Friday, August 23, 2013

Try try again!

It has been quiet awhile since I wrote on this site and Rhett even mentioned it to me the other day.  I will try again to keep working on this as I know it will be something great for us to look back at and for Tanessa to read one day.

This week we celebrated our 15th Anniversary.  There are parts of our life together that seems like there is now it has been 15 years and then there are other things that I am like it has only been 15 years.  We have grown in more was then I can count, but it has been for the bet in all ways.

In this post I will talk about how we started our life together as husband and wife, the real part, since the honeymoon doesn't really count.  After we got back from Idaho we went to my parent's house since that was were all the presents were.  We got them loaded into my Dad's truck, since it had a closed camper shell on it, and headed out for Laramie.  We stopped in Lyman to see Rhett's parents and while we were there my Grandpa Bruce called and said that he found us a washer and dryer if we wanted them.  I of coarse said YES!  There were part of a divorce where they had to sell everything in the house and the husband was mad so he was giving things away so his ex-wife couldn't get any more money out of him.  My Grandpa and Mom got them loaded into his purple truck and headed over to Lyman.  We made room in the truck, got them loaded and headed to Laramie.  Rhett's parents got us a bed for our wedding present and my parent's got us a futon for our living room.  Then for my birthday before the wedding my parents got me a nice computer desk.  So we had some furniture.  We went to work to get our little 1 bedroom bomb shelter as Rhett called it.  They were little apartment that had 4 attached together and then had 5 on a street.  The last time we went to Laramie, all these apartments were gone and a great big parking lot was there.  It did make me a little sad.  We were able to take some of the wedding gifts back to Wal-Mart and K-Mart that we didn't need or that we got multiples of to get some money to pay off our honeymoon and get a kitchen table and chairs.  Our friend Brent Butters came over and helped Rhett put the futon together and help move the heavy stuff in.  It was very fun putting our first little home together.  It did take some time to figure out where I wanted everything because I was having too much fun playing house but for real!

The next best thing come after we got things moved in I got to go to the office at the University and change my name on the records and get a new student id that said Kristi Arnell!!!  I was so excited about it.  I was not very excited about the picture on the id because Rhett being Rhett had given me 2 great big hiccies on my neck on either side of my esophagus making it look like I had been strangled.  He thought it was so funny.

Then we went about getting ready for classes and finding jobs so we could pay for our little home and for our college career.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Honeymoon

I will not go into great detail about the honeymoon.  We had a great time.  We stayed in Montpiler for a couple nights, the only bad thing about that was the hot tub was so hot you could not even put your toes into it without saying ouch and pulling them right out.  We then headed to Pocatello to the Black Swann Inn.  We stayed in the cave room one night, and the log cabin two nights.  We did go and have family home evening with Uncle Steve and his family in the park.  We did come home a day early because we had enough and wanted to get to Laramie and start our lives together.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The Reception

After the ceremony all the family came up and congratulated us.  We then went and had pictures taken by many many people.  We never did really hire a photographer, we did ask my cousin Ken Bruce to take the bulk of them, but my brother Brian and Grandpa Hirst also took some great pictures too.  We had a light dinner which I don't remember eating any of it.  Then the reception started.  We had a line, which Rhett and his groomsmen were not happy with at all.  In fact they were trying to figure out how to make a tree out of a keg and sneak it into the church.  Half way through the reception I started to see all the people coming through that they were either laughing or had a very confused look on their face by the time they got to me.  I looked over and asked Rhett what was going on and he said you should hear the stories that his groomsmen were telling everyone.  One time they were all named Earl (or something like that), another was they did not know either Rhett or I and they were just at the truck stop and were the right measurements for the tuxes, they were all rodeo clowns, all brothers, it was really funny to listen too.  I really did not see any harm in it and it did make the time go buy really fast.  I had written a poem to Rhett and had my cousin Taryn read it, the sad thing is that I can't find the poem now.  Grandma and Grandpa Hirst sang L-O-V-E one of my favorite songs.  We thanked everyone for coming, we cut the cake, which Rhett was threatened by my Mom to not smash cake in my face because she didn't want cake on my dress.  Rhett tossed the guarder which Adam caught, and I tossed the bouquet, there was a little bit of a fight, but Sarah won it.  Rhett and I went and got into our regular clothes and we were off to Montpelier, Idaho for the start of our honeymoon.

The people that helped us.
Brian - took video and pictures for us, which after 14 almost 15 years we have never seen the video...lol
Jodi & Taylor - sat at the book, well Jodi did Grandpa Atkinson took Taylor who was a month old and showed her off to everyone that would look
Jeff and Jen - they were in charge of music, I guess after we left they started quiet the kareoke contest
Aunts on both sides helped decorate the church, clean up, and get the plates ready in the kitchen
Taryn, Sarah, and Rachel where in charge of opening presents and writing down who they were from

And the last story about our reception, the groomsmen disappeared between the pictures and reception, when they came back they told us to come into a side room, the handed us a box, we opened it up and found they had been to the ADULT store and bought some things for us.  We thought it was funny but didn't know what to do with the box. Somehow Rhett's Grandma's got a hold of it and they took turns holding it and showing it off to anyone that would look.  We did get back at Rhett's brother Trent when him and Dawn got married, but we did not get anyone else back, I guess we will have to work on that.