One of my favorites...

One of my favorite things about our wedding reception was our entertainment. My grandpa's friend Clyde Anderson and his barbershop quartet walked around singing tunes throughout the evening. It was such a fun/cute thing to have them there. They performed a special rendition of "Climb Every Mountain" special for John and I. Here is a picture by our awesome photographer Brittany Cascio.

Simple Joys!

I SHOULD be blogging about my honeymoon but I just had the best day and wanted to write about it! After class today I had a date to run errands with my mom. First stop...Kitchen Kneads! Thanks to all of my generous friends (and John's) I was able to buy my very own...BOSCH!!! I am SO excited! Agh! It is so awesome! I couldn't wait to get home and try it out so I whipped it out at my Mom's. :) I tried a new recipe from ourbestbites.com for chocolate banana bread. We'll see how it turns out. (Cook time: 1 1/4 hours) Hopefully John likes banana bread! I also got the blender attachment and some cookie paddles so I should be set. I have big dreams of getting the pasta maker attachment but that will probably be down the road.

My mom and I also went around town looking for pots and pans. What a hard decision! (I thought deciding on knives was tough!) I ended up being too overwhelmed to decide so I'll probably be going back with John on Friday, since that's the only day I will see him during store hours. Hopefully he can help me decide.

Married life is awesome. Definitely hard at times but I love it. Cooking is even more fun now that I have my own stuff and a husband to feed. I'm excited for weekends because then I can actually cook him a meal! He is seriously the best. We had a fun time this past weekend hanging out with John's sister Lindsey and her husband Cory. It was fun to finally have company at our apartment once we finally got all of our wedding gifts put away. :) I'll post pictures of my Bosch soon! (Since I'm sure none of you have ever seen one :))

P.S. Thanks for all the comments on my last post! I had no idea I had so many fans :))

Honeymoon Days 1 and 2

Ok I have a few minutes to start blogging about our awesome honeymoon so I'll start with day 1. John and I drove down to SLC the night of our wedding and stayed at Little America (can't remember if I blogged about this yet.) The next morning we drove to the airport and flew to Honolulu. When we got to Hawaii we realized we didn't have the key to my parent's condo or any information on how to get it. Luckily my parents are on the ball and got everything worked out for us quickly. We were so exhausted when we got to the condo that we ordered pizza and went to bed. I don't think we meant to sleep all day... but we did.

The next day we went to the temple which was awesome. We'd both been before but it was neat for me to go back now that I've actually been through the temple. Sadly it is closed for renovation so we couldn't do a session but we enjoyed walking through the visitor's center. We also checked out a beach and had fun walking in the sand. Then we drove back down to Honolulu and ate at the most AWESOME Indian restaurant ever! Definitely our best Hawaiian meal! We stopped at RedBox on the way home and rented our first of many movies. Such a fun, relaxing trip. I'll post the rest later when I don't have so much homework!

I'm married!

I decided to blog about this even though the 1 person who reads my blog already knows I am married since I am married to him. :) We were married on September 3rd in the Logan Temple. What a BEAUTIFUL day. I went through the temple the night before and that was wonderful as well. I admit I was a little nervous, but it ended up being the best night of my life up until that point. It was such a neat experience to have my whole family (minus one sister) there. John's parents, my grandma and two of my sweet cousins came as well which meant so much to me. I think I have a special bond with those people now. I think it is one of those memories that I can't really put into words but I know I will never forget how I felt.

Our sealing ceremony was the best part of the whole experience for me. I woke up that morning and didn't feel a bit anxious or nervous or anything! I was shocked! I fixed my hair, zipped up my suitcase and waited for my anxious parents to drive me to the temple. When I got there John had already arrived and sat teary eyed waiting for me. :) After I put on my temple dress the little helper lady had me stand in the 180 degree mirror and look at myself. I have honestly never felt more beautiful. Funny how in that simple, white satin dress I felt more beautiful than in my expensive, beaded wedding gown. I was just so happy! John looked more handsome than ever and I was so excited! The sealing was great. I had a hard time listening to what was being said because I was distracted by my future husband sitting next to me but I am sure his words were beautiful! SO neat!

The luncheon and reception ROCKED. The food at the luncheon was awesome and I have been told the reception food was just as good. We started out with a formal line but decided to just walk around and mingle instead. I liked that a lot better since our wedding was more of a party than a formal event. We had a friend of my Grandpa Israelsen and his barber shop quartet perform for the guests. They were so adorable and walked throughout the reception center singing. SO cute! at 20 minutes to 8:00 Ester told me what time it was so we quickly cut our cake, I threw my bouquet, changed our clothes and we were outta' there! I had purchased 20 bottles of Silly String for our send off... kind of a surprise for John. HAHA! It was hilarious. I couldn't even breathe it smelled so bad!

We went to Little America that night which was awesome too and John let me order room service :) Then we were off to Hawaii! I'll post more about that later when I have more time and less homework! Such a great week. Definitely the best of my life!!!So far the only pictures I have of the wedding day are ones my siblings/cousins posted. This one was my favorite. My niece Mia just loved my sparkly dress :)
I will post pictures