Happy Anniversary!

There is another new blog below this one FYI. Also, there will probably be a new one everyday this week, because I have time to make them and I love to do so.

For now, however, I just was looking back in my journal at a year ago today, December 19, 2009, and this lovely piece of joy is what I found. Just one perspective of many that could be shared, but this stuff is straight from my journal (with maybe a few deletions here and there for journal purposes.) Once again, no obligation to read. It is kind of long. But it brought back many fond memories for me. What a great day in Roy Family history.

"And, believe it or not, the earth did not end during the night, and Charina’s wedding day actually came!!!! And it just seemed, in those moments at 6 in the morning that none of these terrible setbacks had occurred, and we all went in a squealy rush to her room where she was curling her hair and bombarded her with joy!!! She was happy! And I was happy! And CJ and Jamie and Summer were happy! And all was joy!!!! Charina was getting married that day!! And when we told her that in high pitched, high decibel squeals, she, in her very charina like manner, was like… not just yet! We still don’t know if jimmy can make it to the temple. Oh, Char. I love her so much. Um. But yes, we did get all ready for the temple, and oh by the way, there really was at least 12 inches of snow on the ground and it was STILL coming down like crazy!!! But we got all ready and all 12 of us climbed into the van!!! And we were all in there together on Charina’s wedding day, and it was the most happy moment, especially since we had to drive through this perfectly romantic, snowy lane to get to the temple! When it finally appreaed, it was a beautiful sight! But, one more trial. It sits on a hill. So Charina was like.. ok, everyone! Faith, all our faith together can get us up this hill!!! And so we all had faith and we just got to the top!! But there was so much snow everywhere!! It was crazy! So we got to the temple and everyone filed out except for dad and me and bum and the kids because, oh yeah, guess what the visitor center was closed and so we were going to have to babysit the 4 kids in the car!! Hahha! At this point, the trials were just more humorous and glorious for the experience than anything else. And we were just glad it was only 4 kids and not the original 12 in the car! So we pulled up to the front of the temple, and there was Jimmy and Charina just melted into his arms, and it was such a happy sight, and everyone just went in after them. . . . It was bittersweet. So dad parked for us and then it was just me and bum and ally and viana and brooke and ram! And they were all pretty content at first, but then viana woke ram up and we did have about 20 minutes there of crying children and unhappy beings, but we just endured and fed them much food and found entertainment and we were just in that car! At one point Viana had to go potty and so I went in there and… .there everyone was, just sitting in the waiting room! What the? Well, it turns out that the sealer was stuck and hadn’t gotten there yet! So i was like..alas, I’ll just go back out to the car and wait. I sang random, made up songs to the masses and pretty soon, there was little Ram in my arms just sleeping away, and there was Ally sleeping in Summer’s arms and viana was being the perfect little angel, just coloring away, brooke was likewise being good! And so we had a car of calm. And… usually sealings take like 30 minutes? No. We were in the car for 2 and a half hours! Just because of all the complications, but anyway, it was happy when CJ came out to get us and I was just snuggling Ram! She was proud of us, and then Jame came out. But when CJ came I asked her how it was and she said it was so so good and just reinforced her testimony of temple marriages and was so beautiful and personal and so good and the spirit was there so strongly, and I just started crying because as much as it made me sad to lose a portion of the dimensions of a purely sister to sister relationship, I was so ebullient for Charina to have gotten sealed in the temple, especially despite all the setbacks. Jimmy must just be a man who will become a prophet and Charina his stalwart wife or something like and all those things were satan’s way of getting them to not go through with it. Ha, Satan! Take that! We got all the kids out and walked up to the temple and waited in the waiting area for the people. Because it was still snowing, they just walked out into the lobby, not out of the temple like usual, haha. But, it was pure joy an dhappiness and I hugged charina and jimmy and they were married and it was happy! And then proceeded the most magical moments of anyone’s life ever! So while we have been planning all of this, Charina said something like “I don’t care what you guys wear, I just want the picture with me and my matching sisters in front of the temple!” Well! It was snowing like crazy outside, but oh myword HAPPIEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE!!! We just skipped right out there through the blusteriest snow ever and huddled together with beautiful Charina and us in our purple shirts and there was love shooting like a wild circuit through us, and snow falling like love all around. It was so joyful being out there on the snowy lawn of the temple with my sisters. Of course, but it was just great! We left awhile after, and it was bad, bad driving to our hotel not but 2 miles away! It was crazy! But we went to the hotel and started to get stuff worked out then LaDon and Dad went back to get Jimmy and Charina and Mom, who had stayed to take snowy wedding pictures! And they had a dangerous drive, but when they finally came, we saw the most wonderful pictures ever! They got the best ones! Ever! Romance! Magic! Eternity! Ever moment I ever pictured with goodness was therein! I was so happy about it, and we laughed hysterically that since the honeymoon plans were getting botched, they were going to be spending their first night in the same hotel as us! But they did come and they got a honeymoon suite and they came and we all went to lunch in the hotel, their very expensive restaurant, but our only option because we were snowed in!! But we went down, and since of course the reception got cancelled, we just counted that as our own quaint little reception. . . . It was a good fun day. Most magical. Romance pictures in the snow, what could be better!? Little else, I say"

Happy Anniversary, Char and Jimmy! (With a first day like that, I have no doubt every one hereafter will be all the more joyous!) Thanks for letting us have the good adventure!