Oh my gosh this weekend was SO fun! Kory and I were married in the temple for time and all of eternity. Then we just got to take tons of pictures and celebrate with friends and family! It was so great! I got to see so many friends and family members. It was truly a special occasion sharing this experience with everyone. It meant so much to me that everyone traveled so far to be there to support us. We sure love you and appreciate you so much!
I will tell you more of the wedding/reception details when I get the pictures back in a month or so. For now I'm going to tell you about our first weekend as newlyweds. We went to this cute little Inn tucked away in the mountains. The room was beautiful, the food was fantastic, and the service was wonderful. But most of all, the company was amazing. I have grown to love Kory so much more over the last week. I can't wait to see how our love continues to grow over our lifetime.
We ate a lot of amazing food this weekend. The Blue Boar Inn has a Blue Ribbon chef. We had a five course Sunday brunch, and then another amazing breakfast on Monday morning. We also went to another special place of ours and had an incredible dinner. So sorry most of our pictures are of us eating, haha, I couldn't resist capturing it on camera! We also went on a nice little drive up in the mountains, and fed the ducks at the state park. It was just so wonderful to relax and spend quality time together. Here are some pics!
This is Kory feeding the ducks, haha. My laugh is so silly in this video.
We celebrated Kory's birthday last week! It was so fun. His birthday was Friday the 24th. I wanted to do something really special for him so I decided to plan a surprise birthday party! I originally had it planned for Friday, but I found that a lot of our friends already had plans or things going on so they wouldn't be able to make it. So, I planned the party for Thursday instead (the day before Kory's actual birthday, what better way to surprise than to throw a party the day before? haha).
Things went really well all day long. That morning I took Kory to school then ran to the store to get party stuff: happy birthday plates and cups, birthday hats, birthday noise makers, and birthday streamers. Then I ran to Costco and got a chocolate birthday plate. I only had a limited amount of time before I had to get Kory from school so I ran the things over to my friend Emily's apartment for her to bring over to our apartment later. I was able to swing by the post office on campus to drop of some invitations that needed to be mailed and buy more stamps. It saved me a lot of time instead of having to run all the way to the Provo or Orem post offices. I picked up Kory for a little bit and then he had to go back to school again to take his statistics test. That gave me enough time to run to the creamery on campus and get balloons and candles, and then drop those things off at Emily's also. I ran home to shower and get ready I cleaned the apartment and did some finishing touches on the decorations. I hung up a frame with some of our engagement pictures and another french style bulletin board with pictures on it. I arranged for friends to bring all of the things I had picked up, ice cream, and root beer.
Kory and I went to work and had a normal day. As we started wrapping up and getting ready to go home I was starting to get anxious and excited. I called friends really quick to make sure that everything was running smoothly. Then the whole way home I was texting them to give them the play by play. Kory was driving and I noticed he didn't make the turn to go home. I asked why and he said he was heading straight to our Bishop's interview (which I had secretly rescheduled for later). I told him I needed to go home first so he re-directed towards home again. As we approached our door there was a skateboard sitting outside of our door and Kory stopped and looked really puzzled. He checked to make sure the door was locked...
Kory's Version:
So we're going to our interview with Bishop, and we start passing our street, and she's like "where are you going?" I reply Bishops, as in, duh, don't you know? My type-A inherited from my father was on a scheduled basis right now. She replied then that she had to go home first. Partially annoyed, I didn't ask why and just decided to go home. As I approach our apartment door there's a skateboard outside. Puzzled, I'm looking around this skateboard, and then I just say aloud, "punk kids." Then as I'm about to unlock the door, I get this gut feeling that something isn't normal inside. I immediately just think to myself, "some kids must have broken into our apartment." I check the door and it's locked. I unlock the door and open it only to satisfy my presumption, seeing something white hanging from wall to wall in front of me. "The punks TPed my apartment!" I thought to myself. Then, keep in mind this all processed within 3 seconds ... then the lights flip on and .. "SURPRISE!" ..... yes, I was surprised. 1. who's in my house 2. how'd you get in here 3. why are you here? ... "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" Oh, yeah, it's my birthday! HA! I was totally not expecting anything to happen walking into my house that night. Ana Lee was successful with her surprise intentions. My next issue ... what do you say to your guests at a surprise birthday ...? Best I could come up with was "thanks for coming!" hahaha.
It was so fun throwing a surprise party or Kory! I loved it. After everyone had some cake and ice cream we gathered in the living room and talked for a while. Then we played the game where everyone took a turn saying something that they love about Kory. There were so many wonderful things said. Kory is one of those people that others really enjoy, admire, and grow to love. It was very apartment that his friends think very highly of him.
On Kory's real brithday. I took him to Tucanos for lunch, it was a special occasion! :) We had a lot of fun.
Well Kory, I just want you to know that I love you very much. I am so proud of you and I am continuously amazing by you. I hope that you had a wonderful birthday, and that I am able to pull off many more surprises in our future :) Happy Birthday!
Kory and I had SO MUCH FUN taking our engagement pictures! First we went to downtown Salt Lake. Then to the place where they got the granite for the Salt Lake temple. Then we went to Nevada, haha yes we did, to go to the Salt Flats! It was awesome! So yes, all of these pictures to see are totally and 100% real. Enjoy!
Our first date started as an errand to the airport. Since then we have had many hello's and goodbye's at the airport.
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