New blog!!!

So Alan and I made our own blog together (well I made it while I was bored at home and Alan was at his ward which conveniently meets right after my ward gets out...). Here's the address!

atannersquared.blogspot.com

So I'm just going to post on that one and not on this one anymore. Hope you keep following ours! Love ya!

Alan and Alexis

Lots of pictures!

Wow a month and a half has gone by since we've been engaged and has it been busy!!! We're doing great with wedding plans and have most of the big stuff done - temple, dress, cake, reception, etc. There's so much to do, but we're getting it all done one step at a time.

So a little about the last month and a half. My roomie and dear friend Crystal Foy, now Weber got married to her husband Mike. I got to be a bridesmaid and one of my duties was to pick up the flowers. They were so pretty!



The day and wedding were beautiful and it was so much fun to be a part of it! We took an old roomie picture and soon I'll get to join them as being married. Yay!!!



The week after we got engaged, Alan and I got to go to his family's cabin for a family vacation in Island Park, Idaho. We even had matching shirts! We spent the days swimming in freezing lake water, playing games, watching movies, seeing waterfalls, taking walks, and having cereal eating contests. Alan won, I'm such a proud fiance!




While we walked to some waterfalls, the family took the pictures and I got to be a part of them!




Aren't we cute?



And then we took our engagement pictures at the beginning of the month. Here is just a sample, but if you want to see most of them, here's the website.
http://whitneylewis.smugmug.com/Engagement and then click on Alan and Alexis. We'll be sending out the announcements next month and we're taking our bridals this Friday so we can get the fall foliage in. We're so excited! Actually, I'm more excited than Alan. He doesn't like taking pictures, but he loves me so we do them. I think they're fun!

I'm Engaged!!!

Well last Sunday I got engaged to the man of dreams - Alan Tanner. Here's our engagement story in case you were wondering...

So I'm going to Alan's family's cabin this next week in Idaho and I kind of guessed that was when he was going to propose...whoops! So he wanted to change it and completely surprise me. So Sunday night we went to his parents' house to have dinner with his family. Then we were going to have dessert at his grandparents' house which is in Bountiful and we were in Centerville. So we left first and got there first. When we got there, Alan asked if I wanted to look at the backyard because his family has patio breakfasts out there and we had been talking about that earlier that day. So I said, sure! So we walked out to the backyard and I see all these lights (it's about 9:30 at night) and I thought, oh that's cool, they decorate their backyard because his grandpa was out there. But then his grandpa just walked away and I was like...what? Oh wow this is it! There were tiki torches lined to two white chairs and behind them was a large pine tree covered in white christmas lights. There were tea lite candles on a table, a water fountain, and a bouque of lilies which are my favorite! There was also a cd player playing our song "I knew I loved you" by Savage Garden. So we slow danced to the song and he told me how he fell in love with me. He was a little nervous, I could feel him shaking! Then he had me sit down and in his sock was the box with my ring inside. He pulled it out, told me he loved me, and asked me to marry him. Of course I said yes! So we slow danced a little more and then went inside where the whole family was waiting for us. We all hugged and went back outside and took pictures and ate dessert. Then I was able to go to my parents' house and spend some time with them as well. It's nice that our families are so close!






























So we'll be sealed for time and all eternity on November 20th in the Bountiful, Utah temple and will have a reception that night in Farmington, UT. I cannot even wait!

So a little about Alan: He's the 3rd of 6 children. He served his mission in Oklahoma Tulsa and returned January 2nd of this year. He still has about 3 years of undergrad left at BYU. He's a business entreprenuership major and pre-med. He plans to go to med school, but we're not sure where yet. So he has a lot of school ahead of him and I graduate this April. :-) But I'm going to start teaching next year so hopefully that will bring in a little money for us. He's 6'1" with black hair and blue/green eyes. Love it! He's smart, he's fun, he's athletic, but most importantly he's worthy and perfect for me. I love him so much!

We met in our single's ward and live across the street from each other. His roommates were my hometeachers and they would invite me over all the time so Alan and I got to know each other pretty well. I guess he had wanted to ask me out for a while and finally did on June 13th. So we haven't been dating that long, but we've been friends for a while and I love that. But I hope the next three months fly by! I can't wait to marry Alan Tanner!

July has come and gone

Wow July is already over and it went by so fast! So much happened and I was gone a lot doing EFY and vacations in CA so here are some pictures and an update on my life thus far.

Starting with the 4th of July - I went to Kaysville and hung out with my family and Alan came and joined us after he got off work from the MTC. We went to the Kaysville City parade which ends in a huge water fight where we drenched each other with squirt guns and large trucks squirting came by spraying tons of water on us. So fun!










Then we celebrated my roomie's birthday by biking to YoZone and eating cake. Yummy!




So I have always wanted to go to a rodeo so Alan took me to the one in Nephi. And if you've never been to Nephi...well it's very appropriate that they have rodeos. And Alan served his mission in Oklahoma and Arkansas and his hick accent just came out like he had spoken that way his whole life! It probably didn't help that we were wearing cowboy hats and faded jeans, but it was so funny! He is so adorable!



This year for our family vacation, we went to Oceanside and spent a couple of the days at the beach. It was so nice to soak in the sun and just hang out on the shore. Unfortunately with our white covered Utah skin, we tend to burn (well except Hayley...) and we all left with some red and peeling skin, but it was so worth it!



We also went to the temple as a family which was so fun! It was the first time we've done that since we lived in Temecula.



And then I spent the last 2 weeks at EFY in Redlands, CA. It was so fun! Different than BYU EFY but I got to meet some great kids and I learned a lot those two weeks. I learned a lot about myself and about other people. I was glad I did it, but I am so glad to be home. I missed Alan so much and I couldn't wait to see him! He picked me up from the airport and we couldn't believe we were actually hugging each other after talking on the phone every night for the last 3 weeks. I love Alan so much! My dad thought that the song "I knew I loved you" by Savage Garden should be Alan's song to me and it totally matches us. And just a heads up...we may have gone ring shopping today... :-)

Manifest the Truth



My cos Brent and Jess!





Pizza Night!



And this is my co Mike. I'm setting him and Hayley up on a date!



My second group, was Perish Not. Great kids!



Aw my boys.

Crazy summer times!

Well it's been a while since I've posted a new entry and because of that, I am way behind! So I'll just give you a glimpse what has happened this past month with some fun pictures.

Ok starting with EFY. I love EFY! I love everything about it - the kids, the activities, the spiritual uplifting and support, great friends, great lessons...it's heaven. I also love that once you put that counselor name tag on, you have the right and responsibility to go crazy! And we do! Here are some pictures of my 2 weeks at EFY at BYU. I have 2 more weeks at the end of July, but I'll be in Redlands, CA and I am way stoked about that!

My co-cos Patrick and Meagan



Game night and pizza night! Hooray for pizza day, the best day of the week!



It rained a lot this week and not all of us were prepared...



My co-cos Jimmy and Shanna and our coordinators. Love them!



My girls are always amazing!!! They are so much fun!!!



So some of the health counselors are my friends Jared and Juls. They're great! Jared was my home teacher winter semester and we're still in the same ward. I just love him!



So the last night of EFY, after the dance and good-byes, we went outside and it was pouring rain! So we ran to Heritage Halls and this was the result. It was crazy!



In between EFY I went to Lagoon with the fam and that was fun... when I finally got there. I sat in stopped traffic for 2 hours in North Salt Lake as there was a big accident that blocked the 2 lane freeway.



Jared is from Orem and has a sailboat so he takes us sailing somtimes.



And then I also met this boy...
Jared's roommate Alan Tanner and I started hanging out around March and went on our first date June 13th and have been dating ever since. We do everything together and I love every minute of it. He is amazing! I feel so lucky to be with a guy like Alan. Here are some of the fun things we've done.

Our first date was a double with Jared and his date Robyn. We went to Alan's and had some fun little competitions throughout the night. And Alan and I won by the way... :-)



We went to the St. George temple on the way to hike the Narrows in Zions with some friends. That was so fun! I got a little scraped up and my socks weren't high enough so I have some fatty cuts on the back of my feet, but it was so worth it. It was beautiful and we hiked in water most of the time.











And yesterday we went to the Oquirrh Temple Open House in South Jordan and saw a rainbow on the way home! It was beautiful!

Cake cake cake cake cake

We threw a birthday party for my roommate Whitney's 21st birthday and it was quite eventful! Saturday night we got Chinese take out at Saigon's and ate it on our roof! We live in a three story building and have roof access so we hopped on up and ate up there. It was so fun! Then Sunday we had people over and somehow ended up with 5...count them, 5 cakes! People just kept bringing them to us! We had so much left over that somehow we ended up in a cake fight at midnight and scrubbed it off our floor and walls until 1 in the morning. It was really fun though. First food fight!





My roommate Crystal us getting married to the love of her life this summer so we threw here a bridal shower! We made tons of food and played some fun little games at the park. It turned out well and hopefully she had fun. She said she did. :-)







And tomorrow I am off to EFY for the week! I am so excited! I love these kids. It is the best job I have ever had. Don't worry, I'll take tons of pictures!

Beautiful Spring!

My roomies and I have been talking about going to the Salt Lake City temple to do baptisms for a while, so we set a day and finally went. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon. The flowers were gorgeous and it was an amazing experience!

Earlier in the day we did a stake service activity and planted flowers on center street in Provo, went to the temple, and then ended the day with a woman's appreciation dinner that our ward did. It was to show how much we are respected as women. It was really sweet. The boys from our ward escorted us and we got flowers at the end. The night before I went on a group date and we did foil dinners in the Spanish Fork canyon. It was so much fun! And earlier that day I went sailing with some friends on my friend's sailboat. Sunday was Mother's Day which went really well. Mom said she had a good day so I'm going to go with chalking up that one under success. :-)

These week has been a little different. Yesterday I had nose surgery which was loads of fun. Last February I had nose surgery because the cartilage in my nose was growing more on one side than the other and pressed against my skin so you could see a large white spot where it was. So last year I got it fixed, but as my nose healed it didn't heal right and so much scar tissue built up that it began to make the cartilage on the other side stick out farther than the other and the cartilage formed in an S shape rather than straight...nice...so I got that redone yesterday and now I'm chilling at my parents' for the weekend. Last time I was conked out for 3 days with black and blue eyes, but this time I'm up and moving with only swelling and that's all! Hopefully I'll be back to normal soon. But if you get bored, send me a text! I'll just be sitting around until Monday.