one year.

Here are a few snap shots that one of my best friends Melissa took when we were coming out of the temple right after being sealed for time and all eternity!!! :)

Although we didn't get a chance to eat our leftover wedding cake on our actual one year date, we did cut into it and eat it tonight and here are a few pictures :)

Here is the box that has been taking up tonz of space in our freezer for the past year

ta da!

Even after a year it still tasted SO GOOD!!!! :)

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}