General Conference weekend (sorry, no pics)

This weekend was General Conference of the Church. We got to hear the leaders of the Church give wonderful testimonies of Jesus Christ, the Atonement, faith, covenants, and other principles of the Gospel. It was so good and so uplifing. My faith in the Savior grew even more.

My favorite talks were Jeffrey Holland's about the last week of Christ's life, Steven Snow's about adapting to change, and Robert Hales' about being strong during the financial crisis. Each of the talks helped me to see what I can do better to serve God and others.

We were able to watch the Saturday sessions at Brian and Megan's place, along with Shaun/Lanette, Tricia/Jason, and Sarah. We had a potluck lunch and had a lot of fun. We watched the Sunday sessions at home.

We are in the last week of school and getting our last papers and assignments done so we are ready for finals next week! That is about all that is new around here!

Love you all and miss you and hope you have had a great weekend and week!

this is a shout out to my grandmama. (beany's) I LOVE YOU!!

Relaxing Sunday

Pics of us enjoying time together at the temple:

5 Browns concert (a.k.a. amazingness)

I like this picture of me and my sweetheart. She is so wonderful for taking me to the concert. It was a lot of fun and they were so good! My favorite pieces that they played were "The Planets" and "Fantasie Impromptu" and Prokofiev's Toccatta and pretty much everything else they played.
This is Kayleen sleeping through the concert. (just kidding, she liked it too)
This is me being amazed at wonderful talent and beautiful music.

Fun stuff

This is from going with Tricia and Jason up to Bridal Veil Falls. It was fun.

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!