Thank You

Dear Sisterhood,

I just have to say thank you to you all. You have shown so much love to Justin and me as we have struggled though our loss. The flowers you sent to the hospital were beautiful and brightened my spirits. Although my heart was aching, I could still feel love. Your messages were uplifting and gave me strength and encouragement. I am so lucky to have friends like you!

Much love,
Crystal

Ok sisterhood, I have told a couple of you that I would put a couple of pictures up from the wedding. I won't try to tell a story along with it, because I''m not a great story teller like Alicia, but the wedding was great.

Just us kissing...
Traditional pose...
Everyone who was able to make it to the temple. Crystal and Justin are in there, I promise...

Soon, I will post some pictures of Vail, CO. It is beautiful!

A Celestial Romance

Like every good little girl should do, on my way home from work last week I decided to make a stop at the temple for a session. When I walked into the Celestial room, I decided to sit on one of the couches. I usually don't, so that all the married/engaged couples can use them, but there weren't too many people, and the couches are my favorite, so I went for it. Bad idea. I'm innocently sitting there, doing my thing, when all of a sudden this man-person comes and sits next to me claiming, "Hey, I think we know each other!"

My initial reaction (inside my head of course): "Oh blast!" (I couldn't say "swear word" in the temple.) "This guy knows me and I have NO idea how I know him!" Oh panic. Granted, he did look familiar, and I noticed him once in the session, but just figured he was someone from my home stake and didn't think much else of it. So basically I'm frantically trying to remember who he is without having too much of an awkward pause in there. Lucky for me he stuck out his hand and said, "Hi, I'm Carl!"

And then it all comes back to me. One time, THREE YEARS ago, Carl got my number at a dance and we went out. Once. Obviously I made a huge impact on him, because I'm pretty sure he doesn't remember that we've been out because all he said was, "Didn't you go to one of the Holladay wards?" Which means he thinks he knows me from his ward in Salt Lake.

Carl proceeds to chat it up with me, asking where I live, and work, etc (typical 1st-date questions). While sitting on a couch. In the Celestial room. Of the temple. (Remember how the couples on the couches are usually looking longingly into each others eyes while thinking about love and eternity and posterity? They're usually NOT having a first-date.) So I'm feeling a bit awkward talking to someone I hardly know on the Love Couch in the temple, and eventually told him I had to get going. Which then prompted the "Celestial Ask-Out."

"Well, would it be ok if I called you sometime?"

Are you laughing right now? Cause you should be. I was laughing (in my innards). I tell him "Sure" but he assures me he will forget my number if I try to tell it to him, so would it be ok if we met up in the lobby after we change? Wow - he REALLY wants my number. Either this guy's got a lot of guts, or I must have looked REAL hot in my get-up. :) (Please bless I don't get struck by lightning for that comment.) We exit the room together and 2 different temple workers were beaming at us. If they only knew. I couldn't stop chuckling to myself in the dressing room. Sigh.

I made it out to the lobby before him. The thought DID occur to me that maybe I should just leave - this whole "Celestial Ask-Out" was almost too much, but before I could make a decision, there he was, in all his temple glory. Again, we walked past several grinning temple workers on the way out. Pretty sure they all thought we were married or something. Woof.

Boy got my number. And we're supposedly going out this weekend to "explore" Bountiful. Please bless he doesn't ask me to explore the temple with him too. At least not on date #1, thank you.

I thought I had seen it all with Queer Clear, but apparently not. I wonder what's next?