Sunday, January 18, 2009

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Monday, January 12, 2009

My Totally Awesome Life

Well, married life, for those of you keeping score at home, is awesome. Let me paint a picture for you:

Our wedding day was practically perfect. There was a slight embarrassing moment close to the end of the day where the bride almost passed out. Don’t fret, though, everything’s fine. Too many things in combination: dehydration, low blood-sugar, tightly tied corset-back dress constricting oxygen flow to my brain, lots of standing, emotional stress . . . I was fine as soon as I got four glasses of water and out of the dress.

Other than that slight mishap, though, it was lovely. It was the most perfect day we could ever ask for in January—sunny and 70 degrees outside. We were able to take photos outside! It was great, and such a blessing. The weather in Texas is so unpredictable that even the week of, we had no idea whether we should expect it to be freezing or delightful—and thankfully, the latter happened to be the case.

The luncheon was perfect. We went to the Greenhouse Restaurant: the site of our first date. The food was delicious! It was fun to see our families gathered together for the first time. His mother was so excited and his father was beaming. We were having a lovely time.

We had a small ring ceremony right before the reception, where our good Bishop said some lovely words and we exchanged rings before our families. It was special and he did a wonderful job. Bless him for putting so much time and effort into our little ring ceremony!

The reception was lovely. The Wildwood Inn did a wonderful job, and thought of everything! It was so nice to not have to worry about this or that, and to just be able to enjoy our guests and the delicious food! What fun.

We honeymooned for a few days in San Antonio, where we enjoyed walking around the city and seeing all the sites that San Antonio has to offer. Our hotel was just steps away from anything we could have wanted to see, so we parked the car and only used it once, to go to church on Sunday. Other than that, we walked everywhere.

Now we’re back home. The Husband is at work right now as I sit in our living room typing in a word document (we don’t have internet at the apartment yet), we’re trying to get the place all pulled together before I start school again next week. It’s coming together nicely. We have been so blessed by the kindness and generosity of our friends and family and find ourselves lacking very little in the way of anything we need. The place is great. We have two lovely balconies that overlook the countryside. We look out our bathroom window and we see two horses. There are six happy dogs that greet us when we come home. It’s small, but we have everything we need, and even a few touches to make it more like a home. Our landlord is amazingly kind and wonderful (as I type this right now, he’s climbing on our roof to try and get our satellite TV working, bless his heart) and is so willing to help us with everything. We feel so blessed.

Pictures are on their way. I can’t find the cord to The Husband’s camera, so I can’t load them onto my computer and put them online when I get to the internet. So stay tuned, my faithful readers. And keep an eye out for the Andy and Rachel Blog Extravaganza! Because married people always should keep blogs.

In the mean time, here's a teaser to whet your palates.