“The family is ordained of God. Marriage between man and woman is essential to His
eternal plan … Happiness in family life is most likely to be achieved when
founded upon the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. Successful marriages and
families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer,
repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome
recreational activities.”
It has taken me a couple weeks to get
to this post, but here is a little about the adventures we had on our trip to
Utah for Shane (my little brother) and Amber’s wedding.
We headed for Utah Thursday morning and
decided to take a bit more scenic route since we didn’t need to be to Ogden
until later that afternoon. It was just a small detour off the freeway, on to
the old highway, where we got to see waterfalls, canyons, and lots of birds. (Don’t
pretend like you didn’t like bird watching in Mr. Gates class in high school,
if only I had my field guide so I knew what the birds actually were.)
The best part of this little scenic
trip was that we got to stop and have lunch with one of my bffs .
The day before we left I was chatting with her on FB and found out she moved
and that our little scenic drive we had planned took us right through the
little town she moved to. Lucky, right?
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So on Thursday night, the family went
to the Brigham City Temple with Amber for her endowment. In this post I might
use some jargon that may be unfamiliar, so check out this
link for a little more info about LDS temples,
and what happens there. Other than doing baptisms, most LDS members attend the
temple for the first time just prior to getting married in the temple or
leaving to serve a mission. Courtney was kind enough to watch Sammy and
Ashley’s girls for us while we went. Thanks Court, love you.
Since the wedding was not until
Saturday morning, we had time to kill on Friday so we headed south to Provo to
visit Drew’s little brother, Eric, and take a look around our old stomping
ground. We toured the new Heritage Halls
at BYU where Eric is an RA, went to eat at Brick Oven, drove past our old
apartment and let Sammy play at the park we went to almost every day when we
lived there. On our way to Provo, we stopped at Drew’s old work so he could say
hi to his friends there too.
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My mom’s cousin was out of town for the
weekend and was kind enough to let Mom, Dad, Shane, Courtney, Drew, Sammy, my second
mom from Prineville, and I crash at her place in Kaysville. It was fun staying up Saturday night
reminiscing with Sue about all our good times in Prineville. Oh how I miss all
you Prineville peeps.
I guess this
brings us to Saturday. Shane and Amber’s sealing was at 9:30 a.m., which meant
we were up early getting ready and headed to the Bountiful, Utah Temple. The
ceremony was beautiful. The sealer gave them, and the rest of us there, some
great advice. There probably aren’t many things in this world more awesome than
witnessing a couple be sealed for time and all eternity, and seeing a new
little family formed.
Drew and I
got to go help setup for the reception while everyone else finished taking
pictures at the temple. It was great being able to see so many friends and
family come to support Shane and Amber, especially seeing friends from Prineville.
Eating the cake
is definitely one of our favorite parts about weddings, so we were pretty
excited when they decided to cut the cake and serve it. They did the
traditional cutting of the cake and smashing it in each other’s faces, but the
funny part was that it scared Sammy half to death. She started screaming when
she saw Shane and Amber “get all dirty.” It was pretty funny. She talked about
it for days, and even made up a song about it. It is the only song she has ever
made up, but it went like this: “Cake Song, Cake song, Shane and Amber get all
dirty, cake song.” It was pretty cute listening to her sing it.
Saturday night Boise State had a
football game, so we left the reception a little early and headed home to catch
it. For months, Drew hasn’t been able to figure out why anyone would schedule a
wedding on the opening weekend of college football season, and had to make sure
we didn’t miss the game.
Since Sammy didn’t get a nap with all
the day’s festivities, she fell asleep after just five minutes in the car. She
only slept for about an hour but then listened to Pink Floyd on her head phones
the rest of the way home.
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Food, Drink, Book, Baby, and Pink Floyd
was all it took to keep this girl happy for another five and a half hour car
ride home.
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