Yep.. Marriage!

I'm a little late, Aren't I?? Yep, We got Married! Levi Proposed to me on July 3rd, a few month Ago. After a short engagement we got married on September 5th, So we've been married for almost 2 months now. Crazy how time flies and life gets busy, I haven't had time to set and blog for quite some time. But the initial shock of married life has passed, and now I will write about the past, probably 9 months since I have written?

I graduated high school in May even though I had not been to school since last December. My babysitting went well and I made quite a bit of money doing so. I was able to help in purchasing more of our home furnishings! But school has came back around so that has ended for me, so now I just have the occasional babysitting job, nothing consistent. Back in March, Levi's dad had a pretty bad stroke. Levi's Aunt and Uncle live here in Oklahoma so we all drove up there to see him for about a week. Yes, Drove. About 36 hours is what it took..... It wasn't so bad, because I got to see alot of states I hadn't seen yet. He's better now, but he still has fully recovered.  Levi's brother got married in June to my now new sister in law, Laura! She is very sweet, and although I do not know her super well yet (I've only just met her at there wedding, and spent a little time with her when she came here for ours..) She seems like someone I will really get along with in the future. Our personalities are very similar. I look forward to our future friendship! :)
We spent another week there then for the wedding and spent majority of that time in Brewster, Washington for their wedding. I got baptized up there the day after the wedding which wasn't at all what I had envisioned for our trip, but it was the perfect timing and God worked everything out. When We drove back into Portland We met with his Grandparents and spent our last day with them. I just LOVE his Nana, Her and I are two peas in a pod from different generations.
A few weeks after we got back Levi proposed to me at our church, in the parking lot, In the same spot where we First met 3 1/2 years ago, Where we first kissed, and where he asked me to be his girlfriend, and now asked to be his wife. So that spot is now very special to us. :)
After two months of planning, Our wedding went amazing! It was absolutely beautiful outside and Everything went perfect. His family came down and stayed at our home, and we got to spend quite a bit of time with them which I really enjoyed. Here is a link too some pictures from the wedding! Wedding Photos

And here are some engagement pictures :)

And of course, THE ring! 

And now, I am an 18 year old housewife. ;)

Pictures of our home, will come soon I promise. I do not do anything during the day, So I have no excuse not to write more! 

Life has changed!

     Since my last post before the other day was all the way back in July, I have a lot of catching up to do.
     After we got back home from our Oregon Trip, (Read about it here) I only had about a week until my first day of my senior year. I was actually kind of ready to start, so that I could hurry up and get the next 8 or 9 months over with, and never have to step foot in that place again. But since then, I've started, and finished , high school. And it's only been 4 months. ;)
     This December I had my last day as a student, ever. I have no intentions of going to college, so in October I talked to my principle about graduating early. I was already only showing up for half days anyway, and the only two classes I had were easy blow off classes. I have literally taken every class my small high school of about 100 kids has. It was pretty boring doing nothing up there all day, so I figured id talk to him about finishing in December so that I could get a job Next semester. Well, he worked it out for me, and all that I had to do was take a few online classes to get a few more credits, and in after December, I wouldn't have to show up anymore! I will still graduate in May like all my other classmates, I just don't have to come to school anymore... I still can't believe it worked out so well for me! I also turned 18 in November.
     Since I didn't have school to occupy my time anymore, It was time to get my first job. Well, Being "ungraduated" (technically), and not having any job references considering I've never had a job before, I didn't think I'd be able to find a good job, ( That I'd enjoy..) that paid above minimum wage. Add the fact that I have a Jeep commander as a vehicle, which gets a whopping 10 miles per gallon, and that I live in Agra, which is a small town in the middle of no where that is a good 20 minutes from ANY other form of civilization.... The drive to my job would take most of my paycheck away in Gas money. So, I decided to babysit. Around here on Facebook we have local "buy, sell, and trade groups" which is basically like Craigslist, on Facebook. I posted on there saying I was looking for a kid to babysit full time, and that day someone that lives about 10 minutes from me responded. So now, I am babysitting a cute little girl named Haidyn from 6:15 AM til around 3, Monday through Friday. She's 2, And is so easily distracted with TV and her Tablet...Yes, a two year old has her very own tablet. She can even get on YouTube by herself and find Frozen videos without my help, but yet she can't talk... Or go to the bathroom on her own. Lol! I didn't get my first anything technology wise until I was about 6 and I got a game boy.. which is basically prehistoric now. And When I was two, I was probably still banging on toys that made noises. Times have indeed changed.  :P
     I get paid about a 100 a week, which isn't alot, but She's such a breeze to watch. If she's got her tablet, and Frozen is on the Tv, I'm basically home alone! Lol, She even takes 2 1/2 hour naps everyday. Which means I, also, take 2 1/2 hour naps everyday. Its great how things workout ;)
     I'm currently writing this post setting at.. Levi and I's kitchen table. Things have changed! I don't live with him, But this is going to be our first home after we get married.  And I'm in Charge of decorating! Well, I say I am, But we do it together. He's been a huge help to me with picking things out, and huge help financially. ;) I never expected to marry a man who had a good taste in decor, and that appreciates all the things we buy, or that even cared really.. Most men don't care too much, and think that the cheaper it is, the better! Because it all looks the same to them.. right?  Well I was pleased to find out Levi actually has an opinion, he has helped me make alot of decisions with our home.  Or, Maybe he just pretends to have an opinion, and just agree's with everything I say...? Lol!   I'm okay with not knowing! ;)
     I babysit Haidyn over here every day, and I'm here by 6am every morning. Levi and I get to have breakfast and coffee together before he heads off to work everyday, which makes getting up so early totally worth it! Then I spend all day here, clean the house, watch Haidyn, and Then Levi comes back for an hour for lunch, so I make him something to eat. It basically feels like I'm Living here already!
     We aren't engaged yet, But have plans of maybe getting married this Summer, Lord willing.  We will see how things go, but as for now, I'm perfectly content with how my life is going. Hopefully by Next July, I'll be Mrs. Amber Martin! ;)
     I will definitely have some before and after pictures of our house posted sometime soon!

Oregon trip

  About 5 months later, I'm now feeling a little motivation to write about my trip!
  Why a sudden burst of motivation?
   I got a new laptop! (Lets be honest..I got it about ...3 months ago. I'm really just lazy. ) (Let's be really honest, I've been working on this post for about all of the 5 months, and just never had the motivation to finish ...:P ) My laptop is a turquoise blue HP Chrome book. And I'm lovingggg it! Now I no longer have to deal with the very poorly structured blogger app, so the motivation to write more will hopefully stick around. ;)
   July 23rd at 2:30am.. I wake up and get around to head out on my very first flight. Days leading up to it, i was pretty excited about flying for the first time. The whole idea of seeing things from 30,000 feet above, and being eye level with the clouds was pretty interesting. Well, when you wake up on the morning of, your thoughts are more.. depressing. "What if something goes wrong? 30,000 feet is pretty high up..What if the plane crashes? Do I really want to do this?" Thoughts of 9/11, Malaysia Airlines, and any plane crash/ incident you can think of start running 90 miles an hour in your head. Needless to say.. I was pretty nervous.
   It's a good thing I had Levi with me, because the whole airport setup was pretty confusing for a first timer. I definitely wouldn't have made it from point A to point B without him! We went through the security check, and I got my palms checked for explosive residue... Do I look like a terrorist?? *adjusts turban*
   Our first plane went from Oklahoma City to Salt lake city, then from there we flew to Portland. I got a little "airplane sick" but other than that all my nervousness was for nothing, because our flights went really well. A little long and boring, but pretty well.
    Levi was sweet enough to let me set by the window every time, and I was glued to that window! Seeing the clouds at eye level was even more impressive then I had imagined..

   When we landed in Portland, it was raining. (How typical) We met up with his dad and ate Thai food, then went back to his house. My first time seeing My boyfriend of nearly 3 years home. It was so weird seeing it, knowing that through all those long distance phone calls and video chats that this is where he was. I got to see his old room, where he used to work, the Starbucks he was always at, the church he went too. It was so surreal to me to finally know what all the places were and what they looked like, instead of having just a mental image of what I imagined they would look like, which overall I would say that was my favorite part of the trip. :) 

    Being from Oklahoma, Oregon was overwhelmingly beautiful. I mean look at these trees?! You don't see those down here folks, nothing even close to that. I think I spent a good 75% of the trip getting googly eyed over trees. Yes, I'm easy to please lol! Levi took me too this park in Hillsboro, which is where I took these pictures. I think he was just as entertained by my obsession with the trees as I was WITH the trees! Lol      Another pretty cool thing up there, is berry farms. I love fruit, and being able to go pick it yourself and being able to buy it for such a cheap price was awesome! 

    That box was a little over $3. Insanely cheap and sure beats the heck outta bagged frozen berries.. And those were the Biggest and Best raspberries I have ever..ever had. If I ever live there, This would be something I'd do regularly. 

    After a few normal days there, Levi's dad decided to take us camping close to the coast. My first time meeting and being around Levi's siblings and they get to see me at my worst.. totally awesome. Lol! I slept in a tent in the middle of the wilderness for the first time ever. You'd think Living in Oklahoma I'd have a little experience in the whole camping/outdoors stuff, right? Wrong.

    All went well despite my fears. The first night Levi and I drove out to the coast alone where I got to see the ocean for the very first time ever. We watched the sunset under a blanket on the sand, and despite how cold it was, we shared ice cream, because there were no coffee shops in the town we were in. I thought Oregon was supposed to have coffee on every street corner? Levi is from the Portland/Hillsboro area, and coffee really WAS at least on every block there. It was amazing, not so many other towns had the same concept though, which was a little disappointing.

                             

     This was my very first view of the Ocean!

                     

     It's even sweeter since he wrote it, not me ;)

  The beautiful sunset we got to see together :) I couldn't have had a better first time at the ocean! I was so impressed, It exceeded all my expectations!

     We were camping by a river somewhere near Tillamook. The next day after we woke up Levi and I went kayaking while his family was fishing. It was my first time of course, so I was not the best at it, but the river was beautiful and I had alot of fun *attempting* to be good at kayaking ;) Later after that, We went to the Ocean again! It was during the day so we got to spend a little more time there..

That's Levi's nephew, Aries, burying him in the sand. ;)

Oregon is a very photogenic state!

      My last day at the Ocean Was the best. It was very overcast that day, Which I believe is when Oregon is the prettiest. It was really foggy and Misty, And we drove through some beautiful foggy woods to get here. 

The moss that grows on those rocks is incredible!

Levi's little brothers, Roman and Boaz :)

We went to go see a lighthouse that day also. You couldn't even see the ocean from inside the lighthouse because it was so foggy, But i got some good pictures walking too it!

Like I said, Oregon is very photogenic!

On our way back home we went to Multnomah Falls! Which was also my very first waterfall to ever see. Alot of firsts on this trip for me ;)

We went on a two mile hike up that mountain to get to the very top of that waterfall! It was sooo worth it,The views on the way there and the little creak that lead to the waterfall was absolutely beautiful.

Little Roman ahead of us on the trail!

I didn't get a whole lot of pictures at the top of the waterfall, Because I was actually in the creek climbing up rocks and fallen trees, it was really slippery and I didn't want to risk dropping my phone, but I did get a few. 

Roman and Abram :)

Of all the Nature exploring,  The top of Multnomah falls was probably my favorite. The hike was long, but it was so worth it. Looking back now I wish I would've risked it to get a few more pictures up there, but without my phone I was really able to just enjoy the scenery, and the adventure of going almost another half mile back into that little creek. I've never seen anything more beautiful in my life! 

      After all the camping and nature exploring was done, we only had just a few more days left to just relax, and that we did. I was getting a little homesick, But I loved Oregon so much. We got up early and came back home to boring Oklahoma, And I have missed it so much ever since. I really can't wait to go back for another trip, and maybe even one day call it home? ;)