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