As Easy as Apple 3.14159...

Rich and I were given a TON of apples, so after eating 3 apples a day for the past week and still having four hundred left--I decided I wanted to make apple pie. We invited Rach, Ken and his parents to have it with us before we made it. They showed up and found us standing on our brown sugar/cinnamon covered floor and staring at a ball of dough that had been rolled out about seven times on our counter. We found out that making a pie crust from scratch requires shortening and skill--both of which we didn't have. The pie making process was really messy and it took us forever, but the pie actually tasted yummy. For real. My mom would be impressed.
Here is a picture of us and our first pie we EVER made.

HoNeY mOOn HiGHLiGHtS

Our honeymoon was the most fabulous trip ever. I was ridiculously sad the day we had to leave. Rich kept the honeymoon location a secret until we got to the airport. At the airport I found out we were flying to Atlanta, then I found out we were flying to Puerto Rico. We played guessing games a lot. When we got to Puerto Rico I found out we were going to make St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands our honeymoon home! It was so AMAZING and pretty. Pictures and words don’t give our island justice. I was so giddy. Our hotel was awesome too. Rich is so wonderful. :) We stayed at the Marriot Frenchman’s Reef condo. It was brand new and super gorgeous. Our condo was right next to the ocean, and we were on like the 12^th floor, so the view was spectacular. Our balcony overlooked the sunset over the ocean. Everything was amazing. SOO every day was pretty much the same wonderful thing—exploring the island, snorkeling, doing whatever we wanted, swimming, eating, being together, Rich being funny, heaven on earth, etc. Haha :) I won’t write out every day’s detail because that would be ridiculous, but here are twenty five highlights:

1. Going to Tavern on the Waterfront for Rich’s 25th birthday dinner. He loves seafood and is awesome at the saxophone, so I found a restaurant that had a live jazz band and seafood. How thoughtful am I? Rich wanted to try mussels, oysters, snails, clams, squid, and other stuff I don’t even know what it was, so we got a sampler plate thing. I liked the squid and mussels—I think.. We both like lobster and shrimp the bestest though. Thanks to all of you who gave us Red Lobster gift cards! Awesome present!
2. Renting a scooter for the week—we named it Serendipity.
3. Our scooter helmets.
4. Going to St. Johns and snorkeling at trunk bay—rated one of the top ten beaches in the world.
5. Buying a calypso CD titled You Pan You Own and blaring it in our room.
6. Walking on the beach at midnight
7. Going to El Market and buying expensive but cheap food—like beans that were $3, and macaroni that was $2, and popcorn that was 2/$3 and milk that was $6 per gallon. Food was ridiculously expensive.
8. Getting stuck at a middle school for three hours while all the water in the world seemed to come pouring down on our island.
9. Watching Jaws
10. Hearing all of the islanders constantly screaming at each other—but in a friendly way.
11. My silver bracelet that had the gem of Caribbean in it that Rich got me. :)
12. Going to Woody’s and eating at a table that Kenny Chesney and Mick Jagger frequently eat at.
13. Rich not getting burned!
14. Working out at the club’s gym
15. The humidity! Oh my heck…
16. Exploring the island on our scooter and always telling Rich to slow down
17. Shopping at the market place and bartering
18. Having islanders stopping us and informing us about local laws that weren’t really laws..haha
19. Watching the sunset at Mermaid’s chair
20. Watching people try and back their vehicle onto a cargo boat that took us to St. Johns. Some people should not be allowed to drive…
21. Going to our vacation club’s karaoke night and watching lots of people try to sing, and watching one guy try and get Rich to sing. I’m still bummed he didn’t get up and sing to me... :p
22. Finding an iguana chillin’ under my beach chair.
23. Snorkeling for like three hours straight. I love snorkeling!
24. Flying in on a tiny little plane that didn’t have any AC
25. Cuddling :)

Vacations are sooo awesome. I think there should be a law where everyone MUST go on at least a two week vacation every year. I also think that there should be a law that honeymoons must be a month long. :) K Bye!

Engagements

Rich's sister Rach is amazing. She took our engagement pictures. I've wanted to post some of the pictures so here they are! She is doing weddings now, so if you know anyone that needs a photographer, let me know and I'll get you her info!

OUR VERY FIRST MAGICAL POST!

Hi bloggers! Now that Rich and I are starting our life together, we thought we should start a blog, and from what I read and hear from EVERYONE, I guess it is an awesome, mature thing to do, so here we are! I’ve never blogged before though—so bear with me. Soon I will be a professional bloggist. :) I’ll probably be the primary blogger on here, but I’ll try and get Rich to bloggity blog blog blog on here too.

To begin with, my name is Janelle Warnick. It was Janelle Possin. Now my last name is a lot easier to say and spell for most people. Warnick. Like War and Nick. I am no longer a Possum. Sorry Jess and Christine. Haha. :) I changed my name on August 22^nd, 2009 because I married the most wonderful person in the world—Richard Warnick (I usually call him Rich). Rich and I met three years ago. He was roomies with my cousin. Our dating years were awesome. I’m really glad we had time to get to know each other and have the experiences that we did. We broke up for a while, but when we got back together—Rich proposed a month later while we were in Germany with his family, at the Neuschwanstein castle. I was COMPLETELY surprised because we had not gone ring shopping. We were in Germany together, but he wasn’t even really referring to me as his girlfriend, and he had NEVER brought up marriage since we’d gotten back together after our breakup. I guess he really wanted to surprise me, and he did! It was perfect. I said yes and cried.

Our engagement was short. Only three months, but once I had a ring on my finger—I just wanted to be married so we made it work. Wedding plans were crazy! My mom flew out and we went wedding dress shopping. That was so much fun. I love my mom. We are so different yet so alike. We found the perfect dress and figured most of the other stuff out. Rich’s family helped a ton with the wedding too. I have the most awesome in-laws in the world. With a ton of help and planning, our wedding was perfect.

The day went by so fast! I couldn’t fall asleep the night before, but my mom said she couldn’t sleep either. I finally fell asleep around three. I woke up at seven to get ready then drove to Manti to get married! We got married at 11:00am in the Manti temple. It was such an amazing experience. It was a perfect day. I can’t really put the sealing into words, but it was beautiful. I am so happy that Rich is my husband. He is my best friend, and I am excited and so thankful that I can spend the rest of my life with him. Rich and I were so grateful for how many people showed up. It was so awesome having our close friends and families there. After the sealing, we took pictures, and then we had a luncheon at the Manti House Inn. The food was delicious. Everyone had chicken, except me. I had salmon. After the luncheon, we went back and had our reception. It was amazing. There were so many people that helped with putting everything together. It was a gorgeous reception, but it went by way too fast. It was the best day of my life.

This next part is pretty sappy, but I wanted to write my feelings out, so read at your own risk.

Getting married is the best thing that anyone could do. I remember looking into Richard’s eyes on our wedding day and feeling so happy and thankful. It is so amazing being married to my best friend. I always loved everything about Rich, but getting married just deepened those feelings. I love knowing that we will be together forever. Songs describe my feelings better than I can describe them, and that song by Kenny Chesney, “Me and You” describe my feelings perfectly:

Ordinary no, really don’t think so
Not a love this true
Common destiny
We were meant to be
Me and you
Like a perfect scene from a movie screen
We’re a dream come true
Suited perfectly for eternity
Me and you
Every day, I need you even more
And the night time too
There’s no way
I could ever let you go
Even if I wanted to
Every day I live
Try my best to give
All I have to you
Thank the stars above
That we share this love
Me and you

We are loving married life. Everyone always asks me how I like married life, and the answer is that it is perfect and it is the best thing that ever happened to me. Being married is so much more real and fulfilling than dating. I knew it would be different, but I never thought it would be this amazing. I am so blessed to have Rich and the friends and the family that I have in my life. Life is wonderful. The end....or the beginning. :)