited! Practices are really fun, and I have a cool team. We do a lot of conditioning and drills to learn the game. I love being on a team again. So anyone that wants to come to my first game March 14th... is totally welcome to! 11am, at the Steelers field which is off Geneva Rd and Provo Center street.

Awaiting the Warmth

Those few days of warm weather were such a tease! Utah will do that to you! For the sunny and warm day or two that we had..I was sick and had to stay inside.... and now its cold again! ahhh I missed it! The sun shine will trick you too! You wake up in the morning.. look out side and see the sun shining so bright...and warm... so you were a t-shirt and leave your jacket at home... but then you realize it is NOT warm at all....just sunny! No clouds in sight but still freezing! How does that work? If its sunny.. it should be warm; who cares what month it is!

Honestly I'm just craving to play some sand volleyball so bad! I had a little chat with my buddy that lives in Huntington Beach California who is training professionally for sand volleyball.... and they train year round! Cause when the sun shines in Cali... you can bet on it being warm! Gosh I'm so jealous!