I won't miss you at all!!!

So I know you all were so kind as you helped me prepare for my mission! I appreciate all you have done for me, and how you all have helped me feel support and love from my family and friends! But I think you all should know that I won't miss you, not a single one of you....

Because, well I am not going! I am getting married to a wonderful man named Jeffrey Scott Johnston.

I know I made a joke about it, but it really isn't very funny, because it was one of the hardest most difficult decisions I have made in a really long time. I knew that I had received an answer to my prayers about leaving and so when I started feeling hesitation about leaving I was very confused. I didn't trust myself after what happened with previous experiences concerning marriage, and so it was a long five days as I prayed, fasted, and visited the temple.


Jeff is a wonderful man, who loves me so much! He is so thoughtful and caring. He thinks about my needs way more then his own, and I wonder quite often how this whole thing came about! I mean, I didn't see this coming but now that I have made the decision, I feel very confident and at peace about my life.


We have not set a date or anything, but since I was to leave to the MTC tomorrow I thought I should explain a little about why I am not gone. People might start asking questions and stuff.....



We are not officially engaged, we are just betrothed for now. He was very happy that I chose to stay home, but was surprised as we both were planning on my leaving instead of staying. Before I was supposed to leave on my mission he gave me a beautiful diamond ring (that was supposed to remind me of him, while I was gone.) That is what I am wearing till I get the official question asked of me, but he has talked with my mom, and man she GRILLED him! Poor thing!










He was so supportive and cute! He had me pick out paint for our house, so he could paint it the colors I loved while I was gone, and we picked out what we wanted the yard to look like (so he could be to busy to date all those other girls!) and everything! What a thoughtful guy!


We first started dating around December and he was working on a show, so we didn't get to see each other except once a week, and he started wooing me with e-mails, but now I am kind of glad that happened because I have wonderful letters showing the progress of our relationship and it make me smile! He was a really good wooer! Hee! Hee!

Anyway, things have just continued to slowly grow and progress, and I have never felt more secure, safe, or trusting in a relationship, and I know that we wouldn't be where we are today if I had not put in my papers, and we hadn't experienced what we did!

If you have questions, or just want to catch up, call me! It's probably been too long anyway! Oh my gosh, I am going to be Leah Johnston!

Because we thought that I was going to leave, we tried to cram 18 months of dating into 5 months! We have done a BUNCH of fun things in the mean time, and I am going to post some of the pictures of those experiences! Woo hoo!

LOOK!!!! I am blogging again!!!

Robyn gave me this idea! I have huge opinion, so this should be easy!

7 THINGS I CAN DO

1. I can sing, and act!

2. I can talk to anyone, anytime... not to shy....

3. I can listen, I love to hear what is happening to those I care about....

4. I can love.... sometimes to much, and to well!

5. I can appreciate, I love to watch others perform

6. I can learn, and change! No matter how painful it may be at times! ha ha ha

7. I can fit my fist in my mouth, milk a goat, drive a tractor, and laugh REALLY loudly

7 THINGS I CAN'T DO

1. I can't speak a foreign language..... yet.....

2. I can't watch anyone I love get hurt, I come out swinging!

3. I can't dance very well.... I just pretend, and fling myself around the stage!

4. I can't stand being cold! I get so crabby!!!

5. I can't believe in global warming! Guys I have tried to see this point of view (please don't' toilet paper my house now!!!)

6. I can't sleep in the day.... no matter how tired I am!

7. I can't be an awesome super hero! No matter how hard I have tried!

7 THINGS I SAY MOST OFTEN

1. " good Gandhi!"

2. "Once upon a time"

3. "P.S." (thanks Jen!!! hee hee)

4. "Remember that one time"

5. "Thank you for calling Standard Optical, your LASIK specialist, this is Leah, how may I help you today?" (oh work..... )

6. " I probably shouldn't have said that...."

7. "You dwarf digger!"

7 CELEBRITY ADMIRATION.....

Seriously?

7 THINGS I HATE!!!

1. People popping their knuckles, seriously makes me want to vomit!!!

2. People chewing with their mouth open, and all loudly and grossly, oh my gosh!!! Learn some manners!!!!

3. Old people driving... the roads are hazardous enough without you on the road....

4. Eliza jumping above my room at 6:30 AM when I am trying so very hard to sleep....

5. Belching, of any kind, it makes me nauseous....

6. Feminists! You ruined my life.....

7. Political agenda of any kind... Especially in little kids movies... Like Walli... I walked out in the first five minutes. I came to be entertained not to have your opinion shoved down my throat........ Through my eyes no less!!!

7 FAVORITE THINGS!

1. My family! How did I get so lucky? Love you all!!!

2. Friends! Seriously thanks for putting up with me and loving me anyway!

3. Holidays! I love when people use that excuse to be so loving and kind!

4. Being in Musicals! I love it!!! (men singing for that matter, a good male voice, and I melt!)

5. Robyn's Caramel Corn... oh so good!!!

6. Babies, and kids, so pure, and innocent

7. Just sitting around with people I love, and laughing.... oh!!!! and eating really good food!

Leah Updates

So update on me..... Robyn made me do this! ;) I am working... and I don't know what to do.... I am the manager of Standard Optical in Sandy. I have been doing that for awhile. I moved into a new ward which is really fun! I love my new ward! They are so nice there! Caleb and Ashley, Anna Lisa and Kingi, and Rob and Tamara all had their babies! Exciting I am an aunt four times! So I decided time to do something with my life so I am going back to school to get my bachelors in Theatre Arts, I think it's called... anyway to become a high school drama teacher! That would be fun! You think? I love being single... I think I have done a blog on that before, it is really fun, you meet new people and do new things! But I am available for being set up! Let me know! ;)

Tamara and Rob's baby Orianna Lilly Bates

Caleb and Ashley's baby Adelaide May Van Bloem

This was beautiful people, beautiful clothes night! I was so honored to be invited!
I hope I passed!

Oklahoma! Thanks to all the people who were able to come, meant a lot. L-R Mica Me and Lacey! Dance practice!

I played Gertie, and may I jsut say... My laugh... bugged me!

Anna Lisa and Kingi's baby, Meliame Renee Brown

This is my mom at our Van Bloem Family Reunion in Canada! We had a blast!

Me and my cousins and Paul! VB Family Reunion 08'

Paul Eliza and I headed on up! What a long drive......

This is the best sign! Yes I am a republican.... Very much so....

Anna Lisa's new little one. Meliame Renee Brown! She is so pretty! Look at those lips!

SO THIS IS LIFE

You know how sometimes you wake up in the morning and you think, "Is this really going to be the rest of my life?" It gets a little daunting! Not that my life is bad, I mean I really shouldn't complain, it's just weird. I mean when you were little I am sure none of us pictured our lives being the life we are currently living. I know I was positive I would be famous by now, and traveling all over the world, and making movies on exotic locations! Oh and be married to a very hot other actor, and we would be LDS, and everyone would love us! ;) Okay I probably didn't think it through that well! Ha ha

I think that I just didn't imagine this. I love my life, it is actually VERY fun! I do a lot of exciting things, like trips to New York, flying an airplane, Michael Buble concert!, I am going to Hawaii, I do make up for movies, I don't know though, I just pictured something else. I didn't even think my daddy would die, I didn't ever think that I would be 25 and single, I didn't think I would be a boring office manager.

But you know it is different in a kind of good way. Like I think I have learned more, and am a better person because of it..... I have more empathy..... I just have a little more wisdom, and a lo more spirituality, and a better relationship with my H.F. cause of it.... a little more peace... you know?

Well I don't know what we are supposed to blog about, but this was on my mind......

LOOK WHAT ROBYN MADE ME DO!

So I am trying this out... The whole blogging thing.... This will be interesting...