Nelson Wedding: Video

My roommate claire is finally married! Mr. and Mrs.Nelson had a beautiful wedding and I'm so grateful I was able to be a part of it:) I didn't take to many pictures this time (Weird, I know) but I took little snipits of videos throughout the day so theres the reasoning you were looking for. 
They got married in the Portland, Oregon temple and it is BEAUTIFUL. So green! 
The video is at the bottom, WATCH IN HD. seriously. makes a huge difference- plus the video is shakey anyways. take it as it is people, videography is not my goal or my thing. 

Nelson Wedding from Jovanna De La Pena on Vimeo.

Engagements! Claire and Spencer's that is...

So here's a fun story for y'all.....One fine day I was sitting in the living room on my computer and my roommate claire was as well. A random thought occurred to me. I turned around and asked "hey, when are you getting your engagements done?" To which she replied "I already did". 

"........what.....when.". 
"the day I got engaged!"
'THE PICTURES I TOOK OF YOU?!"
"yeah!"
"THOSE ARN'T ENGAGEMENTS"
"well I got engaged so they're engagements!"

Oh my gosh- I almost died. Pictures are just important to me. When I get married it will be top priority. So now you understand why I almost died a little bit so basically thats the story of how I ended up taking Claire and Spencer's engagements because I love pictures and they love free pictures! (who doesn't right?) 

Here are a few for fun. The rest will be on facebook! 

I've learned it's harder to take pictures when its colder outside and I have a hard time sticking to one style because editing is just way too fun. 

The Day of Loooveeeee

Oh Valentine's Day...what a weird holiday you are. Companies love valentines day because they make a boatload of money, and honestly you should love the people you do everyday but in a less cynical view: it can be pretty cool. This year I got to be with my love-Chase annndd it was my parents twenty first anniversary! I Love them very much. Chase brought me flowers (my absolute FAVORITE thing in the whole world) and sour patch kids (because unlike most normal women in the world, I don't like chocolate that much. I know...sad. Don't cry) and an Infinity Necklace. He scours my pinterest for things I love. I love that about him, plus I love my new necklace. Much like other women I do actually enjoy jewelry..too much. 

Classes went smoothly, I got a nap in after class (that in an of itself could have made my day) and the boys made us dinner that night! 

Look at this...they dressed up AND made dinner. Wow, right? and wore aprons...not really what imagined  my dream guy wearing but turns out I enjoyed it. 

They made dinner for all the roommates, and exiled us to our rooms while they set up dinner. We ALMOST starved to death. No exaggeration. Ok, maybe a LITTLE exaggeration. 

They added more decorations to our balloon ceiling, and set up our "table". Dinner was SO good. needless to say, I think the boys should make dinner a lot more often...And cheesecake and chocolate covered strawberries for dessert. YUM.

We miss Cass Cass- She's on FIAAAHHHHH

The poor group of overly stuffed individuals 

And in the end- best Valentines Day I've had thus far. I'm now becoming a lot more accepting of this holiday . Even when you don't have a "sweetheart" you have friends and family who love you, and that's more than enough to be grateful for.

Fall Semester Video: Recap

So this semester I decided to take a bunch of videos and try to put them together. I'm missing a lot of stuff but it's already pretty long so i decided to just go with it. I think I might do this more often now though- I do quite enjoy it:) 

I suggest watching it in the HD quality, makes it easier to see.. its the little cog looking thing at the bottom of the video;) 

So this was an interesting semester because I took night classes since I was off track and it was my first time to be in rexburg in the fall. Lots of fun things to do:) 

Most of the things in this video are on previous blog posts if anyone is curious..
I got to know and love my roommates so much- they are the coolest girls, and we started our own sorority...no big deal. I saw my boy everyday even if it was only for a couple minutes. Straw maze, gym nights, my money management class with my Bestie Stephanie , Roommate sleepovers, Kiwi Loco and Sushi dates, Nails with Mikyla, Halloween hall decorating, almost dying in the snow on the way to Idaho Fallls, not making it to idaho falls.. falling in love with our new apartment complex, Family time on our computers chatting online but not talking to eachother, flour fights with our FHE group, Roommate christmas cards, Kuzco, Visiting provo and seeing plano friends, lindsay and my bestie  Kenzie, Voting for the very first time(!!), going to Utah to have thanksgiving with chases family, setting up of christmas decorations, getting free pizza, Watching bryndee dance like a boss, learning that cassie can't frown, My bestfriend baby dog passing away, making treats and making dinners, watching Nicole's waterpolo games, the first time my 2 bestfriends and I all have boyfriends at the same time, and lots of tears and laughter. So grateful for this semester: the good times and the bad. 

Pictures I never got around to posting....

Basically what the title says.. Shout out to Sister Rosendale for letting my use her nice DSLR camera to to take these pictures and some fabulous news, I just got my very own DLSR this Christmas! :) Prepare for better pictures in upcoming posts. 

This was the first time I met chase's sister Mckae! She's super sweet and GORGEOUS, both of his sisters are. This is always a good sign people. 

Happy Old picture post y'all! 

Claire Bear: Engaged!

So Claire was my very FIRST college roommate. We didn't know eachother before we roomed together by chance but now I love this girl. She also got engaged this past semester! Heres a little tid-bit of my perspective...( see story below for those that know and care. for those who just like pictures:here they are people..but just so you know the order of the pictures follows the story. So choose wisely)

 Spencer wasnt at school this past semester (he's off track. the track system is a BYU-I thing. frustrating sometimes), because of this little tid bit, this past semester hadn't been the easiest for claire with the whole missing her love thing and all. So Nicoles mom and brothers came into town and spencer decided to come along (as a suprise) and propose! The problem is claire is a little too intuative at times and she kept guessing that spencer would be tagging along with Mamma Rosendale. Claire forced me to be a liar...and apparently not a great one at that because she kept guessing it and I kept trying to lie about it. The morning of her proposal I was standing at the vanity getting ready for church and Claire told me her dream about spencer coming and proposing.... Like really woman? what are the chances.. Buuuttt as she didn't see spencer at church as she had anticipated, she became discouraged again because she thought for SURE he had come and he would suprise her. Alas...not so. Little did she know as she went up to bear her testimony about being happy for others (cause shes jsut so cool like that :)) that chase squeezed my hand and told me how excited he was for her and how ready she was to be proposed to today. She even got a new dress that day...seriously. the chances...what are they? Nicole helped with that one too, persuading claire she really needed a new dress. And we may or may not have had a roommate nail party the night before...just, you know, because our nails need to look awesome for "church and stuff". Anywho, i get sidetracked easily. Chase was a sweetheart and did a lot of work for this proposal but happened to be in the background a lot so it was harder to tell. He still did a crap load of work- I thank him for that. So after first hour of church he took the Ben's to "his ward", but realllyyy he drove around with them forever till the girls were ready and picked up Spencer (who he had never met before) and dropped them all off at the proposal location. Mamma rosendale, nicole, claire and myself decided it would be dandy to take "roommate pictures" since Nicoles mom brought an SLR camera. Perfect. We had to make sure claire would stay dressed up for the proposal as she told me the semester before to "make sure she looked cute for her proposal". Girl likes to rock her sweats and running shorts. Ironically, she also told me on proposal day that she would like me to take pictures when she got engaged. Oh, I got you covered girl. So we took some pictures up by the temple and then we went over to the bridge area of the proposal. I was so excited i felt like my heart was going to drop to my butt. There's probably a prettier way to say that....I had butterflies. Nah, doesnt do it justice. Heart to my butt it is. The point is I was freakin out like a mother. We went up to the bridge (with spencer hiding in a little cove underneath and the bens filming from the bushes). A rose was planted on the bridge with a note that said "Nelson". ( thats spencers last name, fyi for the fictional characters who do not know claire and spencer and decided to read this story anyways...) I thought it might be obvious but Claire thought maybe God was messing with her or something. That works too I guess. Nicole and I were practically screaming the cue "theres a note?" to get spencer to come out of the cove. My hands were shaking and I kept thinking "dude, NOW. IM DYING OVER HERE". She saw him and freaked out a little. She said she KNEW IT, she knew he would come. What she didn't know what that in the process of her forever long spencer hug (seriously...long LONG time people) that he was pulling a ring out of his pocket. She released her anaconda grip and he got on his knee. The rest is history. That is the story on how my first college roommate went from being a random blonde stranger who likes the dixie chicks and has the same sports bra I do, to a fellow pinterest user who knows me pretty darn well, one of my closest friends and an engaged woman. I love you Claire! oh, and you too Spencer;)