The Skousens

I'm Engaged!

2009-03-11T02:07:00.003-06:00

I know you will probably want the story on how he proposed, but it is really late so im going to have to wait until tomorrow to type up the story. Until then here are the pictures of my ring!

Ring Riot!

2009-03-05T01:31:00.004-07:00

Tonight Darrell and I decided to finish up ring shopping. It was great since both of us werent feeling all that great. :-S ... The funny thing is that the place that I was expecting to find the most things at was the place that we found hardly anything!

We were about ready to head home and I saw this place that a friend told me to go to. At first I was like nah Darrell is sick lets just go home. But then at the same time I felt like we should just go take a quick look. It turns out that this store was perfect! They gave us so many good deals and seemed like honest people.

So the picture to the far left is what the band of my engagement ring is going to look like but the prongs are going to be more like the one on the right. The wedding band is like the one on the right as well! It felt great to find something that Darrell and I both loved!! I cant wait.. Just a week and who knows what will happen. Im sure it wont be a surprise because I know its coming and its not like we do something romantic everynight. So far I have been told either the Provo temple grounds or the Park (we have a history at the park). Anyways now im just anxious for everything to take place. I cant wait!!!

Spring Cleaning

2009-03-03T19:48:00.006-07:00

Today I got out of class early to work on our music videos, but it turned out that I was the only one there from my group so I decided to just come home.

I got home and felt a burst of energy. I went straight to my room sorted the clothes in my laundry basket and put them in the washer!

I live in an apartment with 5 other girls so it is pretty hard to keep it clean especially when only a few actually clean up after themselves. This last week or maybe week and a half we have had the most disgusting smell in our kitchen. I just couldnt take it any longer. I grabbed the cleaning gloves that Allison got me for my birthday which are on the left (the green polka dot ones), and got to work. First I concurred unloading the dishes and then loading and last cleaning the counters and floor. I came across a wet soggy pot holder. This pot holder was next to our sink and everyonce in a while someone would accidentally knock it in. Well last week our garbage disposal was not working either so our sink was full of nasty water... which to none of our surprise the pot holder dropped into it. So yes I found one source of the nasty smell surrounding our house.

I also was able to get all of the pictures on my computer onto CD's I have been procrastinating this task thinking that it was going to take forever! but to my astonishment it was so simple and extremely fast. I now am just hoping that my computer improves and is not so slow.

Last I am catching up my blog a bit. I feel like I have accomplished a pretty good amount today.

*Laundry X

*Kitchen X

*Dishes X

*Pictures X

= A great day!

I cant believe this is happening!

2009-03-03T19:39:00.004-07:00

So I have always been the type of person that freaks out when someone gets engaged to a guy that they hardly know... or I seemed to think. I couldnt ever imagine myself getting married with only dating someone for a couple of months. I thought it was crazy! Until one day I was swept off my feet by this amazing guy! I knew that I would marry him someday after dating for only two months... I thought to myself "Am I CRAZY?!" Perhaps I am a little crazy but I know this decision is me and not my craziness taking over. Last Saturday February 28th Darrell and I stepped into a room full of engagement rings. It was kind of nerve racking at first just because I kind of knew what I wanted but wasnt positive and just the thought of me getting married is amazing but yet overwhelming. That was the only store open Saturday so we havent gone anywhere else yet so no worrying about me getting engaged quite yet!

Oregon Coast

2009-03-03T19:19:00.001-07:00

Birthday Blog!

2009-03-03T19:03:00.002-07:00

After we all got ready we jumped into the truck and headed to Newport. Our first stop was WalMart and then we headed to the lighthouse and tidepools, it wasnt the correct time of day for us to see anything in the tidepools but it was still beautiful. The weather was perfect! We then went to the Bayfront where we ate at a small random shop. It was the seafood and wine festival weekend so things were quite busy. We all ordered some kind of seafood such as popcorn shrimp and fish. Right when we began to eat it started raining. After we ate Mom and Dad ditched us and we went to Ripleys, Wax Works and Undersea Gardens. It was fun but its one of those places that you cant go more than every five years! lol Then Mom and Dad picked us up and we headed back to the house. We went over to Gram, Grandad and Grandmas to eat "cake" and Ice cream. My cake consisted of ice cream that had cake pieces in it. Im not too much of a fan for just cake.. too dry I would much rather ice cream or brownies. We sat together and talked and then went home and I finished cutting peoples hair and then we finished watching Top Gun. (One of Darrells Favorites). We then played Blurt, and Clue. It was fun Kimmy won clue on a guess when she knew that Darrell, Mom and I were headed to guess. Blurt was great we played two rounds and I won the last by luck getting a easy challenge question. We had family prayer and scriptures and everyone headed to bed.

Families Forever

2009-02-24T21:33:00.002-07:00

This weekend was a wonderful weekend it probably was one of the best weekends of my entire life. It was a weekend that I spent with the ones I love. Friday night Darrell and I got on a plan to Portland Oregon! I have been traveling by myself so much lately that it was amazing to have someone with me. You know how comfortable planes can be especially if you are in the middle of three seats you start drifting off and are not exactly sure which direction to lean your head. This plane trip was definitely not that way. I was able to sleep comfortably the whole ride home, it was great! Anyways we got to Oregon and drove home. At home I cut my families hair as we all talked with one another.

Saturday morning we woke up early! it was 9:30 which was early for us college students and the fact that we all didnt get to bed very early. As we all gathered around the table, Gram said a blessing on the food then we all ate amazing made french toast, sasauge and an egg casserole thing. It was great! Later we hobbled into the living room where I opened my gifts! Thank you all for the perfect gifts! I loved them all!

Happy Happy 20th Birthdays!!

2009-02-17T16:31:00.002-07:00

These are part of the gift I got from Allison. They are for so many things such as cleaning, gardening or even hair coloring!! They are awesome!!!
This is me explaining what they are to Darrell! :)

Allison and I had a birthday party together on Monday. We invited people over and we ate baked potatos and had cake! It was alot of fun we also got amazing gifts that we weren't even expecting! It was a great time!

It Has Been Toooooo Long!

2009-02-17T16:28:00.002-07:00

Beth, Leah and I hung out for awhile one day! It was so strange! lol we all are always busy that its hard to get together. We met at the food court in the mall and then went to the creamery where we bought a half gallon of cookies n' cream ice cream. We then parked in front of the Provo temple and ate while we talked! It was such a blast!

Melissa's Birthday!! Big 21!

2009-02-17T16:26:00.001-07:00

Melissa's mom made some wonderful food that we all ate and then we played games afterwards!

Fringe!

2009-02-17T16:25:00.001-07:00

Cutting Susan's Fringe

Camera Disappointment!

2009-02-17T16:03:00.003-07:00

Darrell and I went to the Nickel Arcade Monday night and I was so excited because I remembered a camera!!! We decided to race each other on motorcycles so my first thought was lets take a picture first!!! I grabbed the camera out of my purse and to my luck it would not work! The batteries were dead. This is what always happens to my camera experiences the batteries always die! I need a camera that can charge itself and never never ever die! Anyways so we didn't get to record that part of our lives. The Nickel Arcade was so much fun though! We played Dance Dance Revolution, hit some alligators, stepped on spiders, were killed multiple times by dinosaurs, fought each other, played basketball and attempted to play air hockey. In the end we got enough tickets to get two tops and something else kinda like a whistle. We had a great time!!

Fruit Pizza ...all its gotta have is the word "Pizza"

2009-02-17T15:52:00.006-07:00

The Sword and the Fruit Pizza

It seems that in Provo Utah whenever the word "Pizza" is said everyone comes running. This weekend Darrell and I made a fruit pizza. It was gone before you could blink! It was crazy! But boy was it good!!! All it is is a sugar cookie crust Cream cheese and 2 strawberry banana yogurts and Fruit!!! Mmmmm Delicious.

Darrell John Skousen (My Man)

2009-02-16T02:10:00.003-07:00

Darrell John Skousen:
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 170lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Left-Blue, Right-Green
Interests: Breanna Nicole McBride :-) Oh and School
Hobbies: Basketball, Raquetball, Frisbee, Piano, Music, Wendy's, Country Swing
Status: Taken!!! :-P
Personality: Can be taken as shy at first, but usually can loosen up after the first 15 minutes. Enjoys laughing and playing games. Sings to himself all the time. Hard worker when it comes to school when he is not being distracted. Loves the Lord and his gospel. Obedient. Sweet. He is amazing!
Love him!
Breanna Nicole McBride!

"Simple,but Perfect"

2009-02-16T02:06:00.002-07:00

This is me with my rose! It was so pretty!! Simple and Perfect thats my motto!

The luckiest Girl!

2009-02-15T10:58:00.002-07:00

This is one of the few pictures that we took on Valentines Day... actually it was the day before but anyways...Valentines Day--- We started the day at 8:30 in the morning and he arrived at my door step with a Beautiful pink rose, chocolate and a note just for me! We took a step outside and the car and city was completely covered with snow! We then headed to the Provo temple where we did baptisms. The temple is always a wonderful place but being there with him just made it all the better. We ended up eating breakfast at the temple and then headed back to my apartment. to be continued....

He posed as I took some pictures for we have hardly any pictures of us. We then watched his niece for awhile which I thought was fun since being in a college area there are not many kids. After that we headed off to the store to buy some groceries for dinner. The plan was to make Chicken Fajitas! Eventually we made it to the apartment and began to cook! mmmm it turned out to be delicious.

I dont know what it is but Darrell looks different in this picture. Maybe its the smile ... it doesnt look too realistic. lol He has a hard time with pictures...

Temple Trips

2008-12-10T20:36:00.002-07:00

Jessica, Drew and I on Wednesdays try to go to the temple or to be a volunteer at the state mental hospital. This time we decided to go to the Timpanogos temple but on this lucky day it was closed for maintenance. We were very lucky to make it to the Provo temple instead though.

Thanksgiving Break

2008-12-10T20:28:00.003-07:00

Going home for Thanksgiving Break was fabulous! It was so good to see everyone again and do everyone and their dogs hair! We also got to go to the beach which was amazing. The weather was perfect! On Thanksgiving day we played games. I taught everyone how to play werewolves and jungle speed, If any of you have not played them you definitely should.

The Unexpected

2008-12-08T08:07:00.004-07:00

When life is feeling content and everything is going just as smoothly as I would like it an unexpected turn takes place. A turn that changes my outlook on a day. Decides for me what matters the most, where I want to spend my time, what I say or even think about. When these turns take place it makes me readjust my life, but I think to myself, "Do you really want to change how smoothly things are going when you never know if this unexpected turn is going to stay or be pulled out of your life at any moment?"

Then I began to think about if we just worry about what might happen then there is a strong possibility that nothing will ever happen in your life, or you might miss an amazing opportunity. I came to a conclusion to just take life little at a time and grab on to everything that comes at me dont miss an chance to do anything.

I will gain something each time I accept an opportunity whether it is to gain a better understanding about something, what I will do better next time or to make me stronger as a person. Or maybe it is so much as learning a new activity that I have accomplished. When I accomplish something it helps me to feel a sense of higher self esteem or confidence that I can get somewhere.

"From every experience you learn something new so might as well gain as much knowledge as possible, right?"

Search, Study and Ponder ... and Pray

2008-11-21T16:15:00.002-07:00

Interesting things I learned today:

"Rather than striving for superiority and feeling satisfaction when you have surpassed another person, seek a personal best."

"Dont just pull off the top of the weed. You have to get it out by the roots, or we'll be right back here next week pulling out the same weed."

A concept that I found interesting and confusing today was about criticism it says: "we call it "constructive criticism.: "oh, it's just meant to help the other person," you think. but if you know that any part of what you are saying could be damaging, it is better left unsaid.
I do this alot being in cosmetology school and girls that are just learning skills do things to me. for example we have nail classes and when someone is doing mine I am super picky because I want them to look good. So I tend to try and show them how to do it another way that may be easier. I think that I probably should try not to use constructive criticism so much.

Winter Wonderland!

2008-11-21T16:05:00.003-07:00

These are our pictures from a project at school. We were told that we are "applying" for a job at a magazine. The magazine requires that you make a collage of ideas for the theme that they give you. You must have two outfits, show makeup ideas and hair. It was alot of fun! We went to Maceys and tried on clothes in the dressing room then brought them home and photoshoped the background so that it looked like we were in the snow!!! oh yeah and our theme is Winter Wonderland!

Salt Lake Adventure and Photoshop!

2008-11-18T00:08:00.003-07:00

The things you can do with technology these days!

Salt Lake Weekends... indescribable!

2008-11-18T00:00:00.003-07:00

This last weekend Jessica and I went to Salt Lake for a friends wedding. We had plenty of time after the wedding to get in some food, go to the Joseph Smith Movie and Play around with our cameras on temple square. It was amazing to see all the Christmas stuff being put up. Everywhere you turned there was a nativity set up.

Search, Study and Ponder

2008-11-17T23:43:00.002-07:00

Today I read about how to be exactly obedient. A few things that stood out to me were: Doing exactly what the Lord asks will result in our comprehending the doctrines of eternity and realizing their ultimate benefit to us. Many people state that we are doing things with blind obedience like when Noah built the ark, or Nephi wrote two books because they didn't know where these things would lead to in the later times. It points out that this is not blind obedience but faith obedience. This also lead me to the though of emergency preparedness we were talking about it in church yesterday. We don't know if we will ever be the ones to need it or if we are being prepared so that we can help others. Like Nephi was preparing for when Martin Harris lost the pages of the manuscript. Lastly I will finish by adding what we have to do to have exact obedience not just the desire of exact obedience. We have to work hard to acheive it then we have to watch ourselves carefully to keep that level of faithfulness. Those things to help keep us at that level of faithfulness would be prayer, scripture study, temple worship, and serving others.

Real Girls R Not Afraid!

2008-11-17T23:34:00.002-07:00

Today I finally REALLY cut a girls hair. Lately every girl that comes in would just like a trim here and there but today this girl came in and was brave. She was ready to take the plunge to create something new! I was just as excited and probably as nervous as she was. We trimmed her hair added some fabulous layers which helped it lay beautifully, and then we tapered her hair around her face. Lastly after it was all styled she decided to take the next step and add a fringe (Bangs). We created them and we both were celebrating and rejoicing on how lovely they turned out. I SOLD her on coming back to Dallas Roberts! She had previously gone to Bon Losee and Paul Mitchell! I was enthusiastic that I was able to help her make a GREAT decision.

It's Just the Beginning!

2008-11-17T23:29:00.005-07:00

I will first start off by saying that I have no idea how to create a blog or anything about a blog. So you will have to bare with me through the tough times of figuring it all out. I Think things will turn out alright though.... well hopefully!