We're getting Married ... Earlier than expected!

Okay, so it's time to update this thing again, and again I am at work with no pictures. Life is really good right now.

Last Saturday our course changed a little.

After going to our games in the morning, we made our way up to Salt Lake to sit through a Timeshare meeting so that we could get a free trip to San Diego. We knew that they were salespeople trying to hook us in a contract, but we figured, who knows, at least we'll get a free trip.

After signing our lives away for a contract after three and a half hours of talking with sales people, we left the place with our free trip and 10 years of debt. (To save some time in this story I'm gonna just say that we ended up sending in a buyers right to cancel form on the next Monday cause we decided that this was exactly what the prophet warned against going into debt for.) (I should also add that we may have put some of those of you that follow this blog's names down on their referral list because we thought you might appreciate a free trip, we're now sorry if this might offend you... you can say no without them giving you much of a hassle.)

Anyway, so after coming near making one of the biggest mistakes of our early not-quite-married life, we were on our way to Missie and Justin's to talk about flowers for the reception and we got a call from Mom(Kyle's). After saying that she thought we were crazy for thinking we could do something like that, she asked what Christy and I would think about moving the wedding date up. She said she had seriously been worrying about Christy living in the Stringhams house by herself for 3 months, and us having all that alone time, and being able to still go to the temple in April. She wondered what we would think if we moved the wedding date up.

Well, this wasn't the first time that Christy and I had thought of, and been approached about, moving the date up, so we decided to see what it would take to make it happen. Her parents were of the same opinion as Mine, the only drawback was that they would need for us to pay their airfare. We looked at things and decided that, due to being able to file joint taxes, we should be able to work out helping them get out here. (originally Mom and Dad Christensen had planned on paying for them to come out if it happened early, but because of scheduling and other things we decided we should be the ones picking up the tab.)

We now knew that her parents could come out, so the only approval we needed was that of our Bishop and Stake President. Without going into much detail, this was what we were most worried about. There were some things that I was working out and we weren't sure if the Stake President and Bishop were going to let us go ahead this early.

We were surprised the next day when we met with the Bishop who said he had spoken with the Stake President and they had both agreed that it was in the best interests of everyone involved that this wedding be moved up. We had all waited long enough and it was time we made it eternal.

So, that's our big week... it's been crazy since we made this decision, but our wedding will now be held on February 17th in the Mount Timpanogos Temple at 7:00 pm. Our reception will still be on April 26th and Christy's graduation will still be on the 27th of April.

We are so excited that our Temple Sealing will be so much more meaningful because it will be so simple. All of the Christensens will be together again for the first time since I came home from my mission.... And Christy's Mom, Dad, and younger Sister get to come too!