Sooooo.... Jeffrey and I have been married for just over three months. Things have been going great. I really can't complain. Here is how it happened:
At the beginning of July, Jeffrey came on a little family vacation with my family to visit my sister, Leslie, in Colorado. That was when he finally met all of my sisters. I wish I could say it was blissful, but they are embarrassing. Anyway, my nieces and nephews took it upon themselves to give him a deadline of when to propose. That deadline happened to be by my birthday which is at the end of July. At least they wanted him as an uncle, right?
We got home and everything was perfectly...not that great. Jeffrey was living in Salt Lake and I was still in Logan. Although 82 miles is closer than across an ocean, we still weren't liking the distance. But we visited each other as much as we could. Then on July 21, he FINALLY proposed. Okay, he was a week early from his given deadline, but I waited two years, I think I have the right to be a little impatient. His proposal was simply wonderful. Simply us. I loved it. We promptly set the date for October 10. A whopping two and a half months away. I'm sure our mothers loved us a little more before we did that to them. I have to give mad props to our wonderful moms; they made our wedding everything we, ( I ), dreamed of.
Shortly after the proposal, we decided living so far away wasn't so fun. I also got a job here in Salt Lake and was starting at the end of August. That was reason enough for us to start apartment hunting. We got super lucky and found one we loved quickly. I moved in at the beginning of August and everything was set for him to move in when we got married. And the best part was it was my apartment was about half a block away from his! That was distance we could live with.
I started my job at Redwood Elementary and he continued his work with the church at Temple Square. Everything was great. Then, it was time for wedding stuff. I had a love/hate relationship with wedding planning. It was fun, stressful, beautiful, awful, and exciting all at once. Good thing our moms took care of most of it.
Our celebrations started October 3. I was lucky enough to be endowed that day in the Logan LDS Temple. It was wondrous. I loved every minute of it. We had a little family luncheon and then a open house for all of my family and friends in Logan. It was a cute little party that turned out simple and elegant. Then it was time for the big day. We got married in the Salt Lake LDS Temple at 9:40 AM on October 10, 2013. Our closest friends and family attended the ceremony and it was more amazing than I ever dreamed.
We had a great reception with so much fantastic food that I couldn't even write it all down. Obviously the company was great. We are so thankful to anyone who came to support us. We loved everything we received, whether it was a gift, or love. We feel like the luckiest people in the world to have the family and friends that we do. We have so many good people in our lives.
Anyway, back to marriage. Life is great. Jeffrey is in school and working. I am working and trying to become a better wife everyday. Our hobbies include binge watching old tv series on Netflix and eating. We love living downtown and being so close to so many things to do. If we ever get bored, its our own fault. We have so much to do and see all around us.
We are just taking life one day at a time and loving almost every minute of it. We don't really love the morning minutes when the alarm goes off and we have to go to work and school and all the adult things that don't seem that fun, but then actually are a lot of fun, and I actually love work, so I don't know why I get so grumpy in the morning. Anyway, other than that we are loving everything marriage has thrown at us thus far. And he hasn't died from my cooking yet, so things are looking good.
