A Typical Work Day

Now that we've been in our house a while we finally have a routine! Gary got a job working for a company called Orange Soda. He's doing a great job on the sales team and has made quite an impression on his co-workers and bosses. He and Eric are still running New Growth in their spare time too.
I am excited to be working as a substitute in the Provo School District. I am only working at Dixon Middle School right now because it just around the corner from our house. Next week I will add Timpanogos Elementary to my list(it's not finished being built yet). I'm really excited about working with the younger children!
So our daily schedule goes like this:
6:30- I shower and get ready
7:00- I wake Gary up so he can shower and get ready
7:30- we eat breakfast together and head out the door.
8:00- Gary and I both start work
3:00- I get home. I clean the house, do any grocery shopping I need to do and cook dinner
5:30/6:00- Gary gets home from work, we eat dinner together
6:30- Go out or have people over and hang out a while
10:00- Go to bed

Honeymoon!!!

On August 9th we woke up and got ready to fly to Mexico! I think our flight was around 11:00 and we finally got to the resort in Puerto Vallarta at 1:00 am their time (11:00 pm out time). We were hungry so we found food at an all day food bar thing and went for a "moonlit walk on the beach". Gary made sure that I took note of the moonlit walk on the beach.

While we were there we went to some super fancy restaurants. One served Mexican food and another was Italian. The food was so SO amazing! The service was just as great except they only spoke Spanish...

The beach was AMAZING! The sunsets were beautiful. We took pictures with Gary's camera but sadly they weren't coming out right so we didn't take as many as I would have liked. That's a huge bummer but oh well.

The trip was unexplainable amazing and perfect! (other than the getting sick part...) I think it will be the greatest vacation on my life!

Wedding!!!

August 8th was our wedding day. We got married in the Portland Oregon Temple at 11:00. I was pretty happy that everything went as smoothly as it did. It seems like every wedding has it's challenges but ours went perfectly as planed.

After waking up at 6:00 and getting my hair done we headed on our way to the Temple. It turns out that 08/08/08 was a popular day to be married, there were 22 weddings that day. Getting dressed in the bride's room was a challenge with 5 other brides and their mothers too. The sealing then took place and went really well. The sealer reminded us that we need to treat each other as princes and princesses.

After the sealing we took an hour taking pictures on the temple grounds with our photographer (my Uncle Tony). I felt that the pictures went really well. They turned out amazingly well too. You can check out our photos at his website: http://www.tonyduongphotography.com/clients/laura-gary/

or you can just check out his work at: http://www.tonyduongphotography.com/

Dan, Eric, Gary and I then drove down to the court house in Oregon City to get copies of the wedding certificate. After fighting traffic for what felt like forever we finally got a few moments to spend at my parents before the ring ceremony. After Gary had time to check his games online and I uploaded wedding pictures it was suddenly time to go to the reception.

As I waited to walk down the "isle" I was more afraid than I ever thought I'd be. Even though I was already married, the actual walking down the isle with my dad, Gary waiting at the end freaked me out! I did it though, and it all went really well. Oh! Lets not forget that we walked down the isle to the Smashing Pumpkins! That wasn't intended but someone (not sure who) just turned on the music and it happened to be "Today". It was a classical version but none the less, it was SP...

The reception felt like it lasted an eternity with everyone calling me here and there. It was great though! I honestly enjoyed being in the spot light for the day. All in all, it was the greatest day ever!!!!