Our First Wedding Casualty

Our beloved Lil' has mysteriously been wounded. We found her on the floor when we got home last night, still doing her job. She has been a bit more... mobile... lately. She will move closer to the edges of things and has fallen a couple times. She has also been louder, so we decided to take a closer look and see if something had worked itself loose. Part of her back casing had separated, but thats easy. We took her cover off and noticed that one of her blades had a long crack in it. That would explain why she was louder and off balance. We are going to super glue her back together, with any luck. Any suggestions on a glue that works on plastics?

Misadventures in bureaucracy

Getting a legal name change is a royal pain. Each place needs its own documentation, but few offices tell you exactly what you need to bring. Frustration.

First we went to the DMV. The sign on the door said "two hour wait from this point". We grabbed the form and took off. No way I was going to wait two hours in the 'express office'.

Downstairs to the bank. No real problems with the name/address change there. The real problems came when he wanted us to spend 'two minutes' opting into a free account option. Forty minutes later, we leave, without having that option activated due to a lack of proof of something. Lame.

Then to BYU. No line! Hooray! Straight up to the window, tell her I need a name change and marital status change. She asks for my new social security card. Poop. Haven't gotten there yet. Guess we get to go back later

Home for a coke break, plus a few rants.

Off to the social Security office! Finally, an office that tells you exactly what you need to bring.

Marriage license, birth certificate, and Drivers license. We walked in and signed in on their nifty computer, got our number, (A298 if anyone was wondering), and waited. About 10 minutes later, they called our number. Up to the window, present the documents, wait for a minute while he types in the information, then agree that everything is what you say it us, under penalty of law. Yikes. He asked if I wanted a receipt, which, contrary to what I had hoped, is not a temporary form of the card. It just tells you that it will be mailed within two weeks. Poop again. Guess we aren't going back up to campus for a couple weeks.

Beyond that, there isn't much else we can do until we feel like braving the DMV again. Until then, I have my double-sided, legal paper sized form to ponder.

Coming soon: A Name change survival guide: Learning from our misadventures.

The Prank that Keeps on Giving

So, in our haste to post something onto our dying blog we realized that we forgot to post about the prank of wonder and awe. About halfway through the day Jamie and I needed to take the last of her stuff over to our place. Upon our great surprise we opened the truck to put stuff in the car and found that it was loaded to the brim with 2-Liter Coke bottles. We ran inside to spred the news among Jamie's family by saying "Our trunk is full of Coke!" Jamie's Grandpa said very matter of factly, "And there is something wrong with this?"

So we load everything in the back seat and run our errands. Fast forward through the reception we are making our grand exit into married life only to be stopped by what we think at first is just a saran wrapped car.

Being te resourceful little boyscout that I am I shout, "Don, where's your knife?" to make quick work of the gift wrapped glory.

Little did we realize that this was only half the prank that night. The best was yet to come. We open the door to find coke lining the front two seats and much of the back seat, the truck is full to the brim and we have no where to put it all. All the while everyone is singing, "99 bottles of coke in your car..."

After finding all the nooks and crannies in our car we finally start to drive off and boy is our little rice burner not happy about the extra weight. Whenever we turned the weight of the shifting liquid floods to one side of the car making it hard to control. We felt every bump in the road and considering there is road construction everywhere that is a lot. Finally we get home declaring "We'll deal with this in the morning."

Morning came and we're faced with the daunting task of bringing all 99 bottles of coke up to our second story apartment before we leave on our honeymoon. We get a sudden stroke of inspiration that only could have come from above. Use our suitcases. So we load up our suitcases with coke and make three or four trips upstairs. I loaded the first guy up so much I almost threw out my shoulder. Once it's upstairs we leave, declaring, "We'll deal with this when we get back."

Well to shorten this painfully long blog we put all the coke on the wall... kind of. Now whenever we take one down we sing, "Take one down and pass it around..." Jamie had one more stroke of genius that I will be forever grateful for. MyCokeRewards.com Each cap has a code. Each code is worth three points. Meaning we have over 300 points to spend on stuff like magazine subscriptions or cooking stuff or if we really wanted more Coke. Right now, with bonus points and a work party, we're at over 50 points. We'll let you know what we save up for.

Mawage

Okay, so we figured that since the planning, pictures, moving, packing, unpacking, shopping, wedding, and honeymoon are over that we should post a little something about how amazing the wedding day was. First of all, all of our family got into town the night before the wedding and we had a ton of pizza and palettes in Jamie's family's back yard. It was a blast.

We all went home and as Jamie was walking me out to my car we had this sudden stroke of realization... we were getting married in the morning. Not that we were nervous or regretting our decision; it was just the kind of realization that happens before one gets married I suppose. After convincing each other to take some Benedryl before trying to sleep we were about to get to sleep at a reasonable time.

So, in the morning we both woke up way to early and got ready to head over to the temple. We had to be there at about 10:00 AM and it was an half hour drive up there. I was ready before 8:00. Needless to say I sat around feeling nervous and excited. Finally the time came, the temple was fantastic, we were married at 11:11 AM on July 8th, 2010 (Yes, for those of you realizing the time I did make a wish. It was grand).

We both got ready after that in record time and got ready to take some

pictures of the family. It was a wonderful experience. Our photographer is so much fun. We definitely recommend her to anyone looking to have amazing photos at their wedding.

Afterwards the luncheon was great. We had a ton of food and a lot of fun. Although we couldn't get certain family members to stop taking pictures of us eating. I kept telling them we're not Brad Pitt, we don't look cute eating. See?

It just doesn't work.

After averting disasters with music, time seemed to fly right on by and the reception was underway (I debated for a few minutes about making an underwear comment... but I decided to refrain myself). The reception was amazing! The color scheme was glorious (thanks Jamie), the cake looked fantastic, and most of all Jamie looked AMAZING! Here are some pictures.

Some new favorite toys

Vacuum: This is our wonderful vacuum. It really really sucks, just like any vacuum should. (Sorry, I couldn't resist using that)

Chairs: Finally! We got chairs and they are great. Easy to put together and nice looking.

Delilah: This is our apple peeler corer slicer. We named her Delilah because calling it an apple peeler corer slicer is quite a mouthful.

Pans: This set has a good mix of sizes and types of pans. They also hold heat very well.

Knives: Fantastic. Very sharp and easy to use.

Lil: BEST INVESTMENT EVER! She travels between rooms with us and is nearly always on.

THE BEAST: This is the most beastly rice cooker that we've ever seen. I'm pretty sure it even has a cure cancer button on it.

The Food Processor of Death: It slices. It dices. It grates everything from a block of cheese to your hand in under 5 seconds.

Bobby's TV: Thanks to David's old roommate and AMAZING friend for this super awesome gift!

Apple Remote: David has always wanted one of these things. It works great when we use his Mac to watch movies.

Little Things

Yesterday was a day of small good news things. Most of them are things that save us money in some way or another.

The first bit of good news came when I went to an alterations appointment yesterday for my wedding dress. I went, put on my dress, and found my seamstress. She looked at me and told me that the dress fit me perfectly and I didn't need anything changed. This meant no alterations! That saved us about $40! I am so glad that my trend of wearing formal dresses off the rack continued beyond prom dresses. The store is fixing a broken zipper, doing a bead check, and cleaning/steaming my dress. I get to go pick it up in about 2 weeks. VERY excited.

On the way to the dress store, I picked up David at the mechanics. His car has been pretty loud since he bumped a curb. We had my dad look at it and they decided that it was something involving the right front strut. David took it to the mechanic and they called us a couple hours later saying that the strut wasn't broken like we feared, it was just loose! They tightened it and only charged for labor. They are awesome and don't try to sell things that aren't really needed, but just tell you if something might become a problem eventually, like lights. After replacing a couple bulbs and paying for the labor of tightening the strut, car repairs were only $30 instead of the feared/expected $150-$250.

David's Uncle was passing through town for work and met up with us to say hi. After we had lunch with him, he gave us an early wedding present which will help when we need to buy stuff for the apartment when David moves in before the wedding.

In an attempt to save some money, David and I designed our own announcements. We got a sample printed at Costco to make sure things looked good off of the screen. Good thing that we did; Costco printing has a small crop, which meant that the edges were cut off. Glad we discovered this before printing all of them. We asked the Photo guy what we needed to do to make it fit. He explained, then showed us a deal they have going where we could get larger (6x7.5) announcements with envelopes for about $110 instead of getting 5x7's without envelopes for $159. Bigger and cheaper is always better.

We found a cheap dry cleaner that we like that is pretty close to campus. David is getting his suit cleaned and then altered on Thursday. We also got to clean out David's car. I have never seen it totally clean since we started dating. It looks great and has a lot more room in it. I looked online with David and found a wedding ring for him that we both liked that I could easily afford. I am excited to see how it looks off the screen and in person.

To end the day, we made dinner for a friend of David's who got his appendix out this weekend. We had a good time eating with him and his sister and then watching the first bit of Fiddler on the Roof, which I had never seen.
All in all, it was a good day with lots of good things.

Here We Are

Well, to fall in line with all of those other trendy married couples Jamie and I decided to start our own blog so that we could fit in with all the cool people. We're a little behind in our posts already (get used to it, we offer no promises as to the timeliness of our posts) so we'll just catch you all up on the events of the the past few weeks.

On Tuesday April 13th we scheduled the sealing date with the Draper Temple. Later that night I proposed to her outside said temple. She said yes, I still wonder why, and we laughed and screamed for a while outside the temple. We're lucky that it was a secluded spot or people might have started staring at us. For those of you wondering, yes we scheduled the temple before we proposed. It just felt right.

Since then we've done a lot of work. We took engagement photos, photoshopped said photos, designed announcements, Jamie found a dress, we planned a reception, got an apartment, all while working a night job on the weekends. Needless to say it's been a busy month.

We're just glad that we aren't taking classes this summer or we'd be dead. Jamie will post sometime later to share more exciting adventures... until next time.