Our First Road Trip Married!

For the 4th of July weekend, my brother Adam, his wife Carlee, and their son Jack, and David and I went to Mancos, Colorado to my grandparents cabin. We arrived the morning of the 4th and just hung out at the cabin for a while. Their cabin is on top of a mountain in a national park, overlooking a lake. It is gorgeous up there! Sadly we didn't take very many pics except when we went to Mesa Verde. That night we went down to the town to watch the fireworks show. Mancos is literally the tiniest town I have ever been to. They have one stop light - which was just installed a few years ago - no Wal-Mart, no gas station, no McDonald's - nothing. The fireworks show was amazing! I have never been so close to fireworks. The firemen were literally about 100 feet away from us! The fireworks were right above our heads and at times you could feel the ashes fall down or see sparks float to the ground. Surprisingly Jack didn't mind the loud booms - he actually fell asleep during the show! On Saturday we decided to go to Mesa Verde - another national park right by their cabin. The park is of cliffside dwellings that Indians carved into the side of mountains a long, long time ago. Below is the picture of the one we toured. There are three different large "cities" you can tour and we chose this one. Adam had Jack in a backpack thing so we figured we shouldn't do the tour that involved crawling through a space 18 inches tall and 2 feet wide with a baby! This is an above view of the one we toured (I can't remember the name of it) we climbed down stairs and latters to get to it. Apparently the Indians would just climb down the very straight side of the mountain, just digging their toes into the side of the mountain - um, no thank you.

David and I waiting on top of the mountain to begin our tour.

Down at one of the other cites - Spruce Tree House - where you didn't need a tour guide. You can kind of see Adam holding Jack and Carlee is to his right.

Me inside one of the places. It would be very dark to live in one of the rooms at the back of the alcoves.

Here is our tour guide teaching us about kivas - the big whole thing in the ground. She was a very giddy lady - she actually kept me entertained the whole time.

Me and my husband!

This is one of the kivas. Some guy in our tour told us that one time a girl fainted and fell into one of these. She hit her head on the side and just fell to the bottom with a pool of blood forming around her. He said that another guy on the tour jumped down to help her and the your guide yelled to him, "hey, you're not allowed down there!" He said a helicopter had to come fly her out of the area. Scary!
David standing inside one of the other kivas that had a cover on it.

After Mesa Verde, we were going to go eat at a cafe in Mancos that Adam and Carlee told us was supposed to be amazingly good. We got there at 2:09 pm and it had closed at 2:00. We were so angry! We asked some lady in the street if there were any other restaurants in town. Our two choices were either the Hamburger Hut or something like that which looked disgusting or some restaurant called Millwood Junction. We chose that one. We stepped inside and I'm pretty sure we were the only ones not wearing a bandana and leather pants. The other diners definitely did not appreciate us bringing a baby into the "restaurant" (I'm pretty sure it was actually just a bar.) The food was decent. My favorite part was when Adam went to change Jack's diaper. As you can imagine, there was definitely no changing table in the bathroom of this "restaurant". Adam just had David hold Jack up in the air and they changed his diaper. Poor Jack. Then after church on Sunday we headed home. It was fun. Our first road trip as a married couple!

A Few Fav Wedding Pics

Our wedding cake with our colors: pink and green!

Kissing on the steps of the temple, and a pretty shot of my hair.

Yes, I guess I am just a country girl from Texas. I was barefoot at my entire reception. Tacky, I know, but what are you going to do. haha

David just got himself six new sisters! (Sadly, Nancy is missing but she is still his new sister!)

Our hands on the door of the Salt Lake Temple.

The Driggs family and friends cheering for us!

The Driggs boys: Paul Driggs, Ben, David, Daniel

June 17-21 = BEST WEEK EVER!

So here goes:





I was married on June 21, 2008 at the Salt Lake Temple. Of course the weather in Utah decided to suddenly reach 95 degrees for the first time the weekend of the wedding. It was SO hot in the sun! David and I were sealed by his grandfather, which was really cool. It was his first time to seal one of his family members together. All seven of my sibling came to the wedding. I love seeing them!! Too bad, though, that at weddings you hardly get to talk to anyone. Also, my five closest friends from home flew up for the wedding. I LOVED having them there. I honestly do not think my reception would have pulled together if they were not there. They were amazing and helped me with everything! Also, my roommates and closest friends up here came to the wedding. They of course all looked beautiful! I loved having all my closest girl friends at the wedding! It really did make it extra special. So Thank you to Natalie, Courtney, Jessie, Kate, Kendra, Catherine, Carlea, Alicia, and Nichole! You guys are all amazing and i love you all!

So back to the wedding. We were married and then walked out of the temple to everyone cheering. It was so much fun! Not to sound spoiled or bratty but it is fun to have one day in your life when all the attention is on you and your husband. haha. We waited FOREVER for some other bride to get off the temple steps - my three year old niece Taylor kept running up and down the stairs while she and her husband were taking pictures haha I guess thats what she gets for exceeding the twenty minute time limit. So we took pictures on the steps and then everyone left so David and I took pictures around the temple grounds with the photographer and videographer - it was again SO HOT! Wedding dresses trap the heat in around your looks. It is basically like you are cooking inside of there!

Then came the recepetion. David's Aunt Tiff and Uncle Chuck were SO NICE and let us have our reception at their gorgeous house. David and I got there and then my friends arrived and helped get all the food out and ready. We had fruit, sandwhiches, crackers, and best of all three chocolate fountains! haha dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate! It was fun to meet everyone and then we did the cutting of the cake. David was a gentleman and did not smooch it in my face but I was not such a gentle-lady. I did wipe off most of the icing but then i smashed it in his face so he gave me a big fat kiss. I had icing up my nose. Then we had our first dance - literally our first dance together ever - which was fun. A bit weird to have everyone standing around staring at you for like four whole minutes. haha. Then I danced with my dad and he danced with his mom and then we chatted and took pictures and then left for the honeymoon! You'll just have to wait for my next post to hear about that! haha ( i will add pics later - gma's computer is being RIDICULOUSLY slow and will not load!)

Mrs. Driggs

Well I'm new to this whole blogging thing but my former roommates have informed me that it is a requirement of married couples. And now that I have been married a whole 18 days I guess I better get started on it. (Plus David works until nine three nights a week so I have nothing to do all afternoon and for those who know where I work they know I also have nothing to do at work all day.)



So about me: I grew up right outside of Houston, Texas. Lived there my whole life. I am now a senior at BYU majoring in Finance. On June 21, 2008 I married David Paul Driggs in the Salt Lake City Temple! It was the most amazing day ever! David was born in Arizona. Lived in Southern California until he graduated high school. His parents now live in Provo. He is a 5th year senior at BYU majoring in Construction Management. I know it sounds cliche and cheesy to say but I honestly feel so so so lucky I found him! He is amazing and I could not ask for a better person to spend the rest of my life with. I hope you all enoy the blog! I'll elaborate on the wedding in my next post!