True stuff

We continue to take pictures in the car....and they just KEEP getting better. :)

Quickest way to be determined to cut the carbs.....having your fiancé show you this picture he took of you. How else can you get all the tasty crumbs.

LOWES CINEMA in Layton is the BOMB. Going to see Non Stop tonight. Recliners and a blanket. YEEEEHAW!

He most definitely is shaving his face in the parking garage at Gateway. My man!!!

Who's the sleepy head now!? He always has given me hard time about going to bed so early...well, he can't keep up with me throughout the day! Sleep is precious.

Walk into this after my class every Monday. Something about a determined, hard-working man. I love you!

Count on me to pick the ugliest color of nails. Sometimes "trying to be different" is a bad idea.

I can't let this one slide

This was honestly at LEAST a month ago, but I have to blog about it.

Probably one of my favorite dates...EVER. 

First stop: Java Cow in Park City, UT.

I love cows, still not sure why.

Everything is cow oriented in this place!!

Isn't he cute? Check out the table, and Mitch checking Twitter.

Mitch thought he was SO CLEVER for saying something like: "I am utterly tickled to be with you Stac" (top right photo). It is pretty funny haha. One day I will have my baby calves :)

Next Stop: Heber City, UT! We found a real cow :) and....

AGGIE BLUE MINT ICE CREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Abby introduced me to this bit of heaven last semester. It is so amazing, YOU NEED TO TRY IT! Only select stores sell it.

Last stop: The ice castles in Midway, UT. Mitchell approved of me wearing my cow beanie all night long. Maybe insisted is a better word. He loved that thing. Those shoes I have on, yeah...ZERO tread left. I had a great time slip-sliding away. Almost took Mitch down with me a few times.

Amazing what $1.00 can do :)

So we had time to kill before heading to a funeral...

We had already eaten breakfast...

We were driving by 11,000 South...

I have always wanted to...

RIDE THE FERRIS WHEEL AT SCHEEL'S!

So that is JUST what we did :)

Haven't been on a ferris wheel in I don't know HOW long. 

The little things really are the big things in life...

Well...I thought he was happy. hahaha.

That Red Robin bbq chicken wrap might be a little more than $1.00 but MAN oh man it is the best thing ever. Well, not the best...the BEST thing ever is the fries and fry sauce at Red Robin. Thought it was a brilliant idea to have only the french fries catered to our reception. That idea got shut down REAL quick. Understandable, I guess. I would still eat them if they were soggy.

Left behinds

Two different pictures, days, and places to go but we look the SAME. One thing is FOR SURE about having a long-distance relationship, cares about spending money on gas and a hour drive here & there is no biggie. He has shown that to me from DAY ONE! Driving up to Logan to MEET me for the first time. Meg and Bryson, if you're reading this, PLEASE notice the monster that made it in the blog again. :) Love that you guys pointed that out. Love you guys!

After me publishing his SMELLY SHIRT STORY to the public....he decided to let me have it. Not really, but it immediately reminded me of that experience. Honestly, I can't describe it enough.....I HATE THAT SMELL!

My mom cut his hair. It was getting long and shaggy, but I just adored the little curls by his ears and neck (I sound ridiculous I know). We walked in the house one night and the first thing she said, "Mitch let's cut your hair." The rest is history, he looks soooooo fine. (insert smirking emoji here) 

Left my computer for a minute and came back to this. Between me posting this, and us joining Facebook accounts....it is BEYOND me why we just haven't eloped ;).

Really though, I wonder how many people look at this, read it...and just shake their head thinking "they are too much/cheesy".... weird thought but I am just so curious. haha

School is pushing my limits. I am annoyed with it. With it ALL.

Just in case you didn't notice, look at who is on Mitch's shoulders :) NALA! She loves him. If we are lucky, we get to have her when we get married. Makes sense, since she loves us most.

We just can't let ourselves gain weight once we tie the knot, because we both LOVE good food. We won't though.

Random, but you know what I love about Red Lobster? That film the rolls leave on the top of you roof. I used to hate it, but now I don't. Those biscuits are so dang good.

I rarely get sick. Luckily he was at my house when I started to feel sick and he took care of me all day! We ate at Winger's....how? I am still not sure.

One thing IS for sure though, I am NEVER too sick for ice cream. We ate an asphalt pie. mmmmmm mmmm mm! Reminded me of high school Friday nights. With Capri, Sam, Kailan and Maggie. We would lie about birthdays one too many times to get one of those things. hahahaha!

This is my favorite!

EVERYDAY we are driving in SLC for one reason or another.

We are getting married in the Draper Temple and then having our reception at The Grand America in SLC. Every time we drive by one of us always points it out. It is a crazy thing, this wedding planning, it has been SO EASY. Mainly because my mom has helped us so much, and nearly everything is planned. The only thing that is hard is realizing that day it will all be over. Good thing we still have three months, well kinda. The whole this is just bittersweet. More sweet than bitter that is for SURE.

St. George treats us well

On the road again! What do I do when he rolls down my window and locks it? Fake a smile for a picture hahahahaha! All I am going to say is, at least he can handle me at all points in the day, moods, times of year/month... yada yada yada. He just gets me.

This is the same Maverik we went to RIGHT after he told me he loved me for the first time. My sister and mom were driving ahead of us (Thanksgiving last year) and we pulled off about 3 minutes after he had spilled the AWESOME news (that he loooooooved me), and my mom said, WOAH Mitch why is your face red? She was convinced it was because the drivers side window had sun coming in, when in reality....he had just told me he loved me and he was a little red :) My cute man. So moral of the story, he took this picture and told my mom we were at the gas station that he got "sunburned" at. hahahahaha!

This just explains itself. We asked a guy to take our picture, and we just couldn't make it work. This was right after we ate some Cafe Rio and talked about the wedding. They are the best, they really are! :) I am so lucky to be marrying into such a genuine, "on the ball" type of family. Love them.

My arm looks like its 200 lbs, it is fine. Still have a few months. I was just about to make fun of Mitchell's "fluffy hair"..until I glanced up at mine. At least Dan and Chris look like hotties. hahahahaha.

MY FIRST CANDLELIGHT DINNER:

a.) with my one and only :)

b.) was fun because we made it together

c.) turned out soooooo delicious (besides the yogurt creation)

d.) was nothing but perfect, except I noticed I have a hard time being all lovey dovey in such a "set up" scenario. I suck. He is so perfect at handling me. I know I say it a lot, I mean it! Just listen to Lee Brice's song Hard to Love it is me. 100%.

The yogurt creation. Looks so dang good right? Perfect lesson of not letting the outer appearance fool you! haha. Banana pudding, and all those yummy fruits just didn't feel like colliding. I am on this banana EVERYTHING kick, well....banana flavored jello is a no-no.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY TO ME :)
I had told him all week long all I wanted was a single orange rose. I woke up to a vase full of orange roses, and one wrapped individually. TELL ME HOW MANY MEN LISTEN LIKE THAT? OK, I guess I told him at least 15 times I just wanted one. But still, I was so impressed. I love you Mitchy!

Peggy Sue's is a Mesquite MUST! My dad named the waitress there, Rockin' Ronda. Her name is Ronda, at least he didn't make up something TOO weird. This place reminds me of the diner off of the movie A Cinderella Story with Hilary Duff. A childhood favorite. :)

My first time visiting the St. George temple. Look how gorgeous? The stranger that took this picture knew his stuff! 

This will be us in less than 90 days! :) Except we will look a WHOLE lot better ;) Dressed in white, our hair all done, and even MORE in love. that is not possible.

On the way home we stopped in Cedar City. This is where Mitch went to high school! He showed me a few places that were the "hangouts" and just told me soooooo many interesting and hilarious stories. All we kept saying was, "WE ARE SO HAPPY TO BE OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL!" I mean there are some pretty awesome memories we both hold and cherish from our high school life, but life is just incredibly better now! This is Hermie's Drive In, he had some pretty crazy memories here.

We ate here at Brads Slut Hut (what they called it in high school because all pretty girls would wear short shorts and serve the food. hahahaha) As we were walking out we HAD to ask someone to take a picture, like always. Well this time it was so perfect because I asked this younger boy to take it, he was with a lot of his high school friends and they just acted "too cool" until Mitch cracked a joke. Then they felt "cool" taking a picture. HIGH SCHOOL IS SO HILARIOUS! hahahahahahahaha. At least we got the picture. My outfit rocks huh! ;) All about traveling in comfort baby.

Full plates $7.00 each! OASIS CASINO YOU KNOW HOW TO SERVE A SOLID MEAL! But what they don't do so well is...

....deal acceptable hands during blackjack. $90.00 later. At least we had full tummies right?
Can't wait till I am 21. I'm going to win. :)

We had a great time! We love Dan and Chris. 

Social Media SUCKS

First, we love you all!

Here is a brief explanation for why a) we jumped the gun and combined Facebook accounts before marriage, and b) why the heck we would abandon Instagram and 

our private FB accounts.

**DISCLAIMER** 

We are NOT saying this is right for everyone, a lot of you have just asked us why we are doing this so we thought this is a good way to inform you all! We may end up deciding it is not the best option (like reinstalling Instagram and Twitter haha) but as of now we are excited about it, and plan to follow through with this game plan! :) 

We love keeping in contact with our friends and family, but social media can be & definitely has gone out of control. We still plan to keep in contact with our loved ones (you are one of them if you're reading this) but in a different way. We don't plan to get rid of completely, we're not THAT big of freaks (okay...maybe we are). We assume the majority of the people reading this are more prone to using their Facebook accounts, or at least use both Instagram AND Facebook, and that is what we are happy about. We have decided to delete Instagram and Twitter (after this semester, I need it for class), and of COURSE keep blogging and just post a lot more of what we're doing to FB. Here are the reasons why we decided to go on a strike against social media:

• Mitch is lazy and doesn't adequately inform his family and friends how much he loves me :) Let's just say he needs my help keeping Facebook up-to-date. 

• Both of us have always known deep down that how much people our age use it (our generation) is a complete waste of time. It's great to keep in contact with close friends and family, but not check it on our phones 1,000 times a day.

• All we see walking around campus--or anywhere really--is people "plugged" (nerdy term) into their phones all day every day, and we know a huge part of those people, if not all of them, are on social media in some form. 

• It's ridiculous to think we both, admittedly, can't sit through an hour and a half school lecture without instinctively pulling up Instagram or twitter. A lot of times we keep scrolling even though we've already seen it 3 times throughout the day...why? 

• Having a little sister in high school, we are both around a lot of high schoolers who we follow a lot on social media and it's obvious a lot of them are living in a "fake" or different electronic world, never really fully getting engaged in real life. There is so much more to life than the electronic world and we don't want get sucked in. We take a lot of pics and that's obviously very important for us to record all of our memories, but when we are posting them and keeping track of the likes (especially since we went through all our followers and realized maybe only 20% of them are actually close to us)...it just all seems worthless to do that. And maybe all our posts were getting annoying :) but don't fear, you'll still be getting all our cheesiness on Facebook now :) On the bright side, at least this way you can "unsubscribe" on Facebook without us ever knowing...To all you Instagram unfollowers, we know who you are :) 

• Although it's so good to use social media to stay connected to close friends and family, we realized most of our biggest supporters connect to us on Facebook, so in reality we're not disconnecting from any of you. 

• The more we talked about the blog, the more we realized we want that to be our "journal" of dating/marriage/life and we'd rather post more detailed stories/pictures etc. on the blog instead of randomly posting them on three different mediums: Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. 

• Now that we're both done looking for our significant others (May 23rd marriage baby)...it'll be so nice for both of us to get out of the "single dating" aspect of social media and use it the way we want to use it long term...close friends and family. 

• We both have seen relationships fail or undergo unnecessary hardship because of social media (unnecessary flirting, old high school flings making an appearance, a cute person of the opposite sex trying to swoop in, being distracted with the lives of others, comparing to other couples, and so much more). Obviously we're really committed each other, hence the reason we're willing to let go of all of our individual social media, and the reason why so many younger married friends have recommended doing something similar to this. 

• We want to be able to always live in and enjoy the moment as opposed to worrying about what to post to get a "laugh" or a "like," which in the end does not matter at all. 

Long story short, don't worry, we still love all of you and want to stay connected :) We just want to do it in a more effective way. The only downfall is, it will now say "Mitch N Stacey" when we write back or comment on Facebook, but in reality we will soon be married, you've been following us for the past few months as a team, and we want to keep it that way. So by all of means, comment, like, laugh, make fun of us, and we'll always know who it's directed to...we're not THAT dumb. We promise. We know keeping our individuality in our marriage is important, and will make life more fun for us, but doing it through social media is not the way we want to do it. 

This is a glimpse at my eternity...

I had a booger in my nose on our third date, of course he had to see it in the picture. hahahahaha 

He told me how beautiful I looked in my cow hat. So, yes, I walked around the ice castles and Park City in my hat.

I don't remember this. But I do know it was right outside his law school. 

He gives me flowers.....AND thinks I am beautiful at every second of the day.

Need I say anything? This boy was the sexiest vampire I knew last Halloween. Better yet, I bought those teeth for him...to put in his ACL care package. Don't ask. I thought we could have a fun time with them over snap chat or something.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Getting his suit fitted, he sent me this. Hey Macklemore. ;)

I hate...hate...LOATHE....HATE spicy food. Yes, I ate this puppy because I lost rock, paper, scissors with his mom and sister.

I thought I was bad at procrastination. Then I met Mitch, and he is just the same way. (He may or may not get better grades though) Some last minute studying before my night class. 

He calls me "my little varmint"
Definition: a troublesome wild animal

He is always prepared to put a smile on my face with one of these. :)

HAHAHAHAHAHAH! This takes me back to our first month of dating. He attached this to a text that read, "I am wearing orange today for you, and this is a total toolbag picture." 

He thinks I am good at things I am clearly....NOT good at. Possibly the only person I would ever play the guitar and sing to.

He is a good sport about capturing the moment. I remember he looooooved that my socks matched my shirt. He is an easy one to please. :)

This is awful, we know. (not all for us)

I divulged one of my "used-to-be secrets" to him... and he couldn't stop laughing. Yes, I went to Sylvan Learning Center. And, more importantly, he asked a RANDOM lady to take a picture of us in front of Sylvan.

I like his teeth.

Just cleaning up after him...or me. He is SICK for getting this on record.

After a wild night out on the town with my family we somehow ended up taking pictures on my kitchen barstools.

This would be me "eating" cheesecake on our second date. He is hilarious.

Just 6 short days after he went under the knife for ACL surgery he came up to Logan with me! :)