A Little Taste of Parenthood

My brother and his wife took a trip to DisneyWorld (not fair) for a week and we had their 2 boys for the week. Do we look capable of this?

Lots of football took place.

And lots of beat downs took place.

Things we aren't used to:

1. Children waking you up in the night because "I gotta go poop."

2. Not using the word "mean" because I will get my mouth washed out with soap.

3. Taking 2 boys to a halloween carnival in costumes that are too small for them. (wish I had a picture)

4. Kids wanting EVERYTHING they see at the store.

5. Homework with a Kindergartner.(Wish mine was that easy)

6. 8 o'clock bedtimes (Why do they hate it so bad?)

7. Having to explain everything....so curious.

8. Brushing someone else's teeth.

9. 5 and 6 is a sensitive age

10. Hearing noises in the night because of paranoia.

11. Laying the smack down!

We will have kids soon? Maybe maybe not

It's definitely different going from the cool aunt and uncle to "Don't do that! You can't have that! Eat all your dinner!" But we really did love having them, and Kobe still says

"Kelsi...your my bestest aunt!"

Love it.

P.S. Did you know I worked at Disneyworld?

haha still can't believe I did that.

Another One Down

And yet another friend gets married! Lexie Hirschi married her high school sweetheart Nick Sherman. The wedding was wonderful and her reception was BEAUTIFUL!

Caleb and Scott had a dance-off....hilarious!

Congrats LEX so happy for YOU!!!

Just pluggin in a little note for the Local Legends flag football team...so far undefeated. Some of the madison football boys put together a team, it takes them back to their glory days.

Caleb will get ready for the games hours in advance...he lives for it. Everytime we are watching football on T.V. he throws out. "Man, I should be in the NFL right now." This is the closest he is going to get. He is the best flag football quarter back I have ever seen :)

High Five!

I was reading in the Ensign today, and a certain talk caught my eye. "Blessings of the Temple" by Robert D. Hales. I love the temple, I love going to the temple, I love looking at the temple, I love reading about the temple, and I love what occcurs in the temple. Elder Hales has observed many couples who have been able to maintain strong and vital marriages and he gave 5 things that they have in common.

First: These couples know individually who they are--sons and daughters of God. They set eternal goals to once again live with our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. They strive to leave the ways of the natural man behind.

Second: They know the doctrine and the importance of the saving temple ordinances and temple covenants and their necessity in achieving eternal goals.

Third: They choose to obtain the eternal blessings of the kingdom of God rather than the temporary possessions of the world.

Fourth: These couples realize that when they are sealed for time and all eternity, they have chosen an eternal companion--their days for courting others are over! There is no need to look any further!

Fifth: These couples think of one another before themselves. Selfishness suffocates spiritual senses. Communicating with the Lord in prayer, they grow together and not apart. They converse with each other, thereby never letting little things become big things. They talk early about the "little hurts" with little fear of offending. It is so much better to let off a little steam before the top blows off the pressure cooker. They are willing to apologize and ask forgiveness if they have hurt the one they love. They express their love for each other and become closer. They life and strengthen one another.

I want to be one of those couples. I love finding areas of life that I need to work on, and marriage takes you into a whole new area of work. And not to say our marriage needs work, but I need work. And I'm SO grateful that I am with someone who is so loving, gentle, kind and patient with me as I strive to do my best as an eternal companion.

Aren't we all exciting for conference!? Where MUCH more is added to our list of improvement. :)

Isn't it?

Isn't it depressing when your pants seem to be fitting tighter and tighter kind of like this.......

Isn't it the cuttest when a baby sucks on her middle and ring finger, making it so she is always giving you the love sign.

Isn't it sad when you happen to be the person in the one awkward wedding photo....

Isn't it funny when you think you have a great idea for a picture and it ends up like this....

Isn't it the best when you live with your most favorite person ever....

Isn't it interesting how little kids know the new tunes better than we do?

Isn't it lame how bored I am right now that I just posted that post?

I will miss you August

August has been such a fun month, and its sad to see it go. We love august...well I love august because it contains my Birthday! And who isn't obsessed with their birthday month? okay only me.....but cabe also has his birthday in August so it makes it that much better!

We went to an Isotopes baseball game, they aren't very good but we had fun!

I had my 21st Birthday on August 25th. Cabe surprised me with a much desired jewelry box with an engraving on the top from him personally. I about cried, i've always wanted a really nice jewelry box...he's the Best! He is so thoughtful I love it. He even said, "I just picture our little girls wanting to play with their mom's jewelry box." He's so cute. 

He also treated me to a massage while he was working that day, and callie spent the day with me at the mall! Then we went out to dinner with some other couples to Buffalo Wild Wings...the boys LOVED it there!

Cabe had his 22nd birthday on Aug. 29th. We had lots of fam over for a BBQ and cake! It was fun to see everyone...we'd only been gone for a month but it felt like forever!

I Love Orange.

Since it was going to be his birthday and he loves a buzzed head, I let him cut his hair....I...me....I cut his hair....I loved his curls. 

We had gone to the Madison football game that night and I really think he just wanted to go back to his glory days...Madison Quarter Back, buzzed head, chicks diggin...he felt right at home. ;)

Life of a Sales Wife

So we've been in New Mexico for the last month and gotta tell you its actually been pretty fun! Can't say that I ever thought I would come to this place made of dirt but i'm actually going to miss it a little. We've made some great friends and we have discovered Caleb's knack for sales. I have been really impressed with how he is doing and how determined he is to work and to do well. But I miss him everyday. These boys work super hard! Sheesh!

I mean....who wouldn't buy a security system from this face??

We have loved broadening our eating horizons away from the rexburg restaurants. New Mexico may be an ugly place but they do not mess around when it comes to grub.

Mini Golfing with the Pecks!

Jason's Deli our new favorite place to eat that has unlimited free ice cream....yes I said free!

Kyle & Callie have been life savers out here, we flew out here so we don't have a car so they have been so nice to taxi us around. They have been wonderful!

Thanks to the pecks we have been able to go to the Albuquerque temple a few times. LOVE that place, there really are nice people in New Mexico..you just have to go to the temple to find them. :)

The sun is rather bright in NM.

 And we LOVE the pool at our apt complex. I spend most of my days there when Caleb is out knocking doors. 

We were so lucky to be able to fly home for one of my best friends Whitney's wedding. We were able to go to the Sealing which was so beautiful and so good to hear again. It was Caleb and I's first sealing together since ours of course and was so fun to remind us of our special day. 

And whitney looked absolutely beautiful!

The Webb family was so nice to pick us up from the airport and let us sleep at their house AND eat their food AND they even took us to the arcade where I hit the jackpot...225 tickets. It was super fun to hang out with them. Thanks Nic & Rob!

We return to the beautiful burg in 3 days and I cannot wait!

Cabin Week 09!

Well I haven't blogged about our funnest vacation of the summer! Besides the fact that Caleb had to go back and forth to school and I got a weird infection in my throat, it was still was a great week! It is the one thing my family looks forward to every year, it is our favorite place on earth and it was fun to share it with Caleb finally. 

Every night a couple is in charge of a activity and dinner. The first night we did the battle of the musicals. We had a High School musical production, a newsies/michael jackson production, and a goofy movie production. It was hilarious.

Cam and cami did a very fun luau with amazing food and we all learned and performed the Haka.

Island Park is my favorite place in the whole world!

Cute little Lexie and Caleb

We went up to the top of Sawtelle Mountain, it was beautiful but super windy! Caleb is afraid of heights so we didn't stay long haha.  

And my brothers think they are tight.

We also had a awesome Cafe Rio dinner by Misty & brett, a super fun video scavenger hunt around the Island by Annie & Ty (that was the highlight) Family Feud by Scott & Katie and a competitive obstacle course by Landon and SJ and lots of skiing and catching up! 

And at the end of the week we are all FATIGUED!!

She is going to kill me...

Can't wait for next year!