Wedding Day! Eric and Kimberly Carruth :)

I woke up on Eric's wedding day to a beautiful sunrise over my favorite mountain - Mt. Olympus. 

I sure miss living in its shadow. 

Eric and Kimberly were married at the Mt. Timpanogos temple. 

Chelsey stole my camera for a minute, and I found this beauty on the SD card. So lucky! 

A pretty much perfect spring morning.

The ceremony was lovely as can be.

Paul was nice and took over video camera responsibilities. 

Plus he looked hot hot hot in the black suit/skinny tie combo. 

My mom's sisters, minus two (we missed you Cya and Alicia). There are also two brothers, and my mom! Yep - 10 kids total, people!

And that's my beautiful grandma who birthed them all. 

The newlyweds! Oh wait, that's my mom and dad. They love each other so much. 

It should be noted that Brad made me take this picture again with his aviators on.
Also, Chelsey is ANTM.

And the newlyweds make their grand appearance!

With subsequent smooch fest.

I loved her veil. 

Celeste hugs her big buddow.

While we waited for pictures, we took some of our own. 

These are my beautiful sisters who I love as much as you can imagine.

The following two pictures are probably the best of the entire weekend.

Celeste and the B Sting (aka boyfriend Brandon) are a great combo. 

Eric shows off his bling.

Then I loved on the mountains and my husband some more.

Highlight of the wedding luncheon (held at The Gathering Place, in Gardner Village)

was Eric singing this song to his new wife.

Of course it made me cry, did you even have to ask?

The happy head table (watching Kimberly's parents, which is why they are absent).

PS- That punch tasted like pink starbusts (thumbs up!)

The garden area was real nice too. B Sharp and C enjoyed the swing.

So did the newlyweds

Eric just loves that girl so so much.

Fast forward to reception time at The Old Meeting house, where we happily reunited with lots of great people, including favorites: The Shoells.

(Kami was one of the many people who informed me they read my blog all the time, and I had no idea because they have never commented. I think that is called stalking, which I'm okay with, but also enjoy knowing who's out there, so I guess the choice is still yours friends/stalkers. coughcoughmylacrosseteam)

We (kindly) decorated the get-away car. 

Paul, of course, added his own specialty.

And that about sums it up.

Hopefully their hired, professional photographer actually took your more traditional pictures, because I obviously failed in that category.

Maybe I can put up some great videos of the day? I'll look into that.

I pretty much loved every second of Utah and family, I think my cheeks got way stronger because of the smiling I did. :)

We went to Utah and Chelsey graduated.

We went to Utah on the best weekend possible (except having to miss two lacrosse games), because Chelsey graduated from the U, Eric got himself married, and Sunday was Mother's day. 

We arrived late Thursday night and the next morning, I went out to breakfast with the family (Paul was collecting with Camie) to celebrate Chel's graduation. We ate at the Black Bear Diner and the breakfast was delicious. 

Please look at her shoes. Awesome.

 Yes yes yes!

U of U grad in the house. 

PS: Besides my family, I decided the thing I miss most about Utah is the mountains. New Jersey is just too flat. I couldn't stop taking pictures of those things, you just wait.

iPhone in England

Remember how our camera died on one of our day trips? Here are a few iPhone pics to fill in what we did that day!

The river Ouse

Stocks at the Lewes Castle

View from the top of the Castle

The place where Thomas Paine wrote "Common Sense" (in Lewes). 

The bus we took to Brighton

The pier at Brighton

Fish & Chips on the English Shore

Our friend/tour guide Jess

Chicken and Chips...

Authentic Fish & Chips

And flying over Ireland on the flight home.

Up next: Our event-filled weekend trip to Utah!

I guess I should post the rest of our London pics...

Here are the rest of our London pics. (Except the ones I took on my iPhone since our camera died one day.) 

Saturday we took at train down to Lewes. Jess is from there and was kind enough to show us around her home town. 

 It was the perfect English village.

 We visited a 1000 century priory.

 Although it was not reconstructed, we loved seeing the ruins and picturing the great building that was once there. (Can you spot us in the pic above?)

 Then, after the above picture... our camera's battery died.... so I'll fill in the rest of this day w/ iPhone pics later skater. Deal?
Hint: Castle and Beach

Let's skip forward to the next day when we had a fully charged battery again, hooray!
We took a train to Down House, this is where Charles Darwin and his family lived and where he worked for a large part of his life.

 This evolutionary biologist was very excited :)

 (Back of the house, the part that faces the amazing gardens.) We weren't able to take pictures inside, but here is a glimpse, scroll through the pics at the top of the page.

 The green house and "kitchen gardens".

 The Insectivorous plants. Darwin was totally into these.

 Inside the "hot house".

 In the gardens, near the tennis court and archway.

 On the Sandwalk, and path behind the house that Darwin walked several times a day. Many of his ideas were mulled over on these walks.

Next we headed to the Natural History Museum.

 Sweet entrance way - the elevator went through "the center of the earth"!!! dun dun duuuuunnnnn...

 The building was super fancy and the exhibits were very impressive.

 The live leaf cutter ants were my favorite.

For dinner, we visited Piccadilly Circus. (A mini version of Times Square/Broadway).
When we got home from the hotel, we watched Harry Potter 7, and guess what - the picture below of Piccadilly circus is where Harry, Ron and Hermione disapperate to when the death eaters come to the wedding (HP-nerd-alert-Christine!). We both said "We were just there!!!!!!!"

Something about me just loves being in places that are shown on movies/TV, can  you blame me?

These painted people were fun to watch.
This lady came up to get a pic and the cowboy on the left gave her a big smooch on the cheek.

And finally, the view from our apartment in Hounslow.
Gosh! I miss London already!