Still Alive

Quite some time has passed since I was last on here! Life has been crazy! With school, new jobs, and no internet for a whole month (thank you landlord)... it has been hard getting around to doing it. But not to worry....we are still alive!


Probably the biggest thing that has happened around here since last time is my new job. I used to work for a phone survey company... dialing all day long, talking to rude, angry people. But I now have the best job ever. I am a supervisor for the brand new customer research department at APX Alarm and Security. I have a team of 6 and am supposed to be getting at least four more this week. So a lot of training coming up. But it is such an awesome company... I work with a bunch of fun people who are my age. It has been awesome, since the department is new, I have gotten to do a lot of stuff in getting everything started, so that has been an awesome experience. And since I signed up too late to start school this fall I can handle the 40+ hours every week (I feel like I am always at work and always busy, Kenny calls me during the day and reminds me to take breaks.... otherwise, I just don't get around to it). But anyways, it has just been a great job, a lot of work, but I am blessed to have gotten it.

This is my first ever nameplate. I was so excited to get it... all the supervisors have them. I am very proud of mine.

Also, Kenny has been crazy busy as well...juggling school and two jobs is keeping him pretty tied up. Other than that, we are doing great...just having fun being married and spending all the time we can together.

Kenny's Happy Box

So we got our coupon for a TV converter box and bought one while we were at Sams Club yesterday. We (kenny) set it up and Kenny was in heaven! With a regular antenna, we only had one good channel (CW) and two really scratchy ones (Fox and KBYU)... but now, thanks to the box, we have abc, cbs, nbc, and like three different BYU channels with our previous three... I am excited too! This means conference at home and Dirty Sexy Money (on abc, if you have not seen it, you should! It is such a good show!) the night it is actually on! And ELLEN! OH MY GOSH.... ELLEN, I love her show! YIPPEE!

Lots of Stuff!

So first of all... Happy Pioneer Day! Apparently it is really big in Utah. Kenny had the day off and went to the driving range... I went to work! BLAH!

Last week, my little brother Cole came and stayed with us while he was attending BYU soccer camp. We had so much fun with him! Saturday night, we took him and climbed the Y. It was so much fun and gorgeous up there.

This is Cole and I on the mountain....

Cole and Kenny on the mountain!

My mom sent Cole with a gift for Kenny... thanks for Lil Rupert mom!

It was a crazy week from Cole getting sick on the kitchen floor to the dishwasher flooding our room and kitchen to work and my finals for school... but it was so fun spending time with him for the week! He is such a cool kid!

Now Kenny and I are just getting ready for talks on Sunday... I am not happy about it at all! I do not like giving talks... at all! I really despise it actually! But Kenny refuses to move just to dodge giving talks... nor will he let me skip on Sunday due to my not feeling so good! So I just have to give it I guess... it is on the power of music! I just hope it goes well!

Anniversary & Fourth of July!

So first of all, our 2 month anniversary was July 3rd and Kenny was so sweet and surprised me by bringing home flowers! He is so amazing! I am so lucky!






And then as a thank you for the amazing flowers, poor Kenny had to camp out with me, in the middle of downtown Provo, on the little piece of grass between the road and sidewalk sandwiched in between the driveway of a bank and Mexican restaurant.

It all started with me going to work that day(shouldn't have gone) and getting some misinformation from the girl in the next cubicle(never trust a girl in a cubicle). She said that you have to camp out in order to get a good spot for the parade the next day... FALSE(you drop off your stuff, go home, then come back the next morning)! Here is how the night went....
5p.m.- we get there and set up camp, have dinner, play a game of Sequence(our favorite... we play at least 3 times a week)

7:30 p.m.- we go back to our apartment for a bathroom break

9:00 p.m.- we get back to our blankets to find our blankets soaking wet... got to love those automatic sprinklers.... NOT!!!

9:10 p.m.- Kenny leaves to go throw the blankets in the dryer... I sit on the wet ground saving the spot till he gets back!

10:00 p.m.-Kenny gets back we play some games then some lady and her kids come up and ask us to watch their stuff over night... no problem cause we are totally staying overnight... Hard core? Yes we are!!

2:00 a.m.- I am begging Kenny to let us go home... but that dang lady and her dang kids!!

3:00 a.m.- Who in the world lets their high school aged kids roam around at this time? And why are they so dang loud? Oh and the smokers come and put their stuff next to ours! YIPPEE for second hand.

4:00 a.m.- Kenny is still saying no to going home! Why was I so Gun-ho about this earlier... dang me!
4:30 a.m.- dang those high school kids.... we play games cause there is definitely no rest with all the noise.

6:oo a.m.- we get like twenty minutes of sleep (I did at least)

9:00 a.m.- the Parade is starting... a family comes and parks themselves in front of us... still good seats but for the lack of sleep you would have thought it would have been first row... but oh well!

The very beginning of our camping excursion...

Laying down on the blanket less grass... they were still in the dryer.

The tree that we were under... it looked so cool looking up at it!

Finally the morning... no sleep does not serve me well!

And the parade... It was Kenny's first parade ever!

However, as always, it was just fun being with Kenny and doing something new together... I don't think we will ever do something like that again but it was fun to say we did it once I guess. But after we got home from the parade, we went to a barbecue with some family and then came home with the idea to take a nap and then go see fireworks... but we did not make it to the fireworks... we took a 15 hour nap instead! But overall it was a great fourth of July! I love my husband so much... he is so amazing... I am so incredibly lucky!

This one is for the hubby...

HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!!

I love you Kenny!

Some Pictures...

So here are some of the wedding pictures.... I have not yet seen them all but I got my aunt to send me some of her favorites! My uncle took my wedding pictures for me, photography is his side business/ hobby! He was so amazing to take them!

I love this one with the view of the temple in the background!

Us with my parents and in-laws... (it is still really weird to think I have in-laws, I am not sure what to call them yet... everything seems weird! But talking to another sister in-law in the family and she does not call them anything... she just wait till she has their attention then starts to talk... it has worked for her successfully for almost 10 years... I think I am going to adopt this plan as well! It is just to weird to call them anything... So, avoiding it all costs seems the only logical option!)

The top of my cake! The cake was one of my favorite pieces of the reception! It turned out GORGEOUS... I loved it! I could look at this picture all day!

This is another one of my favorites! My amazing brother, Cole, came up with this idea for the groom's cake! Plus he made and decorated it... He is such an "ace of cakes" and so dang CUTE!

So those are some of the ones that I have seen... I can't wait to get them all back and printed and framed for our house!

Things have been busy, busy, busy lately! We just got back from a long weekend in Canada, where we had our second reception! So it was fun spending time with all of Kenny's family! Our families are total opposites in many ways, but they were all so nice and welcoming! We had lots of fun! Plus we stocked up on all of the DELICIOUS candy bars and all-dressed chips that we LOVE but they don't have in the states! Those alone are worth a trip to Canada... I can not believe I have been satisfied with Hershey's all these years! Canadian chocolate is at least 10 times better! It is heavenly! Just thinking about it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside! :)

We bought a car from Kenny's sister the week of our wedding, which is amazing and has been such a blessing to be more mobile! However, there is one downfall.... it is a stick! So I have been trying to master that! I am pretty good at it now and can basically go anywhere I to... I just don't like to! Poor Kenny has had to do basically all the driving since we have been married! He is probably tired of it! I will drive to the store (three blocks away), to his work (five blocks away), the bank( three blocks), and home from church (not there because we are usually late and only because Kenny makes me drive it home, but it is five blocks away). Anything further and I wait for Kenny to get home and take me! I could do it (and have once when I was feeling brave, I drove to Bed, Bath, and Beyond which is by the mall... but I took the back roads to stay away from the masses) but I just do not like too! The stick makes driving too much of a stressful chore... It takes the fun out of it!

Other than that, we are are just working and enjoying being married! I love getting to spend my days and nights with my best friend! He makes everything so much more fun! It has been challenging at times, but I am learning so much more about Kenny and even myself everyday. It is so fun finding out different things about Kenny that make me love him even more! He is amazing and I love being married to him!

And finally... Mr. & Mrs. Kyle!

So dang it has been forever! Life has been pretty crazy! There was pre-wedding prep and lots of it. So much to do, lucky for me though I have the most wonderful mom in the world! I am so blessed to have her for my mom!
My wedding was beautiful! Everything was just how I pictured and wanted it! It was the best day ever, I got to marry the most AMAZING, FABULOUS guy I have ever met! I love him so much! But it was so nice to have all of our family and friends there with us for the day! It was perfect!
We have now been married for 19 fabulous days! It has been so fun spending everyday with my best friend, but also busy. It feels like we have done it all in 19 days (well not all but lots anyways). With honeymoons, road trips, moving and packing, setting up house, online classes, and working we have kept busy. But having a husband to do it all with makes it fun and worth it.

Pictures of the wedding late...