Concert-You are invited!

So we went to this concert about a month ago and had a lot of fun. The guy's name is Griffin House, and some of his music is on my playlist below if you want to hear it. Anyway, it was in this hole in the wall venue, and we really were a little unsure about it, but we had so much fun! Well, they are coming again to the same venue (Kilby Court in SLC) on April 1st, and we are going. Anyone interested in a night out and some good music is welcome to come with us! We'd love to have you come! Tickets are like $8 or $10 (I don't remember- but cheap). Let me know if you want to go with us.

Mr. Right

For anyone who is looking for Mr. Right, you are going to have to settle for Mr. Almost Right, because I have him already! I just have to tell you what a wonderful husband I have! He is such a sweetheart and is always looking out for what is best for ME.

For those of you who don't already know the story, here it is... When Adam and I met, it was at a mission prep Christmas party, and I talked to him for a whole probably 1 minnute! He found my number about a month later and called me to invite me to go skiing with a group of people. The night he called I had just returned from visiting my boyfriend in Colorado. I was hesitant because I didn't even remember him and I had a boyfriend, so I said I'd see if I was busy or not and call him back (meaning, I'll come up with an excuse and call you back!) I asked my friend Heidi who he was and she convinced me that I should go. Of course, my family was all anxious to have me go, but at that point, their opinion didn't count because I knew it was just because the didn't like my boyfriend. I ended up going, and all of Adam's friends had things come up except for his buddy Tyler and Tyler's little brother. When Adam picked me up, my WHOLE family was up and dressed and sitting in the living room ready to meet him. My mom had even had time to make muffins :-) So it was the 4 of us... after a couple of runs, it seemed like I kept having to dodge the fact that I had a boyfriend, so I finally told Adam. He was pretty disappointed for the rest of the day, but we had fun and he didn't show the disappointment. From there, we started hanging out like 3-5 times a week. We went to church together and really had alot of fun together, but I kept thinking what a great best friend he would make. (Never making the connection that Husband=Best Friend). I continued "dating" the guy in Colorado, until the week before my birthday in April. Adam called me at work and said he wanted to hang out, get some ice cream and just TALK. That word scared me beyond belief because I knew what was coming, but I agreed and we went out that night for ice cream. The drive back to the house was... well, it was silent to start with. Then all of a sudden, with out even looking at me, he said "I know you have a boyfriend but...." I stopped him and said, "I'm sorry, but I'm going to marry him Adam." He told me that he was going to stop going to institute with me and start going to another ward because he was only doing those things to be with me. We spent the next couple hours just talking about things. He told me that he hoped things worked out with the other boyfriend, but that quite often people will either agree to get baptised or will actually join the church, just for their spouse, but then they fall away. I thought about that the whole way home and immediately when I got home I called my boyfriend and before he had a chance to say hi, I blurted out "Are you EVER going to be mormon?" Really, I had no intentions of breaking up, just wanted to discuss my frustration, but his answer was "Katie, I'm tired of this, let's just break up". I spent the next probably day and a half bawling my eyes out, and swore I wouldn't be dating for atleast another year (but in the back of my mind I figured I'd date Adam when I did start dating)! Exactly one week later was my birthday, and Keli had already invited Adam over, so he came regardless of our conversation. He brought a bouquet of Calla Lillies (which I had never outwardly told him were my favorite flower, he just over heard it once) and a giant pop-up card that he made from cardboard.

It was the sweetest thing ever. I still was hesitant to tell him that I had broken up with the boyfriend though, so I waited about another week. When I told him, he said "so does that mean that we can date now then?" I said yes, and we ended up kissing that night. About a week and a half later he told me "I think I more than like you". That REALLY scared me, and I told him that he really didn't know alot of things about me. I told him everything I could think of that would probably scare him away (things that I had mentioned to the old boyfriend nad had made him angry), and he didn't care about any of it and said he liked me the way I was! I just told him he needed to get to know me better and that was it. Just a few days later, after having time to think about it, I told him the same thing, he said "I love you" and we decided to get married ( after 2 weeks of dating!).

It has been the BEST 4 years EVER! I have never known a guy who treats women so well and with such respect! So many times people tell me what a great husband I have, and all I can do is smile and say "I know, isn't he wonderful?"

Anyway, I have to admit, I was wrong and my friends and family were all right when they said he was the one for me, because he truly is, and I love him more and more each day!

Happy Valentines Day!

Last Night's Purchase

Okay, so this isn't the best I've ever done, but for a last minute shopping trip, I thought I did pretty well...

TOTAL AFTER TAX: $33.72

6 boxes of Wheat Thins
2 Boxes of Triscuits
2 bags of Ritz Chips
8 bottles of Herbal Essences Shampoo and Conditioners
4 boxes of hair color-yes I color my own hair from a box
6 Colgate sparkle toothpastes
5 Crest toothpastes
and a bottle of parmesan ceese

Not bad...?

Christmas and Birthday recap

It's been a little crazy these days, so I'm a bit behind on my blogging, so here is a quick recap of the last few weeks. We had lots of fun for Christmas, starting with the Powell Family Christmas Eve. We had the whole family there, and played a few games. One of them was that we each had to pick a paper from a basket with soomething to do written on it. Some of the things were little Christmas stories to read, others were songs to sing/play. Adam's mom has these little pipe things that each play a different note when you hit them on something, so we played songs with those. Blake was excited when he drew the paper to sing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" because he got to sing the part about Figgy Pudding!

The boys all sang Silent Night.

It was alot of fun!

For Christmas day, we kind of bounced around a lot. We had stayed the night at Adam's parent's house, so we got up at about 6 and opened our presents to eachother, and to Deegan, then headed to my mom and dad's house for family presents there. When we got there, everyone was up playing Keli's new Rock Band, so we joined in. It was alot of fun. When I went in and heard them singing, I swore I was not going to sing because you sound terrible when you are trying to follow it, but I ended up really liking the singing part, and usually did that when I played! We opened presents there and hung out for about an hour or 2, and then were right back to the Powell's for family presents and a second breakfast. Then after a couple more hours, headed back to the Jorgensen's for to spend the day and hang out until we were going to go home. We ended up deciding to stay one more night so that we wouldn't be driving in the storm, and of course, the storm decided to wait with us and came the next morning when we were trying to get back for me to go to work! We celebrated Adam and Deegan's Birthday on New Years Eve with Adam's parents and then a couple weeks later with my family. Deegan wasn't sure what to do with the whole cake, so I meant to help him by putting his face in it a little, but ended up covering his face (mostly eyes) with frosting... He didn't eat a bite of it, but he was happy to open presents right after.

New Year

Okay, so I haven't even gotten my Christmas updates done yet, but I'm going to jump ahead to the New Year. I have decided that I really need to get things together for Baby Emblems, since I am basically paying for my website and products to sit and no one to know about them! So, since it is the beginning of a new year, it's a good time to start some fun monthly contests to get the word out. Check out my Baby Emblems blog to see what the contest is for the month of January, and then keep checking back because I will do short term contests once in a while too!

Learning to Love Turk

So Deegan and Turk haven't really been getting along so hot until the last few days. Turk would jump on Deegan and Deegan would cry, the Deegan would get curious and go climb on Turk and Turk would cry... it was fun! Anyway, they have started learning to tollerate eachother a little better now, and it's almost like they don't even know eachother is there now! One day, they will love eachother but for now, they can "nothing" eachother and that will be good too!

Christmas Tag..

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?Definately Wrapping paper! I usually wrap everyone elses gifts too because I love it!

2. Real tree or Artificial?Artificial

3. When do you put up the tree?Thanksgiving weekend, but this year it was a few days early since I was working on the weekend

4. When do you take the tree down? ... when I feel like it, before New Years. It's not as exciting taking it down as putting it up.

5. Do you like eggnog?Sometimes, but it has to have half eggnog and half sprite or 7 up

6. Favorite gift received as a child?not sure.

7. Hardest person to buy for?Men for sure...

8. Easiest person to buy for?Keli, my sister... she likes anything I like usually.

9. Do you have a nativity scene?Yes, a wooden one that my parents made.

10. Mail or email Christmas cards?Christmas Cards??? SHOOT I FORGOT! Does posting it on the blog count?

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?Don't think I've even gotten anything terrible. I got a really ugly recycled lamp for my wedding though!

12. Favorite Christmas Movie?
The Grinch. I did my senior paper in high school on it (we had to pick a book that had been made into a movie, everyone elses books were like 500 pages, mine was 39! :-))

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?Usually I wait until the day after Thanksgiving, but I always just end up buying for myself that day, so maybe the week after, but this year I started before Halloween... It's really thrown off my groove being done with it early!

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?not that I can remember. Recycling is a nice idea, but only if you don't pretend it's new... I prefer to give those kinds of things away.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?Christmas Breakfast: Waffles, French Toast, or German Pancakes (my favorite of all) with sausage, eggs, and eggnog with 7-up

16. All time favorite Christmas present? From my doctor, telling me on Christmas Eve that he would induce me!! YAY! (and Deegan was a perfect gift too!)

17. Favorite Christmas song?Dolly Parton's Hard Candy Christmas, Silver Bells or Still, Still, Still

18.Travel at Christmas or stay at home?To Mom and Dads... this year thats a whole 60 miles!

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's?Maybe, if I thought hard, but Deegan is trying to eat my newspaper, so I better not.

20. Angel on the tree top or a star?Adam- Angel, Me-Star.... our tree- Angel

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?Morning... at 630 for as long as I can remember.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year?Grumpy people, how can you be so grumpy at such a great time of year??

23. Favorite ornament theme or color?I really love the black and red and white decor, but I also like the traditional dark red and green, which is what I have now.

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner?... who cares about Dinner, I can't wait for Breakfast!

25 What do you want for Christmas this year?well, I got my puppy... maybe a pair of slippers.

ho ho ho YOU'RE IT!
1.Keli
2.Roxy
3.Kristin
And of course the rest of you bloggers who haven't done it already!

My New Puppy

Last night we went and got a Puggle puppy (He's a Beagle and Pug mix). He is so cute! His name is Turk Turkleton (from the show Scrubs), but we just call him Turk. He's about 2 months old. Deegan was a little jealous last night when we were holding the puppy, not him, but now, he just thinks it's funny to see the puppy.

He sat and watched Turk eat this morning, and he kept laughing at him. I think it scared Turk because he ran into his bed and hid in the corner. It's so sad to see him right now, becuase he just is acting depressed... He will get used to being here though. Anyway, here's some pics. I got some really cute ones last night on my phone, but I can't figure out how to put them on the computer, so these will have to do for now!

Down on the Farm

So, I guess I live in a more rural area than I realized... the other day, I got home from running errands and saw something moving near my front door, so I figured it was the neighbor's cat. I was wrong. I walked closer to my door to find that my flower bed had been torn up and strewn all over my sidewalk, and there was a chicken at my doorstep. As I got closer, 2 others walked out of my window well (it has little steps down into it), and one other came around the corner of my house. They hung out there for a while. I'm not sure whose they are, but quite a few of my neighbors have chickens. Huh, who knew!

Random Pics From the summer...

I was thinking this morning... it's silly to try and "catch up". No one really cares about what I did 4 months ago! I think that's why I was so good aboout writing in my journal for so many years. I felt guilty if I missed a day or two! Oh well, I'm a little nuts... I know! (and probably really OCD)



Anyway, here's some fun pics that I kept wanting to post and never did. I won't bore you with stories.

More Family Pictures

Ok, so like I promised, I am posting more family pics and some of just Deegan that Steve took. I am SO happy with these pictures. He really did a GREAT job. Thanks again Steve!

Oh Deer!

So I went to put Deegan in his highchair the other morning for breakfast, and glanced out the back window to see this...

They hung out eating my apples for a little while, until I tried to open the door quietly to take clearer pictures. Then they just walked out the back gate like it was their own.

I thought is was kinda cool. We've left the gate open ever since, in hopes that they come back.

Halloween- I know kinda late!

I'm working on getting caught up still, so there will still be plenty to share, but for now, I have to show you Deegan's cute Halloween pics. We had a halloween party with Adam's family the week before, and had lots of fun. Deegan loves to play with his cousins. Well... he loves to play with anyone who is under 4 1/2 feet I think, but it was fun!

On Halloween, we went to my parent's house and played games with Steve and Rox and my parents. Deegan and Ana had fun playing with the interactive cat by the front door (which Liam STILL talks about, and I'm sure he is still having nightmares about it). We had lots of fun, and even got some good pics of Deegan as he flew into the night sky! :-)

Unforgotten Time Photography

The last time we had pictures taken of us or Deegan was when he was about 3 months old, and he is 10 months now, so we were long over due for pictures again. My brother took some really great pics of my sister and her family, so we asked him if he could take some for us too. they turned out SOOOOO good. I haven't seen all of them yet, but he posted a few on his blog. you HAVE to see them, he did a great job! Anyway, his blog is http://unforgottentime.blogspot.com/. When I have more pics, I will post some of them.

Life in Mayberry

Okay, so as I promised, I am going to really work on updating the blog so you guys can see what we've been up to for the last couple of months.
Last I left off, we were buying our house. Well, we are all moved in and LOVING the area. We have decided that we live in Mayberry ( from the Andy Griffith Show). (I was going to say the modern day Mayberry, but I'm not so sure Providence is up with the times!) The first few weeks after we moved in, we had people at the door coming to meet us almost every day! People from even blocks away would walk over to bring us treats and get to know the new neighbors. We got pie and ice cream, cakes, carmel corn, cookies... you name it, we probably had it! Everyone is just so friendly here it almost scares me! But, we love it. The ward is so welcoming and friendly. It's not so uptight that you can't be comfortable being there, like a couple of the wards we've been in.

I think what I am most excited about is that Deegan has friends all over the place. We have some great friends (Garrett and Emily Matthews) who live just up the street and are in our ward, and they have 3 kids who all adore Deegan. Their youngest just turned 1, so he and Deegan have alot of fun together, and the other 2, (3 and 5) love to play with Deegan too. There's a family right next door with a baby girl (maybe about 5 months old?) who will be fun for Deegan when she is a little bit older too, and accross the street, a little 8 month old boy. Lots of babies his age in the ward too, so there will be lots of kids to play with when he is a little bigger.

We really love it. The yard has taken over most of our weekends (when we were not down visiting family), but I think we are done with yard work for the winter. Next spring will be BUSY! Anyway, things are going really well, and we are so excited to have the new home and a wonderful group of people surrounding us. I have never been in a better ward!