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One Month Anniversary

As of today Cody and I have reached our one whole month of marriage. Yay us! Transitioning from dating to marriage was a lot easier than I thought. But we still have a long way to go. The best part, which is one of the things we were looking forward to the most was just getting to be together all the time! We don't have to say goodbye at night anymore or try and balance our schedules or figure out where we're going to hang out. It's just so lovely. Also it's nice having someone there when you go to sleep and when you wake up. There's a certain feeling of safety that comes with having somebody there with you. Downside: I do have a snorer and a blanket stealer on my hands..but apparently I take up the whole bed so I guess we're even?

As for our living situation we have been lucky enough to have Cody's grandma let us take over the bottom level of her house until our housing situation pans out. As of right now we had two potential short sales which has narrowed down to one. We have been back and forth a little with the bank and are hoping to hear some good news by the end of this month! The agent on the other side is very hopeful that things are going to work out so we're being hopeful too. I thought I was going to have to try my hardest to not get frustrated at our current living situation but things have been a lot easier than I expected. Some nice little perks about grandma's: No having to do dishes (not that we're lazy she just has a very specific way of doing them), grandma's go to bed around 8 o'clock most nights, sometimes even 7!, thanks to the downstairs pool table we're now considering careers as pool hall hustlers, and I am still so close to home (only about 2 minutes away from my parent's house). Probably the hardest part of being here instead of our own place is having all our awesome presents just staring at us and taunting us.

The best news as of late is I got my wedding pictures!!! We went through them tonight and I couldn't be more happy with how they turned out. I was very lucky to have a very talented photographer that did such a good job of capturing the whole day! Her name is Yasmin Khajavi and I got her referred to me from Megan's wedding photographer, Ashley Forrette. Her website is ykvision.com if you would like to see some of her other work. I just love that I can relive that day through the gorgeous pictures I now have!
I only have access to the online album but once I get my disc of the files than I'll do a post including some and look for them on facebook also.

BLISS

If there is one word to describe my feelings of our wedding day and the honeymoon that followed it would be bliss.

Even with a couple hang ups and everything not going "exactly as planned", it really couldn't have gone any better. My sister kept telling me through out the day to not get stressed and just enjoy myself and I think I can say that I honestly did. We were so blessed to have so many friends and family share that special day with us. It just adds so much more joy and happiness to the memory. And in the end I got a best friend for ETERNITY!

For our honeymoon we were blessed to have Cody's parents buy us 5 days in paradise aka The Grand Wailea in Maui, Hawaii.

Everyday was relaxing, swimming, laying out in the sun, laying in the shade, enjoying good food, swimming, relaxing, and so on and so on. I couldn't have dreamed up a better honeymoon. And the best part? I got to spend 24/7 with the guy I just can't get enough of.

Cody's Aunt decorated our room with personalized glasses before we got there!

swan love towels

it was quite windy when we arrived

 The area we stayed at was what our shuttle driver called "the tourist trap" which in hawaiian means stuff costs WAY more than it should. Cody's had stayed in a resort neighboring ours some years back and recommended this little burger joint for a more affordable meal. After 5 hours of flight + other travel time this place hit.the.spot.

this would be our refills-for-life souvenir mug

lei'd

my awesomely terrible panoramic view from our room

outside the place we went whale-watching

the harbor we left from

 Part of our hotel package Julie got us through LivingSocial.com got us free tickets to go whale watching and to the Aquarium right next door. Unfortunately we got the time wrong for the whale watching (it was actually at 12pm not 9am) but fortunately that gave us plenty of time to explore the Aquarium!

so awesomely disturbing

still waiting for the whale watching we found a small little patch of sand and ocean. I went shell surfing while Cody sat. There were actually a TON of black crabs that coated those rocks and would hop from one to the other.

Our whale watching tour guide

this is our "we didn't see any whales" face. We did however get to see some flying fish and sea turtles!

At the Luau. Our resort gives the best luau around. We got a buffet, open bar (kind of a waste for us), 9 acts of hawaiian dancing glory ending with the three time world champion fire knife dancer!

Mai Tai's and Pina Coladas

Our Kalua Pork. They cook it underground then dig it up and serve it up.

My pretty flower tattoo/stamp

Cody's warrior tattoo/stamp

lunchtime out on the lanai (porch)

Now for posing with statues time!:
 

Every night with our turn down service we received a lovely little hawaiian lullaby poem and a pretty flower

anytime you see one of these "posed pictures" we took pictures of each other then I spliced them together. So you can tell we both were there!

just a section of our lobby. it was huge. and gorgeous.

I loved in the evenings there were torches everywhere that lit the paths to the pools and through the gardens. Soo romantical.

honeymoon dessert

There's a beautiful little chapel on the resort grounds where a lot of (rich) people get married. This sculpture was called the Celebration of Marriage. I found it very appropriate.