PHOTO TAG

Aunt Linda tagged me and informed me that I didn't have enough pictures on here...which is completely true! I promise I'll post more pictures up soon...meaning after I graduate!

1. Go to your picture folder on your computer or wherever you store your pictures.

2. Go to your 6th folder and then choose the 6th picture.

3. Post it on your blog and then tell the story that goes with the picture.

4. Tag 6 other lucky people to do the same thing and leave a comment on their blog telling them about it.

So this was back when I was 20. Wondering how I can tell? My hair. My roommate cut it for me and it was the first time I had it really in an A-line. So Stephen and I had gotten home from church early and were playing with the dogs. We knew that Angel wasn't going to make it much longer so we decided to take some pictures of her. I'm so glad that we did, because she died a couple of months later. This was one of the bad pictures...Angie looks good, but the sun was glaring in my eyes!

Four Things About Me-
Danni tagged me...


4 Jobs I've Had:
1. Receptionist for BYU-Idaho
2. Assistant to an Interior Designer (Plus personal psychiatrist and marriage therapist)
3. JCPenney (Sales Associate)
4. Security Connections Incorporate

4 Movies I've watched more than once:
1. Scarlet Pimpernel
2. 10,000 B.C.
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. Stardust

4 Places I've Been:
1. Canada
2. Nauvoo
3. Mount Rushmore
4. Glacier National Park

4 Places I've Lived:
1. Afton, Wyoming
2. Shelley, Idaho
3. Rexburg, Idaho
4. Jackson, Wyoming

4 People Who Email Me Regularly:
1. Sister Harris
2. Lori
3. ASID
4. Stephen (Once a week!)

4 Favorite Foods:
1. Broccoli Cheese Soup (Trust me. It's so good!)
2. Vegetarian Lasagna (Don't worry I'm not a vegetarian I just love the white sauce)
3. Malibu Chicken
4. Anything from the dutch oven!

4 Things I'm Looking Forward to This Year:
1. GETTING MARRIED!
2. My Honeymoon
3. Going camping
4. Not living with five girls

4 TV shows I Watch:
1. Chuck
2. Bachelor
3. Office
4. American Idol

4 People I Tag:
1. Queen Lori Jane
2. Big A...I mean Alexandria
3. Alise Kelley
4. Mandi Bond

Now go to a picture folder and upload the 4th picture.

So I just opened a random file and this is actually my little niece, Lydia. I was babysitting. She looks alot different now!

The history of it all...

All right so I really wanted to write down how James and I met. I have such a bad memory and I wanted to be able to remember it. I'm sure if I get any of this wrong Danni and Alise will correct me. The Sunday after Christmas, I was asleep on the couch. Austin came and pounced on me and told me that if my cell phone rang I had to say yes. I had no idea what he was talking about! Well later that day my cell phone rang and it was James. He asked me to go on a date with him on Tuesday and sure enough I said yes. We were going to go to Kellys and go snowboarding. He said that he hadn't been for three years and I hadn't really gone for about two years. I was so nervous. Poor Alise and Austin, they got bombarded with my questions. Tuesday finally came. James was on time to pick me up. Brownie points for him. James may not have been snowboarding for three years, but he's still amazing at it. He was so good to me. He stayed with me the whole entire time. We found out that we've actually been to a lot of the same things (he is Austin's cousin)...like Austin's farewell, Austin's homecoming, Alise and Austin's wedding...we just didn't realize who the other person was. So I guess technically it wasn't a blind date. While we were on the chair lift we made a bet. He said that if he won he wanted a second date with me. I kept on thinking, "Please let him win. Please let him win." He won. It wasn't love at first sight, but I definitely knew that night that this guy was different from anybody else I have ever dated. I wanted to see where things went. So three days later we went on our second date. After that we were hooked. We saw each other almost every day. In February, we started talking about marriage and I figured that we would get engaged in March sometime. On Valentines Day, James and I went over to his house and helped his nephews make Valentines cards. James made me a card too. Later he was taken me to dinner at the Olive Garden, but he wanted to make a stop first. He asked me if we could take a walk before dinner. I was already suspicious, because both him and Michelle (his sister) were acting weird. So we went to the Green Belt and he had me stand on the platform that overlooked the falls and had the temple right across the river. He had to run back to his car and grab something and then had me finally turn around. James was down on one knee holding a dozen roses. My first thought was....Oh boy. He's going to propose. He said, "Erica Virginia Sparks....(You can imagine how I'm reacting right now.) Will you be.....my Valentine?" I was in shock. I had expected him to say "Will you marry me" not "Will you be my Valentine." Of course I said yes and then we ran back to the car. Where he pulled out a white rose, actually proposed to me, and gave me my ring. He made my parents promise not to tell me. I was in shock! James loves to surprise me and he really surprised me then. I love my ring. It is perfect for me. I'll put up pictures of it soon. He did such a good job picking it out. James is such a sweet guy and loves doing things for me. So this weekend I was in Utah. I only have limited minutes and text messages on my cell phone and so James and I can only talk after 7 and then he has night classes so it's usually not until 10. On Saturday I got a call from an unknown number...it was James calling on my new purple phone he had just got for me. So now we can talk or text each other whenever we want. I love him. He's so good to me.

I'm Engaged!

I know it's been so long since I've written on my blog, but I didn't want to write anything about James until the engagement was set and basically my whole entire life revolves around him so there hasn't been anything I could write. Then I decided to wait until Danni could help me make my page actually look good. She's amazing at this. Well it's now been official for almost a month. I'm engaged. I'm so excited about it! Everyone that talks to me just laughs, because everything that comes out of my mouth is about James. I think I drive my roommates up the wall sometimes. I can't wait to actually get married. I keep on trying to convince James that we should just elope, but he's not going for it. We're getting married May 2nd and having a reception that night at the Woodville church at 6:30-8:30. James is going to be going to school at BYU-I during the summer while I try to find a job somewhere in Idaho. I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that I'm graduating while he's just starting. It'll be good though. I love Idaho...I've just never included Rexburg into the equation.