Honeymoon on the beach!

Michael and I went on our Honeymoon to Lincoln City on the Oregon Coast. It was so wonderful! Connie was so great and found us a beach house and it was totally perfect for us! Perfect size, close to the beach, view of the beach from the porch, and cute! We got to stay for 4 days and 4 nights and we were bummed to go back to real life after feeling totally carefree! We drove up and down the coast and saw a lot of beauty, because you can't avoid it on the Oregon coast!I wanted to share some pictures! There are lots!This is in front of our quaint little joint after we bought some groceries for the week :)
Showing off our sweent new PJs from mom!

THANK YOU to everyone who was involved in that AWESOME basket that was left in our car! We got to our beach house on Sunday and had no food, so we had the treats in the basked for dinner :) There's Michael with our dinner!
Some of you have seen Michael around the ocean. But, for those of you who haven't. HE'S INSANE! He knows how cold it is, yet he just darts for the water and swims like a fish! CRAZY!
Delicious salt water taffy! We're still finishing it off. The cashier lady totally called us out and knew we were newleyweds haha! She was a cute old lady!
We went to Tillamook and it was such a blast! We had the delicious ice cream and sqeaky cheese!
Michael build us this wonderful fire, while we had treats and watched this beautiful sunset:
We had SO much fun just playing around on the beach and we were blessed with BEAUTIFUL weather! I've never seen such beautiful weather on the beach! It was a fantastic week :)

I love Michael :) :) :)

Jenni Woodmansee

You guys, I'm still so happy that it's hard for me to even type words. like... a;sldkjf;alskdjf;alieuoiasjdlvkjnas;dlkfja;owiefja;lskdjg would be more appropriate!!! Just my hands going crazy on the keys because I can't believe this is really happening. I am married to Michael, our wedding day was the best wedding day there ever was and we live in this cute apartment- TOGETHER!! It's a wonderful life! I was without the internet for 2 weeks, so I feel so behind. As far as pictures go, I have what I have collected from other people. I am waiting on the professional pictures which are currently in my mom's hands and I think on their way to me. They are posted however on the photographer's blog. Brandon (at the temple), and Scott (at the reception), were both great!! The pictures are beautiful so far and I'm so grateful! I will share with you what I can right now, but mostly, I want to type my feelings about the day because this blog has somewhat become my journal. First of all, I'm just so completely in love with Michael. I have never met such a patient, kind, handsome person. Seriously, he has a heart of gold and I believe I am the luckiest girl alive. Sometimes, I still look at him, or look at old pictures and think... "no way, Michael and I made it, we are married". It's a miracle. A miracle that we've been waiting for

I am still in complete awe of how wonderful everyone was throughout the whole wedding business and on the actual day especially. Everyone! Family, friends, bridesmaids, groomsmen, everyone was so good to us and made me feel like everything was going to smoothly. ESPECIALLY MY MOTHER! She made our day happen. And let me tell you, our wedding day honestly was the best day of my life. I am so thankful that michael and I were able to be sealed in the temple. It was such an incredible experience and then the rest of the day was a real dream come true. I had so much FUN! that is the only word to describe it. FUN!!!

Our wedding party was GORGEOUS! And full of the funnest people around. For real though, they looked SO good, I was so happy!Melanie, Bethany, and all who helped with the centerpieces nailed my vision PERFECTLY!And Judd took these awesome pictures!My nieces and nephews sang Michael and I the most TENDER song and I cried, and laughed, and could NOT stop smiling!My dad and I got DOWN to jailhouse rock for our daddy daugher dance and then I danced the night away with the rest of the guests. PERFECT!

The cake was just as I hoped! PERFECT! And was quite delicious!! I was so pleased!The decorations were everything I wanted. I wanted someone to look at the place and know that it was our wedding, and I really felt that it had our personalities written all over it.

I really could go on forever. I replay the day over and over in my head all of the time. Michael and I had so much fun. We are so happy. SO SO happy. There just really aren't words to explain how much I love being with him. Ok, I'll stop. :) I have some fun pictures from the beach on our honeymoon and our reception in Texas and I'll be sure to blog those soon. But for now, just know that the wedding day was everything I've ever wanted!

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wedding Week!

I know, it's been forever! But, I've been here at home doing just wedding wedding wedding business and it's been a blast!! I'm sneaking in a quick blog before I have my last planning meeting with my mom :). There has been so much fun stuff that I've been able to do while we've been home. We got to go to the family reunion which was such a blast! We got to go visit Marc and Connie at black butte, also SO FUN! We've been sitting out with the Mitchell's every night. Melanie and the kids are here and I LOVE playing with them. And I've been meeting with the DJ, wedding planner, cake lady, and all other sorts of people. Needless to say it has been an awesome 2 weeks! And let me tell you people, it's going to be a FUN party on Saturday night :) BE THERE! Or be square!

Anyway, I could blog about each of those individual events, but let's talk about what is currently on my mind. In 6 days... I get to marry MICHAEL WOODMANSEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot believe it is finally here! I'm not even 1% nervous or scared or whatever, I'm so pumped! I have been ready to marry this man since he was 17 and I was 18.

(we were 18 and 19 here)

Anyway, I am so so so excited! I'm excited to not have to say goodbye every night. I'm excited to be in the temple with him. I'm excited to have the last name Woodmansee. I'm excited to live in the same house as him. I'm excited for him to be a part of the Jolley family. I'm excited to cook for him. I'm excited for our relationship to go to the next level becuase we've pretty much mastered the whole "waiting" process. I'm excited to marry my best friend and the best person I've ever known. He is so good to me.

ON TOP of all of that. I can't wait for the party woooo hoooo!! Em comes tomorrow with her precious babies and the rest of the fam this weekend :) :)Steph and Court come Tuesday and my roommates come on Thursday- HALLELUJAH!!!!!!! And Michael's family comes in on Thursday and Friday and then we get married. Talk about the best week ever! Thank you all so much for all your good wishes :)

6 days... 6 days...

Aberdeen Days!

My lovely roommate Lindsey Palmer now has her own blog (YAY!), which means that she already blogged about Aberdeen Days, but since most of you haven't discovered her blog yet, I'm going to post about it too because it was the best weekend of the summer! As expected! As usual, be prepared for LOTS of pictures! It's just too hard to choose. Lindsey is from a small town in Idaho called Aberdeen. For those of you who haven't experienced small towns in Idaho, you are MISSING OUT! I fell in love with Aberdeen last year during Aberdeen Days and was SO excited to go back this year! They have this huge town party and it's awesome! We started out the weekend with a night time boat ride on Friday night...

We had quite a crowd this year! There were 11 of us college kids that came and inavded Aberdeen and the Palmer home. They were SO good to us! It really was a blast. A weekend with my greatest friends in the greatest town. Saturday morning we went to have breakfast in the park with the whole dang town! It was so great! There was also a pretty radical car show that we checked out after breakfast. It made me think of Dad the whole time! He would have loved it!
The rest of Saturday just got better and better! We went to the lake all morning and played on the boat. We went tubing (I didn't mention that before I went, mom, because I knew that'd make you nervous!), and layed in the sunshine. And good news people, I LATHERED on the sun screen and made it through the whole day with just sunburned knee caps hahaha!!! PHEWPH!
We took a break from the lake and headed into town for the parade!! WA HOOO!!!!! It was super fun! The boys were all over the candy throwing and we collected alot of loot! Then, we had more fun at the lake until the sun went down! To end this wonderful day, we went to the town fish fry in the park! SO GREAT! I was in heaven the whole time. Seriously, it was just a 100% blissful weekend! And, the slumber parties with my girls everynight were fabulous as well!!
And these are the wonderful Palmer parents with the 11 kids they took in for the weekend! They were SO SO GOOD TO US! We had delicious food, so much fun, and lots of laughs! THANK YOU PALMERS!!!

The 4th of July... at Wal-Mart

It was a great 4th of July. Obviously, there is not really anything quite like spending it in Janus Ct. with our neighborhood BBQ, dad's patriotic speaches, flag cake, and our private firework show at night. But, trust me, mine was eventful nonetheless, just in a different way. Michael's brother and sister in law and their kids (Robert, Tamara, Nathaniel, Benjamin, and LuCielle) came in to town to spend the weekend with Michael's grandparents and us, which was wonderful! They brought sanity to me after a long day at Wal-Mart, thank heavens for them! I had to work from 11-8... so all day and it was seriously the most eventful day EVER! If you're in for the stories... keep reading...

To start, I was 20 minutes late because of parade traffic, I should have known that was a sign that it was going to be a crazy day.

I showed up in my blue shirt with red and white accessories feeling nice and patriotic! I just get to work and I see a guy that I work with walk by. His name is Chip. I say, "Hey Chip!". He says, "Hey Jenni!" And he passes by and I thought that was all. Then I hear a noise. So I turn around to find chip collapsed on the floor. It really was scary. Managers rushed around him, and then I remembered that Chip has epilepsy. He had a seizure. He usually knows when they are coming and he goes to sit down, but this time he didn't make it and his head hit the cement floor- hard. Once he woke up, he tried to stand up and then fell again. It really was breaking my heart to see him this way. But, he's the bravest man ever. He got right up and went back to work with an ice pack on his elbow and head. Come to find out, the fall did split his head open and he was bleeding. He figures that he might as well stay at work and be productive with people who can help him rather than go home alone. What a positive attitude. I would have peaced out in a hot second!

So, I was a little frazzled from that whole experience, but I just went back to work. About an hour later I was checking a customer out, and behind them I could see a little boy, probably about 3, playing on the cart. My first thought, "WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING YOUR CHILD TO DO THAT?????" I see kids get hurt all the time and it scares me everytime. I just kept on with my business and then I watched that poor little boy fall head first onto the cement. It was the loudest thud I've ever heard and made my heard just drop into my stomach. Oh he SCREAMED bloody murder and his head swelled up like a melon within seconds. I coudn't quite tell if it split open, but I think it did. I was just imagining one of my little nephews and it made me so sad!!!! that poor boy. So, please- do not allow your children to play on the carts!!!!

As you can imagine, I'm super frazzled by this time. But didn't have much time to recover until the next event occured. The checker next to me was getting chewed out by a girl who couldn't have been more than 17 for not letting her purchase alcohol with her boyfriend who was over 21. Do they think we are complete idiots????? Not only do we get fined thousands of dollars for selling alcohol to minors, but we get fired. She was seriously stupid. I don't know anyone who seriously thinks that they can purchase alcohol before they are 21. Holy crap, what planet is she from!??? So, they went to the other side of the store, tried another checker, and got the beer. OHHH man was the cashier P.Oed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then, my wonderful fiance came to the rescue and took me on a wonderful 4th of July picnic on my lunch hour :). It was such a sweet escape. I love him.

BUT, once I returned, there was more waiting for me. I managed to spill a gallon of milk everywhere and while I was cleaning it up, noticed the cute little boy with down syndrom go down in the doorway. GOL- CAN THIS REALLY BE HAPPENING??? This one was pretty scary. The paramedics came. His pacemaker was having problems and his heart was functioning for the moment. It was really sad. He was down for quite some time. But, once he woke up, he jumped up so fast... it was kind of weird.

You guys, seriously- that all happened in one day of work. PHEWPH!!!!!!!!

Finally, 8:00 came and I walked across the street to meet Michael, his family, his friend and groomsman Dexton, and my roommates for the fireworks. THAT was the greatest part of my day. It's a pretty big event here in Idaho Falls and we had a blast playing games, eating, and watching fireworks. It was a really fun atmosphere. Michael's niece and nephews really are adorable. At one point, Benjamin said, "Aunt Jenni, can I sit on your lap and watch the fireworks". Aw, tender! So, all in all- it was a great 4th. Certainly a day I won't be forgetting anytime soon!

The fireworks with the music and everything make me choke up a little! I am SO grateful to be an American. We are so blessed in this free country and I love celebrating the 4th of July!

Bridal Shower!

There is so much fun stuff going on in my life right now that I want to share, so I just find myself blog, blog, blogging! As I mentioned before, my roommates Lindsey Palmer and Anessa Humes threw me a fantastic bridal shower! Everything was WONDERFUL! I'm telling you, these wonderful girls have been planning this since I got engaged. They are taking a cake decorating class and have been planning my cake since before I was engaged I'm pretty sure haha! They have been AMAZINGLY good to me. Serious. They keep me sane. They came with me to take my bridals and engagements. They got me a veil and slip to wear. They did my hair. They made my bouquet. They made cake, food, decorations, and got me rockin presents for this bridal shower. It was just everything I could have ever wanted! All of my great college roommates/girlfriends were there. I missed those of you who are far away terribly, and I can't wait to see you! Believe it or not, the cake is pg-13. so be prepared.

They had me wearing this sweet crown and veil

There they are! What does that cake look like, you say? Well let me show you a close up! And yes... they made it themselves!It was so cute with the pictures of michael and I all around with cookies for all of the guests! I am going to post pictures of the decorations for my mom to see :) and anyone else who would like to know what it looked like! So get ready for pictures!!!

Everyone wrote on those pages. I love them!
They split up in groups and made me a letter out of candy bars. SO CUTE!
And then Lindsey brought out the one that Michael had secretly made. It was HILARIOUS!!And then it was PRESENT TIME! I got some WONDERFUL things that I totally love. Mom's present was a HIT! For real! This is when I opened it. :)

I believe the group picture was taken on Brooke's camera so I dont have those pictures yet. But, Be assured that it was lots and lots of fun and I was so grateful for all of the work that went into it. I felt so special :)

Summer and Engagement Happenings

I want you all to know that I have attempted this post about 500 times, but blogger freaks out on me every time. SO- I'm just going to pack as much in this post as I can while it's working. There is a lot going on right now and I LOVE IT! I have so much to be thankful for and I'm reminded everyday. Wedding planning is a blast! Well, none of it is possible at all without my wonderful mother who works so hard and makes it all look easy, thus allowing it to be quite enjoyable for me! Thanks mom :).

Michael and I got our engagement picture taken by Tyra Andrews and we are so happy with them! She has been so wonderful to work with! She also did my bridal pictures and designed our announcement. What a help she has been do us! Here are a couple of the engagements! There are lots more!! But you'll have to wait until the reception.

I'm not going to post my bridals on here just incase my Michael gets any bright ideas. Also, this way, my dress will be a suprise at the wedding! But, just know that I'm SO happy with the work Tyra did! They are magical and it was a really fun time taking all of the pictures! Everything else is coming along quite smoothly as well. I dream up all of these things I want and then my fantastic mother makes them happen :). I can't wait to share August 15th with you all... but mostly Michael :) :)!!

Also, my roommates threw me an AWESOME bridal shower! Really, it was fantastic! So fantastic that it will have it's own post coming up here soon... assuming that blogger will choose to work for me next week.

For those of you who would like something comical to read, or may be very bored (Anessa), I would like to include these few Wal-Mart experiences in this post before the internet freaks out again. Stephanie and I tend to give everyone nick names. Especially customers, because you don't know their real name, so you have to have some way to I.D them. For example, at grocery outlet we befriended Workin Hard, Elton John, Big Lips, and Keopectate, among many others. So, my first story will be refered to as Hyper Sensitive Lady...

She walks up to my line with what I'm assuming was her husband. I ring everything up and tell her the amount. By this point, I could tell there was a screw or 2 missing and that she wasn't quite all there. But, she handed me to correct amount of money and so I got her change. Just a side note, I DO NOT touch people's hands when I hand them their change... eww- some people have FILTHY hands. So, I just lightly dropped her coins into her palm. Her quarter dropped out of her hand and on to the counter... and then all Hell broke loose. Hyper Senstive Lady was VERY upset that her quarter fell. "PLEASE DON"T THROW THINGS AT ME" She says. "PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS THROWING THINGS AT ME." "I'M A NORMAL PERSON TOO, YOU KNOW". "S***". I'm just standing there staring at her wondering why she won't look at me and talk to me rather than just yell. Then her husband says, "Forgive her, she's blind". At this point, I had SO many thoughts. 1) Being blind doesn't give you a free pass to yell at the grocery checker. 2) maybe tell me she was blind before I handed her the change. 3) hahahaha- she totally made it sound like people throw things at her every day, like this was a common occurance. 4) I DIDN'T THROW ANYTHING! THE QUARTER DROPPED!!

Sheesh! My next customer was a guy I work with who is deaf, but can still communicate very well and we're great friends. The checker next to me said, Sean is deaf, are you going to throw his change at him too. hahahaha!

You ready for another? I just found this kind of comical. It was just last night. It's late. like 10:30 and this lady rolls up in her motorized cart. IT IS FULL OF CRAP. and I mean crap, stuff that nobody buys. She tells me she would like everything organized. Dark things in one bag, sparkly things in one bag, and light colored things in another. And then she says. "Oh, you know what, these things are patriotic, they better have their own bag too". WHAT?!!! So, that was weird enough, and then I tell her the total and she reaches into her shirt with NO hesitation and I saw alllll the way down that shirt... NOT PLEASANT! She pulls out, not a couple bucks or a credit card, her whole big, fat wallet!

People sure are interesting!! there is WAY more where that came from. If you made it through, bless you! I'll post again soon, I promise!

Off to Aberdeen this weekend WOOO HOOO!!!!!

Also, one more thing. I LOVE michael woodmansee. Honestly, if only I could describe to you how good he is to me. I cannot wait to be his wife :). Just thought you all should know!