1 Year

So today has been so weird for me.  Today Jake and I celebrated one year of marriage. When I stop to think about it I am so surprised that it has already been a year, I cant believe that time has just seemed to fly by. However there are certain times where I think just a year...it hasnt been longer, some days defiantly feel longer (in a good way).  All in all I guess I have spent the majority of the day being so grateful that I actually did marry Jake.  Lately I have been having crazy dreams where all my ex boyfriends show up and I spend the entire dream frantically looking for Jake.  Then I finally wake up and realize that Jake is real and I am in fact not in the Hunger Games fighting to escape everyone I have ever dated.  I'm glad that I spend all my time in my dreams searching for Jake (glad I picked the right person for me).

I remember that one day before I got married I was hit with the strongest impression that if I didnt marry Jake I would find someone else and I would be okay.  I wouldn't be a spinster for my whole life.  However it continued by telling me that this was my one shot to be the happiest I could be.  I'd get married but if it wasn't to Jake I would forever miss out on the opportunity to be blissfully happy.  I'm so glad I married Jake.  I'm glad that we like the same things, that he is as stubborn as I am.  I'm glad I choose someone who my sister Gabby likes more than me.  I love that my family openly accepted and loved him and that his family did the same with me.  

I think that being LDS marriage takes on a different meaning that most people in the world.  I was excited to party and eat and have a reception but I was so excited for being able to have a special ceremony surrounded by family and friends in a sacred place.  I was so happy and grateful for all the smiling ladies who worked there and looked like they were going to their own granddaughters wedding. I will always remember walking in and having two ladies say "I'm so excited! You two are the first bible couple we have sealed here in Salt Lake!" And I thought really lady?  And then I remembered oh yea I guess I don't know any Abraham's and Sara's so I guess there are not a lot of bible couples getting married everyday so that fact that we were Jacob and Rachel makes sense.   I am so grateful that we booked the biggest room with 75 people and had to bring in an additional 4 benches from the hallway and squeezed people into that room.  I am so grateful that we were surrounded by friends and family.  I know how lucky we were to that many people supporting us on that big, special day which takes on so much more meaning when it is eternal.

Anyways, I am so grateful for our cheesy BYU Mormon story. I will forever make my kids go to f.h.e at school (you never know). I am glad that a year ago I was sealed for time and all eternity to my best friend and love of my life.  I am glad we got married in the right place and I am glad that our marriage will never end.  I love being married, I get to spend all my time with my best friend.  I can't wait for all the other things we have in store, who knows where we will be come year 2...

Here are just some of my favorite wedding pictures 

 Just some of my lovely bridesmaids 

 Both our parents