Monday, August 25, 2008

We got robbed?!?!

Oh my goodness!

(What's left of our front entry)

(Disaster in the living room)

(The tipped couch hit a corner!)


Oh no!  This was no robbery, this was Meygen's futile attempt to find her keys!  
So, on Friday morning, I was at work and received a phone call from my wonderful wife.  Megs informed me that she could not find her keys anywhere and began to blame me for taking them telling me I had taken them and put them in my backpack that I had taken with me to work.  So, wanting to prove my innocence, I reassured her that there were no keys in my pack.  I told her to call me if she couldn't find the keys so I could pick her up and take her to work.  Needless to say, she called and I drove to Pleasant Grove (as I work in South Provo) so we could get her to work on time (or at least not terribly late).   When I got home to pick her up, I saw what you saw in the above pictures!  I couldn't believe my eyes!  There were cushions everywhere, papers, books, frames, clothes, shoes (you should have seen our closet) and anything else you could imagine strewn across every part of the house.  I really thought that the guys from "It Takes a Theif" on the discovery channel had visited us.  Then I realized that the TV was still here and that's when I realized Megs had turned the house upside down looking for the keys.  It took everything I had not to laugh being that she was quite distraught at the time.
After taking her to work and picking her up afterward, we came home and she told me everything she had done to the house and that she had even cut out the bottom of our couch with a cutco knife when she heard a jingle come from it (turns out the previous owners had put a rat trap in our couch), sadly there were no keys to be found.  
We kept looking and when I was in the living room re-looking over everything spilt on the floor, she walked out of the bedroom with a jingling set of keys.  Turns out they had been underneath her makeup box the entire time.  
What's interesting was that we only found them after both of us knelt in prayer and asked the Lord to help us find them.  I know it sounds primary, but we only found them after we asked.  There's a little testimony builder for ya'.  
So now everything is put back into its place and things are back to normal (except for the gash in the corner of our wall).  We're so glad to have our keys again, and we are seriously considering getting a very large key rack.  Ha ha!



(A picture of the ashamed Meygen Ivins and her missing keys)



Sunday, August 24, 2008

Nickelcade

Yesterday was Cory and I's 1 month anniversary. We have been officially married for a month now.... seems like longer! We decided to do dinner and then we made a sort of spur of the moment decision when we stopped at the Nickelcade. Let me just say that we had a BLAST! I actually have a blister on my shootin' finger for playing Area51 (where basically you try and shoot as many aliens as possible) so intensely.  We won as many tickets as we could and bought a little basketball hoop for our door and two fundips for the road. The game that caused me the most stress was called "Mallet Madness," and well I'll just let the clip speak for itself!  

                                            

Our Anniversary date was great and we plan on going back soon... I need some more fundips!

-MEYGEN 


Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Getting Married

Meygen and I were married on the morning of July 23rd 2008.  The morning was amazingly clear and bright as we got ready for this momentous day.  Meygen came over to my parents home early and my Dad gave her and I both a father's blessing, we'll never forget that experience.  After Meygen finished getting her hair done (we won't mention how long it took and how many people it took to do it, ha ha), I picked her up and we headed to the Salt Lake Temple.  On the free way, close to the exit for the temple, my gas light turned on and we really didn't think much of it because we were so close and we could always get gas afterward (this little tidbit of information will come to play later in the story).  At the temple, the old temple workers helped me get dressed ( I guess Megs will have to tell you how it was on her end of things), and then we met and had some time just to ourselves.  It was amazing and I felt closer than ever to my future wife.  Then we were called into the sealing room and were married for time and all eternity!  What an amazing experience!  We were married!  Married! 
SWEET!!!!
Then came pictures.  So many pictures.  It was so fun to be with our families and friends and we are so grateful for them and the way they have changed our lives.  When we had finished  pictures with our family, we began the long walk around the temple grounds for more pictures, Jared Medley took them and we really liked his work with our engagement pictures, we hope the wedding pictures are even better.  I'm sure they will be, Jared is one of the best photographers I've met (a nice little plug for him).  
On our way home, it was Megs, myself and Jennifer (Meygen's Mother) in the car and as we got on the freeway, I noticed the gas light and we all thought we should get off the next exit and fill up.  Well, that was the plan at least... Just a short distance from the off-ramp of exit 306 my car stalled and we coasted to the off-ramp, just short of the city where we could get fuel!  I couldn't believe it!  We ran out of gas on our wedding day.  Jennifer started calling AAA and we all just laughed at the fact that we were all in our duds and stuck on the side of the road!  Well, the people at AAA must have some really slow people on their phones, because we tried to explain where we were about 30 times and they couldn't get it.  I mean, we were literally staring at the exit sign right in front of us, and had all the information they needed (I could have found us on google maps faster than the call we'd had with them).  But luckily, after about 15 minutes on the road and on the phone, a highway serviceman showed up and gave me enough gas to get into town free of charge.  He was such a nice guy.  So after getting gas, we headed home and made it in one piece thank goodness, although not without a little teasing from just about everyone who received the texts that were going around about our incident.

This is us!

Meygen White Ivins was born on July 10th 1985 in San Diego, CA to Jennifer and Timothy White.  She has three younger siblings: Gillian, Trey and Tarren.  In high school she was an amazing Basketball player who knew how to take the other girls down!  She did very well in school and when she graduated from High School, she was accepted to BYU and moved to Utah.  She graduated in April of 2007.

Cory Ivins was born on September 11th,  1985 in Provo UT to Lynnette and Mark Ivins.  He has three younger siblings:  Kyle, Regan and Chersty.  In school he was in the marching band and played the saxophone in every band that would accept him.  He did alright in school and was accepted to Utah Valley University.  Sadly, he is still there...