6 Fast but Amazing Months

It is hard to believe that it will already be mine and Jon's 6 month anniversary this coming Monday on the 28th! Seriously I feel like it was just yesterday that we got married. We have had some great times being married together and I will tell of a couple memories.

I remember the first time coming home to our apartment after our honey moon. What an experience this was. Jon was telling me of our next door neighbors on our way to our apartment and the way he was describing them to me, had me believing that he was making it up just to try to tease me about where we chose to live. He was telling me that he met our neighbors but he was not sure if we had two girl neighbors, or if one of them was supposed to be a boy. He went on to saying that he thought that one was a boy but "he" wore girl clothes and painted his toenails and fingernails like a girl would and also had long hair. If that was not bad enough, he told me that this "boy" only had one eye but does not cover the hole in his head up with a patch and looks like a hippy. Then he told me that the other person was a girl, but very hefty and toothless. I just laughed off the descriptions, but when we got to the apartment, we walked up the stairs and our neighbors were outside and to my dismay... he was telling the truth about them! I almost started to cry because everything that Jon had told me of our neighbors was true! We live next to a one eyed cross dresser who lives with a toothless lady who both need a lesson in hygiene. They smoke like a chimney and every day I head "his" annoying smokers hack. So nasty! What have we gotten ourselves into is what went through my mind upon seeing them.

We have not had any problems with them for the past 6 months other than hearing his annoying hacking all the time, and them always wanting to have a conversation with us when we are leaving or coming into the apartment so that is good. Good ol Sarah, and Annette. lol

About a month after being part of our ward, we were called to be Cub scout leaders over the Webelo group. I gotta tell you, working with these boys is fun but trying some nights. For the most part we have a lot of fun with the boys. They make me laugh a lot and they are all really smart, but they are young and have so much energy that it is hard to keep their minds working on one project for an hour every Wednesday! One night they were so rambunctious that I told them that if they did not calm down they were going to have to run laps around the church. To my surprise, they all wanted to do it. So they ran laps. I have to remember to do that every time before we do our activities! It made it so much easier to teach them! Gotta love those boys. They are always such an adventure.

Since we have been married, we have probably only spent about 4 or 5 weekends here in Tucson. We spend many weekends traveling to friends and families houses so that we could get away from Tucson and the crazy people that live in it.  I constantly see drunk people walking down the street trying to show off their "stunts" to the passing cars. Some stunts are so rediculus that you can not help but laugh at them. One guy looked so drunk and he was waiting at an intersection to walk across the street and to keep him entertained while waiting, he decided to throw this rock up in the air and catch it. Well he did a really good job at throwing the rock up, but when it came to catching it, his percentage was 0%. He dropped every one although he did put up a good but very funny effort to catch it.

Jon and I have had so many good weekends though spending time with family and we are thankful that they still put up with us and letting us visit them all the time. I am becoming a better cowboys wife by learning how to ride horses and round up cattle when we go to different peoples ranches over the weekend. I still have a LONG way to go but I am working on it.

Life is so great being married to Jon! I love him with all my heart and am hoping that this statement will hold true after this thanksgiving break up in Bagdad, Arizona. We are going out to his families ranch to do some work and from the stories I have heard, it is not an easy place to be. The temperature high is going to be 65 and the two nights that we are staying there is going to be 40 degrees with no heater. I am just glad that my parents have taught me how to camp before and it is not anything new to me. But again, I hope that I will still love Jon with all my heart after this weekend. JK I know I will, and I look forward to all the fun times we have in the future together!

Day 6- A Song to Match Your Mood

Believe by Josh Groban. I know Thanksgiving has not officially passed yet, but I am way into the Christmas feeling now. Only 2 more days to go before I can officially listen to Christmas music without feeling guilty about it. YAY! I just love the feeling of Christmas... being able to cuddle up into blankets as you drink hot chocolate and listen to Christmas music in front of the Christmas tree! Perfect!

Day 5- What makes you different from everyone else

What makes me different from many people is that I am a tall red head. Not many girls are as tall as I am and then you add the red hair to that and I am totally unlike many people. What also makes me different than anyone else is that I am the only one who is and ever will be married to Jonathan Brimhall. :) My family would say that I am also unlike many people because I have a weird but very fun personality once I am able to open up to people I am hanging out with. I love my life and being different than anyone else. :)

Day 4 – Your favorite photograph of your best friend.

I am going to cheat on this one because I have many best friends. :)

Me and Amanda... What can I say. We are destined to be best friends since heaven. Me and my sister always do everything together and have such a fun time acting weird together. She has been a part of every important thing in my life and will always be there for me  when I need someone to talk to or make me feel better after a hard time in my life. I love her so much.

:D Tori. Tori is also my sister and honestly she is such a fun sister to have. We love to sit and make funny faces at the camera and just have a blast together. I love to talk to her because she always has the funniest things to say. She makes me laugh all the time and I love it! I am glad I have an eternity friend like her. She is amazing!

And then my brother Jaden. Wow we have the best times together. If people watch us interact together today, they would have never guessed that we never got along when we were younger. I guess some miracle happened because we have great times together. He does the craziest things and sometimes I cant help but laugh at what he does. If you ever need someone to make you laugh or to make the day fun, make sure you hang out with my brother. It is never a dull moment with him around. 

My family is definitely my best friends. I am so blessed to have them as my eternal friends. I love them so much and even if they don't want to be, they are my friends forever. :) It is great. 

Day 3 – Your idea of the perfect first date.

Honestly I kinda wanted to skip this one because I will never be going on a first date of my life again. Most of my first dates with a guy were kinda the same thing... Eat, go out to a movie, talk a little more about ourselves in front of the door, then eventually say goodbye and walk inside. That is a pretty typical first date. But then I started thinking and decided since I will not be going on any first dates again I would come up with a really fun date that would be highly unlikely to happen just for the fun of it.

It would be so much fun to be able to get a bunch of couples together and all ride together up to six flags and split the cost of gas with everyone. Then spend as long as we want there at the park. There at the park, you will be able to enjoy yourself, open up and not be shy. Then while you are waiting for the ride in the lines you will be able to have that time to talk and get to know your date. This way you are having fun with your date and other couples while having the time also to get to know them. Plus, it gives you a reason to hold their hand either on scary rides, or walking through heavy crowds so you do not get split up from each other. That would definitely help the awkward first hand hold stage. Haha that would be so much easier than sitting and watching a movie and not know what is going on in the first half of the movie because for the first half you are constantly thinking about weather you want to hold their hand or not and who is going to make the first move if you do hold hands. Then when you finally hold hands, you cant pay attention to the rest of the movie either because you are holding a guys hand for the first time and are worried that maybe his hand is not comfortable or thinking about what to do if your hands start to sweat. That was all so awkward. So this way would be a lot easier for that situation too.

I don't know, I am just a roller coaster fanatic and would absolutely love that as my first date with someone so that they could see how much I love riding them. And if he does not like the roller coasters, then that would be a deciding factor on weather or not I go on another date with him. haha just kidding. I would not say no just because he hates them but that would be funny. :D

Day 2 - Your favorite movie

I am a sucker for those movies that have to do with football teams. I do not know why but I end up loving every football movie there is made. "Leatherheads" was so funny, then there is "Remember the Titans" and "Radio", and then "We are Marshal"... All of those are great movies! But the one that I love the most out of all the movies is "The Blind Side" I love the message it has about courage and honor. If you do not remember this is what it says...

"Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake, but you're not supposed to question adults, or your coach or your teacher, because they make the rules. Maybe they know best, but maybe they don't. It all depends on who you are, where you come from. Didn't at least one of the six hundred guys think about giving up, and joining with the other side? I mean, valley of death that's pretty salty stuff. That's why courage it's tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why you're doing something. I mean any fool can have courage. But honor, that's the real reason for you either do something or you don't. It's who you are and maybe who you want to be. If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good. I think that's what the writer was saying, that you should hope for courage and try for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some, too. "

I guess when I watched this movie and I heard this quote, I was in a time in my life that I needed to hear it the most because ever since I had listened to it, I have never been able to stop thinking about the movie and the message it gives. I loved it and will always be able to say this is one of my favorite movies. It also has the humor in the movie to make it even better. I just love it!!! I wish I could meet Michael Oher! That would be so great.

Day 1 - Your favorite song

First of all I have to say that this question is a very unfair question to ask! There are so many different types of music out there and I love all different songs for different reasons. There are songs that I will never ever get tired of and sing to knowing all the words, but there is one song that sticks out to me right now the most. I am a sucker for country music, I would say that is the music I listen to 99% of the time which drives my mom crazy, and since I am going to be married in 13 days one song has stuck out to me a lot. It is called "Then" by Brad Paisley. The lyrics make me so happy every time I hear them especially the chorus...

And now you're my whole life

now you're my whole world

I just can't believe the way I feel about you, girl

Like a river meets the sea,

stronger than it's ever been.

We've come so far since that day

And I thought I loved you then

This is exactly how I feel about my fiancée and this is the way he makes me feel. I do feel like I am the most important thing in his life and I am so excited for the many great future moments together that will make us fall deeper and deeper in love! I love him so much and am so glad that he picked me to be his wife and I am so glad that Brad Paisley has made such a sweet song! Here is a link to the song if you want to go listen to it. I highly recommend it! It almost makes me cry listening to it because it is so sweet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AtaZ_NU_tU

The Thirty "Week" Challenge!

Ok, I saw my friend/former room mate starting this 30 day challenge, and kinda wanted to do it too because it looks like fun and it will help me write about things on my blog. I am going to change the name of the challenge though for my sake because I do not usually get on every day. I am going to change the name to the 30 week challenge. I am so excited to start the challenge. :) Enjoy it and I challenge you all to go out and do this challenge too. I want to get to know you better and you doing this challenge will allow me to get to know you and it will be great! So here it is... The 30 "week" challenge.

Day 1 - Your favorite song

Day 2 - Your favorite movie

Day 3 – Your idea of the perfect first date.

Day 4 – Your favorite photograph of your best friend.

Day 5 – What makes you different from everyone else?

Day 6 – A song to match your mood.

Day 7 – A photo of an animal you’d love to keep as a pet.

Day 8 – Your dream wedding.

Day 9 – A photo of the item you last purchased.

Day 10 – A photo of your favorite place to eat.

Day 11 – A picture of your favorite memory

Day 12 – Your current relationship, if single discuss how single life is.

Day 13 – A picture of your favorite band or artist

Day 14 – A TV show you’re currently addicted to.

Day 15 – Something you don’t leave the house without.

Day 16 – Short term goals for this month and why

Day 17 – How you hope your future will be like.

Day 18 – 5 things that irritate me

Day 19 – A picture of something you want to do before you die

Day 20 – The meaning behind your blog name.

Day 21 – A photo of something that makes you happy.

Day 22 – A favorite letter you've recieved from someone.

Day 23 – 15 facts about you.

Day 24 – A photo of something that means a lot to you.

Day 25 – Who are you?

Day 26 – A photo of somewhere you want to go.

Day 27 – What kind of person attracts you?

Day 28 – In this past month, what have you learned?

Day 29 – Something you could never get tired of doing.

Day 30 – A photograph of yourself today + three good things that have happened in the past 30 days

I DONE WITH SCHOOL! Wow the last week of school was driving me insane. Let me just say that I am so done with the room mate drama! It is so hard to live in a house or four girls whose hormones are always out of whack. I am so glad that I will never have to go and live in that type of environment again! I get to spend the rest of my life living with my soon to be husband and not have to worry about all the hormone problems I had to deal with in Thatcher. I thought it would be harder for me to say good bye to Thatcher when I left but I was so excited to return to gilbert back to my home. I had been feeling so homesick the last few weeks so when it came time to move out I was so excited. I almost had a hard time sleeping the night before because I was so excited to move out.

My brother had come up to help me move out thank goodness! It went a lot faster being able to have him come and help me lode everything into the car and tie everything down. We had a lot of fun doing it too. I think we laughed so much that day that my abs started to hurt the day after. He is such a goof and I love him for that. Thank you Jaden for being my little brother. It took a few hours for me to get everything packed into the cars, but after that, we stopped to eat lunch and then started our 2 and a half hour ride home! YAY!!!!

I was so happy to have been able to go home Tuesday because my little sister, Tori, had made first chair in her orchestra class! I was so proud of her and that achievement that I wanted to be to the concert so bad that night. So I was so happy when all my finals were able to be over by 10 that morning so that I could go home and see the concert. Let me tell you, the concert was so amazing and not a waste of time at all! I knew it would not be, but it was so great to be able to see my sister in first chair and listen to a high school orchestra who sounded so amazing! We are blessed at Highland High School to have such talented teachers who can help form us into a well rehearsed orchestra. I miss my high school years because of the orchestra program!

For the rest of the week, I have just been taking it easy doing things that I want to do, and doing them in my own time. It is great to finally have time to sit and do nothing and not worry about when things are due for school. Unfortunately I have to start school again July 11th. But after 20 months of this schooling, I will be done with school for life! Well if I want to be. I will at least be to where I want to be for a career so that will be nice to get to.

My little sister and I were being funny this morning and made a bunch of funny faces and took pictures. Our inspiration for the fat lip was all dedicated to a friend I had made while going to school in Thatcher. He was my home teacher for a couple years and was just a great friend to me the whole time I was there. But he had gotten stung on the lip by a wasp so here is the picture that we took from that inspiration... (sorry for the sideways pics. If you just tilt your head to the right a little, stick out your tongue, jump up and down on one foot and go cross eyes, you may be able to see the picture the way it was supposed to be. :D)

And just for the fun of it, we made just a random fun picture.

Oh me and my little sister have fun times together. I am so glad she is my sister. I lover her to pieces! I have such a great family all together. Thank you mom and dad for this great family. I would not be who I was without all of you guys. I am looking forward to enjoying the rest of my summer. 15 days of not being married!! I can not wait to be married and start my life with my fiancée. I love him so much! Life is just so great right now and I would not change a thing. I hope you are having the same thoughts about your life. If not, give me a call so we can change that.

Reflection

I am still here and single for a little while longer! I get married in a little more than one month. My how time passes so quickly. It has even been almost a year since my sister has left for her mission. I am so proud of my sister and how strong she is. This mission has been so great for her in the spiritual way as well as the physical and mental way. She left as one person and now has been able to go out serve the lord and find herself again. She has become such a strong spirited person and she is so happy. She has told me that going on this mission has been the best decision of her life and will never regret it. Not in a million years. I am so happy she is having such a great time and can not wait to see her again in December... Man, that still feels like it is forever away! I would add some pictures of her on this blog, but the pictures are on my moms computer in Gilbert about 2 and a half hours from where I am. So that will have to wait.

I can not believe though that at the same time I think time is going slow, I also feel like it is flying by. It was just five months ago that I first got engaged and now there is only one month before I get married! Wow. I do not know if it is normal, but I think I am getting a little nervous now. Don't get me wrong. I know I am marrying the right man. He is always going to make me happy and he makes me feel like I am worth more than life itself all the time, so I am not nervous or scared that I am marrying the wrong person. I am just nervous because I am going to start a life with someone and it is not just going to be me that I am taking care of anymore. I keep thinking that he better get over his nervousness quickly because I am going to need a stable support as time gets closer. tehehe. I really want to be a great wife to this man because I love him so much and I just hope that I will be able to show him just how much he means to me. I can not imagine life without him and luckily for me, I will never have to live without him. He is my lucky catch and I am never letting him go.

My mom and I are so close to being ready for my wedding. We have basically everything ordered and ready to go. We just need the BIG DAY to get here so that we can set all the last details up. OHHH I am so giddy about this day I almost can not sit still. It is like I am a little girl waiting for Christmas to come. Only this is a billion times better than Christmas so it is that much more exciting. I can not believe I am able so sleep at night. I can hear the wedding bells getting louder and louder every day. I can not wait so that I can put pictures up of everything from the reception. It is so hard to keep things a secret and not be able to show everyone what I am doing for the reception. But I want this to be a surprise and it is going to be great!

I finished one of my 4 online classes today and surprisingly I did pretty good. I was a little nervous about taking online classes because I have never taken them before. Let me tell you it is a lot of work to make sure you are actually learning the material but it is so much more relaxed than being in the actual classroom doing the work. Now time to get the rest of this semester over with so that I can graduate as a proud student of EAC! I can not wait for that day and am so excited to start my schooling at Pima Medical Institute in July to become an Occupational Therapist Assistant. This is going to be great!

This is my fantastic life lately. I love you all and hope life is going as well for you as it is going for me. I am a love struck bride and I love it. I can not wait till May 28th! Come celebrate it with me. Trust me, you will have a great time. :)

Wedding Bells anyone?

I am so happy to say to the world that... I AM GETTING MARRIED! The date is set to be May 28th and I am getting married in the Mesa temple at 10:30. Oh I am so excited. Every morning I wake up thinking it is all a dream but then I realize it is not a dream when he calls me on his way to work. Oh I love this man. He makes me feel like the luckiest girl in the world! My finance's name is Jonathan Brimhall. Can you believe my name is going to be Tessa Brimhall? It makes me so excited. When I write out my name as Tessa Brimhall, I get all giddy inside and want to shout out to the whole world how happy and lucky I am. Many people have been asking me what my plans are for the wedding and I want to keep a lot of it a secret so that everyone is surprised when they come. My mom and I have come up with some pretty great ideas though and can not wait for this to happen so we can all have the time of our lives. Since people are asking me for some details, I will be nice this one time and give you a little hint as to what is coming up.

Well, the first hint is that my colors are Light topaz blue, dark plum purple, and a light milk chocolate brown. Then the second hint is that the wedding is going to be western themed. We picked this theme out because for one, I have always wanted to do a western theme since I was little, and then I was fortunate enough to find that my true love is a cowboy. So I have a perfect excuse to throw a western theme wedding. I am so happy!

Now you have to come to my reception and see what else we have planned out. It will be such a fun night and there will be a great dessert there. I am so excited. Plus my dress is so pretty and I can not wait to show it off and show off the wonderful man I am going to be married to. I can not wait for May 28th at 10:30 A.M. It is going to be the best day of my whole life! I love this man with all my heart and can not wait to spend eternity with him.