Married Life (3 days and 3 hours in)

Well, it happened! After much planning, rushing, and juggling school, work, family expectations and marriage plans, we were finally married on June 11, 2011 at 8:20AM at the Salt Lake City Temple. What an amazing start and an amazing few days! And while we hope that the joy we've experienced so far will continue for the remainder of our lives, we're slowly beginning to feel the responsibilities and expectations of life creeping in.

We're back to school. Back to Rexburg, Idaho. Back to the life of classes and catching up on school work. Yet, in spite of our new challenges (balancing academics with newlywed life, postponing a honeymoon, catching up on school and work, and settling into our new apartment), we both couldn't be happier with the decision we've made. We got married in the middle of a crucial semester in college and we got married in a short amount of time. And though this is a reality that certainly causes us to work a little harder than we would otherwise, I have never been happier. Nothing in the world beats the feeling that, at last, you've aligned your will with deity and that you're exactly where your life has been leading you from the beginning. As we face our new challenges and accept our new life, we do so with hope and an assurance that no matter what faces us, we will come our victorious.