here's a peek -

here's a pic that Brooke took of us from the wedding at the temple.

if you have nothing better to do - take a look here, too:
http://www.pacephoto.com/wendy08/3/

next up - FESTIVAL OF TREES!!!

yes, i can

my husband is sitting here next to me telling me that i can't blog on my honeymoon. and i told him i could. guess we all know how this relationship works. :)

well, there's nothing like being off work, having nothing to do all day long and wondering why all the places we've been to are totally dead during the work hours. weird. sorry to everyone out there who has been to work this week.

our honeymoon has been great. too bad it has to end. i think i could honeymoon for the rest of my life. there is nothing like being with isaac 24/7. it is so much fun and it has been so great to have him all to myself. it's weird cause sometimes it feels like when we get back to salt lake that i'll go to my house and he'll go to his - but voila!!!! we get to live together and set up our house and stuff. good thing we are getting back on thanksgiving day and get to have dinner at someone else's house cause we don't have any eggs or milk in our fridge yet.
:)

thanks everyone for your support and love and fun times we had last friday - it seems like it's been forever since that day - but what a WONDERFUL day it was. :)

ta - da!

well, my loyal fans, this is the last post to the 'ol blog before i become Mrs. Isaac Earl. wow. does that leave a warm fuzzy feeling in your soul or what?!?!
or, it could be the heartburn i'm feeling. :)

no, really. it is the night before the big day and what am i doing with my time, you ask? well, what better thing to do than sit in class for 5 hours. tonight's topic is interest and stuff like that. for some weird reason my brain just isn't grasping what my professor is talking about. oh well. good thing isaac is a math major and can explain it to me on the car rides during our honeymoon.

i would like to say thank you to everyone out there for the support, love, gifts, and everything else that you've supported us with. it's amazing how we are all a composition of those around us and the influence we have on each other. thank you all for your influence in my life.

and isaac - can't wait to be your wifey. :)

less than one week.

and that's all i have to say for today.

Grandma's Obituary

Mildred Hatch Carter
Mildred Hatch Carter 1912 ~ 2008 The children of Mildred Hatch Carter are saddened but grateful to announce the passing of our mother, age ninety-six. She died quietly at home of natural causes Friday, November 7, 2008, surrounded by those who loved her.Mildred was born October 10, 1912 to Curtis Legrande and Mary Alice Funk Hatch. She and her husband John Deloy Carter, who has preceded her by 14 years, were parents of 12 children, ten raised to adulthood, 54 grandchildren, 91 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. She was our teacher, our mentor, our examplar and our most loyal friend. She was also a friend of those in need of temporal, emotional, and spiritual sustenance. None were ever turned away from her door unappreciated or unfed. Her grandchildren were the special beneficiaries of her loving care. She was a faithful daughter of Zion and an unfailing disciple of Jesus Christ. Her simple and unadorned faith was the foundation of our own, and it was by her knee that we learned our first prayers. Mid, as she was known, excelled in school. She desired to continue beyond high school, but she married young. Those were the early years of the Great Depression when surviving was the singular goal and expectation. She lamented her loss, perhaps not realizing that literary attainments cannot be compared with the wisdom gained in living and serving. Many have since eagerly sought her advice and counsel. Like their seven sons and one of their daughters, Deloy and Mildred served a proselyting mission together in Ventura, California. She served her church faithfully throughout her life. Her home and our lives are poorer without her, but we thank God for her example and memory. We will miss her beyond measure. John D. (Nadine) Carter, Jr., Bonita (Dean) Carter Thomas, Dorian L. Carter, Burton L.(Yvonne) Carter, Diane (Richard, deceased) Carter Wyatt, Vanevery L. Carter, (deceased) and Mrs. Donna (Stan) Schulz, Von H. (Janiel) Carter, Robert K. (Terri) Carter, Debra (Paul) Carter Hatton, Brett L. (Terry) Carter. Funeral services will be held at 12 p.m. Fri., November 14, 2008 at the Cottonwood 11th Ward Chapel, 1830 E. 6400 S., Murray. Viewings will be Thurs., 6-8 p.m. at Memorial Mortuary, 5850 S. 900 E. and Fri. 10-11:30 a.m. at the church. Interment, Holladay Memorial Park. Funeral Directors, Cottonwood Mortuary.

November 7, 2008

My Grandma Carter passed away yesterday afternoon.
She was 96 years old and almost 1 month.

A lot of our family members gathered at her house last night and it was so great to be around them. I have such a wonderful family and a wonderful legacy. I am so proud to be a Carter.

2 weeks........

well, i'll admit it.
i'm the most impatient person in the world.
it's 2 weeks until the wedding and i can't wait for it to come. (and be over with)

so there. if you think you are more impatient than i am - prove it. :)

the first snow....and a pain in my neck!

well, for those in the salt lake valley, you know that we got to wake up to snow this morning. normally i would have been excited. but you try driving down the hill on 9400 south in a car whose brakes don't want to work. not my idea of fun.
so, i called isaac. and i just want to tell you what a cool fiance he is. i told him about my brakes not working and how freaked out i was and asked if we could switch cars for the day, and he said yes. when i got to his house, he was brushing the snow off of it and it was all nice and warm inside. and off we both went to work.

thank you fiance for being so cool-headed and nice to me this morning. :)