Blackburn Wedding

Over the weekend Darren and I drove down to St. George for James and Christa's wedding. James was Darren's roommate his first semester back from his mission and Christa was my roommate my first semester. I feel like I owe our relationship to Christa because she was the one who decided we should go over to the boys apartments in our ward and meet them all. That day I met Darren and then a few months later she was the one who found out that Darren liked me, and of course told me, and the rest is history. We think it is so cool that our roommates married each other and that we dated at the same time. It was a really fun semester. 

On Friday we left to drive down to Vegas to stay with Darren's sister who lives there. We got stuck in horrible traffic but it was so nice once we finally got there. Alan, Darren's brother and John, his friend stayed at Amy's house too and it was fun to see both of them. James, Darren, Alan and John were all roommates that first semester. We ended up going to bed super late on Friday because we were all up visiting and then we had to wake up super early to get to the temple in St. George on time for the sealing. 

It was such a pretty day and the temple is very beautiful. I love that we got to go inside. It is a really old temple and the sealing room is so beautiful and ornate. It looks old fashioned but that is what makes it so pretty. I also thought it was interesting how the sealing room was on the first floor in this temple. The sealing was beautiful and happy and I learned a lot from their sealer. I liked that he talked about looking more at your own faults than your spouse's faults. I also liked what he said about being a joyful mother. He said there are lots of mothers in the world but there are not as many joyful mothers. I really liked that and I will be sure to remember it when I am a mother.

 While waiting to go in the temple we took some pictures on the grounds. I told Darren we needed to "channel our inner wedding pose" so that is what we did. And Alan was all about directing our poses. He thought we needed to do a "tree pose" like the classic wedding pictures so that is what we did.

 Alan and John decided to do a tree pose as well

We took a few pictures waiting for them to come out of the temple: Here is Darren, John and Alan

 The Newlyweds

We did a lot of waiting around because we couldn't go back to Amy's between events because it was so far away, but the boys sure entertained themselves... and me. They decided to try out their dance moves in the parking lot before the reception. How could your life be boring with these 3 crazy boys in it? It's a little bit sad that they don't live together anymore. But I'm glad I get to live with one of them :) Oh, and they found these ridiculous 3-D glasses in Amy's car that they insisted on wearing...I wasn't so fond of them, but they did take them off for the reception.

 We decorated the car at the reception. It was quite cute if I do say so myself. I just basically copied how my car got decorated at my wedding. (Thanks for all the ideas, Amy :)

 The Bride and Grooms first dance

 Me and Schpanks! I love this dog! He is James's dog and I always liked visiting their apartment and playing with Schpanks. He has a super cute bow tie on but you can't really tell in this picture.

Overall we had a really great trip and it was fun to see family and friends. We hung out in Vegas on Sunday and then left to drive back home early Monday morning. There was a lot of driving in a weekend but it was worth it to be there for our friends on their special day! On our way back home we stopped in Springville and visited with my grandparents for a few hours. It was really good to see them and of course they spoiled us to death in only the few hours we were there. It is good to be back home but not really back to school. We are at midterms though and in only a month and a half I will be married to a college graduate! woot woot!