It’s a blogging day!! Or at least that is what I thought until I sat down and started typing. My fingers started flying across the keys but my brain kept saying, “Wait!! What are we even writing about today?!?” But the fingers still fly across the keys.
John and I recently celebrated 12 big years of marriage. I feel like it was yesterday that we tied the knot. I guess it’s not.
I remembered the day quite well. I arrived at the temple around 7-ish to take pictures around the temple grounds. Every picture we took instead of cheese John would have random phrases for my ears only. I wouldn’t dare repeat them. It did make me laugh at times and sometimes blush. That might be why I don’t have pictures displayed in my house, I am bright red in all of them.
When I entered the dressing room, I had my very own mirror and get-ready desk/table. It was a perfect start to feeling like a bride. After the pictures and the freshening up, we were taken to a waiting room to talk with the sealer. We waited in the waiting room with another couple who had previously been married but was waiting to be sealed, she was pregnant, they were cute. The sealer knew John’s family and gave some great advice, one being, “Tonight when you go home start now to kneel every night as husband and wife in prayer.”
After the sealer spoke to us, we went into the room to be sealed. It was nice to see all my family there, my mom sitting by my side, my dad sitting next to the sealer. I remember my dad was really sick that day and he had just had surgery on his neck so him being there meant a lot. The sealer then told everyone what he told us in the waiting room and began the sealing. Of course I cried. I was being sealed to the most incredible man I know. I was making the most amazing covenants with the Lord. It was an amazing day.
After the sealing, we freshened up and went out to greet everyone who was outside waiting for us. It was January, in Arizona, and it was HOT, imagine that. We continued to celebrate with a nice little luncheon.
John and I had a few minutes before we had to be at the reception for more pictures so we went to make sure we had a hotel to stay in that night and get the key. It was a cute little place and we were pretty rushed so we got the key and left.
We headed to the chapel for the reception and I hate to say it but I hardly remember who was there but it was a full house. My sister-in-law catered the whole thing for our wedding gift. My sister Kayleen made my cake and decorated the reception, it was really nice.
A video was made of John and I as we grew up with awesome music playing in the background. It’s still in VHS form, I need to convert it before it becomes a thing of the past. We watch it every anniversary and this was the first time we didn’t.
We had a DJ because I love, love to dance, John is not a fan but he was a good sport about it. Our first dance as husband and wife was “When You Say Nothing At All” by Alison Krauss, John picked the song. I loved it. I also dance with my dad.
After the festivities were over we made the long drive from Glendale to Scottsdale to the honeymoon suite. It was a great day.
12 years is a long time but I swear it feels like yesterday that we were trying to take a million different poses by every single tree at the temple.
John and I have had some amazing times together. We have 5 beautiful kids. I can’t imagine a more blessed time in my life than this. I’m grateful each day for the many years I have had with this one man, I can’t imagine life without him. I look forward each day to making new memories with him.
Well, enough of the mushy talk, let’s get down to what the whispers were about on the temple grounds…. John you want to explain.
