Thursday, July 30, 2009

IKEA ADVENTURES!

Nathan and I spent some quality time at IKEA upon arriving in Switzerland. We were tired of sleeping on the twin bed and my clothes were pretty disheveled in my suitcases. So we ventured over to the IKEA in Dietikon to get a new bed and some shelves.
To my great delight, they had real Swedes playing some music. Only in Switzerland...or maybe Sweden.
Nathan driving our rental van, it was a Ford.
We took another trip to IKEA a couple days later, and apparently lingered too long inside shopping and missed the bus to the train station. We had to walk about an hour to the train station so we could get home. We weren't the only ones that missed it, there were a couple guys we made friends with on the walk to the train station. That is Alex behind Nathan. I discovered on this trip that young Europeans like to find out how we Americans feel about Obama. He's a pretty popular topic here. It kind of makes me laugh to see them wearing Obama shirts, like they even voted. ha.

Nathan sleeping in our new bed. He really was sleeping.
Our bed makes into a lovely couch.
My clothes!
Our fancy light nathan craftily hung on the ceiling for us.
We even have a fan now that totally helps with the summer heat, since we have no air conditioning. We like our little student house and I am starting to feel at home in this little place.

Monday, July 27, 2009

The Honeymoon

We spent the two days after our wedding in Nauvoo checking out the sites. We even got to spend a little quality time with the fam. Every honeymooner's dream right? Hhaaha, we did have fun and figured it was time well spent especially considering we were getting ready to leave the USA for a while.


Nathan getting into the rope making process with Aly and Mya


Grandpa and Gunnar

The whole gang


We had a real surprise waiting for us in Switzerland. The YSAers decorated our apartment for us. It was a real honeymoon pad...they even made a special lasagna dinner for us.

Honeymoon suite for sure...twin bed and all!








MARRIED!

Nathan and I were sealed last month in the Nauvoo, Illinois temple. It was so beautiful and so great to have so many of our friends and family there.

Just leaving the temple here.

My beautiful nieces and nephew.

Our hair is terrible! It was such a windy afternoon. We were glad that it stopped raining while we were in the temple though.

We had some amazing entertainment at the reception.


Gunnar even surprised us all and sang a song with Zoe, we loved it!




We ended the day with a pioneer trek...how Mormon of us;)

Thanks to my brother Andy for all the great photos!