Round 2

The wedding reception in Fallon was a blast. I was able to give Annette a picture I painted for her birthday and gave Michael's youngest brother Calob a pair of USU workout shorts.

We rode horses in the morning and I got a horribly red sunburn that went excellently with my dress :). But it was really fun to ride a good horse. I rode Tazer and Michael rode Chrome. It is always fun watching his family get out and rope together they did breakaway roping. It was my little job to make sure that the cows get back in the gate after they are roped. I also got to learn how to turn properly on a horse and practice a bunch.

Later that day my side of the family showed up and ate lunch with Michael's side. It turned out really well it all went pretty smooth and happily. One of my favorite parts of the day was went My mom Eileen came in and helped me with my hair for the day with my Grandma Johnson. Grandma called my mom a fuss budget. It was hilarious and fun to have both of them primping me and talking. I wished there were more moments like that one.

I had the chance to finally meet a lot of the family that I had been told so much about. Annette made the evening beautiful. Hopefully I will be able to get internet at home so i can upload pictures from the evening.

The First Blog

Michael and I are doing wonderfully. We moved into our new apartment and spent what seems like forever setting everything up. Actually it isn't all the way done yet. Annette, Michael's mom, said that we could take a piece of furniture from them that they were getting rid of. It will be really nice to have another piece of furniture in our apartment. We only have three matching chairs in our dining room so we call the other one "the throne". It is a high backed wooden chair and the other three are upholstered metal chairs.

The two of us have a little bit of conflicting schedules we see one another at night and first thing in the morning occasionally we bump into one another on campus, or end up getting out of class at the same time. However, they are usually interrupted by one of us going to work or to another class.

The honeymoon was a blast with just enough adventure! Unfortunately the wife forgot to check the battery in the camera and we have no pictures from it. But we spent four days in the Wind River Range in Wyoming. It was beautiful, green, and covered with Lakes and waterfalls. We borrowed three horses that Michael had been riding Lady, Paint Horse, and Dodger. They would come into camp while we tried to sleep at night with bells around their necks. All night I had jingle bells stuck in my head. We had one wake up call when a rock that we tied to a horse's foot came flying at our tent, right were our heads were. luckily it only put a 3 inch slit in our tent and no other damage was done. We were also lucky to have Annette give me a wonderful 2 person bedroll for a shower gift. I love it, it kept us nice and warm all night.

Michael had fun fishing and I had fun exploring around. We ate one 20" fish that Michael caught I have to admit it was pretty good with tons of seasoning salt and lemon pepper. We got caught in a little thunder and lighting storm, but not much rain came down the weather was pretty much perfect!

Well, that is all for now!