What next???...

Well we had some kind of interesting, a little mortifying and strangely exciting news Friday. The firm that Justin was working for laid off 7 people from his office, unfortunately(?) he was one of them.

Is it totally wrong that I am kind of excited about the news? No offense to Design Workshop, but I really think Justin can do more. We are trying to figure out what we are going to do and possibly where.

The saddest part of the change is that our good friends the Brooks, (Natalie's Family) are transferring and therefore moving to Phoenix. We are seriously considering the move. But each minute seems to bring new options and my "brain is working like sixty" (to quote the Great Brain, best kids series ever).

We are for the time being finishing our house. Luckily we are about 15 days from living here for two years, which means - NO Capital Gains to pay if we sell! Yeah! But Justin is going to focus on leads and sending out resumes. While I am looking at my options and am hoping that we can finish the house.

We will keep you all posted!

Tuxedo Time

So we had this tux, and Justin looked so good in it I asked my dad to take some pictures of him for me. I jumped in with the dress I made for the wedding, but I look so incredibly tired I don't really like much of my own pictures, but boy does Justin look nice.

Yucky! I don't love this picture, and unfortunately I closed my eyes in every other picture we took! URGH! But you can see the dress I made for the wedding. It was fun to make, I haven't really "sewn" anything from a pattern in quite a while.

My eyes are practically closed, not because I was blinking but because I was so darn tired.

Salt Lake City Temple

This is the temple that Justin and I were married in. It is a very sacred place to us, where we believe that families can be sealed together for time and all eternity. What a great thing to see Justin's brother make such wonderful commitments and promises to his wife and his Father in Heaven!

Here is a website that explains a little bit about our beliefs in case you want to check it out - http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/basic-beliefs/membership-in-the-church/temples-and-family-history or you can go to just http://www.mormon.org/ just click on the link.

We took the opportunity to get some beautiful pictures! Of course when we got there our camera's batteries had died and we left the new ones in the car. But Justin saved the day and ran back to get them. The photographer was a little perturbed that two of the brothers where gone when he started taking pictures, but all's well that ends well, I hope.

This is the Tabernacle on Temple Square, from which the Mormon Tabernacle Choir hails. The building was just renovated. It is really worth seeing. And the construction history is really fascinating.

Here comes the bride... and groom!

Here is Justin's Brother Josh and Camille right after the wedding. The day was totally swelteringly hot, poor guys! I guess when it comes down to it maybe it was good at our wedding in May when it was snowing - at least we weren't dying of heat stroke during all our pictures!

Kristin

Melissa, Garrett and Heidi

I guess Greg got the memo on what to wear, because he and Justin were twins- totally unplanned!

Purple Mountain Majesty

So the mountain is Utah are not exactly purple, but they are majestic.

Here are just a few of the mountains that we remembered to photograph while there.

They are truly awe inspiring!

Cook-out

I would say that we had a BBQ one of the nights, with some old friends. But, we have learned since moving to the south, that a barbecue is not throwing a few hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill, that is a cookout. A barbecue is roasting a pig, pork at that point I guess, or ribs. So while we yankees called it a BBQ I felt it important to draw a distinction between the two.


We had a great time getting to know the Eliason's beautiful children. And I cannot believe that Misty had a baby three weeks ago- you look fabulous! We also had Tom and Sara Christensen over. It was so fun just talking with you all! We are excited for all that is going on in your lives!

Improving our short game.

The whole reason for our trip to Utah was to celebrate the marriage of Justin's younger brother Joshua Garrett to Camille! The whirlwind romance (the way we like it too!) came about since our trip home in October. So we had not yet met the darling Camille. We decided we needed to go on a double date. We ate at Cafe Rio! so good my mouth is watering now... then went mini-golfing! We had a great time and got some really fun pictures