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Yesterday was the one month mark until my graduation. As I have been thinking about this next big step in my life I remembered why I even started this little blog in the first place. It was my freshman year at college and I wanted a way to show my parents and my aunt and grandparents what I was doing at college. Since I was so far away from home and I wanted to show my family pictures of me, my new friends and the exciting things we did...I decided to create this blog (hence the title of the blog courtneyatcollege.)
Since now I am getting ready to graduate from college and move on to the next step of my life (marriage) I thought it was time to move on to a new blog as well. One that Ryan and I could share together. Soo we, together, created this New Blog! I hope it is not too soon to post it already since we aren't yet wedded, but we have some really excited news that we wanted to share so please go check out our new blog, you can check out a couple of our engagement pictures, and you can read the exciting news we have!

But from now on I will stop posting on this blog because I am moving over to ryanandcourtneynauahi.blogspot.com, so please follow us there!

Its official!!!

My graduation application was finally reviewed and I am all set to graduate in April!!!

I could not be more excited!

(that was a lie because i am even more excited for the week after graduation :) )

Flowers & Chocolate

Found these on my door steps last night

and its not even valentines day yet :)

Wedding Dress

I'm pretty sure I'm about to marry into the most amazing family in the world!

Today Ryan and I met up with his aunt in Idaho Falls to pick out fabric for my wedding dress which she so amazingly offered to make! I am soo happy that I got to basically design the whole thing myself and I am so excited to see how it turns out!

But I do really miss my friends and having them here to help me with all my wedding stuff. This was the day that they came with me to try on wedding dresses. Before they endured that experience with me we all went to paradise donuts which made the whole morning so much better.

I wish I could just drop out of school for this semester and work full time planning my wedding.
That would be so nice!

Dear Ryan:

Happy 24th birthday



You are the love of my life

Sometimes...

...he brings me flowers just because

N.M.

After Christmas Kristyne and I flew to New Mexico to see our good friends Jed and Peggy get married

Congratulations to the Webbs.

The wedding was beautiful, the reception was beautiful, and New Mexico was beautiful. I miss it.

Christmas in Chicago

For Christmas I got to go home, and Ryan came with me!!

It was alot of fun and it was Ryan's first time ever going to Chicago so we one day we went to visit some of the sites.

We went up to the top of the sears tower

We went out onto the sky deck and looked out onto the city

After we went to the sears tower we went to Giordanos to have some Chicago style pizza.

Then we went and took a stroll down the streets before we departed.

Merry Christmas!!!

Best Fiance Ever

Not only does he cook me lunch and dinner every day, he takes me on cute little dates. Even though he beat me in mini-golf, he's still the best!!!

Then after we played skee-ball and he won more tickets than me and got a higher score.




I still think he's great!

It's True!

We are engaged!!!





And couldn't be happier!!!

Oh school

This week of school has honsetly been the craziest of the whole semester.

Classes have been pretty manageable, considering i'm taking 19 credits, but this week was a complete overload!

I've already finished two projects and two tests since Monday. Only two more tests to go and I finally get a break and I get to head to Boise with this boy for Thanksgiving....!

Dear Family...

I miss you guys.


I miss being home...


....I hope you guys miss me too.




Dear mom,


I sent you a picture of all the snow Rexburg got today, but I'm guessing you may not know how to use that feature on your phone yet, so here is the picture in case you are curious





Please don't stop thinking about me

Another weekend, another wedding

This weekend Ryan and I went up to Idaho Falls for one of his best friends, Jake, and one of my new good friends, Alissa's wedding.

It was really nice and they are a really fun couple, so everything about the day was awesome!


The boys almost dropped her

At the reception with the beautiful couple

They wanted me to catch the bouquet so bad that Jake was in front of Alissa coaching her where to throw it.

But I didn't...

Overall it was an amazing day!

Autumn

I love the fall!

Sometimes I wonder

how i got so lucky

Conference Weekend

Last weekend Ryan and I headed to Salt Lake with our good friends Peggy and Jed for Conference
We stayed in Ogden so on Saturday we took the train up to Salt Lake



We walked around the city for a while before the boys went to watch the priesthood session

Then we walked around the temple


Then on Sunday we went up to Salt Lake again and got to go into the conference center for the Sunday afternoon session.
This was in Ogden after we got back.

Our Service Project

...and one of our favorite experiences from the trip

It started with a very long, windy bus trip up this very narrow mountain. At this point we had taken some long, windy trips before, but this was very scary because when you looked out the window you couldn't even see the edge of the road because we were that close! Every time we turned a corner it felt like we were flying off the edge of the mountain.

We watched out the window as we kept going further and further up this mountain, we realized that the higher we got the more traditional the people living there looked. They were Maya people, dressed in very traditional Maya clothing, living in little straw huts.


After many twists and turns up this mountain we finally arrived at our destination, which was a school in the middle of this town. We brought with us backpacks, sweaters, and dental supplies to pass out to the kids.

The kids were beyond excited to see so many white Americans at their school. It was weird to think that to them we looked different; everything about us was different, even the way we dressed was different and at the same time we thought everything about them was different.

We passed out all the stuff we brought for them

And then we got to walk around and meet some of the little kids.
They were soo adorably cute!




And we made some friends




And they loved getting their pictures taken!

This was a really cool and humbling experience for all of us!