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!