Our Wedding - November 29, 2001

Thursday - November 29, 2001
There was a big snow storm on our wedding day.  It snowed just about all day. It was sad, because not as many people were able to make it, but it was good because it was so beautiful.  I love the snow!  The funny thing is that when I would daydream about my wedding when I was younger, I imagined that there would be snow.

When I had my bridal pictures taken, I had Kari style my hair and help my with my makeup. I never wear make up and it took forever to get my hair out of that hairstyle so I could go to bed afterward.  It was really uncomfortable and I just didn't feel like myself.  I really didn't love it, but everybody else said they did and that I looked so beautiful.  Since this is what people normally do for their weddings, I decided that I would wake up really early, so Kari could help me style my hair and put on all that make up again for my wedding day.  I really wasn't looking forward to doing that and I really didn't love the way that it looked.  When I woke up at 4:00 am that morning to get ready, I was really dreading it.  Then I started thinking about how I wouldn't feel like myself all day and how, when the day was finished, it would take me forever to get my hair out of that style so I could sleep.  I just really didn't like the thought of all of that.  So I decided not to do it.  I wanted to be comfortable and feel like myself.  So I styled my own hair in a simple comfortable style and the only make up I wore was mascara.  I knew people would judge, but I didn't care.  I felt pretty and I was comfortable and I didn't have to waste precious hours getting my hair and face back to normal afterward.  There was an unkind comment made about my lack of a hairstyle, but I really didn't care.  There was nothing that could bring me down on that day.

Driving to the temple in the morning was a little scary.  Roger got to the temple before I did and he was really worried about me.  He got in a small fender bender at the gas station on his way to the temple.  The roads were really icy.  My Mom and I got to the temple around 9:00am.  They had Roger and I wait in the celestial room while our guests were arriving.  A few guests had called the temple to let us know they were on their way, but were running late because of the bad driving conditions.  So they postponed the ceremony for a little while to let more people get there.

After the ceremony we went outside and had pictures taken.  It was very cold, but I was so happy that I didn't care.  After pictures Roger and I went and got ready for a wedding lunch at the Maddox.  I really loved our wedding lunch.  While we were eating people took turns to stand up and say a few words and congratulate us.  It was a fun way to get to know everybody there.  At one point, while Roger was speaking, Kiara (who is 2, almost 3 years old) stood up on her chair and proudly announced, "Roger is my uncle!"  It was so cute!  After lunch, Roger and I packed our stuff for our honeymoon, picked up our wedding video, and ran some other errands before the wedding reception.  I loved my wedding reception.  We had Karoake.  I sang a song to Roger.  He sang a song with me.  It was very enjoyable. 

After the reception, we went to the car wash to wash our decorated car.  They had covered it in dish soap.  It was pretty annoying trying to get that off.  We spent our first night together at the Anniversary Inn.  We stayed in the room called 'The Enchanted Forest'.  It was a really cool room.  Our bed was in a tree!  I loved it!



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.

Bridal Pictures - October 27, 2001

Saturday - October 27th

 My friend, Regan, took my bridal pictures for me.  Here are just a few of the pictures she took.

Pretend Camping - October 26, 2001

Friday - October 26th

My new niece and nephew were over at Roger's Mom's house.  I had so much fun getting to know them.  We set up my tent and played pretend hiking and camping.  I love playing dorky games!  We had a lot of fun!

Roger and Jenny Pictures - October 22, 2001

Monday - October 22nd

We don't have a lot of pictures of us together, since we haven't known each other that long.  So, we have been busy, trying to get enough pictures of us for our wedding video.  also, we need a good picture to put on our wedding invitation.

Yesterday was my birthday.  Roger was so good to me on my birthday.  I feel bad, because I had a bad attitude.  The problem was, that he woke me up.  He woke me up to give me breakfast in bed, which was super nice.  I'm just not  morning person and I was a little fussy with him.  He made me pancakes and he had real maple syrup to go with it.  I've never had real maple syrup and I'm a picky eater.  I was excited about trying something new.  The gift he gave me was awesome though.  He bought us tickets to go to an Allison Kraus concert.  I was really excited about that.  Roger went out of his way to make my birthday special and for some reason, I couldn't shake the fussiness I was feeling.  I was thankful and happy about all he did for me, but I didn't show it very well.  I feel bad.  I apologized to him and did my best to make it all better and let him know how much I love everything he did.  I don't know why I was so fussy.

Jenny Springman's Birthday! - October 16, 2001

Tuesday - October 16, 2001
These are pictures from my friend, Jenny Springman's Birthday party.  I made a sunshine cake for her.  We celebrated her birthday at Regan's house.  After having cake and ice cream, we all sat outside on the trampoline and played our favorite game, called 'What If?'  Hoe you play is, you cut a bunch of strips of paper.  You pass a paper and pencil to everyone and have them write a what if question.  Then they fold their paper and put it in a pile in the middle of the circle that everyone is sitting in or in a container.  When everybody has put their papers in, everybody gets to reach in and grab a question, and write an answer for it.  Then they fold it again and throw it back in the pile.  When everybody is done, we each grab a paper from the middle and take turns reading the question and answer out loud to everybody.  I love this game soooo... much!  It ends up being so funny, because we always ask the most ridiculous questions about each other.

Damen and Kiara - October 8, 2001

Monday - October 8, 2001

Damen and Kiara are so cute, funny, and so much fun to be around.

Hangin' With The Family - October 7, 2001

October 7, 2001

Hanging out in St. George with my family.

Hannah showed off her bike riding skills. She taught herself how to ride a bike with no training wheels. Impressive!

Roger and I being dorks.  We're good at that.

 Shelley doesn't like it when I take her picture, so she always hides or covers her face. It's sad, but that's why it's fun to try and get a picture of her.  The other pictures are of Elizabeth, Kristin, and Missy.  Missy got some really cute toe socks that I was really jealous of.

 Going for a little walk about with shelley, Hannah, Ben, and Alex.

 Ben is such a cute little baby.

Taking Pictures For Wedding Announcement - October 6, 2001

Saturday - October 6th

 We went to St. George to visit my family again.  I love to be with my family as much as possible.  We spent the day in Brian Head. My dad got a new 4-wheeler.  My sister Missy was especially excited to try it out.

We rode the 4-wheeler and took a lot of pictures, hoping to get a good one to use on our wedding invitation.

Here's my sister, Missy.  I love hanging out with my sister Missy.  We always have so much fun together.

This is my niece, Kristin and my nephew, Alex.

 Roger and I goofing off.

 Here we are at the start of our 4-wheeler ride.  Uncle Orsin said that he had a good place for us to take pictures for our wedding invites. 

 Uncle Orsin pretending to hit us before our 4-wheeler trip.

This is the beautiful place that he suggested we take our pictures.  We ended up using one of the pictures taken here.  The picture below is one that didn't work out, because I was making a weird face.  I need to do some more digging to find a copy of the picture that we actually used.

My Wedding Dress - October 5, 2001

Friday - October 5, 2001

I got my wedding dress!  I could hardly wait to show it off!

The Dress I want - October 1, 2001

Monday - October 1st

My friend, Marque, took my to a store in Bountiful.  She knew the lady that owned the shop, so she was thinking that she could help me get a good deal.  Jenny and Regan came also.  I had so much fun.  I loved trying on dresses.  It was so fun to be the center of attention.  I loved that every time I walked out of the dressing room, they all ooohhed and awwwed.  I had never experienced anything like that before.  I loved it!  I tried on a ton of dresses, but nothing was as cute as the first dress that I tried on.  They didn't have the dress in my size.  I went dress shopping at a few other stores.  They weren't as fun, because I went by myself.  It's so much better when other people come and tell you how pretty you are.  At a dress shop in Provo, I told the owner about the dress from the other shop that I loved so much.  He told me that all he needed was a number off of the tag and he would be able to get me that same dress for a lower price.  I went to the bountiful store, found the dress, and asked the lady if I could take some pictures of it, so I could show my family.  I took a close up picture of the tag, so I could show the Provo shop.  The Provo shop was so helpful.  They sold me the dress for less money and said they'd have it in the shop in no time at all.

I Moved! - September 23, 2001

Sunday - September 23, 2001 

 I moved in with my sister, Kari.  She lives in Eagle Mountain.  I'm going to be babysitting her kids for her.  I love babysitting Damen and Kiara, they are so cute and fun. 

 Cute little Kiara

Cute little Damen

 Roger and I were bored.

Bone Family Reunion - August 25, 2001

Saturday - August 25th

I went to St. George for a Bone Family Reunion.  It was so fun to spend time with my family.  I've always loved family reunions.  The reunion was held at the Brown's cabin in Brian Head.

I'm Engaged! - August 14, 2001

Tuesday - August 14, 2001

Roger proposed to me!  On august 14th we went on a date to the Olive Garden (my favorite restaurant).  I knew that he was going to propose, I had gone ring shopping with him. After dinner, we went to Milcreek Canyon to go on a hike.  I love hiking!  Before we started our hike, Roger acted like he was digging in his pockets for something, then he looked at me and told me that he had been planning on proposing to me tonight, but he forgot the ring.  I thought he was probably teasing, but I wasn't sure. We were having so much fun on our hike.  We were laughing so much, I can't remember what we were laughing about, but it was funny whatever it was.  I suggested that we have a race.  He said okay.  So, we started racing up the mountain.  We stopped to catch our breath and look at the scenery.  It was so beautiful.  I was having a lot of fun with our race, so I was about to take off running again, when Roger grabbed my hand, got down on one knee, and proposed to me. I was so happy!  Of course, I said, "Yes!" 

In St. George - August 12, 2001

Sunday - August 12th

Hanging out at my parent's house in St.George.  My nieces, Elizabeth and Kristin were being so cute.

St. George Fair - August 11, 2001

Saturday - August 11th

We went to St. George and went to the fair with my cousins.  We had a fun day goofing off.  I recorded a lot of our fun.

Montana - 2001

July 19, 2001 - My mom and Dad were spending the summer in Montana.  They took their fifth wheel and parked it at the North Fork.  They wanted to meet Roger.  I had been talking about him a lot.  So, I invited Roger to come to Montana with me and meet my parents.  It was so fun to have him there.

I wanted Roger to go on a walk with me, but he didn't want to.  Because we were in the middle of nowhere and there is lots of wildlife around.  If we ran into an animal, we wouldn't have anything to protect us.  On July 19th, I finally got him to agree to go on a walk with me.  We walked to the end of the driveway and Roger asked what way we should go.  I told him that we should go left, toward the fishing spot.  He looked at me and said, "No.  I think we should 'choose the right."  So, we laughed about that and went to the right.  We walked until the forest became too thick.  Then we headed back toward the cabin.  When we reached the driveway, I convinced Roger to keep walking with me.  I said that we will walk until we reach the fishing spot (where we always turn to go fishing), then we can turn around and head back to the cabin.  He agreed.  We started to walk and we hadn't gotten very far, when a big grizzly bear walked out of the fishing spot and on to the road!  I was sooo.... scared!  The bear walked out to the road and was walking away from us.  I panicked and told Roger that I was going to run.  He told me that I shouldn't.  He reminded me that the bear hadn't even seen us, so we should watch it, the run, when it was out of our sight.    I couldn't control myself.  I told Roger, again, that I was going to run.  I took of running and screaming, "Bear! Bear!"  If the bear hadn't seen us, it for sure would have once I started freaking out.  Roger had no choice but to run after me.  We made it back to the cabin safely.  Thankfully, the bear didn't chase us and kill us.  When we got to the cabin, I, of course, pulled out my video camera so we could tell our story.  These pictures were taken off of the camera, while we were telling our story.

 We went to Bowman Lake in the afternoon.  It is such a beautiful lake.  We took my raft and had so much fun.  I did most of the rowing, because I love too.  Roger had the video camera.  He is a dork, like me and was really funny with the camera.  He recorded me rowing and himself talking.  It was a good time!

  Here we are later that night.  Just chillin'.  I'm sitting by the fire reading bear attack stories.  I don't know why I like to scare myself like that, but I do.

 Roger took a picture of me the next morning while I was making breakfast.