Honeymoon Part One (Not As Scary As It Sounds I Promise)

Now, I have to start out by explaining (or reminding you) that CW did NOT tell me where we were going on our honeymoon. I would wake up in the morning and he would tell me where we were going that day. It was a BLAST! I would highly recommend all couples to do that for their honeymoon. It was so much fun being surprised and wondering where we were going to be going the next day.

Our honeymoon started off when we left the church house. It was a beautiful reception! My mom did such a fantastic job decorating! Everything was perfect! (I'll have to put pictures up from that soon!) When we walked out of the building this was the first thing we saw:

Oh joy. We had "fun" getting in and out of that.

The next morning as we're getting ready to leave, we get into our trashed car and realized that our battery was dead. Ugh, me and my car problems! On my honeymoon. Luckily, we found an older woman who had jumper cables and was able to jump us. We were talking to her for a bit and before she left, she handed us a bag and told us that we could consider that to be her wedding gift to us. We opened it up and it was her jumper cables. She was such a sweet old woman! We were so grateful for all of her help for us.

We headed back to my parents place and got the car cleaned out. We also charged the battery in my car so that we hopefully wouldn't have any more problems! hahaha We said good-bye to the family, got to the car, and headed out on our adventure to:

Albuquerque, New Mexico

I'd never been there before, so I was pretty excited. I knew that we'd only be staying there one night, so we wouldn't get to do too much, but we still had plenty of adventures!

We started off in New Mexico by seeing a sign that said "free petrified rock". So, naturally, we stopped at this little Indian Shop and got our free petrified rock.

After that, we saw a sign for the Painted Desert. Unfortunately, we only had 30 minutes before it closed. So...what did we do? We went in, (naturally) and we stopped at every stop that we could, ran out of the car (leaving it running) took a picture, ran back into the car, and headed to the next stop. It was some of the most fun I'd had!

It was absolutely gorgeous! The colors were amazing. And, I am proud to say that we made it to the end!! Yay! At the very end of it, they had this old rustic car, just sitting out in the middle of nowhere. So, we hopped inside and took pictures in it. :)

After that, we spent the night in New Mexico. But, the next morning we woke up ready for what ever was going to bring us that day! It started out for us with pouring rain and hail! It was so cool! At one point, we decided to stop along the road and kiss in the rain. :) This is us after we kissed in the rain. I don't know if you can see it...but, we have rain drops on our face!

As we were driving along New Mexico, heading to our next destination, we saw a sign for "Las Vegas". So, he immediately took the exit to see where it would take us!

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All right, so it wasn't the real Las Vegas. :) But, it was still a lot of fun! It was this really small old town in New Mexico. We saw a hotel called the Plaza Hotel, and thought it looked really cool. It was.

We went inside and took pictures in the hotel. I don't know if we were allowed to...but it was way too cool to pass up! It had a ballroom, a conservatory, all of the old rustic looking artifacts! So cool. :) So, we just walked in and gave ourselves a tour. Taking lots of pictures along the way.

Outside of the hotel, they had a gazebo, so we went to the gazebo and spent a little bit of time there before we headed off going to the next place for our honeymoon.

New Mexico was so much fun and I would gladly go again with my wonderful husband! :)

A Nice Day For A Walker Wedding

So, here are some of my favorite pictures from the wedding that I've gotten so far. There's a few more I haven't received yet, but here are the ones that I really really like!

Here is CW's favorite picture!

I love this picture!

We got married at the Mesa, AZ temple at 12:00. It was a BEAUTIFUL day that day! Perfect weather (sunny and nice!). It was amazing.

This is probably one of my absolute favorites so far! I love it!

This would probably be my other favorite. :)

So, those are the pictures! I absolutely love being married now and I'm so grateful I had the opportunity to meet CW and marry him for all time and eternity in the temple. :) I couldn't be happier!!

Who Does This Ever Happen To, If Not Me??

"CW" plays in a band. He's the lead guitarist and is super good. (and I promise I'm not biased) haha This Thursday he played in a show called Guitars Unplugged that's put on by BYU-Idaho. They start off with somewhere around 100 auditions. Out of those 100, 16 are chosen to play Thursday Night and another 16 are chosen to play Friday Night. (CW's band got chosen to play on Thursday Night!) The, out of those two shows, they pick the best of the best and they have 16 come back and play Saturday Night! They set it up for Saturday so that the best play last. CW and his band played fourth to last on Saturday Night! The concert on Saturday Night had about 4000 people who came. Yeah, my boy played in his band in front of 4000 people! (He also blew me a kiss at the very end...I felt very special) It was a lot of fun!

So, that night we started to head home from Rexburg to Idaho Falls. CW & I were in my car and his sister Shannel (who was visiting from CO) was following us in CW's car. We were coming off the highway when we hit a pot hole. Now, for my Pontiac Grand Am, it's not a big deal. Nothing happens to that car. Like ever. (Knock on wood) But, poor Shannel who was following us in CW's small '87 Acura Integra hit it, and she hit it hard. We saw her pulling over, so we pulled over as well, turned on our hazard lights and got out. She had gotten a flat tire.

We got out CW's spare tire and jacked up his car, took the lug nuts off, the whole deal. But, when we tried to pull off the tire it wouldn't budge. Cw was shaking the entire car and it still wouldn't budge. It was past midnight by this point and freezing cold outside. So, we pushed the car to the side of the road and decided we'd come back in the morning to figure it out. So, we go back to my car (all three of us). As I'm climbing in, I'm realizing that my car is dark and I don't hear any noise coming from it. I turned to CW and asked, "Wait...shouldn't it be running??" We look down and CW tries to re-start it. My battery died.

That's right.

Not only can I lock my keys in my car...but I have to run out of gas.

Not only can we get a flat tire, but my battery has to die.

So, we called up his cousin who lived about 10-20 minutes away and asked him if he could come and jump start our car. When he got there it was about 1am and we were all exhausted. We get the car running and drive home. I don't think I got to bed that night until about 2 in the morning.

Luckily, CW did go back the next day and switch his tire. (He had to take and hammer and pounded on it repeatedly and really hard!) So, that was my week-end. The concert was fantastic! If you have a chance, go on facebook and try to look it up! :D

Engagement Pictures

I have Engagement Pictures! Yay!!! We took pictures up in Idaho Falls, ID. It was FREEZING cold! And please notice, I had on a short sleeve and Cdub has his sleeves rolled up. It was sooo cold! hahaha, BUT, we got some absolutely amazing pictures!!

So, we got like a million pictures, but I've only put up my six favorites. I'll put the rest up on facebook sometime soon! But, here they are:

The first two were taken up by the ID Falls Temple, next to the Snake River. It was such a pretty background. I can't think of any better place we could have taken them!

This is like...perfect engagement picture, if you ask me! Soo cute!!

This is one of my favorite pictures!! :) I think its sooo cute!

The next two are taken at CW's grandparent's barn. It turned out really good!

This is Cdub's favorite! It is really cute.

These last two pictures we took just at a random building. We were passing by, and we thought it looked cool, so we stopped and took some pictures. ... We were right. It did look cool!

So, there's a few of our pictures! I think they're super cute. Anyway, like I said, I'll put all of them on facebook at some point...but, I thought you all would like to see these! Thanks! :)