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 ♥ i love to laugh ♥ i love to smile ♥ i love my awesome nephews ♥ i love my sweet niece ♥ i love having a roof over my head ♥ i love my big warm bed ♥ i love my dear sister ♥ i love the blessing of music ♥ i love my friends, near and far ♥ i love knowing the purpose of this life ♥ i love the hotel del coronado ♥ i love living in san diego ♥ i love all my talents ♥ i love my dad, more than he'll ever know ♥ i love being in love ♥ i love to swoon ♥ i love mexican food ♥ i love my friends who read my blog ♥ i love my talented mom ♥  i love my very best friends ♥ i love to cuddle ♥ i love to kiss ♥ i love neck massages and back rubs ♥ i love mr. red's cologne ♥ i love to read ♥ i love this song  ♥ i love straight hair ♥ i love linder truffles ♥ i love mindy gledhill [music] ♥ i love the coronado ferry landing ♥ i love valentine's day ♥ i love love ♥ i love chocolate ♥ i love the beach ♥ i love mama mck ♥ i love to sing ♥ i love to create ♥ i love my Heavenly Father for ALL that he's blessed me with ♥

Sunday.

Feeling a lil randi...

-I like the way my blog looks now. FINALLY.

-I'm glad Summer's right around the corner...and I'm UBER GLAD I lost weight since winter!! My cute board shorts that I bought 2 years ago will look GREAT! (cause they're super loose).

-I can't wait to go to the beach! I can't wait to hang with my family and close friends! I can't wait to take in the smells and delicious eats that come with going to the beach!! SO MUCH FUN!

-I'm tired of being single. I look at my friends with their families and get a lil envious. Maybe not the family part yet, because I'm around that all the time at home....but it's the part of having someone there. Someone to laugh with, someone to talk with...just someone. I miss having that in my life. I can see why God wanted Adam to have a mate, who would want to be alone? As I've been reading a friend of a friend's blog, I can't help but want what she has. No I'm not saying I'm gonna go 'SWF' on her or something....but just the way her and her husband mesh so perfectly well with each other. I notice that with other friends and their spouses. It makes me wonder if I'll ever find that one person I mesh perfectly well with. I know what my strengths and weakness are, what my pros/cons are as well... I'm not perfect, but I hope that Heavenly Father blesses me with someone that will still love me after I get worked up about the lil things and happy about the lamest things. I can only hope that 'the appropriate time' will come sooner than later. Maybe A LOT sooner than later...please Heavenly Father :)

-Today in Relief Society I sat across from Morgan's mom and sister. I wasn't paying much attention to the lesson because I just kept wondering what happened between Morgan and I. After his last email to me on Facebook which ended with, "Thank you for your time.", he de-friended me. Really? Who does that?? Oh well, we'll see what's up...

-I love living in San Diego. I truly do. I would never want to live anywhere else but here. I love the weather. I love the diversity. I love the location of everything being so close. I love the beach. I love just about everything about it. I feel so blessed to live here. I love it.

-I love Sunday naps...well hell, I love naps in general.

-I think I say "Hell" a lot. I think some people would be disturbed by that. Eh, I don't care.

-I'll be turning 30 in 4 months. 30, really??? Oh man, I'm not really looking forward to that. I like odd number birthdays anyways. I'm THANKFUL that my BFF Bugs and I will be spending our birthday weekend at:

...and I CANNOT WAIT!!! OH HOW I LOVE THE HOTEL DEL CORONADO!! It'll be a total girl fest! Chick flicks....Room service....shopping (not a whole lot because the Hotel Del is pretty pricey---so I guess I mean, "window shopping")...and my favorite: SPA TIME!!!! Massages & Pedis!! I CANNOT WAIT!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!!!

the Debutante!

Friday was AMAZING!!! I SERIOUSLY LOVED IT!!!!

Here's the lovely Debutante, Tori!

The oh so beautiful Crown Room of the Hotel Del Coronado!

My niece and I tearing it up on the dance floor!

My cousin and I in our formal dresses...so much fun to dress up!

Sorry there's not more pictures....but wow, it was such a fun night. I'm so freakin' glad I found something awesome to wear. I love my dress from that night! I can't wear it again! What a great night!!

Magical...simply magical!!

It was such a magnificent evening. SO splendidly wonderful!! I almost gave up trying to find a formal dress, but I was L.U.C.K.Y!!! And my hair turned out more beautiful than I could have imagined! And that was by total accident. I was just going to leave my hair down, but since I bought some feathery flower clip, I loosely pulled my hair to the side and rolled it into a bun and stuck the flower on. I had a few hair tendrils fall around my face and I was amazed that I even did that myself!! My make up turned out pretty and overall I think I looked fabulous and felt very classy! I loved it!! [Sorry, I don't have my USB cord to download the pics :( ]

From the second I arrived at the Hotel Del, it was just extraordinary!! Valet was awesome and every employee I walked past was so helpful. I loved my dress!! It was long and black and the material was just right...I don't know how to describe it, but it made me feel special. I felt like I truly belonged at the Hotel Del. I felt like a million dollars!! I loved it!! The Crown Room as just as beautiful as all the pictures I had ever seen!! I couldn't believe I was actually partying it up at the Hotel Del! I wasn't just a random person walking around, I was there with purpose!

During the Debutante Ball, I needed to go downstairs to the shops to find an ATM (valet parking). As my niece and I were walking around the 'common folk', people were turning around and commenting how beautiful we looked in our gowns. It made me feel special....I finally felt like those carefree patrons I had always admired at "The Del". It was fun being all dressed up! I loved it!

My 17 year old niece and I danced the night away.....SO.MUCH.FUN!!! I think this made up for my not so nice prom. It was amazing!! It made me think a lot about my fairytale wedding reception that I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to have at the Hotel Del Coronado. Every single detail of the Del is just truly amazing!!

I had such a WONDERFUL evening!!! I'm so glad everything came together! Can't wait to post pics!

11:08pm

38 minutes ago I received the call....the one I had been hoping for!

I WAS INVITED TO THE DEBUTANTE BALL AT THE HOTEL DEL CORONADO!!!!

Exciting, right?!?

But it's not Saturday, as I first thought...

It's TOMORROW NIGHT!!! AT 6 PM!!!! AND IT'S FORMAL!!!! FORMAL!!!!

I don't own anything that's formal enough for the Hotel Del! PLUS, I don't know how to do a formal hair do!!! AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Right now I wish I was my best friend StephyPooh. She can do formal in 2.2 minutes flat! She can go from plain (well, she's not plain to begin with) to gorgeous in mere seconds!! For me, it's a process...a long, thought out process!!! I'm googling photos for "formal hairstyles for curly hair" and I'm coming up short!! My friend told me that my formal dress has to be long....LONG!! Where in the world am I going to find a long plus-size/size 18 formal dress? And accessories? And shoes? And a hair style?? UGH!! I need to look FABULOUS people...we're talkin' the Hotel Del here!!! Oh man......

She even said I could bring up a date. A DATE?!?! I can't even find something to wear, how am I going to find a formal man by tomorrow night? I mean, if it was on Saturday then I would TOTALLY ask Mr. NY....but I don't have someone who can bust out with formal in a blink of an eye!! Plus I'll have to wear make up too....OH DEAR?!?!!

Wish me luck.

Oh Hotel Del...I love you so!!

(Before I start my letter... I've just gotta say, this April Fool's Day isn't turning out like I planned. Since I'm the big jokester in the office, I already had one prank played on me and another prank I played on myself! By TOTAL accident!! UGH!!)

Dear Hotel Del Coronado,

Do you know how much I love you?? I've loved you since the first time I laid my eyes on you. You've always been a place of opulence and beauty. I remember my Senior year of high school and how I would ditch school just to spend time with you. I know it's funny, "What high school teenager would ditch school to hang out at a hotel?"...but I did! I still have the same love in my heart for you as I did back in high school. I love your shops and how exquisite everything looks. I love the people who vacation there and how carefree their lives seem. I love the staff who are always so helpful and respectful. I love the perfect beach weather that seems to only exist in Coronado. I love how for just a moment, whenever I'm at the Hotel Del, I too can be carefree and living an opulent life. My dream wedding reception would be held in the Crown Room....Oh it'd be a dream come true! Did I ever tell you how my BFF Bugs sent me a robe from your hotel while I was on my mission? Oh I LOVED it so much and still use it til this day! I can't wait to wear an actual robe while staying at your fine establishment!

So the reason for my letter is.... a close family friend failed to invite me to her daughter's Debutante ball this Saturday. One invitation was sent to my family....but addressed to my sister who currently lives away right now. I was bummed when I heard about all the festive plans for the ball and especially when I found out it was going to be at the Hotel Del! My heart sank when I realized that I wasn't invited to the most magical place in San Diego. As my cousin raved about her ballgown and how beautiful the Crown Room of the Hotel Del would look. I listened with envy and sadness..."How could I not be invited?? I thought we were better friends than that?! Oh well, I guess if she didn't want to invite me to this then I wouldn't have to invite her to my wedding!! Two can play at that game!!" Some of our mutual friends would chat about their excitement of dressing up and having a grand evening...and there I quietly sat, not knowing how to tackfully say, "I wasn't invited". Yeah, so I threw a pity party...I couldn't help!! A party at the Hotel Del and I wasn't invited!! UGH!!! Anyways, I spoke with my sister and she said that she RSVP'd for the Debutante Ball but won't be here for it. I suggested that she call our friend and tell her that I go in place for her. So now, I'm just waiting to hear back from my sister. Maybe our friend just forgot...or maybe she didn't have an invite for me. But I CANNOT pass up a party at the Hotel Del!!! I'd have to be crazy!! Oh Hotel Del Coronado...I love you so much!!

Faithfully yours,

-ehu