If You Can't Stand the Heat... Get out of the Kitchen

So this past Tuesday...

My amazing and talented Mom came up to my apartment to help me make...


THIS! Homemade Wheat and White bread with my fancy new...



Kitchen Aid that members from my ward in Draper gave to us for our wedding.


P.S. This isn't really what my Kitchenaid looks like, I just thought this one looks cool :)

Also a huge thanks to Aunt...



Kristen! for her wonderful and easy white bread recipe. McKay LOVED them and we ate almost two loaves in one day. By the way this is the only picture of Kristen that I could find. It is of her and her son from our wedding. Isn't he cute!

It was so FUN hanging out with my mom! It was both of our first times using a kitchenaid (she has a bosch mixer) and I am excited to try making more bread and other recipes with it. I never realized how detailed bread making is, and a lot of it seems like trial and error. Already I didn't cook the wheat bread enough and the white bread was a little dense because I put it in pans that were too big, but that did not stop McKay from eating them. So if anyone has yummy recipes that can be made in the kitchenaid I would love to try them out. :) Well that is all for today, have a fantastic day!

Just keep drilling, just keep drilling, just keep drilling...drilling...drilling

So we have loved being in our new apartment the last couple of weeks. The ward is great and we both have just been loving being married and going to school. We had finally finished purchasing and exchanging everything that we needed. The kitchen had been put away and organized for awhile, and our bed, TV, and couch were all set up. But I had not even started on the decorating. I wasn't really sure what I was going to do with all of the pictures, frames and candles and the task of trying to decide how to hang them was a little too scary for me. So I tried to ignore them. But as the days went on the bare white walls started to bother me and I slowly started to think each room through about where I was going to put things. I mean this was a BIG deal! You will always remember how you decorated your first apartment. So the next obstacle was how to hang these pictures on the wall. Now in our apartment we don't have nice pretty normal walls, we have painted cinder blocks. And no a nail will just not do. Because first of all you have to be able to get it into the cement and then you have to try and avoid having the cement crumble around the nail. So we talked to our neighbors and ward members and they told us that you have to use a drill with a cement drill bit for EVERY picture that you hang. After we crossed over that obstacle we realized that McKay's drill was at his parents house and no where near us. So we switched to plan B. We borrowed a drill from his previous roommate. Thanks Adam! So to make a long story short after a couple trips to walmart and Hobby Lobby, seven hours of drilling and hanging (sorry neighbors, but I am sure you did it too when you moved in) We had a beautifully decorated home thanks to a lot of work from McKay. :) Yet sad part is that we are still not completely done, we still have some last minute touches, and hopefully we or should I say McKay will get to them done the next couple of days. But I am still going to go ahead and post the pictures now. So here are some "before" pictures then some of us in the process followed by the wonderful "after" pictures. And if it is hard to tell what everything looks like from the pictures, then you better just come visit us because it looks tons better in person.:) Thanks for reading everyone, have a great day!



These are the before pictures of our bare wall above our couch and the boring walls in our bedroom. This last one is of the pictures layed out on the floor of how I wanted them to go on the wall.



These are the during pictures :)

This is my favorite thing in the house. I loved the design and so I MADE McKay buy it. Thanks McKay! It was basically my inspiration for the rest of the house.





These are the final touches for the Living room and Kitchen



And last but not least here are pitures of the bedroom.

Two Thousand Nine

So this is my last post about 2009. It was such a crazy and fantastic year. I remember thinking at the end of 2008 and saying to myself "I wonder if I will be married by this time next year?" ha ha and here I am married to the man of my dreams. (Seriously, when I guy is willing to stay home from church basketball and help you decorate your apartment for four hours, then you know that you have a keeper) :) Anyways... back to the task on hand, when I was trying to come up with a cute and clever way to finish up 2009 all I could think of was listing off all of my highlights of the year. But then I realized that my highlights of the year were already all listed in previous blogs, so then I was back to square 1. So tonight, instead of trying to be cute and clever I am simply just going to tell you what we did on New Years Eve. We will save the creativity for another night.
Here it goes, New Years Eve we were still living with my parents while I worked at Deseret News. I had to work the morning of New Years Eve so that wasn't anything special, but later that afternoon we headed over to Uncle Brent and Aunt Heather's house. This is a tradition for my family and I really enjoy it so I was excited that McKay and I were able to go. For dinner we had every kind of homemade pizza that your heart desired! It was SOOO good! After dinner we started opening up the special "hour" bags. Now let me explain what these "hour" bags are. For every hour on New Years Eve starting at 7:00 and ending at midnight my wonderful aunt Heather puts together an activity/suprise in a big brown paper bag. It is mostly for the kids, but some of them are for the entire family. Still lost? Well here are some examples from this years party. It was a Hawaiian themed party so we made candy leis, had a DDR competition, played the limbo, made skits with props and filmed them, and then ate yummy hawaiian food/candy. Heather did a great job at organizing the whole thing and it really helped the time pass faster. Then right before midnight we pulled out all the noise makers, party hats and balloons, turned on the TV to the channel with the ball dropping and start counting down. Every year feels surreal to me and I always feel like I should feel different right after it changes to a new year, but I don't usually. I don't usually set any New Year's resolutions and so the only thing that really changes is the fact that I now have to remember to put 2010 at the top of my homework assignments. The fact that I don't usually do anything different has never really bugged me until this year. I mean 2009 will always stand out to me as a perfect year. From now on my life will be thought of in my brain as either before I got married or after I got married. But what about 2010? I want to be able to look back 10 years from now and be able to say in 2010 I did (fill in the blank with something amazing). So I am going to work on making this year count. I don't know what I am going to do yet, but I will let you know when I do.
Well that is about it, after the ball dropped and we did our cerimonial kisses (first time I got to be a part of that tradition) McKay and I packed up and headed home. Everyone else slept over at their house, but we were going to go to Evanston the next day so we decided to go home so we could be ready for that. It was a great New Year's eve and I am glad that we got to continue with traditions, they are something that I truely love about family time. Oh and here are some pictures from our first New Years Eve together. Thanks again for reading my blog and good night!

Never Alone

I was just looking for some new songs to buy on I tunes and I found the song called Never Alone by Jim Brickman and Lady Antebellum. I love both of these artists and so it is like the best of both worlds. I fell in love with the song and so I decided to share it with you guys. If you click on the title of this post then it should take you straight to it. :) Have a great day!

Ok...lets see... What comes next? Oh yes, Christmas!

Wow I can't believe that I am posting about Christmas when it is almost Feburary. Oh well, better late than never. And since I loved Christmas SO much this year (or should I say last year) I can't just skip over it. :) So anyways, for Christmas this year McKay and I started out on Christmas Eve morning/afternoon by going to his Mom's house in Provo. While there we had tons of fun hanging out with his siblings, building a fire, eating grilled cheese sandwiches and opening presents. We got his mom some new curtains for her living room but we we decided that we needed more than we bought so I sent McKay on a mission to Walmart (and on Christmas eve that is a BIG task) to buy more. After he got back we hung them up for her.

McKay's sisters building our amazing fire :) Yes the girls did build the fire


After hanging out and talking with everyone for awhile we headed back to Salt Lake for a Danish Christmas party with McKay's Dad and his mom Liz. It was a really nice party with TONS of great food. We then opened one present from santa, at pudding, sang songs, and danced around the Christmas Tree (Danish tradition). Danish Christmas is one of McKay's favorite things about Christmas so I am glad that we were able to go. After Danish Christmas we headed back to my family's house in Draper. We stayed there over the entire Christmas break so that I could work in Salt Lake for a few weeks. When we got there that night we opened our new PJ's from my dad. It was fun because they were all matching. (pictures of us in them are below).



And ofcourse if we are in matching clothes I had to take one with my "twin"



Christmas morning we woke up at SIX THIRTY AM (Someone has got to change this tradition I think that we are little too old to get up that early on christmas morning. But none that less we were up and ready to open gifts. McKay and I had saved some of our wedding gifts to open that morning since we had left the only gifts that we had bought for each other in Logan. (we got each other new scriptures with our names on them. Mine are blue and his are black) We still felt so spoiled on Christmas because my parents got us some really fun things. They bought me shoes and a nice jacket and they got McKay and Leatherman and a jacket. SO nice especially after just paying for our wedding. We opened gifts until about seven thirty and then made a very yummy breakfast (or should I say my mom and dad made a VERY yummy breakfast) Thanks mom and dad! Later in the day we headed up to my Grandma and Grandpa Frys for Christmas dinner. We had ham and cheesy potatoes. They tasted so good. After dinner we opened presents and every grandchild got a very special ornament. Even McKay and I which was really nice of them.



After opening gifts McKay and I headed to Evanston to visit his dad and Liz at their house. We also opened gifts there and his parents gave us a really nice knife set along with their Christmas gifts to us. We gave a belt to his dad and we went in on a camera for his mom. That night we watched a movie with the entire family, and after that we were ready for bed. It had been a very fun day but I was very tired after that early morning and lots of driving. I was pooped and almost fell asleep instantly. But overall I would say it was a very successfull first Christmas togethter and I can't wait till this coming Christmas when we get to decorate our own apartment! That is all for now, thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

Honeymooning in Salt Lake and St. George

After the wedding we headed to Salt Lake. We stayed at the Anniversary Inn for two nights in the Romeo and Juliet Suite. I loved staying there and they gave us tons of good food. The day after the wedding McKay had made resevations for us to go to the Roof Resturant. It was both of our first times there, and I am sorry for any of you that love the Roof I have to say that I was not that impressed with the food. I do not think it was worth the 100 dollars that we payed. But the one thing that I did love about it was the view. I felt like I got to see the lights on temple square without actually having to stand in the cold. And of course we were already on such a spiritual high after getting married in the temple the day before so that just made it all the better. So after we finished eating we tried to roll ourselves back to the car (I think I ate more than I ever have in my entire life combined!) Then two hours later all of the food that McKay just finished packing in came back up. Yes, McKay got food poisoning. Luckly it only lasted for about two days, but I am sure for him it felt like forever. But he was so good throughout the whole thing and didn't complain at all. After two days in Salt Lake City we headed to St. George for the rest of the time. While in St. George we stayed in a really nice condo that was probably bigger than our apartment in Logan. :) It was really nice weather down there and it was nice to actually be able to see the sun. So we did some hiking around on the red rocks and we took a self-guided tour of Snow Canyon State park. So of the pictures later on are of us at snow canyon. We also went to both New Moon (for me) and Blindside (for me again) Thanks McKay! And ofcourse lots of eating out. No it was not warm enough to me to go swimming so I chose the hot tub. Which felt so good. No we didn't have tons of amazing plans for our honeymoon. But after just finishing tons of finals, planning and wedding, and preping for Christmas all we wanted to do was relax. So for me it was wonderful to just spend tons of time with my new husband. Love you McKay!


These are in the kitchen at the condo in St. George


At the entrance to a creepy old hut built into some rocks. By the way, sorry all of these pictures are so up close, when it is only the two of you there are only so many options...




The rest of these pics are from Snow Canyon State Park on the petrified sand dunes.

Like always McKay climbing. :) There were some signatures written on the side of a rock wall and McKay decided that he needed to touch them.


Thanks again for reading my blog and I hope you are all having a great day!

Going to the chapel and we're going to get married! (Or got married)

Hey fellow bloggers and stockers. Welcome to our blog I hope you feel right at home. Please feel free to kick back, relax, and check out our latest post (luckly this is our first one so you don't have much to catch up on) :) Yet unfortunetly I DO! Man, so much has happened in the last little while that I don't even really know where to start. So how about we start with the biggest most exciting event of all, OUR WEDDING!:) Just saying it puts a smile on my face. The day was truely perfect, cold and all. I loved having a winter wedding! Even though I did have to freeze for a while to take our outside photos. Our photographer, Camilla (her website is ciocophotography.com) did an so great that you can't even tell that we were practically standing in a windtunnel and my fingers only look frostbitten in a few of the pictures. No but seriously I only have good memories from the day.


So here is a quick run down of the days events. Oh and by the way this is mine(Kajsa) and McKay's blog but I will be doing the posting. I think McKay would think it would be too girly for him to have a blog and so the only things that you will be hearing from McKay will be in the stories that I tell about him :) (I love you McKay) Well anyways on with the wedding. So I wake up the morning of our wedding at 5:30. I showered and then got my hair done at 7 until about 9. Can I just tell you how much I loved my hair do! I truely felt so pretty and it stayed in all day! It was definetely nice to not have to worry about fixing it.


Once ready for the big day I rode with my mom and dad to the Draper temple. At this point I should probably have been feeling panicked, nervous, or scared. But I truely felt so much peace. I was excited to marry McKay and I had no doubt in my mind about whether he was the right one for me. I was prepared and it was exactly what I was suppose to be doing that day. As we pulled up to the temple McKay came out to greet me, which was exactly how it was suppose to be :). Then all the amazing stuff happened in the temple. I loved every minute of it. It was so neat to see all of our family together and I once again felt so much peace. The workers kept coming into the brides room and saying "We heard there was a bride in here" and then they would proceed to tell me how pretty I looked and how much they loved my dress. I ofcourse soaked it all in, but hey can you blame me? You only get to be the bride once in your life. After the cerimony we took some quick group shots outside. (thanks again everyone for sticking around even though it was freezing! It truely meant a lot to McKay and I)




After the temple we had the luncheon at Chuck-a-rama. It turned out beautifully thanks to Liz (McKay's mom) who decorated and arranged everything. Everyone truely seemed to enjoy the food, expecially since we were out of that cold weather! I loved the luncheon because it was my chance to really just hangout and talk with all my friends and family. It was so nice to meet the rest of McKay's family and I can't wait to continue spending more time with all of them. My cousin Dayton was especially cute the whole wedding day. He loved being with me and since he is so cute I loved hanging out with him too. And he made sure that we got lots of pictures together.




After the Luncheon we went straight to the stake center to check out what the decorator had done... And wow she did great. I loved the way that everything turned out and it was exactly how I had pictured it. I spent several minutes just looking around trying to remember every detail that was there. Up until that point I was worried about whether my colors would all look good together, but once I walked into that gym I fell in love with them all over again. Thanks again everyone that spent countless hours helping me and my family put the event together. It turned out great, and it was just another reminder about how important friends and family are in our lives. Before the reception started we took some more group photos with the families and bridesmaids. They all turned out great and I know I will love looking back at them in twenty years. Ok who am I kidding... I love looking at them now. :)









The rest of the night was standing in line talking to everyone. I just wished that I could have sat and talked to each person for hours. Everyone was so sweet and once again I was humbled at how lucky I was to have such great people in my life. After the line it was cutting the cake, throwing the boquet (and almost taking Harrison out! sorry again) tossing the garter, dancing and then leaving. Yes we left just like every other bride and groom without tasting any of our food (Thanks again Laurie for making all the food I heard it was amazing) Oh and also just like every other bride and groom our car was completely covered in oreos, silly string, and shaving cream. Needless to say a stop at the car wash and wendys was in order after leaving the reception. Thanks again to all who came and supported us. We are still in the process of writing our thank you notes, so don't give up on us yet!










And last but not least I can't thank Camilla Jones enough for taking all of these amazing photos. I am so pleased with how they turned out! Also I have to say a special thanks to my amazing and TALENTED mom. Thanks for all of your hard work and organization that you put into this wedding. It was such a success because of YOU! What a lucky daughter I am to have such supportive parents to help and guide me. Thank you for accepting and loving McKay almost as much as I do and thanks again for that beautiful quilt that you made for us, I love seeing it everyday. Thank you once again and I hope I can be at least half the woman that you are. Love You!