Holiday, Honeymoon, and Normal

Well Danial and I have now celebrated our first holiday as a married couple. For the 4^th of July we started the day at the parade, it was a little disappointing – a lot of walking advertisements and not a lot of floats. I think Dan and I decided we’re going to hold off on the parade until we have kids. Dan then took me out to breakfast – a nice treat with my husband. Then a few friends came over and we played in the pool most of the day. I kept laughing because the adults seemed to be playing more than the kids were. We got out of the pool, had some dinner, and then headed over to the jail to watch some fireworks! Believe it or not, the best place to watch fireworks all over northern Colorado and the Stampede ones as well is behind the jail at this open field. It was a lot of fun. The Greeley Stampede fireworks were a lot better this year. So it was successful, although I wasn’t concerned about it. I hated that Dan had to go back to work the next day though.

I think I got a little spoiled after our wedding. Dan had the whole week off after our wedding off and it was so nice to have him around. We right away went off to Vegas the Sunday morning after our wedding and we were there until early Thursday. We had so much fun in Las Vegas! We saw so much stuff, but I still feel like we miss some stuff. My absolute favorite part of our trip was our amazing dinner at the Eiffel Tower restaurant. Dan decided that we needed to celebrate together just the two of us. Although it was a little pricey, it was DELICIOUS! Probably one of the best meals I’ve ever had, which is saying something considering how great of a cook my mom is. Plus the atmosphere didn’t hurt nor the view of the Bellagio fountains. It was so nice just to sight see with Dan and relax with him. I really feel like I learned even more about him on that trip and even fell in love with him more. I’m not even totally sure what it was the made me feel that way – it was just really nice.

When we got home it was time to figure things. Where was everything supposed to go? We were so spoiled with all of our wedding presents! We had stuff all over our apartment. We even bought some things to add to the madness! We did really well working together to put our apartment together. I am actually really proud of it to. As I told my mom, we have a very “adult” apartment. I was so glad we had a few days to do that after coming back from our honeymoon. That way we could find normal again before Dan went back to work.

My mom asked me how it felt to be married over a week and I thought about it (and thought about it after I answered to) and said “It feels normal.” And it really does. It feels a little different and calling Dan my husband instead of my fiancée or my boyfriend is taking some time for me to get used to. But it feels normal to be married to Dan – it feels right. That has to be good!  I love the man very much! I’m very excited for our life ahead of us. And hopefully many vacations to come!

The plate infront of us when we sat down

Our View from the resturant

At the aquarium at Mandalay Bay