Married Two Weeks

Well readers, it's been a while since my last post.  Let me just bring you up to speed on what's been going on in my life.  First of all, I GOT MARRIED!  Our sealing was beautiful, and after lots of pictures we finally got to see our hotel room for the night.  After laying on the bed and staring at the ceiling for about 20 minutes, we had to head out to La Verkin for a big family dinner.

Our first act as a married couple?  Changing in front of each other.  It was pretty intense.  After that we ate, then we went back to his place where he did homework and I took a nap on our bed.

Later that night we headed back to our hotel, and spent our first night together.  I'm not going to go into detail, but I will tell you that any sense of body shame or awkwardness I thought I'd feel I didn't feel at all.  I was with my best friend and the love of my life, and that day he became my husband.  I had no reason to be ashamed of anything.  It was a beautiful night.

The next day was our reception.  It was magnificent.  Everything went almost perfectly, and I couldn't have asked for a more wonderful event.  That night we headed to Vegas for our honeymoon.

It was a wild five days to say the least.  We stayed at Circus Circus, which in and of itself was interesting.  Every day we saw and did as much as we could, and we crawled into bed every night exhausted.  We had lots of fun together, and all I kept thinking every time I looked at him was, "Wow, he's mine.  We're together forever.  No matter what happens we're going to be together."  All that fear I had before we were married of losing him, or him losing me was gone, because now we're married.  He'll always be with me, even if something happened to him and he couldn't be with me physically.  That knowledge moves me to tears even now as I'm typing this.

Married life so far has been so amazing.  Waking up next to my best friend, cuddling up to him, being with him all the time, making love to him, planning budgets and organizing our little place and dreaming about our future together, all of this is amazing.  I love my husband so much!  Furthermore, I love calling him my husband!  I love changing all of my information over to Karen Gubler, and writing my new signature.

I'm so happy I feel like I might explode.

Keep it real readers.  Don't forget to be awesome.

Circling The Drain

Well readers, we have officially hit the single digits in the countdown to my wedding day.  All I can say is HOLY CRAP!!!

I feel like I just got engaged a week ago, and a little over a week from now I'll be Karen F. Gubler.  I was interviewed by the bishop today for my temple recommend, and when he handed me that piece of paper, it was a bittersweet moment.  It all sunk in for me.  I was leaving the singles' ward I had grown to love like a second family.  Moreso than that, I was leaving Karen F. Curl behind.  In nine days, I will walk inside the temple, and a few hours later I will walk out with a new last name, a husband, a wedding ring, and a piece of paper saying that I belong to him forever.  I will have a new home, a new family, and after that day, a new life.

On the other side of the coin, I get to begin life anew, with my best friend by my side.  He will love and protect me for the rest of my existence, and together we will start this amazing adventure.  We will rely on one another for love, support, relief, laughter, and fun.  After next Friday, I will no longer just be a daughter and a sister.  I will be a wife, and eventually, I will be a mother.  That is really blowing my mind.

Tonight is my bridal shower, and while I know it will be fun, I'm still just feeling the mind-blowing reality that my whole life is about to change in one day.

Wow.  Let's do this.  :)

Keep it real readers.  Don't forget to be awesome.