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The ramblings, rantings, and adventures of Michael and Ashley Gardner.
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A Love I Never Thought I'd Get To Get To
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Marital Bliss Ruined My Relationship with Country Music
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
The Temple Challenge: Provo, Utah
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Provo Utah Temple |
Check out my post "The Temple Challenge" to track our progress and see all the places that await us!
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Las Vegas Temple Celestial Room |
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Provo Temple Celestial Room |
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Bachelorette Party, Sealing, Reception...A Story in Pictures.
So, this post is a little overdue. Better late than never, right? Here is the story of my trip "down the aisle" and all the fun I had along the way. I stole these pictures from my sister-in-law Melissa's blog. She was kind enough to document all the festivities for me.
My Bachelorette party started with dinner at Bucca di Beppo. Yum! |
My family celebrates most major events at Bucca so we know the manager really well. Lorenzo loves us so he hooked us up with this amazing dessert platter. It was delicious! |
The Gardner girls minus Kim. She lives in Salt Lake and wasn't able to make it. |
The Scavenger Hunt for my gifts started at the Bellagio. |
The Manti Temple the day before our sealing. |
It snowed the day before. |
The Manti Temple the day of our sealing. It was beautiful, but it was cold! |
The temple looks amazing at night. |
Our neices Elisabeth, Alison, and Heidi. |
My sister-in-law Kim and neices. |
Part of the Gardner clan. |
Grandma Gardner and my brother-in-law David |
My mom and my little sister Mia. The both looked gorgeous |
My brother-in-law David and my nephew Ryan |
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gardner |
So happy :) |
Me and Melissa at the luncheon after the sealing. She and David were instrumental in planning the wedding. We owe them so much. |
We were surprised with a horse-drawn carriage ride around Manti between the luncheon and the honeymoon suite at the Manti House Inn. |
Love |
I look thoroughly pissed but I was actually telling Michael that I was concerned because we didn't say goodbye to everyone. |
Waving goodbye to our friends and family. |
My brother-in-law Scott and our nephews Dylan and Ryan. |
So cute! |
Our neices, nephews, my sisters, and my cousin's daughter. |
David, Melissa, Ryan, and Bella at our reception. |
My Daddy walking me down the aisle. |
The groomsmen |
Our first dance. |
Our last dance. |
Our neice and nephew dancing. Too cute! |
The ring ceremony. |
It was beautiful. |
The Gardner Clan. |
The Gardner Men We finally got our Happily Ever After. |
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
The Temple Challenge
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As I was preparing to go through the Temple for the first time in order to prepare to be sealed to my husband, we started talking about all the adventures we wanted to have as a married couple. The biggest adventure we've decided to embark on so far is a life long mission to do an endowment session in every Temple in the world. With 134 Temples currently operating, 10 under construction, and 16 newly announced, we have our work cut out for us. With each passing year the number of Temples will increase and our goal will become more and more difficult to achieve. Since the goal is to experience this together, any of the Temples we've been to before we met don't count for this challenge. As we make it to each Temple, I'll update the list to reflect our progress. Names listed in black are Temples we still need to visit and names in blue are Temples we have "checked-off" our list. Here's the current list of LDS Temples:
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