Lazy Night

Last night was going to be such a fun and busy night. Kevin and I were going to go on a hike up Beus Canyon (where me, my best friend Ashley and my sister Morgan went on a trail ride) and then go get tacos at Del Taco (Taco Tuesday Baby!!) and head up to Weber State so Kevin could do homework (and so I could blog about my fun few weeks). Well that didn't happen!! At all!! I went to visit my mom right after work and you know how that goes. You get talking and then it ends up being 4 hours later. Well after me and my mom talked for a while Morgan and I decided to watch an episode of a fun/super cheesy TV show called Switched at Birth. It's not super good but I am totally addicted! (I know I'm a sucker for cheesy). Well after about 2 episodes my mom asked if we would like taco's! I was so happy because I was just going to go without dinner for the night. So when we got back I called Kevin (he was at his mom's doing homework) and he told me he had about 2 hours still. So I decided to keep watching the TV show. Well 4 episodes later I finally decided to go visit Kev. It was great timing too because he had just finished his homework and we were on our way home. It was still a fun night but I was so excited for my hike!! Oh well we will plan another time and I will make sure to post some pictures.

Tonight is young womens and because I am Young Womens President I am in charge of making sure we have everything we need. Well we are making hats for all of the primary kids for Christmas. We are going to give each girl 2 different colors of yarn of their choice and a loom and ask them to make 2 hats for 2 kids in the primary. I told the girls that this project will count for a Personal Progress Project but only if they make 2 hats. I know it's alot but it will be so worth it when they give the cute little kids who have practically nothing a hat full of treats and prizes. I cant wait till they are done and can't wait till I get to see the look on all of their faces. I love my calling and am so greatful for the young women in my ward! I will make sure I document the progress and get pictures up.



THIS IS AN IDEA OF WHAT THEY WILL LOOK LIKE



Okay so I am totally lame. I am going to stop with the talk about mine and Kevin's past because there is way to much to post. So I want to start posting about our current life. We have done quite a bit these last few weeks and I will post our events. I am going with Kevin today to go on a hike and go with him to Weber State so he can do homework and there I will work on my posts and get some pictures posted.

Future Planning Continued

After our amazing honeymoon planning we needed to find a place where we wanted to live. I think this was one of the toughest things to do. We couldn't ever agree on where we wanted to look or what price to look at so one night we decided to take a drive. We drove all over the place and for hours and we couldn't find anywhere we wanted to live. But as we were driving down Harrison Blvd. we found a nice apartment complex off to the right of the road right next to weber state that had a rent sign out. So we decided to get the phone number and give them a call. We still weren't sure if we wanted to live up that way or not but decided to give it a try anyway. We went and took a look at it and it was a nice place, it was very small but nice, and it was a reasonable price. We finally came to an agreement to take it! It was so fun moving into our own place and finally having space to ourselves. We liked it alot until the day we moved in!! On the day we moved in we noticed the water wasn't turned on so we had to call our landlord and have him turn it on. Then when it got dark we found out our electricity wasn't turned on either. So we had to call back and have him turn that on too. I'm not sure why he didn't do that at the same time. Finally when all of that was turned on I decided I needed to relax and take a nice hot bath but as I turned on the water we noticed that the gas wasn't turned on either!!! Come to find out the gas company isn't open over the weekend, unless it is an emergency, so we had to go through the whole weekend heating up our water on the stove to take a bath! Talk about stressful! We finally got everything working and ready to go and loved it! We were so greatful that we had a place to stay and a wonderful time having a place of our own. See it's very small but we still loved it!!





 

 

 

 

Future Planning

Holy cow 2009 was crazy hectic for planning! We had a quite a few different things going on. First things first the wedding planning. How I got through it I do not know! It seemed like every two minutes my mom was asking me if I had anymore addresses to add or have I filled all the envelops? Have I got my dress? Have I got my flower arrangements? Do I have the place where I want it? It seemed like it kept going on and on and on and never ending! But finally we agreed and finished up the plans just in time for the wedding. I loved my wedding so much even down to the very last minute. It was so pretty I wouldn't have changed a thing!! I don't have pictures to put up right now they are on discs so I will have to take the time to download them and put some on here! I do have a couple pictures of the planning!!
 
          Here is one of my amazing bridal showers! We had a game where everyone got into teams and made me a wedding vale out of toilet paper. I was super impressed!



Kelse and Shannon were on a team!




Camie and Morgan were on a team!





Mom and Grandma were on a team!



Here is the finishing touch!!

My amazing wedding dress!!



On the Way down!!



Now comes the planning of the Honeymoon! This was the best part of the wedding planning! Both me and Kevin wanted to go to California so I could see the beach because I hadn't ever seen it before. So we decided to make a road trip out of it!! The first night we drove to Salt Lake and stayed at the Anniversary Inn on South Temple. That was really cool to see. We stayed in the Phantom of the Oprah room and it was so cool! Then we headed to California! On the way down we decided to stay a few nights in Vegas at the Stratosphere. 





The Stratosphere



Hanging out on the top of the Stratosphere



We watched the water show at the Belagio

The next day we decided to walk the strip since I had never been there and I wanted to see all of the fun stuff. 

The different Hotels (this was only one of them)

 

We took a ride on the Mono Rail and Kevin picked the Monster one (go figure)



These guys would stand here and people would give them money just because!



Yes this guy is real!!

After Vegas it was on to California. We took a lot of pictures but I'm only going to post a few just to give you a glimpse of our fun time. 

This is the hotel we stayed in. It was in the middle of Asian town!!! But it was a super nice hotel.



The first day we were there we went to Disneyland

Here are a couple of fun rides we went on!



The next day we decided to hit the Ferry and go to Catalina Island and hang out there for a while. When we got there we wanted to rent a bike or a golf cart but everything was closed at 2:00 because there was a graduation going on. We were pretty bummed so we got some ice cream and went to the beach to catch some fun water crabs.

Here is the fun Ferryheaded away from California Coast



We took some cards and decided to play some games on the way down.



Here is the fun Catalina Island. It was so cool walking around and going to all of the shops!



Here is our fun memorabilia that we brought home with us!



2009

My camera died after I took one picture :(

2009 was the best year I have ever had! On January 31st Kevin wanted to take me out for a fancy dinner date. He said he would be there to pick me up at 4:00pm (which really means 4:30 in Kevin time) and to dress warm. So at around 4:45 he was at my house with his brothers awesome truck and extra jackets in the back. I was so excited I couldn't stand it! When we arrived at PF Changs in Salt Lake City we had a nice dinner at a table for 2 and talked for about 2 hours about nothing and everything. Then he took me to one of the most amazing places in Salt Lake City, the Galavan Center, where we went ice skating outside under the stars. It was just me and him for about an hour before a big group of people came and crowded up the place. That was when we decided to leave. We took a fun little walk around the Galavan Center and talked some more. As we were walking we found this cute, romantic spot in a group of trees that had lights all around them and had a bench and a cute little pathway going through it. We stopped here and as we were looking around he pulled out a piece of paper that had definitions on it of different words such as, love, friendship, eternity and a whole bunch more. He gave it to me to read and as I was reading it he pulled out another piece of paper that had the most amazing poem on it. It was a poem that he had wrote. I will have to take a picture of it and copy it down because I don't remember every word on that poem. I do remember the end though it states "I hope you will call me your husband if I can call you my wife." As he said those last words he got down on one knee and pulled out the most gorgeous ring I have ever seen! I was so excited I didn't know how to react. I don't think I even said yes I just grabbed the ring out of the box and put it on. So I guess that means yes!! We stayed in that little cove for quite sometime talking some more and planning our future. I was the happiest girl in the whole world! As we headed home I called and text everyone I could think of. I can still remember that night is if it was yesterday. I love Kevin with all my heart and am the luckiest girl alive.

Kevin and Carlene

I haven't been able to figure out how to do this whole blogging thing! It is so confusing. I hope I can figure it out so I can have fun with it. I just wanted to make a post of our lives since Kevin and I started dating till now!

                                            When we were dating 2008

Rhino Rally in St. George 

Our first hike! 

We went shooting and my CD is on the left. Yeah I won!!

Getting ready to go on our first ski trip to Powder Mountain.

Happy New Year 2009!!!!