The Honeymoon!!!!

Whew!!! It's been a whirlwind of activity since we've been married! Today has probably been the first day we've been able to relax a little and even then we were running around all morning! But it's been great! We are finally all settled into our new apartment and it's been fun to see it slowly turn into our home :) But before I get to all that, I must tell you about the honeymoon!!!

After we drove off in our stylish limo after the reception, we stayed in Salt Lake for a night and then flew down to sunny San Diego to play!!! We kind of bummed around on Sunday, as we didn't have a car (my parents were driving it down for us with all of our stuff in it) but it was nice and relaxing after the plane trip. Monday and Tuesday we actually had to check into our apartment and get our stuff moved in there. Thankfully my parents were there to help us get that all unloaded. Tuesday we started putting together some furniture so that our place would be functional when we got back from the open house we were having in Agoura at John's parent's place.

Wednesday and Thursday we spent at DISNEYLAND and CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE!!! It was so much fun! My family and our friends the Skankeys were there as well so we met up with them for a little bit to go on some rides together. (and I don't particularly like roller coasters, so John had someone to ride with, and I had someone to wait with!) But most of the time we were off on our down, doing our 'thang. :) We had so much fun! When we got there, someone gave us pins that said "Just Married" and put our names on them so whenever we got on a ride, the ride workers would congratulate us. It was pretty cool. We also got these awesome Ear Hats for brides and grooms. We wore them most of the day on Wednesday ;)

C is for....California!

With some of the gang

Oh we are so cute :)

Lookin' stylish in our new ears

Officially, "Mrs. Moffat"! :)

I tried soooo hard to free the sword! Guess I'm not meant to be king...

And neither is John, apparently...bummer...

And we lived Happily Ever After :)

Friday we headed up to Agoura to John's parents' for the open house. It was so fun to meet John's friends and family there! And we had yummy food and John's mom did a fabulous job with the house and backyard, it was beautiful. And thankfully, this was a little more informal than the reception, so John and I had a chance to sit down after a while and have some of that yummy food ;)

The entry way

Here we are opening fun presents

Jennifer getting a look and some of the many pictures of us up around the house

The backyard set up

More of the backyard

Right outside the back door

People!! and Jason in the corner there...lovely :)

Saturday we headed back down to San Diego to our new apartment! We spent the rest of the weekend unpacking and getting settled. We went to our new ward on Sunday and met lots of nice people. Monday and Tuesday was still full of unpacking boxes and taking care of things. Then I left Wednesday to go to Chicago for a day to visit the pastry school I plan on attending. It was SOOOOO cool! I met up with my parents there so they could come tour the school with me. It was so fun to ride the train into downtown and see the school. The stuff they learn there is amazing! I can't wait to learn it too! Friday I flew back to my sweet boy who had to stay at home alone (though thankfully Travis came down for a little bit). My mom came down with me because she was coming with us to see the musical Wicked with Tish for Tish's birthday. It was our first time seeing it and it was AMAZING! I loved it! My mom left yesterday and we have finally had a chance to breathe after all of our excitement and adventure. But the biggest adventure is yet to begin!! John starts his classes tomorrow and I have to start looking for a job and finishing up my last BYU class online! So of course, we remain busy busy busy but loving every minute :)

We are MARRIED!!!

Hurray!!! we finally made it through the last couple of weeks!!! And now we've been married a week and TWO days!!! We're quite proud of ourselves. and blissfully happy :)

It has been an insane last couple of weeks. the week of the wedding was probably the craziest.
Let me give you the brief run down (trust me, this IS brief) :

Monday:
Last day of classes and work for summer term, I had a final and a quiz. I also had to start packing to get ready for my checkout at my apartment.

Tuesday:
Reading day. No school or work, (that was a relief) but studied my brains out for my two finals on Wednesday. Had a dentist appointment. Tried to get more cleaning done.

Wednesday: Last two finals for the summer. Passed finals! WOOT! (we were worried about my Music 201 class!! eek!) Elizabeth my maid of honor and both mine and John's families arrived tonight. had a big dinner with everyone. Finished cleaning and packing ALL MY STUFF (i have a TON) for checkouts.

Thursday: John and I checked out of our apartments. Passed cleaning checks. Was kind of annoyed after all my hard work cleaning, the girl kind of ran her fingers along the surfaces and proclaimed it good. Started baking wedding cake. Got all three layers baked. Baptisms at Draper Temple with family. It was Cameron's first time!!! That was really special. :) After temple, ran errands, got nails done, got to bed VERY late.

Getting ready to do baptisms!

Friday: Went through the temple for the first time!!! Completely overwhelmed with information overload. Grabbed some lunch and hurried back to start frosting the cake! Got the first 2 layers frosted and had to get over to the park for the big family dinner. Enter John AND Ashley's extended family. That was a lot of people! and LOTS of yummy food....oh yum... :) Went back and finished frosting last layer of cake. Crashed in bed.

With my parents right after the session

With my sweetheart after the session

Trying not to fall asleep at the family dinner ;)

Saturday: Woke up at 5am and couldn't sleep. surprising? no. Got my hair done at my old roommates and went back to finish getting ready. My mom and I met up with John and his dad to head up to the temple. CRAZY busy that day!!! 33 other sealings going on and the lobby was packed with people! But everyone was really nice and we were well taken care of. :) We got sealed and saw so many of our friends and loved ones to share this special time with us. We also were lucky to have a good friend of the Moffats to be our sealer. It was pretty special.



But the day wasn't over yet!! After the sealing and much confusion as to where my groom went after we had changed into our wedding/picture clothes, there were a couple hours of pictures, some lunch, then over to the church building to get ready for the reception! And I still had to finish the cake. Finished the cake, helped set things up. Got five minutes for dinner and then my mom's family showed up so that my cousin Logan could be ordained a deacon. Then we rushed out to the reception area to start greeting people. Stood in very tall shoes for way too long. Those came off after an hour. lucky for me you couldn't tell with all of my skirts. Face hurt from smiling so much!! After about an hour and a half of the reception line, we cut the cake, changed, and made our grand exit amid bubbles and cheers into a sweet white limo. And we drove off to our happily ever after. :)


I'll give an update later on the honeymoon. Tune in next time for Disneyland! California Adventure!! The Open House! and our NEW apartment!!!!!

ONE WEEK!

We have a WEEK left!! We get married this Saturday!! Hurray!!!! We are just SO excited! Out families come in tomorrow and I'll be done with finals by early afternoon. I'm really ready to be done with school! Today is a readying day, or prep day before finals start. I really hate reading days. I just want to go take my tests!!!!! Oh well, once the families get in, it's going to be non-stop craziness :) So I better enjoy the calm before the storm. ;) But we are soooooooo excited!! We went to the county clerks office and got our marriage license this afternoon. It's hard to believe it's all actually happening! We've been waiting 4 months for this and it's kind of surreal that it's all of our waiting is coming to an end...

What to do when your bridal shower gets postponed...

Hang out with your fiance of course!!! Even though we do that ALL the time anyway ;)

So even though we told the ward about the informal "bridal dessert night" my roommate was throwing me, it turns out everyone (okay, maybe not EVERYONE, but a large percent) went out of town...or had a date...or something or other. oh well. it's going to be on Tuesday now.

I made peanut butter balls and brownies for it to help out with the refreshments, now let's hope they make it to Tuesday! (John might eat them) I had john help me put the chocolate on them...we got a little messy...and it was kind of my fault, okay, i smeared chocolate on john's face. then took a picture. see?
Sometimes john wonders how great this blog is... ;)

So as we had been planning on the bridal shower, we found we had no plans for tonight!!! After some heavy duty brainstorming, we invited John's cousin and her husband, Jessica and Dave Clyde, to come over and have a bridge building contest. We had nothing but gum drops and toothpicks to make it. Oh, and two cups.

Our bridge won!! hurray! it held 3 knives and 2 forks!

We were quite proud of ourselves. :) Then we played the BEST German game, Ligretto and i succeeded in keeping my score in the positive numbers! hurray! It was probably one of the most INTENSE ligretto games EVER. Dave and Jessica were neck and neck, and then all of the sudden, John caught up without any warning! The winner must get 100 points...everyone else was in the 80's and 90's, i was content in the 30's and 40's. It was a nice place to be. :)

Well, i've survived 3 tests, and john survived four days of 3pm to 1am production work. 1 test on monday and 28 days to the wedding! WOO HOO!

Our First Marriage Gift!

That's what john said when we got our first wedding gift in the mail yesterday!!! we got rubbermaid storage containers! We came back to my apartment and there was a package for me!! I wasn't expecting anything, but we opened it up and saw the note and - YAY! we are so excited!!Thank you Rosenbergs!!!

MORE good news!!! And a funny story to come! The good news is that I FINALLY have (drum roll please...)


Yes, yes, it says "temporary" but my REAL one is coming in the mail!! in 3 weeks!!!! Hurray! I also drove BY MYSELF for the first time. john let me use the jeep to go to Smith's to pick up some vegetable oil. and i did a FABULOUS parking job, by the way. I told john to worry if i didn't come back in an hour :) i still wonder at how he trusts me with the jeep already ha ha but i made it to Smith's and back and everything and everyone was in ONE piece. :)

Okay, now the funny story:

John has taken to asking me how to say phrases in German. He wanted to know how to say "My name is..." which, in German, goes "Ich heisse..." Last night he was trying to say it and started by saying "Ich...lieben...?" I thought he was going to say something else so i corrected him by saying "Ich liebe. Then he goes "Ich liebe John". I busted up laughing. For those of you that don't know, "lieben" is "to love". John said "I love John". When i could finally get that out without laughing so hard, we both got a kick out of it and i reminded him how to say "ich heisse" :)

Good times, good times.

Bridals/Groomals and Drivers Licenses

So we got our bridals/groomals done tonight!! i think getting ready was much more fun for me, because i got to get my hair and nails done and i felt so pretty!!! (She really is!! -John) I had a salon do my hair this time, but a salon probably won't be open early enough before the wedding, so i asked my old roommate brittany to do my hair for me, but this is what i'm going to have my hair look like:

After all the pictures were all done, i snuck a kiss!!! (john didn't want to kiss me with my lipstick on...but i don't blame him ha ha...it's all sticky)


Hee hee heee....


And another bit of good news, i passed my road skills test for my drivers' license!!!!!! hurray!!!!! So john and i will go to the DMV this week and i will FINALLY get my license!!! i can now join the adult world and drive on my own!! and i made it before i'm 20!! yesssssss.... :)

San Diego, here we come!!!!

Hurray! After a long week apart, ;) John and i will meet up in San Diego tonight!! We'll spend the weekend looking at and researching apartment complexes, hoping to find somewhere nice to live after we get married! But first, i have to make it through 2 final exams and get to the airport!! eek! but i'm very excited to see john again!

losing my mind!!

well, not really.

okay. maybe kind of.

today at work i totally forgot to seal the transcripts before i sent them out (that makes them official) luckily i caught it before i sent them out, but not before i stuffed them in envelopes and sealed those...so i got to open them all AGAIN with the envelope opener, which is actually really fun ;) but more work. sad.

but good news!!! our announcements came in today! after causing my mom much stress because i was supposed to receive the package yesterday, but no one in the apartment checked the mail, so it got to me today. but i got them!! hurray!!!!!!! and they look SOOOOOO good. happy day!!! 64 days till the wedding!! WOOT!