1 Year- Finally No Longer "Newly Weds"

A few weeks ago Jevan and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary!  It was awesome!  We decided that we would spend it up a little on this special event, so we planned a trip to visit St. George and Las Vegas.  Jev has never been on the Las Vegas Strip, and had always wanted to go.  Unfortunately, it wasn't quite as cool as he thought it would be.  But, we still had a ton of fun!  We went to St. George Thursday night, and hung out with Jev's parents.  Then Friday morning we did a fun photo shoot, courtesy of Jevan's sister Kassi.  She took some really cute pictures and even edited them for us!  It was so nice!  I also finally got to see more of the famous Dixie Rock, which was cool.  Here are a few pictures:

Jevan and I then headed off to Las Vegas.  We had a hard time when we first got to our hotel, because we didn't want to do valet parking...But, the parking lot was pretty confusing, so we ended up wandering around looking for the hotel entrance for a long time.  We only spent one day in Vegas, but I think we walked enough for a whole week!  We checked into our awesome room at Caesar's Palace and then headed out to explore the strip.  We quickly realized though that there wasn't much to see, and that it was REALLY long.  We also realized that it's hot in Las Vegas, and casinos don't have drinking fountains, just really expensive water to buy.  We did have tickets to a cool show called The Tournament of Kings,  BUT we realized that an earlier ticket would have been better.  So, basically Jevan and I walked the strip, got lost in casinos and hotels, bought a $3 something water bottle, (later finding out that people sell legit ones for a buck on the street), got sick of cigarette smoke, and avoided old Mexican ladies trying to give us sketchy handouts, for about 4 hours until our show started at 8:30.  I know it sounds like an awful time, but it was still fun!  We did see some cool things, like a 3D movie at M&M World, and a sketchy Mexican video taping a girl in a bikini from inside the hotel.  No joke, he was a creeper!

Here are a few pictures of the Gardens in the Belagio.  So pretty!

This is the Cosmopolitan Hotel.  It was so pretty and sparkly inside.

Jevan thought these buildings were awesome.  We have several pictures actually.  It's hard to tell from these pictures, but they are built so that they almost look like they are crooked or going to fall over.

Finally it was 8:00 and the doors were open for our show!  The Tournament of Kings is basically a medieval knight show.  There is an in door arena that has a real dirt floor, and it is surrounded by sections where people eat.  Each section is a different country, such as Ireland, Hungary, etc.  Jevan and I were in the "Dragon" section.  This meant that we were the only section that cheered for the bad guy to win!! That was pretty fun actually, because everyone else was booing when we were totally owning the good guys.  We got to relax in an air conditioned arena, drink ice cold Pepsi from a plastic mug, drink tomato soup out of a bowl, and eat a Cornish game hen with our bare hands.  It was delicious! And while we were doing that we got to watch knights joust, sing and dance, and battle each other with swords and maces.  I know it was choreographed, but they really would swing those swords so hard, it almost seemed real.  We were in the front row, so Jevan even got a little souvenir of dirt kicked up on him from the horses.  And of course, good always conquers evil, so we did not win, but it was still fun to watch!  Jev and I decided that one knight looked just like Kevin Bacon.  Jevan claimed that he looked directly at him several times too. :)

Right after the Tournament of Kings show with the hotel in the background.

The Excalibur Hotel where our knights show was.

 After the show was done, we still had to walk back to our hotel.  On our way back though we were able to see a few of the free shows that start at night.  We saw the water fountain light show at the Bellagio, twice, then we saw a pirate battle at the Treasure Island Hotel.  (Well, it was actually these slightly scandelous "Sirens"  that were trying to seduce the pirates off their ship, so it was super cheesy and dumb, but the Asian in front of me seemed to love it.  She captured EVERYTHING on video tape. ;)  There were a few cool explosions I guess.  But hey, it was free!)  Then the last thing we saw was a volcano eruption at I think the Mirage Hotel.  It was okay too.  I think we were just a little worn out.  You can tell by how haggard I look in these last few pictures.  Then Jevan and I concluded our day by relaxing in our nice hotel. :)

Just looking exhausted with our hotel in the background.

The fountain light show at the Bellagio.  I had a cool video, but it didn't want to upload. :(

This is a pic of a volcano that erupts every hour at the Mirage hotel.

Sweet bathrobes.

A super nice jetted tub.

The beautiful bathroom sinks. :)  The rest of the hotel room looked really nice, but the pictures just didn't do it justice!

The view from our hotel room.  It looks a lot more impressive than this picture shows.  We were on the highest floor, besides those with Pent Houses.  Floor 27!

We could even see our car from our window.

We returned to St. George the next day, where Jevan took a long nap, and I went shopping with his mom.  Sunday was our actual anniversary, but we just spent that day at church and then traveling back home.  A few days later I did bust out our wedding cake though!  It surprisingly tasted pretty good for being frozen for a whole year!

The top of our year old wedding cake.  I had forgotten I had the lady make it half yellow cake and half chocolate.  I was pretty surprised when I cut into it.

Here is the first taste...

Faking that it was gross.  He just didn't like the frosting, but said the cake was good.

 So, Jev and I have been married a whole year and it's been awesome!  I don't regret a single day!  I know I made the right choice a year ago, and I don't plan on ever letting him go. :)  We have so much fun together everyday, and he's someone who I know will always be there to provide for me, do things around the house, and show me great love.  I can't wait for the many more years to come!