Our Wedding Day!!

March 10 , 2012….a day I will never forget!!!

On this day I married the love of my life…Kyle Daniel Owens.

Our Wedding Day:

I got up bright and early, and apparently so did Kyle to head out and get my hair and makeup done so I could feel like a princess on my special day.

We had an early morning sealing time, 8:30. So Kyle and I had to be at the temple at 7:30 (so did my mom…poor women). We got there right on time for a fun round of feeling out paper work, and time in the celestial room and time spent talking with our sealer before the sealing. Can I say that I am always amazed and how organized the temple is!!!

Our sealer did a beautiful job. I loved how he touched on the importance of what we are doing there that day. That the sealing power is also a healing power…it heals families and heals individuals. He also touched on the sacrifice made by family so we could be in this place being sealed at this moment. This struck a special spot in my heart.

As I mentioned before there are times when temple work strikes me in the heart like when I got my endowments out. When the sealer mentioned this healing power my thoughts went to my Woodruff line. Setting in the temple that day was my mom’s family, those who were worthy to be there. I thought back to when they were there in the cealestial room when I took out my endowments a little over two years ago. It amazed me then and it amazed me again during our sealing what this means to me, my mom and her family.

Setting in the sealing room I again couldn’t help but think about my Great Grandfather Wilford Woodruff he gave so much to lead this church, come to Zion, etc not only as a profit but also as a father to path they way for his family to come so we could all be together in heaven. It hurts at times to think how much of his family, my moms ancestors, parents, aunts uncles, siblings, etc have fallen away from the church. My great grandfather gave so much to be sealed together for time and eternity…but individual choices of his posterity have left holes in that line and lots of hurts and pains. When I got my endowments out and was greeted by the handful of us Woodruffs who are now endowed I was hit by the thought that I am one more member of the Woodruff line who can now be with our Grandfather in Heaven. I am one more member who is not leaving a gap.

However, sitting in the sealing room next to my future husband and my mom I looked over at my Uncle Don, Aunt Cindy, Clarisa, David and Matt (the handful of us Woodruffs) and was hit by what I was doing that day. I was being sealed to my companion for time and all eternity. I and Kyle will in the future bring children in to this world, Clarissa and David have sweet Melody and Matt will soon marry Janel and together start their family. Here in this room I could see that sealing power is indeed a healing power. Though there are holes and hurt in the generations past us descendents of our Grandfather Wildford Woodruff are forging eternal families from this generation forward. The sealing power is binding us together and will bind our children and their children together for generations to come. The mistakes of parents and generations past are ones that need not be repeated. The sealing power truly has and will continue to heal our family.

I also thought on the power and what it meant for me to be there that day with Kyle. It meant that years of hurt, and hard choices were a thing of the past. I was being blessed for making some of the hardest decisions of my life in the years and even months previous. I was being blessed for the pain I had endured. I was being blessed for remaining righteous to my father. Though the hurt and pain of the previous years is still there and the past cant be erased it can be healed, has been healed and will continue to be healed. Again the sealing power is a healing power.

So you can see that the sealing was one emotional and happy moment in my life!!! How glad I am that we stuck it out so we could be sealed for time and eternity.

After the sealing was time for pictures. And how fun they were. I love how entertaining family pictures can be J After family pictures were to be picture time for Kyle and I. My mom and dad needed to head down and greet family and friends at the reception/luncheon. So the Bairds hung around. Kristina was so kind to help film the whole day and Mikayla became my designated dress holder!!!

After pictures we headed to the Cantebury Place for our Luncheon Reception. Can I tell you Im so glad we choose to do it this way. We invited around 140 guests for a formal luncheon.

We arrived a littled before the schedule start time and where able to have a chance to mingle with guests and family. How I loved it!!!

When it was time we headed in to a yummy lunch! Filled with Cake cutting, mingling, fun toasts by our parents and match maker Kyle with a very fun video tribute by Kristina and Brook.

After the fun we had a fun bubble send off and off to our Honeymoon weekend spent in Park City (I cant wait for the official honeymoon in a little over a month!!)

Ill post more pictures as soon as I get them.

Thanks for your love and support on our wonderful day!!

Wedding Preview

Now that we are nearing the end of March I should let the whole world know....I got married.

On March 10, 2012 Kyle and I were sealed for time and all eternity in the Bountiful Temple.

Ill post more cause I want to do this post justice. But here is a preview of the special day (thanks friends for your face book photos...I kind of stole them)

Thoughts I Want to Always Remember

My wedding is only in three more days!!! I can believe it.

I have looked forward to this day, well the idea of it for years but never thought for sure it would come. Over the years I had gotten involved in some long and complicated relationship. Each left a hole in my heart and soul that I never thought could be healed. Each left me way discouraged and confused. Ill be honest I never thought I would get married and if I ever did I was sure it would be with some guy that I had to settle for becuase it was the only chance to get married.

Last summer began with me feeling overly discouraged and heartbroken for many reasons with no hope on the horizon. Ill be honest I felt lost and confused about life. I didnt know where to go or how to put one foot in front of the other because I didnt know where to go or what I wanted. All I knew is that reality was hard and I didnt like it.

But deep down I had a tiny flicker of hope. For what I didnt know.

So at the time I decided to plan for a future of my own. I started looking into what I needed to do to improve my future. A lot of things, almost everything seemed to fall through. But I knew I needed to keep pressing forward one day at a time and explore a new option when each one failed.

Then last fall the best thing happened to me. A friend, that I will always hold a special place for in my heart for what he brought into my life, introduced me to the greatest man a live....Kyle.

On our first date I knew that everything in my future was going to be changing, brighter and fall into place. I knew in him there was future.... a grandur one then I could have ever imagined.

I have fallen in love with his tender heart, his love for me, his laid back and fun personality...and so much more.

Each day my love grows deeper and founder. A life with out him unimaginable...my future with him is full of only hope, excitement and lots and lots of love.

As I am approaching the dawn of wedding I find there are moments during the day where I stop and think. My heart gets full of excitement and love and total impatience for our wedding. I stop and imagine looking at him across the alter and my heart just melts with love. Inside of me I feel so much hope, brightness and peace for this amazing man I have found. When I picture this moment my heart melt with love and butterflies stir excitment in my stomach.

Right now is one of those moment...and I knew I needed to record it so I would never ever forget.

In a few short days I get to marry the man of my dreams...what I always imagined and so much more.

Those Thoughts That I Are Always on My Mind These Days

Do you ever thoughts that are always on your mind?...Man I seem to....So now Im reaching out to you for your help, advice, support, etc:

1) Getting healthy again...I want to lose weight and get in shape again so bad...but struggle so bad. Bad habbits are so easy to form and so hard to get out of. Any suggestions or good ideas on how to lose weight again and get in shape. I want to do it not only to look better..but to feel better and also for future goals of starting a family. I want to be healthy for that.

2) Fun places to learn fun and low cost craft ideas for decorating our home.

3) Making married people friends. Im social enough that I enjoy having friends and things for outings, game nights, etc.

But the biggest....

4) The reality of building a strong spiritually based family...I know in the depths of my heart and the fore front my mind that Satan's goal is to attack and bring down families. From talking to Kyle and watching many of my friends marriages it seems that Satan is really attacking women...the wifes, mothers and nurterers of the families. What has been weighing on my mind is how can I stem of Satan. I know the basics but I wonder if there is more I can do. Im curious if you have noticed how Satan tries to attack you? What are the ways he is working into our lives as women that maybe we are not thinking of? Second on my mind related to this is how to help make my family spiritually strong beyond the sunday school answers. How can I be a constint student of stronger marriages and homes both spiritually and not so spiritually?

(This may also be coming from my long commute and listening to John Lunds, "For all Eternity" lecture series on CD)

An Update and A Good Thought

Wow Im bad at blogging right now....dang it when live over whelms you at times...with bussiness.

A quick update.....
1) I get married in 30 days!!!!
2) God's hand has again been in our relationship...and soon to be little family. I have started a new job..well really a new office. I am still working for DWS, still doing FEP but now I work in Spanish Fork. After 25 years of living in Davis County I am now a Utah County resident, well I will be on Saturday after I move.

So I sware I need to be better at blogging, and lots of other things. But I have decided I say this alot and dont actually do it. So Im going to show it not say it. When I decided to be good at these things it will show. That way Im not letting others down..well more like my self.


And for a good quote I read today:

He had written two things. First, that he loved me. And second, this verse from Psalms. “Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber, nor sleep.” (121:4)
I wept.
It is true. Our God is a sleepless God. He is vigilant. He is awake. He is inexhaustibly aware – even when things don’t appear to be going as planned. Even when the results leave us broken – so broken we wonder if we can ever be fixed. He is watching over us. For we are His.