The Newly Weds

Now that I'm married, I've heard the rule is I must start a blog. Well, here you go Jordan. I could not break tradition.

So.... the wedding....perfect.

The Honeymoon....so fun.

Start of a new life....hectic. But that's predictable.

I suppose I should expound. The week up to the wedding was great. Just crashed at different people's houses and worked. I don't I realized really that my wedding, one of the most important days of my life, would follow at the end of the week. Still kind of a dream. On April 29th, I went to the temple. One word: Amazing. My family (Mom, Dad, Carlee, Jonathan, and Michael) was there, along with my new family: Lee, Bonnie, and Carlee. Oh, and Andrew was there. It was an experience like none other. And I'm so grateful I got to do it. Jeff got to watch Mikenzy...no one really knows how that went. (Ha. I would have liked to record some of that activity). But, I guess for Jeff's first babysitting experience, you couldn't have asked for a better kid to watch:) Emily and Lindsay did baptisms while we were in there. The temple is a great start for the Park/Jenkins Family extraveganzas. After the session, everyone went to the Jenkins' house for soup. Super tasty taco and potato soup. I need those recipes!
Then, I went to the hotel with my parents and Jeff. Jeff and I had a wild bachelorette last hurrah. He did great stepping up for the job :)

April 30th: The BIG day. Duhn, duhn, duhn. And I slept till like 7:30, went to the hotel gym and did a little morning work-out. No stress at all. It was AWESOME. Then, Andrew came over. The whole gang went down for the hotel breakfast. The breakfast was great. They had donuts, cereal, waffles, toast, sausage, bacon...okay, I better stop; I'm getting hungry. Moral of the story, it was good. My mom trimmed Andrew's hair and then he was off to get ready, clean his car (which turned out spotless), and do whatever else he had to do before his hours of being single were up. I started the process of getting ready....hair, make-up, get dressed--nope, not get dressed because I realized I couldn't find my clothes. Luckily, I left them at Andrew's so he brought them when he came to pick me up. It was awesome getting married in the afternoon. It was so low-key. We had time to get ready. I highly recommend it to anyone :)

The time came and we left for the temple.

The ceremony was perfect. Another bonus about getting married in the afternoon at a smaller temple. I was the only bride. So, I had the place to myself. Wah-ha-ha. But, it was so peaceful and everything went so smooth. Andrew and I were surrounded by people who helped, taught, loved, blessed and strengthened us. It was special to have those people in the room as we officially started a life together. Which, truthfully is one of the scariest, but one of the most awesome journeys I could ask for. Even though it's only been two weeks, I still can't express how excited I am to have Andrew be the one by my side as I experience whatever life throws at me.

The dinner that night was great. Hopefully, everyone else thought so too. The food was from Tucanos and was tasty. The littel gym was beautiful. And again, went so smoothly.

Our honeymoon was great. Andrew hadn't told me where we were staying the first two nights. And until we drove up, I had no idea. We stayed at an awesome bed and breakfast called the Anniversary Inn in Salt Lake. It was gorgeous. http://www.anniversaryinn.com/south-temple/room/1-the-anniversary-inn-suite Check out the ceiling and the chandelier. It had such an elegant, romatic era-type of a feel. Andrew definitely did good with his choice. And in the morning, a tap on your door, and breakfast was sitting right outside on a stool. My kind of service for sure. Ha.

The next few nights we stayed up at my aunt and uncle's house on The Canyons Resort. 17000 square feet to ourselves. http://www.resortswest.com/rw/browse.detail.aspx?id=9_colony
(These pictures don't really capture the house though.) We played in the indoor gym, watched movies in the theatre room, went shopping, ate, slept ten hours a night...it was great.

I took notes of some of the major events during those wonderful five days that help define us as a couple:
1) Together, we ripped apart the movie New Moon and discussed everything it had wrong with it. A few hours later, we talked about our plans to go see the new Twilight movie coming out next month.
2)We are are officially an old couple. Everynight we were in bed, ready to go to sleep by 11. Dangerous. I know.
3) We have a new addiction to the show "Wife-Swap." We are kind of learning the do's, but mostly the don'ts that we are going to do with our own children. And maybe Andrew likes it to remind him how lucky he is to have me. Maybe I like it because I realize what crazy I could have been stuck with. But, for whatever reason, we like it. And we'd prob be watching it right now if our TV was set up.
4) We've decided that since we can't find boys' names that satisfy both of us perfectly, we're just going to let fate decide. Let destiny take its course...and draw them out of a hat.
5)I learned the only way to get Andrew really mad to the point where I can hear him yell from across a mansion-cabin is to have the Jazz (particularly CJ Miles in this situation) do something stupid.
6) We played chess for 1 1/2 hours and neither of us won. So, now I can say that I am as smart as Andrew. Sucker.

Now, we are in our apartment. I'll have to write about our adventures here next time because really I'm tired of typing and if by some miracle you're reading this, I'm sure you're tired of reading.

P.S. Pictures will come :)