The Apartment

With Scott back in school, I get to sit in our apartment all day and watch videos about how to use Adobe Dreamweaver, surf the web for jobs...and apply for them, and think of things to cook for dinner.  Sounds like a life of luxury?  Actually, it's quite boring.  On the upside, I have a very cute apartment to sit in.  It's all thanks to Scott the handyman, who took a couple days last week to hang pictures and connect a light to our ceiling fan while I organized all our stuff to fit in our cupboards.  Let's just say both of those jobs were quite the accomplishments :)

After about a week of eating on the couch or the floor (I cannot be trusted to eat with my plate on my lap), we are now the proud owners of a coffee table.  Thank you IKEA for your glorious deals (who cares if it's made out of cardboard...it looks like real wood to me)!  This is our first meal on a table.

We also got a real live plant at IKEA, which I have affectionately named Herbert II.  Don't you love the college on the left?  Scott came up with that.  It's our wedding picture shrine.

You are about to view a true handyman feat for Scott.  I don't think he even read the directions.  Yep, he's that good.  It even still works!

It didn't have an overhead light, so Scott took it apart and attached it so you can turn both the fan and the light on with the switch.  It's much nicer than a bunch of lamps!

Now comes the bedroom.  My mom and I made the pillows to match the bed.  I try to be a good homemaker sometimes.

This is Scott's "den."  Actually it's just a corner of the bedroom, but we like to pretend.

Well, there it is--isn't it cute?!  We love it :)

My Biker Husband

A couple days ago, Scott left our apartment with this

And came back with this.

It's all part of a plan to save money.  You see, this thing gets over 40 miles to the gallon supposedly, which means we have to pay less gas money.  I guess those 'instant savings' will come into play after we pay for the new registration, helmet, jacket, gloves...you get the picture.  But do see how happy the guy looks?!  He's pretty excited.  I beg him every time he even mentions it to be careful.  I've only been with him for a week and a half and I'd like to keep him a little longer!

It even came with this sweet helmet.  I think it makes him look like a firefighter.

I agreed to get on for a picture, but I told Scott he had to practice before he could give me a ride.

I guess I'm now the proud wife of a hot biker dude!  (Does that mean I have to grow my hair out and wear leather pants now?)

Fun with Adam and Steph

Scott's Brother and Sister-in-law were so nice and drove all of our things to us from Utah.  Man, I thought I had a lot of stuff, but combined with Scott's and all our new wedding presents, we now have an apartment full.  Literally.  After we moved everything in and got it set up, Scott and I sat on the couch and I looked over at him and said, "I can't imagine moving all this stuff, plus children and their stuff.  That sounds awful!"  Indeed it does.  Unfortunately, I don't thing we can manage to live in an 800 square foot apartment for the rest of our lives.  Darn.

After spending much of the day unpacking, I found food from some of the gift baskets we received from our wedding and made our first meal in the apartment (thank you Scott's ward members)!  Is it just me or do I look really tired in this picture?  I was.

The next day, even though I was itching to unpack the mess in our apartment, we hit the beach.  We used our very important status as new Costco members to buy boogie boards.  They were so much fun!

You are about to view a cheesy newly-wed moment...

We also flew Scott's awesome kite some more!

Later that day we went back home for a BBQ.  I also tried to do some wash.  Who would have thought the washer is on the bottom of a stackable washer and dryer?!  I may or may not have put the dirty laundry and soap in the dryer and started the washer.  You can imagine my shock when the washer finished and the clothes were magically dry.  Well, they were actually still dirty.  Oops.  Scott got a kick it.

This is our first Sunday dinner.  Pretty impressive, huh?

Yes, these are rubbermaid lids.  We're waiting to buy a table until we find a really good deal.

On Monday it was on to Six Flags, where we waited in long, hot lines and lost our camera and phone on the first ride.  Other than that, it was great fun!  Ok, but really it was.

We had so much fun with Adam and Steph--thanks for playing with us, guys!

Honeymoon

Scott kept the honeymoon a surprise from me until the day after the wedding--he's a lot better at keeping secrets than I am! We left North Ogden from our open house and stayed in Provo, where we went to church the next morning. Since we didn't get up and ready until about 10 AM, we didn't really know where to go to church. There aren't many ward that start at 10:10...unless it's a BYU singles ward. That's right--we headed up to campus and found a ward that was just begin sacrament meeting. We even saw Scott's old bishop who laughed when we told him we were on our honeymoon (as he should have).

Then it was on to St. George where we stayed in Scott's family friends' beautiful home and visited the grounds of the temple, rode our bikes, ate out a lot (which we both love), and went to the Little Mermaid. My friend Bronwyn was in it, so I got to say hello and introduce my new husband!

St. George Temple

Little Mermaid

Our tickets ended up being one in front of the other, so Scott got to sit next to these two nice ladies...until they found out we were on our honeymoon and rearranged their whole group from Brigham City, Utah so we could sit together.  They were so sweet!  However, this meant the whole section knew we were on our honeymoon, and they definitely enjoyed talking to us about it and giving us a hard time :)

After St. George, we continued on to board a ferry to Catalina Island.   We had a great time kayaking, snorkeling, and staying at the cutest little bread and breakfast ever!  If Six Flags allows us to get our honeymoon pictures back I can show you more...but this is all I took on my camera at Catalina.

Shortly after our fun in Catalina we arrived at our new, very empty apartment where we spent the night on a blow-up mattress and awaited the trailer that would bring our things.  Even though it would seem the honeymoon was over at this point, it still hasn't really seemed to end for me because I never went home!

Wedding Day

June 10, 2011 was such an amazing day!  I think my favorite part was being at the temple bright and early, where I was sealed to the greatest guy in the world forever (sorry, I'm taking the newly-wed's prerogative to be mushy and cheesy).  And...the fun just kept going for the next two days with a luncheon and reception later that day and an open house the next night!

For my last night as a single woman, I had a rip-roarin' time in a downtown Salt Lake hotel room with my parents!  Sounds like a great bachelorette party, right?  Well, don't worry.  We did stop at In-N-Out on the way.  Oh--and Mark was there too.

I don't have a ton of pictures from the actual wedding day yet, but if you'd like to see some bridals, click here.

In between the luncheon and reception, Scott and I practiced our moves for our big first dance.  I felt a bit of pressure dancing with a cabaret national champion!  Ironically enough, we chose the song at about 3:00 PM the day before and practiced the lifts the day of...which may have been why it took us three tries to get the first one.  Hey--I was a little nervous for my ballroom debut!

After the reception, we headed to a Caribbean Sea Cave to spend the night.  That's right, it was quite the destination!

The next day we headed to my parents' to open a few wedding presents. Boy, do we have generous friends--thank you!

And that was it--we're married!

Temple

The day before Scott and I got married, I was blessed to go through the Logan Temple for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for the first time.  Scott and I saw each other for the first time in a month about an hour before, making it about 24 hours before we got married.  We like to make life a little more adventurous sometimes.  We were fortunate enough to have all of our parents there for the special occasion.

I was extra excited about the socks that I got to wear!  I got them in Young Women when I was about 13 and they were in the form of two white roses.  I've kept them in my room for all these years as a reminder that I should stay worthy to enter the temple.  I wore them both for my first time through the temple and on my wedding day.