Welcome Home John!

Yesterday McKay's brother came home from his mission in Canada. McKay and I were able to get the day off work and meet him at the airport with the rest of the family. It was my first time meeting John and I am really excited to get to know him more. He said that he is planning on going to Utah State in the fall, so that will be way cool to have one more family member up here in Logan :) After meeting him that the airport we headed over to Chuck-a-rama for a yummy lunch! Overall it was just a fun day with family and it was cool to hear about his mission experiences. Here are some pictures from the exciting day...

These first pictures are while we were waiting for him to get off the plane.




It always seems that everytime McKay gets together with his brothers they always start teasing each other and joking around. This time was no exception...BOYS!


And then here are the pictures from his first few minutes off the plane. Sorry that some are blurry...


OFcourse at every homecoming there is lots of hugging...



Well I guess there is nothing left to say but welcome home John! Thanks for reading everyone!

Why is the real world so confusing!

Ok, confession time, and I am going to warn you in the beginning that this post may not make very much sense but I just want to write my thoughts down so that I can go back and read this when I finally understand the real world and have a good laugh.
So here it goes... Since getting married I have had to begin figuring out the real world and can I just tell you that for a shy and very inexperienced adult that can be a VERY scary thing I mean figuring out what kind of insurance to have to make sure that you have covered your bases while trying to not over spend. Whether to go with this cell phone company or that one, and don't even get me started on dealing with car problems! When our air conditioning was getting fixed in our car I just automatically screened all calls to McKay. I just don't know very much about cars, air conditioners, gas bills, clogged drains, leaky faucets, changing oil, and everything else that adults have to deal with. Every time something happens it is all whole new experience for me.
Also when you get married you have the lovely opportunity to change your name EVERYWHERE! Why can't there just be one I repeat one easy location that you can go to change everything. Nope, you get to go to fifty different places and fill out lots of different forms... Oh and make sure you go to all the locations in the right order or else you might not have the right paper work. Currently my name is changed at some places but not at others. So far I have been lucky enough for it to not cause too many problems but of course I stress over it daily. You may ask why have I not changed it everywhere? For the same reason that I still haven't finished my wedding scrapbook. It is just one more thing to do that is easily put off for the next day. Unfortunately I am amazing at procrastination. Dad I blame you. just kidding. :)
In reality I don't like situations that I don't understand and I hate asking questions when I am confused because I am afraid that it will be a "dumb question". So instead of putting myself out there I just try and avoid things as long as possible. So in the end, I have decided that entering the real world should come with a manual. But since it doesn't I will continue to slowly make my way through it one dumb question at a time. While I was writing all of my frustrations down I was reminded of the quote "don't sweat the small stuff" and the quote " don't put off to tomorrow what you could be doing today" Sounds like I just need to buckle down and just do it... Like ripping a band aid off.
Thanks for listening to me ramble and a special thanks to McKay for being by my side as I learn to grow up and be an adult, have a good night!

Oh and P.S. Tomorrow we are going to the airport to pick up McKay's brother, John, from his mission in Canada. Look forward to a post about it soon!

You Do the Math

Here is what my day looked like today...
3 teachers
10 hours of work
17 children
3 hours at the pool (three very nerveracking hours)
2 fifteen passanger vans
36 bags of chips
22 capri suns
TONS of sunscrean
1000 splashs
a couple of belly flops (I tried to warn them)
a million trips to the bathroom
some sunburned cheeks and blood shot eyes (from the pool)
...and 17 happy faces that made it all worth it :)

Today was my first time taking the kids from work to the pool, they loved it but it was A TON of work. Needless to say I am pretty tired.

Oh and here are some funny cartoons, thanks for reading!

Happy 6 months to us!!

So today is offically our six month anniversary, cheesy I know... but I love being married so why not celebrate it? I know we haven't been married that long, but already I understand when people say that they love their husbands more and more each day, it is SO true! I definitely love him more each day... ok enough of the mushy stuff, you already heard all about it in my last post. So moving on, the events of today's celebration go as follows...
this morning McKay was so sweet and suprised me with beautiful flowers, a very sweet note, and a new movie. I loved everything even more knowing that he had bought it all at midnight the night before with his bike on his way home from work. He did all of this while I slept peacefully at home in my warm bed. :) This morning after reading the cute note I made a some what fancy breakfast... it was eggs, hash browns, toast and juice. After breakfast we rushed super fast and got his lunch and dinner ready for the day and then he headed out like normal for his 16 hour work day. Luckily though I was able to surprise him at work with jamba juice during my break. It was so fun to see him in the middle of the day even if it was only for ten minutes. Other than that it has been a normal day but a good one! Here are some pictures of the flowers he gave me, I sure do love having flowers in the house! Well, that is all, have a good night!

Condo Fun

This past weekend, after the bridal shower McKay and I went and joined my mom's family in Wolf Creek and we hung out with them until Sunday night. Saturday just so happened to be my mom's birthday so we were excited that we got to be there for some of the birthday celebrating. McKay and I gave her a picture of the first presidency for both her's and my dad's birthday. I just fell in love with the picture at the store and I was very excited to give it to her.
We got there late saturday night after a bit of confusion with the directions on how to get there and so we just ate and then had a fun chat with my mom until about midnight. Thanks mom! On Sunday we went to church at a local ward, and then spent the afternoon playing TONS and TONS of board games and eating yummy food. We also were able to have a skype chat with our cousins in Connecticut. Here is my mom talking on video...
This is my cute cousin all dressed up for church, white shirt and everything! haha
This is proof of the amount of games that were played. I took all of these pictures within a two minute period of time...


My little cousins also enjoyed goofing off in front of the camera along with wanting to take a few pictures themselves, and these are the results...




Here are some other pictures that I took of everyone just having a good time...


And ofcourse last but not least, McKay and I. I really like this picture! Probably because I really love McKay in blue. But also it just makes me so happy to think that I am actually married to this guy for eternity! He is so sweet and kind ALL the time. I never imagined that marriage could be this great! I love it and I most especially love him! Thanks for reading our blog!

Bridal Shower for Natalie

So this past weekend McKay's sisters and I threw a bridal shower for Natalie, McKay's brother's fiance. We decided to have a Pampered Chef bridal shower and it was really REALLY fun. I had never been to a Pampered Chef party before and I really enjoyed it. It was also really nice to see all of his family and just hang out with the girls. After the shower we were talking to McKay and his dad and they asked what we did and we responded "What girls do best... eat and spend money" Which basically sums it all up. Overall the food was delicious and I am also very excited for Natalie to get all of her amazing gifts that we ordered for her, she will LOVE having them in her kitchen. Here are a few pictures that I took, sorry I didn't do a very good job at taking that many, I was very focused on the demonstration. :)





Thanks for reading! Have a wonderful night!

Memorial Day Weekend Vacation

Wow we just had one of the best, most exciting, fun filled weekends! Thanks Uncle Ray Paul and Aunt Jennifer for letting us come up and for sharing your amazing cabin with us. It is beautiful!
Early Saturday morning McKay and I headed up to Lava Hot Springs to my cousins cabin and we stayed until Monday evening. And from the time that we got there until the second we left it was chuck full of great activities. I don't really even remember the order that everything happened but basically went... eat, play hard, watch movies, eat, play hard, sleep, repeat... Some of the activities that we did were.
Play games (I completely lost at Trans America)...
watch/play basketball (They have a really nice court up above the cabin and obviously I was the one watching and McKay was the one playing. And besides McKay almost falling down a large hill while playing he did really well. :)...
Go Four wheeling (We took a nice sunday stroll in the neighborhood. Is it sad to say that the four wheeling was probably the most relaxing thing that McKay did the whole time, ok maybe sitting in the hot pools is number one, but four wheeling was a close second.)...


Play Rock Band (oh my goodness! It was so cute to see all the kids rocking out together, they just kept singing "Oh oh Livin on a Prayer" over and over again. Thank heavens for no fail mode)....

Went Swimming at the pool and jumped off the platforms (If any of you know me I ofcourse did not jump off the platforms with many of my other cousins, but McKay and I did go down the water slides that go over the road. At first I was not planning on getting in the water at all, I could tell that McKay really wanted me to so I made a quick change and we had a blast together. And though I doubted the water was actually very warm)...


Along with the regular pool we went to the hot pools a couple of times but that is one activity that I did not get a picture of. Yet it was still VERY relaxing! (here are some before and after pictures)...
McKay and the boys went golfing twice. This was McKay's first time ever golfing and from what I heard he did pretty well for being a newbie. And luckly my uncle and dad love golfing so they had lots of pointers. He said that by the end he was starting to finally figure out which club you use at what times. I am still clueless, but thanks dad and Ray Paul for teaching him!
Also while we were there it happened to be my dad's birthday (I won't say which one) so we had cake and icecream. We also celebrated my cousin's youngest child's birthday Dallin, he was turning 1! He is SO cute!

The boys (or should I say men) also decided that they needed to jump into a pond near their house. And not only did they each do it once, but they felt the need to do it twice each...crazy guys...(P.S. the second one is of McKay)
The last random events of the trip included practice shooting, building new toys for the cabin (the guys built the play helicopter that Mykelti is in below and I think they were only missing one screw... :) TONS OF EATING, church on Sunday at the local ward, Painting nails (yes my dad did ASK for Corinne to paint his nails, oh and we threw in a few naps every so often...








This vacation was a perfect getaway, sorry about the picture overload but they are what tell the story. Thanks for reading and I hope everyone has a great Friday! Oh wait I have one last picture, here is McKay getting some good bonding time with the kids. Haha Love it! Yes that is McKay on the bottom. :)