Dreams Do Come True

Ben and I are leaving for California today!!! His sister Julie is getting married (I still haven't met her or half of his other siblings so this will be my first or second time meeting his family) I'm super excited not only for his sister's wedding but Ben got me Price is Right tickets!!! My life long dream will finally be achieved on Monday. I'm sad Bob Barker won't be in attendance but I'll just close my eyes and plug me ears and imagine Drew Carry as Bob. So maybe we'll get lucky and one of us will be the next contestant on THE PRICE IS RIGHT!!! I'm ready to yodel, scream, and kiss Drew's cheek ha ha!

In preparation for the show we practiced last night on a group date. We went to Wal-Mart and each couple chose a different game from the price is right and then the other 2 couples were the contestants for the game. It was actually really hard and Ben and I only won one of the games. The 2 couples with the highest score at the end competed in a grocery race. The losing team put together a list of 10 items that we had to find in the store. Ben and I & Jackie and Rob made it to the finals. The couple with the best time in finding the items won. Ben and I almost won but we got soy sauce instead of terriyaki sauce. So Ben went running to get the terriyaki sauce and came back with it in excitement and this is the result.

I could have eaten Ben that night but he wouldn't have tasted as good as my mom's chicken so I didn't.

Ben has been the king of FREE lately so lets cross our fingers and hope this luck carries with us as we wait in the crowd to be on the PRICE IS RIGHT.

Free? Yes Please!

FREE samples at Cost-Co are handed out everyday, all the time. This is how Ben is. He is a constant receiver of FREE. He is the king of FREE. Every day I swear I come home and he's gotten something else FREE!! He has a talent or a friend called Craigs List that has been very loyal to him. Before I met Ben he had already gotten for $FREE.99
-a pool table
-deep freezer
-2 couches
-microwave
-photoshoot
-ect.... the list could go on

He'd told me about these things he'd gotten and recently he's been on the watch for FREE again. In the past month he's gotten so much stuff I'll try and list it. And the stuff he gets is usually in good condition and useful.
1. Lamp
2. Microwave
3. Box of Kitchen Supplies
4. Mixer and Crockpot
5. Art
6. Dresser, head board, and bed side stand. (smoke smell included)
7. Knives
8. 3-Night hotel stay
9. Jon Schmidt Tickets
10. Tacos from Taco Bell
11. Punch Cards to Maurice's
12. Hoobastank tickets
13. Weight Set
14. Papa Johns Bread sticks
15. Corn dogs + Lemonade up that's refillable for LIFE+ 300 stick on tattoos+$5 in hot dog on a stick moneys+ an antenna ball!

Number 15 is by far my favorite FREE thing that Ben has gotten. There's this Diva Deal Lady blog and she posts things that are FREE or coupons for things. One day she had posted that it was Hot Dog on a Stick's BIRTHDAY and if you go from 6-8pm you can get a FREE corn dog. So me, Ben, my roommates, and Kelson all went. When we got there sure enough they were giivng out fresh hot corn dogs. As we went to the register to order ours there was a sign that read "HOTDOG EATING CONTEST ask cashier for more information" So we asked about it and they needed 2 more poeple for the contest. Perfect, so Ben and Kelson signed up. Good thing we showed up because we supplied 2 of the 3 There were 3 people in this contest and the rules were who ever ate 8 corns dogs first WINS. Ready, Set, GO!
The 3 contestants with all 8 corns. ~Free Hats included not the beanie though~
During the contest. Ben has 3 more to go. It's a tight race in the beginning but guess who wins...?..?....?...
BEN!! One of my proudest moments, I get to marry him, Ben-The CORNDOG Eating CAMPION of the Provo MALL!! Because of his virtory we now get Free Lemonade For LIFE at Hot Dog on a Stick and the cup was full of stick on tattoos. We will never run out of hot dog tattoos (always handy to show off at 7-peaks). WINNER and gift basket. (I wanted a Free wedding as the prize) SEE the MAGIC CUP!

So since Ben gets all this free stuff I one day thought that I was contributing to the FREEness. I got a call from someone saying that I'd won a big gulp cup from Maverick. I thought really, a cup?? I won something? The guy on the phone said that he would be able to drop off the cup to me. I told him I was at work and that he could come by and drop it off. So at noon a guy with a nasty beard came to the office with a HUGE refill mug at Maverick 100 oz. That's size HUGE!! I was laughing when be brought it in to me and I asked him howI won this again? He said it was a Marverick on-line contest. I didn't remember entering any Maverick contest but cool I won. I asked how much it cost to fill up the big boy mug and he said under $1. WOW that's alot of pop for not much money. I thanked him and I havn't seen him since. I was so excited I'd been the one to bring home something FREE I immediatley told Ben on G-Chat. I was sure he was proud!

Then the other day I was showing Ben the HUGE mug and he just laughed. He said did you think you really entered a contest? I said yeah why? He then went on to tell me that he had got the mug FREE off of Craigs List and had the guy play along with me tha tI had won. Ha ha real funny, but it really was. I had thought that I really entered some stupid contest and won with all the silly contest you can enter on-line. He got me.

Ben is full of FREE and I'm glad he let me pretend. Oh the FREE things that are to come, I can only imagine. FREE furniture, no FREE beds please, FREE food, FREE Car?, FRee Turtle, FRee child, FREe water, FREE oven, FREE-Time with BEN (that's my favorite!).

Background

So this new background I chose because it had pink, yellow, and green. These are my wedding colors but I don't like the "Happily Ever After." Yeah, you want to live happily ever after but that seems too much like the end, when this is just the beginning. I wish I could photo shop it out and change it to something different like "Happily new something" Or just erase the words. Because of this I'm changing my background, but I want a wedding theme because I'll never get to put a wedding theme as my background ever. Oh the worries I face. I will go on and do better things now, like make sure the cleaner hasn't turned my dress purple.

Engagement Pics

We had engagements taken on Saturday. Our photographer was Mary Clark and I loved her!! She's great and easy to work with and told us exactly what to do, even if we were chewing 2 wads of bubble gum or holding a rooster! Here is the link to her blog. Go check them out. She's put up a good selection from our shoot. The weather was wonderful and we had fun taking them in clown shoes and all. And I have my almost real ring on! The band is what mine will look like but my diamond is different. 4 more weeks for that to come and I don't get green rings around my finger!!

The Wedding Planner

Guess what......I'm engaged!!!! Yahoo for being engaged. It still doesn't seem real to me some days, Ben asks me often if it seems real yet and I usually reply, "kinda." It sinks in more and more each day and I can't wait to exchange my little green mark (which the fake ring to nicely leaves) on my ring finger for my real ring and hopefully I can seal the dress today (p.s. it's beautiful). I feel like I've got alot done in a week and a half of being engaged. I don't feel too stressed but one day when I was reading through the check list of this bridal guide book I got at one of the dress stores and it lists things you should have done 4 to 9 months ahead (ok don't have that time) and then it has a list for 3 to 4 months ahead (I don't even have that much time). Ben and I went through the check list and marked off things that were in progress and things that we have finished. So according to the lists we've checked off 6 things as complete, 6 are in progress and 18 boxes are incomplete, blank (aahhhhh) and I should be working on the 1 to 3 months ahead list (which has 9 more things). BIG BREATH.......ok it takes baby steps. I can't just pop out and start walking, it takes a little time I have to learn to crawl and then I'll be able to walk. So I'm crawling around right now getting my dress and ideas together. Soon I will be able to walk but not without the help of Benjamin Joseph Sycamore of course.

P.S. Ben is great!! I delegate things for him to do and he's on top of it. I love planning with him, it's great!

P.S.S. I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad I'm not in school right now. It would not be a pretty sight.

Fungus Amungus

At work today we were talking about foot fungus and I'm cautious with used shoes and what not. But I did make a purchase at DI that involved shoes and the 1st thing I thought of was ew I hope this person didn't have a foot fungus. The shoes look nice and I'm very happy with the purchase, I have forgotten about the fungus.

I am also one of those germy people. I'm actually not that bad I'll share my food, I'll drink out of someones cup, sharing toothbrushes is gross, I'm a no go for food that has fallen on the ground, and clean kitchen/cooking habits are a MUST (no licking a spoon and using it again to stir the soup, ew). Some day when I get to be a mom I won't worry about my kids being all sanitary I'll let them play in the dirt (I loved that when I was a kid) but I can guarantee you I won't be letting them play with raw chicken!

Funny?, YES!

I was home for the weekend for Mother's Day and was looking through pictures on my mom's computer and came across this beauty!! It makes me laugh every time I see it so I hope you do too! Ross is graduating next week and I can't wait for him to be here in Provo with me!! We can make funny pictures together while enjoying food thanks to Dining Plus!!

Also when I was home I made a Mother's Day dinner. I bought lobster originally but then we ended up eating with my dad's whole side of the family so that will just have to wait. I wanted to make Chinese so I made a cashew chicken recipe that is sooo yummy and super easy! I also made a mango stir fry that I posted on the Menu of the Week for BYU's Women's Services and Resources (WSR). It all turned out well and I'm so grateful for my mom. She's so supportive in everything I do!!

I do some posting at work on our blog and just posted about the book I just finished, The Last Lecture. It's a great book read about it here. And I wrote something about coupons. This lady has a blog called Utah Deal Diva and as I read it I don't understand and get frustrated because she gets some much stuff for free and I want to get in on this coupon business like she does but I just don't understand how it works like she does. I commented on her blog about not understanding so maybe she will do a one-on-one lesson with me (ha ha, she's too busy getting free t.v. dinners and Kraft Cheese)

Anyways, for the long weekend my roommates and I are going to St. George and I'm going to get a tan, relax, visit the temple, eat some famous custard, and maybe a little tennis. Then on Monday I get to be with Benjamin! We're dating again and I haven't been happier!! I haven't missed being in school for one second and I don't think I will. I have to do everything I can before September hits and the school load piles on (NNOOOOOO!! I just won't think about that now, sorry if I brought it back into your remembrance) and love working everyday at WSR. I LOVE SPRING TIME, bikes rides, frozen yogurt, and no tests!! I wish my life could stay like this!