Y Ball!

Last Saturday, BYU hosted a free ball for married couples! It featured a live band, dinner, and dancing. We went with our friends Tricia and Jason and Megan and Brian. It was a grand time! We liked having a night out together (nice break from school!)

Valentine's Day!

We spent Valentine's Day in St. George and in Enterprise! We went to the temple and also went out to eat at Red Robin.  We just enjoyed taking a little vacation together!

Cookie Monsters

We finally used our 101 cookie cutters that we got for our wedding! We took advantage of a Sunday (only time away from work and homework) to make cookies for our friends (and for ourselves, too, of course!). Take a look at our pictures below!

We have been so busy this semester - Sundays are definitely our favorite day. The cookies were a couple of Sundays ago. Last Sunday we had a lot of fun going over to Brian and Megan's for dinner, along with Shaun and Lanette, and Ron and Annie. I love those guys! And this Sunday we will be in Enterprise for my cousin Stephanie's "welcome home" from her mission in Seattle. I am definitely living for the weekends these days! It's so great to be around family and friends.
We were also able to go to my cousin Ashlyn's baptism last Saturday. That was a really special experience. I was honored to play the piano for the baptism, and again, it was great to see a lot of family and enjoy time together. Stay tuned for pictures from our long weekend in Enterprise!

Private

I haven't updated in a while, but I sent out invitations to the blog, because it is now private due to all the spam comments. I will try to write a new post this weekend. Love you all!
Jordan and Kayleen

The new year is here!

Hello all!  I was so bad over the break at not keeping the blog updated.  But I'm back now.  Christmas break was wonderful and over way too quickly.  It was a lot of fun to have Kayleen's mom down for almost a week.  We had a lot of fun together.  But we realized too late after she was gone that we didn't take pics on our camera.  So hopefully we can get the pics from Kayleen's mom sometime to have.

We brought in our first New Year together at home.  We watched a movie at home and went out in front of our house to see the fireworks at midnight.  We missed some of the big family/friend New Year's parties of the past, but it was favorite to just be spending time together (and it was nice to be able to go straight to bed at 12:15).

We also got to go to my Mom's to see her new home and celebrate Rebekah's birthday.  Their house is really nice!  We like it and we loved spending time up there.  My mom and I got to play a duet on the piano and that got us both a smilin' and a laughin' quite a bit!

Now we're back in school, busy as ever!  Kayleen is back full-time but is loving her new major.  She likes her new job as a teacher's aide as well.  I'm still working at the MTC as well as getting in a few hours a week as a research assistant with Dr Lowry, who is one of the leading ISys researchers in the world.  Everything is working out so well for us!

Merry Christmas!

Alright, I know I've been terrible at posting since school is out. I've wanted to post pictures, but the only times I'm on the Internet during break is at work without my laptop. So the Christmas pics will be up soon - if I'm lucky it'll be before school starts again on the 5th. But in the meantime...
I want to wish all our family and friends a most wonderful Christmas season. We just don't have the time or means to send out Christmas cards this year. But we are thinking of our many loved ones and friends. And hopefully we will get out a few wedding thank-you cards over the break (but don't get your hopes up too high....).
We have been so blessed in this holiday season. Our Christmas really started on the 18th when Kayleen and I went to Body Worlds with my sister Rebekah in Salt Lake (the tickets were part of our Christmas present from Mom and Brad - thank you!). Kayleen was so very excited. It was very interesting and we learned a lot. For those who don't know, Body Worlds is basically a museum exhibit of real preserved cadavers and body parts, explaining the amazing miracle of the human body. It was incredible. Thanks Rebekah for taking us and for buying us dinner too! :)
We were able to go to Enterprise last weekend to have an early Christmas with my family. We got to see Heidi's new house and finally use the Bracken's gift card from our wedding. And of course we took a few minutes to play in the snow! It's been years since I've seen that much snow in Enterprise. We had a wonderful time. Thanks Mom and Bradley and Julie for the rides so we didn't have to pay gas! We appreciate that! We had fun opening all our gifts and spending time with family.
We spent our Christmas Eve with one of Kayleen's patients, a dear lady named Louise. She didn't have any family to spend Christmas with, so we headed on over to have dinner and pie and read the Christmas story with her. It was very fun, and especially rewarding to think about others and not only ourselves on Christmas Eve.
Christmas morning Kayleen and I spent in our apartment and open gifts. And then in the afternoon we headed out on our adventure to Salt Lake City to pick up Kayleen's mom from the airport. She is going to be staying with us until New Year's Eve. We're really excited to have her here since we don't get to see Kayleen's family much. It was a BLIZZARD in Salt Lake, but luckily we got a hotel room a couple miles from the airport. That made it nice when we had to drive in the blizzard when Mary got here 3 hours late (they closed the airport and the flight was diverted to Boise before they finally flew into Salt Lake). Now we're back in Provo to enjoy the rest of our break.
We love you all very much and hope you are having a wonderful holiday season with family and friends as we have been.

Christmas, Christmas time is here...

We are finally getting a little bit of Christmas stuff. On Sunday we are going to get a little fake tree from my sister (Yay for free stuff!). We also made this gingerbread house together. We got the kit from Bed Bath and Beyond with some leftover gift card funds from the wedding. :) Hopefully we'll keep collecting Christmas decorations so our house gets more festive! (p.s. please notice that I added pictures to the post about thanksgiving, below this one...)

It's the Holiday season...

Our Thanksgiving break has been quite too short, and we're ready for Christmas break to be here. We had a good Thanksgiving though. We went to bed extra early on Wednesday night and couldn't get ourselves to sleep any longer than 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning! But that's okay, because Kayleen had to work that morning anyway.
We went to West Jordan (Salt Lake valley) to spend Thanksgiving with the Camps (my mom's side of the family). It was good to see all the cousins that we used to see all the time and now only see a couple times a year! Of course, we all just ate and visited and played games. The in-laws probably find it quite boring (sorry Kayleen, Trevor, Julie, and Norine!), but we Camps/Barlows love to just sit around and visit the whole day. Here are some pictures of Thanksgiving Day:

Rebekah and Andrea (sistas)Heidi and Trevor (lil sis and bro-in-law)

Here we are on Thanksgiving, too. Happy and thankful to have each other.

Yesterday we got to see our friends Meg and Jason - they came down to Utah for Thanksgiving break. And of course spent a little time with Brian and Megan and Baby Eliana. I still haven't got any pictures of her, but hopefully soon! I forgot to get pictures of Baby Paisley at Thanksgiving too. Oh well.

Now it's Saturday and we're just doing homework and getting ready for some crazy school days ahead!
We love y'all and hope you have had a most wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!

P.S. Norine, I tried to see if something was wrong with the comment settings, but I couldn't find anything. Hopefully everyone is able to comment now! :)

Just waiting

Well, we are just waiting in anticipation for Brian and Megan's babe to be born. And excited that they have joined the blog world. Once the baby is here I'm sure you'll see some new pictures here on the blog. Other than that we haven't taken many pictures lately, and I'm always hesitant to write a boring blog with no pictures. But I wanted to give an update since it's been a while.
In other news....
My mom is moving to Smithfield (near Logan). That was kinda surprising but we are happy for them that they'll have a nice new home.
And that's about all.
But there will be more new adventures soon.
Love y'all!

Halloween fun

Two midterms, group project, and major research milestone group work this week.....All I can say is I'm running on no sleep and my brain has stopped working. So that's all I want to type for now. But here are some pictures from the Halloween party we had at our house last week:
Yeah, those are three-legged pants we are sharing :)