Wedding Pictures

YAY!! Kalli finished our wedding and reception pictures! These are just a few I pulled off her photography blog. I will make a slide show soon but I wanted to get these up asap. :) Here is her blog if you want to see a few more of us and some amazing pictures she's done for other people. http://www.kallinasmithphotography.blogspot.com/

This Christmas I gave you my heart!

Merry Christmas!
I've never had time fly by so quickly! I'm using a cute advent calendar I received as a gift this year and every time I change the block I can't help but think "I just did this!"
Eric and I are so excited for our first Christmas together. We are all kinds of mushy and lovey dovey. Not that we aren't all the time but especially so this month. We love looking at our tree and having hot cocoa. I like the fireplace on more than Eric does. He thinks it's a waste of gas. And that's probably true if you are Scrooge but it's magical at Christmas time and it's worth every penny!
We were both pretty frustrated that most of our presents to eachother won't be surprises. It's hard when you only have one car and one bank account but we did our best! Actually, Eric is sure that I know what's under the tree for me but, honestly, I have a guess but I don't really know. So it's still really fun for me. :)
Our good friend, Kalli, gave us some good newlywed advice. She told us to take lots of pictures for the first everything. She said she and her husband (who celebrated their first Christmas last year) regretted not taking more pictures. I hope we are too lazy to get it out. We have trouble with that.
My sister Jen let me borrow her book called The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck and I read the whole thing last night. I highly recommend it!!

Have a good season!!

Happily Ever After

I was telling my friend the other day about the night Eric and I decided to get married and I thought maybe I should post it so I don't forget. Plus, it's cute and mushy so maybe ya'll would like to hear about it.

I was at Eric's apartment late one night (that happened a lot) and he was on the phone with me while I was driving home to make sure I didn't fall asleep and kill myself. We were having a fairly deep conversation but unfortunately I can't remember the details anymore. However, I do remember perfectly how he sounded when he said "maybe we should look at rings." I was about 2 minutes from home and I did an illegal U turn and headed the 20 minutes back to Provo.

When I got there, he was waiting for me on his porch. We were both grinning when I parked illegally and ran at him. He grabbed me and we just hugged and kissed and laughed for about 15 minutes. It really was late and I had to go home but this time there wasn't a chance I would fall asleep and I don't think I slept that night.

The next day I was waiting for Eric to get home from work and I decided to go look at dresses. I ended up buying the second one I tried on. With out my mom, my friends, my sisters or anyone's opinion. I loved it. Nobody even knew we were talking about marriage. (We had only been dating for 6 weeks.)

I couldn't believe it was real. That it was my turn to have my dreams come true. And Eric is my dream come true.

This was taken on my phone by the girl who helped me at the shop. I sent it to Eric. :)

Here's the back.
All before it was altered and ironed. :)