life photos.

sometimes i'll post pictures.

I. . . (stole this from Kelsey)

am- getting married this summer!
wonder- what the rest of my life will be like.
hear- sigur ros, the name of the song is something that i cannot spell or even pronounce.
see- potential in so many people.
want- to see the whole world and meet the people who live there.
pretend- that i live in a treehouse that is in a forest with giant butterflies and tribes of hedgehogs.
feel- excitement.
touch- the soft things that bring me joy.
worry that I- will make up more than there truly is.
cry- when i am really stressed.
understand- not enough.
say- funny things.
dream of- everything.
try to- do my best in everything.
hope- for only the best.
fear- lies. rejection.
love- genuineness, integrity.
hate- selfishness.
go- all over the place.
wish i could- trust a little more.
laugh when I think of- worshiping Jesus forever, endless joy, heaven, jeeeffeee.

Kelsey and I went to Park Meadows the other day, I found the best jeans at forever21! I'm never going to buy jeans anywhere else, they are the best place to find jeans. Super good fit (despite the fact that my legs are shorter than the average woman....) super good feel, and super good looking!
I also tried on wedding dresses at David's Bridal! A friend from work, Jenna, also came along. She is very sweet and helped me do the classic "bride dive" into each dress. It was a ton of fun! I'm really excited for the whole wedding, and then being married, and all that grand stuff.

Time for laundry....(it's endless in a house of 9 people.....)

and though jeans are real cute, here's something even cuter :)

To start this blog off, I'll just post the proposal...I'm going to go do some laundry and clean my macbook up. It's wear is starting to show...sigh, good buddy macbook....

The night started when everyone(Ian, Amber, Nathan, Brigitte, Jocelynn, Andy, Erin, Katie, Claudia, Jake, Audra, Justin, Jeff, and I) went out to dinner; it appeared to be a nice get together to hang out and have a party for Katie, who was back from Thailand for a short while. We all met at Jeff and Andy's apartment to do a head count and make reservations, then drove down to Denver. During that time Jeff was running around the apartment putting stuff in his bag while the rest of us were watching a movie; all I thought he was doing was bringing some extra hoodies for me, because he told me that after dinner everyone was going to walk around Denver for a bit, and it was 15 degrees out! Again, because we hang out with a group that does crazy random things for fun, that didn't cross my mind as strange. During the ride to PF Chang's, Jocelynn mentioned that it was great everyone could hang out together for once; it was a big group that went after all! I agreed and was oblivious that everyone knew what was going on and what was going to happen.

After dinner, we got some hot tea and the whole group walked up to a structure around the Platte river. Jeff had told me earlier that everyone just wanted to take pictures and hang out, so that's why I thought we were there, it was insanely cold out and everyone was doing a great job at taking pictures of each other and walking to stay warm! Jeff and I went ahead of the group and walked over to the structure. We talked about some random things as we walked up the stairs; when we reached the top he suggested that we should go sit on one of the lit benches. It was dark and there were random lights in the benches and shining up at the pinnacle and it's cables. We sat down and tried to warm up a bit ( I was relieved to just sit because my feet were sore from working that morning, and the cold didn't help my knees either) It was a good moment just sitting together, I didn't think anything about why we were up there other than Jeff wanted me to see the structure and the city at night, and spend some time together. Then the rest of the group came up and Ian came over and took a picture of us...after he walked off, Jeff asked me why I wanted to marry him (we have had this conversation before, and I reminded him why I wanted to).. He told me that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me, then he said he wanted to show me something--so we got up and pulled a box out of his bag! It was fairly large, so I didn't know what it was at first. Then he got down on one knee, opened the box (and there was my ring with a small light shining on it!) and asked me to marry him! I was in shock and stared at him for a moment, trying to take in every part of the moment with him, I was smiling so huge and I tried to speak but no words came out, then i said yes of course! He put the ring on my finger, and it fit beautifully! It is so beautiful, white gold with six diamonds on either side of one larger diamond. He picked the perfect ring out! I was ecstatic and he was smiling and laughing, I was too and everyone took pictures of everything. I thought it was great that I was oblivious to the whole setup, while my parents and everyone else who came with us knew! It was AMAZING!!!


We'll keep you posted about wedding plans and such. Thank you for all of your kind well wishes and prayers as well! Thank you everyone who came and celebrated with us last night, it was wonderful!!!

I'm so excited! We are both excited and really happy!! I'm marrying the most wonderful man!
God is so good, glory to Him always!

Valaree & Jeff