"Hi, we're on our honeymoon and..."

I debated what to title this post... It's always hard for me to decide!

"Honeymooners"

"The week of the gray and green hoodies"

"Orlando, FL"

They all equally sum up our week!

But...

I've always heard when you're on your honeymoon, tell everyone! because people give you honeymoon deals! We really tried every time to figure out just the right way to phrase it...

"Hi we're on our honeymoon and, do you have any special deals for us?..No?.. ok, thanks"

"Hi we're on our honeymoon and, can you decorate our dessert plate cool?"

"...Yaaa, this is actually our honeymoon!.....(silence. No deal offered)"

"well, we are on our honeymoon, soo..."

I'm not sure if we did something wrong, but we didn't discover any of these good deals! But we had fun trying :)

We left Christmas Morning and flew to Florida!

We were a little nervous, because we had heard it was reaching record lows!

oh no.

Sure enough!!

We had a great time though.

We went out to eat. lots

Buca di Beppo has become one of our favorite restaurants while dating!

They will celebrate anything there with you!

we walked around Kissimmee, Florida

When we decided it was just too cold, we went shopping for hoodies at target (got mine for $5)

And we wore those hoodies all week! Talk about feeling frumpy on your honeymoon! But I was sooo grateful for it!

we walked the Universal Studios City Walk

....where Scott's dreams came true as he explored everything Harry Potter

Scott's lighting bolt scar was hurting him in this picture. obviously.

a REAL wand!!!

then we sat in the car and ate terribly disgusting Harry Potter Jelly Beans- my favorite was to watch Scott eat the rotten egg one. That is SO gross! I opted out of eating anything other than tutti fruti or marshmellow.

finally found his HP jelly beans. pure joy

We went to some outlet malls where I got some sweet new vans to keep my feet warm

vans and minivans

We got a couple's massage.

This was my first massage of my life!!

We went on an alligator tour

this, my friends, is a real, live head of a 8-9 ft mother alligator that was just about 2 arm lengths from our boat!

She was hissing and growling.

Her babies were just as close, some 2 feet long, others 6 inches. We could see quite a few!

Very cool.

gray hoodie and all!

In the distance you can see the boat we rode on.

Nothing blocked us from reaching over and touching the wild alligators!

It still blows my mind!

We watched lots of movies

Played games

We really wanted to go to the beach, even though it was over an hour away. We got up early one day and drove down to Cocoa Beach where we had one of the most memorial breakfasts of my life! We had read about a famous little breakfast place. It truly was amazing. Strawberries and cream cheese stuffed french toast, eggs benedict, fresh fruit, strawberry milk, hot chocolate with sprinkles... we were in heaven. Then we walked along the beach for a while.

I really could not imagine leaving Florida without a Pina Colada by the pool.

And so we got them! But then took them back to the hotel!

Worth every dollar.

We still occasionally drink from these cups.

My food scientist was extremely interested in stopping by

"Orange World"

"The Biggest Orange in the World"

Scott tried all sorts of different oranges and then we bought a few of his favorites to munch on

We arrived home on Jan 1, 2011

and celebrated our first "Christmas" together in our first little home

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis

I didn't want to make a marriage post before I got my pictures back from the photographer!

But we've been married a whole THREE weeks!!

so I figured I better just post what I have so far :)

Scott and I arrived to California on Saturday, Dec 18. We arrived to pouring rain. More rain than I've ever seen in California. It did not stop raining ALL week! This is not just a little rain storm. We are talking it was POURING non. stop. I kept checking weather.com and it kept saying it would stop 12 am Dec 23. I was hoping and praying all week this was true. But there truly was no end in sight.

Now, in case you didn't know, our wedding reception was to be outside in my backyard,

like I've always wanted.

But as the rain continued, the backyard got muddier and swampier and floodier

and then the pool overflowed and the boys had to come up with a way to drain it to the street.

And then my parents tried to convince me to have it inside the house.

There's nothing wrong with inside the house! I just didn't want it there! :(

Finally we came up with a brilliant plan and moved the reception to the front yard on my driveway. And I loved it :)

Wed, Dec 22, 2010

Everyone was finally to california!

and the festivities began.

I was able to go through the temple for the first time!

Both of our families were there as well as Grandma Davis, Aunt Susan, Uncle Dick, and Cousin Nicole. Thank you all for coming!!

I don't think I stopped smiling the entire time.

i loved everything about it

(here's where I would post a picture of everyone outside the temple..

hmm haven't seen that picture yet!)

It wasn't raining when we came out of the temple, but after we took the picture, it started pouring again....

But as we drove away, we saw a rainbow :)

After the temple we went to Ruby's on the pier for our Wedding Dinner.

How on Earth was I going to convince my family to walk all the way down the pier with all of their little children, and my sweet grandma, and everyone else, in the POURING rain!!

Don't fret.

It stopped.

Just as we arrived to the pier.

And the most beautiful sunset broke across the sky.

The wedding dinner was so much fun!

And then Scott and I said goodbye knowing we wouldn't see each other again until we were at the temple to be MARRIED!!

Thursday, Dec 23, 2010

I set my alarm for 4:30 am

But sure enough, at 4 am I was ready to get up!

First thing I did was look out the window to see if it was raining. No rain! But it was too dark to see the sky yet.

My brothers, Steven and Jeff, woke up early and came and took some fun pictures and video of the wedding morning!

At 7: 15 am I left with my parents to drive to the temple!!!!

major butterflies

so excited!

Seeing Scott at the temple was one of my favorite parts of the day.

I can't describe to you how excited I was (and still am) to marry that boy!!

Waiting for the ceremony to begin was another one of the favorite parts of day.

I've never been so giddy in all of my life. ha!

The ceremony was so special. We loved everything about it!

It really was just perfect.

It had been a little bit gloomy outside that morning, but as long as there was no rain, I didn't care.

But during our wedding ceremony the sun was finally shining in the window SO brightly!

It was the most beautiful day when we came outside. Clear air, big puffy clouds with blue sky, and warm.

We took tons of pictures at the temple.

And then a few of us went down to the beach to take pictures.

My brother Jeff was the videographer! Thank you so much Jeff!

And we loved our photographer whitneydarling.com Check out this post about us!

Taking pictures at the beach was the greatest idea we ever had.

It was so relaxing!

We forgot about all the craziness of the day, and just hung out and walked around the beach.

We weren't even exhausted for the reception!

there is Ruby's!

oh heyyyyy cute husband

Our photographer was SO kind to edit a few pictures for us early so we could use them at our Utah open house. That's why I have a few to share!

But there are so many more to come!

The Reception was after the beach, and it turned out so fun!

I was worried nobody would come because of all the rain we had had.

But we were pleasantly surprised!

Thank you so much everybody for coming.

Thank you everybody for all of your help!

Thank you for all the ways you helped celebrate our wedding day!!

Friday, Dec 24, 2010

you weren't expecting another day were you?

Well, It was Christmas Eve and we were still in California until the next day.

So what were we convinced to do?

Go back home

Ha!

My Brother Jeff and his wife Clarissa blessed their cute baby, Elsie, that day.

I'm so glad we were able to be there for it!

And then we stayed for Christmas Dinner.

As excited as I was to leave for our honeymoon, it was so hard to say goodbye to my family knowing they would all be together for the next few days. I wish we all lived closer!

We did get a family picture that day as well

LOVE them

Saturday, Dec 25, 2010

Merry Christmas!!

We left early that morning for our Honeymoon to Orlando, FL!

The Honeymoon will have to be another post, another day.

I don't even know what to call this

oh, do I have a story for you!!!!

Remember my last post? about our fish, Sting?

Ya.

Well,

That Saturday morning came- the one we were hoping Sting would die on or before.

Sad, we know.

So Saturday morning, I have a couple of appointments, I wasn't done packing, and we were leaving to California in a couple of hours! There was no time for messing around.

I got up my courage and cleaned Sting's bowl.

I slowly poured out the water making sure I didn't pour him out until the very end.

As I poured him out I careful poured him into his little strainer, and transported him to a temporary bowl of water.

Well, Sting apparently heard our death wish upon him.

He flipped himself out of his strainer, from kitchen cupboard height, and

fell.

Doooowwn, dowwn, down

until he hit the floor.

He did not move.

I knew he was dead.

Sting committed suicide.

I was screaming. Absolutely freaking out.

There is NO WAY I could touch him and save his life.

Maybe you don't understand how much I don't touch fish.

I couldn't do it.

I ran to the back room

(sting is still on the kitchen floor)

and I called Scott. He just laughed and probably knew there was no way I was saving Sting.

I told Scott that he really needed to come stop by the apartment to pick up our dead fish so he wouldn't smell when we got back in a couple weeks.

I had to leave to my appointments.

I felt horrible

I walked out of the apartment

covering my eyers, knowing I was leaving my poor fish dead on the floor

Scott stopped by 20 minutes later to throw Sting in the trash.

When he grabbed Sting,

(Tail fin a little dried to the floor..)

Sting wiggled.

Oh no!!!

He put Sting in the water and he SWAM.

How on earth, did he live for 20 minutes on the floor.

I was a little relieved that he was dead, I won't lie.

I didn't want to worry about him while we were gone.

When Scott called me to report on Sting, I felt even worse!

Now we had to leave him, starving, for 2 weeks.

And so we did.

Once during that time somebody went over and fed him.

Sting Lived.

We left on Dec 18, and returned Jan 1.

And he's fine.

I don't get him.