Happy Mother's Day!

(Excuse the poor quality photo-it's from my cell phone today.)

Just thought it was time to throw another post out since I haven't done one in a long time. Happy Mother's Day to all the fabulous mothers out there! Stewart earned tons of points this weekend all across the board. Apparently he too has a mother that taught him well. My mom received beautiful chocolate covered strawberries and a sweet note from him. Stewart gave me the yellow rose corsage I'm wearing in the photo. It was totally unexpected since, obviously, I am not a mother, but he gave it to me since I am a soon-to-be wife and future mother. How thoughtful is that?! I love that he has that respect for motherhood. I cannot wait to marry him.

Bachelorette Party!

 

My fabulous Maid of Honor, Erika Hathaway, and other friends put on a bachelorette party for me at the end of the semester! We played fun (and mildly embarrassing) games, ate lots of food, and they got me generous gifts! I love them all for doing this for me!

Sharp Shooter

Today I did seven types of photography. I shot with six very different types of cameras: a plastic toy Holga with medium format film, the Canon 1D Mark II with both the 70-200mm and the 16-35mm lenses, the 4x5 large format camera pictured below, my Canon Rebel XSi, a Canon 10s with 35mm film. Along with that, I did a lumin print of eggs. A lumin print is done without a camera. I cracked the eggs right on the color photo paper, put it in UV light (since Rexburg doesn't share sunlight), washed the egg off and fixed it. It left the impression that eggs had been there. Pictured above is a photo I took on my Canon T70 with 35mm film. I made prints of it in the darkroom, but I also took advantage of the lab's new scanner and this is a digital version. Surprisingly, my teacher and I liked my darkroom version just as much as this one! I just could not believe how many different types of photography I did in just a handful of hours today!

This week's weather has been crazy. Rexburg has the tendency of being it's own sort of bi-polar. This week, it has been snowy, sunny, rainy, cloudy, and every sort of mix. Multiple days it was all of the above. It has also been light outside past eight at night. It's fun since I know in just two weeks I'll be home to the land of constant sun with a dependable temperature.
I have more dates set for those of you that are interested or would like to plan. June 4 will be my bridal shower, and June 18 at 3 P.M. I'll be going through the Las Vegas Temple for my Endowments.

 Snowing. Again.

 Sun still setting at 8 P.M.

One of my new favorite places to find quiet: the chapel in the Taylor building on campus. If there are other people in there during the day, there are only a couple and they are looking for the same thing. Great place to escape the energy of campus and find some needed private peace.

It's Official!

I know how long we've ALL been waiting for this! Stewart and I will be married on Saturday, June 25th in the Las Vegas temple at three in the afternoon! It is already set with the temple. I plan on reciprocating my Endowments the weekend before. We reserved the largest sealing room so all the Gublers can fit. A ring ceremony and reception will be that night. We cannot wait!

Rainy Days And Mondays

 Two of my favorite things: rain and my handsome, happy man.

Excuse the  silliness of this last one. It was part of a class assignment. But it makes me happy!
Thanks goes out to my good friend Glen Turnbow for helping me with this.

Slurping Through Sunday

Every Sunday, my apartment feeds dinner to our FHE brothers. This Sunday, we decided to make rainbow layered Jell-O for dessert. It was a bit runny, but delicious! After finishing off the 9x13 pan, we decided to have fun with the 8x8 pan. We each took a straw and sucked the whole thing up! We looked and sounded ridiculous, but we had a blast and finished the whole thing in about 90 seconds!

(From left to right: Me, Stewart, Jordan Christensen, Armando Crosland, Linnea Holbrook. Not pictured: Mary Froelich. She had to stop partway through due to laughing too hard, spewing out Jell-O, and falling to the floor crying. Minus the Jell-O, the same happened last night.)

I'm ready to head back to Vegas! I have my bedroom to myself for ten days while my roommate Erika is in Peru. I decided to take advantage of that today, and let my closet explode. I understand that I still have three weeks left here in Rexburg, but I packed two full bins of winter clothes and cleaned out under my bed today! All my gloves, scarves, hats, thermals, boots, snow clothes--they're all packed away! I can only hope Spring is here to stay now.
 I also started sanding down one of the two dining room chairs I need to paint. The set I bought was mid-makeover, but all that was left for me to finish was two chairs. It's turning out to be quite the project, but I enjoy it! I included a before photo, hopefully the after photo will be posted soon!
Yesterday I had my second wedding dress fitting. It should be completely done on the 26th. I can't wait! It is so beautiful!! I was also asked to photograph General Conference. Our school's communication department is allowed to send two photographers to the Conference every Annual and Semi-Annual General Conference. This time, it's my turn! I am so nervous! I am in charge of covering both afternoon sessions. Watch Conference closely-you may see little me running around with that big camera I previously posted since I take the photos of each speaker!