A new Adventure in a new Chapter!

Believe it or not i AM Engaged! A new adventure starts for me now!
On Friday February 18th 2011,

about 9 o'clock he popped the question

and it was the first time in my life I was actually..

surprised!

Rewind.

Rusty and I meet for the first time at EFY in Provo, Utah in 2009.

He saw me from afar (i was throwing something away) (on May 27th)
And he thought " I want her" never thought I was the girl he'd get down on his knee for though! I had

just been dumbed and so I was in a weird mood.

That day Kelsi Crotts and I were wearing a bandanna and sunglasses just to be dorks. (who wants to meet their future husband looking like that?!) I was walking back and he yelled the famous first words

"Hey, I like your bandanna!

I said thank you and went back to Kels " Dude, some guy just told me he liked my bandanna" and we laughed.

I thought he was pretty cute and kinda kept my eye on him after that. ( He was wearing a sweat band around his head so he stuck out too)

Later during game night everyone was on the football field and some girl brought her guitar (who does that?!) and asked me to hold it for her so Kels and I were walking across the field when these two boys came up to me and asked me to play a song.

Well i was working on one of my songs and i said sure and sang one verse. Their mouths dropped and One said "will you marry me?" and I was like ah sure! (not really)

but then walked away and turned back they were still looking at me and I said to the other one who yelled at me earlier "call me" with my hand to my ear. He was like what?! how?! and I shrugged and went on my way.

Later that night I went to get a drink and the both of them ran up to me the one I told to call me was like "Hey how am I supposed to call you, if I don't have your number?!" and I turned to him and said " I don't know... you tell me?" ( I made him work for everything and not meaning to but did play hard to get) So he asked for my number and I gave if to him.

He asked my name and told him Jamee then asked his. He replied Rusty. (I'd never heard this name before) and then looked at him and said " No.. really what's your name?" He was like it's Rusty. "Oh" ha (oops.)

Later he text me during pizza night and that was the start of it.
He looked almost the whole next day to find me because I didn't believe he really thought I was pretty and didn't think he knew what I really looked like so I made him find me.

We danced together. I played the guitar for him. We hung out the rest of the week. He thought there was something different about me and He couldn't figure it out but he liked me a lot and couldn't believe how much we could talk and he felt like he could tell me anything.

He worked hard to get a kiss.

Took him three days to get it. After EFY he picked me up from my aunt's house and we hung out with his friends.

That night I finally let him kiss me.

(After I teased him and pulled his hood over his face and kissed him).

We soon faded after a few weeks.

Our lives soon came back to together. After boyfriends, different phones (for him and he still had my number), girls, and life. We soon started talking again.

Middle of my senior year he text me once a day "hey beautiful" and then...that was it! One text a day till I finally asked why bother talking to me in the first place if you are not going to even have a conversation with me.

So we talked more and more but I was still talking to 5 different guys but he soon beat them all out.

(One day a thought crossed my mind what if I married this kid?)

He wanted to come see me and said he'd surprise me after he told me " I thinking I'm falling in love with you" that kinda blew my mind but stayed talking.

I found out later I'm the only girl he's ever said I love you too.

Which is pretty impressive for how many girls this kid has dated.

But he just knew he loved me. Spring Break in March on the 17th he came and surprised me. I made him wait outside for 20 min because he kept telling me he was outside for hours the night before (not funny) and he called and asked if he could make it up to me and he knocked on the door. I got ready real fast and then let him in. He was a lot cuter then i remembered him. We went to Pepper Sauce Caves, Funtastics, played sand volleyball, shot hoops, went to the zoo, he gave me a bracelet that said

"Today is only The Beginning" and 12 red roses.

He spent a lot those 6 days.

The 18th he asked me out ( he wanted to do it in person) but I didn't want to be hurt again. Nick my ex boyfriend before really hurt me (left me for another girl) and ( I was just getting back on my feet) and I didn't want to do long distance again either. But on the 19th I finally said yes. He saw me about every month.

Then I met his family in Aug. ( He flew me out).

Then Went to school at EA with him. That's really when we figured out that we wanted to eventually get married to each other. ( Took a break up that lasted a week and spending every day with each other but we knew)

Winter Break he told his family he was going to marry me... from then on spent hours looking at rings and figuring out the numbers...

Fast forward.

February..I knew it was coming. He isn't good at keep secrets. I knew.. well had a good guess.. he had the ring.

Well he did but then decided he didn't like it and took it back and got a different one.

He told me he asked my dad. That's when it hit me this was really happening. Excitement went through the roof!

Then soon after was shot to the ground when Rusty had told me my parents said pretty much no and wanted us to wait.

So immediately I stopped hoping it would happen and stopped getting my hopes up little did I know it was his trick to throw me off so he could surprise me!

On the 18th I went to New Mexico to go camping with him and his friends. When I arrived there before he thought i was i through off all his plans.

He kept me out of the house and killed time (went to two Walmarts to get a cake mix and washed his car) for his sister Serene and his mom to get me surprise ready.

We got back home and there on the table was a puzzle.

I just happen to love them. I get kinda competitive ha He's mom told me she had one for me to do when we got back from dinner.

We went to Applebee's. ( He had to keep everything low key or I would find out)

He scarfed down 3 lemonades (kiwi, strawberry, and raspberry) before our food had even arrived.

( He was soo nerves)

Then he wasn't hungry and I wasn't in the first place so we packed up and went home.

As we drove home he asked why I wanted to marry him..and then he told me why he wanted to marry me..I still haven't caught on yet.

We get to the house and his mom gave me the puzzle to do. Well this was a 100 piece Princess and the Frog puzzle. I was like this will be easy and wanted to finish it before she came back. Rusty and I talked and trying to do the puzzle has fast as we could well he was saying he hates them because he as no patience for them. I was about down with the edge when I noticed a black mark through it. Look on the box and there were no black markings on it.

I said " Babe what is this black mark it's not on the cover..wait that's sharpie" He in return said " Oh Caden must have drawn on it, it was my mom's."

And so I went on..still hasn't clicked...

then I looked over and there was the word marry on the dress.

I froze and it all came together. I tried to hide my face because I couldn't believe this was happening and I couldn't stop smiling. Well I didn't want to ruin it for him so I kept talking.

Well I noticed he was trying to get down on his knee and he started shaking.

When we got half way done, he figured I had caught on

so he got down in his knee pulled out the ring and said "Will you marry?" Yes! I blurted out before he finished.

I then went to kiss him... knocked the ring out of his hand... he grabbed it put it on my finger.. and then we kissed.

Now the planning begins...

Temple? Date? Colors? Dresses? Who? What? When? Where?..but

I am extremely excited! And the ring is BEAUTIFUL! :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! My favorite dog is a husky! And when I saw this I loved it! And so of

course Rusty bought it for me for Valentine's Day!

Livestrong

Yesterday my new roommate Lexi (who is way cool) and I decided to take pictures

to contribute to Rusty who is also known as a cancer patient and the rest of the people who are

also going through something like this or have, and to Have FuN taking pictures!

Lexi Rocks!

She's from Gilbert, Arizona!

We've gotten along pretty well, we've just CLICKED!

I'm glad she's here

because I wouldn't know what to do

without her!

Living The College Life

I'm going to college at Eastern Arizona and it's my 2nd semester. I'm liking it so far.. new rommates who are awesome but it's kinda been a different experience for me then my first semester. My first one was a lot of fun but I couldn't really tell you what I did. ha I had a lot of new experiences, started my semester with my boyfriend of 5 months and having a boyfriend around me everyday was a new thing for me. I had a lot to learn but wouldn't trade the hard times for anything because we laugh at them now and that's what made us stronger. Learning to just get along when it's the time of the month, or giving him his "guy time", or not losing yourself in the process of learning who you are together. New school and new friends was hard at first, I was so excited to meet new people but when you are alone it's hard to put yourself out there and be out of your comfort zone. But we spent our semester watching movies mainly..ha surprisingly enough we never were bored. We went to the pond that had a rope swing, we went on double dates with his roommates Sam Miller and his lady Brooke Young, tried going to the hot springs but the were dry, play basketball for who pays for the date or watching his games cuz he was on an institute basketball team, and spending most of our weekends in Tucson with my family or in Phoenix with Josh and Aubrey. I also got my cosmetology license last semester. By the end of the semester Rusty had rolled his ankle, thought he got a hernia but just was a swollen lymph node, got his wisdom teeth taken out and tried to recover from a basketball injury that landed him straight on his back so he had headaches for 3 months straight and finally got into a physical therapist that loosened his back muscles that let his headaches finally go away. He has a had a crazy year and I thought I was crippled! But that news has not ended.

The 19th of January 2011 a Wednesday night I got a text saying " Babe I'm at the ER right now because my side has been in so much pain." Now let me tell you Rusty is a stubborn guy who hates the hospital and doctors so this was surprising to me that he went in without me yelling at him that he needs to. But two weeks before this he had realized that one of his testicles was larger than his other one. His parents had thought it was swollen from working since Rusty has been doing construction for the last month or so and so his mom told him to wait and keep an eye on it and if it doesn't go down he should go in. Well on Wednesday all he kept thinking was "you need to go in this isn't right you need to go in." The doctors took an ultrasound and a urine sample and was joking with his sister Serene about having cancer but one doc was like oh you are too young to have that. But Rusty started to notice a difference in the doctors and new something was wrong. The doc came in and said "I'm going to be blunt with you..You have Testicular Cancer." When he left Rusty looked at his sister and broke down, at that moment Rusty's life had taken a turn he never expected. Who does? Who would ever think something like that would happen to YoU! Rusty immediately let his parents know the news..and i get another text saying babe can you come down here has soon as possible. I'm still in Thatcher going to school and he went back home to save money and work so we had been doing the long distance thing and I was just up there the weekend before. When I got that text I knew something was wrong and the next text was "please call when you can." Well I called 4 times and he never answered I started to worry and then another text saying hold on babe. Rusty tried to compose himself before he called and got a blessing but I still didn't know what he had found out. Then I get his call and the second I said "hey" he broke down and cried for a few minutes while I'm like "hey what's wrong, what did they say?" (Now I'll tell you very few people have seen him cry he's not a crier so you knew something was really wrong.) Finally he said "I have cancer.."the next several minutes followed by tears and saying please don't leave me and getting the facts straight was tough. He got off the phone and I called my mom in tears telling her what I found out. Still in shock and listening to Rusty again and all the things running through his mind made it harder. ( Babe I'm supposed to take care of you..it's my job...no one Else's..I need to stick around..please come here as soon as possible.. You need to help me get through this.. I need you.) That night I text Travis Catt and asked if he could give me a blessing. He left what he was doing to take me to an appartment that he always felt the spirit there. I felt weird because here I am crying and these girls have no idea why but were glad to give up there living room so Travis could give me a blessing. He felt strongly that this would make Rusty and I stronger and that we would get through this. We all ended up getting blessings; his mom, him, and I and all the blessings seemed to convey that it was going to be okay and even if he was going to have a had time we all knew he would live. For the next few days telling people got a little easier and researching it made me feel better and also knowing Chris Weiss had gone through it and was fine. I drove up to Rio Rancho that Friday and went to the specialist on Monday (24th) with him. The doc had good news. He really felt that it was just going to be a surgical fix and he would not have to go through chemo or radiation. He got test done, his blood drawn for the first time (he asked for a butterfly needle and the lady was like "your not a toddler" and made him be a big boy), a chest x-ray, and a CT scan to make sure it hadn't spread.

February 4th at 1:30 he had his left testicle removed and hopefully this will be the end of it but we won't know for a few weeks until he get his blood drawn again. Rusty's outlook has changed and now has more compassion for people that have to go through this. We thank everyone who put his name in the temples across the country, for every one's prayers, and concerns!

Tumor was 7 1/2 cm