St. Patrick ’s Day is a big deal, especially to our friend Phil.  He throws a huge party full of apple beer, log throwing contests, and even spoon fights where people actually bleed!  Really though, this is an intense party!  We get to dress up and go line dance while speaking with an Irish accent all in the same night!  Very fun St. Patty’s Day!

 Spoon fighting is really dangerous actually.  I am surprised how much the guys enjoyed this part… okay actually I’m not surprised…

Happy (late) St. Patrick ’s Day!

Bear, Delaware

After sleepless nights, long lists of pros and cons, friends and family’s advice, weeks of fasting (ok yeah not really weeks… more like hours.) we have finally made the decision…

We really are moving to BEAR, DELAWARE!!!

Kenny is going to do summer sales with the company Vivint. 

This has been quite the decision for us.  We have gone back and forth, and back and forth… and then back and forth again!  We wanted to stay in Utah and finish school and keep on working our same jobs, but we also wanted to have this new experience of moving out of state and trying something very very NEW!  Our friends Makelle and Austin will be out there with us, and that is very comforting to have familiarity in somewhere that will be very foreign for a ‘Utahern’ like myself.  Imagine the new sites I will see!  I am excited at this opportunity to grow and gain new experiences.  I am sure the summer will be full of times where it is really hard but we also feel very good about beginning this adventure together.  Here we come Bear, you better watch out, the McAffee’s are coming to town!!

Dear Lucy

Dear Lucy…

As many of you already know my sister and her husband were able to adopt recently!  It has been an amazing miracle!!  As Lucy has gotten older (four months… I know I’m talking like it’s been four years!!!) she truly has blessed our family in so many ways.  First of all, I have got to watch my sister and her husband show me great examples of complete faith in Heavenly Father and his real plan for us.  We may think we have a plan but… heh heh heh something else BETTER is always in store for us.  My faith in prayer has grown through seeing them have this complete package of joy be able to be in their lives.  Another blessing Lucy has brought into our family’s life is seeing other family member’s joy through this little miracle girl.  Seeing my snowmobiling-never-stopin-wilderness-survivin-sevendy-nine-year-old grandpa hold Lucy in his arms and looking at her with such joy brought tears to everyone’s eyes.  We all love her and I am so happy she is in our family!  Love you Lucy!!  

  

Something burnt, something cool, and some new snow shoes!

Burnt:  Well it happened again.  I tried to cook.  Actually lately I have been getting really interested in cooking fun new meals.  It all started when I actually went to the grocery store.  I found that it is incredibly easier to cook when you have more than just Worcestershire sauce and peanut butter sitting in your fridge.  So there I found myself making homemade hamburger buns on my day off of work.  It wasn’t as hard as I thought and I was really proud of myself for making something from scratch.  Well I had made more dough than expected so I had to save half to put in later.  Kenny came home from work and we decided to go hang out with our friends Carson and Shellena and Roy and Elliot.  So I put the rest of the dough in the oven…. And away we went to go play.

Three hours in the oven set at 350 = Very smoky apartment and bad smell.  At least I do have proof that I didn’t ruin the first batch!

Cool: Valentine’s Day this year seemed rather busy.  So we had decided to celebrate it over the weekend which didn’t really work out since I had to work but it still turned out to be very cool!  So even though this is really late…

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Kenny did a very cool surprise and bought me a keyboard so that I can re-learn how to play the piano!

Snowshoes:  My mom is very adventurous as long as it doesn’t come to heights.  She loves outdoors, hiking, and camping.  So my own mom planned our family a very fun trip to go snowshoeing on President’s Day.  We hiked all around Snow Basin in funny shoes that force you to walk like a duck leaving your hip flexors very sore the next day.  It was a very fun family day.

The Best of Both Worlds

The Best of Both Worlds

Kenny and I love kids.  We have the sweetest nieces and nephews… the craziest sunbeam class, that we simply adore trying to teach.  Right now at this point in our lives we talk about how exciting it will be to one day have kids of our own, but for right now we definitely get to have the best of both worlds. 

We get to make our nieces and nephew as hyper as humanly possibly ….

We get to give them as much ice cream as they want…

Play water sports with them and see how cute they are in swimsuits or not :) …

Let them eat super blue frosting that may have permanently dyed their skin… 

Love their cute adorable faces…

Celebrate birthdays....

We get to take them to McDonalds so we can have an excuse to play on the play toy…

Cuddle, Kiss, and tickle them silly …

Then after all this fun is said and done…

We get to hand them back their awesome parents and sleep alllll night long.zzzzz

Where to begin?!

Well well.. .where do I begin?  Happy New year! Now Happy one year anniversary to me and Kenny!  I really cannot believe it has been a whole year!  Well there really is so much to tell where do I begin… let’s just start with some pictures.

Christmas eve was quite the adventure this year.  It began with us bundling up in all the snow gear we could possibly fit on  our bodies then driving up the canyon with Dione, Taylor, Brynne, and Dane.  It ended with a tragic broken thumb of Dione’s, all because a stupid dog wouldn’t get out of our way as we flew down a cliff of death.  Luckily she did recover. 

I loved having Christmas morning with just my husband.  Later we went over to my parents and had a fabulous time, but it was really fun waking each other up and getting just as excited to open presents together just like we were six years old again....

yes... our tree was only about 10 inches tall.  Because it was so small we put it on our table/deck furniture and put all the presents underneath.  It was fun to have this to laugh about.

Kenny made sure to make my birthday extra special by bringing my breakfast in bed and loading all these on top of me while I was still sleeping!  Best birthday ever! 

We had so much fun going to Salt Lake’s New year eve party with Austin and Makelle… who are soon going to be wedded (APRIL 30^TH!!)… The next day Austin and Ken had planned me and Makelle another big birthday celebration full of restaurants singing to us, playing tennis, getting our nails done, and wonderful birthday crowns and sashes that we were required to wear ALL day.  So fun. 

And Finally... Our cruise to celebrate ONE YEAR!!!!

We had a blast celebrating our marriage… and even though the cruise was a little wet and rainy we still had a lot of fun.

Cheesy I know...

I usually am not one to be publicly cheesy but since I now have reason to celebrate being married one entire year… enjoy the cheese! 

From deal making and bribes of who does the dishes versus the laundry, to running up the stairs contests - We have made this past year an adventure for sure!  Here are just a few reasons why I am so happy to be married to Kenny!

-I am so greatful to have a husband who I have so much fun with!

-I am so blessed to have a husband who fills my car with gas

                            and is so happy about it!

-I am glad I have a husband who is not afraid of spandex…

but probably should be...

-I love having a husband who challenges me to do my best

    Here is to you Kenny dear!  I love being married to you and cannot wait to celebrate more years to come!!

-I love having a husband who LETS me win… (sometimes)