Let's get married.

Okay, remember how last post i said we were planning for next spring? NOPE. We've got the funds, homies! Now we're going to do it in early October. Hooray! Right now we're hard at work planning all the things. eugh.
Here's what's already happened:

• My wedding dress is already bought and will be ready in early september
• Sean's and my dad's suits are bought and are at the tailor and should be done in a couple weeks
• We've got the invitations in the works
• The refreshments are picked out
• The decorations are starting to be made
• Abby's Maid of Honor dress is being searched for
• Same with Mom's Mother-of-the-Bride dress
• Sean's, his dad, my dad, and Sean's best man ties are picked out and purchased
• Next weekend, we're picking out cakes and doing engagement pictures
• Sometime this week, we're doing our gift registry (excited!)
• Sean is planning our honeymoon
• We're thinking about places to live after we're married.

Sometimes it seems so soon and sometimes it seems like forever away. There's still so so so much to be done and all.. ugh. Anyway, we're getting married in the St. Paul temple and having receptions there and in Bountiful. I can't wait! 

I'm going to go get ready for work and eat something now. Have a lovely day!

Also, Happy Birthday to Lexi and Hannah! 

love, Ellen

Sean's got a new Carr.

Big news! SEAN AND I ARE ENGAGED! technically, though, we haven't set a date yet so we're 'betrothed' but we can still call it engaged.

I've had a request to write a detailed explanation of the event, so here it is:

Yesterday morning, i woke up and got showered and the norm and then went over to Sean's where he made egg and cheese omelets. After we had finished eating and watching this video (because we're awesome), we grabbed some water bottles to keep in Sean's new '11 Dodge Calibur's water bottle refrigerator (and that's where the title comes from) and flavors and hopped in and headed for the Thanksgiving Point Museum of Ancient History. We got there, parked in the same spot as we did the first time, and went inside. We oooh'd and aahh'd the dinos in the front, got stamped, played for a while in the Discovery Zone, and went into the first exhibit about the act of paleontology. After that was when the Dinosaur part actually started. 

It began with the Earth and a starry tunnel to represent space and all its majesty. We hung out in there for a while (more like lingered until the children left us alone). He kissed me and, while doing so, he slipped the ring on my finger, grabbed my hand, and knelt down and asked me the most important question: would i marry the shit outta him. That's an inside joke from this photo that i found some months ago when we decided we wanted to get married. And then i said "Absolutely." 

Next was actually seeing the ring! Stars are great and all, but they don't help in the whole wanting-to-see-me-new-engagement-ring situation.. so we went out into the aquatic dinosaurs part of the museum and i found on my finger an immaculate, antique (1900-1910) Scottish engagement ring. Exactly what i wanted! 

Then was the next most important part, instagramming. So i rested my newly engaged hand on some fossilized squid remains and Sean had to get 3 pictures because he was so excited! (Aw.) 

pretty, right?! 

Then we enjoyed the rest of the museum (sort of.. we were both too excited), and then left and went to his brother Brady's to show him the new car and give him the news. Next stop was my parents house where we chatted and showed them the car and then we followed them up to Maddox for a nice lunch. We ate and then Sean and I kept heading north and they went back with our leftovers. We stopped at the Gossner Cheese Factory for some curds and ends and pepperjack, then we went to ID for a minute because the GPS misguided us to the Pepperidge Farm Factory... then we turned around, found the Factory and it turned out to be closed due to lack of inventory. bummer... Then we got gas, stopped at Smith & Edwards (also closed because we were too late... boo) and drove back to B-town to grab our leftovers and rest from our super eventful day. Then we went home and went to bed.

And there you go! We're planning probably next spring unless we somehow win buke-o bucks and can afford everything sooner. but most likely next spring. And, let me tell you now, it's NOT THAT LONG of an engagement! The average is 14 months and we're only waiting 9ish. it's fine. 

Anyway, I hope you have a most incredible week! 

love, Ellen

Abe Lincoln: Best Action Hero!

Seriously, though. Sean and I went and saw Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer and oh. my. word. BEST. It had action and drama and vampires and a burning train bridge vampire slaying ax-riffle-bayonet handling historical figure that was just awesome. It was seriously the best movie i've seen this year in the theater. Anyway, everyone should see it. It's rated R, but just you wait til it comes on DVD and watch. it's so so good.

Another thing, HAPPY 'MERICA WEEK!!! Tonight, we're watching Independence Day, tomorrow night, we're driving down to Bountiful at night for my birthday dinner, then JULY 4TH! fireworks and food and fun and all that stuff. then then then! My Birthday! fun and turning 19 and presents and a Foster the People concert. All fun. I even painted my nails red and white stripes and then my thumbs are blue with 50 stars (right?! i'm awesome.) and sparkly.

Yesterday, Sean made Pain de Campagne (country bread) and I made Norwegian Almond Cake and both are so so yummy. We're such cute little bakers. awesome. Then this morning i had a tuna sandwich and easy mac. healthy...

Anyway, short update today cuz i'm not in a mood to write a lot a lot.
oh, here is this funny picture, though.

the end.
love, ellen

HBD, MOM. (also music.)

Happy Birthday to my loving mother who helps me with all kinds of things and loves me and all that motherly stuff. 

I wrote a post back in May of 2011 all about my mom probably because of mother's day or something. anyway, i was looking at it and found some funny and true things i'm just going to repost. 

"I know my mom is never going to limit me. Ever. Of course there's curfews and 'don't date guys any more that 3 years older than you until you're in college' or something, but she's never going to say i can't love this boy because he's too anything or i can't obsess over this band because they're too whatever. She's going to support me in whatever I do and never hold me back with restrictions. And the restrictions that do hold me back, i make for myself because i was taught well. 'Cuz my [mommy] taught me good.'"

most funny.  mostly because of the part where i can't date guys more than 3 years older than me until college and what is one of the first things i do? Go falling in love with a guy 9 years older. haha. You wanna know something weird? it's really funny how i unintentionally predict my future occasionally. it's great. Here's another one.

"I really like when we go to the store for a wedding gift or something, pulling into the vehicle aisle (hilarious carr joke, if you didn't catch that.. but seriously, that's where we go first. it's got the fire extinguishers.) and go through the list. then we end up buying something kitchen-y, looking in the clearance for clothes, buying a candy bar, and eating it in the parking lot before heading home. i don't think i'll ever forget that."

 This is funny because now Sean and I now get ride-home treats. It's super great. Anyway, if you want to read the whole thing, here it is.

So that's all. Happy Birthday, Mom. You're great.

Love, Ellen.

One more thing. So on Monday, Sean and I and his brother Brady went to the Motion City Soundtrack concert and it was SO good. We liked both of the openers also and it was great.
here's some vids to check out from all the bands.

The concert started off with The Front Bottoms:

This is a great song and i really like this band and the vid is great. all of it.

Next up was The Henry Clay People:

They're great also. In the band, there are 2 brothers. the older one sings and the younger one looks like a mix between heath ledger and johnny depp. it's crrraaaaaaaaaaazy. anyway.

Finally, the headliner, Motion City Soundtrack:

I think this is one of the ones they played that i liked... anyway.

just thought you might like some music enjoyment. love, ellen.

pudding in my fish sticks

i really think i renamed this blog appropriately because i found out recently that i really like titling them with things that are happening with my food right now because i often eat while i blog.

but that's true. why don't those banquet meal things contain the pudding. now i have chocolatey fish sticks and less pudding. boo. at least it doesn't taste too gross... and the mac is good.

i've been working a lot this week. well... a lot for it being only a part time job... i've got almost 6 hours every day except friday. I clocked out today with 16.24 hours under my belt. honestly, i could handle this every day, probably, but i do like having some 'me time' in the mornings.

So i have this bruise.. it's really like 4 bruises connected. it's really gross. i was considering posting a picture of it but the pictures i took look stupid. but seriously, it's pretty gross looking. people sometimes ask me 'is it your boyfriend?' and i say 'no, it was a stupid spinning seat thing at a park...' and it was. There's this thing that you sit on and it spins around and it looks like this:

artist rendition via microsoft paint

Anyway, I sat on the black part held onto the metal pole for dear life and then this giant that i know named Aaron came and spun the living life right outta me and, i nearly died. not really, but i have a gnarly bruise to show for it. at least the intense nausea that followed has now subsided...

We're gonna feed Reggie tonight. Reggie is Sean's pet snake. He's cute. also, we're listening to vinyl. Sean got a record player the other day and now we listen to it a lot. it's great great great. 

anyway, we're gonna eat some tortellini and then get some Reggie food. the end.

love, Ellen. 

It Abby Birthday!

Since she made fun of me for doing birthday posts, it's some days late. probably more than some. also, i'm lazy and it's blah blah excuse. i know, i know.

Happy Birthday Squish-ter! You're pretty rad and i really hope you like Clueless. and that super awesome tassel-y ball. Sean and I still don't understand how you managed to break the loop and one of the tassels in 15 minutes when we had been playing with it all day and managed to not do any damage... but whatever.

i was looking through my box of memories and stuff and i have a lot a lot of letters from you and i read some of them and they were great. I hope you're having a super killer time at EFY this week and will have the best summer of ever this year.

Love, Ellen.

and a goofy picture just to top it all off.

now back to our regular scheduled programming. summer is... great. i'm really having a hard time with work and enjoying it because it's just.. annoying and there's nothing to do. and next week i'm picking up about 10 extra hours. which will definitely help with the money problems.. awesome.

Sean and I are going to go see Jay Mohr this weekend at Wiseguys. Should be fun, i think.
I feel like wearing a summery dress today but it's only 59 degrees. i'll probably wear it tomorrow.
okay, i'm gonna go shower and get ready.
Hope your week is fabulous!
Love, (for realz this time) Ellen

I've got flour on my keyboard...

true story. remember how Sean and I like making fun desserts sometimes? yeah, we were making cream cheese brownies on tuesday and i accidentally stirred the flour in vigorously and got some on my keyboard. it's fine.. i'll just wipe it off with a cotton swab sometime when i'm not lounging on my bed.

I seriously need to start doing more interesting things in the mornings besides watching hulu and playing words with friends... I wish i had some motivation or interesting things to do. I could always start exercising or doing art or writing something... I don't know. If you have any really good ideas, lemme know. Either that or i'll just try the drawing scene again. To be honest, that will probably happen.

Oh, so last weekend, Sean and I, in our spontaneous nature, up-and-went to Moab for the day. We did weird things like hiking and being outside. we were all exercise-y and whatnot. It was great. Sean took a lot of neat-o pictures and i climbed a really high mountain thing and it was scary. It was just really cool.

Also, I'm hoping this post shoots me to over 3000 views. awesome.

I've noticed a lot lately about how insanely annoying all drivers are. There's this crazy switch-over traffic light deal over by UVU and i am too afraid to use it. so i take a better way now that Geneva's open. Seriously, though. It's horrifying. And then, last night at dinner with my family, we were talking about it and then how Walmart will start carrying airbags and abby (her crazy witty self.. darn/bless her...) said 'I can't wait until the airbag blowout sale!' and i was all aaauugghhhh.... okay. that's funny..
and then after dinner, we went to Macy's and I bought new chuck taylor's! they're purple and were on sale for 22 dollars something. blim blam. I'm so excited to wear them to work. And then we stopped by Ross on our way home and Sean bought a new pair of PF Flyers.

Here's Mine

Here's His
(Photo courtesy of Sean's instagram)

We're so cool. Also, there's this neat-o spedito new picture-editing website called picmonkey.com and i really like it. it has some instagram-y features and it also lets you do things like texturize and awesome. it's cool. that's where i edited the photo of my shoes. because my camera is crappy and it was all i could do to fix it.

I think that's all for now. keep an eye out for a birthday post to my 'sis'. i only say that because a couple days ago she texted Sean and said 'This is Abby, Ellen's sis..' something something and we both laughed. oh, sis. 

okay, have a fab weekend. 

love, E