Im a lucky man!

It's been several weeks since I have wrote on here. Now is a good time for me to get some thoughts down on digital paper. The last 3 months have been the happiest three months of my life to this point. They have also been 3 of the hardest months of my life to this point. Asking Katie to marry me is the most sure i've been about anything. As we have planned our wedding day and our lives together I have grown to love her more everyday. She is my best friend and in two days we will finally be married! I have longed for this day for many years.
Yesterday was my birthday, I turned 24. It was one of the greatest birthdays i've ever had. Katie had all sorts of awesome plans and the rain kinda caused the plans to get changed. She built a fort in our apartment and got dinner to go and we ate dinner together in the fort. It was absolutely awesome! To top things off she got me my favorite dessert. Tiramisu! Only this was a cake! She knows me so well. I love her and so look forward to the years we will have together!

Did I mention?

Did I mention that I LOVE Katie? Can't even begin to express how much I love her! The last few days have been a serious reality check for me. I haven't been feeling so good, and I haven't seen my amazing fiance nearly as much as I would like to be with her. She has had to work the last two nights, and with the limited time with her, which i've hated, I've really realized how much of a part of me she really is. She is my better half, my best friend. I've been grumpy and probably not very fun to be around lately, but I hope she realizes how much I love her, and care for her. She means everything to me! In less than a month I will kneel across from her in the temple and we will be sealed for time and all eternity. This is the only thing that is keeping me from going crazy with all of the time waiting for each day to pass.
Easter sunday we went for a drive and took some photos. It was nice to just be in the mountains, alone and nothing to worry about. Katie, I love you more than I could ever show you.

It can't come soon enough!

February 25th, 2011 I spoke words that I had longed to say for four months. Putting a ring on the finger of my love and best friend to this point has been one of the greatest experiences of my life, and i've had a lot of amazing experiences in my short life so far. That day marked exactly three months of time before Katie and I enter the Salt Lake temple to be married. It can't come soon enough. Stress, impatience, and all sorts of other emotions are quite prevalent. Everyone seems to feel like they now have to have a say in every bit of our life together. It's appreciated, however sometimes it makes things harder. I don't know how couples can be engaged longer than three months. It's an experience I wouldn't trade for the world though. Planning our wedding together has brought us closer together in ways that I didn't know were possible. Absolutely love it. I love Katie!

For My KT Bug...

"I didn't believe in destiny,

I look up your standing next to me,

what a feeling,

What a feeling in my soul, 

Love burn brighter than sunshine, 

Brighter than sunshine,

Let the rain fall, I don't care,

I'm yours and suddenly you're mine"

I can't even begin to express the way I feel about you, everything about you is everything I could ever ask for. You are my best friend, i've never known anyone to understand me the way that you do. You are patient, you are sincere and most of all you are you. 

The night I fell in love with a girl... "i've got to get to know that girl"

I can't even begin to tell you how amazing you are to me, but here are a few reasons, as it would take days and days to really explain why you are so amazing.

You are my best friend! Again, i've never known anyone to understand me so well and put up with my strange OCD tendencies. You laugh at my ridiculous jokes and are there for me every second of everyday. Whenever I have a bad day you are always there to talk and cheer me up, you listen and care. 

You are patient. I know you say you've been working on that, and let me tell you, it's worked. With the work schedule that I have and everything else I have put on my plate, you have been so amazing in being patient with my stressed out mind. Working full time, going to school almost full time, and then all the photography work that I've had, and the bridal fair sure has done a number on me and my free time, and about reaches my limit of giving up from being so stressed. But you've been there every minute, every second helping me in anyway you could and can. You've been incredibly understanding and loving. You sewed those dang table clothes for me, and they looked amazing! Thank you thank you thank you! You sat with me for nine hours at the bridal fair talking to a crazy amount of girls and their crazy moms, you never complained and were so helpful. You did more than you ever needed to do. I love you. 

You are amazing with kids. This may not seem important to you, but to me it's a huge thing. I watch you with my nieces and nephew and I am amazed at how good you are to them. Those three kids are the world to me, and to see you love them as much as I do makes me happier than I can say. They love you and I know that you will be an amazing mother. That alone makes me love you more and more. My mom is one of my heros, I owe her so much for everything she has done for me, and to think that my kids will have a mother that will love them unconditionally is so important to me.

You know who you are, and you love your Savior. Of all that there is in this world, this to me is most important. The fact that you have nothing to hide and that you have such a love for the Savior and the gospel is incredible to me. We have all had our road less traveled. But it's that road that defines us. The things that have shaped me over the years and made me who I am is all because I know the lord loves me. Just as he loves you, and to know that we share that love for the Savior is the most important thing in this life. I don't believe in coincidences happening to put two people together. I believe the lord has a plan and knows what will make us ultimately happy, and experience joy. I love you, everything about you!

One of my favorite photos

The Touch...

So get ready for a random and blog post...
I did something today that I thought I would never do or ever get the opportunity to do. I wish I could go into detail right now, but I can't! Don't worry it's not as cool as I am making out to be, yet at least. Just gets me excited. In other news, life continues to be ruled by the word, busy! Busy with school and homework, busy with water softeners, and best of all Katie! This week seeing her everyday has been so amazing! I still lay in bed at night and think to myself about how fortunate and blessed I am to have such an incredible person in my life. She is my best friend and I love her so much! We are a really good team, whether it's our amazing talents of classifying peoples personalities as we are out and about, determining their wardrobe, and personality. More specifically, and different. Katie has this awesome ability with peer reviewing papers. I had to write this 5 page paper for english, a rhetorical analysis to be exact. Basically analyzing how an author accomplishes their purpose in the writing. Well I stormed through the paper two weeks ago really fast while KT slept peacefully in my bed. I had her review the paper, make all sorts of marks and changes and we fixed it. I ended up getting a 96 on the paper! In class when we got our papers back, about half the class didn't even get grades because they didn't do the paper right. As in they wrote a paper, but completely missed the point of the paper. It made me feel really good about myself. Now we are writing another 5 page paper comparing scholarly sources and i've been having the hardest time finding the right topic to write on, but I think i've nailed it down. When it comes to reviewing that paper, KT will def be there to fix it and help me so I can get another good grade. The touch of the masters hand.
More on why Katie is so amazing. So I am doing this bridal show thing, right. So I needed to get some table clothes to cover the tables i'll be using. So she and I went to the fabric store and bought 12 yards of fabric, lots of fabric. Anyway, she volunteered to sew them together. I don't know what I would have done if she hadn't offered. So the last two days she has spent hours cutting and sewing the fabric into table clothes. I couldn't be more grateful for her doing that for me, spending so much time on something that in reality won't give her much in return. I owe her big time. She's even going to spend all day at the show with me talking to future brides in my booth. I can't tell you how much she means to me and how grateful I am for the time she's sacrificed to help me with my busy schedule. She is incredibly good to me. I love her!

My Love and Best Friend!

I have this thing...

So this is where you get to learn about the opinion of Dash! I have this thing about people who live their lives vicariously through other peoples. So here we go. I not a whole believer of the phrase, "im just trying to find myself." The reason for this is that I don't think you "find" yourself, but you develop yourself. Now there truly does come a time in everyone's life where they reach a breaking point in a way and have to figure out who they are as a person. In that whole process, from what i've seen, people who start to have this moment in life, begin to copy and do the same things as their friends and siblings because they are lost. Lost with who they are, lost with what they want in life, and LOST because they have forgotten about humility! With the loss of humility, they become self centered and expect far too much from everyone else. When others do things for them, they don't appreciate the act and it's not good enough for them. I have a really hard time with this in so many ways, however I will not give details. Long story short, it really ticks me off when this thing happens and the "lost" person doesn't seem to get the drift when he or she has stepped over the line of bugging others. Simply had enough! Live your life, find out what YOU want, and do things for yourself and when someone else does something for you, appreciate it! okay, there it is, the opinion of Dash.
Now for a happy thought. Preparation for the Bridal Show is going really well and im stoked for the opportunity. I've made some serious changes to how I run my business. A good friend has helped me get some things done that I am incredibly excited about. All in all its just a good thing that's happening.

I have a disease...

So... I have this disease that just seems to be getting worse as winter progresses. I LOVE OUTERWEAR AND JACKETS! Went to Park City tonight to hang out for the Sundance Film Festival and after putting our names on the list for dinner at Bandits, Ryan wanted to get some boots, so we went to a store to get boots. I then saw the Marmot store across the street, naturally I wanted to be in the store looking at all the outerwear. Katie knew at that point that this was dangerous. As we were walking into the store, she says, "you are not buying another jacket Dev!" Well I wish that this were the case. I saw this vest that just looked amazing and I had to try it on. After some discussion and trying it on, I got really excited as per usual with any nice jacket. Katie says to me, and I love her for this. "You can only get it if it is a justified purchase." Well turns out I don't own a vest, and a down vest to be more specific. So I bought it, and love it!
Just to give you an idea of the danger of this disease and obsession I will tell you how many jackets I have and the necessity of each one.

- Patagonia Synthetic Down - Perfect for layering underneath and incredibly warm.
- Patagonia R2 fleece - Classic fleece for a nice fall or cool spring night, and great for layering.
- Patagonia Retro Softshell - Perfect winter jacket to stay dry and great wind blocker.
- Patagonia Classic Softshell - Classy and perfect to stay dry and warm in cold windy winter nights.
- Montbell Thermawrap - By far the warmest jacket i've ever owned, gotta stay warm!
- Montbell Hardshell - Perfect hardshell for rainy days and wind blocking with amazing ventilation.
- Montbell Fleece - Thin micro fleece great casual warm fleece, and great baselayer.
- Montbell Classic Down - The warmest down i've ever owned, and the hood is amazing!
- Moonstone Synthetic Down - My work jacket, that's all
- Marmot Down Vest - Just looks good, and is great for keeping the core warm.
- Mountain Hardware Thin Softshell - Great jacket to wear underneath a hardshell for a little extra warmth.

Im pretty sure that's all of them, 11 in total. So you tell me, do I need to seek help to fix this addiction?