KiSSeD Photography Deal with KSL!

We are rich!! Well sort of... We did a deal with our photography company yesterday and with KSL.  It was a daily deal where it runs for 24 hours and there is a certain amount of packages that have to be sold before the deal is on.  Well yesterday we sold 209 packages at $30 a piece! We were so amazed that we received that many and are so grateful that we did.  Our calendars are filling up with appointments and it is so fun to see our business finally growing!! I am so excited for what lies ahead.  Thank you to our wonderful friends and family for spreading the word and for KSL allowing us to do this with them.  Stay tuned for some fun things that are happening this weekend for my birthday!! I will be 21!  Love you guys!

4th of July

What a weekend! I love the 4th of July weekend! It is so much fun to be with friends and family, as well as to watch parades and fireworks.  What fun!  On friday we just hung out and got things ready for Saturday. Saturday morning our friends Zach and AnDe Buchi came over for breakfast we had eggs and pancakes then left for the parade.  It was a lot of fun, it was our first Clearfield city parade and it wasn't bad, it was fun. Then that afternoon we just relaxed and hung out we actually took the dogs for a walk, we haven't done that for awhile, they enjoyed it but were definitely out of shape like their parents.  Then Zach and AnDe came over again and we headed off to dinner at Gaboro Brothers in Layton.  It was so good!  Then AnDe was craving Red Mango (she is pregnant so we need to go where the pregnant lady is craving! jk) so we went there before we headed over to the park to watch fireworks.  We got to the fireworks pretty early so we took some games over and played games until they started.  The firework were really good and it was so much fun to spend the day with the Buchi's.  They are such wonderful friends and are so grateful they moved in to our neighborhood.  Sunday we went to church then went over to Derek's parents for dinner as well as did Fireworks with the kids before they went home.  They loved the fireworks a couple pictures below taken from my iPhone.  Monday morning we went back over to Derek's parents for breakfast and swimming with the kids!  It was so much fun then that night we went boating with his parents again.  The water was really choppy so we couldn't do much, however Kami tried kneeboarding and did such a fabulous job we were proud of her.  When we got home from boating we headed to my parents to see them, you know trying to work out the whole holidays thing with family can be hard.  But we do what we can.  That was basically our wonderful holiday weekend in a nutshell.  I hope everyone else had a fabulous holiday as well!!

SUMMER!

Ah I am so excited it is summer! Summer is my favorite month.  Not just because it is my birthday but because there are so many holidays and so many chances to get together with friends and family! I just love it.  I love BBQ's and Fires and camping and so many things.  So far we have had a great summer.  Last weekend Derek went off to Scout Camp with the Young Men in our ward and I stayed home.  On Saturday we had two wonderful family reunions and it was just wonderful to be with family that I haven't seen for a while and also to meet new family that I haven't met.  Both reunions were for Derek's side of the family.  He has such a wonderful family and I just love being a part of it.  So about my birthday, there is less than a month until I am 21 and I am pretty excited.  It is not a huge deal but I can't wait to say that I am not 20 anymore.  For some reason it is hard for me to say that I like being able to say 21.  Since all of our friends are older than me it is nice to be one year older and closer to their age, but oh well!  So all in all I am super excited for it to be summer, lots of pictures to come so be excited!!

Square Dancing

So I don't know I have had said this but Derek and I were asked to be Ma and Pa on Trek this year in our ward.  We are excited to have been asked this but I am kind of nervous.  It will be weird because just four years ago I was just on Trek with my stake and now to be a Ma will be kind of weird, and I am like three or four years older than that oldest ones going so it will be different.  However, I am excited because I won't have to work as hard because I am a Ma. ;)  Anyways, this week for Young Men Young Womens, they did Stake Square Dancing and it was a lot of fun.  It was nice to see the youth in our ward have a good time doing old pioneer dances.  I am really excited to see how they do on Trek.  Our Trek is August 18-21, which is the week before school starts and it is the middle of August which will be really hot.  But that is okay we will have fun! 

Update!

Wow! I didn't realize how long it has been since I have written a post.  Well here is an update. Derek and I finished school the middle of April, and we have been working and enjoying not having school work or tests ever since.  Derek recently got the calling in our ward of Scout Master along with his other calling of Young Men's Second Counselor.  He is a pretty busy guy with that and all of his summer scout outings.  We will see how well I do without him home for those times.  As for myself, I just started another job with this new company selling jewelry, the company is called Jewels by Park Lane.  It is really fun and we do parties kind of like Scentsy or Mary Kay but it is jewelry and everyone loves jewelry.  If anyone is interested in buying some or having a party to help me out please let me know!  I wanted to start this so that we could pay off our bills and hopefully start a family soon so I would appreciate any help I could get.

A couple days ago I was thinking about my life and what I want for myself.  So I have come up with a couple of goals that I have in mind for the summer as well as the end of the year.  My first goal is to loose weight and to get back in shape.  In conjunction with this I am going off sugar!  That's right sugar, it is going to be super super hard but I have faith that I can do it.  So wish me luck!  The other goal is to have us get all of our bills paid off by the end of the year.  This is going to be hard as well but that is why I got this other job so that I can work my bum off and pay off our debts.  The other goal I have is to write in this blog at least once a week and hopefully I will be able to keep up with that. 

Well, that is all thanks for all of your guys' love and support!

1 Year Anniversary/Valentine's Day!

On Sunday February 14, 2010 we celebrated our 1 year anniversary of being married! Oh what an amazing year it has been. We have had our ups and downs but all together it has been amazing! Our celebrated our anniversary on Monday since we couldn't really do anything on Sunday. However, on Sunday we had the opportunity to sing in Sacrament meeting together as a couple. We sang amazingly for it being our first time singing together. Then after church, we gave each other presents. Derek gave me a very pretty heart shaped necklace, I love it it was beautiful. He also gave me a gift certificate to Olive Garden which we used on Monday to celebrate our anniversary along with a box of candy and 3 movies. Sweet Home Alabama, The Proposal, and The Notebook. All cute chick flicks to do with Valentine's Day. I got him a new PS3 game called 007 Quantum of Solace and some other men products. Then on Monday we celebrated by going to Olive Garden for lunch and then to see Percy Jackson: The Lighting Thief or however you say it. It was pretty good definately a kid movie but still pretty good. We had the wonderful opportunity to take work off on Friday so we had the whole weekend to spend with each other and just relax it was amazing. Now we have to go back to work and school and continue or busy lives. Not excited about that one but oh well. I am so grateful for my husband and the wonderful life he has given me he is the best I could ever ask for and I can't wait to see what the rest of our lives will be like. I love you baby thanks for an amazing first year!!

School :(

So I was enjoying school, until it has become more busy and more time consuming. I feel like all we ever do is go to school then go to work then come home and work on homework. School, school, school, school, school. When can we ever just have a break for us and not think or worry about anything else? Oh well, I guess that is just how life goes. It is either work and school, or work and kids. I guess I will take work and school for now at least I don't have to wake up in the middle of the night to crying. I guess I just solved my own problems by venting out on here. Now that you know my frustrations and I got those off my chest, I should be grateful for the life I have and grateful for what I have been given. Hopefully the next post will be more happy and uplifting. Thanks for taking the time to read my frustrations. Love you all!

Update!

Hello Everyone! Sorry it has been so long since we have posted a new post. We have been so crazy busy the last few months. First exciting thing is we finally bought a house, after four months of trying we were able to successfully buy a house! (Pictures to come soon after I fix it up a little bit more). We are absolutely loving our house and our neighborhood everyone is so friendly and welcoming. After two weeks of being in our new ward they put us right to work, they called both Derek and I into the Activities committee then about a month ago they gave us new callings. I am the Activities Chairperson and Derek is in the Young Mens Presidency as the Second Counselor. I haven't done much with my calling yet but Derek is absolutely loving his. He had to give his first lesson yesterday and he said it really well and that he loves teaching. Derek and I both started school again in January and we are both going back to our original degrees, Derek is thinking about going back to communications and I am going back to Interior Design. I love this semester it has been really good. We are back to going to school during the morning which is better for me because I focus better. About two weeks before we moved into our new house we bought a new puppy for Rudi to have a friend with at our new house. He is very cute, he is a mix we think he is a Dauchen Terrier Mix. His name is Patches because he has one paw that is white. Here is a picture of him.

In a couple of weeks, Derek and I will be celebrating our one year anniversary of being married! We are so excited to celebrate this happy day and can not believe that we are already celebrating it. We have had a wonderful year full of ups and downs but most of all we have grown so much as a couple. I am so grateful for him in my life and I am not sure where I would be if I didn't have him in my life. He is so amazing and has made me a better person and I have had a better life with him. I am not sure what we are doing for our year so it will be a surprise but I will post about it. Well I think that is about it for now. More to come, I promise I will update more ;)