February 21st found Chris and i at a chapel on Quinn and Hawthorne making vows to love each other unconditionally for the rest of our lives and then some! Here are just a few pictures and highlights from that glorious day!
Best friends and family supported us well... there were lots of laughs and lots of good times had...
This was the night before! We all stayed up till 3am painting our nails, talking and eating cookie dough... lots of girly fun!
The ceremony was beautiful and the reception was rockin'! Everything went so smoothly. And then it was time to leave...
next came the honeymoon... almost exactly a month after the actual wedding(on spring break), Chris and i drove to Umatilla, Oregon (that's where his family lives)and had an open house there... yeah for more time spent with his family and for more presents and for more good food! (not in any particular order!
from there we drove across the top of Oregon and stopped at Multonomah Falls. Absolutely gorgeous! there were some other scenic pull outs that we stopped at as well...
next we headed to Mt. Hood. We planned on camping there for the night but our plans were foiled! There was five or six feet of snow on the ground and Chris and i decided to head farther south and get warm... after all this is our honeymoon and we're supposed to be somewhere warm right? Right!
so south we headed to the Redwoods in California. we spent two days there hiking around and mountain biking. We even went to the beach! it was warmer there but not quite warm enough yet!
we spent all day driving down to the L.A. area to visit some of my family... Aunt Lisa, your house was one of my favorite stops the whole trip! We also got to spend an hour or two with my Grandma Angela. Memories i'll never forget.
Chris and i hit the road again. This is the coolest sign ever! We saw it on the road to Las Vegas!
Chris' Grandma has a time share in Vegas so we got one night there free! We found a really authentic Philipino restaurant for dinner and then we went to the strip. It wasn't anything too special but we had a good time.
The last (and warmest) stop on the road was Zion National Park. In a word--breathtaking. The first day we drove through the park and just looked. We found a trail and hiked it, took some pictures... wow. the second day we woke up early and decided to hike Angel's Landing... (speechless face) there are no words to describe the ankle-wrenching, nerve-racking, breath-taking, vertigo-inducing, awe-inspiring trail/view/experience that is Angel's Landing! ( i guess there are some words!)
and then we went home, got some rest (a vacation from our vacation) and got right back in to the swing of things. i work, chris goes to school, we spend time working on our house (Chris just built me a kitchen table... yes built!) and on our garden. as of right now... taxes are done, i have to request transcripts and Chris is preparing for finals... work is going well and Chris is looking forward to going to medic school this summer with the National Guard. Things are going well!
