Nielsen Family Est. 07-15-2010

I'm married yo! And yes, we are living in Arizona; Where the sky is blue and the land is... DRY. Haha! George and I got married Thursday, July 15th, 2010. It was a gorgeous, hot day. Filled with excitement, fear, love and sadness. I got to marry the man I love, George. And yet, had to leave my family. It was a bittersweet day.

For some reason, as crazy as the day was, my storm was calmed. I was late for my own wedding. I drove and was crazy on the road. Careful to not kill myself on my own wedding day and yet, still get there on time. (Which wasn't going to happen anyway, as much as I would've liked that.) I pulled up to the place, running with dress in hand. People were already seated, because I was supposed to be walking down the aisle at that very moment. It was hot and I felt terrible for my guests. I went inside to change and again; calm. I even started singing something Kelly Clarkson. I was excited and just.. calm. No otherway to explain it. My mom thought I was acting extremely wierd, as did Sienna. "What happened to that CRAZY engaged chick, who couldn't control her emotions and was a complete psycho?"-I'm sure was what they were really thinking. Lol. In reality, she was gone and ready to take on the world with her wonderful new husband! As I finished up, and walked outside, I noticed people were still coming for the ceremony. Really? And here I was thinking I was making everyone wait. I even waited for people to get seated before I walked over. Relief. Happy that my fiance was still waiting for me, after I was so late, seeing him stand up there so handsome and ready to make the same committments as me, was awesome. I knew that I was just a few minutes away from being married to him and starting a whole new life.

My wonderful father walked me down the aisle, and as I approached the bishop, he had George move to the left..WTF!!?? I'm supposed to be on that side! But, nope; I was stuck with my eyes toward the blazing hot sun. Squinting, I'm sure, for the whole time we were up there, probably made beautiful pictures. Lol.
Bishop spoke about some beautiful things as well as reminding my family and informing my friends about our "window war." Bishop,  myself, and my sister Gentry, have favorite baseball teams. Gentry and I love the Yankees, and bishop loves the Dodgers... dun, dun, dun! We weren't going to have that. So since bishop lives right across the street from us, we decided to paint on our sliding glass window about how either the Yankees are freakin awesome or the Dodgers suck. Just playful banter was all. Hehe. :) Bishop concluded with, "You may kiss your bride.." We exchanged rings, and we were MARRIED! Finally! We gave hugs and kisses to our loved ones and took our pictures.
My hair fell out, since I didn't allow Sienna enough time to do it. Sorry Sienna. :/ So, it wasn't how I wanted it exactly. But she was great trying to emprovise for me.

It was reception time and our photographer didn't show up. (We later discovered, it was a miscommunication.) I was pretty sad. So, our awesome DJ took some pictures, since his wife is a wedding photographer and so we do have a couple pics. But, most of them were blurry. :(  *SHOUT OUT* If anyone took any pictures of our wedding, will you please contact me? I would love to see them!
At last, we conquered the reception. Gentry made George an awesome Grooms Cake, (which George wanted to take home) but had to leave it there. So, we took a picture instead. :)

We said goodbye to family, which was difficult. I love my family so much! We ended the night by running through sparklers. Which was magical. As we climbed in the car filled with balloons and chocolate kisses, we laughed and drove away. Not too long after, I asked George to pull into the parking lot of the mouth of the canyon, because I noticed that I was sitting in chocolate kisses and got it all over my dress!! Aaahhh! So we threw them out, but the damage was done. Oh well, it was a cute and fun idea. And, I own the dress anyway! Yeah-ya!

We went to Lake Havasu for our honeymoon, and it was HOT!!! 117° hot! We went parasailing on Saturday morning and it was beautiful! It was so much fun! We ate at a place called, MUDSHARK Restaurant. It was amazing. Such yummy food.

We finally got home and topped off our honeymoon by getting 2 new, beautiful puppies!Fresno (boy) and Zoey (girl). They are so much fun. It's kinda funny, since we brought them home, their personalities flip-flopped completely. Zoey is now the more outgoing one, and Fresno's more quiet. He's my little snuggler. Such a mamma's boy!
Well, I think that wraps up my blog. Thanks to everyone who came to and/or helped with the whole wedding. We really appreciate everyone's help. I love you all!