Temple Sealing/Wedding

Mark and I went to the Temple on Wednesday to be sealed* for time and all eternity.
Mark also received his endowments that day. It was a long and roundabout road that we travelled together but we made it in the end.

It was such a beautiful day, shared with some wonderful friends.

Three quarters of my gorgeous family

 

We almost forgot to take some photos. Luckily a friend of ours asked us if we had taken any just before we left the temple.

* A temple sealing  (sometimes known as a temple wedding) is an ordinance where husbands and wives are sealed to each other and children are sealed to their parents in eternal families. It varies from civil ceremonies where couples are married until death do us part.

What happens in Temples

It's Our Anniversary Today

Today Mark and I celebrate our third wedding anniversary.

We don't have any plans for today. Not yet anyway. 

I think we are going out for dinner or lunch on the weekend.

It's hard to believe it's been three years since our wedding day. It feels longer :P well, maybe that's because we have been together for almost 10 years.

I'm thinking I should try my dress on again. I have lost more weight since we got married. 

It might look even better on me than it did that day (~_o) 

Happy Anniversary hon. I love you!! ♥♥♥

More Wedding Photos

Here's the last of the photos that were taken yesterday. I did omit a few but that's because they looked a teeny bit grainy. These photos were taken by Mark's friend. He was also one of the witnesses. 

Mark really is a handsome fellow

I Now Pronounce You ...

Husband and Wife.
Well that's what the Bishop said at approximately 5:30 pm this afternoon.

Yes I know it's strange to be posting this so soon after our ceremony but we are GEEKS and we love our computers. We're not going off on a honeymoon. Not yet any way. We will be saving up for that and going some time next year.

The following photos are courtesy of Angus and the Bishops wife.

Mark scrubs up really nicely doesn't he

Our little family .. well not so little

Mark and his friend are checking out the camera

Signing the certificate

Signing the Ward register.

With the Bishop.

There are more photos but they are still on Mark's camera. Once I get my hands on them I'll share some of those too. I did find one small problem with having more than one photographer, you never know who to look at when the photos are being taken.

I'm Almost A Girly Girl

I'm turning into a girly girl. Shock horror!  Make up, dresses and pretty shoes. They are totally NOT me. Well maybe the pretty shoes just a little bit but the rest isn't. You see I have been practising my make-up and hair styling skills (or lack of them really) trying out different looks for the wedding. 

I've actually enjoyed 'playing dress-up' although the boys have given me strange looks and stated that I didn't need make-up because I looked pretty already. Good save boys and you are right I am beautiful (~_o) Brodie says I have a big enough ego already but hey if I look good why not tell everyone *smile*

I think this is how I will do my make-up for the big day.

I took about 10 photos of myself this morning before I found one that I sort of liked. I even tried doing my hair but it's no cooperating very well today. This is kind of what I will look like on Saturday. What do you think? Too much? Not enough? Just right?

5 days to go and counting ....

My Engagement Ring

Mark had ordered my engagement ring online a while back and it arrived in the post this week. He also ordered a pretty box to put it in. How sweet is that heart box with the rose on it?

The ring is made from titanium and it has a very small jewel in it. 

I constantly worry that the stone may fall out. 

 

There is also an inscription engraved inside the ring that says "Love Mark"

On each side of the writing is two hearts.

My geek is such a romantic xx

Not that I am counting or anything but there's only 8 days to go ...

A Sneak Peek

The colour is called gun metal grey.

Since Mark isn't home and he isn't able to check my blog posts I thought I would give you a bit of a sneak peek at my new shoes for the wedding. Not that he would be interested in my shoes, well I don't think he will be.

I was going to share a photo of part of my dress but that would be spoiling it, right? Let's just say that it's a purple/plum/magenta colour and I love it! Brodie has seen me try it on and he said it looks very pretty. I hope he wasn't just saying that because I'm his Mum (~_~)

The dress is a tad big in places and I am seeing a seamstress on Thursday afternoon. She was recommended by a few people in town. I'm hoping that means she is really good or they wouldn't have suggested her. The dress only needs a couple of pleats or darts or something. I'll find out on Thursday one way or another.

I can't believe that there is less than 3 weeks to go. I'm sure that time will fly by quickly.

Do You Want The Good News Or The Bad News First?

Here's the BAD news ~ Angus failed TAFE this year. How on earth he failed is beyond me. He wasn't the only kid in his Automotives course that failed either. ALL the kids from his school that were in his course failed. What let them down is the fact that they never did all their assignments and handed them in.

Their TAFE teacher said that Angus is to come in on Wednesday of this week so that he can attempt to complete as much work as possible in order to save his butt. That way he might be able to go back to do the second year of his course next year. That is no guarantee that he will be able to do so. Angus will need to write a letter outlining why he should be allowed to continue with his course. He will also need to include steps that he will follow to ensure that this wont happen again.

What annoys me is that whenever I asked Angus if he had assignments for TAFE to work on he said that he had done them all at TAFE and that he didn't need to do them at home. What a silly person I was to take him at his word. I feel so disappointed and hurt over all of this. I feel that I failed as a parent. I know it is not my responsibility to do his school work and that the onus is all on Angus but I still feel I made a mistake somewhere.

Angus didn't want to tell us what happened. His excuse was that he 'forgot' to mention it last Thursday when he got home from school because we had given him his new computer. We only found out because one of the co-ordinators at his high schooled phoned us.

Angus thought that Mark & I would yell at him when we found out. Why would we do that? Yelling at him wont make a difference. Angus will still have to face the consequences of his actions (or rather in this case inaction). Computer time has been severely restricted (2 1/2 hours per day) and his computer signs him out when his time is up. There is NO can I have another 5 minutes. I think it's pretty fair. I am sure that's a lot more than other kids would get in these circumstances. In fact one of Mark's friends said that we should just take the computer away for a while. If there's a next time maybe that's exactly what we will do.

Needless to say I am being a mean Mum making sure that Angus does his work. I will not have him slacking off again. I am tired of getting phone calls, letters or emails from the school stating that he is well below par. Although I am grateful that the school lets me know. I want Angus to pass but if this keeps up he might not get to do the classes he wants next year. Perhaps frightening him by stating he will have to repeat some Yr 10 classes night do the trick...

Time for some GOOD news ~ I ordered the dress that I wanted for my wedding last week. It's being sent from the US. I was given a tracking number so that I could check up on my order. The good news is my dress is now in Australia! Woohoo. So hopefully it will arrive within the next couple of days. I'm still crossing my fingers that it will fit properly. But YAY it is almost here!

Our Rings

Mark had shared some photos over on Facebook of our rings. So I thought I would share them here.  I did mention that they aren't the usual kind of wedding bands. We have ordered them from the US and I am hoping that they don't take too long to get here. 

I had also told Mark that I didn't want an engagement ring but he was very naughty and didn't listen to me.... 

This is what he chose. Mark said it needed to blend in with the wedding bands.
I promise I wont bore you with too many posts about the wedding. I just wanted to show off the rings today (~_~)

We've Set A Date

Mark and I went to visit the Bishop from our ward yesterday to begin organising things for our wedding. Gosh it sounds strange to talk about this. I knew Mark and I would get married and it was just a matter of when but wow we're actually doing something about it all now.

We have set a date... Saturday December 1st. Although I did think about it all afterwards but wouldn't the date 12/12/12 be better? Oh well it doesn't matter really but honestly would you forget a date like that? Depending on the weather it could be either in civic park or in the Bishops backyard (which looks rather pretty at the moment). It sounds a bit rushed I know but we aren't going to have a big ceremony with loads of people. Small and quiet is exactly what we want.

Mark and I have picked out our wedding bands. Of course I will take photos of them later on (we don't have them yet) but they look really cool and are not what I would consider the usual type of ring. They're made of titanium which means we will never break them. I really like them anyway.

All I need to do now is find the perfect outfit for me and make sure that the boys have outfits that don't consist of flannelette shirts and tracksuit pants. Now the fun part of clothes shopping begins ...

Steampunk Spectacular ~ Sept 15th

Here's some of the photos I took of the weeding we went to over the weekend. The theme for the wedding was Steampunk. I have to admit everyone who dressed up looked fantastic!

The Bride and Groom

The celebrant was Mark & Sean's younger sister Sally. She flew in from Perth for the ceremony.

Some of the steampunk items they had on display.

The table decorations looked really effective.

  

The siblings. Can you tell that Mark & Sean are twins? They definitely all look like brothers and sister.

Wedding favours ~ they were cute little heart shaped lollies. I love the old fashioned clocks on the paper.

A kids toy sword decorated as a steampunk accessory.

Angus was given this 'old-fashioned' pocket watch. 

Sally and her other half, Dean.

I was going to post these yesterday but I decided to take the day off (~_~)

We had Sally & Dean stop by for a visit yesterday afternoon before they headed off to Melbourne. I'm not sure but I think they fly home today. It was really nice catching up with her.