The Beginning

OK, OK. Nelson and I have finally gotten enough mocking, disappointed, and otherwise obnoxious comments that we decided we better update the blog again! We are really bad at this. SO! Where did we leave off... K. When we got home from the honeymoon, we started searching for apartments. At this point, all of our stuff was still in our single student apartments in Provo. Nelson continued to be mostly dead for the ONE weekend we had to apartment search before he headed to San Jose, CA for the next three weeks to do some job training with EY. Oh yeah, and also during that ONE weekend, I forced him to get dressed up and go to his college graduation :)

YAY NELSON!!!! Congratulations to the handsome college grad! I was so proud.

Then, we managed to decide on an apartment complex, and off went Nelson to CA while I embarked on the moving journey. Two packed up apartments later, this is what my car looked like.

I couldn't open the back to take a picture of the best part for fear it would all crumble down on me. Suffice it to say, that was not so much fun. The worst part was that we couldn't move into our new place for another week, but we still had to be out of our old apartments. Nelson's family was SO nice to let us store it all in their basement for the week, but that meant I had to pack it up twice. Yikes. FINALLY we got the keys to our first little apartment while Nelson was back for a weekend. Here's the place!



So there you have it! Nelson's AWESOME brothers Preston and Jordan helped us transfer all of our stuff from their house to the apartment because they are so so nice.

...And then we had an official toast with the lemonade they give out for free at the main office of our apartment complex because we didn't have any other dishes or food yet. :)

(Side note: Notice from the crazy hair in this picture that Nelson was still SO sick at this point, and still had to sleep for 18 hours a day. Poor kid. I was happy he was able to get up for long enough to make the cheesy toast for our first home. That's a big moment.)

I then spent the next 2 weeks driving in between Target and Ikea, organizing the place, building furniture with my super human strength, and missing my husband. Nelson spent the next two weeks watching over 2,000 Power Point slides about IT security, management, and education, fighting three infections, and missing his wife, of course. At least the apartment was all ready for Nelson when he got home! Yay! And that, my friends, was August in the Wittwer home.

Some of my Favorite Things

Hi internet world,

We have been pretty much married for six months now, and that makes me smile. A lot. As promised, we wanted to share with you some of the highlights of our life which you. I'm going to be honest though, I'm really kind of motivated to post on this here blog because of all of the naysayers out there. *cough* Wendy *caugh* So what if I only posted like 4 times on my own personal blog a few years back. In my opinion that thing was perfect, it didn't need anything else. I had a poem about Mac and Cheese, a video of Gianna playing Wii boxing, and tales about my time as in EY intern. I don't know if it gets much better than that.

On that note, I begin my epic tale of our marriage so far.

First Things First: The Mawwiage

Luckily, our marriage did not include a storming of the castle or the Dread Pirate Roberts, although it did include someone who is was mostly dead. Someone decided to get married, graduate, move, and start a new job all within a 10 day period = not good for the human body. Sorry for being sick on our wedding honey. Oh ya, and sorry for being sick during our honeymoon and for three weeks after. Luckily the sickness didn't hit until after the wedding, so I was able to remember our wedding day.

It was an amazing day, and I still feel like the luckilest guy in the world. I cannot even begin to thank everyone for all of the planning, work, and sacrifice that went in to making our special day perfect in every way. We are blessed to have such a great and supportive family, who did so so much for us. Even to this day we are humbled by the amount of generosity that was shown to us. We cannot thank all of you enough for everything. My cheeks still hurt from smiling so much. It was so fun to have so much support, but most importantly, it was amazing to share such a special day with my dear wife. In case you couldn't see it then, we love each other a lot :)

Also, she looks incredible. I'm a happy, lucky man.

One of our big regrets is taking close to zero pictures on our honeymoon. The one day I was feeling well enough to be adventurous to stand up and walk we went to this ropes course called Selvatica. It was a lot of fun. We did a zip line / 4 wheeler tour in the jungle of Cancun, and it was crazy fun. The only problem was I forgot to bring closed toe shoes to the ropes course. Luckily, I married a woman of many talents who found this solution:

The best part of the Selvatica trip was this crazy cool zip line over this pond in the middle of the jungle. The water was a perfectly chill temperature, and it was fun to do dives and flips after doing the token Tarzan yell. I highly recommend it. 

I hope you enjoyed these happy memories. Stay tuned for more, gumshoes.