As "Newly Weds"

      So, as stated in the "about me section" Darrin and I were married June 17th, 2011 in the Salt Lake City Temple!  The feelings we felt in the temple were indescribable! At least for me (laura) it's hard to put to words the amazingness of being inside the temple.  Of course we were nervous and excited, but being in the temple just gave me so much peace and joy, that it really didn't hit me as a reality that we were really getting married until we walked out of the temple, hand-in-hand, and heard our family cheering and clapping for us.  Being married for eternity in the temple was the best desicion I have ever made, and I'm sure Darrin would say the same.  Before we were engaged we both made it clear that it was in the temple or not at all, and I'm so happy we made that goal because I could not imagine a life without Darrin and I together for eternity.
      Everybody kept asking us, how we like the married life and how we like being "newly weds",  Well.... Now (almost two months later) it's great!! But the first month of our marraige was a little hard.  Just 3 days after the wedding my poor husband got really really sick, It took THREE visits to the doctors, TWO blood tests, ONE urine analysis, an X-ray, and changing his antibiotics THREE times to finally find out what he was sick with.  It turns out, on TOP of strep-throat (which was diagnosed on the first visit) Darrin also had PNEUMONIA! The first three weeks of being married were really hard to see my brand new husband suffering so much, but luckily we got him on the correct medication and he's doing much better.  After the whole sick episode we of course delt with the awkwardness of being able to share a bed together, and all that good stuff.  It's funny how a life time of "no" and "you have to stay away from eachother" can stick with you even after your allowed to now.  In my mind it was like, "how does a piece of paper all the sudden make it ok to sleep in the same bed with a boy" lol childish I know but I had a point. 
     NOW everything is so great!!! Darrin is better, and we're passed all the awkwardness, and now we're just enjoying life!  I couldn't ask for a better, more caring, more amazingly wonderful husband, to be with for "Time and All Eternity."  :)  well eternity.... Here, We, Come!! :)

LOVING LIFE!!