Merry Christmas!!!

I love Christmas time! I love the lights, the presents, shopping, spending time with family, catching up with friends, wrapping presents, surprises and thinking about our Savior.

It was fun catching up with old friends at temple square. thanks carrie

so we tried something new this year. we got a white tree...Caden has always wanted a white tree but he would prefer blue lights. i settled on the white tree and he settled for pre-lit white lights, but it actually turned out a lot better then we were thinking. I liked it! what do ya think?

I love spending Christmas eve with my family. After a wonderful day with my mom's side of the family we went home to open our pj's and then i think we may have started a new tradition. We were all hungry and decided to go to In&Out Burger in our matching pajama's :) The cashier seemed to get a kick out of it and was so glad we came in.

Wow......that was cute....

Christmas morning!

Whenever he's around i can't get enough of him! i want to squeeze those cheeks!!!

Hope all of you enjoyed your Christmas!!

Happy New Year!

Happy Birthday sweetie!

He's half a century old! On November 12, Caden turned 25. We celebrated with breakfast and off to his seminary class were we shared donuts with his students. We then went to his favorite restaurant Rodizio, were we stuffed ourselves full. it was a fun day!

thanks mom and dad for Lost and mal and marks for the shoes! I surprised him with Wii resort and an electric shaver. That is one happy man

My husband is the most wonderful blessing in my life. i love his positive attitude and his laugh. i love you so much sweetie. happy birthday!

So we moved!

Well, we had to move. We were really sad about it. We made really good friends at the University Village and loved our ward family. This was our first little place together and we loved it, even the concrete walls weren't so bad. I miss coming home to a playground full of kids and friendly neighbors. We found another little one bedroom apartment in the Fort Union area and are enjoying it here so far.

Goodbye old place. We'll miss you!

We now actually have counter space....it's pretty nice

i can't believe we lived more than two years of our marriage with out a dishwasher. the sink is always empty! and to the right of this picture is our beautiful washer and dryer. we sprung for the front loaders and feel like we're living large doing laundry whenever we want.

we found an awesome deal on this counter high table and four chairs. love them!

yes...we splurged. caden found an awesome deal on this 40" t.v.

update

we're alive i promise....we both just finished finals last week so hopefully life might get back to normal for a bit until it starts again for me. i just want to say congrats to my sweet husband for getting his bachelors. he didn't do the whole walk thing for his diploma, but he worked really hard graduating with a 3.85 college GPA. Good job babe! We are now looking forward to him teaching seminary at a near by high school as a student teacher this coming year. He is so excited! (we're going to decorate his seminary classroom tomorrow). And auditions are coming up for me for the symphony in 2 weeks. Let's hope all goes well!! we may be moving soon too because where we are living you can't live here unless someone is going to the university so we'll keep you posted (or just to my one or two followers) love you!

good times

Last night my mom and i went to the death cab for cutie concert at the red butte gardens. I won vip tickets from my work at wells fargo for having awesome customer service and caden didn't want to miss his class (heaven forbid) so the first person i thought of next was my mom. 

We brought our own cafe rio dinner and then once death cab started we mentioned going down in the pit. mom was the one that said ya let's go do it!

Thanks mom for the fun night! you're awesome!

they were amazing live!

don't really know the band....loved the shirts...

ok...so we couldn't stop laughing at this guy that was just rocking out by himself for at least a good 20 minutes. you go dude! ( in the middle of the video it starts shaking because i couldn't help but laugh)

it's been two years

I can't believe we have been married already for two years...But i feel like i have known Caden forever...weird how that works out. I'm such a lucky women! It is so easy for me to list qualities i love in him, which i started, but the list just went on and on. we're still in that newlywed phase where we are always cuddling and kissing and can say we have never had a fight. (i think we'll be in that phase forever) honestly, he makes me laugh everyday and helps me get through tough days at school and work. i love you sweetie! 

this past weekend we had the opportunity to get off school and work and go to st. george for a few days. we enjoyed being lazy together, going to dinner's, shopping and going to the movies.

last night we saw footloose at the tuacahn. it was awesome and alot of fun! 

busy busy busy

well after a break from school i finally started up again on June 10th. I'm taking a physics course and a communication course. My classes are mon tues wed and thurs nights. I'm still working 35 hours a week at wells fargo and squeezing in my violin lessons and practicing. I feel bad because I've had to cancel my relief society meetings twice now and my bed hasn't been made in days.... it's only been a week and a half of this schedule and i'm exhausted! 

Oh, and i think i have finally recovered from the "little red riding hood" bike race last saturday. With my mom and sisters help i completed an 80 miles bike race. I had only had my bike a month and the longest ride i'd ever been on was 37 miles. I really couldn't have done it without my mom who blocked the wind for me for almost half of the race. my mom is a very good rider and likes to go very fast. she would stay with me though and talk or teach me new ways to ride and remind me to drink. thanks to cassie who wouldn't let me get off my bike and walk it up that dang hill that went on forever. "Megan, look up!! you did it!! Megan look up!!" after about 7 hours..it was done. Love you guys! until next time

memorial day fun

after a long 37 mile bike ride in the morning with my mom and sisters, after i busted my same knee open again after yet another crash, and after i swear a second degree sunburn on my back that is still throbbing today, we enjoyed a beautiful day in the provo canyon. i love spending time with my family!

i swear we're not sisters who plan our outfits out together. it just happens

up on bridal veil falls

i'm officially a triathlete!

it was absolutely amazing! i loved it! 

*The swim went by faster than i thought

 (i thought i had two more laps to go when i heard the guy yelling at me to get out of the water)

The bike ride was fun. Hated the uphills. Loved the down hills.

When i started running my legs felt like jello and 200 hundred pounds each, but for some reason my energy and adrenaline were still up and pumping.

After exactly an hour and a half....VICTORY!

Good job Cassie, Sam and Millie! (thanks for sticking with me mills)

is this how it's supposed to be?

Look at my beautiful bike!!

look at my wounds...

Ouch! Aahh! Ooo!

what the heck am i doing??

in 4 weeks from today!

So I set some goals....

So for those that don't know I play the violin. I have played for almost my whole life, but when Caden and I got married I stopped taking lessons and playing 5 hours a day (from being a music major at snow college). I was lazy at finding a teacher for a year and a half. I realized without help I was losing my talent...so a few months ago I found this wonderful teacher, Leslie and I absolutely love playing again. I'm going to audition for the Salt Lake Symphony in August. I have a recital 4 weeks from today were I am playing this beautiful piece "Vocalise" by Rachmaninoff. I'm back to scales, etudes, and Mozart for auditions. Oh boy!

and on the same day as my recital I'm doing a triathlon!!!

My sister Cassie did this same triathlon last year and encouraged me to do it this year with her. I mean she just have a baby 2 months ago and she's doing it! She's a rock. It's 300 yards swimming, 15 miles biking, then a 5k. I just have to say it's kicking my trash. I've really enjoyed going to swim for exercising and I just ordered a road bike for my birthday and am way excited, but I know the run is going to kick my butt. I've never done anything like this before.Wish me luck! 6 a.m. workouts here I come!

p.s. my sister mal just completed a half marathon today! as Chicago would say " you're the inspiration!" good job!

birthday fun!

well on the 3rd i officially turned 21!! yay! i was woken up with breakfast in bed by my wonderful husband and spent the day at lunch with my mom and sisters (and my nephews). Caden and i then went to Tepenyaki for dinner, which was so cool, and then went to go see the movie Knowing, with Nicholas Cage (i thought the end was lame). We then spent conference weekend down at my parents house. i loved spending my birthday weekend with them. Thanks everyone! Love you!

way to much fun! love ya buddy

vegas..yet again

My fam decided to do a little get away to Las Vegas. My uncle has an amazing home in vegas he rarely lives in and uses for business, so we were lucky enough to stay in there for a few nights. The first night we bought steaks, sat in the hot tub, played yatzee and watched movies. Then it was off to vegas.

We missed scott cassie and asher though. Cassie's baby is due any day now and we're so excited! and mallory was just a bum and couldn't get off work.

So we splurged and decided to go the the spice market buffet in the planet hollywood hotel. it was so good! my mom said she was going to win us some money in the slot machines for dinner but the five bucks didn't go very long. maybe one day...soon..i'll be old enough to gamble.

because we were going to be in las vegas with my parents and siblings on valentines day, we decided to do our's on wed. Caden bought me some flowers , amazing chocolates and we got pizza delivered. i love him!

update

well the decision was made. Caden's dad Carl bought 2009 Mustang GT. He absolutely loves it! Caden is pretty jealous. We went to go visit him this weekend before we went to vegas and i woke up to caden getting back in bed around 8 a.m. He was frezzing and confessed he was out in the garage that morning awing over that car.

-itty bitty livin space-

welcome to our humble home. (love the concrete walls??) so i decided after a year of living here i wanted to put up those curtains over the wall. it is not a window but it sure makes the concrete blocks less noticeable. my sweet husband drilled into concrete for me. a mission.... accomplished. i absolutely love ikea. i got our curtains, those pillows, our kitchen table and chairs, our bed frame and miscellaneous things around the house. i absolutely LOVE it here! it's our home... caden's and mine...

our carpet is wrinkly because the apartment actually comes with fuzzy maroon cement. just this awful flat carpet. our good friends mike and melissa gave us some left over carpet from carpeting there own place. it made a huge difference! now our butts don't go numb when we sit on the floor.

ok....yes...i'm a person who decorates their fridge ok! i got the idea from the movie "p.s. i love you". it's just a strip of magnet with adhesive on the other side that i put ribbon on. it's fun!

our wonderful bedroom! on the other side of me we have a little dresser and our computer desk, with just enough space to walk.

where's the counter space??? (ya, that's what i thought) caden's patience with me in the morning with my hair and makeup stuff everywhere! you can tell i had to clean..it's was a saturday

cars, cars, cars

It was Carl (my father in law's) birthday last Friday! Happy Birthday! He came up from Salina to visit us and of course we couldn't miss the car show at the expo center. I debated for a very long time whether i wanted to go or not with them. You have to understand, Caden and his dad are SO into cars it's unbelievable!! Since we have been married ( 1 1/2 yrs) Caden and I have owned 7 cars. (don't believe me. the chrysler, the mustang, the trail blazer,the mazda, the mini, the avalon, and the subaru.) It's a fun hobby for the both of them. Well, I went! and it was pretty fun until we hit the 3rd hour :)
Well Carl has two trucks that he loves, but is thinking of trading one of them in for a smaller car. He's been thinking about getting a chevy malibu but once his eyes fell on this dodge challenger he started really liking this car. Caden would say," Come on dad! You don't need a family car like a malibu. You've always wanted a muscle car. This is so cool!!" We'll have to wait and see what dad does now....

Tempting...

I don't know what it is. I've always loved little cars. I'm having withdrawls from my mini this smart car is looking pretty fun

-cute baby max-

this is baby max at his blessing. oh i love this baby. lindsey you make it look so fun

proud father on the left with the boys he grew up with...cute

S O M E D A Y...

the holidays were great!

caden and some of the ole salina buddies: tyrell and nolan

funny story: when caden and i had been dating for only 3 months, we went to temple square together. he told me he wanted to take my picture with the temple and lights in the background. well all he had was his little phone but couldn't get the temple with me in it with the little lens. so...he knelt down on one knee to get a good picture of the temple above me. well you could only imagine how this looked. here i was just smilin away and he is down on one knee with a phone open (that might look like a ring box). everyone around us gasped and started forming a circle. caden quickly realized as he jumped from his knee telling the old women, "oh, no no no" we get to laugh about it every time we go.

right before grandma's christmas party that was so fun!

lately....

lately i haven't had time to update my blog because every time i got on the computer i was working on putting together a slideshow for for family for christmas. we have a whole bunch of loose pictures at my house of our childhood so it took me forever to scan all of them in, but it was worth it. i'm glad i have some of these pictures now saved to my computer. i did the slideshow chronologically. i started it with my parents engagement then to cass and so forth. anyway, i showed it to my family last night and it was a lot of fun! these are just a few of my favorites....Merry Christmas!!!

All because two people fell in love.....

i love edward cullen

so twilight was SO good! if you've read the books, you'll love the movie. i was obsessed with the cullens. i just wanted to keep watching them the whole time. ya, i'll admit it's chessy, but i love it! Right before i went to the movie my work took us all and our spouses the the olive garden, but i had to leave early for the movie. on my way out to waitor made fun of me for going to the midnight showing. he said " Why are so many women obsessed when it's for fourteen year olds!"

don't we look like sexy vampires!

thanks for the fun night out girls! i can't wait to see it again!

happy birthday sweetie!

Caden's birthday was on Nov. 12th. He is now officially 24! we decided to take a full week off of work and school. it was very well needed. On his birthday i woke him up with breakfast in bed and then we were off to visit his dad in Salina. We went out to dinner, watched a movie and had cheesecake. Then on Thursday we drove to Las Vegas! Caden went on priceline and got us this AWESOME deal on a hotel right on the strip. We stayed at the planet hollywood hotel for only 50 bucks! the room was so cool and we had a view of the bellagio show right out side our room!
The M&M factory and coke factory are my favorite on the strip. At the coke factory we tried coke from 16 different countries. It was alot of fun! the clear one.....tastes like hairspray. We then spent the rest of the week in St. George at my grandparents trailor enjoying shopping, eating out and sleeping! Happy Birthday Sweetie!

.i love my husband.

 Caden was so sweet when we were dating. Because he lived in the apartment right up stairs from me (not to mention the room right up above mine and his bed was directly above mine!) we spent alot of time together. Some mornings before he went to class, he would run downstairs walk in our apt and come to my room and wake me up with a "good morning beautiful". when i would go to orchestra in my locker would always be a cute note that would make me smile and he always said he would take specific routes from class to class just to see me because he knew i would be walking down certain streets. i'm a lucky girl because those things continue to happen. In the mornings before i go to work he'll wake up, see me and the first thing he says is, " you look nice!" every morning!! 

In the middle of the day he will send me a text that tells me how much he loves me, can't live without me, and to especially be safe. he always does the dishes, willingly passes out flyers for relief society or fills in in the nursery. he lets me share his drink (even though i know he wished i wouldn't) and lets me put my freezing feet on his stomach to warm them up. he is the greatest thing in my life. i love you sweetie!

-i love my nephew-

 
              

-happy halloween-

these are my gals at work. we got to dress up at the bank so 

caitlyn dressed up as a  stood up prom date, 

tammy was a ganster and me of course in my normal attire.

isn't he dreamy? he dressed up willingly for halloween and was actually 

excited about it! we went to a fun party halloween night were we ate donuts on a string, made carmel apples, played mafia and watched scary movies.

 thanks mike and melissa! it was fun!

our trip to new jersey...

we recently went back to cadens mission in new jersey. we ate some seriously good pizza, saw an awesome lighthouse, met up with some old friends, went to the shore (not the beach...the shore) and had a good time. we first thought the trip was going to be awful because my suitcase got lost on the flight, yes mine, and then the hotel didn't know we were coming, not to mention is was clear out in the middle of no where, and then after an hour of us sitting in the lobby waiting for a room, we settle in and our toilet is broken. but all in all the trip was worth it. i got to her mission stories, went the mission home and saw EVERY apartment caden ever lived in those two years. it was great!

The Shore!

this was the first street caden tracted on

he talked about this pizza for weeks before prepping me for it.

it's a little place called Toscanas in Audubon, New Jersey. there were these italian people there who still owned it and caden recognized them right when we walked in. " Hey, it's Sunny and Stella right?" They kind of gave him a weird look and pretended to know this sweet missionary from so long ago. Hey we won't complain. we got some free garlic knots out of it

barnegat lighthouse at long beach island

on a boardwalk