Plates and office party

So this is a picture of our car with our BEAUTIFUL Texas plates. It always made me so happy seeing them...a little bit of home.

This is Kenny's walk of shame back into the house after taking them off and putting on our new Utah plates. It makes me sad to think that when on the road I can now be classified as a Utah driver. No one will know that I am a Texan. :(

OFFICE PARTY

So every year my company has a killer party. They give away tons of stuff.... cars, the scooter/motorcycle things, 60,000 in CASH, mountain bikes... it was crazy the stuff they were giving away and tons of it. Although we did not win anything that grand, we felt like we came away with some decent stuff.... tons of shirts and hats, a few of the small gym bag things and 2 swiss army backpacks (all of the stuff branded with APX), so we decided to take a picture with all of our loot.




Kenny wanted to take a picture looking "gangster" or "tough" or something of the sort... this was my best try, Kenny does it better than I... that is what two years in the ghetto of Jersey does to you I guess.

APX Alarm

Here is video that my company put out on YouTube... we are supposed to get it out there so that people view it. So this is my way of not feeling guilty next week during the manager/supervisor meeting for not "putting it out there" when they ask me how I helped. Check it out, it is cool to work for a company who cares!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-u2QMS3N0g

Glasses R COOL!

So my cute little sister got glasses... they are so adorable on her. I told her that if she put a picture of them on her blog, Kenny and I would take a picture in our glasses and post them as well. So here they are...

I LOVE YOU RILEY!

And this picture is for my mother... Thanks for the new shirt! I love it and got tons of compliments at work today!

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!