Missing in Action for about 3 months!

Sorry ladies! So much has happened in the past 3 months that I kind of forgot about this.  I got engaged, I'm living in my first real place with actual space, I got a promotion, I survived a 100 year dust storm, all of this with a smile on my face! It's August 1st and it's my 5 year anniversary.  I surprised Cody this morning with a brand new food processor wrapped in page tear outs from one of my magazines (I like to reduce and reuse). All of you know how happy I have been since we started dating and I honestly couldn't imagine my life with anyone else.  Now that we are engaged this anniversary feels a little more special than the other four.  Knowing I get to marry him next year puts the biggest smile on my face.  I will have wedding updates on here now, we have the location picked out and the date.  The wedding list is 90% done, we just meet so many people out here who knows who I will meet in the next year and who I will have to cut from the list made now to make room ;).  We are keeping it around 125-130.  Apparently that's a "big" wedding but I feel like it's a perfect number.  So this is all we have figured out as of now.  More details to come. 

My girlfriends out here want to do a trip to Vegas this fall or next spring.  I was thinking it would be fun it my AZ girlfriends and my Ohio girlfriends all had a long weekend in Vegas.  Thoughts? We could stay at the Cosmopolitan, the most amazing resort in Vegas! Since it is a Marriott property we get rooms super cheap.  Just a thought, please comment if you are interested in doing this! You girls would love my friends out here, the meeting would be amazing! 

We went on the most amazing camping trip last week for 5 days.  We headed up to Northeast Arizona to a place called Strawberry, AZ.  Coconino National Forest sits at 7,500 feet so the temperatures during the summer are amazing.  A high of 90 during the day with no humidity and a low of 60 at night.  It was a nice escape from the 100+ temps here in the valley.  We cooked on an open fire, hiked during the day, looked at a million stars at night, and Bear explore every single deer dropping! It was really nice to get away from cell phones and computers and traffic for 5 days.  We really connected on our trip and realized a few things that we forgot.  I suggest camping to re-connect with the one you love, being alone with just him and Bear really brought us closer together.  

Have a happy Monday! Miss you!