One Year Ago...

I married an amazing man.

and today....

I love him more than ever.

Looking forward to an eternity of endless happiness with you honey!

12/30/2010

because i am blessed.

Christmas Week

We spent Christmas in Virginia this year and it was absolutely perfect!! I am so blessed to have married such a wonderful man who comes from such a wonderful family. I am seriously in love with all my in-laws (on my side and my husbands side). How can a girl be so lucky? I have no idea but I am eternally grateful for the beautiful relationships I have with all of my family! 

I couldn't not put up a billion and three photos and even limiting it to that was difficult! Generally I love to take pictures but often get swept up in loving the moment and forget to snap the memory. Luckily I was able to get a bunch of cute ones that really capture our time there.

My beautiful sister in law, Lindsey, had her second child a month ago and we were extremely privileged to meet our new niece, baby alice, while we were there! Norah showed us how great of a big sister she was, it was very aNORAHable. (blessing post soon to come).

Putting captions to all the pictures crossed my mind but I think they speak for themselves  BUT the picture of hubs with his "corn de-husker" is a hilarious story I must tell...

Kimballs grandmother (susans mom) had a thing for kitchen gadgets (ever heard of an egg pricker? I hadn't.) Anyway, there's a cute little running joke between kimball and his mom (susan) about all the kitchen gadgets that are out there and so she decided to find a new ridiculous kitchen gadget for him every Christmas. I am personally very excited to see what she comes up with! This year it was a corn de-husker and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited to see if it works!

One last thing, I can add a new state to my list! Maryland!! Did you know that the DC Temple is actually in Maryland? Now you do :) 

Between getting my booty kicked at the gym every morning by Susan, eating every thing in sight, shopping our brains out, playing Just Dance until dripping with sweat, searching the house for our first christmas gift (a very cute hicks family tradition where susan comes up with genius rhyming hints that lead us to our favorite gift *see bryan above*) and snuggling with family galore we had plenty of R&R to get us ready for our very last semester here at BYU. 

because i am blessed.

Baby Alice

As mentioned in the previous post our sister in law, Lindsey, just had bebe number two! Baby Alice is the sweetest baby I have met, do not take this comment lightly. These pictures are the few we have with her eyes open! Being less than a month old at the time of her blessing (what the pictures above are from) she was a very sleepy baby. But even when she wasn't sleeping she hardly cries and is a joy to snuggle with :) 

The top picture show hubs, guy and bryan with baby alice. The next is hubs parents (Susan and Guy) with Lindsey and Bryan as the very proud parents of the adorable Norah and Alice. Under that is Bryan & Linds with Lindseys sister, Ashley and brother in law, Matt with their new little one Louis (is anyone else drooling over all the cute baby names? kay, good.) Finally we come to Norah giving kisses to baby Alice (and wiping off the kisses promptly hah she does that after every kiss to every body, i love norah! she is too hilarious). And of course, mama and baby finish off our photos. It was so special being there for the blessing of baby Alice.

because i am blessed.

kiss kiss.

There is a song that my dance partner and I loved to dance to called Turkish Kiss and after taking this picture to send to hubs for after he gets out of a final I can't get it out of my head!

I miss my competing days but I love my life and am so grateful for a husband who encourages me to keep up with my passion of dance even if it means sitting in a room trying to study while his wife flails around the room to blaring music.

Hubs is taking a final as I type, and I'm actually "studying" right now ;) Hope the week is turning into a great one for all of you! 4 finals down and 2 to go over here and only one more week til Virginia!

p.s. who else is enjoying the christmas music a little too much? i may or may not have gone through my christmas playlist on grooveshark like 20 times just today.

p.s.s. justin bieber? why do i all of a sudden really like him..? especially his christmas songs? i'm okay with it.

because i am blessed.

one more to go!

It's the last day of the second to last semester of my Brigham Young University career!

Which doesn't mean a ton but I'm excited nonetheless! I mostly felt like I needed to post because I've been uber poopy at blogging lately..I was going to blame it on the fact that my blog has been silly lately but that really would be a major lie considering even if it was being completely cooperative I still wouldn't have had time to blog. It's also a bit pathetic that my countdown has been zeroed out for a good month and a day now..oops.

Point is I am only 50 hours of work and 4 finals away from being pretty dang free! The Hubs and I are going to Virginia for Christmas and we are soo ready for the break! We hit up Az for Thanksgiving and spent a week with my familia which was beyond needed and so wonderful! But, sadly, I forgot Lady (our nikon) at home here in Uthar :( so no photographs por tu. Just imagine my huge family (aunts, uncles cousins and cousins kids included).

Sort of a pointless post but I just wanted ya'll to know I'm not dead and doing fairly well and maybe at some point I'll be able to focus long enough to write a post that is actually coherent and possibly even *gasp* witty? That'd be pushing it but we can hope :)

p.s. i've been thinkin' lots about new years resolution. i have a few that i'm actually really excited about but have never really had concrete, measurable resolutions before so i'm a bit nervous! have you thought of yours yet?

do tell.

because i am blessed.