Craigslist >:/

Seriously in 6 years of Marriage we have had more cars than most people have in a lifetime.

1. Gold Malibu
2. Red Oldsmobile
3. Gold Silvarado
4. Green Cavalier
5. Green Camry
6. Green Jeep
7. White Malibu
8. White GMC
9. Red/White Corolla
10.  Gold Century
11.  Red Chevy Prism

Although Kendall has a real shopping problem I can say that we have only had to make car payments on one of the nine and that is the one I had when we got married.

I love that Kendall wants to help people out and has sold 3 of the nine to family members who were in need of a ride.  We are a family of 2 and have 3 vehicles currently, lol.  I am always annoyed when I see him shopping on Craigslist for the next deal.  Oh well they are all paid for and it is nice to have 2 vehicles that are ROADTRIP/travel to work or clinical/non-gas-guzzleing cars and the truck is nice for off-roading/camping/hunting/visiting the Grandma's.

I also kind of enjoy when Kendall buys a new to us car because he always gets a GREAT deal, (my malibu was only $500) and he loves working on them. He always seems to find cars that need a new windshield though.  The latest purchase had a laundry list of things that needed fixed and he has almost fixed them and paid $1000 less than KBB.

I should not get so annoyed when he is shopping on craigslist because many of the things he buys makes us money in the long run and we make great memories in the mean time.

P.S. I wish I had pictures of all of these.  Ha ha

Favorite Picture of Us.

We are such dorks.

I DID IT!!!

Schooooooools Out Forever....
No More Pencils, No More Books, No More Teacher's Dirty Looks!
Bye bye College....
Now What?
Or What Just Happened Here?

Choose any of the above titles....

I think many of my blog post should be titled "What Just Happened Here." I don't know why I never feel in control of my life.  I know it is a good thing that I have faith that my heavenly father knows what he is going with my life. I know he is doing all the good that has come to me and I wouldn't change that.  However I wish I could get a grasp of the things that are happening right now.  I am a weirdo as I am feeling a bit melancholy about this semester ending.  My final exams were a bit easy and I feel like I didn't get any closure.  I am going to miss going to school but I know I must grow up sometime.  

I HATED high school with a fiery passion and I was never going to college because of that reason alone.  However now I am done and I can PROUDLY say I AM A COLLEGE GRADUATE!!!!  To all of the kids who also hate high school and say they are never going to college, I would tell them that college is WAY BETTER than high school.  I think the hardest thing about college is that it is your decision to be there or not and you don't get that choice in high school.  I loved having to only go to 1 class twice a week and choosing where and when they would be.  I loved walking around campus and watching people and the atmosphere that was around.  I loved saving money, buying my books on Amazon and the anxiety of if they would make it on time.  I am going to miss it.  Maybe I will go back for a Masters degree someday but that day is NOT now.:)

I recently got a job as a RECEPTIONIST!!! I don't feel like I am using all of the knowledge I have acquired throughout these last 5 years but I am glad someone let me get my foot in the door and I know I will work my way up and up and up.  I am ecstatic about working and feeling important! I feel like I am finally contributing to our lives and Kendall isn't just pulling me along anymore.  

This position started quite abruptly so I will not get to see my family in between semesters like I normally would.  I am excited for my new opportunities and I hope to have my student loans paid off before Kendall graduates 1 year from now.  Again I am thankful for our faith and the guiding hands that lead us as we have been very blessed to not have lived our entire college lives in debt just a couple semesters is all I have needed help with and hopefully Kendall will not need any.  

Day Nine

I have been really focused on exercising and eating right and last week from wednesday to wednesday I lost 2 pounds.  I am hoping to keep up the new good habits and lose another 2 for the next weigh in.  I am doing a few things to help me attain my goals.  I am inputing all of the food I plan on eating throughout the day, in the morning into fat secret.  I am exercising everyday, except for Sunday, in the morning so I don't have time to talk myself out of it.  I am talking to my dear friend while I exercise, she is my exercise buddy.  Together we are making changes as we continue to do good with the workouts. I want this to be a permanent thing in my life.  I want to do many things with a fit and healthy body.  I will save those ideas for a different blog post.

7 Days

I look back on my life and I am the person who says "where does my time go." I complain about not knowing where my life is going, because it is flying by so fast.

However, I am also the person who cannot stick to any goals.  I have decided to be really good for 7 days (starting today).  I have a few things I would like to stick to, such as counting calories and exercising daily (even if I can't walk, sit, stand from the previous workout).  These 2 thing seem simple enough RIGHT. 7 days is not that long and hopefully after that 7 days, day 8 won't be hard and I will continue to do good.  I have been waiting for a life changing experience and since one has not come along, somethings got to give.  I need to make some changes for myself.

I am needing some MOTIVATION.  You would think the health risks of being overweight would be enough motivation to be healthier, RIGHT!  To list a few that are TERRIFYING, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, sleep apnea and I don't know shortness of breath, ha.  But I would like the other things that healthy fit people have like the ability to do whatever, whenever. For instance if given the opportunity to learn to surf, I want to be fit enough to take it.  Or I would like to go hiking without feeling like I may keel over any second.  I want to go shopping and not HATE it.

This blog post is for me to remember 7 days will fly by just like everything else and I will gain some new habits.  

Brown Birthday Party

Warning.......NO PICTURES AGAIN :( (now is not the time to be without Facebook)

Seriously I LOVE the BROWN'S!!!  I could not have picked a better family to marry into.  Grandma Brown turned 90 and Jen and Stacey threw quite the BASH.  I am sure Stacey did not sleep for at least 2 days before the party.  I love meeting new cousins and I love learning new things about cousins I already love and I love snatching and loving the little ones.  I think I was a baby hog with baby Bear, I am certain I could have brought him home with us (I'm pretty sure they call that KIDNAPPING).

They had a ton of good food and cake and ice cream.  There was a DJ with lights.  I can't decide what was more fun, holding baby Bear or watching April dance.  She really knows how to cut a rug:)  I loved how she would just let loose and danced like no one was watching.  She is definitely a great example of living life to the fullest.

Happy Birthday Grandma Brown.

Day One....

Ha I wish this was the beginning to some diet blog but I still have not found that motivation.  I pin and I pin and I just get hungary.  Soon I will put into action all of the things on pinterest that I have pinned regarding "health and fitness.

This was a big step however...

Day

One

Without

Facebook

has been tough, I don't know how many times I have picked up my laptop to type in FA and then I remember...IT DOESN'T EXIST anymore.  I have also picked up my phone MANY TIMES waiting for some ridiculous comment to an equally ridiculous status update Kendall has posted. I will survive, I do not need to know what everybody in my world is up to.  I will miss stalking people YES, I did that.

Better Life...

Friday night and the moon is high,
I'm wide awake just watchin' you sleep
And I promise you you're gonna have,
More than just the things that you need
We ain't got much now, we're just starting out
But I know somehow paradise is coming.

Chorus : 
Someday baby, 
You and I are gonna be the ones, good luck's gonna shine
Someday baby, 
You and I are gonna be the ones, so hold on, we're headed for a better life.

Oh now theres a place for you and me,
Where we can dream as big as the sky.
I know its hard to see it now,
But baby someday we're gonna fly,
This road we're on, you know it might be long,
But my faith is strong, its all that really matters.

Someday baby, 
You and I are gonna be the ones, good luck's gonna shine
Someday baby, 
You and I are gonna be the ones, so hold on, we're headed for a better life.
So hold on, hold on, c'mon baby, hold on,
Yeah we're gonna have it all, and ooh

Someday baby, 
You and I are gonna be the ones, good luck's gonna shine
Someday baby, 
You and I are gonna be the ones, so hold on, we're headed for a better life.


Someday baby, 
You and I are gonna be the ones, good luck's gonna shine
Someday baby, 
You and I are gonna be the ones, so hold on, we're headed for a better life.


A better life now, oh ho, a better life
Hey we're gonna leave this all behind us baby, wait and see.
We're headed for a better life, you and me.
We're gonna break the chains that bind and, finally we'll be free.
We're gonna be the ones that have it all, you and me.
Just hold on tight now baby, woooh

I am dubbing this Kendall and Jenni's song...
Grad school... no jobs... life... is all tough.  All of the struggles we are having now will soon be in the past and we will be living a "better life."
I hope we never forget these rough times in our lives, it is teaching us so much.  
P.S. I love Keith Urban:)

Changing Majors?

Ha, just kidding, I am about to graduate.......
Kendall has been learning about women's health and reproductive system.  He has learned what day I should be ovulating and I think this is cool for a few reasons.
1) He is learning a ton by real life situations. (his major is far more interesting than mine)
2) It is nice to know if we wanted kids soon what to look for.

This brings me to my next point....
We just celebrated our 6 year anniversary.... (favorite day of the year)
Most "mormon" couples would have had 3 kids by now.  We get asked "when are you having kids?" all of the time.  I love kids don't get me wrong.  Nothing brings me greater joy than watching my Kendall love the kids in NURSERY or our nieces and nephews.  2 things in this world terrifies me: having and raising a good person and cancer.  For obvious reasons I am scared of cancer.  Why does having and raising kids terrifies me? I think the having kids part is self explanatory, I mean Alli, Marti, Una and Adrienne have told me horrific child birth stories... taring.. needles...punching...blood.  Not to mention all of the worry, if you are keeping baby healthy inside you.  Also what about the terrifying point that so many couples face, infertility (write another post of this terrifying concept later)?  What if I cannot even have kids? All of that terrifying. Then when you have the beautiful little Angel in your arms and you are instantly in love with this wrinkly little recipe of you and your love, everything will be perfect.  Then you have to go somewhere....terrifying to get in the car, what if you get into an accident with this Angel that was sent to you to protect.  What if you don't get that "motherly instinct"? What if you accidentally forget to strap Angel into the seat because you are distracted? What if you make the smallest stupidest mistake and something happens to the Angel? Are you able to give Angel all that they need? You are suppose to be the protector?  Then Angel grows and crawls and brings great joy.  Then Angel is 2 and so naughty and you have to do even more to protect them? What do you give them of the things they want so they don't become spoiled little brats?  Then Angel is 4 and talks back, you try to have patience, then you realize Angel is never not going to be little again and talking back is going to be a normal occurrence.  Angel is now 13 and you don't know anything about life, especially when you try to tell Angel about it.  Angel gets their own car and you worry while they are away with friends.  You try to be the cool mom, but Angel still doesn't listen. Angel is now 18 and if they are not like you and more like your love they will be on to life such as military, mission or college.  How do you know you did a good enough job raising Angel, and that they know how to live the life they refused to listen to you about.  Terrifying.

Perhaps when Kendall is done with all of his school and has a good job I will evaluate this terrifying list  and consider a Kendall Junior. In the mean time I will love my calling loving other people's children.  :)

2013? What just happened here?

I don't know why I don't write more often.  Other people may not want to read what I have written but I love reading old posts and journal entries.  Probably 6 months ago I was reading one of my old journals and it was mostly about things I wish I would do or what I have done with my friend Martilyn.  I got so choked up reading about our adventures and dreams I called her in tears.  I just love you Marti.

A lot has happened since I last wrote in this here blog.

Thanksgiving...  A great friend invited us to her families Thanksgiving in Santa Fe.  Let me tell you, they made us feel so welcomed and AMAZING food.  Thanks Adrienne for the invite.

End of semester.... What is there to say...WHEW! glad that one is over with and I passed (barely).

Traveling to UTAH... ROADTRIP to my FAVORITE place!!! LOVE

CHRISTMAS...   Holy cow,  I love being at my parents house for the Holidays.  I love the fluffy white snow, the warm TV room, fighting with my little buddy (and big brothers).  I love watching Kendall work so hard to help around and learn new things (welding).  MAKING CANDY, was so fun this year we made cherry, orange, coconut, carmel, pretzels, pinoche (or something of the sort) and nut clusters.  If it wasn't so unpredictable of how it would turn out,  and so frustrating when it doesn't, we would start a business.  Our CANDY is so good.  "what did you get for christmas?"  "Fat, I got fat for christmas!." :)  That quote made me laugh cause it is true. Kendall really did surprise me with a HUMONGOUS gun, 30.06.  Seriously I love it!  He had a little present for me to open and it was bullets.  At first I was like what am I going to do with these?  Then I read what size they were and I was like we don't have a gun for these... Then me brought it out to me.  It is AWESOME!!! He bought it used so he refinished the stock (I got to chose the color) and it turned out BEAUTIFUL!!!  Christmas was awesome!  My mom always make Christmas special for me, she always goes overboard with gifts, I would be happy just to be with my family.  I loved my little buddy's reaction to the gift we got him.  He is constantly arresting us, so a bought him an outfit so he would at least look like he should be arresting people (lol, it came with a whistle and noisy walkie talkie)  I loved spending time with the newest addition to the family, LIBBY,  She is just perfect.  I love watching Alli with her, she is the second best mom in the whole world, because mine is the first.

New Years... Almost "pulled an all nighter" with my little buddy.  I think he crashed about 1:30 ha ha.  We had little plastic goblets to drink sparkling cider out of. They were plastic so we had to make the clinck sound when we made a toast.  Brax didn't like the cider but he would have the tiniest amount every time we toasted so he would be part of the group. HILARIOUS!!! Then I don't know what we did for the next hour and a half but I couldn't get Brax to sleep, I guess we were having too much fun.  The next day we went sledding!!!  The Brenchleys created a ramp on the hill and we set Brax up to go down by himself (he wanted to) to the right of the ramp so he wouldn't hit it.  We gave him a good push.  He heads straight for the ramp.  Hits it.  Goes flying.  Lands face down.  Lays there a minute.  Bad Auntie is LAUGHING with tears at the top.  He says "I'm fine." He gets up and we try again only this time to the left of the ramp.  Same thing happened.  I didn't laugh so hard the second time, I felt bad.  We learned it was best to use the tube for this hill. We had so much fun.  By the end he wanted to go down but not climb the hill back up.  I had to hold his hand to get him up.  "too tired"  Ha!  I also got to SHOOT my new gun.  We went and saw the elk at hardware.  We had a great day.

Traveling back to NEW MEXICO...ROADTRIP
A STACATION (my own apartment)....PUZZELS
Starting a new (LAST) semester...One more to go.... I think I can, I think I can.