Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime...Love me, that's all I ask of you.

     Above is a picture taken from the bed and breakfast where my husband and I stayed for our honeymoon June before last- I can't believe we've been married over a year now, time really does fly by- and, as you can tell from the mask and rose the suite was Phantom of the Opera themed., and it was amazing! I'll be posting more pictures throughout this entry just to emphasize it's awesomeness. 

     The funny thing about this is that I found this suite before I had even met my husband!

     My family and I had stayed in Lava Hot Springs Idaho for my eighteenth birthday and we really enjoyed it, so my mom and I were going through websites, looking for places to stay if we wanted to take another trip out there, and we stumbled across this bed and breakfast called Lions Gate Manor. They advertised, and still do, The Phantom's Lair, as their premier suite, and with good reason. We looked at pictures and I fell in love with it and decided that that is where I wanted to go for my honeymoon, whenever it was I got married. Little did I know that it wouldn't be so long after that I did get married. 

     I met my husband at the beginning of January 09 at a Singles Ward activity we had in Bear Lake. We were staying at a lodge and snowmobiling and all sorts of other fun things you do in the winter. I do want to mention that I was part of the fellow-shipping committee for my ward before I go on. Now that I've mentioned that, I'll continue. We had gone out the second day for snowmobiling and stuff like that, and it was later in the day, we were having lunch and taking a break when I saw this young man just sitting down on a trailer by himself. Well, as part of the fellow-shipping committee, I couldn't have that, could I? So I went over and sat down and said hi. I found out his name was David Penrod, and that he was a recently returned missionary. Our conversation didn't last much longer than that, but it must have stuck out in both of our minds, because obviously, we're married now. : )

     I should have known things were going that way when, on Saturday as we were leaving it just so happened that I ended up in the same car with him, though I wasn't thinking about it at that point; I was just happy to be with my friends, and that we didn't get separated. I was impressed, though, because there was something that I had been pondering about for awhile and he was able to explain the principle to me and in a way that I could understand, so I was happy about that. It gave me great ease in my mind. 


      I won't go into all of the details right now, but I was leaving church early for some reason that I can't remember and I remember crossing paths with him in the parking lot and he asked me if I would be going to the Family Home Evening that night at the ward, to which I said yes. I then went home and proceeded to tell my mother about it and we went through every possible outfit I owned and she did my hair for me and we were both excited about it. So I went, and it was a fun activity. I visited with he and some of his in-active friends that he brought along, and, as I said before, I won't go into all of the details right now, because some of them I need his help remembering, not too long after that we started dating. And not long after we started dating we were engaged!

     This was my hair and outfit for the Family Home Evening activity. 

     He had never seen the Phantom of the Opera, though, so I was a little concerned, given the suite that I had picked out for our honeymoon, so I decided one night for our date night we would watch the movie so I could see if  he liked it. Now, I had told him nothing of the suite or anything like that, I didn't even tell him the reason we were watching Phantom, because I wanted to surprise him with it. So, we watched it, and he loved it, and he wouldn't have known anything about it except I had left up the invoice for it on my email one day and he happened to look. He said he wished he hadn't, but I didn't know that he knew until we got there, and he said he was still surprised. It was wonderful. And the monkey above is a music box that plays Masquerade, just like the one in the movie. : )

        My friend surprised me by putting up this sign for us the day before our wedding. She kidnapped me at home and blindfolded me and took me to see it. I later took my husband and we got pictures of it. I was very touched that she was so thoughtful. This is still one of my favorite pictures ever. : )

    For our honeymoon we had bought season passes to Lagoon and also got another place to stay out in Salt Lake City, and this is us as we were just leaving Lion's Gate. He was so nice to us, and he said we were the first honeymooners to visit The Phantom's Lair, so he gave us these shirts and we wore them all that day at Lagoon. Everybody would comment on our shirts and say that they loved the Phantom. It was quite the wonderful experience! I loved it there, and so did David Ace. So much so, in fact, that we decided to go back a year later for our anniversary, and this time we had a surprise in store for the owner, John Clark.

Entertainment Central!

      My wonderful husband bought me a Wii for Christmas, so naturally it's up in our living room, and we played Beatles Rock Band on it last night. I can't believe how rusty I am! But it was wayy fun! Apparently he had been looking around on KSL the other day to find one. We ended up getting a black one to match all of our other electronic accessories, and I couldn't be happier.  My life is almost complete as far as games go: all I need is Lego Batman. : )

     I've never been a hardcore gamer; I'm still not. The only games I've really ever played through and won  on my own are The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64 and Kingdom Hearts 1, 2- I'm working on Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories- and other than that I've mostly played music games like Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Rock Band 1, 2 and Beatles Rock Band. I'm not big into the Resident Evil games or the Halo games or anything like that. I like silly fun games, which is why Lego Batman is still up close to the top of the games I want, following, of course, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep and Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core. But that'll have to wait, because I don't want to get a PSP right now. : )

    But I do have to say that I'm thankful for my brother Jordan for getting me into gaming in the first place. See, he saw me reading the summary for the Kingdom Hearts games for the umpteenth time - and I thought I was being discreet. :) - and went out and bought me the first game. Well, these games just happen to be for the PlayStation 2 console, and I had nothing of the sort, so the game sat in my room for a week, I think, until I couldn't take it anymore and went out and bought a PS2. Luckily for me they weren't as popular as when they had first come out, so I ended up paying 130 dollars for a brand new one; it came with a controller, and I bought a memory card as well, because I knew there was going to be a LOT of Kingdom Hearts gaming that we would be doing.

     I loved the game! It was visually amazing!! More so than any other I had ever seen. It was a fantastic game, and I loved how they incorporated the Disney characters (Donald and Goofy are part of your party and they help you fight) and as well the Final Fantasy characters. That was my first foray into the land of gaming, and I loved it!

     Suddenly my brother and I connected on a whole different level. We've always been close, Jordan and I, but I gotta say that it was one of the greatest times I've had playing Kingdom Hearts with Jord. He loves all of the Assassin's Creed games, as well as the Halo ones, but we had soo much fun! And that's really what I LOVE about gaming!

     I thought that whenever I got married I would have to give up the Kingdom Hearts and the Zelda and all of this stuff and be serious.... Yeah, I'm so happy that I don't have to worry about that! I found out when I was dating my husband that he loves Kingdom Hearts as much as I do! And we've since played it many times through together. The first time I played Chain of Memories we played it together; we played Final Fantasy VII together, and that was amazing! AND, we went to an Anime convention with my best friend Kierra as well. See, this is us: 

    Our good friends made us our costumes, we're the ones in the silver and the pink (also known as Sora and Kairi.), and they did it in a really short amount of time. They love Kingdom Hearts, too, and so it was really awesome that they were able to do that for us! I appreciate it soo much! See, my husband even ordered himself a "keyblade", what the main character uses to slay the enemies who are known as the "Heartless". 

    So, the girl in the white dress, that's my best friend Kierra, she's the one who wanted us to go. Her character's name is Namine. And we just happened to run into another Kingdom Hearts person floating around, his name is Roxas. Kinda hard to explain, but Namine and Roxas are sort of connected to Sora and Kairi, which makes this picture so darn awesome! 


     And, of course, I have to post this picture below, because it's just awesome! 

     My husband is the biggest ham you will ever meet, but this is "Sora", doing a finishing combo move on a "Heartless." : ) Waay fun! 


     It was funny, actually, just remembered this story and thought I would post it. I was helping Kierra with her costumes and while I was gone there was this girl taking a picture with David Ace. A lot of girls took their picture with David Ace. Anyway, so I got there in time for the girl to say to him, "By the way, my friend said I could keep you." David Ace laughed and put his arm around me and said, "Sorry, I'm taken, this is my wife." It was quite funny. : )


    This blog stuff is awesome! I love it! And especially now that I know how to use it! I'll probably be posting a lot, because I love it soo much!

Finally starting to figure this whole blog thing out....

 I decided a couple of nights ago that I wanted to make a blog; it sounds like a lot of fun, and it sounds like a good way to keep everybody updated. I thought to myself, 'Okay, I can figure this out.' 

 And here we are, two days later and I've finally figured out how to post a comment. I think I'm doing fairly well for myself. :)

 Part of that delay, I guess was because I was also trying to figure out how to put my pictures from my camera on the computer at the same time, and for somebody who is really only familiar with word processors because I love to type and come up with crazy stories for friends, that was quite the obstacle. And there were some good pictures there that I would love to share on Facebook, so naturally it was quite frustrating to me when I couldn't figure it out.  But I did figure it out and now I have photos! I'm starting to figure out this whole computer thing. I think I understand my PS3 now, too. Yay!

  Now I contemplate what to blog about as I sit and drink a nice refreshing glass of my good friend Dr. Pepper.

  Life is perfect for me when I'm enjoying time with Dr. Pepper and my husband in front of Netflix. We did the whole trial thing and fell in love with it, so we decided to keep it. We've streamed some good ones over our PS3 and we have had two sent to us, though I think the mail people skip over us because Iron Man 2 was sitting in our old, waaaayyy outdated mailbox (my father-in-law's a mailman and he said that the kind of mailbox that we have is a pain in the winter because it's one that's on our house and there's a lid you have to life, kinda hard to explain, I'll post a picture, but he said that it's hard to manage in gloves. So the weather's cooling down, so perhaps that's why... Need to get a new mailbox. ^^) for a couple days straight. But never fear, of course, because we live just down the street from the post office, who have mailboxes. ^^

This is my mailbox. ^^

And now I go get ready for work. So, farewell for now! ^^