One!

This last weekend Kevin and I celebrated our one year anniversary! I can't believe a year has gone by so quickly.  It has been such a fun year and I can't believe how much has changed just a few short months ago!  Kevin is my best friend and I love being married to him, we have so much fun together and I really am so lucky that he picked me! For our anniversary we drove to Reno to stay and SHOP! We had to speak in church on Sunday so we came home on Saturday night and we had saved our cake top so we got that out had some of that which was delicious and watched a movie. Here are a few pictures from the weekend!

One the Road

 No trip is complete without a trip to In-N-Out

Our Cake! and the picture below makes me laugh so hard! He's so much fun to live with we are laughing all the time!!!

Thanks for a great year Kevi! I love you and can't wait for all the years to come!

pictures!

I haven't posted for a while but I thought I would update with a few pictures.  So far we have liked Elko, but we've been back to logan almost every weekend since we moved so I guess we can't really say it's starting to feel like home yet.  Kevin likes his job so far! and i'm sort of liking school... as much as you can like school, right? and that's pretty much the update i have for now... I know, boring!

Saying goodbye to our apartment in Logan!

And one weekend when we were in Logan Karen and I were out running errands while the boys went on a four wheeler ride, I guess they found a little mud hole and flipped one fo the four wheelers and got all muddy! It seems like they had a great time!

Goodbye and Hello

we moved! like I said a few posts ago Kevin got a job in Elko NV so we packed up our apartment and took off on Thursday!  two weeks before we moved we came to Elko to look for places to live, the housing market here is ridiculous and we spend six days here and didn't find a thing! we went to every single apartment complex and if they weren't low income they were completely booked for at least 3 months!!! We thought seriously about buying a house but then decided against it and put our names on a couple of waiting lists and even paid a deposit to be moved up on a list!  Kevin's company offered 30 days of housing for when we first moved so we figured we would take that since we couldn't find anything else but were kind of dreading moving everything into storage just to move it again when we found our own place.  We moved on Thursday and on Wednesday I got a call saying that an apartment had opened up! I couldn't even believe it so we took it right away!  The only bad thing is that it is upstairs so hauling everything up two flights of stairs was not very fun but we made it work and are almost completely moved in minus a few pictures that need to be hung up so we couldn't be more excited to have an apartment to call home, it is definitely a tender mercy that we can call somewhere home! 

While we've been super busy unpacking the house Kevin started work yesterday this week he has to do refresher trainings which are a little boring since he did all of them last year and sitting in a room for ten hours a day watching slide show presentations isn't exactly ideal but he likes the people he's met so far and seems to be enjoying himself minus the 4:15 am bus ride that he has to make!

Elko will definitely be an adjustment and we will miss Logan a ton but I'm sure in no time we'll really enjoy it.  We're really grateful to have a good job just after graduation and we're excited to start a new adventure with just the two of us!  I'll try to keep you updated but as of now we don't have Internet so I'm pretty cut off from the world but maybe that will change soon!

Stef In the Casino

This is Kevin this time. I'm not much of a blogger myself, but since it was Stefani's birthday and she didn't post anything about it, I figured that I would AT LEAST say that she has finally, after all these years, been exposed the wonders of a slot machine! She was winning left and right. By the time we left the casino she knew how to make all the right bets. We didn't even get carded! :) It was a fun little outting for us in good old Elko, Nevada.

Here we GO!

In my last post I mentioned that Kevin had graduated and that we didn't know where we would be or what the plan was, well in a few days that has ALL changed! Like I also mentioned Kevin had interviewed with a company called Barrick Gold in Elko, Nevada a few weeks ago, they told us that they would let us know their decision by Friday, the day before he was supposed to graduate. On Thursday they had called and left a message saying they wanted to talk to Kev about his interview and to call them back so he tried a few times that day but never got through and then they never called back all weekend. We were a little discouraged assuming that since we hadn't heard from them again that he probably hadn't been offered the job. So on Monday night when we still hadn't heard anything and he had been offered another job here in Logan he wanted to make sure that they had filled the position so the next morning since he couldn't get a hold of HR he called the interviewer who was a little puzzled as to why we hadn't heard. He told Kevin they were impressed with his interview and they were OFFERING!!! He said he would get a hold of HR and we would know more details by the end of the day! He called me at work and I didn't know whether or not to believe him, it was crazy because both of us had just assumed that we would probably be staying in Logan for another year. So we waited the rest of the day and finally knew all the details!  They emailed the official offer and explained all the details so here it is...

We are moving to ELKO, Nevada! I know, exciting right? Well I'm excited, it's a new adventure for our family! Kevin's tentative start date will be June 20th so we'll still be around for a little while to get all ready for the big move! He'll be doing Industrial Hygiene work at the Gold mine either on the surface mine or underground (that worries me a little!) and other than getting up at 4:30 to be at work I don't know much else about what he'll be doing. So, here goes the house hunt and everything else that goes along with moving.  I can't say how glad I am to finally know where we'll be next year and how much I know we are watched out for constantly by a loving Heavenly Father who answers our prayers and gives us endless opportunities to learn and grow. 

What's next?

Yesterday Kevin Graduated from college!! yay! After 6 long years he did it and I am so proud of him and that he is a good hard worker and I am so grateful that he loves school so much and worked hard to push through and get done with his education... at least for now! Maybe next year we'll be heading off to another stretch but who know? We sure don't!

So what's next for us?  Great question.  He had an interview out in Elko, Nevada a couple of weeks ago but we still haven't heard back so maybe that will work out, if not we'll stay in Logan or search for something else! We're just all up in the air with where we'll be this next year of our lives.  But we do know that wherever we end up being that it will be the very best spot for our family and we're excited to experience whatever comes next, as long as we're together!
Here are some pictures from Graduation Weekend.

Congrats on Graduation Babe! I'm so proud of you!

Spring Breakin'

Again, Super late but I have to blog about our fun Spring break to California to Visit Tara, Ryan and Will!  We had tons of fun and it was such a BEAUTIFUL week and just what we needed to get away for a week and lay in the sun. Of course I didn't get very many pictures but we mostly layed in the sun and had fun visiting. Thanks again for letting us come and stay!

Cute will building a sand castle! And how cute is the picture below?! Uncle Kevin and Will soaking up the sun! Too bad we had to come back to a complete month of all rain! But hopefully nice weather will be coming for us soon!