November 26, 2001 - Wedding video

Roger and I went to Temple Square and had our wedding video filmed.  They asked us to talk to the camera and tell our story of how we met and our dating experiences.  Then they had us go outside and play in the snow while they filmed us.  It was a little hard to play and act like the camera wasn't there, but we did it.  Roger was really playing it up for the camera.  It was fun.  I'm going to share a little part of our wedding video as soon as I get it, I'll add it to the end of this post.

November 23, 2001

I love Roger so much!  He is all I ever think about.  I just feel so lucky to have him.  I need to be married to him already!  We have 5 more days to go, and I can hardly handle it!  I feel like these next 5 days are going to be the longest days of my life.  Time is just not moving fast enough for me.

I had my last bridal shower last night.  It was a lot of fun.  I love bridal showers that are for me!Roger's mom threw this shower for me.  She doesn't like to play all of the usual games, instead we sat around and talked.  She had questions for me, so everyone could get to know me.  Then there were questions for everyone else, so I could get to know them.  A lot of the questions were about being married, like: "What surprised you the most about your husband after you were married?", "What was the cheapest date and the most expensive date you've gone on?", and "What thing was the hardest for you to get used to about married life?"  I had a lot of fun getting to know everybody.  I also really enjoyed being the center of attention.   My mom came to the shower with me.  All of the other guest were relatives of Roger.

I'm really glad that my mom was able to make it.  My parents left St. George around 12:30pm.  They came, so my mom could attend the shower and they had a funeral to go to the next day.  The funeral was for Grant Maxwell's wife (I don't remember her name. I did not know her very well).  The Maxwells live in the little red house down the lane behind the house I grew up in.  I know Grant Maxwell because he was Grandpa Mathison's fishing buddy.  Anyway... I'm glad my parents are here.  I really miss them when we are not living together.  I'm feeling really grateful right now for the wonderful life that I have been blessed with.  I really want to thank my parents for all that they have done for me.  They are the best parents and they gave me sooo... much!  I love that I was raised in the gospel.  I love the knowledge that I have and I can't wait to get married in the temple and be sealed to my husband forever!

Thanksgiving - November 22, 2001

Thursday - November 22, 2001
My first Thanksgiving with Roger's family was a lot of fun.  The VanBibber's brought  some friends of theirs to come and celebrate with us also.  It was very nice.  I really enjoyed the dinner.  I was a little disappointed in myself.  I talked up my cheese ball to everybody, then I decided to try something just a little different and it didn't turn out very well.  It wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as it normally is.  We all watched the movie 'Shrek' after dinner.  One thing that they do that I'm not used to, is they have a lot of pie.  We always have pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, but they go above and beyond that.  They had a pumpkin pie along with a ton of other pies.  They had every flavor of pie you could think of.  I'm not much of a pie person, but it wasn't bad.  I think I can get used to that.

Pretend Camping and Cooking Show - November 21, 2001

Wednesday - November 21, 2001
Roger's mom wasn't too happy when she heard about us all sliding down her stairs, but we had sooo  much fun playing our pretend hiking and camping game.  Roger was the hottie ranger.  He warned us that there was a bear in the area, before we went on our long hike to our camp ground.  WE turned off all of the lights and used flashlights to find our way.  We should have left earlier in the day so we didn't have to hike in the dark.  I love playing pretend!  So we hiked over all the furniture, then we came to a big waterfall (the stairs).  The only way to get to our campground was to go down the huge waterfall.  So down we went!  At the bottom of the waterfall, we had a little hiking left to do before we found our campsite.  Luckily, someone had gone before us and had the tent already set up.  We huddled in the tent with a flashlight and started to tell ghost stories, when we heard a noise.  Something was outside of our tent, but we couldn't see what it was because it was so dark.  We stayed huddled in a corner of the tent, with a blanket over our heads.  All of the sudden, a big scary bear (Roger) came into our tent!  We all screamed and tried to run away.  He grabbed a hold of my arm, but I managed to slip away from him and we raced back up the mountains, trying to get to the ranger station where we knew the hottie ranger was so he could save us.  The bear caught up to us and grabbed my leg.  I fell to the ground and it started dragging me toward it.  Missy and Becca grabbed a hold of me and tried to pull me to safety.  I don't remember how we ended the game ended, but I do remember that we had sooo... much fun!  Here is the scrapbook page I made of our fun.

 After our camping game, we decided to watch a movie.  A movie is no good with out popcorn, so we headed to the kitchen to make some.  Then we decided to make a cooking show of us making the popcorn.  My dorky brain, just won't stop!  We can't even make popcorn with out it becoming another dorky fun game.  During our show, Roger's mom came home.  She started to fix herself some food and we pretended that she was an intruder trying to ruin our show.  We yelled for "Security!" so Missy came and tried to remove her from the kitchen.  We had fun.  I have no idea what movie we ended up watching. 

Babysitting - November 12, 2001

Monday - November 12, 2001
I love babysitting my Niece and Nephew, Kiara and Damen.  I think they are so cute and funny and very entertaining.  Here are a few pictures of us hanging out in their backyard and eating graham crackers.

St. George for Bridal Shower and Bachelorette Party - November 11, 2001

November 9, 2001

My friends and I all headed to St. George to have a bachelorette party and also go to the bridal shower that my sister, Missy, threw for me.  Roger and his friend, Tyson, also came along for all of the fun.  We had to separate into two cars.  I rode in Marque's car with Rachel and Lindsay.  I had my video camera with me and we entertained ourselves by playing a funny game I made up.  We pretended that we were on a show where 4 girls were stuck in a car.  We each took turns talking about our experiences while we were in the car.  I'm pretty sure that's the game we were playing.  I come up with so many dorky games that it's hard to keep them all straight.  It was fun and it made the drive go by fast.  We started out by introducing ourselves, then we talked about our experiences in the car, then I felt like we needed some conflict, so we came up with some conflict.  Then we resolved the conflict and ended our show because the battery was dying on the camera and I think we were all getting bored with the video.

Here are the pictures from my bridal shower.  The party was held at Linda's house and hosted by Missy.  The party was a lot of fun.  I loved all of it, except for the bubble gum game.  She asked Roger some questions before the party.  During the party she asked me the same questions about Roger.  Every time I got a question wrong, I had to put a piece of bubble gum in my mouth.  I ended up missing a lot of them.  She asked things like what his favorite cartoon is - I was pretty clueless.  There were a few of them, that I knew, but Roger had answered differently than he had told me.  I was so frustrated! 

 After the Bridal shower, we got together with a bunch of friends from Dixie College.  It was so fun to see everybody again.