BBQ

So the night before Jesse left he decided to bbq which was great. Jesse's grandpa gave him his old bbq so we were set to go. While Jesse was cooking up some good meat he kept coming in to say that something smelt like melting plastic. He couldn't figure out where the smell was coming from either the fireplace or the bbq. Well come to find out after the meat was done he found the grill brush melted on the back of the grill. Here are some of the pictures. I thought it was pretty funny since he smelt the plastic for so long and never saw the brush. The meat still tasted great. Here are a few pictures of the melted brush....sorry Grandpa L.

Our Honeymoon across the United States

Here are some pictures we took on our honeymoon and some of the cool places we stopped to see. We did get to see a lot which was really cool. I'm not sure that I want to do that drive again any time soon but it was fun and I would do it again someday.
Here's where we stayed in Needles and we got our hotel room for 35 bucks. On this trip we learned the price really does matter when it comes to the quality of a hotel room.

We are finally out of California...now the trip begins.

Heres a picture of the sunset at the Grand Canyon. The lady at the visitors made it sound so amazing but it was a pretty average sunset.

Jesse posing for a picture

Here we are at the Grand Canyon

Jesse going off the trail...oops well it kind of looked like a trail.

Jesse and I at the Painted Forest. I really like the painted forest the colors were so much richer than the grand canyon. There was hardly anyone there which was great too and we could walk around more than we could at the Grand Canyon.
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Here are some Petroglyph's that we saw in the Pettrified Forest. It is amazing to me that they still can be easily seen after soo many years. I wish we knew what they meant but we don't

More petroglyphys I'm not sure how well you can see them.

Us and the Penske truck in the Petrified Forest. We are sitting on a log which was pretty cool. It was just on the side of the road

This picture is just for Emily and Melanie since they both mentioned that I didn't have a picture of New Mexico on the trip well here it is. I don't recommend this place to anyone especially if you want Mexican food. Maybe there other food was okay but not the Mexican. You order a burrito with meat you get ground meat rolled into a tortilla. Yep I'm serious thats the only thing that was in the burrito. OH and I'm in the picture if you look really hard i'm to the left of the Route 66 sign.

So when we were driving through Texas we came across this site that has the largest cross in the western hemisphere.(I just saw on line that this cross was out done by the state of Illinois now having the largest cross of 198 feet which beats Texas by 8 feet)...who knew that was so important. We had to stop and check it out and did you know that Christ died and was resurrected in Groom Texas. Here is a picture of us participating in the first supper. We thought it was pretty funny that out in the middle of nowhere Texas there is this place dedicated to Christs life. We had a good time there and it was nice to get out and stretch. Below is a picture of the cross that took off the road because if we got too close I couldn't fit the whole thing in my camera. As you can see there is not much else around


Jesse taking a little nap while I drive. Don't worry I was looking at the rode when I took this shot. And this proves that I did drive.

We pulled off the road and pulled into a trailer park by Lake Eufaula because it had such a pretty sunset. I managed not to get any of the trashy trailers in the picture.

I got a little bored and took a few pictures of my cute husband driving. You can't tell we are bored can you?

We stopped at the Casey Jones museum In Tennessee. It was pretty neat and you can even spend the night in a train car which I thought was pretty cool.

The Penske truck making its way across the US of A. It saw 3 national parks on this trip.

We were trying to take a picture with the timer on my camera. This was the third try and I happened to slip right when the camera took the picture. We both look ridiculous I think its funny.


Here is a view of the top of the Smokey Mountains. It was so pretty.

Us at the top of the Smokey Mountains

I thought this was a cool picture of the water cutting its way through a fallen log.

Me at the trail marker.

Jesse cleaning of his shoes after our hike. I would say about 90% of our hike was in the mud. Below is a picture of the river we crossed.

More Wedding Pics

Okay so here we go with a few more pics. I am tired of organizing the kitchen so here I am back at the blog. I never knew that organizing the kitchen would be so hard. There are too many things for our cupboards. I need a pantry...hmmm maybe the entry way closet will work. Okay well back to the pictures.
And a huge thank you to all those who came to celebrate our wonderful day. Thank you Jen for doing my hair and make up. Thank you Liz for taking over my dads camera and getting some great shots. Thank you Lori for making a beautiful cake and Juleen for taking pictures at the reception. Oh and thanks to Stephen for being our photographer I can't wait to see the pictures (thanks Liz again). Also thank you to our wonderful families for putting up with us and working to decorate for our reception on Christmas day. If I forgot anyone I'm sorry.


Oh so sweet!

Em I love ya and miss ya lots

My Aunt and Uncle who claim they are from Hawaii and my 2 cousins

Sorry dad my eyes are closed



I think by this time my body was completely frozen. And it looks so pretty and warm outside. Its so decieving.


I love how the the whole temple is in the picture.



And we were just getting started. Too bad you can't see the goosebumbs on my arms. Oh and this pose is just for Court....to bad its not the hand with the ring.

Wedding and things

I guess I have some time to blog seeing how Jesse left this morning to do some detail for work and wont be back for 2 weeks. He found out Wednesday that he would be leaving today (friday) for 2 weeks. We haven't even been back in Fayetteville for a week and he's already gone. I guess this is what happens when you marry a military guy. I now get to put the house together how I want and figure out what else I can do to keep myself occupied.

Here are a few pictures from our wedding that Liz, my dad and sister took. There will be more to come later I just want to get out of the house so I'm off to the pool for a little bit. I can't sit around the house for 2 weeks and be a bumb thats for sure.

RSVP for Our Wedding

Our reception site has been changed due to the weather. We will now be having it at the LDS institute. It is located on California St across the street and train tracks from the Cal Poly football stadium. There will be signs and balloons out to show the way. Thanks and we can't wait to see you! If you do not want to RSVP here you can send an RSVP to my e-mail at jamesfarfar@hotmail.com.

13 days but whose counting??

Today has been a great day. One its Sunday. Two I get to see Jesse in a week. Three we went to see Christmas lights. Four my friends had a dinner for me. Five I get married in less than 2 weeks.
Tonight we had dinner at Jen and Scott Wilson's house. She is an old Cherry Chubb that I never lived with but she might as well be considered an old roommate because she was always over at the house. She has the two cutiest kids. Sarah and Karl were also there with their boys. And of course my roommates were there. Jen made soup and salad, Em made her amazing breadsticks and Sarah made an awesome pumpkin cobbler. It was all soo good. After dinner there I went up to the Avery's for Henry's birthday (my piece of cake got eaten by a 2 year old but thats okay I was really full). It was fun to see the Avery family along with the Carlisle family. After the Avery's Emily, Kate, Cathy and I piled into Brittany's car and drove around to see Christmas lights.I didn't take any pictures of the lights it was too cold to roll the window down so I took some pictures of us in the back seat. As you can tell I didn't do the best job. Sometimes having a big camera is not always so nice becasue its hard to take pictures of yourself and friends. I would have taken more but the flash was a little bright. Sorry Kate and Brittany I couldn't get a picture of you in the front.

I really do like Christmas season even though this year I haven't really been in the Christmas mood. Hopefully I will be when I go home or maybe its this whole wedding thing that is throwing everything off. There is a lot going on but I should be able to get into the Christmas spirit. Maybe its because they try to start celebrating Christmas before Halloween. I really hate that, all the silly Christmas things out in October...man give it a rest. Well 13 more days until I get married. It sure is coming up fast.

Jordan River Temple

So a couple of weeks ago Emily and I went to the Jordan River Temple. She had the day off work and I only had school in the morning so we took off and went to the temple. We wanted to go to the Jordan River Temple because neither one of us had ever been. It is really pretty (well I'm not sure there is a temple that is not pretty). I love going to the temple and I love having one so close. I have been spoiled and blessed by having a temple less than 10 minutes away.