day 26. means a lot to me.

i bet you could have guessed this one, right? this here boy means more to me than i can express. i love everything about him. he is... my love. i honestly don't know what i would do without him. he's my true blue best friend. i tell him all my secrets. he's my biggest fan. he's my knight in shining amour. he's my (almost) husband. he's going to be the father of our family. i love everything about him. he's the definition of loyal. he chose me. we waited for each other. he's my happy thought. my sunshine on a cloudy day. he's my example. he's my motivation. he's the most amazing person i know. i know i'm not there yet, but i'm working on it. april 29th could be right now and that would be SO okay with me. my love, i can't wait to start this grand adventure with you. i love that i can get you to cave. i love when you smile crooked. i love that you are my high school sweetheart. i love that you listen. i love that you try to understand. i love you. i love when we read scriptures together and you help me learn old things in new ways. i love everything about you. i love when you get in the car and its really cold you hit the steering wheel really really fast with your hands. i love when the heat is up to high you freak out 'cause you can't breathe. i love that you touch your ears when your tired. and when your content. and pretty much all the time ;) i love you. i love when you say "but my name isn't even joseeee!". i love that when you asked me to marry you, you included the worlds "happily ever after." i love when we were dancing under the pavilion we spun around and around. i love that when we were in disneyland together you kissed me in front of the castle. i love when you text me 19 pages of "are you safe" when i forget to tell you i got to school safely. i love when you beat me at scrabble. i love when you text me a picture you drew of us holding hands just cause you felt like drawing me a picture. i love that you were my first boyfriend in 7th grade. i love you. i love that you had to call me back out side so we could have our first kiss. i love that we wrote every week while you were away serving a mission for the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. i love how much you loved being a missionary. i loved that you shared your experiences with me. you are all things good in the world. you make me happy when i am sad. i am the luckiest no battle plus one whatever you say. you once told me, "if you never have a dream, you can never have a dream come true." i love you. you were my dream, now you are my dream come true. i am the luckiest because i am living my own fairy tale. living my dream. living OUR dream. we're going to have a dream life. i feel like it's already starting out pretty well ;) i can't wait to move to texas (or colorado) with you. i can't wait to meet our puppy. i can't wait for him (or her) to squeeze in between us at night time. i can't wait to buy our first home. i can't wait to meet our kids. i can't wait for family home evening lessons that will consist of breaking up sword fights, rounding up crazy running children and ending with a family prayer. i can't wait for our honeymoon in disneyworld. i can't wait to (officially) be yours for eternity. i love when your face goes into the "oh no" face whenever i or someone gasps. you're the most thoughtful person in the world. i admire your spirituality. i admire your knowledge of the gospel. i admire you. you are not only regular amazing, but super duper amazing. i love that you spend boring sick nights with me. i love that we finally are finishing da vinci code. i love that you kept all the cards i got you while you were gone. i love all the things you teach me. i love that you're still reading this now ;) i love you. i honestly would not be who i am today without you. love isn't finding a perfect person. its seeing an imperfect person, perfectly. i love that our favorite movie is enchanted. i love that you want tails on your tux at our wedding. i love that you love french cuffs. i love your eyes. oh baby that needs to be repeated. i love your eyes i love your eyes i loveeeeee your eyes. i love that you hate it when i crack your middle knuckles. i love when you sing in the car. i LOVE when you sing in the car. i love when you tell me about what you read in the scriptures that was sooooooo good. :) i love when you burrow. i love that you always always open my door. i love when you play the piano and let me listen. i love that you tucked me into bed and talked me to sleep. i love you. i love YOU. I LOVE YOU. todd michael furness. i'm a hopeless romantic, and i DO believe in soul-mates and every ounce of me tells me YOU are MINE. i love your love for cookie dough. i love that my heart stop won't beating. i love when you knew when you wanted to marry me. i love that we WILL go to jerusalem. i love that you let me win. i love when you kiss me back. i love that the game is ALMOST OVER. i love when you walk me to my car. i love when you said 'i love you' for the first time when you got home at my car and you heard me squeal. i love you. this doesn't even begin to cover all the reasons i love you but i'm running out of room... did i mention.. i love you?

welcome home :)

day 25. i LOVE sundays.

well, i started my day in the best way possible by attending..

:) now, it will probly consist of a big ol' longggg..

....aaand if we're being honest... probly a little of this... ;) hehe.

day 12. a photo of something i love.

need i say more? ;)

day 07. most treasured item.

when toddy left on his mission, he made me a blanket. toddy blanket. i can count on one hand the number of days i have been without it since the night he gave it to me. (october 10, 2008). this blanket goes with me wherever i go. it has kept me warm, in all senses of the word, since that night. i love it more than anything else i own. is it april 29th yet?

day 04. living the dream.

but later in the evening.. my night will consist of fhe with this cute boy. thank goodness. :)

guys.

i'm getting married. and my fiance is so good looking. and i am so in love with him. and he is so wonderful. and oh babyyy. aaand im the luckiest. and is it april 29th yet!? uhh-guhh.

i very much enjoy weekends.

there are a few reasons i love weekends. the biggest one is that i get to spend large amounts of time with my fiance. (i love saying that.. fiance fiance fiance.) :)

last weekend we went to rexburg to watch uncle mac and friends perform at byu-i. such a rockstar. ;) todds adorable cousin, brooke, is in noteworthy who also performed with them! it was such an awesome show! of course my family was there front and center... with signs. oh how i love them. :) we were only there for about 22 and 1/2 hours, but we fit in so many fun little activities in that short space of time. i would expect nothing less from visiting the hammonds ;)

.....and this weekend is already starting to look just as grand. :)

combo copy cat.

two of my very favorite blogs to read would be that of my beautiful cousin marlee, and of my lovely co-worker (and now official facebook friend) tif. they are wonderful and if you've never read either of their blogs, go do it. right now. tif's most recent post was a post of gratitude, listing things she was grateful for in her life. that inspired me to do the same. but, i decided to make my gratitude post a hybrid with a love letter (as seen on mar's blog here) to the most wonderful person to ever come into my life. excuse my unoriginal fusion of these two ideas, but i just couldn't help myself.

hello you,

i know you know who you are seeing as there is only one person you could be. you are you and i could not be more grateful for that in and of it self. you are the light of my life, the pep to the step and the tune to my song. everyday, every single one of 'um, you give me more reasons to smile, to laugh and to perservere through whatever the day sets at my feet to hurdle over. i know i've told you this before but you, my love, are my happy thought. always have been, always will be. i couldn't begin to express gratitude enough for the lessons i've learned with you, the things you've taught me yourself, and most importantly, the things you remind me of daily.

you remind me what the word love means and how it's supposed to feel; how its expressed and shown and how people who love each other treat one another.

you remind me that i am of noble birth. that i am a daughter of a King.

you remind me how insanely blessed we are to have the knowledge that we do. that we shouldn't take the absolutely incredible benefits we have for granted.

you remind me the importance of the little things, the things that keep us, and our testimonies strong.

you remind me that i need to work first, and play second. (even if my yellow personality expresses great disagreement.) ;)

you remind me to keep my goals in mind. to stay focused. to keep sight of my dreams, and never stop trying until they are reached.

you remind me that it's okay to feel what i feel. and express what i feel. even if its not happiness all the time.

you remind me the importance of families, and how incredibly blessed we both are to have the ones we do.

you remind me that hot chocolate is always good, any time of day, no matter the temperature outside.

you remind me that it's good to expand my horizons. step outside the box. there is no growing in a comfort zone.

you remind me of the literal meaning of the word charity. clu clu clu.

you remind me thats its okay to be me, exactly how God made me because He and you, love me just the way i am.

...and that's just the beginning.

so to you, my one and only, i thank you. i thank you for giving me everything and more i could ever ask in an eternal companion. thank you for treating me the way you do, for supplying my life with 100% and complete happiness, and once again, for being y.o.u. i love you with every possible inch of me. i could not be more excited about eternity with you.

love always, cort.

remember that one time i got engaged to the love of my eternity?

ya, so do i :)

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luckiest.

i am 114 and half percent positive that i am the luckiest luckiest luckiest girl on this entire planet. maybe even in the galaxy. my christmas break was a dreammm and i wish it was still happening. to kick it off, sister dear came to visit me the week after finals. it might have been my favorite trip yet :) then again, i say that after every time she comes to visit.

my studly grandpa turned 80 so the whoooole fam damily got together for the.. not so surprise party in palm springs. :)

since we were all together, why not head to disneyland in a massive group of like 50 people, right? we thought it was a fantastic idea. took the nieces and nephews for the first time. :)

disneyland checklist...

my family? check.

my love? check. :)

frigid rainy weather? check.

funnest days of my life? check.

now im back to reality and i'm not sure.. no i am sure how i feel. i really just don't like it one bit.

i said bye to L and C of MELCC and i have to say bye to E soon. M left forevs ago. (is in summer 2012 yet?) really REALLY not fond of that. but its okay cause i have the WORLDS most incredible friends. again i say, luckiest.

one year ago from right now i was on the most incredible adventure of my life. i miss it terribly. :( allll theee timeeee.

excuse me while i go cry now.

happy christmas :)

you might get tired of hearing me say this but once again, i had

seriously the most incredible weekend ever had by anyone in the existence of the earth. :) on friday i got to spend the entire afternoon with my love watching miracle of 34th street and then going to see a...play? at my school. don't ask us what it was about, because we have absolutely no clue. too confusing. we left at intermissi on. haha :) on saturday we went to toddy's mini mission reunion and then met up with our provo family for the flannel party :) did you know that i have the greatest provo team in the uuunniiivveeerrrsssee? hehe. cause i do. hehe. we took family pictures, ate delicious food mama char cooked up, and then went downtown to look at the prettiest building in existence. i honestly don't know how my life could be any happier. :)

happy as the sun :)

there some people that you know from the moment they come into your life, that you don't ever ever ever want them to leave. i'm so blessed to have so many of those people surround me daily.

pictured or not, thank you for supplying my life with utter and complete happiness. :)

clucluclucluclucluclu.

i had another can't-eat, can't-sleep, reach-for-the-stars, over- the-fence, world-series kind of weekend. i contribute my weekend to to 3 things:

1. the fact that the gospel is SO DANG TRUE.

2. reminders ;)

3. and a really reeeeeally really cute boy named todd.

iiliilaidcwki :)

perfect weekend.

my weekend full of happiness and wonderful people. friday i saw my rockstar brother jammm at the covey center with vocal point. saturday was stephanies birthday aaaand i went on a date with my love slash beat him in pool :) on sunday we made breakfast and i learned he has mastered the art of making pancakes. we also split one piece of bacon, i smiered yogurt on his face and then we skipped in the perfect falling snowflakes after church. then i hung with my bunker family and we watched a movie and brett taught me 2 new songs on the guitar. is this seriously real life? giddy giddy giddy giddy.

dr seuss, you got it right. reality is finally better than my dreams ;)

ain't life graaand? :)

1. smile.. HARD.

2. laughing too hard to even look at the camera.

3. sneak attack/ ANGER ;)

4. smile hard.. round 2?

happyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappy:)