happiness and success.

3 years. holy smokes.

i am really trying to figure out where the time has gone.

life is so wonderful with you sam.

i love you more than anything.

thanks for putting up with the crazy person you call your wife!

our wedding day.

(i just had to put this one in there)

engagements.

bridals.

do you know the story of our wedding night?

well let me just tell you about it...

the wedding went perfectly. wonderful people and a beautiful spirit.

the luncheon went on without a hitch.

the reception. it started and continued wonderfully.

then the time came to leave.

the reception was supposed to end at 9 pm. of course it went much later.

by the time we finally managed to get out the door it was 10:30. we still had to drive to salt lake city that night.

sam went to fetch the car. we had hid the car in an alley quite a few blocks away from the church hoping that my 'sweet' cousins wouldnt put their mischievous minds to use. no such luck. throughout the night we were asked over and over again where the car was and if we would give up our keys. yeah right.

trust me. if you have cousins like mine you wouldnt give up the keys either (love you guys for reals)

with all of that being said, my dear husband comes back with a car PACKED FULL of those foam elephant peanuts, rice, plastic wrap and all sorts of other things on the outside of the car.

turns out that because they couldnt get into our car, they called a locksmith. yes they paid $75 to break into our car.

and because they spent the money, they were going to make sure they got us good. and yes they got us really good.

sam was really happy about it (enter sarcasm)

Well we decide to go to my parents and just throw everything that was in the car into their garage and they would clean it up. so we did.

but we were hungry, so we decided we should stop at subway.

the worker saw that we were in our wedding garb, so decided to be a sweetie and give us the BIGGEST cup of lemonade i think i have ever seen.

so sweet.

as we are driving away sam notices something is missing.

whats that?

oh yes his wedding ring is missing.

awesome.

we decide its probably in our car somewhere, so with that we decide to stop in mccamon where sams parents were to look for it.

we look and look and look.

and while looking my big ole' booty hits that HUGE cup of lemonade.

splash... it is EVERYWHERE.

awesome.

while sam is looking for his ring, im cleaning up lemonade, and in the process of it all the rice is expanding everywhere.

it was sick.

well no luck finding the ring so we called my mom and told her to look around the garage and everything.

turns out my grandpa was getting ready to take all the garbage bags full of crap to the dumpster but sweet little shag decided she wanted all of it to put in some cute boys room.

thank you shag.

after a few days we found out that the ring was at the bottom of one of those garbage bags.

lucky.

anyways... back to the wedding night.

we cant find the ring and still need to get to salt lake so we decide to just keep going.

right off the on- ramp. boom. we hit a skunk.

now we have a lost ring, wet- rice expanding and a car that smells like POOP!

awesome.

at this point there is nothing we can do but laugh because we are both so annoyed.

a few hours later we get to our hotel.

well. this is where is gets even funner.

nobody is at the front desk that late, so they have little safes with your name and key inside.

we look at each safe. not a single one has our name on it.

awesome.

sam comes back to the car to get his cell phone.

in the midst of all the shoveling around and such his cell phone goes missing.

after about a half hour we finally find it.

call the hotel.

no answer.

call again.

finally a security guard comes down.

we figure everything out.

its almost 2 am.

we finally get into our hotel room and realize we have to be at the airport by 4:30 to leave on our honeymoon.

SWEET.

at the time we were both a little frustrated to say the least. now i laugh my toosh off thinking about what a crazy night it was.

my wedding night is a hilarious memory!

happy anniversary sweetie. i love you

x0x0