Wisdom teeth and other random things...

So I’m at work at the Moa on a Monday night and it is surprisingly dead. However something interesting did just happen. A mother and daughter were in here and saw that we sold the painting “Premier Chagrin” as it was hanging on the wall. The daughter was so excited to find out we sold it and the mother offered to buy it for her as a birthday, when I pulled out her a print from the draw she starting crying!!! She thought it was so beautiful and happy to have this painting she cried! I’ve never had that happen before, but it made me happy that I could serve them.

Anyhow, today Jeremy met me for his lunch brake and took me out to Wendy’s. I just got a baked potato, but it was rather good, and made me remember how cheap and easy they are to make that now I want to buy some potatoes. Well the point of this story is that we were sitting there eating and Jeremy is just looking at me and he says…”hun, you’re really hot”, so I say thanks, and then he says, “Your vain on your eye lid matches your necklace” ?!?
It makes me laugh just thinking about it now, I asked why on earth he thought that was a compliment and he said he was just noticing colors! Men are ridiculous sometimes.

Well, as for my wisdom teeth, the bottom two are coming through and they are kind of bugging me. I’m pretty sure they are coming though wonky so have to go and get them taken out or something, but the prospect of spending what little money we have on that is rather annoying. Plus I don’t even like the thought of going to have them taken out, stuff like that scares me, it was a big deal for me this summer when they had to take my blood. So I really hope they just come through straight and I can just leave them.

As for school, for the first time ever I’m confused on what I want to do. I came out here knowing that I wanted a BFA, most likely to come back to England to become an art teacher. Then I went to the Getty in LA freshman year and knew that I wanted to do art restoration, that it was my calling in life. Then since getting married, I can’t quite decide what I want to do. Do I want to just get a BA instead and graduate early so we can move to sunny California? Or do I want to stay an extra year to get the BFA? Do I want to stay and extra 1 to 2 years after that to become a high school teacher included in my undergrad. Or do I want to move back to England to do art restoration. I feel really lame, because I’ve always disliked those art students who didn’t know what they wanted to do, and now I’m one of them!!
Jeremy is pretty willing to let me do what ever I want, which was really important to me, as I didn’t want to feel tied down.
I have always remembered how Marjorie Hinckley, Gordon B. Hinckley’s wife, when asked why she loves her husband, said that “He has always allowed me to fly.”
But right now I’m sitting on a wall, not quite knowing where to fly to?

Well, that’s the update for today. My necklace matches the vain on my eye lid, so all is well because I match!

Jer's Wave...

Jeremy has been asking me to paint him a wave since the day I met him, so I finally did it from a cool poster that he had from Hawaii. I'm in a oil painting class in which we are learning to use layers and glazes to create depth. Under the dark blue on the right are patches of black that are then painted in a thin layer of blue so that the dark can be seen as if it were within the wave. And if you're confused by the white shapes at the bottom, they are sun spots that you get when you take a photo, I thought it was an interesting contrast. 

Hello Magazine...

Here's what my dad said about it all...

"Tue 27th Jan'09 - today's UK version of HELLO Magazine (the Presidential Inauguration edition), pg113 featuring pictures from Jeremy and Naomi's Wedding in San Diego 20th Dec'08.
We thought many of their official pics were incredible and so sent them to HELLO, their comments back:"We have featured two pictures in this week's issue, the photos were fantastic. Your daughter's wedding does stand out from the rest though because they are particularly great shots."
We did send in plenty of photo's of the San Diego LDS Temple, but I guess they were more impressed with the sunset beach shots and choose these.
Editorial copy on the feature say this:
Jeremy Paul and Naomi DeightonJeremy and Naomi were married at the San Diego Latter-Day Saint Temple in California on 20 December 2008. "The photographs reflect the perfect day for the perfect couple," says the father of the bride, John"
(Actually that last sentence was composed by Andria, she's better with words than I.)"

Bridal Shower!

So tonight was my bridal shower. As I'm getting married in 16 days!

Ma'ila my roommate made this Man cake for me, and Ashley my friend from uni made me a bunch of mini bannoffe pies. I lived with her for about two weeks in the spring before I moved to California, so on my birthday she learnt how to make me bannoffe pie and has become quite the pro. 

There were also some british treats Chelsea surprised me with. The chocolate fingers just make me think of Family Home Evening and how fast my family can get through a packet! 

Here's me trying to eat all the chocolate fingers before anyone arrives so I don't have to share them! Also Steph dug out her vail for me to wear, and chelsea gave me the feather thing, I did start off by wearing it around my neck, but the feathers were kind of itchy. 

And this is the punch Steph made with limes in, which made me think of jeremy, as he loves lime. 

This is cutie baby Reagan who joined us for the shower. She's my new niece, which is pretty cool that I'm going to be Auntie Omi. 

Anyhow, onto the shower, we played some games. To start of with we played this game in which i had to answer questions that jeremy had already given the answer to and for every answer I got wrong I had to put this big piece of gum in my mouth. I only had to do about four pieces, but they were big and it was hard to chew. I quite like games like this because jeremy and I are pretty good at them. Mainly because we both like to talk a lot, and jeremy has a really good memory for the most random things about me. However one of the questions was what was Jeremy's favourite toy growing up, and I answered a stick, because  I know that him and his brothers would play with sticks and pretend they were guns, but in fact it was a transformer he got for his 10th birthday.

 

That's not my tongue, but all the gum filling up my mouth!

After that game chelsea handed out sweets to everyone and they had to give me marriage advice using the name of the sweets, this was Tawnee's advice! 

Then the girls had to draw my wedding dress, but with the paper on their heads, and I got to judge the best drawing. 

After the games was present time. And I got to rip apart this pinata which was filled with fun stuff which I won't disclose at this time!  

I also got some lovely gifts from the girls and my sister in laws, so thanks ladies for a fun night! 

Thanksgiving Break.

So to my shame I have been awful at remembering to take photos. And this is the only photo i have from thanksgiving dinner.

 

Jake, Jeremy's brother smoked this turkey for hours, it was sooo good, and I'm loving the left overs we got given. Jake and Laurie invited us to go with them to Laurie's parents and they were so lovely. And I really liked the cranberry sauce, it reminded me of this cranberry sauce we got from harrods one year for christmas, it was years ago, but I've never forgotten how good it was.  Anyhow, I'm sad I don't have any other pictures, but it was fun. After dinner Jake helped me over come my fear of kick back by shooting an air rifle with me. I actually aimed and shot a leaf we set as a target. Jake also taught me how so shot from laying on the floor so that i could keep my hands more stable. I felt like lara croft! 

Well after shooting we ate some desert, Jeremy made this chocolate and banana pudding thing. We were asked to bring something, and I never got round to it, and I was really sad, so jeremy fixed it by quickly mixing up this desert. Jeremy is definitely the better cook out of the two of us.

The guys watched and bit of American football, and then Braveheart was on TV, it was edited, so a little less blood and guts in it, and still such a great film.

That was pretty much our thanksgiving, but I'm still enjoying the left over turkey from it. Today Jeremy surprised me at work with the best blooming sandwich ever.  It had the turkey,  tomato, cheese, egg and avocado. It was just so huge, but so good!

The night before Thanksgiving we went over to Jordan and Alyssa's to eat apple crumble and play settlers. Jeremy and I had never played before, and to be honest I thought the game looked boring. O how wrong I was. We played three games till gone midnight. And guess what! I won all three games! Jeremy was so annoyed. I have always known that he is competitive, but he was so funny, well i thought he was funny, but really he was just frustrated that he was trying so hard to win but i kept beating him. I bet even when he reads this it will bring back bad memories for him!  he he he, love ya hun! So settlers will defiantly be a game we will have to get in our family cupboard! 

Well the week before thanksgiving is the holy war between The U of U and BYU. Sadly we lost the game, but we sure had a lot of fun watching it. A big group of us all went up to Salt lake City to watch the game in the Sky Box. It's a restaurant that has stadium seating and 3 big screen TV's with all you can eat buffet. So you can watch the game and eat at the same time. The atmosphere is a lot of fun though, because the  fans in the restaurant are a mix between U of U and BYU, so there is a lot of tension. It was sad that we lost, but we kind of saw it coming as they have just played better than us. Plus we're not that sad that they won, because it means they get to go play in the Bowl, which means we get money because we're in the some conference as them. It's like half a million BYU gets, so not too many people are complaining. 

This is us with Josh and Step, and baby Reagan is behind the red glass, you can just see her head! 

Jeremy really like his new BYU hat which you can see in the pic. Well i presume he likes it as he has been wearing it a lot! 

Guns and hikes...

So one saturday morning jeremy and I went with his old roommate Russ and his friends to go shoot shot guns up in the canyons. However I have a fear of the kick back when you shoot a shot gun. So this video to my shame captured me being a whimp, but finally shooting the gun. 

Jeremy and I also went on a hike up to some hot springs in Spainish Fork. it's about an hour hike to get to them. Here's a lovely picture of the trail. 

 

Pretty much the whole hike follows this river through the valley, there was this broken tree, so Jeremy being a man had to go cross it. Picture below demonstrates Jeremy's manliness, lol. 

By the time we made it up to the hot springs it was dark, there are 4 or five up there all right next to each other, but this is a picture of the one we went to. The water comes out really hot from under those rocks, but there are parts were the water is cooler, so you just move around until you find the right temperature for you, it's pretty cool, but it smells so bad. It's stinks of sulfur, but after a while you forget about the smell, until when you get home and you realise you still smell so bad! 

I love the whole world...