We had our open house in Oakley the next night after we were married, so after we woke up that next morning (we slept in), we went and ate lunch and then went up to get ready for the open house. Our open house was super fun, thanks to Jonathan's mom. She served cobbler with IBC root beer in the bottles. Of course we had to have dancing at our open house because that's where we met. It was a lot of fun. I love to watch our open house video, it cracks me up watching everyone try to dance! That night we stayed in a hotel room in Coalville and headed up to the Uintah's for our honeymoon the next morning. We went on a horse pack trip up into the high Unitah's for our honeymoon. We both rode a horse up, and had another horse pack all our gear! You might be thinking we were crazy for wanting to do this for our honeymoon, but it was so us, and it was a lot of fun. It was just me, Jonathan, the horses, and a pretty lake to look at for a few days. It was so quiet and we had some great conversations that we wouldn't have had any other way! Perfect way to start off our marriage with some deep conversations with nobody around! We stayed up there for a few days, but wanted to get back in time to take my little brother to the MTC. So, we headed down the mountain and got to the truck, got everything loaded and ready to start our drive down the canyon, and the truck won't start! Perfect! Well, we were in the mountains and had no cell service, so we discussed what to do. Finally it was decided that I would ride down the canyon with the man stranger and Jonathan would stay with the truck and horses. So, I rode down the canyon with this dude (I never would do that today, I still can't believe I did it! Shows how young and dumb WE were. Neither of us thought twice about it). Luckily he was nice guy. Once we got to where I got service, I called Jonathan's mom and she came and got me, took me back to their house and his dad and brother went up to help Jonathan. It was an exciting evening to say the least! Come to find out the truck was out of gas, and we were the lucky ones to find out for Jonathan's parents that the gas gauge didn't work anymore! This would be the first of many times Jonathan ran our of gas in our short marriage! :) We stayed at Jonathan's parents that night since it was pretty late by the time they got home from getting Jonathan and then the next day we went down to my parents house because I wanted to see my brother off at the MTC.
The next day, we headed up to our first apartment together to both start school at Utah State and to find jobs before school started. We made our first home in Smithfield, Utah in this tiny old apartment building across the street from the Smithfield city cemetery. The fridge and stove were way tiny and green! It was a one bedroom apartment with a tiny bathroom, tiny kitchen (with no dishwasher), and a tiny living room. It had no washer and dryer hook-ups, so we had to do our laundry at the local laundry mat. We paid $365 a month, which included utilities for that apartment.
We both started looking for jobs. Jonathan got one before I did. He did some summer work for a construction company. I ended up getting a job a few weeks before school started at CAL Ranch as a bookkeeper. I came to love the people I worked with there and made several friendships. They became my family in Logan, and were the ones I turned to later on when I found out Jonathan had been in an accident.
Just a few photos from our open house. I absolutely love the one of Jonathan dancing with his grandma. So sweet!
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