some many choices, so many moons!

Jared asked me where I wanted to go for our honeymoon. It may be hard to choose a name for myself, but when you are presented with a question like (how I heard it anyway), "Miki, we are going on a vacay no matter what, the sky is limit, where do you wanna go?"

This is what my mind thinks up:

1st of course (anyone who really truly knows me can guess this one):

Galapagos Islands, because for my entire life I have wanted to see a marine iguana, I swear on mine, shia's and jareds life that I will go here before I die.

Next: FIJI! I have wanted to go here for a long time. It looks amazing, and now that I am scuba certified, I can't find a good reason not to go, except that it is oober expensive.

Australia: Who doesn't want to go here? I think 96% of mankind wants to see a Kangaroo and Koala, any marsupial would do actually.

Costa Rica: My cousin married my cousin-in-law Raquel, and she is from Costa Rica. When I was little she used to show me pictures of Costa Rica. It made me want to go there so bad. This actually a real option. I would love to take in the beautiful beaches and mangos.

Santorini, Greece: Not necessarily Santorini. Greece has always captivated me, because my name is Greek, Alexandria. Plus I also will go to Greece before I die, because I am in love with art history and it all started here in Greece.

Where else should we be looking into? We want to book soon so we can get a deal on flights, they aren't too bad right now. Where did you go, where do you want to go? Tell me all!

The only place we don't really want to go is Mexico because we are VERY fortunate that both our families go ever year, so we already have 2 trips planned to Mexico.

Sneak Peek!

Everything seems to just fall into the correct place lately. No giant hamsters or tiny rhino's have come across my path yet (which is a good thing) even though, I probably wouldn't mind meeting a tiny rhino.

Jared and I are officially getting married August 26th. We have a place rented for 2 days (august 26th morning -28th morning), so our immediate  families are going to get a nice weekend getaway for our wedding. It was important to me that the DeMann's and Loveless' are able to get to know each other, as they will be in-laws as soon as Jared and I tie the knot.

eeek! I am so excited. Life is good. Shia is no longer going to have to deal with a custody battle, she can live with her human mom & dad.

Anyway. Jared would KILL me if I showed off the entire place/ inside/location, because it is half a surprise to all our friends. Anyone that wants to be involved definitely will be! I need lots of help, as if that isn't apparent.

I am already thinking of talents that my friends/ families have, that I can take advantage of. Please let me know if you have a hidden/ widely shown talent because I honestly want everyone to be involved so that ONE AND ALL can have a good time and own part of the wedding. 

sneak peak: - ok so Jared threw me down the stairs after he saw that I posted pics of the house, so I altered them. . .

 a waterfall in the front 

Some of the backyard. . .  SOME

 This is where I will put my amphibians that want to attend our wedding.

 eeepers! my wedding stairs in the back, i may or may not be in love.

a little of our house, a very little sneak peak

eep. I've already shared too  much.

On another note. I found the most adorable engagement video to this song and I am absolutely in love with the video and this song.

Last but not least:

If anyone knows of awesome vendors they used for the wedding, or that are families/ friends, let me know!!

Name Choices.. help!!

Some of you may think it is hard to name a child, and let me tell you it's not! I have already named both of my future children (Jared and I came up with them together - no worries) My one boy and one girl, that was easy.

Here is my dilemma, what do I name myself.

Now that Jared and I are engaged (eeek! :) :) times 10,000) I have to decide what my new name will be. I absolutely LOVE my last name, Loveless. I am very attached to it and all the very clever jokes that come along with it. On the other end, DeMann (Jared's last name) also has great jokes that are equally clever that come along.

My name is already very long (25 letters!) Alexandria Mikhail Loveless, and I simply go by Miki. Even though I've never gone by anything but Miki, I am also very attached to the Alexandria Mikhail part.

So then I say do I become Alexandria Mikhail Loveless DeMann (so long!)

Drop everything and say: Miki Loveless DeMann

Bye bye middle: Alexandria Loveless DeMann

Do I just rid of Loveless: Alexandria Mikhail DeMann

Oh my goodness, I seriously think this will be the hardest part of planning the wedding. What to do? What to do? HELP!

Proposal Story :)

Okay so sometimes I give up my blog challenge when I get engaged. Stuff happens right :) ? A lot of people have been inquiring how this beautiful ring happened to find my finger, so here is the story:

For weeks Jared and I had been planning to go up to Park City and meet one of his clients for dinner that was in town. Friday (march 4th) Jared and I both got off work a little early so that we could get to the his client's hotel on time. I got to Shia a little before Jared and laid down, because I hadn't slept very well the night before. I ended up falling asleep and was suppose to have Shia ready by the time Jared got there. Needless to say he came home and I was scrambling around like a loose bean trying to get all Shia's toys and food together. We get here to my parents and literally drop her off and just bounce. We had 20 minutes to make a 50 minute drive.

We get to the client's hotel 8 minutes late (we may or may not have sped). We get to the splendid restaurant Shabu Shabu (highly recommended, most delicious food I've ever had in Park City). It is like melting pot, but  much better.

Anyway around 10pm we finally check into our hotel. The New Park Hotel which was also an incredible experience. We check in and the guy gives us a parking permit and we walk up to our room. The entire place was lit up with open fire pits and flat screen TVs, it had 90% of windows for walls so you could see all of park city no matter where you were at in the hotel. We get to our room and we have a quaint room with a big beautiful fire place and a comfy couch. Immediately I turn on Chelsea Lately and curl up by the fire place in a big down comforter.

Jared being Classy, in our room.

My favorite spot, the fireplace!

 Jared ran out to put his permit in the car, and came back up with a big white box. I open it up and there are 2 darling shirts and a bracelet. He said he wanted to thank me, just because. He does really sweet things quite often lately so I wasn't expecting anything. Then he tells me to open a card (he NEVER does cards), so the first card was a really sweet card about how much he misses me when I'm not there (it was not his writing, it was hallmark). It was like an 8 page flip book, then he had slipped another little card at the end and asked me to read it aloud, so I was reading it to him and it talked about 2 1/2 years ago when we first had met up until the future he saw us having together. I, of course, was already crying (because I am a baby like that.)

I turned around and he had his big red eyes from holding back tears and asked me to marry him with the ring out. I hugged him lots and cried lots. Throughout that night I'd wake up and look at my hand and wake Jared up and say, "Jare, I'm crying again!" That's what my life has been like for the last week, I'm a baby!

Side Note: I ran over my phone the next morning, after I sent out the "we're engaged!" text, so no one be offended if I didn't write back! :)

He had asked my parents & his parents in advance and both were thrilled with the idea. :)

Jared saw my ring from an email his sister, Betsy, had sent a few months prior. He had looked into who the designer was and they were some foreign Italian company that wouldn't sell to private buyers. So of course, Jared cheated the system. He printed the picture out and took it to Limb Jewelers and requested they make it for me. They were against it at first because it's a little design heavy. But they ended up doing it anyway, and finished it the Friday he proposed to me! He was able to see the ring made from wax, how cool is that?!

Also I've been getting a lot of this, "Did Jared sell his house to afford that diamond!?" The story behind the rock:
Jared found my diamond on a jewelry pawn website, it was attached to a really UGLY golden ring, so he bought the ring for half the price of what the diamond is worth and had it cleaned and shined and melted the gold for some cash as well. That's my boy, always thinking outside the box!

Limb Jewelers did an awesome job, but  mostly my Jared did.

It is a tensions Diamond, so you can see the diamond, from every angle, thanks to the little peering windows on both sides :)

Inventions:

What is the most important invention or innovation that has happened during your life-time?
the ipod.

 {me listening to my ipod at work today}

How would you spend your ideal day?
Wake up in a beach side villa then go scuba diving. I would then layout for a few hours and then hit up some cute little vendor and get some cheese quesidillas, all with jared.

{Scuba Diving in Cozumel}

Loving Expectations.

• What's worse. . . having expectations that are too high or having no expectations at all?

Having  no expectations at all, that would mean you are never expecting anything, so you'd never have emotions, and what's a girl without emotions?!?! a boy! If all of us were boys, well that would truly be awful.

(why we don't all wanna be boys :) )

DeMann Boys: Bryce, Josh, Jared, Devin, Jordan?, Will

{Loveless boys}

Buba, Brennon, Jare Hound

• How do you know when you're in love?

Well I guess when you BOTH are devoted to the relationship 150%, and you are HONESTLY always thinking of your 'partners' happiness over everything. When you compromise and sacrifice daily and it doesn't make you sad? I knew I was in love with Jared after we'd been dating about 4 months, and now we've been together for 2 years, 1 month and 3 days and I still haven't been proved wrong :)
[xoxoxo, loves jare!]

 New Years 2011

New Years Kiss

(both of our first new years kissies)

that is C-U-T-E

Toughy. Maybe the toughest yet!

What three things do you regret  not learning to do?

I always try to say "I have no regrets" that puts you in a bad mindset, but maybe for this blog post, I will let my mind wonder into the bad set!

1. I regret never taking the Spanish AP test, I passed the class with an A, should of done it! I could have had more confidence in my Spanish.

2. I regret not learning very well how to drive a stick shift. I always seem to come across that problem, where I need to know and "I learned" when I was 15, but I was so awful, that my dad and friends didn't want me to burn out their clutches so they stopped teaching and I stopped trying.

3. I regret not learning to . . . like to work out. My dad always said you never like working out unless you actually start doing it, and enjoy the results. I never felt that I needed to work out so I didn't, but now I wish I would have formed the habit years ago. I have to start fresh, if I ever start.

 [me and all my Mexico friends]

If you had a crystal ball that could tell you one thing about yourself, life, the future, what would it be and why?


Hm, I would see what career I am in. I thoroughly enjoy where I am now, and where I am going. I always think to myself, maybe I should be an oceanographer, animal cop or a salesmen. Which takes me back to questions 1, I regret not learning to be a salesman. That comes in handy so much in life, and sadly its something I am TERRIBLE at!

[My old office, before we moved, when it was my bday]

Who would of guessed. . . ?

• what is the last thing you regret buying?

Flash cards, they were only like $.88, but I bought them to study theories in math. I used to be able to say, "oh . .  I don't have flash cards, so I guess I can't really study too hard." Now those perfect 4x6 cards, all white with their perfect red little lines ARE TAUNTING me! They always want me to study. The other problem is that I believe myself to have OCD, because I absolutely love new, unused paper, I have bundles of notebooks in all sizes and shapes and I will go buy a cheap one so I don't have to use my new paper. I know it is really weird, but at least I don't have to walk up and down the stairs touching the third stair 3 times or something strange (sarcasm, i know paper addiction is weird.)

[NOTE: Once I saved up $40 from babysitting, when I was 11 and I had my mom drive me to office max and spent all of it on office supplies. I was truly a different child.

• if you could bring someone back from the dead, who would it be and why?

Geez that is really a tough one. I recently had a friend pass that I wish I could bring back, but truth is that is very selfish of me. I want him back to erase the pain of everyone that knew him, but I KNOW he's so much  better now. So I'd have to say. . .  maybe President Lincoln, if he was evolved in to this century. We need a president that everyone loves and will stay united behind right now. In order to pull our economy and country together. So that's my real answer, who could really hate President Lincoln?

[NOTE: I did say evolved, so he would be intelligent in dealing with the issues of today]