Wedding

We got married in the Mesa, AZ temple on March 10, 2012. It was an amazing ceremony performed by the brother of one of the senior missionaries brothers. He was also one of the seventy that had come to my mission and spoke to us. It was a beautiful ceremony and then we had a reception in Peoria. We went on our honeymoon to a cabin in the woods in Port Angeles, WA. The next week, we had a reception in Salt Lake City. It was super fun!

Here's the link to the rest of our pictures!

http://ellejphotography.com/blog/2012/04/27/erikjessicamarried-lds-mesa-temple-wedding-photographer-elisha-j-schabel/

and here are the pictures that Brandon did for us!

https://picasaweb.google.com/103084868296978402440/ErikJessicaSBridals

Engagement

So, Erik proposed to me at the Red Butte Gardens. It's a really pretty Garden that sits above the city with a great view. He used to go there with his family when he was a kid. He brought a camera to take a picture of us on his favorite bench where he proposed. He said he wanted to come back to that spot every ten years to take another picture of us. I thought that was a very sweet sentimental thought. He took me to eat at the Roof restaurant and we just hung out down town after. It was a great night!

More about our dating...

We both love running so we have done a few races together. We did the Halloween half marathon with our good friends Andrew and Jenessa (Who just got married!). The picture below is of Andrew (blue) and Erik (red) in their running gear... they actually made it into a magazine for their costumes!

 Super fun night out snow boarding. Erik and I both grew up snow boarding. We went out for a night run. I was a little rusty but Erik was still so fast! It was a fun night together.

 Our first Christmas together... My roomates and I made a cute Christmas tree out of the odds and ends we found in our house. Then my roommate Shelisa made Erik and I do a photo shoot in front of the Christmas tree hahaha...

 Another fun running trip... Erik kept getting all of these gift cards from Ultradent because he was such a good employee and he was bringing their lab results off of the charts. One of the gift cards was to Walmart, so we went on a run in the snow to Walmart and bought a bunch of silly stuff... then we walked back to my house and had a blast :)

 

Dating in a nutshell

Since I didn't have a blog when Erik and I were dating, here's a brief synopsis of our dating. There was a singles ward re-organization that took place in Salt Lake that made it to where Erik and I were assigned to the same ward. We were put in callings that made us work together. We had a lot of fun together and he was basically the best guy that I had ever met. We both love being outside, camping, and being in the mountains so we have done a lot of that together!

 This was the first time we went to a cabin together. It was such a fun night. We stayed up late watching movies and then Erik never fell asleep because the clocks and flies in the cabin drove him crazy! It was the first time I learned he hates un-synchronized clocks! The sounds of the second hand going off at different times drive him crazy haha. I love his quarks!

 

This was our good friends Annie and Devin's wedding. I was able to meet a lot of Erik's family friends. It was very fun!

A trip to the natural history museum. Glenna, Erik's mom is the head of collections there. We actually ended up having our reception there. So fun and pretty!

One of our trips to St George! Every year my sister and I have tried to go to St George to do a race or shop! The year Erik and I met, we decided to take the trip with Erik. It grew until we ended up with all of my siblings in St George at Eriks family's vacation house. It was a really fun trip!

So after 15 months of marriage, I have finally decided to make a blog for Erik and I! I think it seems like a great way to journal our lives. I'm not very good at keeping my own journal so I think this should be a good way to record some of the fun stuff going on in our lives and post pictures.
A few exciting things coming up in our lives: we are moving to Henderson, NV for Erik to go to Medical School. He was accepted to Touro University for a DO program they have there. I took a job with the school of nursing at the same school! So, we will get to see each other on occasion and I will also get him a tuition discount with my job! We have been having lots of fun looking for houses and making plans for the move. We recently found a home that we love and we hope to close on it next week. I will post pictures when we move in. I'm so excited for this next phase of our lives and to live close to my sister Justina!