A Simmons' Easter

Well because we'll be in St. George this upcoming weekend, Easter was spent with The Simmons bunch!! We had a great weekend! I'll let the video do the rest!

HAPPY 25th MIKEY!!!

Happy Happy Birthday Mikey!!!! I love you so freakin' much! I hope it's an awesome day for you! Thanks for being my best bud and for loving me and all my silliness, you're like the coolest fiance EVER!!!

The first of many....

Here's a little secret....today I had my first little overwhelming moment hit me that I'm getting married! I'm sure this will be the first of many to come...after 27 years I'm taking that step, and moving along in my life with a wonderful man, and as much as I am stoked and over-joyed I can also become a bit overwhelmed!! (Those who know me well are reading this nodding their heads in agreement!) Well over the years when I have been faced with trials or anxiety if you will I have learned to rely on the Lord very much. Today was one of those days!! I came home from work, ran to my room and just started to pray....it's the best thing I did all day :) I'm just so thankful that the Lord knows me and at this point he's probably up there just chucklin' at me a little thinkin' "Oh Kim...it get better!" (he knows that when little Jessi Kate says this I can't help by smile!)
Anyway, Mike knows me as well and sensed it was one of those days and just let me be me. It's one of the wonderful things I admire about Mike.
Ok sorry, I'm rambling a bit...
So to get to my point of this blog, I was inspired to review my lesson for YW for Sunday. I opened the manual and the lesson is on Unity in the Family. I'm very excited about this and it started to make me feel more calm. Then service kept entering my mind, and just tonight after coming home from my girls night watching Idol I opened up my e-mail and I had one from LDSNuggets and it was on SERVICE!!!! Now tell me the Lord had no part in that!
Here is the thought in the e-mail:

"Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather than “do what I say.” His innate brilliance would have permitted him to put on a dazzling display, but that would have left his followers far behind. He walked and worked with those he was to serve. His was not a long-distance leadership. He was not afraid of close friendships; he was not afraid that proximity to him would disappoint his followers. The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led."

--Spencer W. Kimball, "Jesus: The Perfect Leader", Ensign, Aug. 1979, 5

I'm sorry if tonight's post wasn't too exciting, maybe it was just a place for me to leave me thoughts tonight. I'm just so thankful that I have learned to have faith in our Lord and Savior. He knows us all, and I will forever be thankful for that.

Sleep well my friends!

"She said YES!!"

It's true I SAID YES!! And here is how it all went down....

About 7:45am Mike showed up at my house. My parents are currently in St. George so he let himself in thru the garage! He went straight to the kitchen and started making breakfast! I slowly got up and shuffled my tired eyes into the kitchen to say good morning. He had the table set with a gerbera daisy by my plate along with a hollow chocolate bunny!
After we ate I got ready for the day and we headed out the door. Mike had been wanting to fly a kite...or so that's what he WANTED me to think! Instead we made a quick stop at KMart for a quick photo booth shot! (KMart was the place we took our first ever photo booth shots together!)
We then went to Target in hopes to find a thin vase for my new flower. From Target Mike drove us to Boondocks (keep in mind I had NO clue what he was doing, all I thought was he was just wanting to get out and play!) While at Boondocks we won nearly 1400 tickets thanks to Mikes getting the JACKPOT 4 times on one game! I did my share though on another game that helped us out! Ok...moving on....we were both pretty hungry so we decided the mall would be a good place because wouldn't you know it, Mike needed me to point on which ring it was that I wanted again.....(riiiight) Well of course there's a photo booth in the mall that we had visited about 6 weeks prior. We hopped in and the first picture was taken...Mike then stood up sending me into a panic saying "HURRY SIT DOWN IT'S GOING TO TAKE ANOTHER ONE!!" At this point Mike was down on one knee! He asked me in the photo booth!!! We laughed so hard, it was wonderful!!! He really couldn't have done it better, we were both just so happy, I basically started shouting right there in the mall that we had just gotten engaged!!! LOL

The picture says it all!
I couldn't be happier!! I was quite convinced that the Easter Bunny would be the one to leave me a surprise! By Noon today we were officially engaged! We have been able to call family and friends and make a couple visits to share our happy news. So family and friends there you have it! Mark your calendars for July 23rd 2008, that is our officially wedding date!!

Oh...and here's the ring!

A little rain, a little snow, a little inside fun!

Well Mike and I made the best of the weather on Saturday! I started the day off at the salon getting my nails done...it's been SO LONG!! Then we helped Jeph and Venita move...I moved the clothes :) After we parted ways we stopped off at Jamb juice for a smoothie then decided to check out Steve and Berry's....interesting store, but the day got much better! While the big snow flake were falling we got in the hot tub to warm up, then just the 2 of us played scattergories and clue!! It was so great!



I won Clue, only by default though, his accusation was wrong! he-he
Scattergories we went for best out of 5, by round 3 I was ahead by 1, then he pulled thru and won! It was pretty entertaining!
To top the night off we watched AUGUST RUSH!!!!!!



For those of you who have yet to see this movie you MUST MUST MUST!!!!! It's seriously so good....tears just streamed out of my tear ducts! The soundtrack is awesome too, we made it our Sunday music today :) We really had a great weekend!

Today we all went up to Danny and Lisa's for some yummy lasagna! Thank you Danny and Lisa for having all of us over today, it was good to see everyone again! Mike had been missing his nephews especially so he got some good play time in with them!!
Thanks Mikey for another great weekend!!