We Made It!

Here we are in the mountains, it was pretty chilly that first day.

Rocky Mountains

This is a view from the back seat of the Rocky Mountains.

My first road trip has come to a close. We got here to my dad's house around 10:00pm on friday night, May 30th. We tried to get pictures of all the signs for each state we drove through, but as it turns out we are not professional photograghers lol. So we couldn't quite get all of them but most of them we did. Missouri, Illinois adn Kansas were all pretty boring for the most part, not really much out there. We drove about 14 hrs the first day and stopped in Salina, Kansas that night at a hotel to get some rest. We left early the next morning and made it to my grandparents house in Arvada, Colorado. We stayed there for two days and they took us up into the Rocky Mountains both days. It was beautiful! Two days wasn't enough! And it was great spending time with my grandparents since I don't get to see them very often. After leaving Colorado it was New Mexico. Once we hit Arizona though...it was HOT. Our car does not have air conditioning in it, so we were pretty toasty. We stayed the night there in a hotel and slept in the next morning since Chris and I were feeling a little under the weather. We spent half a day at the Grand Canyon then headed to my dad's. I would say all in all the trip went pretty well. I'm just glad to be out of that car.

Packing...

I strongly dislike packing, I have moved several times while I was younger and frankly I'm just not a fan of the whole process. First off I have to go through all of my stuff and try to get rid of as much as possible that I either can't wear or use anymore or have lost the liking for. That's a headache in itself for me, I guess I'm weird and can't ever decide if I will need something down the road. Or if I get rid of something if I will miss it... call me a weirdo I know. This move is a little different since I'm coming back, so there are a couple extra steps added to the process. After I go through all of my things, I have to determine what clothes and items I can live without for a year to keep here (that was fun). Then I had to try and pack all of my clothes that I was taking to CA and fit them in the smallest space I possibly could to save on cost of shipping. For this we bought those space bags that suck up all the air around your clothes in the bag to save room. They actually worked pretty well. 1 LARGE bag fit 1 pair of jean pants, 1 jean jacket, 1 pair of jean capris, 1 pair of sweat pants, 2 t-shirts, 1 pair of sweat shorts and 4 camis...and I think that was it lol.So I could fit a good amount of stuff in each bag, we have extra large ones as well. So after packing up things I wanted to ship out, I had to figure out what I wanted to take in the car with me (things I didn't really trust to be shipped out) like our sand ceremony bottle, picture frames and my Willow Tree ppl. I also had to majke sure with Chris that there was room for it all in the car since we are going to be on the road for some days. Meaning we have a cooler, and three bags to fit just in teh trunk of our little civic. Oh, and I had to pack a bag for the road trip, which I wanted to be comfortable and still be able to go out in public for the Grand CAnyon and the Rocky Mountains. Plus I had no idea what the weather was going to be like. It's Saturday and we are still trying to figure everything out! We have shipped 2 boxes(my stuff) and we are getting ready to ship one more today (Chris' stuff). We still have to clean out the car and make sure everything we are taking will fit, if not I guess we will be shipping some more boxes lol. Whew! It's tiring just to write about it all !! lol. But we are getting there, I am also trying to get as many songs on my i pod that I can to keep my busy... in case I need some sound block from my husband and brother!! Haha!

The Perfect Surprise

So those of you who haven't heard me already say this, our wedding day was perfect, and those of you who have heard me say it like a hundred times... I'm sorry lol. But it was, and I have to give credit for the perfect centerpiece of the wedding to my husband.

Over the past year of planning this wedding we had to chose so many differnt things to try and make this one day the most perfect day for the both of us. So one thing we wanted was an archway to stand under for our marriage ceremony. So we found one that was perfect, it had character, it was big enough for Chris and I and the pastor to fit under, and it even had these cool little benches attached to it. As soon as Chris took me to look at it I was in love. It was at this little place that sold fencing and obviously differnt kinds of archways. I think it was around $550 and we figured that we could save up use it for the wedding, leave it with Chris' mom in her yard, then we when we moved back we would be able to have it at our own house. We thought that would be a neat memory to have in our yard. But by the time the wedding came we really didn't have the money for it. I was pretty disappointed, but I wasn't going to let that ruin our wedding day so I put it behind me and decided to be happy with what we had. So the night before the wedding at the rehersal I drove up to the house and standing there in the front yard was my perfect archway that I had honestly forgotten about. It was the perfect surprise. I loved it and was so excited to see it, but of course I immediately blurted out "what? I thought we didn't have the money for this!" Then Chris reassued me that he didn't pay the full price and that he talked the owner into letting us rent it from him. So Chris and Matt went and picked it up for the wedding then took it back on Monday. Chris amazingly got the guy to let him rent it for $150!! What a deal!! The archway turned out to be the vocal point of the ceremony of course and also of the pictures.

Back to Bloggin!

Hey I'm back! lol
So I haven't posted in so long that I forgot my log in info... that's pretty sad. Anyways I have just been so busy with the wedding stuff and my out of town family. Then we have all of those thank you cards to do and now we are working on packing and getting everything ready for the road trip to sunny Cali. We actually bought those suction air tight bags to suck up all of our clothes to help save on packing space. We even have the little travel size ones that Chris figured out that he could fit a couple under the front seats in the car. So needless to say I have not really had too much time to keep on my posting. But I'm going to try and back in the swing of things.