A New Chapter in Life Has Begun

Friday April 24th was the BEST day of my life because Brian and I were MARRIED! It was such a perfect and special day, I will remember it forever!!!!! We were married for time only in the Mt Timpanogos temple and later that night had a wonderful open house reception at Millennial Falls up in Draper. So many family members and friends came by to offer their congrats and best wishes, it was quite the night (in more ways than one :)


Here are some pictures of our special day! Brian's nephew's wife Kristy took these awesome pictures - didn't they turn out great? We are thrilled with them! The kids all looked wonderful and were so happy for us (OK Parker & Paxton each had a moment at the temple - you will notice that in one of the pics - but the rest of the time they were their normal happy, active selves.)

I especially love these 2 pictures. She just captured by the look on my face how happy & in love I am with Brian, he truly is the love of my life and I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with him. Morgan and Madi are such great girls I'm excited & privileged to get to be a part of their lives. My boys are so excited to have all of us become a family & get some sisters & have Brian around to do guy things with. I plan to create a new blog and when I do I'll post a link here so you can start to follow our life as we now have doubled in size. I think that means double the fun we will have with the 3 of these wonderful and special people!
OK back to more pictures of our day.

In front of the temple doors - if you are noticing Parker you will see that I told you the kids each had a moment, well this one was Parker's. :)

See, now he's happy again! Doesn't Parker look so handsome and grown up in that suit?? What a little man he has become.

I'll admit I LOVED my dress and Brian loved it too! I'm glad I hadn't showed it to him and surprised him when I walked out of the dressing room in it - he really thought I looked great and is so sweet with his compliments towards me all the time.

Brian looked sooo amazing in his suit!!! What a hottie I married!

Here was our first dance. As a joke Brian had them playing "Fernando" by ABBA but after a small portion of that our real first dance song came on - "Violet Hill" by Coldplay - I LOVED it!

Isn't our cake cool looking? I love how it turned out as well as my flower bouquet!

So when we fed each other cake I couldn't resist and rubbed it into his face a bit. I love how this picture captured him then going in for his revenge and the look on my face when I saw what he was going to do.

This is such a cute & sweet pic of Paxton & Brian - they look so happy.

I love this picture of Brian and his girls - it turned out great!

Me and the girls, Madi & Morgan. I love this one too - the setting under the tree, etc. The girls looked so darling & grown up in their dresses. We were all happy with how our colors worked out, I think we all looked really good together.

Look how handsome my 3 men are!!!

You know honestly from the start of our relationship I have always felt like I was living in a fairy tale because of how perfect things have been between us. I truly believe it was meant to be and it was no coincidence we reconnected at this point in our lives, that someone had a hand in directing us to one another. Someone knew my heart & sent me Brian. We just mesh so well with each other (always laughing when we are together) and he has brought me more happiness than I ever thought possible in a relationship. His girls have fulfilled in me the need to have a daughter. Now I'm lucky to say I get not 1, but 2 wonderful step daughters of my own. Brian has said he wanted boys and now gets the chance. He is so much fun and so active my boys are lucky to have someone who has embraced them and enjoys being with them. In Brian I have found my other half and feel so complete and happy in life. I am so blessed to have him as my husband now. I hope we can always love each other like this and treat each other with respect & kindness. And of course I hope we have that fairy tale ending and ALL live happily ever after!