*First Christmas*

This year Christmas was so much fun! It was our first Christmas being married and let me tell you, it was so fun yet exhausting!! Who knew that having two families to visit on Christmas was so tiring, but I wouldn't have it any other way! We spent Christmas eve up at Grandma and Grandpa Hansen's house with his cousins and it was a blast. Then we came home and opened one present each. I got him a gift card to Maverick (He loves his Caffeine Free Pepsi) and he got me the movie Easy A! We both love that show so we watched that and went to bed. I woke Jeff up at about 8 in the morning to go open presents!  We then went to my parents to open presents and to have breakfast. It was so fun being with all my family and to see how excited the nieces and nephews were to see their presents! After that we went to open presents with Jeff's family and to spend time with them, then back to my parents for our Christmas Day dinner!  It was so much fun! I loved it but was so excited to go home and relax after that long day. I look forward to many many more Christmas' with my hubby!

 On January 2 we leave on our Honeymoon Cruise to Mexico!!! I can hardly wait! We'll be gone for a week in the nice warm weather! I am a little nervous because it's my first cruise but I'm so excited to go on a real honeymoon with my cute little Hubby! We'll be sure to take lots of pictures and post them so everyone can be jealous! jk

~Married Life~

Sorry it's been such a long time since I have posted but things got a little hectic for a while!! So to start off, November 20th, Jeff and I had the chance to go through the temple together for the first time to receive our endowments!! It was such a neat experience to have both of our families there with us and to have Jeff's mom go through to receive hers as well! I loved walking into the celestial room and seeing our families just standing there waiting for us! What an overwhelming rush of emotion that was! It was truly amazing!! Here's a picture of us before the temple...

After that it was just rush like crazy to get all the last minute details done for the wedding. It was crazy but the day finally came... I got up at about 430 and my sister came over at 5 to do my hair (thanks Tami) then my other sister came over shortly after that to do my make up (thanks Jamie) and then Jeff and I were off to the temple!! It was awesome to just be able to sit in the celestial room with him. We got to sit there for about a half hour before they came and got us to go and be sealed. My uncle Tom on my mom's side got to seal us, which was so neat!! It was amazing to go in there and know that we were doing it the right way and  with all our loved ones there with us! What an amazing experience it was!! 

Everything after that went off without a hitch minus a few catastrophes! My photographer went to the wrong temple so we sat there waiting to come out of the temple after being married for almost 40 minutes, but at least we all got to sit in where it was warm because about an hour after being outside we were frozen! We had fun taking pictures and then the luncheon was delicious! The reception was funner than I thought too. I thought it would be uncomfortable with a bunch of people I didn't know but it turned out great and it was beautiful! Thanks so much to my family and Jeff's family for all your help that day and for everything you all did to help make our day perfect!!

We stayed in Salt Lake for a few days after we got married and stayed at Little America and then our last night at the Anniversary Inn. We had lots of fun and can't wait for our cruise in January!!! Here are a few pictures from our stay...

Haha Jeff wandering around our room at Little America. We were on the 17th Floor, the very top!!

 Phantom of the Opera room at the Anniversary Inn.

  I thought this little sign was funny!!

    Mr. and Mrs. Nelson! Right before we checked out of our hotel.

Hopefully we'll have some wedding pictures to post soon, sorry this was so long!!!