We're Back!

Well we are back to the awesome thing called life! I will just give you a summary of the last couple months! We got married November 6th, so we have been married for almost 2 months. It was been a great couple of months. We have been on many trips since then. For our LOVERMOON {honeymoon} we started out in Payson, YES our wedding night we drove to Payson. It was so fun! We stayed at the Majestic and just relaxed and ate at Denny's and MY favorite and the only chinese buffet I will eat at {China Buffet}! If you have never been go, you will not be disappointed! That Monday we woke up at the butt crack of dawn to drive back to Mesa so we could catch our flight to HAWAII! The flight was way long! Longest flight I have ever been on in my life! We started out on Oahu and had all the experience that come with that island. We went to the Polynessian Cultural Center, Pineapple Plantation, different beaches, walk through the temple {it wasn't open for sessions}, shopping, and lastly yes we did snorkle. And now the story about that. Lets say I'm a very stubborn soul. I am not really a water person, yes I'll try something but I am really hesitant about water, Im afraid of drowning and getting eaten by sharks and all that comes with that. On that note my {husband} not anything like me! He loves loves loves the water! He would be a dolphin if he could! He is fearless and I look up to him for it! He took me snorkling and I was a total butt the whole which made it a horrible experience. When he told me to get in the water I really just put my feet in the water and bent over so the only part of me that was in the water was my legs and my goggles... I know butt right?!?! Well he told me to follow him to the {deep water} you could only imagine how I was acting by that point... I followed and I quote "ok, the trick to this is to let the water take you in" thats what he said! Well I didn't want the water to take me in... I didn't even want to go! Well then comes a wave {huge wave} that takes me out and throws me into a HUGE rock! At this point I was bawling my eyes out! I was trying to pull myself up and get back on a rock and here comes another wave and throws me into a couple more huge rocks! I was so finished after that! Gentry came swimming my way worried as could be and said ok we're done! haha Well while we are walking back he tells me to be careful the rocks are slippery, what happens... I slip! The point Im trying to make here is don't follow in my foot steps when it comes to this particular activity! But on a better note our last day there we were at a beach and I totally body surfed for the 1st time!!! woooo hoooo! That next day we were off to Kauai!!! Oh how I loved Kauai! It was so nice and relaxing! Our hotel/resort was gorgeous! The drive up looked like the scene in The Last Song when they are driving up to his house with the tree canopy! This island we went zip lining and kayaking! What a blast right!?!?! I loved it! Thats about it for the lovermoon! It was really enjoyable and I loved spending the week and a half away from reality so I could relax and enjoy my time with the new hubster!

Our next trip my parents surprised us with a family trip for christmas! We all headed up to the mountains {Pinetop} for a nice relaxing Christmas, so we could focus on the real meaning of Christmas. I really loved spending time with my family without the distractions of electronics, gifts, work, and nonsense! I was able to bond with my sisters the way we use to, spend time with my parents, and spend time with my niece and nephew. Ya I do those things on a daily basis but this time was different. It was like old times! We giggled, laughed, joked, wrestled, and bonded! We completed 2 puzzles, rode quads, played I spy with my little eye, 20 questions, I've never, Catch phrase, cards, and Scene it games! We haven't done that in such a long time and made me realize again how much I love spending time with my family!

This Christmas season has been so awesome! I have loved spending it with Gentry! He has been such a good sport with my holiday decorations/parties! I have the best 2nd family! They moved their Christmas so we could spend Christmas weekend with mine. I loved the Shumway dinner, story, and gift exchange. I love just sitting and talking to them. I am very grateful for the 2 families I have in my life and the great support that they are to me and Gentry! Now for the picture over load... Wedding and Hawaii, we don't have any from christmas but thats ok! {enjoy}

This boy........

I don't get why people insist on telling me this is a short engagement. I am constantly getting asked so whens the big day and I say sadly November 6th. They look at me and say wow you only have a short time! Well good news yo's its not that short.... you try waiting for your awesome eternal future to start! Lets just say I am so excited that in just a day it will be October! Hopefully it goes by much faster then September has!
This has been a bit rocky for me! I feel stressed all the time, life is busy, I am busy, my family is busy, and then try planning a wedding on top of that, well its not so fun! Everyone tells me it should be the funnest time, well I think I am finally getting there! I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel! {FINALLY} I am starting to get stuff checked off the never ending list... like location, food, dresses, MY dress, the boys outfits, flowers, pictures, rings... and the list goes on and on! But i realized most of that doesn't even matter, as long as he and I are enjoying our time together!
This kid makes me the happiest! He cares so much about my happiness and Im glad I have him helping me with everything. He has been honestly the best! Anything I ask and he does! He has had just as much input on this shindig as I have! I love it, even tho sometimes I don't like his opinion! I guess that's what happens when you put 2 different people together! But its good to see his side of things.
I am overly excited to be married to the Shummers! It is going to be the coolest thing in the world! I know Shel is going to love it! She is {obsessed} with the kid! For reals, I think I have major competition! {ladies, she wears her heals for him, nuff said!!} Luckily he likes younger chicka's, but not that young! It just a short while we will be a happily married couple and that's all I could ask for right now!

Love, its a crazy thing!

Preview anyone?!?!?! ok here goes..........

***How hot is that***

8-9-10 Hers & His

Well it happened and im proud to say I will soon be the Mrs. Shumway! I thought it would be cool to tell the story from both sides... So here goes!

Hers

To start off I would like to say that Yes I am a snoop and Yes I do like to know everything thats happening, that being said don't judge me! :) Well I have been bugging Gentry for months about this ring, literally months, annoying right? Well I decided to not bother him and see if he could get the job done on his own. Well it was taking soooo unbelievably long that i was starting to get frustrated and depressed! No joke, its kinda hard to plan a wedding with no ring and people asking me, "Are you really getting married, you don't have ring ya know!?!?" I just wanted to say NO KIDDING PEOPLE, not much I can do! Well anyways the BOY ended up surprising me after all! Here is how...

Well I was at work (T & G Concepts). Well I was texting Gentry as usual and then he texted me that some guy at work told him about a real tasty cupcake place in Scottsdale. I automatically think Sprinkles and ding ding ding I was right. I asked when he wanted to go and he said after work... this is where I got a tad bit suspicious! Sunday he told me he wanted to go to the gym right after work, and when this kid says he wants to go to the gym, thats what he wants to do. But I didn't argue, heck I love cupcakes and I don't really like working out... soooooooo it sounded like a spledid idea! After I was done watchin the Shel's Bel's aka Shelbie we headed over to Sprinkles. I then came up with the grand plan of going to the mall since its right there... it sounded fantastic, he approved! How I love his kid! We were standing in the line at Sprinkles and convinced him into letting me get 2 cupcakes, that was hard guys, but after giving him $1 he let me! ***just a side note the lemon is DELICIOUS, it will probably be featured at the wedding***! Then we headed to the parking garage at the Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall! We honestly drove around for atleast 10 min... no joke it was ridiculous! It was driving me NUTS! He was passing up such close parking spots and going to the farthest away parking spots ever known to man kind! He would say ok im going to just back up into this parking spot so he would put it in reverse and i would put it right back into drive and tell him go to the door now, Im not walking this far! He wouldn't do it so apparently in the middle of our goofy argument i guess he told me he told me he would make it worth my while! Never heard that one, probably just because I was sooooo annoyed! Anyways, he pulled into a semi close parking spot, and I reminded him that I have a key to his car and can move it to the closer spot and he can walk! He proceeded to tell me I would never do such a thing! Haha so I walked past him as if i was going to the driver side and he said hey i gotta ask you something and I turn around and he dropped down on one knee! How hot is that?!? It was so funny because he dropped down asked and popped right back up! I of course was in shock and said what the! Then replied YES! He clearly didn't hear me because he starred at me with a blank look and said.... well! haha The rest of the night everytime I looked at him he was smiling or giggling and same with me! I totally love it! The ring is fantastic, but most of all Im so excited to marry this kid and spend forever with him! He is the best of the best and loves me even if im weird and get annoyed with his way of driving around a parking garage forever and a day!

His

So Brittany is basically the hardest person in the world to surprise. She
always is suspecting something and won’t stop asking questions cause till
she gets her answer. Besides that I can’t lie to her. Look at that face,
who could lie to that? The only problem is I wanted to surprise her.

Now she was suspecting this had to happen sometime. After all we had been
planning on getting married and had already been making preparations for
making that happen. I knew nothing would come as a complete surprise. So
what I did was tell her I was talking to my uncle Curtis who is a jeweler
and he was getting me a superb deal and that just takes time. Luckily her
friend Lisa just married my cousin Kenley and it seemed to take a couple of
months for Lisa’s ring to arrive when they were searching so she seemed to
buy it. Secretly however, getting the ring was coming along a lot faster
than I let her know.
On Saturday Aug 7th she had to work so I took her dad out to eat because
even though he already knew I was planning on asking her, I felt it was the
proper thing to ask for his blessing in the whole matter. Now the day
before that on Friday Curtis’s assistant had called me and told me she was
shipping the ring, so I started wondering if it would be there Saturday.
Well as I’m waiting to see if it would come that day Brittany is continuing
to text me. As lunchtime rolls around she is hinting that she wants me to
take her to lunch. I tell her that I can’t and really don’t give her a
super good reason. This makes her suspicious and think that I am being
really secretive, but what can I do? I definitely can’t let her know I’m
taking her dad out because she then she would think I was asking. I tell
you this girl has a way of finding out everything. Needless to say the ring
did not arrive that day and I made it past my secret lunch.

As Monday the 9th comes around I plan on the ring showing up. The whole
weekend I had spent my time convincing her it wasn’t going to be here till
September sometime. All the while thinking I was asking her on Monday. I
was so excited to ask and could tell that she was getting down that it would
be so long away.

Monday morning I call my mom and ask her to go look for a package at my
front door. So at noon she went over to my house and found the Fedex box
sitting there. When she called and told me she had it I was so excited and
then I started getting nervous. Now I had to ask and I didn’t know how to
do that. I wanted it to be something special but at the same time knew I
couldn’t do anything overly romantic because she would know what was up
right away.

While at work one of my buddies Brit mentioned how he had gone to this
cupcake place called Sprinkles over the weekend and how it was kind of fun.
So we kept talking and I thought that would be perfect. Just unusual and
fun enough to make it memorable but not so romantic that she would know
right away. I knew she would suspect something because she always does, and
I cancelled working out to go get cupcakes, so she knew something was up,
but as long as I kept her guessing that was the best I could hope for.

Right after work that day I rushed to my parents house and picked up the
ring. It was in a cute little box and the ring itself was perfect. This
was the first time I had seen it but my Uncle had taken the details I gave
him and matched them perfectly with what I had wanted. I couldn’t keep the
ring in the box because it was to big and made my pocket bulge, so I took it
out and just stuck the ring in my pocket.

She was babysitting her niece Shelbie when I called so I went over there and
waited for her sister to get home from the doctor. As soon as she did we
stopped by her mom’s house. When we got there her mom seemed real talkative
for some reason, and even though it was maybe two minutes it seemed like an
hour to me. I thought man this is never going to happen. Finally we were
on our way to cupcakes and my asking.

When we arrived at Sprinkles I parked far away because my plan was to ask
her when we got back into the car and I really didn’t want anyone else
around. We got our tasty treats and then sat down at a table outside. I
thought about asking her then but there were just to many people going by so
I waited. Eventually we got up and started heading back to my white Chevy
truck. My heart was beating pretty loud and I was starting to feel dizzy
and nervous. As we approach the truck I notice some idiot had parked right
by me and they were just sitting there. Two girls sitting in their yellow
truck ruining all my plans. I couldn’t believe it. I tried convincing
Brittany we needed to wash our hands at the nearby Chipotle, hoping the
girls would leave, but that really didn’t work so we got in drove across the
street to Scottsdale fashion square.

Upon pulling into the parking garage I immediately start heading to the most
secluded parking spot I can find. I even joke with her telling her we
should park on one of the upper levels and that I would make it worth her
while. She thought I was being dumb. She even would shift my truck back
into drive when I would try to back into a place. After several minutes of
playful arguing we park in a spot closer enough for her and far enough away
for me to feel comfortable. As I get out of my truck I kneel down and
before she is completely facing me I start asking, “Will you marry me?”

She gets this confused look on her face, which quickly starts to turn to a
smile, and I rocket back up to my feet before her lips can turn completely
to a smile. The butterflies zooming around my stomach are making everything
seem distant and dream like. I am finally able to pull myself together and
I ask her, “so what’s the answer?” Apparently she had already said yes but
I didn’t notice.

After that we spent the next hour or two walking through the mall trying to
wipe the smiles off of our faces but being very unsuccessful in our
attempts. It was seriously the best moment in my life up to this point!

When I look at you...

Ok so The Last Song is pretty much my favorite movie... It honestly melts my heart! I know ridiculous, its just a movie, but for real who doens't love it! Here are some reasons why A. i love this song by Miley even tho she doesn't really shut her mouth ever and B. why the movie is amazing

1. So many parts remind me of Gentry, Like when Mr. Hottie totally starts singing in the truck, oh my goodness i could not help but get a huge smile on my face because even tho he wasn't good at all it was soooooo stinkin adorable

2. The little boy is dang adorable and pretty much the best actor in the movie. He is the reason I teared up.

3. It reminds me to look at the good in everything and stop focusing on the bad. It helps me look at each day as a new day and reminds me to be grateful for the time I have with my mom.

4. Liam Hemsworth is breath taking! Oh my goodness...

{P.S. Gentry i find you more breath taking and awesome!}

5. It was just a well made movie and makes me happy! Thats all for now!

I hope this video works i've never done one before but i thought i would because i love this song and who knows maybe it will make an appearance at my wedding or something! :)

{ENJOY}

Lover Boy

Good news everyone... I just wanted to let you know this {boy} makes {me} way happy!

[ALL stolen facebook pictures]

I was just looking through his facebook profile pictures and admiring his good looks so i thought i would share some... im sure he wouldn't mind.. he loves {girls} oogling over his handsome face.. he told me so himself... haha just kidding.. {maybe!}

4x4-ing mishap

So saturday some friends and i decided to go shooting... well i asked Kyle (Gentry's brother) if there was any place to 4 wheel while out, he told me there was so i got super excited. We were near Queen Valley.. A. I have never heard of this place and B. I didn't have a good feeling about it when we passed the NO TRESPASSING sign, but i continued to follow anyways... we reached the point of no return... Literally... First of all they had us driving in a dang creek and then wanted to turn around when it was a one lane area... So me thinking Im a 4x4-ing champ backed up on this slope so the other car could get past so i could just follow him out... well the unexpected happened... and while going down i got stuck on a dang tree... HOW EMBARRASSING! (trust me i really know what im doing... it was just one of those fluke accidents!! )

(ps this isn't me, this is a girl named Megan, just didn't want you to think i went blonde or anything)

If that isn't bad enough I put it in 4x4 drive...... and....... dum dum dum..... the light doesn't come on... (YET another concern i had...i even thought to myself earlier that day to check the straw) ya straw... 2 4x4-ing trips ago my dad fixed my 4x4 drive with a Q.T. straw.. haha creative.. i like to say white trash.. but heck it worked. SO then i decided to test the straw and see how long it would last... well ladies... and maybe gentleman it lasted a whole whopping 2 trips the 3rd it failed me! (3rd being this trip im talking about). See if i were to have checked it this nonsense probably would've never happened... or maybe it would've but my truck would've taken it like a champ in 4x4 drive! but nooooooooooo the straw had to crack and mess the day up. The other car ended up getting me out but due to the lack of space to turn around it got stuck once again... *at this point i started bawling and Bret or Kyle i can't remember proceeded to tell me its ok we'll atleast get it out in 2 pieces..* ps guys thanks for the words of comfort!

At that point i had enough and walked off with my cheap chocolate verizon phone in hand searching for service so i could call my dad... *yup ran to my dad for help* haha well i couldn't get enought service so i texted him that both cars were stuck and where i was... well sorta the area i was in.. i hadn't paid enough attention to exactly where we were, and prayed he'd get the text... well it said sent and then i heard someone calling my name... it was Gentry and he said the sheriff saw them and told them he was coming around and giving us all trespassing tickets... uhhhhh so at that point i started freaking out... HELLO i can't afford another ticket this year... so i went back to my car and didn't get a text back until i said hey its getting late and i don't want to be stuck here all night im going to get ahold of my dad and he'll get me out... Gentry and i headed back up the mountain and to our surprise there was the sheriff.... with "The Beast" (a towing company) right behind him.... now i was getting excited but not excited for ticket or charge for towing my car out....

Well luckily we had 2 single girls to flirt it up with the ever so popular sheriff... im not aloud to say his name... but note he is a celebrity and has been on tv for a gun shot wound. haha well he ended up being a nice guy and the only thing we had to pay for was the towing... which was $80 a car.... Boy im so happy im out of that situation and have learned from it!

Well my car has some damage, I think when the towing guy was pulling my car out my wheels were turned so it bent something that messed up the steering.. also my battery flew into my power steering fluid and busted it and also melted part of my battery.... haha oh well... it wouldn't be a 4x4-ing trip with out some damage.

Well my dad ended up coming but never really found us due to my lack of communication, but once i got out i called him and waited for him to drive my car home so he could see if anything else was wrong... I drove his car home and while on the free way i was driving behind him and im tires had so much sand in them that a rock flung up and cracked his wind shield... haha ooops!! and yesterday i drove his 4 runner to church and i turned it off and the radio decided it wasn't going to go off.... lets just say it wasn't my weekend for cars..

Wolverine

Well guess who walked into my room the other day!!! The one and only wolverine!!

Ok not really but a definite look alike for sure!!!

*PRICELESS*

SpRinG TimE!!!

I was told that if i want people to see my new updated blog then i should write a new post so here goes!

To start spring off the correct way (which in the past I really have never had a spring break! I always worked instead) I went to Carlsbad California with a group of friends! Let me tell you it was quite the eventful trip! We left Saturday March 13th at around 8:30 in the morning! We made it there at about 4ish and set up camp and then me and Gentry headed to the beach to walk around. This wasn't my first time at the beach... sure I had been before but never did i go completely in the water and knowing who I was with I knew I had to suck it up and get in sooner or later.

Here is a picture of us just walking on the beach the first day there

The next day we went a little ways up the road to a little less rocky beach and played in the water a bit, skim boarded (don't know if thats how you spell it), and played ultimate frisbee! Ok ok if you know me I am quite the competitor.. with that being said I will go to any lengths for my team to win! Well anyways apparently I pretty good on defense and I totally knocked my buddy Klefsky down while trying to knock the frisbee away! And the next time we played i tried to cool down a little and while we were playing i fell on all 4's and tripped this guy Josh that was going for the frisbee... totally on accident both times! They told me that they didn't know we were playing tackle frisbee... OOOPS!!! :)

Here is a picture of me and Gentry just chillin on the beach capturing the moment! :)

The next day which was Monday we went to a different beach which is where we had lots of fun...except for one thing!!! Well we went to ocean side... and well I was walking in the sand and got freaking tar on my foot!!! Can you believe that?!?! I was definitely ticked while everyone else laughed at me trying to scrape it off with a rock! Later when i got home my dad told me how to get it off... that would've been useful 5 days earlier! We went pretty far in and Gentry taught me how to get under a wave so it doesn't take me with it... that was definitely interesting... Im not so good. Oh well... They also tried to teach me how to body surf... which again Im not so good at! haha Well I guess that just means I have to go back! haha

Here are some pictures of us skim boarding

My Best fall caught on camera

And Gentry's Best fall caught on camera

My Best ride caught on camera

Gentry's Best ride

After the beach Gent and I had the grand plan to go to the store not to far away... But you see how would we get there... oh you know the one and only RAZOR SCOOTERS!!! Me and Gentry got some to go to the showers with so we didn't have to walk and we wanted to put them to some good use and the store wasn't that far away but we did have to go down this really steep hill and lets just say it wasn't a very happy ending for one of us!

Sorry the picture was the right way when i clicked on it!
Yup.... he landed his butt in the emergency room! He broke his elbow, hand, and cracked part of his knuckle on his pinky and got 3 stitches in his chin!!

Here are his hands and of course he broke his right hand so know he is exciting to become ambidextrous!!

And here is the gash in his chin!! He had 2 nurses fighing over him... they didn't want to give him up... im not kidding! It was ridiculous!

He was definitely bummed this happened 2 days into our trip... but I was fine! I don't know how many more waves i could've taken! Those things can be pretty brutal!

We also went to Sea World! I loved loved loved it!! It was so awesome!! I have pictures just mostly the animals and im to annoyed with putting picture on here!

The last full day we were there we went shopping and I got 4 pairs of vans for 70 bucks!! SaWeet deal huh?!?! I was way excited!! I left cali with 5 new pairs of shoes!! I think me and Gentry are in for some trouble... we may end up having kids addicted to shoes!

I am so glad I went on this trip!! It was such a blast!! I definitely needed a Vay-K!!! Life can get so stressful some times! And its nice to get away and relax with friends!

On another note... for those of you who don't know.... I will do a shout out for my lame-o sister Some to the ERRRRR!! AKA Sommer!! {She's only lame cuzzz she is private} bahaha jussss kidding sisterWell anyways she is PREGO!!!! I am so excited!!

Sometimes....

Sometimes I judge,

Sometimes I say the wrong or mean things,

Sometimes I have a bad attitude,

Sometimes I think negative things,

Sometimes I care way to much about what people think,

Sometimes I am to hard on myself,

Sometimes I feel fat or ugly,

Sometimes I just feel like crying,

Sometimes I try but its just not enough,

Sometimes I think my life is way to hard to handle,

Sometimes I wonder why God thinks I can handle the trials I face,

Sometimes I don't know what words mean,

Sometimes I'm bad a spelling,

Sometimes I am HORRIBLE at pronouncing words and get nervous when I have to read outloud,

but why think this way!

Most of the time I'm Happy and Giddy,

Most of the time I act like a little girl excited to see a Disney Princess,

Most of the time I like to sing in the car with the music loud to bother the car next to me or to see their reaction to my girly music,

Most of the time I like to go to work just so I can see what funny thing my boss is going to do that day,

Most of the time I like to tell jokes from "Laffy Taffy" or learn the "New word of the day",

Most of the time I like to talk about my day and tell stories,

Most of the time I am good at saying all my prayers during the day,

Most of the time I am good at reading my scriptures every night and understanding them,

Most of the time I am a good listener and think I give pretty good advice,

Most of the time I can make people smile,

Most of the time I like to act like a NASCAR driver in my 4 runner,

Most of the time I like to go 4 wheeling and think I'm cool because I have a car with 4 wheel drive and can drive stick,

Most of the time I think i am pretty smart,

and.....

I know I am a daughter of God,

I know I am special,

I know I can succeed in anything I put my mind to,

I know I can make good choices,

I know I am a good person,

I know I am not perfect but try my very best,

I know I am here for a reason,

I know I have a family that loves me,

I know I have friends that love me,

I know I have a ward that loves me,

I know I have been blessed with many amazing gifts in my life,

I know that few will read this but it will make me feel so much better writing it!

Life is hard but I try my very best. I know other things can get in the way and we can lose our focus but I will always try to be successful in all I do. My dad always said, "If you do it right the first time, you wont have to go back and fix anything"! I have always remembered him saying that to me and my sisters! So all my life thats what I have tried to do. Do things right the first time and make good decisions. Thats what I am going to try to do this year... try to make my "Sometimes" list a little shorter and make my "Most of the time" to "All of the time"! I think in the long run it will make my life better and me better!

Love,

ME :)