Our Wedding!!

Here are the pictures of the best day of my life!! Everything was beautiful, Thank you so much everyone for all of your help! I feel so blessed to have married the love of my life in the Jordan River Temple!

The Honeymoon

Mike and I had a wonderful time leaving town and the cold weather for a couple of days. The weekend after the wedding we spent in Salt Lake and stayed at the Armstrong Mansion. It was a beautiful old mansion downtown that they turned into a bed and breakfast. Our room was themed December dreams and was decorated in Christmas including a tree and all.

Monday morning we flew out to San Diego where Mike surprised me with a Cruise to Catalina Island and Ensenada Mexico!

Tuesday morning we spent the day at sea, and we woke up bright and early so we could watch the sunrise over the ocean in the hot tubs. Well the hot tubs were closed, but the sunrise was beautiful!

Tuesday night was formal night, where we got to dress up and go to a fancy 3 course meal. Our waiter made it all worth it, and after dinner we found a quited place in the Mark Twain library (where I am sitting below)

Wednesday we left the ship and went to Catalina Island, here is a picture of the Carnival Elation as we are being taxied to shore.

Mike scheduled us a kayaking trip around the island where we were set loose on the ocean and even passed a seal basking in the sun on a rock.

And last but not least, Thursday we went to Mexico where we walked around the city, and got a private horse drawn carriage ride to the beautiful beach.

Here we are at the beach in Ensenada Mexico! The ocean was so beautiful with the huge waves and the sun reflecting off the water. It hadn't been too warm the rest of the trip, but luckily for us it was sunny and hot! We got to play in the ocean for about 3 hours and went wave surfing, picked up saland dollars, and oh yah, . . . Mike found a whole clam on the shore. We tried to open it to save the shell, but after Mike got sprayed by the clam (it was sick!) and we broke the shell, we decided it was a failed attempt.

Engagement Pics

Okay, so I am really slow at putting these up, but here are just a few of our favorite engagement pics! Thanks so much Jan for your help! I can't believe I am getting married in just a little over 6 weeks!

I'm Engaged!

So here is the official story.
On Wednesday July 15th, Mike took me up to the state capitol supposedly to take pictures of the moating around the foundation that his father's company had put in to help earthquake-proof the building. At first I was unsuspecting, though I thought it was a little strange, but given the quality of his pictures, and the minimal concern he showed for the moating, I didn't quite buy that story.
As we reached the front steps of the capitol he suddenly got really quiet, and I asked him what he was thinking about. To my surprise he said "Asian Tourists" (a bus load had just showed up, and I found out later they ruined his initial plans of proposing to me then) A bit dismayed that he was thinking about the tourists, and not me :) we kept walking around to the east side of the building. He asked me if I would sit with him for a minute, and I knew then that he was going to propose. He talked to me about one of the first dates we had gone on when we went to see the national capitol, and some wishes we had made in a pond there. His words "Do you remember that I told you I would tell you my wish when it came true? Well it hasn't." (at which point I lightly slapped him in the stomach because I thought he was just being mean and we were going to leave) He then knelt down and asked me if I would marry him and make that wish come true, and I said yes!!


The ring pics are up for KayLyn because she can't be here to see it. Sorry about the awkward close up of the hand.


Oh and I don't have any pictures of us that day, but I thought I would put a couple up from his birthday a couple of days before.

Picnics, Picnics, Picnics

So I have been a total blogging slacker this last month, and I am trying to repent by covering a whole month in one post. So I thought I would post what I have done the most, Picnics.

Today for FHE we went up Millcreek Canyon and went on a picnic and hiking. It was so fun, although we had to cut it off early because I didn't listen to Mom and bring sweaters.

And of course someone has to take pictures while people are eating

Last weekend I was in Logan and we went on the most beautiful sunrise hike up Crimson trail

and ate breakfast while we watched the sunrise. I thought I would be the only crazy one who would want to get up that early, but 8 people showed up to go at 4:00 in the morning. It was definately worth it!

A couple of weeks ago I got to watch Dean and Lori's girls while she was helping her sister with a photo shoot. So Amy and I took Audrey to the park for lunch, and well, I never was very good at taking pictures of myself :)

And the one that started it all, when Janice was in the hospital with Lindsay, Amy and I took Annie and Ruston on a picnic, I never knew how difficult it was to get someone to eat their chicken nuggets when a delicious frosty was sitting just inches away . . .