Backtracking...The Single Life Ends

I've had this blog ready to post on for the last few weeks and just haven't done anything about it...and recently people have asked if I'm going to update my blog so I figured it was time!  I'll have to do quite a bit of backtracking though since we've been married over a month and I haven't said anything about it.  For starters, it's great!  Okay now that you know everything is going well, I'll go back....wayyyyy back.

First thing's first...I graduated!!!  It was a beautiful Tuesday evening when I walked across the stage, received my diploma case and started calling myself a college graduate.  It feels great!

My whole family was able to come to Idaho!

And my grades only went up from here after finals.  Booya.

After graduation, we headed to Island Park for a family vacation.

With three of my brothers.

On a ski lift...we were definitely not going skiing.

We stayed in a cabin in the woods and also went hiking and white water rafting!

At home we did a lot of wedding preparations, and a lot more wedding preparations.  We did take off August 1st so that I could go to the temple with my family and Nathaniel's family.  It was so special to have all of them there and to also have my grandparents from NC there who drove in just for the day.  It was Eli's first time as well as he was preparing to leave on his mission to Bolivia just a few days after the wedding.

Well, that's what the rest of single life looks like!  Wedding pictures will come as soon as I get them :)