Trip to Memphis

This past week Garrett and I took a Trip to Memphis Tennessee! Garrett's Greenie from his Mission was getting married and asked Garrett to be in his wedding so we decided to fly out to Memphis for his wedding. We flew out from Salt Lake on Wednesday to Nashville and then Levi (Garrett's Greenie) drove us to Memphis. It was great to finally meet Levi and his finance. They are great people!
Memphis was fun and our Hotel was right in Downtown Memphis right next to the Mississippi River.

We spent the next few days helping them get ready for the wedding and touring Memphis.
Because most of their family are not members of the church, they had a temple wedding, but also did a Wedding Ceremony for the rest of their family. I reminded me of all the weddings you watch in movies with the huge wedding parties-lunch buffets-Dj's-wedding rehearsals-toasts by the best man. It was a little different, but we had a really good time.
The Memphis Temple was so small, but still so beautiful!
Garrett and I were a little limited to what we could go see because we didn't have a car, but there were a few things we could go walk to. Memphis is called the birth place of Blues and Jazz so there is quite a famous street in Memphis called Beale Street. We walked down the street which was full of jazz clubs and tourist shops. We went to eat at the Hard Rock Cafe which had the second largest Elvis memorabilia in the world. We also got to see where they drop the guitar for New Year's Eve.

Tennessee wasn't very pretty (I guess I'm just bias to Utah) but it was really fun to spend time together and we had a really great New Year!

Christmas!!!

Garrett and I add a wonderful First Christmas! It was really great to spend a little Christmas with both families and enjoy being home. We spent Christmas Eve at Grandma Velma's house eating some great food, talking with family, and acting out the Nativity (yes both Garret and I did have parts-he was a wise man and I was an angel) We also stopped by Mom and Dad's to see the kids right before they went to bed and we opened up some great pj pants from Heidi and Jeniel. (Thanks!)
Then Christmas morning at the Bosshardt's was a little different because all of the presents are wrapped-even the ones from Santa-so we did a lot of unwrapping!

Santa brought us a WII for Christmas this year and we are so super excited!

Garrett gave me a beautiful picture of the Manti temple and a Jewlery box. I gave Garrett a case for his Dutch oven and also....da da da da! Jazz ticketts! He kept saying all season that he wanted to go to a game to now we are! YAY!

After we were finished at Garrett's house, we drove to Aurora to open presents with my family. It was a lot of fun with all of the little kids! They just make Christmas so much fun! It was fun to give mom and dad their present this year. They have done so much for their children over the past thirty years and now they can take some time for themselves! (I love you MOM and DAD!)
Jeniel gave me some really great slippers and a gift card to Borders. Garrett got a great new blue ray movie from Tori!

After presents of course we headed to Grandma J's for breakfast and the rest of the Holiday was just wonderful! What a great Christmas!