kevin&kaylynn

AVEDA

2011-04-12T18:41:00.000-07:00

Since January of this year I've been studying esthetics at the Aveda Institute here in Provo. Just last week I started giving treatments to guests! I do facials, back treatments (called the back facial), and facial waxing. =] I LOVE it! So if anyone wants a facial, come to Aveda on a Thursday or Saturday. (And hey I'll just throw it out there... I accept donations!!) ;-P

UTAH!

2010-10-01T14:33:00.000-07:00

WE MADE IT! We've been planning to move out to Utah for... I don't even know how long, and we're FINALLY here.

We started packing in the beginning of August because we were so anxious to move! We packed a little each day, and stayed caught up so that when the time came to leave, we were pretty much done with the packing. (I want to add... I did MOST of the packing. -Granted, Kevin was at work all day, and he packed the car... but just sayin').

So we left the coast on Monday September 6th, and started our move! We drove Kevin's dad's pickup truck (which had the bed FULL of boxes, speakers, amps, a coffee table, and a tv stand, and the cab stuffed full of boxes as well). We were also pulling a trailer, which had the Geo Metro on it, and the Geo was stuffed full of all our blankets, pillows, and other lightweight nicknacks. We left after Kevin got done with work that day (ended up pulling out of Winchester Bay around 7:30, then we had to run some errands, so we didn't leave the coast until it was after dark). That night we stayed at my parent's house in Talent. :) It was good to see them again before we moved too far away to see them every few weeks.

Then, Tuesday morning at about 7:00 am we left Talent and started the LONG drive to Provo, Utah! Now, the speed limits on the way to Utah from Oregon get up to 75 mph in places... but with the truck and trailer we couldn't go more than 60-65 mph at the most. Not only because the truck and trailer were stuffed to the max, but also because the tires on the trailer were so old and bald, they had wires and bulges popping out everywhere. We were pretty worried about losing a tire, and we didn't have a spare. We were definitely nervous.

But even with 50 year old tires and a wide load, we made it in one piece. (We didn't get there until 1:00 in the morning... but we still made it!) We stayed that night at Cheyenne and Justice Dahle's apartment. They live in the apartment complex we moved into, so in the morning we were planning on just moving our stuff out of the truck into the apartment. The office of the apartments opens at 10 am, so on Wednesday the 8th (Mom's birthday...) we went to the office right at 10 am, wanting to get moved in as soon as possible. But when we told them who we were and that we wanted to move in, they told us that they didn't think we were coming until later in the month, so our apartment hadn't been cleaned yet! UGH! So what ended up happening was they had to call the cleaning lady to see what time she was coming, but she didn't answer so we had to wait for her to call back. When she finally did call back, she told us she couldn't come until 6:30 that night!

She ended up not getting finished cleaning until about 8:30, so that's when we started moving our stuff in. That took about 2 hours, then we unpacked for a few hours, and didn't get to bed until about 1:30 am again. It was a pretty exhausting few days.

But, we're here now, we both have jobs, (with the same company actually.. just different departments), and we are LOVING it here in Provo! :)

August 2010

2010-08-12T15:10:00.000-07:00

Ok... I realized I skipped a few months here... but until I catch up with myself, we're just gonna have to resume blogging as of now. :)

So. August.

This month is going good! We went to see Metal Mulisha, which as a really cool freestyle motocross (I think thats what it's called) group that does shows. We went to the Douglas County Fair in Roseburg, OR and saw one of their shows! Kevin's older brother Brad and his wife Rashelle live in Roseburg with their three kids (Jocelyn, 6, Sydnee, 4, and Tyler, almost 3 months). So, we visit them a lot and they invited us to come over for a couple days and go to the show with them. Kevin's older sister, Jen, was also there with her husband, Kevin Wheeler. It was a lot of fun!! :) The riders did tons of cool tricks... I forgot the names. Let's see... there were whips... ooo a couple of them did backflips which was pretty cool to see... and there were supermans, heel clickers, dead bodies... (thats a trick. not literally "dead bodies" haha) Anyway... it was an awesome show. And after watching the motorcycles we walked around the rest of the fair and looked at everything. I got teriyaki chicken and noodles, and a big slushy in this really odd-shaped cup, we saw the animals (mostly pigs and goats), heard some good music... it was a fun day!

Before metal mulisha- there was a bus that did runs to the fair so you didn't have to worry about parking.

Goof Ball.

Here's a whip.

Another kind of whip...

BACKFLIP!

SUPERMAN! haha

dead body i think.

Then just this last weekend my family came to visit! (well, minus Dad and Ammon.) Ammon skipped out on the visit because he was just here a few weeks ago (and he had a date ;-P ), and Dad had to work. :( But we still had a fun time! We went to Loon Lake and swam for a while, then later that same night we went to the beach and tried to see how long we could wade in the water before our toes fell off (no one got to that point, thank goodness). We also walked around Lake Marie and Braden was brave enough to jump in that one too. The rest of us were either too chicken (it was colder water than Loon Lake) or we didn't have our swimsuits on us. (I gotta confess... I kind of "forgot" mine on purpose.) :) But we had a fun time while the fam was here. We always like it when they visit. :)

Beautiful Momma.

Kevin doing his crazy jumps off hills of sand and grass haha. (dyson did a few too.) =]

Got a little CAPTAIN in ya?! haha jk jk. just funny.

lovely JAZZ.

OLIVER!

BUTTS!

CANYON'S BUTT! lol.

BOYZ

dyson. such a cutie!

puppies. they LOVE the beach... though they tend to poop sand the next day haha.

teenagers. :)

Chillin upstairs at the house. watching The Office on Netflix. :) fun fun.

Well, that just about sums up August so far. Kevin and I are just kind of waiting until next month when we move to Provo! We're really excited. We've (I think) officially set the moving date as September 7th. (That's 2 days after our 1 year anniversary... so I don't think we'll be doing anything big this year haha) But we're slowly packing things that we won't need for the next few weeks so that we won't have a load to do the week we move (I'm sure we will still have a load to do... but hopefully packing in increments will make it a little less severe.)

:)

Sunday at the Beach

2010-05-03T11:59:00.000-07:00

Yesterday (Sunday, May 2) Kevin and I went to the beach with Sadie. It was a lot of fun! We had been sitting around since church got out, and at about 7:00 Kevin got restless and wanted to go do something... so we drove the whopping 3 minutes to the beach. haha. It was a REALLY nice day! a lot nicer than i expected! there was a little wind... but not NEARLY as much as there usually is, and there was sun and it was just gorgeous. We walked down the shoreline for a bit and found this giant stump that was pretty cool looking, so kev and I climbed up on it and had a laugh at Sadie trying to jump and climb up the steep side (which amazingly enough she eventually succeeded at).

I climbed off the stump after that cuz i saw how "dramatic" the lighting was, and i snapped a few quick iphone shots of kevin and sadie... and the silhouette ones turned out awesome! haha they look so dramatic it's hilarious. there's also a cute one of them. the sky was so blue yesterday!

but the outing was really fun. sadie had a great time bolting around in the sand and biting at all the broken shells. She definitely took a long nap afterwards... and got a nice bath too. ("beach" and "dog" don't make a very good smell.)

haha i love how dramatic this is. =]
This is the "SIMBA" picture! haha
aww so cute. my little family. (minus me) lol. *BLUE sky*

Utah Trip

2010-05-01T20:58:00.001-07:00

Last week Kevin and I got to go to Utah! It was a lot of driving, but so fun! It was so great to go check everything out before we move there in a couple months. We got to see his sister graduate from BYU, and we got to see Cheyenne and her hubby, and a bunch of my family! We saw Sherie and her fam, Grandma Shirley, and Brie and Ben! it was super great. Chey, your puppies are adorable... sorry sadie was such a grump with them haha.

Chey and her hubby, Justice, let us stay with them for a few nights which was so nice (thanks guys) and we had a ton of fun with them. We went to Pizza factory and got the "twisty expensive bread" as Chey calls it haha, watched Sherlock Holmes, played cards, went and checked out the apartments we're gonna be living in (which are awesome by the way), and ate Korean food! It was a lot of fun.

Then we headed to Brie and Ben's and we got to see the new house they recently moved in to... which is AMAZING. Brie, your nursery for Brynlee is so adorable and I'm jealous. haha. Can't WAIT to see you all again in AUGUST!

Oh, AND... Brie did my hair! Before I got it done it was the longest I've ever had it. I had Brie put dark brown in it (with blonde highlights still in it) then cut 6 or 7 inches off! it feels so good!) I forgot to take "before" and "after" pictures... but I do have a picture of recently before it was done and then one the day after it was done. so those will have to work. *(THANK YOU BRIE)*

Sherie, Me, and Grandma Shirley at Sherie's apartment. :)
Me and Kevin. :)
Sherie and I. (This is also the "before" picture for my hair)

The "after" picture of my hair. *Thanks again Brie!!*

One of the passes we had to drive up. there was snow in some places we drove. scary!
You go crazy after long hours in the car! haha (we're proof)

Sadie is always so good in the car. :)

Overall, the trip was a lot of fun! Kevin and I can't WAIT to get back out there!!! =]

Dune Camping

2010-03-18T23:01:00.001-07:00

This week we went camping as a family. Now, it may just be that I'm a Cluff and I've always camped a certain way, but this is much different than I'm used to. We always camped in tents growing up. If it rained, you put a tarp over your tent and hoped for the best, or packed up and went home.-- Boy were we missin' out!! Camping with the Muntiferings is a completely different story. We have trailers-- And not just trailers... but trailers with full hookups- including cable and wifi. the only time we need to endure the "harsh outdoor climate" is to make s'mores!

Kevin's parents, 3 brothers, and I had 2 trailers set up in a campground by the dunes and went riding a few times a day for almost a week. It was lots of fun! we barbecued... soaked up the sun.. and had a lot of fun on the sand. I even DROVE my own four wheeler!!! We went on one ride for about 2 hours and I drove my own quad the WHOLE time! And to my surprise... I had FUN! The other few times that I've driven my own quad on the dunes have been tense and emotional... but this time was great. My fear of the dunes is slowly being left behind, and I'm slowly progressing to becoming a "rider babe" as kevin calls it. ;)

There is a sadder side to the story, however. The Muntifering's family dog of almost 12 years (Maddy, a Great Dane) died on Thursday night, the 4th night of our trip. It was really sad, but she was old for a great dane, and went in the best possible way- with her family around and loving her. We'll all miss her very much.

Tomorrow is the day that we pack up and go home... and I think we're all definitely ready. Sand in every crevice gets old pretty fast... and a nice long shower is one of the only things on my mind right now. (Although trailers are nice in the way of heaters and soft beds... one thing they aren't so good for is relaxing showers- zero water pressure and 2 temperatures: SCALDING or ICE COLD- and the hot only lasts a few minutes. all those things together don't make for a very relaxing shower experience.) There are showers at the lodge here at the campground, but they run on tokens and each token is only good for a few minutes (limit: 1 token per person per day).

So overall the week was fun and allowed a lot of quality family time! can't wait for next week when we get family time with the OTHER side of the family! :)

(i'll add pictures to this post when i get back home)

Wild Animals in the Sand

2010-02-17T20:25:00.000-08:00

Today Kevin and I went to the dunes. We rode in a side-by-side, and I had Sadie on my lap! she's really good at the dunes... I actually think she likes it! She doesn't freak out at all.. just sits there and enjoys the ride, sniffing around. :)

Anyway, as we were riding, we came over a hill and saw a PORCUPINE!!! It was just waddling across the sand, apparently not bothered at all by the four wheelers and dirt bikes driving all around it. It just kept waddling toward a big water whole that had been created by all the recent rain. We watched for a bit as it walked into the water and splashed around (though I don't know why... the temperature was in the 40s outside). But it seemed to be having fun.

So after we watched for a bit, we took a picture and left (the picture is really far away and hard to see)... but it was cool to see! I didn't know that porcupines lived in places like this. I always think of thick forests because of the movie Homeward Bound when the dog gets slapped in the face with a porcupine's tail. haha. And I've never seen one in the wild! haha. It was cool!

"Topic of the Day"

2010-01-29T13:41:00.000-08:00

Living where we do right now there aren't a whole lot of things to do. Kevin and I have to sit down practically every week and think of things that I can do to occupy my time other than watching television ALL DAY. So, during one of our weekly discussions, we came up with the idea that every morning, Kevin would give me a topic and I would research it throughout the day until I was satisfied with what I'd learned, then I would tell Kevin about it at the end of each day. This was fun, and lasted a whole 2 days. The first day was alright, I think I was assigned "the invention and progression of the cell phone", which I was actually kind of curious about. But, on day two I discovered that it wasn't such a good idea to ask Kevin to assign me the topics, because he assigned me "the invention and progression and function of engines". UGH! Really? Come on.

Now, I know Kevin really likes this stuff. I mean, he's been into cars and mechanics since he was a little kid, and now its his job, so it really is almost all he thinks about (so really I couldn't have expected him to be too creative). hehe. But I'm more into things like animals (dogs mostly, but all animals are interesting haha) and history and people and things like that. So, I've decided to ask all of YOU! If anyone has ideas, PLEASE let me know. And maybe give me your email if I don't already have it so that I can email you the information I find if you're interested at all. I know this may sound weird, but you really would be contributing to my sanity. =] THANK YOU!!!!!

Dune Living

2010-01-21T12:41:00.000-08:00

So, I guess living at the dunes comes with the responsibility of knowing how to drive a quad in the sand, and this has always been something that really scares me. If you've ever driven in the sand, you can feel the bike sliding under you ALL the time and it's really scary!! At least it is for me.

Anyway, yesterday John had someone over and they wanted to go riding, so Kevin and I went with them. I didn't want to take my own four wheeler the whole time, so I just rode on the back of Kevin's, but for a little of the time he let me drive it.

Now, normally when I go to the dunes with the plan to learn how to ride better, I get SUPER stressed out and I stress out everyone around me, and the day usually ends in either a fight between me and someone, and/or me crying and pouting with frustration. Yesterday, however, I was determined to end the day on a good note! So when Kevin asked me if I wanted to drive, I said "sure!" and hopped willingly on the front and started the bike.

I'm already having second thoughts at this point, because I can just feel my calm slipping away, and my emotional sensitivity rising.

Stick with it Kaylynn! Is what I'm thinking, because I know how much Kevin likes it when I try new things and do them with an open mind. So I drove around slowly and got a little more comfortable as time went on, asked Kevin some questions when I had them, and ended up driving around for about 10 or 15 minutes. (I didn't go up and big hills, but i putted around calmly and didn't have any emotional breakdowns! yay, mission accomplished!) haha.

I know this sounds dumb and wussy, but I was proud of myself for not quitting! (well, eventually I let Kevin back on the front because we were facing a huge hill and I was scared, but I still drove!) :)

Next time maybe I'll be on my own bike the whole time! (if I can hold off a freak out session for that long) haha.

Some of my drawings

2010-01-08T11:33:00.001-08:00

Here are a few of the drawings I've done. Some were sit down pieces that took a long time, others were just doodles done when I should have been doing something else. (in class, at church, during homework time, etc.) lol.

This one is.... hmm. actually i don't remember when i did this. lol

This one is a doodle. (left upper corner is a rough draft of what i gave to my uncle jeff, and the rest is just random.)
The one I sent to Ammon on his mission.
Art final senior year that my art teacher lost. all i have is a photo of it now. :(
Doodle. Not one of my favorites.

The one I gave to my uncle jeff. (this is when it was almost finished, not quite.)

Drawn from a book. Not from my head. haha.
Another doodle... i dont remember when i did it.

A long time ago.

Kevin and Sadie <3

2010-01-06T14:55:00.000-08:00

In an earlier post, I mentioned how much Kevin loves Sadie. I didn't have any good pictures of them together at the time, so the one I posted was not very good. But today they were playin' around, and I couldn't resist the urge to snap a few pictures. So cute! :)

She likes to sleep on him. =] He's a good pillow. hehe.

Sometimes she nibbles at his nose... (she tries just to lick, but sometimes it turns into nibbling. lol. he must taste good or something.)
YAWN!!! haha.

Christmas 2009

2010-01-05T16:45:00.000-08:00

This year for Christmas, Kevin and I went to Ashland and spent the holiday week with my family. We had tons of fun with all my cousins and aunts and uncles. (And of course we always love spending a few days at my parent's house!) :)

On Christmas Eve, Kevin and I organized a sledding trip (with Mom's help). We took a few of the boys (and Jasmine) to the mountain and had a great time.

The big Christmas Eve dinner was fun- a bit crowded, but fun-.

Christmas morning was tons of fun too! It brought back lots of childhood memories for me, and having Kevin there with my family made it even better. :)

Christmas night we had a couple of my aunts and their families come over to our house. We visited and laughed which was lots of fun, and I got to cut some hair! (I hope everyone liked theirs. lol) *That's not the finished product either... it looked awesome when it was finished.*

This holiday season was so much fun, and we loved seeing everyone!

After Christmas we went and visited Kevin's family for the next week and spent New Year's with them. :) Playing games with everyone is always super fun. Overall, this first holiday season of me and Kevin married was definitely one to remember! :)

A Cluff: Addicted to Vaseline at Birth?

2009-12-16T14:49:00.000-08:00

This just in:

Recent studies are showing that the product Vaseline (100% Pure Petroleum Jelly) is addictive to not only the one who has sinfully discovered the relief only it can bring- the pure satisfaction of the protection and coverage it provides to even the driest of skin (particularly rashes and chapped lips)- but that it is also addictive to the posterity of the abuser. It is passed on!

While Vaseline may glide on your lips like your favorite pair of jeans glide onto your butt (without flattening it out like all the others), are the addictive properties of this product really worth the orgasmic relief from lips like these?

In her interview, 45 year loyal user of Vaseline, Diana Cluff, had no idea that her long-term affair with the petroleum jelly would effect her posterity. She had no idea that when she started slathering the stuff on her face at the age of 20 that it would create a life-long dependancy for not only her, but for her children and grandchildren as well.

"Its anti-aging properties have kept me young!" she insists, "I'm almost 70 and I get whistled at every day at Goodwill!" Then as a side-note she adds, "Well not 70, I'm only 65, but people tell me I look 40! They ask me why I have almost NO wrinkles at all, and I just tell them it's the Vaseline! I started with putting it under my eyes, then just figured why not the whole face?! And they compliment me about my outfits and ask me where I got such stylish clothes and I just say I picked them up at the Goodwill or Salvation Army! I get the whistles there too by the way... at Salvation Army, that is. And..."

(We were on a time crunch, so thats all we got in).

Her granddaughter, Kaylynn Cluff Muntifering, shakes her head in disbelief and anger as she listens to the recent discoveries of Vaseline properties along with her grandmother's story. Then she begins her confession:

"It was last week, maybe Friday night when I noticed some mild dryness on my lips. Nothing to worry about, just a bit of chap stick and its gone... but not this time. I put chap stick on before I went to bed, looking forward to waking up to smooth lips, but was sorely disappointed. When I woke up I had bumps all over my lips! They were itchy and chapped, and no matter how much chap stick I applied they just seemed to stay the same, if not get worse! My husband didn't even want to kiss me, they were so bad! I called my mother desperate for some advice to get rid of these chapped monsters, and after suggesting everything from chap stick to a home-made remedy from her father, she suggested Vaseline as sort of an afterthought.

"Now, when I hear the word "Vaseline" I always think of Grandma and her shimmery glow, and how I always get a sticky spot on the side of my face every time I give her a hug. Vaseline works on your lips? Well, anything to get rid of these flaps of rawhide I'm talking through! So I went to Wal-Mart the first chance I had and picked up a 13 ounce tub of petroleum jelly. When the time came for application, I dipped my finger in the tub and felt the slimy goodness. had only a moment of hesitation before succumbing to the promising moisture. As soon as the lather touched my lips, all my dreams came true. It was smooth. Gliding. Soaking in. Relieving! At last! I will be HEALED! And then I was hooked. All throughout that day I was reapplying over and over; as soon as I felt the slip fading, I would slather it on once again, thickening the layer of jelly on my lips. Why is the silky sludge so consuming? Its musty smell? Perhaps the beautifully slippery texture? I didn't know. And I didn't care. It was working, and it felt so wonderful.

"Now my lips are almost completely revived. Plumped up and moisturized, they feel better than ever; but the Vaseline remains. I'm still putting it on throughout the day to receive its glossy goodness. And speaking of glossy, it not only keeps my lips soft and revitalized, but it makes a great lip gloss, giving a perfect "nude lip" look. I think I just might use it forever.

"Now that I know that it does in fact have addictive properties, I can stop blaming myself for my guilty obsession. I have an excuse- 'it runs in the family'. And although I have not yet progressed to the point of slathering it all ever my face, I can feel it tapping me on the shoulder. It's coming. But I'm a Cluff, so it's ok... (It runs in the family). And if you're a Cluff, don't try to fight it. It's in your blood."

Puppy Love

2009-12-16T13:31:00.000-08:00

Kevin's parents currently own a Great Dane named Maddy (Madison), and have a long history of owning Great Danes, labradors, pointers, and other large dogs. Because of this, every time Kevin and I would talk about getting a dog he was set on having a bigger dog. He had never owned a smaller dog, and he wasn't very fond of my parent's miniature pincher, Arrow (he thought she resembled a rat more than a dog... as I'm sure a lot of people do). Well, being where we are now in a tiny "make-shift" apartment with no fenced yard right next to a busy highway, getting a big dog that would need to be outside a lot was definitely a no-go, so I convinced Kevin to let me get a small dog ("As long as it's not a chihuahua" he said... and look what happened! haha).

However, now that we have our little Sadie, you would never believe that she isn't EXACTLY the dog that Kevin always wanted! He loves her almost more than I do! He's usually the one to get mad at her and get her in trouble, but her time-outs never last more than a few seconds, because he starts feeling guilty and loves on her even more! He lets her lick all over his face and jump all over him tongue flapping in excitement (something I won't even do)! It's pretty cute really, but sometimes it gets to the point where I feel like I should almost be getting a little jealous! He hugs and loves her and talks in his little high pitched puppy voice, and if I try to ask him a question or start a conversation during one of their little frenzies, he is completely absorbed in the dog and doesn't even hear me! (It's become a bit of a joke between us now). :)

So, my conclusion from all of this is that as much as men (or people in general) say they don't like small dogs, as soon as you get them one they'll fall in love. =] You can't help it!

"Hobo"-woman.

2009-12-11T13:13:00.000-08:00

You would think that being a good, supportive wife is the right thing to do, right? Well turns out it comes at a price.

Kevin recently got a second job (due to the slow winter season at the dunes) at Big 5 Sporting Goods in North Bend (about 25-30 minutes away from where we live). He works a couple nights a week over there on the late shift ending around 10pm. Well one of the days that he was working, we decided to make a day shopping trip to town too. We didn't want to drive there and back twice, (once for the shopping trip and once for him to go to work), so I just decided that I would wait for him while he was at work.

Who ever knew that filling 5 hours with shopping could be so difficult. (Especially for ME!)

I roamed the mall hallways but soon had to leave because they were closing, checked out the dollar tree (I guess I take after grandma a little more than I thought), and even got Taco Bell--> (Boredom, for some reason, seems to result in a "why-did-I-eat-that-much, I-wasn't-even-hungry-to-begin-with" full stomach) *and with Taco Bell, -two cheesy double beef burritos-, that's not the best thing to do.

Eventually I found my way back to the car, and found that barely an hour had passes. Oh dear. What to do. Luckily we had brought little Sadie (at least I had some company), and I had picked her up a new toy at the dollar tree. So we played a bit, and I fed her some of her new -also dollar tree- treats (I bought them because they were good for her skin and coat. I fed her quite a few in the car, then later read the back of the package and found that I'm only supposed to feed "1 treat per 10 pounds of weight per day". *Sadie is barely 5 pounds*)

Puppy play died down after a few minutes... and as our energy waned, so did the temperature. It had been dark since 5 o'clock, so now at 7 it was pretty chilly. I put on an extra sweatshirt, laid Kevin's spare sweatshirt over my lap, along with the new sweater i had just bought. Sadie was curled on my legs trying to keep warm herself, and with both of us completely bundled up I settled in playing games on the iphone.

A knock on the car window scared my practically to death, then there was a blinding blue-white light in my face. What was a police man doing at my car? Were the lights on or something and he was being nice letting me know? I was about to find out that any of my assumptions were far off.

I would have rolled down the window, but I was in the Muntifering "running-on-a-prayer" Geo Metro, and the driver's side window rolls down, but not back up. So I had to open my door to speak to the man.

"You can't roll down your window?" he asked.

Police men always make me a bit nervous, so being freezing and a bit frazzled all I could reply was, "It gets stuck." (Brilliant, Kaylynn.)

Then he asked something I never expected anyone to ask me (not including my dad jokingly referring to my always-messy high school car). "So are you living in your car or something?"

WHAT?! I quickly reassessed my situation in my head. I hadn't showered that day, my hair was slicked back into a hideous messy bun because we left in a hurry, I was bundled in multiple sweatshirts and had even more jackets on top of my legs for warmth, I had a dog with all of her necessities in the front seat next to me, and I imagine I was looking a bit green from all the cheesy goodness in those (gag) burritos.

Great.

"No! I'm waiting for my husband to get off work!"

"Oh. Well I just saw you hunched over and thought you were maybe taking a nap or something."

I look like a hobo. end of story.

Is this what living in a place with limited human contact has done to me?

When are we moving again?

Timeline... so far...

2009-12-10T20:51:00.000-08:00

Since there's no real order to the way things are posted on our blog so far, I figured I'd lay everything out in order for everyone real quick, starting when I went to college.

January 2009-

I started my first (and only so far) semester at BYU. I took 5 classes. (pretty easy ones... i was a bit of a slacker- Cheyenne can attest). I took required classes like Book of Mormon and English, then I took a Nutrition class, Human Development, and Student Development. I had a fun time.

February 2009-

Kevin came home from his mission to Seoul West, South Korea and came to visit me out in Provo. (Thats when we reestablished our relationship). =]

April 2009-

Kevin returned to Provo to "retrieve" me and bring me back home to Ashland where i stayed the summer with my parents. (though I did a lot of visiting to Coquille where Kevin was living with his parents, and he did a lot of visiting to Ashland also).

May 2009-

During one of Kevin's visits to Ashland, he took me out on a date (on May 11), and drove me to the Medford Temple where he proposed. :) (Obviously I said yes. Well, I sort of just nodded. I couldn't really speak at the moment.) I bought my wedding dress 2 days later. <3

July 2009-

I left home for the last time, and moved in with John's girlfriend Becca in her cute little house in Charleston. Right by the beach. =] While living there, I got a job at a cute little restaurant called The Portside for about a month as a table busser.

August 2009-

A month full of wedding planning! At the end of August I went back to Ashland and stayed with my family for the week before I was married.

September 2009-

On the 4th (Friday) we drove up to Portland and checked into our hotel. Then we had a big family dinner that night, and did some hanging out with everyone before the big day. On Saturday the 5th we were married! We had to be at the temple by 6:30 am to get everything prepared, then the ceremony was at 10 am, then pictures at around 11, then by 1 we were back on the road on our way to Ashland for the reception! It was a 5 hour drive and we were already all exhausted. By the time we got back to Ashland and got BACK into our wedding attire, we were half an hour late to our own reception! But we had a great time, and everything turned out beautifully. That was one crazy day.

October 2009-

We spent Halloween in Ashland with my family. Had a "before" dinner at the Able's (great chili) and an "after" party at the Shumways (fun games!) It was a blast.

November 2009-

November 12 was the day that we bought our little puppy, Sadie! She was 9 weeks at the time, so we counted back and figured that she was born somewhere around September 15 (we rounded to the 15th, because decided that it would be easier to celebrate her birthday from a number easy to remember) haha. She's over 3 months now!

For Thanksgiving we were in Coquille with Kevin's family. Brad and Rashelle were there with their girls too, and we had a really good time. And really good food! :)

December 2009-

So here we are at the end of the year, the beginning of our marriage, and with a brand new blog! =]

Hopefully that filled in all the empty spaces.

More Portland Pictures

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Ashland Reception Pics

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Pictures by Lauren Bruce.

The Wedding!

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Our wedding day was pretty crazy. We got married at 10 am in Portland, then we had a reception that same night in Ashland at 7 pm! So we had to BOOK IT down to Ashland haha. We had hardly any time for pictures at the temple in Portland, but Nial did an AWESOME job and we got everything we needed. We ended up being half an hour late for our own reception, but it was still super fun. Here are some pictures from both the Portland temple and the reception in Ashland.

Engagement- May 11, 2009

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Kevin and I got engaged on May 11, 2009. He proposed at the Medford temple around 7 pm. It was really special. Here are some of my favorite engagement pictures of us... there are many more, but these are some of the faves. :)

Our Sadie Girl

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This is our precious little Sadie girl. =] We absolutely love having her around! She brings us lots of smiles and laughs. She even brings holiday spirit! (Though I don't know how much she enjoys being dressed up in her little outfits.) =P

First Blog!

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FINALLY! I've been hearing a lot from a lot of people that I need to get a blog, so I finally caved. :)

So, It's December and Kevin and I have been married for a little over 3 months. <3>

This last weekend we drove down to Ashland to visit my family, (always a fun trip), and when we got back, we had a bit of a surprise waiting for us. Our pipes were FROZEN! So we had NO running water, and on top of that it was only a whopping 35 degrees INSIDE our house!! (This was because our downstairs heater is broken and we haven't replaced it yet).

Luckily we had a few water bottles filled up from a while ago when we had to shut off our water to install the kitchen sink, so we had a little to cook with.

So that was just one of the many little adventures we've had during our first few months of marriage. :)