The Wedding

There is not much to tell about the wedding. We had a ceremony, had a reception, and now we are...married. Just kidding! It was a perfect day! All of the 3 months of planning and hating life were worth it! Everything turned out the way that we had hoped for. And we couldn't have done that without a lot of help! Vicki was the one who made all of my ideas come to life as far as the reception goes! She was amazing and we will always be grateful for how special she made our day!

We got married in the Logan Temple. I have always had a special place for the Logan Temple and for Logan in general. Since Jason doesn't want to ever live there because of the winters then I figured we could at least get married there. We were the only ones on the grounds and the weather was perfect! After going through the Arby's drive-through for some lunch after the temple, we made our way to the reception.

We had the reception at The Union Station in Ogden. The room had an old vintage charm that we both loved. It was the first and only reception site we looked at. We had good food, good music, and lots and lots of fun! It was fun to see all of our friends and family and we loved all of the support we had. I hope that everyone who came had as much fun as we did!

Our Trip to Mexico

Mexico was perfect! It was relaxing and fun and very hard to come back from. And I don't mean hard to get back to regular life, I mean it literally took us 2 hours of sitting in traffic to get back into America! Getting into Mexico on the other hand was a breeze! We flew into San Diego and then rented a car to drive to Rosarito Beach. It was only an hours drive in our sweet Volvo S40 - our wedding gift from Enterprise (I think if they would have known that we were going to Mexico that would have been a different story)! Our resort was within walking distance from the beautiful beach. It was still a little cold so we rarely got in the water but being able to lye on the beach and read was awesome!

One day we went up to Tijuana... that was interesting. Everyone was selling pretty much the same thing and most were very ambitious in getting you to come into their store. It was nice to have Jason who was able to barter with them in Spanish. For one, I'm pretty sure they gave us better deals and for two, they were less likely to talk to me when Jason started talking to them in Spanish.

Another day we went down to Ensenada. It was about an hours drive from where we were staying. We unknowingly took the road less traveled through the old farm land to get there. Ensenada was definitely more of a tourist trap. The streets were crowded with shops and people! My favorite thing was wheel barrels full of candy for sale. Nothing like a portable candy stand!

Overall the trip was amazing! It was fun to be somewhere new and different and to be able to spend so much time together.

Our Story... According to Jason (a.k.a. The real story)

I very much agree with Nicole that the first date was less than spectacular. I don't know what made me still agree to go after I found out that Nicole didn't want to go. One of the main things that finally helped her decide to go was her dad saying, "Go have fun. It's not like you're going to marry him." I chalked it up as another blind date experience and figured I'd never see her again. My phone really did break a few days later (I still have the phone to prove it) and any phone number I thought I had saved in my phone was lost. We're still not sure why we both agreed to a second date, besides the obvious reason that Heavenly Father wanted it to happen. As we were on our way to dinner on the second date I realized I had forgotten my wallet. Nicole was kind enough to pay and would never let me pay her back. As it turns out it really didn't matter. It didn't take long for us to realize that we wanted to be spending a lot more time together. I love married life and I love Nicole!

Our Story...according to Nicole

Our story is sort of funny, well at least it is to us. If you have heard it before (which most of our close friends and family have) then sorry, you may want to skip this part. Jason and I met on a blind date. This was no ordinary blind date however, because I was dreading it! There are many reasons why I was not looking forward to this date: one is because I had decided to go on a mission and was working on turning in my papers in a couple of weeks, another is because I had been set on many, many (some may say even TOO many) blind dates and most of them just were not fun, yet another reason is because a friend had attempted to line us up a couple of months before and neither one of us was interested. Needless to say, after much persuasion from a friend, I agreed to go on the date.

The first date was...well... less than eventful. There were definitly no fireworks, sparks, embers, or even hot coals on this date. Which I will take full responsibility for. I recongnized that we had some things in common but I was stubborn and didn't want to have fun so I didn't expound on any topics of conversation. After the doorstep scene of Jason saying "Well have fun on your mission" I was just happy to have the date checked off of my list. About a week later, for some reason I started feeling bad that I had not been as nice as I could have on the date. I decided to text Jason just to see what he was up to. Come to find out, Jason didn't even have my number in his phone anymore (according to him it was because his "phone broke")! After he figured out who it was, we started talking quite a bit and ended going out again the next weekend. That date (which I consider our real first date) was awesome, even though I had to pay for it! The next thing I knew I had fallen in love with him and a couple of weeks after that we decided we wanted to be together forever. I never imagined I would find my eternal companion this way, but it all worked out for the best!