Monday, March 19, 2012

Cody Wallis...and soon to be Mrs.

Cody: "I want to spend the rest of my life with you" *On one knee
Jamie: *Giant gasp "Are you serious right now?"
Cody: "Yes, Jamie Pyle will you Marry Me?"
Cody: "You're my best friend and I love you"
Cody: Will you..."
Jamie: *Headnod
Jamie: "Yes," "YES," "YES," *Insane amount of crying....
Yep-Cody Wallis and I are engaged and that was the little scenario that literally happened on March 17, 2012!
We are super excited and let me just tell you who was the most shocked about this engagement...ME! After dating for 6-ish years, we are taking the leap and getting married. We are shooting for May 18, 2013.
Unfortunately, he is back in Reno and I'm in 'Bama. It sucks being apart, but I know that Cody and I can make it through anything. We've proven that our relationship is insanely strong and we just fit together and we always have...even when we weren't dating.
My first memory of Cody Wallis was when my best friend, Brittney Wyrick (Moore), told me she went to a "dirt bike race" and she met him there in 6th grade. At the end of our 6th grade year, Lincoln County elementary schools took all of their 6th graders fishing at Eagle Valley. I was hanging out/fishing with Brett Barnes, believe it or not-we were buddies in elementary school, and his good 'ol buddy was Cody Wallis. Cody had a fisherman's hat on (Do you remember when those were cool??) and it had "Toad" embroidered on it.
The first time that I realized Cody Wallis was a "hottie" (Common term in 2001) was in Mr. Simkins class in the 7th grade and I kid you not, he was wearing a red FUBU shirt and black pants. I remember it so clearly! He was at the electrical board station and I was across the room...basically drooling-haha not really.
Cody and I were always friendly and "dated" (Is dating in middle school even dating???) in 8th grade and let's just say we were a little "young." However, Cody and I did have our first kiss during Labor Day in Pioche, during the fireworks. I was his first kiss...true story :) and now I'll be his last.
In high school we were both so busy with our own lives that we didn't "date," but he did always sign my yearbook with a "love ya" :) We started "real" dating our senior year. Flash forward 6 years and we are engaged, in love, and getting married!
This kid makes me ridiculously happy and I can't wait to be his wife. We laugh non-stop and have so many fetching inside jokes it's probably obnoxious to be around us. We both can get raging mad at each other and make up 5-seconds later...and our raging mad is because we like to have "debates." There have been numerous times where we had to leave the Holaks because we were shooting daggers from our eyes and by the time we got to the car we were laughing at each other. We get each other...completely and irrevocably. I love me some Wallis.
2006
2012

Sunday, March 4, 2012

New Friends

I've always wondered if I moved away (from Nevada) if I would make friends OR if I would never meet anyone and I would sit in my room eating ice cream and watching movies alone. Well, I've made some pretty amazing friends these past 7 months (that's all???) and I'm truly lucky to have them in my life and *hopefully in the future :)
These girls (Left to Right...Hannah, Staci, Lauren, and duh...me) ARE FABULOUS. Now, we spend almost every waking hour together, dead serious, we are together from 8 AM-5 PM, we study together, we hang out on the weekends together, we have movie nights together, we DRIVE EACH OTHER CRAZY together, haha :) But seriously, it is a miracle that we haven't killed one another yet, but we all truly get along and they mean the world to me. However, unfortunately we are not all photogenic together...we kinda suck at taking pictures together.
A couple of weeks ago, we were all able to hang out, go bowling (when did that get so expensive??), and eat at Rojo's (YUMMY TIMES A MILLION). We kicked butt at bowling and beat Hannah's and Staci's fiances and Lauren's love bug (Yes, I'm consistently the 7th wheel cause Wallis is in Reno). We all had a blast!! It was much needed from the insanity of graduate school-DON'T EVER DO IT!!
Anyway, this post is an ode to these girlies who really have helped me find the real value of friendship and I know we will be lasting friends. It will be ooberly difficult to say 'goodbye' to them in December, but after May 2013 we will be making some money (FINALLY) and we can all go to ASHA conferences together, or I can simply fly down and vacation with them at the beach...These girls make my life here in Bama worth it!! LOVE YOU LADIES!!