Jaron and Alyssa: March 2011

What better way to spend the day after Disneyland at the most amazing, most beautiful, and most peaceful place on earth? That’s right, the temple! I had the opportunity to go through the Los Angeles Temple for the first time (on February 17, 2011) with my super cute fiancé (now husband), my parents, his mom, his sister and brother-in-law. Along with our family and the Wood family my ward family from the Granada Hills ward came and supported me. It was an awesome experience and I loved every minute of it. My family has this unspoken tradition of going to Titos Tacos after anyone goes through the temple for the first time. So of course that is what we did. Oh how I love Mexican food. Jaron loves Mexican food as well, however he had never experienced the pure joy of eating a pastrami sandwich. So my dad, Jaron and a few others walked through the parking lot of Titos to get a hot pastrami sandwich. Needless to say Jaron loved the pastrami. I knew he would though. If any of you know Jaron you probably know that he loves to eat and can eat just about anything. The drive home from Titos was quite interesting. It was hard to grasp the thought that the next time I went to the temple, in less than two days, I would be a married woman. And now I am writing this as a married woman. Kind of weird!

In case you haven’t heard Jaron and I finally tied the knot! After six months of being engaged the big day finally came! And it was awesome however, before we blog about the wedding day a lot happened before. Hopefully you enjoy reading these update posts!

After waiting a month and a half to see fiancé the day had arrive, and I got to pick him up at the airport. At first I was really excited to pick him up. Then I realized I was really nervous. I had not seen him in so long and I was not sure how things would be but I knew I had to see him eventually if I was going to marry him in four days! So when I finally arrived at the airport I got out and was waiting in his terminal. After waiting for about ten minutes I decided to check the flight times. I then realize Jaron told me his plane landed thirty minutes before it actually did. So there I was all alone at LAX. The only thing that was exciting about sitting there by myself was people watching. There are some pretty interesting people at LAX.

When I was getting tired of people watching I looked over at the terminal exit. After a few minutes of watching people exit I saw a really cute boy wearing a blue plaid shirt. It was then when I got really nervous all over again, Jaron was walking towards me with a huge smile on his face. He grabbed me and gave me the best hug I have ever received in my entire life. I fell in love all over again with him.

The rest of the day was full of running errands and doing last minute wedding plans. After a crazy day or errands and wedding stuff Jaron and I were talking g about the surprise I had been planning for him for about a month. I had this fun day all planned out for the next day and I was so excited to just get in the car and drive. However, it didn’t work! Jaron guessed exactly where we were going and I was not able to just take him and surprise him. Well the secret was out and Jaron got really excited to go to Disneyland. I decided Jaron and I should have one more relaxing day before the wedding.

On the tram to Disneyland!

Basically the day we choose to go to Disneyland was perfect. On our way down there it was raining and at one point I was tempted to turn around and just head home because we all know Disneyland is not that great when it is raining. When we finally got there the sun was out and it was the perfect day. The entire time we were there it only drizzled a little bit and the rest of the day the weather was perfect. Oh how I love the weather in Southern California, even in February.

Overall it was the perfect day and I was with the most amazing man ever.