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.

      We decided to show up dressed as the Phantom and Christine! We had gone over to my mom and dad's and my mom helped me with my hair and make-up and took some pictures for us. It was soo much fun!! We showed up at Lion's Gate and I thought that John was going to pass out with surprise. He was so surprised, he just couldn't get over it. He called his wife and told her about us and asked us to dress up the next morning so we could surprise everybody at breakfast. It was a lot of fun!!

      I love these pictures! It was soo much fun to dress up and go and surprise John. We had a ton of fun doing it and it was definitely priceless and memorable. 
~*~

No more talk of darkness, forget these wide-eyed fears. I'm here, nothing can harm, my words will warm and calm you. Let me be your freedom, let daylight dry your tears- I'm here, with you, beside you, to guard you and to guide you.

Say you'll love me every waking moment, turn my head with talk of summertime. Say you need me with you now and always. Promise me that all you say is true, that's all I ask of you. 

Let me be your shelter, let me be your light. You're safe, no one will find you, your fears are far behind you. 

All I want is freedom, a world with no more night, and you always beside me to hold me and to hide me.

Then say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime. Let me lead you from your solitude. Say you need me with you, here beside you. Anywhere you go let me go, too... Love me, that's all I ask of you.