precious.

More Engagements!! hope you like them. i think we're pretty precious, but hey, that's just me. I'm not telling which one is on our announcements because i want it to be a surprise.. :) it's about the only secret i can keep.. (not a very good one, i know) haha anyway. hope you guys enjoy. I'm off to k-town, USA this weekend for the 4th.. it should be a blast! (if my camera decides to behave, we'll post some pictures when we get back. adios! hope everyone has a great LONG weekend!! i know i will!

aren't we just precious..? can't wait for this guy to be my husband. he's amazing in case anyone was wondering. but you probably already knew that.

BOY, WHY are you SMILING?--

Dear world, sorry i haven't blogged in so long.. i've been super duper busy with school, work and wedding planning. lame excuses i know. HA! anyway, here are some pictures from recent events. aka: engagement pictures (out of 600, we'd better have a least a few good ones), making THREE TIMES more cheesecake than i was supposed to, snow on May TWENTY FOURTH!!!!!, Trip to California (only picture is with my Asian BFF's), and visiting Ann Marie & Larry's new baby MAX!! He's adorable! Anyway.. here are all the pictures. Hopefully you can tell which event goes with which picture. More to come... SOrry i haven't been good about doing this... i should have more time since i'm done with school. you'll see more engagements after i mail out the invites... i wouldn't want to ruin the surprise! =] haha hope you enjoy the pictures. I absolutely LOVE ALL OF THEM! (the ones below.. not all 600 engagements) :) adios for now.



More to come at the pink wall... these are the precious ones at sundance! thanks a ton to my sister HALIE! for taking all these for us! she's amazing.
TTFN--Ta Ta For Now... :) [yes, i babysit little girls who LOVE winnie the pooh)

i LovE PhoToShoP!

I absolutely LOVE photoshop! i have had so much fun the past few weeks just playing around with different settings/colors/fonts and brushes... it has been so much fun. Here are some of the precious things i've done with the pictures of ben and i. I'm thinking about designing my own invitation. I'm really excited about it. :)

this was my first try... not as cute as the other two. but still fun.

This is a picture from Valentines Day 2010. precious right?
I wanted to post more, but i don't want to spoil my engagement pictures or my announcement. so... more to come. =]
Anyway, i'm super excited to finish taking engagement pictures this weekend, it's going to be fun. Ben is such a good sport to take hundreds of pictures with me. that's just one of the reasons he's amazing. I'm so excited to show everyone precious pictures of us. haha please don't throw up in your mouth. it's not going to be kissing or anything.. don't worry. haha well, all in all, photoshop is awesome. and i love it. the end. =] hope everyone has an AWESOME 3 day weekend! i'm sooo excited!

Party in August?? Plan Ahead :)

Hey Everyone.. Ben and I need your addresses... SOOOooo.. If you haven't filled this out yet, please do.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHUtMGhxbUxsUmx3OTN2a0VPbG5DX2c6MQ

Since Invites wont go out for a bit, and we know you all want to make travel plans to come to our parties ;) visit our wedding website for the info on dates, maps, registries, etc:

http://www.mywedding.com/benandnatalie

hope everything is going well in all of your lives. Thanks for all the love and support thus far. Hope you can share our special day(s) with us. :)
love, natalie & ben

Thug Life Thursday

Photo Courtesy of Google Images search: "Thug Life Thursday." sav and i have been too busy to have a g-money photoshoot.. hmm maybe on a saturday sometime soon.
but for now... haha I love this pic. enjoy the rest of the day everyone. happy weekend tomorrow!

for those who want to stalk me...

Well, i haven't blogged about my life recently so i thought i would catch you all up on recent happenings. first of all, this blog is provoked by my dear friend krystina. She sent me a text the other day saying, "update your blog! I wanna stalk you!..." it made me laugh so hard. but it also made me blog. =] so this blog is for her... kinda.

so here is my list of recent happenings:
0. discovered how good yogurt and granola is.
1. winter 2010 semester ended. couldn't be happier.
2. winter didn't. it snowed. on april 30. so gay.
3. i finished a whole class in 2.5 days.. (not too proud, but i totally passed it so i'm proud of that)
4. went to california for a few days with ben. we had fun.
5. went to kanab for 1 day. that was fun too.
6. watched pollyanna for the first time all the way through. it was pretty good.
7. moved into my NEW APARTMENT!! it now takes me 7 minutes to WALK to work. it's awesome. (sad thing is.. i'm still late alot)
8. I have the coolest roommate (savannah)
9. I got the internet working at my apartment. ALL BY MYSELF! :]
10. Classes started and it's lame. But i'm taking 9 units and this will help me graduate faster. which is awesome.
11. work is slow again. just the way i like it. :)
I think that's it.. life is good.
ohyeah. and.. (i almost forgot.)

#12. i got engaged.
haha i didn't really forget. "it was for dramatic effect." (quote from Step up 2 the streets)

ben proposed on Monday, April 26th, 2010 around 740ish PM at Bryce Canyon National Park.. Great FHE activity right?and i knew it was coming, but kinda tried to ignore it (so i wouldn't ruin it..) it was so cute. he was so nervous (even though he KNEW i'd say yes.) haha. well, that's all for now.

oh yeah, here's the ring.. i usually get harassed for not including a picture of it.. this will be especially good for those of you who want to stalk me. ;)
happy weekend everyone!

Thug Life Thursday

well, i don't have a picture this week, but i am in Sac-town, California... which is pretty ghetto (in some spots) so, i just thought i'd share my favorite line to one of my favorite "thug life thursday" songs.. CALIFORNIA LOVE.

From Oakland to Sacktown
The Bay Area and back down
Cali is where they put they mack down
Give me love!

...............

Sacramento, sacramento where ya at? yeah

Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up
Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side
Cause you and I know it's tha best side

yeah, That's riight
west coast, west coast
uh, California Love
California Love

happy ThugLifeThursday everyone.
love, tupac