guest bedroom.

So confession time: it's taking me a while to unpack everything because most everything got pushed into a room when we moved in {and because our house is so big it's not in my way, so it's not really driving me crazy that it's all still in boxes} But I decided a few weeks ago that it was time to start unpacking.

Well I don't have school on Monday and Jeff does so I normally spend my day laying around and enjoying not having to do anything. Well i've decided to put my lazy day to good use and made a goal to spend each monday working on one room at a time. I admit i've only spent one Monday actually working on a room. But after it was all put together I felt very accomplished and proud of myself because I did it all by myself with no help from Jeff whatsoever!

{Although I did get quite a few owies}

So I would now like to show you what our new guest room looks like:

I found the headboard at the DI for ten bucks! I only got the base coat on before the weather started getting to cold to paint, so it will just have to wait until summer for me to finish.

I am also planning on buying some black sheets, and some cute throw pillows :)

so long apartments.

So Jeff and I have been living in this cute little apartment since we moved to cedar (which was only like 5 months) we really liked most of living there... but there was also things that drove us CRAZY about living there (and when I say drove us crazy, I mostly mean it drove me crazy).

This is the thing that made me the most crazy! because we didn't have any extra storage area we had to use our 2nd bedroom/office for our storage... which made the room our pantry/office/laundry room (with no washer or dryer)/our clothing room/everything room!

I tried to organize it, but it pretty much had no hope and just left me very frustrated.

BUT I HAVE WONDERFUL NEWS!!

We have moved!!! we are now living in a HOUSE :) yes that's right! a house, not a tiny apartment!

I found this house on ksl and it's beautiful!!

It has 3 bedrooms, two full bathrooms, a HUGE family room, a dining room, a kitchen, a laundry room, and three huge closets!! yes mckenna is a happy woman!!

Here are some sneak peak pictures of our new home when we were moving in!! pictures of our house, unpacked and decorated coming soon!!!

2010.

So this year I made this cute christmas card on my photoshop and was going to write a letter to tell everyone about what has happened this year for us, but instead (to save money) I will just be posting it on my blog, So enjoy the listers first christmas card!

This year Jeff and I were married! We started out our married life together in Ephraim,Utah. Jeff was working full time as a foreman at Timberhawk building systems and McKenna was going to Snow College Full time.

Things were going perfect until one day Timberhawk announced that they were shutting down the company and closing their doors and that everyone was being laid off.

It came as a big shock to us but in the end turned out to be a blessing.

After a lot of fasting and praying we decided that we needed to be in Cedar City, in two weeks we had taken a trip down to cedar, found an apartment, packed up our whole apartment and were on our way to starting our new adventure!

When we got to our new town Jeff enrolled at Southern Utah University and McKenna Enrolled at Evan's Hairstyling College.

We spend most of our time going to school and in the free time hanging out at home and watching netflix! We have been very tight on money but it's all part of the learning experience right? lol it has also been a good learning experience for me, This year I have become a lot of crafty to save money, and I also started my own little photography business to help us bring in a little extra dough, which has turned out to be a wonderful learning experience!

[Sorry for not having very exciting news but until school is over I don't think we are going to have anything very excited to tell you about]

Jeff is planning on graduating in December 2011 as long as all of his credits transfer right, and McKenna will be finishing hair school in October 2011.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

happy christmas world

Our First christmas together! It was really weird to not have christmas with my family but it was fun to have it with my best friend and start our own new traditions!

{CHRISTMAS EVE}

We decided to open our stocking on christmas eve, because I was excited to give my little stocking stuffer gifts to Jeff and I couldn't wait another day. lol

A cute little old lady made these stockings for us as wedding gifts, and they are beautiful!!

Every year for as long as I can remember my parents always let us open one gift on christmas eve night, and it was always sleepers. So Jeff and I have decied to carry on the traditon to our family!





My favorite colors!

{don't mind my hairspray coverd mirror :)}

{CHRISTMAS MORNING}

christmas time.

So this has to be my most favorite time of the year! For sure!! I love everything about Christmas, well everything but the snow! (I am fine with it as long as I don't have to leave the house... but other than sitting inside with a big blanket and hot cocoa I'm not a fan.)

So Lucky for us, this year Mr. wonderful and I got to borrow some Christmas tree's from my family. We thought about buying one, but we didn't wanna spend our little bit of money on a real tree and we don't have any space to save a fake one, so it was a blessing that my mom left her little tree's in West Jordan :)

I could hardly wait to go up to salt lake and get them, and the minute we got all of our stuff from the the weekend into the house I made Jeff start setting them up!!

[growing up I remember my dad making us lay under the christmas tree looking up at all the lights with him, I have always loved doing this so I made Jeff get down on the floor and look at all the lights with me :)]

[This is a really random picture but I wanted to show off the wrapping paper found, I looked forever to find exactly the style I wanted and I was very happy when I found these :)]

[And now...my favortie part! My family made these little ginger bread men for family night last year and so I decided to bring them home with me so I could have my family here with me for christmas!]