Pre-Wedding Shenanigans at Varnum's Camp

So here we are in San Diego, on our official honeymoon... even though we've been married for a little over four weeks now. We've been lucky enough to kind of honeymoon for practically free from Maine to Arizona, so we figured that in order to keep with the tradition of all newlyweds we needed some place to blow a little cash that we don't have.

It is here in California that we've decided to catch you all up on the events thus far, starting with pictures from Maine. This first one is a sweet snap shot of Varnum's Camp that Mike took.

Here are some of us gathered around the campfire eating s'mores. (And trying to stay away from the smoke.











Theoretically, this is a picture of me and Mike. But try telling two very photo-enthusiastic boys that they already had their picture with us, and now it's our turn. It doesn't really work. We finally just allowed them to jump in with us, then sent them off, and before they realized what was happening, Kait raised the camera again and snapped another shot of just us. It's a good one, but it came out a little diagonal. (We're planning on sending this one out as our "family picture" for Christmas.)



Ezra, Loren, and Eden looking at... fish? Maybe?














This one cracks me up every time! Lottie loved that s'more, but just couldn't handle the whole thing in one big bite like she thought she could.

Okay, every time we post pictures, more than one anyway, the rough draft looks fine and then the published post is pushed all over the place. Can anyone give us a hand here. I haven't had this much trouble with my old blog, so I don't know what to do here.

Photo Tag

Here's my photo tag! (Read the rules on Mum's page.)

My Age

My Favorite Color

My Favorite Vacation Spot

Where I Live

The Places I Grew Up

Where I Want to Visit

My First Name

My Middle Name

My Last Name

A Past Love

My Favorite Animal (The horse. And if you want to see a magnificent specimen, watch LadyHawk. This animal is just so impressive-looking.)

My Favorite Food

My Favorite Treat

My First Job (Ignore the name on the bottom.)

My College Degree

(I couldn't decide if this would fall under "Bad Habit" or "My College Degree" best, so I stuck it here in the middle.)

A Bad Habit

What I'm Doing Right Now... watching... wishing...

Maine Reception

Hey everyone! Here we are in Utah, updating the blog with a little taste of the reception in Maine, which is the first set of pictures we've received thus far. We truly plan on keeping a thorough update of wedding/Boston/receptions/honeymoon pictures, but we can't promise too much just 'cause we'll be traveling so much. (Tomorrow we head down to Arizona for two weeks to work, then over to San Diego for a week, then back up to Idaho to start school.) So, enough of me, let's get on with the show!

Mike pushing in my chair as we sit down to eat, and me eating a strawberry. Galen made me do it again and again 'cause he (apparently) liked the shot. So did Mike. When we saw them he said to me, "I like that. We need copies of all of those." I joked that we could blow them all up and decorate our rooms with them. (Creeeepy!)

Sam, Levi, and Todd G.

Selena and Eden

Here's a nice close up of the bouquet and my ring. My bouquet was made of large pink and ivory roses, small pink and ivory spray roses, and pink snap dragons. Everyone loved it!

Eating cake - our top was made of lemon lavender. It was sooo good! I actually had forgotten that was the flavor we chose until I took a bite, and then my mouth just started watering. The other picture (below) is of Loren Maxwell right afterward. He took one good look at that cake and then immediately reached out a frosting-swiping finger. I grabbed him just in time and told him that all he had to do was take a seat and the cake would come to him! He ran to the closest table.

Me and Mike cracking up at a part of the slide show. I assure you, it was one of my baby pictures. There was an audible difference when people saw a picture of Mike as a baby (Awwww!) and when they saw a picture of me as a baby (Ugh! What is that!).

Me dancing with Dad. Or, more accurately, me smiling sweetly while Dad looks like a hillbillie.

Mike and Karen after the mother/son dance.

(1) Above. Mike and I get some swing dancing in.(2) The party gets started! The two boys on the floor, Sean and Nathan, saw Same do some break dancing and they wouldn't stand upright form then on. (3) Below. Our first dance as a married couple. Actually, other than dancing in my livingroom in my apartment, this was our first slow dance ever! We had been to a couple of dances up at school, but they never played a slow song! Can you believe it?!

Thanks Janice and Galen for the great gift of photos! We really appreciate it, and they all came out so well!