So last Saturday, we made a year and six months of being together and one week of being married! I can't believe that we're married! It feels great and perfectly right. I am so grateful for belonging to a church that endorses marriage and family relationships that last forever!
To celebrate our week of marriage, we ate a California Pizza Kitchen on Friday night. This restaurant has always been a favorite of ours. Whether you order pizza or pasta, the food is always so fresh and flavorful! Afterwards, Blaine treated me to dessert at Coldstone! We had the "That's How I Roll" creation.
Saturday, we spent our day working on our little apartment and looking through Ikea. We are Ikea's biggest fans! We found all of the bedroom furniture that we wanted, but didn't have enough space in the car to take it all home. We bought a couple of decorations for the kitchen and living room. Our most exciting purchase was our 6-drawer dresser. We have so much more space for our clothes now! We'll be going back soon...
About the wedding day (along with all the other festivities of that week), it was just perfect. Of course, things went wrong here and there. But it didn't matter. Even while having a cold and a fluctuating fever, I had the time of my life. I couldn't have asked for a better wedding day with my husband, family, and friends. I slept an hour the night before, waking up at 3:30 AM to shower and have my loyal friend and bridesmaid, Michele, do my hair. My favorite part of it all was the sealing and temple experience. It was so special - the most spiritual moment of my life. We also had a ton of fun taking pictures in the cold rain with our photographer, Jeremy Pexton. He was so much fun to work with. I cannot wait to see our picutres! Another surprisingly favorite part of the day was the food. I thought our entrées were delectable! I had the Chicken Foccacia and Blaine had the Pork Tenderloin with escalloped apples. I cleaned the plate! Our cake was also a lot better than I expected. Not only did it look fabulous but it tasted yummy! Dawna did a great job. All in all, the colors, the music, the decor, the flowers, the feelings were just perfect.
Our mini-honeymoon at The Castle Creek Inn was so much fun. It was such a cute, romantic bed and breakfast. The room was clean and very cute. It was called the "Edinburgh" and was themed after the famous castle in Scotland. The breakfast each morning was also delicious. Our first morning we had banana bread, kiwi, and grapes for our first plate. Our second plate was French toast (the best I've ever tasted), sausage, and cheesy-diced potatoes. The next morning we had banana bread again with strawberries. Our second plate was a citrus and chocolate crepe, with sausage, and hashbrowns. Another fun thing was that we had free drinks, snacks, and movies! That's heaven for poor college kids! We are definitely planning to revisit in the future! During our stay, we went to The Cheesecake Factory for dinner one night. It was only 5 minutes away from our hotel!
Going back to "reality" has been an adjustment, especially since we had so much fun with family here. But being married is a great blessing. I'm so grateful that we finally went through with it. "Reality" has been a lot more fun than usual. Having someone to laugh off the trials and little idiosyncrasies of life with is great!
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