A lot has changed. For starters, I am now a health science major with an emphasis in health promotion. I was an education major, but decided to change because my instructor and a teacher I was paired up with for summer school gave me a review that I would not be an effective teacher due to being shy, soft spoken, and not being organized with my lessons (I depended too much on my lesson plans). I also did not know what to do in tough situations. Plus, I really don't like the pay for everything a teacher does and I do not want to take papers home to grade and spend time doing lesson plans. What I always imagined with my career was, I could come home and enjoy my family and not have to worry about work. So now I am a health science major and I want to be a health educator or even a wellness coordinator (they are pretty much the same thing).
Because of my new major, I am taking 13 credits online which sucks. Online classes are harder and have a lot more work since you are given deadlines and have to do classwork plus homework and not have a teacher teach you. The teacher is there to assist you if you have any problems. Right now Anatomy and Physiology is kicking my butt with learning the skeleton system and you need to know more than the bone names.
Another thing that has changed is I am married! I got married to my best friend and the love of my life on August 23rd in the Rexburg temple. It was the happiest day of my life and honestly I loved the sealing the most compared to the reception and even before my wedding day I knew I would love the sealing more. Once I was engaged to Taylor all I really wanted was to be married to him in the temple for all time and eternity and I really didn't care about the reception. I just cared more about the temple.
Our wedding started with Taylor waking up I think around 5:00 or 5:30 in the morning to go to the temple with my grandfather. I then was supposed wake up around 6:30 or 6:45 am, but I was a little too excited and woke up at 6:00 am, so I just got up and did my make up. I then needed to get into my Sunday's best which was a white t-shirt under my yellow maxi dress and then my white cardigan. I then proceeded to put my veil into my dress bag and as I was zipping my dress bag up, the zipper got caught in my veil and got stuck. Yay! Lucky me! Yeah, well I really wanted to cry and kind of went in panic mode. I was mostly scared that I would have a huge hole in my veil. But, my mother-in-law and I finally got my veil unstuck and there was a really small hole, which was not noticeable unless you looked very hard. I then went to the beauty college in Rexburg to get my nails painted and my hair done. I decided on yellow nail polish and my hair half up and half down curled. However, I was a little nervous having a half up and half down hairdo because when I was on my way to my appointment it was raining pretty good and I was afraid that it would rain all day and spoil the day. Anyway, I had Taylor and my grandfather come and get me after my hair appointment and when they got me it actually stopped raining. We then went to McDonald's for a fast breakfast since Taylor and I had to be at the temple at 11:00, which was an hour before we would be married in the temple. We then went to the temple and had to verify some stuff and then sat in one of the rooms called the Celestial room and we just sat there until some people got us to go to the sealing rooms. As Taylor and I sat in the Celestial room, I just felt really happy and at peace with my decision to marry Taylor. We finally went into the sealing room and were married for all time and eternity. The sealing was the best part of the day and was I think the happiest moment where I was happy and really peaceful. It took two people to get me in my wedding dress due to it being a corset back, so the other bride who was also married at 12 p.m. kind of beat me out of the bridal room. She was supposed to go out of the back doors of the temple and Taylor and I were supposed to go out the front doors, but she told the temple workers no and went out the front door, which made Taylor and I wait a bit before we could go out. When we got outside it was really cloudy and pretty cold for an August day. We were probably on temple grounds for about an hour taking pictures. Once we finished taking pictures, Taylor and I got in his car and went to our apartment (it's actually a townhouse) to pick up some flowers for our reception. Then, we went to Taylor's parents house for a small luncheon and it was really interesting eating in my wedding dress and I had to take a lot of precautions to not get anything on my dress. I was only allowed to water and a sandwich with chips. We then went to our reception and put some tealights into our center pieces really quick and then got ready for our guests. We actually didn't get too many guests due to other people have weddings on the same day and school was about to start a few days later. Most of the night I had to keep fixing the back of dress and had to take my shoes off. My dress got really itchy, so I was really happy to take it off after the reception.
Now we are approaching our two month anniversary (next Thursday) and married life is great. I'm glad I am married to my best friend and get to share a lot of laughs and memories together. Not every moment has been bliss because you have to get use to living with one another and become more selfless, but I really wouldn't change getting married for anything in the world. I am really happy where I am in my life and I know I'll keep on being happy.
In other news, I went to my first scare house on Saturday and I will never again go to one because I was right that I would hate them. I went to this place called the Haunted Mill and it was like an hour long thing. Because of the Haunted Mill I kind of get scared at the night that something will pop out and scare me. There was a lot of times where it was pitch black, times you had to crawl, walk on bridges, and there was a time where you had to walk in a lot of fog. There were a lot of illusions too, like there was one where it looked like you could fall and then a machine pushes you so you think you are falling off the edge. Towards the end I was walking down some steps and was behind Taylor when this thing popped out and got super close to me and had a chainsaw noise and I got really scared and started crying. To be honest, the whole thing made me cry because it was like a nightmare and felt like I was in a horror movie. Needless to say, I am never doing that again and I still hate scare houses and horror movies.
