Well, I posted pictures of my new hair on facebook, but neglected to do so here. On President's Day, Wesley had to work so I went to my parent's house at seven a.m. (Yuck!) Both of my brothers needed haircuts and as I just learned how to cut Wesley's hair, they let me get some practice in. Katelyn decided that she wanted a haircut too and so did my mom. I had been thinking about cutting my hair for a while and since my friend who has cut my hair for the past year and who did it for my wedding was working, we decided to all go get our hair cut too. I sat down in her chair and said, "Melanie, I am donating my hair! What can you do with it?" She got all excited and showed me how much ten inches was. I actually wanted my hair shorter than that, so she ended up cutting off 14 inches to donate plus more to style my hair. I now have an A-line that goes a little past my chin. I love it! It is a million times lighter, (even though it is thicker again) and takes half the time to do in the morning. I can't french braid it anymore when I don't feel like doing anything, but I can do two short little ponytails. It is great. Wesley always told me he liked my long hair because he could play with it, but he has played with my short hair more in the week and half that I have had it, than he played with my long hair since I got home from Mexico. Go figure!

Here is what the car is supposed to look like...

...and here is what it looks like!

So, about a week after we got married, Wesley was in a car accident. Some 16 year old girl tried to cross all lanes of traffic without looking. She ran right into him. He wasn't hurt, but the front right of our car was crushed in. The turn signal is gone, the headlight doesn't work and the wheel grinds against the casing every time we turn left. It was clearly her fault, (despite her trying to convince Daddy it wasn't) and we got her insurance information. Turns out, she gave us the wrong information. We thought it could be an honest mistake, so we tried calling. Again. And again. And again. We talked to them twice and each time they told us that the car wasn't there and they would call us back. So, we would wait. And then call again. We called the officer who took the accident report and he called them with no results. Finally, we got Wesley's uncle involved and got the information directly from the insurance company. That took three weeks. They sent out a claims adjuster who discovered far more damage than we had thought. The car is considered totaled because the damage is 3,200 dollars and they were willing to give us 2,800 dollars. So, we went out yesterday and bought a new car. It is sad, because a) we loved our little car with manual gears, sun roof and v-tek engine and b) now we have a car payment. I do like our new car. It is a gold 2000 Honda Accord. It is a bigger car and had four doors instead of two. We like the space, the turn radius, the headlights and the CD player that actually works!

Wesley got a job!!!!

Yay! Wesley finally got a job! He began training yesterday at 7a.m. Last Friday he got a phone call asking him to come to an interview at a place called Teleperformance. It is a fiberoptic support center, where people call in for help with their internet. Wesley didn't even remember applying there, he had applied at so many places. He had two interviews and they hired him right then. He then spent another forty-five minutes filling out paperwork. He has five weeks of training from 7a.m. until 3:30p.m. and then he officially starts. It is good pay, plus benefits. He does have to leave around 6:30a.m. That means that we have to wake up at 5:30a.m. Wow, that takes me back to high school. I haven't gotten up that early consistently for a very long time! He drops me off at BYU and then drives on up to Lindon, where the call center is located. I spend 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours doing homework in the morning and he picks me up on his way home. We are very, very, VERY grateful that he now has a job. Thanks to everyone who has been praying for us! We love you!

Well, we still don't have any wedding pictures, but we can skip that and come back to it. We are living in a house in Provo while the owners are serving a mission. We actually live in the basement, where we have a living room/office space, full kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. We have a HUGE closet and lots of storage space. When we first moved in and brought our wedding gifts, they took up the whole living room. We pretty much just left them there for a while until we had time to sort things out. It has been a lot of fun for me to decorate and arrange our own place. Wesley was so funny about arranging furniture. He was the one who kept moving things around so that it was "our" place instead of how the owners had arranged things. We do have yucky wallpaper that we can't do anything about, so a lot of my pictures and decorations had to go back into storage for later. Our house is finally all clean and mostly decorated. We are just waiting for our wedding pictures to display.

Our engagement pictures were taken by Sister Oliver, my old Young Womens president and a sweetheart. She took them in her basement. Aren't they amazing!?

Yay! Engagement stuff! We got to campus early and so I have time to blog. Here is how Wesley proposed:
On Sunday, August 24th, less than a week after his first shoulder surgery, Wesley decided not to take his pain medicine, despite the fact that we had three sacrament meetings to go to, two missionary get-together meals and a family dinner. I kept trying to get him to take it and he kept saying, "I'll take it later." So, in the middle of one of the missionary things, his sister called and he tells me that they want to take us for a drive. Okay...so we went. We drove out to a place called Salem Lake Park, where we wandered around for a bit. Wesley and I walked over to a bridge and were talking about how my grandpa always threatened to throw us into the water. Then he tells me to close my eyes because he has something for me. My first thought was that he couldn't be proposing because he hadn't talked to my dad yet (he was supposed to do that while I was at band camp the coming week). My next thought was to wonder if he was giving me a bug or a fake spider or something because of our conversation. Then I heard his knee hit the boards of the wooden bridge. I gasped (I am assured that it was a very cute gasp) and my eyes flew open to see him holding a ring. He then asked me to marry him, to which I said yes. He claims that it was barely audible, even though it was just pitched slightly higher than my normal voice. When we turned around, his sister and brother-in-law had a camera and had been taking pictures. It was incredibly sweet, especially considering that he was hurting due to lack of pain medicine. We drove back to his grandparents house after calling my parents. Everybody had known he was proposing except for me. He had wanted to surprise me, because I claim to not like surprises. My husband is the best ever!

So I know that technically I am supposed to be putting up our cute engagement pictures and telling about our engagement and then after that it is supposed to be wedding pictures and such and then I am allowed to complain on here, but I didn't feel like being conventional. Being the girl part of the marriage really bites. The girl has to change her name, her social security card, her license, her name and status at BYU (if that is where she attends, like I am attending), the name on the joint bank account which has to be set up, which the setting up of can cause issues with dumb things like insurance, etc. There is so much more a girl has to do. It is especially stressful to try and do when I am going to school and working two jobs. It is hard to be a grown up! I was so looking forward to having everything set up. We finally got our debit cards, although I have to change mine because my name is changing. We have things changed and are just waiting on my new cards to change more things, but then we had a little hiccup with our car insurance. It has been one thing after another! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my husband and I LOVE being married, but I am not such a big fan of the everything changes and I have to be an adult now. Okay, rant is sort of over. For those of you who actually look at this, I promise that I will post engagement stuff soon, just as soon as my brain can handle one more thing added to it! Love you!