We would like to begin by apologizing to our faithful readers for the long periods of time between posts. Here is a reader's digest version of our lives since the last time we wrote:
*we got married and had 2 receptions (one in Draper and one in Omaha a week later)
*we are less than a week away from graduating college/ moving to NYC for the summer
*we got a Wii (Richard thinks this is most exciting thing on the list thus far.... Emily disagrees)
*we went to Lexington, KY so Emily could present her Honors Thesis at the Kentucky Conference on Health Communication
*Emily learns that her sister Carma is a celebrity in the Health Communication world
*The Office came back on the air
*we got addicted to "Arrested Development"
*Richard sent in his seat deposit to George Mason University Law
Whoo... that's a lot. Continue reading at your own risk....
Well, first and foremost, we got married on March 22. During that week, all of Emily's immediate family and some friends came in, and we had a great time playing games, eating, attempting to watch BYU games and taking lots and lots of pictures. We can't believe how old our nieces and nephew are getting!
The night before the wedding, we had a great groom's dinner at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi. The food was great (we hear... we ate very little), and it was only a little awkward to be constantly stared at for hours (something we would get more used to in the next 24 hours). It was also that night that Aaron presented Richard with "The In-Laws' Guide to the Bylund Family," a compilation of weird and funny things about the Bylund family to make his transition easier. Emily thinks that Richard needs to read the book more carefully, as he often questions her on things that are IN THE BOOK. Examples: "Why did Carma tell you to only take a dollar?" "What is the address Jenny and Aaron's blog?" "What are family team numbers?" Luckily, Emily can refer him back to this manual instead of attempting to explain.
After the dinner, Emily's friend Bethany threw a FANTASTIC bachelorette party complete with drinks, a unique game of Twister and Emmigories. Thanks Beef!!
The wedding day went by with only a few hitches. On the way to temple, Emily was driving with her parents slightly freaking out that something would go wrong. Suddenly, the car started shaking (one exit away from the temple!) and Emily's dad informed the riders that the car had a flat tire, and one of the riders began hyperventilating (we won't name names). Luckily, Emily's brother Kevin et al. came to rescue by driving in from Draper and dropping them off at the temple with seconds to spare.
The ceremony was beautiful and the weather was surprising good (albeit a little cold in the shade), and we continued to take pictures throughout the next 4 or 5 hours. Richard commented later that night that he knows what expression his smile was, because he could feel the muscles in his face hurt when he tried to smile that way again. But we sure had a lot to smile about!! We had a fun reception catching up with family and friends. There was great food (we hear) and the venue was gorgeous.
Whew. A week later, we had another great reception in Omaha at Emily's parents' house. It was also amazing (however, I'm sick of putting pictures up)
This weekend, we traveled to Lexington, KY so Emily could present her Honors Thesis at KCHC. It, too, was great. Emily met a lot of people who tried to convince her to attend various graduate schools. She had a good lunch with the chair of the health comm masters program at GMU. We also went to the horse races and lost $4. Sad day. We spent an afternoon walking around downtown Lexington (it didn't take very long), watched a few episodes of Arrested Development, and tried not to think too much about the week of finals ahead of us :)
Well, here we are. We are about to spend our last week in Utah and then a week from today we are moving to New York City (where the streets are paved with gold!)!!! What exciting lives we have!
P.S. Do people still read this? Or have you all given up on us?
