Cheeky

I want to document the fact that a couple nights ago, I made Brad laugh so much that he kept telling me to stop because his cheeks were getting sore. He was trying to hold his cheeks in and massage them as well it was apparently so painful :) Making him laugh is one of my top three favorite activities. And I love it so much when I am successful! Thank you Brad for making me feel like I am hilarious!

(And speaking of cheeky, I would like to give a shout out to his super cute little cheek dimple. Love it!)

New blog!

I got booted out of my gmail account for several weeks due to a series of unfortunate events that involve a hacker and failing to write down the new password I chose late at night after trying to get google to accept 50 other passwords. That is why I have not posted in so long.

In the meantime, I survived by creating a new email address involving my future new name of Tilley, as well as a new blog. Eventually I will start writing more on the new blog and leave this one behind. Check out bradandrachelletilley.blogspot.com sometime in the next while and add it to your Reader before you forget!

Funnest Ward Activity Ever

Brad's ward had a Halloween dance tonight in the apartment parking garage. It wasn't even my ward activity, but it was the best party ever! Brad is on the activities committee, and so we got the donuts to go with the hot chocolate and cleaned up a little bit afterwards. But we had so much fun.

We dressed up as Mr. and Mrs. Smith, in the suits they wear during their big shoot out at the end. We bought these big, fake, black "automatic" guns from the dollar store that make noise and light up and we wore sunglasses. I thought we looked pretty good! The pictures are on his camera... If you are lucky I will post them later.

We danced for a long time! I was a little surprised because the first interaction I really had with Brad was Dani's black-light dance party birthday party, and I tried to get Brad and his friend Andrew to dance with me, and they made pretty small efforts to dance. So I was surprised tonight when Brad kept pulling me back on the dance floor, but it made me so happy! We can dance our cares away together!

It was so fun dancing together and kind of ignoring everyone else... Who knew that it would be so much fun to go with your pretend and almost spouse? But dance parties are now on the top of our list for activities!

This is an example of one of the many silly moments that make me so happy I am marrying Brad. Another is how much he enjoys watching "She's the Man" with me. He thinks it is hilarious! Yay for marrying someone with the exact same sense of humor as me :)

I'm Getting Married!

(Disclaimer: This post might be the cheesiest thing you have ever read. But I don't care.)
I am engaged! I am so excited! Twelve o'clock on December 18 cannot come soon enough! Oh my. This is the best thing that is ever happened to me in my entire life. Brad is a blessing straight from heaven made just for me. He is the sweetest man I know and my best friend. He is also ridiculously attractive :) I am so so so blessed. I have no idea how I got him, but he actually does know everything about me and loves me a ton anyway. I am totally marrying up.

Brad proposed yesterday by taking me on a picnic. As some of you who know him may be surprised to hear, he sang me a song that we both love about getting married, and that is when I knew he was proposing. I of course started crying. He made me cry harder while he talked about how he decided to marry me because it was so sweet, and then he got down on his knee and I laughed a little because we both knew what I was going to say. If I hadn't been crying I think I would have shouted the word yes instead of just saying it :)

The next surprise was that both of our families were waiting at his house to celebrate and have lunch together. It was so much fun having them all (well not really all, but some) in the same happy room! I love Brad's family and I love my family and the combination was great! I am glad that they got to meet.

Best day of my life thus far. And my favorite part is that the best is yet to come :)

I love Brad so much and am so excited to be with him all the time! I hope that everyone can come to the reception so that you all can meet him!

Assistant Product Manager

The title of this post is my title at my new job that I can't believe I haven't posted about! I have been working at Wencor in Springville, Utah for just over a week now, and so far it has gone well! I am managing their standard and commercial hardware parts. I mainly price the products all day which involves updating the database of new prices (which I choose at my own discretion) bidding on contracts for the hardware pieces, and finding ways to grow the hardware part of Wencor (which means I help find the sales people opportunities and ways to get customers to purchase with us).

I have learned a lot so far. I am improving, even though it is frustrating not being fully up to speed. It is overwhelming to start from scratch again in learning a business (like I had to do with my internship).

However, my manager and team are great, and everyone is really nice. I think they forget that a lot of what they are saying sounds like a foriegn language to me though because of all the acronyms and specific jargon they use like its no tomorrow. I swear my mind is constantly going a mile a minute to try to decipher and then come up with an adequate response.

They bought me a new way nice Thinkpad laptop which is cool and I am going to get a new chair. I also have a cubicle. I don't like having cubicles. It separates everyone way too much. And gives me too much privacy - it is so much more tempting to text. I have started to decorate my cubicle though, so maybe that will improve it. I brought Viola, my plant, when I realized that she would be fine with such little sunlight (the windows in the building are tiny) and I have a classy board that I am going to put pictures on. My manager told me to decorate because it was making him nervous that I wasn't "moving in". He told me he was afraid I wasn't going to stay! How funny. He is a very nice man.

Today the team went to Tuscanos for lunch. I hear they usually only do that type of thing at Christmas. But we went today and Christmas is coming up! Sweet.

August 29, 2010

I just felt like documenting my day because it was really great and because I need it to be on the record. Today was a wonderful day because:

• I woke up and read my scriptures
  
• Went to iHop with my fabulous ex-roommates
  
• Brad and I washed my car
  
• We went to Jamba Juice for half off (he is such the best at getting us free food), and
  
• We picked up a dress that I've been wanting and they happened to still have in my size
• We sneaked into the Riviera for swimming
• Brownies and mint ice cream
• Independence Day (I laughed, and Brad loved it)
  

6 Months

My first reaction to this milestone is, "Have we seriously been dating that long?" My second reaction is, "Haven't we always been dating?" I don't really remember life without him :) It has been an extremely fast and fun 6 months and I've loved it!