So we got an apartment as you read in the last blog, and last Saturday we had engagement pictures taken by Amy Bennion Photography for free! Chelsea won a free session from a contest and she let us have it. She's such an amazing sister :) So hopefully the pictures will be put up on Saturday and as soon as we get the pictures we can make a wedding announcement! Amy did a fantastic job and we are all very excited to see how the pictures turned out.
This morning I received a phone call about an interview for a job with Special Services for the school system here in Rexburg. June 7th is my interview date and I'm really hoping that I get this job. I applied for one other position and I think I will be getting an interview for that job this week as well. I really need one of these jobs so keep your fingers crossed for me! Getting a job would be a huge relief right now, since Jake will no longer be working as of September. He might work a little here and there, but he needs to focus on the Paramedic Program. I will still be working part time for Journeys, but 22 hours a week at minimum wage won't cut it once we get married. The school job would start at the end of August or the beginning of September so I would have a full time and part time job... just like the good 'ol days before I started school.
79 days until we get married! We're going to start planning the reception for Idaho in the next couple of weeks and the Virginia one is pretty much done. Plans are being made, registries are almost finished, and now I just need to figure out what shoes I'm going to wear and how I'm going to do my hair for the wedding. (I'm wearing Chelsea's dress, so I'm glad I didn't have to go out and search for one). We're starting to collect odds and ends when we can. Chelsea and Rhet gave us a TV this past weekend when we went down to Santaquin for Kyler's first birthday. (He is getting so big and he is one of the cutest babies I have ever seen!) We have my old microwave and some old dishes that will be nice to have if we don't get any dishes as a wedding gift. We are keeping our eyes open for a good deal on a mattress set, but I think we will probably end up going to the mattress warehouse in Idaho Falls. They have some pretty sweet deals going on right now.
Anyways, those are the updates and now I am going to go up to the fire station and eat lunch with Jake.
Living in Rexburg, I have learned to take advantage of the sunny days. You never know what the weather is going to do here, but when summer finally comes it will be beautiful! This past weekend we had some really nice days and now it's back to cold and rainy :( oh well...
Life is Good!
Last week I was stressing out BIG TIME about wedding plans, job hunting, and finding an apartment, but this week is looking up. Jake and I found an apartment! I got a phone call a couple nights ago from an apartment I applied to live at and we were accepted. We're moving into a cute little two bedroom apartment and I'm very excited to make it our own place starting August 1st. Jake and I signed the contract together as Jake and Darcie "Nalder" Wilcox and I'm going to go up to the office today and put down our deposit. It's going to be a beast moving in since we are living on the 3rd floor, but we'll survive.
After we looked at the apartment yesterday, Jake had to go back to work and I still had an hour before I needed to go to work so I went over to the D.I. I found a chocolate fountain for $18.00 and I'm thinking we might use it at the reception. I heard they get kinda messy though, so we'll see. While I was texting Jake about what I had found, I told him that I loved him and his response made me laugh.... he said: "Well that's good cause you have to live with me for the next year. You signed a paper saying so..." Haha. He is so witty-that one. He makes me laugh every day.
I'm still looking for another part time job for the summer and a full time job for the fall, but something will work out sooner or later. As for the wedding plans- they're coming along. Jake and I are hopefully going to take some engagement photos this weekend and then we can design our announcements. Everything is getting done and I will be a lot less stressed now that we have a place to live when we get married. Thank you to everyone that had to put up with me last week...my major stressor is gone now and I will be more pleasant to be around from here on out!
I have a few different topics on my mind right now and here they are:
(these are my ramblings, so if they don't make sense-get over it. haha)
FAMILY:
I am so grateful for every person in my immediate and extended family. Each person is so different from one another, but have so much to bring to our family. It makes us well rounded and has taught me to see things from other perspectives. I have my own opinions about things, but I have never once thought that things are "my way or the highway." I like to step into other people's shoes and see how they perceive the world and my family has taught me how to do that.
To my Mom and Dad: Thank you for raising me right. Thank you for continually supporting me even when you haven't agreed with my decisions, and thank you for helping me out even when I don't ask for it. I tell Heavenly Father how grateful I am for both of you every day.
To Adam, Brian, Chelsea, and Erica: You are my best friends and I will love you forever no matter what. Some of us talk to each other more than others, but I value every minute we share together. Please remember how much I love you even when I forget to call. I miss each one of you so much.
To the Wilcox's- You are my home away from home. I am so grateful for your open arms and the support you have been to Jake and I while we have been dating and now as we are planning to be married. I have always been treated like a part of the family and I appreciate everything that each of you has done for me over the past year.
JAKE:
He gets his own category box because he is my fiance. I have finally found my soul mate. I don't really believe in soul mates because I think it's kinda stupid to think there is one person on this Earth that was put here specifically to find you, but Jake has become my soul mate. I cannot imagine being apart from him because we are best friends. We understand and support each other in every aspect of life. We laugh together every day and we can (and do) talk about everything. We love one another- and not that artificial/superficial kind of love, but the kind of love that you makes you want to do anything and everything for the other person. The kind of love where you pray for the other person more than you pray for yourself because you put their needs and feelings first. It's a two way street- I'd say we both give and take equally, but really we both spend our time giving to each other more than we take. I can't help but smile when I see him. We are happy and that is a blessing. When we get married we'll probably have just enough to get by, but it doesn't matter because we are gonna have so many good times. Jake is a hard worker and puts other people before himself. He has 4 jobs right now (yes...4!) and goes to school full time, but he makes sure that he sees me every day.
...Ok, I could talk about him all day, so I'll move on. Just know he is a dream come true! and if you ever read this Jake I hope you know how much you mean to me. August 13th can't come fast enough... I want to be married so I can spend more time with you and be with you forever!
FRIENDS:
I have met a lot of people throughout the years and for those who know me really well, you know that I LOVE the books and movies by Tyler Perry's character "Madea". I like her quote about friends: "
Some people are like leaves on a tree. The wind blows and they are over here, the wind blows again and they are over there. They are unstable and when the season’s change they whither and die- they’re gone. Most people in the world are like that-they are just there to take from the tree. They are only there to take and give shade every now and then. That’s all they can do, but don’t get mad at people like that because that’s who they are they were put on this earth to be a leaf. Some people are like a branch on a tree and you have to be careful about those branches too because they will fool you. They make you think they are a good friend and they’re real strong but the minute you step out on their arm they’ll break and leave you high and dry. But if you find 2 or 3 people in your life that are like the roots at the bottom of that tree than you are truly blessed. Those are the kind of people that ain’t going nowhere. They aren’t worried about being seen, don’t nobody have to know that they know you, they don’t have to know what they are doing for you, but if those roots weren’t there that tree couldn’t live. A tree can have a hundred million branches but only a few roots at the bottom to make sure it gets everything it needs. When you get you some roots hold on to them. But the rest of them… let ‘em go. Just let folks go"
Thank you to all the roots in my life. You know who you are.
Last fall Jake used to text me whenever he saw a moose because he knew that I had never seen one before. He lives in the woods of Idaho (woods of Idaho?...I know, before I met him I didn’t think there was such a thing either) and moose like to hang out back there near the river. After awhile, Jake decided to prove to me that moose really do exist, so one Sunday afternoon we went on a walk. We walked back to the river and as soon as we got there, there was a moose on the other side of the river! It was a girl moose because it didn’t have paddles…but it was a moose either way! Then when we turned around to walk back towards the house we saw 3 more moose! 2 full grown girl moose and a baby! The baby was so cute and it was one of the first moose I had ever seen. So it has been over 8 months since I’ve seen that moose, and Jake had been spotting it in the woods again. Last Sunday he asked me if I wanted to go on a walk (cause we like to go through the woods and see all the animals on occasion), so we bundled up and started walking. Earlier that week Jake had been working on a bulldozer cleaning up the rocks in one of the canals, (he taught me how to drive it too) so we were walking towards the canal and he saw a tree stand. Naturally one of us was going to have to try out this tree stand, and Jake volunteered. Once he hopped down from the stand, he spotted something off in the distance. All I heard was a “I hope that’s not what I think it is”, which scared the mess out of me because I figured there was a live bear or wolf or something that could trample my body coming towards me, but then I saw it…
MY MOOSE!
But here is where the story takes a shift. I saw a huge furry lump of something lying on the ground and I asked Jake to make sure it was what I thought it was. We walked closer because we saw it wasn’t moving and there laid my baby moose… dead… its legs had gotten tangled up in a fence. It was really depressing. Jake told me he wanted to go on a walk because he had seen the moose around that area all week. Jake wanted to name the little guy after me if we saw it that day because it was one of the first moose I had seen. To make things worse, I’ve never seen a male moose and this little guy’s paddles were just starting to bud! If that fence hadn’t caught his legs he would’ve grown up and I would’ve seen a moose with paddles, but who knows… now I may never get my chance. How sad… :(
The planning has begun. We've started making lists for invitations and we're trying to figure out locations for receptions and all those fun details! I don't let myself get stressed or overwhelmed because all the little details don't matter... We just want to get married!!! Here's the official countdown. I can't wait!
I'm really excited about my new blogging adventures. I think I'm going to change this into a Jake and Darcie update page because WE'RE ENGAGED!!!!!!! Here's the story for all of you to read :)
Because it is Spring and we've had some nice weather we've been planning a trip to Palisades Reservoir to take some pictures together. Little did we know that it was going to blizzard the day of and before we planned to go, but we still decided it would be a fun trip to go on. Its only about an hour away from Jake's house, so we drove up there and found a spot that would be nice to take a few pictures at. I set the camera up on his truck and ran back to take the first picture together. Jake wasn't looking so he told me to set it up again and when the camera started beeping he dropped down to one knee and pulled out the ring box. I think I was so surprised that it really didn't register in my brain what was going on until he actually opened the box! I saw the ring and I was SHOCKED. I had no idea that he had the ring! What a sneaky guy! Apparently everyone knew he had it and that he was going to propose that day except me! I am so excited.
We are planning to get married Friday August 13, 2010. I love Jake so much and he is everything that I could ever dream of marrying. He really is my other half and I can't wait to be married to him forever.
