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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Honeymoon

A lot of people have asked where we went on our honeymoon. When Russell was planning this I told him I wanted somewhere warm, where I've never been before, and not St. George. It seemed like all the young married couples were going to St. George for their honeymoons in our singles ward. When we went to the Hilton Hotel that night I had no idea where we were going. This picture shows us waiting at the airport. 
He finally told me that we were going to...
PHOENIX, AZ
 Russell had researched all the best places to go eat and this was one of our all-time favorites. If you live in Phoenix I highly suggest going and hitting up the Carlsbad Tavern Restaurant! It serves authentic South American crusine which obviously was a hit with Russell cause he served his mission in Chile, Santiago. 
 I love horseback riding and consider it one of the best activites you can do. My dad had given Russell the tip to include horseback riding but Russell already knew that was something I loved and was planning on us doing that on the honeymoon. 
 On the trail we saw a bald eagle in it's nest and we got to actually cross a river while riding the horses. I loved the setting and the desert landscape of Phoenix. Russell was taking all the pic's so I didn't get a good shot of him on his horse. 

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Wedding Day

We were married on Feb. 17th at 11:20am in the Salt Lake City Temple. This was the beginning of the happiest life I could have being married to my man, my best friend, my Husband handpicked by God. :)




Yes I did have 13 bridesmaid (1 couldn't be there till the reception), but I sincerely love each and every one of these girls! I'm so blessed in  my life to always have an abundance of girlfriends! I love the women in my life and draw so much strength from them! Thank you to all my bridesmaids that were there for Russell, and me on our wedding day!



Saturday, February 18, 2012

Reception

My two older sisters, and sister in law.
Our version of a wedding cake, Fruit Tarts.
Our first dance to Lady Antebellum's song "When you Got a Good Thing"
I'd changed into our going away clothes when I remembered we still needed to do the garter toss... even though I wasn't in a wedding dress we still did it anyways!

Sunday, February 12, 2012

I love to see the Temple....

Hey Amber here! So I went through the Oquirrah Moutain Temple to recieve my endowments on Saturday and couldn't be more on cloud nine!
I love this gospel soooooo much! The church is true, and I just hope to continue to learn more, and become more and more Christlike as days go by. Seeing Russell in the temple dressed in white coming towards me with the temple president will be a sight I will never forget. We both had our parents there, I had my grandparents, and my two sisters and sister-in-law. We definitely want to say a BIG thank you for anyone that came!
We are getting married this Friday at the Salt Lake Temple. Russell and I are soooo unbelieveably excited and anxious for this to go down. We both HATE having to say goodnight to each other. Since the beginning of our dating the longest we'd go without physcially seeing eachother was two days. Since we'd gotten engaged we never go an entire day without seeing eachother. We are just excited to be man and wife! 
We are going to be moving into Russell's grandmothers empty basement rent free for a semester! We are both very grateful for this blessing! :) We're just needing to finish up moving into it this week before our wedding. We're both excited to have our first Valentine's date together as a couple as well this week. 

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Our Bridals

Courtesy of Elizabeth Kate Photography in Utah

Wednesday, February 1, 2012