Christmas at the Kenner's!!!

Christmas Time at the Kenner Home

Christmas is without a doubt my favorite time of the year! This year will be Christopher and my 2nd Christmas together, we have kept it very simple and sweet and all of our gifts have been carfully thought out. Chris and I went Christmas shopping BEFORE black friday and even had our tree set up two days before thanksgiving! We kept very busy thanksgiving weekend making, "Merry Christmas" signs for a few people in our family I think they turned out great! I guess you could say we were pretty excited! All of our presents are wrapped and placed neatly under the fire place, (our tree is too little to hold them all) and we patiently await next Friday. Chris and I being but a small little family with our precious two pets Maddie and Chloe have wanted to begin some cute new traditions we can do each holiday season. We don't have any children THIS Christmas but hopefully we will be blessed next year. One thing Chris wants to do for Christmas dinner is have prime rib Christmas Eve instead of turkey or ham, but since we will be with his family for Christmas eve this year I decided to do it a little earlier and set up a cute dinner as a surprise to my loving husband. We also want to walk around Temple Square every year on the 23rd of December and see the lights, we plan to go there next wednesday and I am VERY excited to get all bundled up with my hubby. Christopher's parents also have a cute traditon of opening one present on Christmas Eve, everybody always knows what they are getting, but it's still fun! We all get matching Pj's and wear them to bed so we can take pictures in the morning. Once we have children we would like to roll that over to our own family :) Does Anybody have any fun Holiday/Christmas traditions or ideas they would like to share?

Here are some pictures of Chris and my home all decorated for the holidays, and I threw in some pics of our the Christmas Dinner I set up for Chris :) Enjoy!

What A YEAR!!!

Alrighty, I do admit I have been quite the slacker on blogging! Let me update everyone on what's new in Christopher and my life. On September 20, 2009 Chris and I celebrated our one year anniversary together! We celebrated by going sky diving with part of my family and a few close friends! It was amazing!! Completely undescribable! It was the perfect way to end a wonderful exciting first year together. We were also able go on a delayed honeymoon in May, we went on a road trip with some close friends and stopped in Las Vegas on our way to California. We partied there for one night and then made our way to Disneyland, Sea World, Califorina Adventure, and Universal Studios! It was such a great trip and so relaxing! We had such a great time! Chris and have such a wonderful feeling of peace and love going into this next year. We hold such a strong marriage and love, I feel we can make it through any obstacle. Our first year made for some very rough run-in's and we have finally landed on solid ground. I lost my job two weeks before our wedding last september and only just in February did I find a full time job. I work at US Bank as a Banker and am very proud of myself on the accomplishments I have made there is only 9 months! I have a great schedule and awesome benefits and bonus opportunities! I am happy to say I bonused this past quarter and hope to from here on out! Chris has now worked for Teleperformance for a year and 5 months! He switched departments in July and is now a case manager for Toshiba! He seems to enjoy his new position and it makes for more resposibility and influence. I am very proud of him for being such a trooper and hard worker, he has provided for our little family in every way possible. I love him so dearly and appreciate all of his hard work. Chris and I started school again in the August and our loving everyminute of it! We actually take a Psychology class together every Mon, Wed, and Friday Morning. It's so fun getting up in the morning with him and having the same goals and ambitions in mind. I also take a class with my dad Tuesday and Thursday mornings and have come to the conclusion that my dad is VERY much a teachers pet! Christopher was also accepted to the Pharmacy Tech program last spring and is currently enrolled in the coarse until Summer Semester of next year. He is doing SOOO- extremely well, he has never missed a class and has gotten an A on EVERY test in all 4 Pharmacy classses. He is brilliant! He can retain information like no other and he is loving his career path. He has decided that he wants to become a pharmacist, (and I am FULLY supporing him on his decision :) Seems we will have a Doctor Kenner in our family in the future! Chris will be applying for the U in the spring so he can start there in the fall of next year and also hopefully work at the University hospital. We have so many goals and dreams a head of us and I feel so lucky and blessed to have met and married Chris. He is Perfectly amazing. We have made it through what I hope to be our hardest year yet and look forward to an exciting year to come. Here are a few pics of the past few months :) ENJOY!

SUSHI!!!

Sushi with Will and Jess
Last night Chris and I were treated to a FANTASTIC dinner. Chris' high school friend Will and his fiance Jess took us out to the valley's top sushi restuarant. It was soo- much fun and the food was simply MAGNIFICENT! We happened to be the ONLY customers (that's what you get I guess on a monday night in Utah) so the sushi house treated us well! We got some free food and dessert and they even took a picture of us for their wall of favorite customers :) Chris and I love hanging out with other couples and we just had the best time! As you can see....

Happy Halloween!

What a Happy Halloween! I spent all friday morning with my grandma hughes baking up all sorts of treats! We made my auntie Tina's most famous sugar cookies shaped in skeleton bones, Monster Toes (which consisted of little smokees wrapped in tortillas), and we put together a whole platter of other yummy treats. Molly my grandma's cute little Westie was dressed up as a chubby lady bug and my little maddie was a HOT dog :) Chris and I spent the evening with his family and it took five adults to take one cute little boy trick or treating! Kyle my sweetest, cutest, MOST, adorable nephew was dressed up as the CUTEST puppy ever! Suprisingly he LOVED wearing his costume, but since he is still a little wabbly with the whole walking thing he fell down quite' a few times, but his mommy Jessica and his daddy Cole were always there to save the day! It was a very fun evening and me and Chris had fun dressind up our selves. Chris was dressed up as GI-Joe and I was a tiger....GRrrr! It was a very fun Halloween and I can't wait until next year!

A Good Bad Day :)

The Glass Rose

Today Just made me realize how incredibly lucky I am! I have the most amazing perfect husband ever! So today started out to be an incredibly BAD day. First of all I woke up late which made me behind on almost everything that I had to do in the morning, Mia's mom Nicole (the lady I babysite for) was late dropping mia off, so I was late getting to Kaitlyn's house (the other little girl I watch) which made Jessica late for work ( Kaitlyn's mom), which made ME feel terrible! yattyyatta soo the first part of my day was SUPER crappy! WELL, then Nicole told me she would be picking up Mia by 12:30 because I only watch her five hours a day, Ha! 2:00 rolls around and she finally calls and says she's on her way. Then 2:30 rolls around and she calls again (just leaving) Oh! wait now she wants me to meet her on the side of the rode on 12300 S. and 500 E. I waited there for 40 minutes! And she finally called again and still, "can't find it!" I'm super angry by then and I just want to pull my hair out and leave Mia by the side of the rode, which I would never do in all reality, but still...we FINALLY meet up 20 minutes later and I'm headed home. ahhh.... I call Chris a little upset and acting kinda short' with him, and of course he is so sweet and patient with me and just says, " I'm so sorry you had a bad day honey, I love you and just come home and I'll make it better." So once I get to our apartment he is there with the door open even before I walk up the stairs with a huge smile on his face :) he pulls me in and gives me a big hug and an even bigger kiss :) Then he proceeds to tell me about his day and how he went on a walk in the park with our little puppy maddie. He says," While I was on the walk in the park I picked you up something." Of course I'm really excited by now and pretty curious so I ask him, "what?" and he says, " a flower." He then reaches behind his back onto the counter and picks up and hands me the most beautiful glass rose. He then tells me that on his way home from the park he saw a vendor saleing hand made glass roses, he said at first he passed them by, but when he was almost home he had a feeling to go back and get me one. I was near tears by this point, and he then pushed a button on his computer that was on the table next to us and sweeps me up into his arms and begins slow dancing with me in the middle of our living room. The song,

"Stealing Cinderella" starts playing and Chris tells me it was the song playing in the park when he bought me the rose. I had wanted to cry all day, but in the end their where only tears of joy because of how much I love my husband and how much I KNOW he loves me. It was a very Good Bad Day :)

Married a Month

Married a Month!

WOW! I've been married for a month now! It's been the hardest most fun month of my life! Though a month may seem' like just a short time A LOT has happened, lets see....We moved in to our apartment, started with the decorating :), maddie our puppy got her shots :(, The daycare I worked for went under, I found a new job, The new job doesn't start for another month, so I'm doing odd side jobs...Chris turned 22! Kyle our only nephew turned one! Chris' dad fell off the roof and broke 7 ribs on his right side! Oh dear! And sooo- much more! Though a lot of trying things have happened in the one month we have been married, Chris and I have worked through them together and I love him EVEN more! (Which I didn't think was possible) We have learned a lot about each other and living together has finally become a very nice routine :) I love my husband he is the most sweetest caring man in the world, not to mention oober patient! This month has gone by soo- fast and I'm just glad I got to spend every moment of it with my adoring husband and will get to spend every moment with him all through eternity.