Sooo....

I'm married!!

Yep.

and along with being married comes being super busy and a new last name!!
well... and a super awesome husband is part of the package deal too I suppose :)

So we'll see if I ever blog. Ever.
Maybe once we are all settled in and I am all caught up on school work I will...
aka, never.

But life is so good!


aand I'm off!
Love,
Rachel.... Anderson!

Black History Month at the BYU

these are some of my fellow cougars...

How embarrassing.

And we attend a University?

College students are so smart...

But I have to admit... I wouldn't have been much better.

Whoops.

"50 cents" - hahaha

The Engagements

On New Years Eve day we got our selves all pretty to take our engagement pictures. We planned on going to the Desert Botanical Gardens out by the Phoenix Zoo, but when we got there there was a sign on the fence saying it closed at 4. It was 4:05 when we pulled up... Soo we had to think of a backup plan all quick and just we went to some random park near the Zoo and used the entrance to the Zoo for a couple shots as well. We were more excited about taking our pictures at the botanical gardens... But the pictures ended up turning out great anyway!

Here's a few of our many favorites... and by a few, I mean 16 :) I just can't help it... This fiance of mine is just so handsome...

After we were done with the desert we headed out to Tempe Town Lake to grab some pictures with the sunset... These pictures turned out to be some of my most favorites.

Check out my photographer Stacey Kay! She was awesome and seriously soo fun to work with! She does a fabulous job and I am basically obsessed with every single one of our pictures.
http://www.staceykayphotography.com/


ps.
13 days, 0 hours, 47 minutes, and 45 seconds until oh, you know, the best day of my life

15 days, 12 hours, 1 minute, and 27 seconds!

This blog does have a writer, promise. Said writer just happens to be planning a wedding, hanging out with her wonderful fiance, working, and going to school... In that order as well I believe. Finals didn't kill me... I know that's what you all were thinking since I hadn't posted since finals week. It almost killed Mr.-Smarty-Pants-Fiance-in-Law-School though... Apparently law school makes their finals really hard or something. Who knew?

BUT only 15 days left until the big day!! I'm kinda reallllly excited.

But oh, yes I did in fact change this little blog's title... again... The Haps.
Yep. It is derived from "Hey gurrrrl, what's the haps!" Quote from the lovely roommate, Lynzi.
So The Haps it is... Until I feel like changing it again.

And there certainly have been a lot of "haps" since I last posted.

#1
After finals I flew out to the beautiful Carribean to eat lots of good foods, order 5 desserts a night, relax on the beach and have a grand ol' time with the family. It was beautiful! I highly recommend cruises... especially in the Caribbean.. But I may be biased a little...

I definitely missed Nate... and unfortunately there is no cell service in the Carribean. Weird. Which equals 8 days too many of zero communication between the two of us...

#2
I got back to the 85205 at Midnight on Christmas Eve.
Christmas was wonderful. A week long party on the cruise and then coming home to just enjoy the happiness of Christmas. We ran back and forth between our families houses... but hey, at least we got 2 chirstmas dinners... :) Oh the joys of having our families live 2 miles away from eachother

Mom sewed us all new stockings! She made one for Nate cause he is part of the family now :)
And I got little Nate some BYU gear. Go Cougs

#3
I got Nate tickets to the Season opener of the Sun's game the day after Christmas! It was a great Christmas present if I say so myself :) Nate is a huge Sun's fan and basically worships Steve Nash. You think I'm kidding? Say something bad about good ol' Steve in front of Nate and he will proceed to tell you a hundred reasons why you are wrong :)

We were like 3 rows back on the upper bowl....
We sat next to two guys that had downs and the whole time they kept yelling at the other team and calling them names...
Most of the names were animal names like.
Haha "Badger!!1 Monkey!!!"
I loved them :)

#4 Christmas Break
Well, it came and went way too fast and was filled with wedding planning and more wedding planning.
I was wedding planned out then and am BEYOND wedding planned out now.
I'm only getting married once. Weddings wear me out... (and that would be the understatement of the century...)


#5
Winter Semester 2012
Well, here we are! I have been a super slacker on school work... it's kinda hard to balance being engaged, planning a wedding, working, volunteering (my major requires it each semester...), and balancing school work. But I'll make it! The wedding planning is almost done and Nate and I just want the wedding to be, oh, tomorrow. All these decisions on flowers, colors, guest book, bridesmaid dresses, alterations, food, cupcakes, etc. are getting old fast. But it's worth it! Right? Right...


Anyway.

p.s.
15 days everyone... 15 days.

Did I mention only 15 days until I am married to the most amazing man in the whole world??
Oh, well it's 15 days and 11 hours now ;)