The Holidays

This Thanksgiving, my husband and I drove the 9 hours to Athens, Alabama to visit my dad. When we arrived the dinner was incomplete and my dad looked completely helpless and did not know what to do. I ended up cooking our thanksgiving dinner and it turned out great. Our Thanksgiving day was probably very similar to many other peoples, we drove a long distance, we watched football, and we ate probably more than we should have. I realized I was so caught in being anxious about Alex and my dad meeting and spending Thanksgiving with my two guys, I forgot to be thankful. This really disappoints me, Thanksgiving is usually my favorite holiday for many reasons, I love fall, the colors of the leaves, the weather, the family time, and most of all, a day where everyone can think about what they are most thankful about. So, a few days late, I'm posting my list.

Things I am thankful for this year;

• God's mercy and continuous blessings in my life
• Alex
• My family (both old and new)
• My friends who have stuck by me and have supported me even when I couldn't see it.
• (with gritting teeth) my job.

This is just my condensed list.

I am looking forward to the rest of the holiday season and being able to really appreciate the meaning of Christmas. (On a side note, I just realized, I have been blogging since last December, it's almost been a year. Pretty crazy huh? If you'd like to checkout what I had to say last Christmas here's a link)

More on our Wedding

Ok, so my previous posts were kind of brief, so I want to go a little more in depth about our Vegas Wedding.
No, it wasn't my dream wedding. But it wasn't supposed to be. I wanted the most meaningful thing about that day to be that I married Alex Branning, not that I looked amazing (which I didn't), not that there where beautiful flowers everywhere, and not that we had a giant production.

We chose to have a small wedding with only our immediate families. It was incredibly meaningful, it wasn't pretty, this is why I don't have lots of pictures I want to share. The prettiness will come in March. But the pastor who officiated our wedding struck our hearts and even if I was wearing jeans and a t-shirt I still would have only noticed one thing, that Alex and I were being joined together in the presence of God. I was almost in shocked at how strong I felt God's presence there with us. As soon as I started walking down the aisle the tears started streaming and didn't stop until Alex kissed me. My vows came out almost at a whisper and before I knew it, we were married.

So, no. It wasn't the perfect wedding day, in the way that you would normally catergorize a perfect wedding. But to me it was the perfect wedding because I became Alex's wife on that day.

A couple of Pictures

So this is us right after the wedding, his mom got everone bubbles (defenitly not my idea). So that's why their are bubbles everywhere. These are our wedding rings.

Please keep in mind that these are not the professional pictures. Our big day to have nice pictures will be in March.

Update

Sorry guys, the pictures aren't ready:(. I got them back but they turned out really dark so I've got to have my bro photoshop them before they are ready for the public eye. Thank for your patience...;)

Mrs. Branning

Alex and I were married on Friday, November 3rd. on the west coast with our immediate families. The ceremony was absolutely beautiful. The church was all wood and with beautiful antique pews and stained glass windows. The pastor was profound and Alex and I were both blubbering and the pastor had to finally just hand us a whole box of Kleenex. It was really powerful and intimate and when they prayed over us and blessed our marriage I was all tears. Thank God for water proof mascara!

We had such a wonderful time with our families. They were all so happy and in such good spirits and it was such a blessing to see our families bonding.

Alex and I stayed at a hotel in our home town called the Oxford Inn. It was awesome. It had a King size bed and free hot breakfast every morning. Alex's stepdad let us use his sports car all weekend so we had a hot car;). It was fun to just be together and with our families and old friends.

I will try and post some pictures tomorrow.