2 weeks and 4 days

Golly! The time is flying by! I'm so excited. :) We've been doing a lot of the final preparations for the wedding lately, and I'm really very pleased with everything. The main thing we need to do (besides paint the gazebo) is make the cake. We made the bottom layer a few weeks ago, planning to make the whole thing out of rice crispy treats, but after it alone took 9 batches, we decided to shell out the money and buy Styrofoam cake forms. I also bought a damask [pronounced dam-isk with a long A, like the swear word] stencil and frosting spray paint, so the bottom layer will have that around it, the middle layer will just have a yellow ribbon around the base, and the top layer will have that quilted look that they do with fondant with little edible pearls at each intersection. The whole thing will be white (imagine that) with yellow damask and ribbons. And yellow flowers on top.
Yesterday my mom and I went and met with the florist and designed my bouquet and all the other flowers. :) My bouquet will just be all yellow calla lilies with navy blue ribbon around the stems, much like this one:


For the centerpieces I think I'll get a bunch of tall, skinny vases and put lemons in them, with a single long stem of asiatic lilies in them.
My mom and I also went to the distribution center and got my temple clothes and stuff. I'm so excited! I go through the temple in a week and 4 days. Golly! :)
Now we just need to find Justin a job, and find a place to live after the Roosendaals when school starts. Any suggestions?

P.S. I also want to try the hairstyle above. It probably won't work, but it's worth a try, right?

Holy Hannah!

I just realized that we're getting married in 7 weeks. 1 month and 23 days! I'm so excited I can hardly contain it. :) We ordered invitations the other day, I decided on a bouquet, we've got the cake mostly figured out, secured a groom, my mom has the reception planned, we finished the guest list, called the temple, got a sealer, have a place to live for a few months after we get married (which happens to be my dream home), we got engagements and a few pre-bridals taken, got a band for the reception, and lots of other stuff that I don't remember. PLUS!!! Justin moves down in 3 weeks! Yay!!! We've been so blessed. :) Life is fantastic.

The Toquerville Town Hall

Today I happened to flip through one of those free newspaper things that comes in the mail every week that no one ever looks at I noticed an article about the Toquerville town hall. It was about how the city council had decided to make the town hall into a museum. The historic society was working with them on it. They said that people in town need a place to keep their historic artifacts. So if they want a museum, why can't they just build one? I find it a perfect waste of a beautiful building to turn it into a museum. They said they want to do it because it's too small to house all of the people at town gatherings. So have them somewhere else. They said that when they held the Miss Toquerville pageant there last year some of the girls had a hard time dancing on the stage. So don't have it there. Ever since I can remember the pageant has been held in the high school, anyway. Several years ago when they built the city offices they restored the town hall so it could be used by the public. So why all of a sudden to they not want us to be able to use it? Buildings need to be used and loved. Making it a museum would be a complete waste. Any differing or similar opinions?
In case any one is interested, the next city council meeting where they're discussing this is on April 8th. Next Thursday. My parents are going to fight it. They'd be grateful for any help they could get.
Cheers! :)

Save the Date!

Everyone put it on your calendars!!! :)

So...this whole long-distance thing is the pits.

Pictures!

My sister in law, Jenny, took some pictures of us while Justin was down last weekend. :)

A little update...

Well I think it's about time for an update on the life of Susan Vilate. I've been so busy that I haven't had anything to write about. I was just going to school and working. Same thing every day. Then a few weeks before school ended for the semester lots of things happened. I started getting to know Justin Nuckles better and discovered that I really liked him a whole lot, I got a raise and promotion at work, and I auditioned for and received a full tuition scholarship for the spring semester. :)
And now I'm engaged. :)

Justin Nuckles is the most amazing person I've ever met. Ever. I love him so much. I keep wondering how I got lucky enough to get him. He's absolutely perfect for me in every way. I'm the luckiest girl alive. :)
I'll give you a little synopsis of our relationship: He's two grades older than me. We were in high school together and I had the biggest crush on him my freshman and sophomore year. :) He was in my orchestra class playing viola (he's incredibly talented. Plays the viola, guitar, a little mandolin and banjo, and sings. Amazing. :) ). I was always too shy to talk to him much, though. So he graduated, went to USU for a year, then went to Alabama on his mission. He came back over the summer and we went on a few dates before he went back to USU in August. That was that, I figured. There was nothing for a few months, then he texted me one day and said that my aunt said hi. Pretty random. But we talked for a bit after that, and texted a little more regularly sporadic. Then he came home for Thanksgiving and we spent an evening together, during which I decided that he was simply the most amazing person ever. Apparently he liked me a little, too, because we decided to talk a little more often and get to know each other a little better. He went back to Logan and things happened, time passed, and then he came home for Christmas break. We saw each other the day after he got back, and we were pretty much inseparable from that time forth (well, except for the fact that he left for Logan yesterday. That'll cramp our style). We quickly fell in love. He proposed on Friday, and I haven't been able to stop smiling since (not that I really could before then). :) This is the most beautiful ring I've ever seen. I'm so excited to be Justin's wife. :) I love him. :) I'm the luckiest girl ever. :)