This Weekend

I just got back from the last of my weekend festivities. I had a great weekend, but it is nice to be home in our warm apartment for the night. It did snow quite a bit this weekend, but luckily it didn't ruin the plans we had all made.

On Saturday, I met some of my best friends at the mall and we ate lunch followed by some shopping. It was a great time, but I was ready to be done walking around at the end of it all. Shopping really is pretty tiring! I just wish I had felt like I accomplished more when we were done for the day. All four of us stayed at Lauren's for the night and we entertained ourselves by ordering pizza and watching the first two Paranormal Activity movies. I had been wanting to see the first one for quite a while, but I didn't want to watch it by myself. So I finally found some people who would watch them with me! I don't know if it was a mistake yet, though because I am really good at freaking myself out, and those movies put a lot of creepy thoughts in my head. So hopefully I'm not scarred for life by those! (I say that as I sit alone in our apartment right now with a weird noise coming from the heat duct deal every once in a while...) After watching those two movies, we had to end the night with a happy movie, so we got another one in before going to sleep.

My one picture that I took while with my friends.
Mallory's sweet outfit that she put together.
Very festive.

When we got up in this morning, Lauren made us pancakes and we watched a few episodes of Say Yes to the Dress, which was very great! Then, I went on home and finished cleaning up some of the mess that was left from us moving back into our apartment on Friday and then got ready for my mom and sister to come to town. They got here about mid afternoon and we went out to the Lauritzen Gardens (Omaha Botanical Gardens) for a while. Every Sunday in December is free there, so there were tons of people there. My mom and I have been there about 3 or 4 times now in the past year and we both decided that we like it a lot more when there aren't many people there at all. But it was still great to get to see the way they had it all set up and to see the big poinsettia tree.

Me and my big sister

After we left there, we went and did a little shopping and grabbed a bite to eat and then they headed back to their homes. I'm so happy that they came to town. It's always great to see my family!

Now I'm at home, listening to my Christmas station Pandora and catching up on the blogs that I haven't read for the past 2 days and surfing the web a little. I came across this as I was searching, I almost think that I have to have it.

From PersonalCreations.com

I think that's so funny, and it would go well to say "Kendra's Kickasserole"! I guess I just don't know how much I'd get to use it because I'd think it might be a little inappropriate for some family situations... but it'd be nice to bring it out and use it when everyone needs a good laugh.

I hope you all had a great weekend!

October 2011

It has been a busy 3 weeks! I can't believe how fast October is going.

It all started with Kellsey and Wade's wedding. It was an amazing day! It was great weather and the ceremony was beautiful with all of the green and trees around us. The ceremony was beautiful (I may have teared up a little) and the whole day was just so much fun! Not to mention that Kellsey was absolutely beautiful!!





The week after the wedding we started our quarter close at work, so that made for some busy days and late nights. I worked as long as I could on Saturday before I had to take off for Ames for another wedding. My cousin Tricia got married. It was another beautiful day and it was great to see all our family again.

Trent had taken the day off work on Friday to spend some extra time with his parents and then we both spent the evening after the wedding at their house. It was great to get to visit with them for a little on Saturday night. We then had to take off again early on Sunday morning to make it back for church in Westside. We were celebrating my Grandma and Grandpa Jons' 60th wedding anniversary! Sixty years seems like such a long time, and it is such a great thing to have gotten to spend 60 years of your life with someone you love. They are still very much in love and you can tell! It makes me so happy when Grandpa tells us how much he loves Grandma. They are such a great model of what love looks like for all of the newly married and 'oldly' married couples in our family. :)



I love this picture of Grandma and Grandpa at Kellsey's wedding.
They're so cute!



I also love this picture of my Grandma when she was younger.
She looks very beautiful!

 After church, the church members all celebrated with cake and then family members came for a lunch at the church before we headed back to Omaha.

The last week and a a half have then been busy with lots of work, buying a new car, and studying for the CPA exam (only 23 days left until my first test! EEE!). Our earnings release was today here at work and we file our 10Q tomorrow, so things will settle down here and I'll be able to study even more hopefully while also getting to spend some more time just relaxing!

This weekend we're headed to Webster City on Saturday to have lunch with Trent's Grandma. It will be very great to see her again! And then on Sunday we get to go to Taylor's Sunday School program. I can't wait to see that! It is going to be so cute!

Hope you're having a good week. Enjoy the weekend!

Couldn't have the blog post without a cute picture of Mattie!
She's so funny when she uses a pillow like a human!



Kellsey's Shower/Bachelorette Party!

Last weekend was a fun weekend that I spent in Sioux City celebrating Kellsey’s upcoming wedding.


I went up to Sioux City on Friday night to just hang out and prepare for Saturday and then on Saturday, we had a small bridal shower for Kellsey with some of her closest friends. After the shower, we all headed out and just spent the day doing things together that Kellsey loves. 
(Below are pictures from the day's events)

Working on making the scrapbook/guestbook for Kellsey
I think it turned out great!

Kellsey with the youngest member of the party, Jayli

Time to eat!

Notice the very yummy lemon strawberry truffle made by Nikki.
It was great!

Super cute mugs from Amanda!

Me with the Bride!

At the shower

When we left the shower, we went to get pedicures. 

Kellsey is pretty sensitive when it comes to her feet =)

Kellsey and I

Amanda, Nikki, and Jocelyn getting their pedicures

The girls with the bride!!

 After the pedicures, we headed out to do a little shopping. We picked up some of Kellsey's wedding things from the mall and went to David's Bridal to check out what they had for veils that she might like.

We had some bonding time in the dressing room, too.

We finished up the day by going out to eat and then crashing at the hotel for the night! 


It was so much fun having everyone have a little part in the planning of Kellsey’s wedding and have talk about girl stuff all day. Kellsey also tried on her wedding dress for us with all of her accessories, so we all got a sneak peak of how beautiful she will be on her wedding day! It made me even more excited for Kellsey and Wade’s big day that is coming up very quickly!

- I am happy to say that Kellsey is actually on her way to Omaha right now to spend the night here. How lucky am I?!?

Tomorrow, we're heading to Des Moines for the day. We are going to Jocelyn's White Coat Ceremony at Des Moines University in the morning, which is super cool. It's crazy to think that she's on her way to being a Physical Therapist! I'm sure it won't feel like very long at all until she's walking across a stage to graduate (it won't feel like long to the rest of us anyway).


I am also getting my hair permed tomorrow. I'm getting pretty nervous about that! Even though I have spent a lot of years with curly hair, I just hope that I'm going to like it! The end goal is to reduce the time I have to spend getting ready in the morning, so I hope it all goes well. Stay tuned for an update on that one!!


I am also happy to say that when I get home tomorrow night, Trent's family will be here. I am sad that I am going to miss being with them during the day on Saturday, but I am very happy that I'll get to come home to them all being here!


It's gonna be a very fun, but quick weekend. 
I hope you all have a great one, too!
Chow!