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!

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.