9 months and counting...

We've been married for 9 months now and I am still loving it! I love being married to my best friend! I was thinking this morning about the things I have learned about Matt in the 9 months we have been married. Here are a few things I have learned.

1. He looks like an angel when he sleeps. But he also tends to drool a lot. He usually wakes up super embarrassed that he drooled all over the pillow, the sheets and my shoulder.

2. He is just like his father. I find myself saying "you are just like your dad".

3. He is a raccoon whisperer.

4. He loves sea lions. It brings out the kid in him.

5. He loves his beard more than he loves most people.

6. He eats more treats and junk food than a kindergarten class on Halloween. And still manages to lose weight.

7. He is afraid of donkeys.

8. He is an artist.

I am so happy I married Matt, he makes life so much fun.

My latest obsession

My new latest obsession is picnik.com. It is basically the best thing since The Bachelor/Bachelorette and the Snuggie. I bet it could even beat a reality dating show with people wearing snuggies. Anyways.... picnik is a free photo editing program online. It makes your photos look like you have photography skills. I had heard a lot about picnik, but decided to give it a try a few days ago... and I am hooked! Let me just show you a few examples!

Here is the before picture. Notice Matt's arm in the picture. Even with out photo editing, we still look fantastic!

The after picture. Notice Matt's arm got cropped out. My teeth got magically whiter.

The before picture of the Logan temple.

The after picture of the Logan temple.

I think everyone should head on over to picnik.com and give it a try!

The Crafty Kirks

Thanks to Matt he has dubbed us the "Crafty Kirks". We are preparing to move to our new humble abode in north Orem, and we wanted to move into our new place in style. Here is just a little preview of what the "crafty Kirk's" have been working on.

Here is one of my first crafty crafts. I wanted some pillows to spice up our home.


Peter and Wendi gave us some old chairs to use in our kitchen. They were quite ugly, so they were happy to give them away. We had been using card table chairs, so we much appreciated the ugly chairs. This is the before chair.

After chairs.

We forgot to get a before picture of our coffee table, but here is the after young and hip coffee table. We are excited to have many nights of coffee drinking on this young guy.

We decided that our 30 year old lamp needed an update as well. I painted the base black and re-did the lamp shade.

These are some decorative twine balls. They are great to just look at.

Disclaimer: We are not starting a preschool in our new apartment, and we are not pregnant. When we envisioned this craft, it wasn't so child like. The end product looked like we would be hosting a play group for a bunch of 5 year olds. Maybe Matt should pursue a career in teaching preschool.

This is my Ikea clock from the most recent girls craft night. I really like how the mod podge fabric and flowers turned out.

We have really enjoyed doing crafts together and making things look nice for our new apartment. I am sure we will keep the craftin' up!

Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall

Summer is coming to an end and the chilly fall weather is right around the corner. I just wanted to post some pictures of our highlights this summer.

Here is the Johansen Clan minus Jeff. For Memorial day we went up Provo canyon and had a BBQ lunch.

This is Matt's hard core cut. He loved to show it off and get sympathy.

This is from our hike up Stewart Falls. It was a nice hike, the only down side.. we forgot aspirin and we both got headaches.

We are poor and we are camping.. so we eat hot dogs for dinner. YUMMY!

This is from the Manti Pageant. We had to fight for some blanket space.

The living planet aquarium was way fun! Not as cool

as the seals in Sea World though.

Matt and Melly at Utah Lake on the 4th of July.

They are the best of friends.

Girls Craft Night!!

Camping up Payson Canyon.

The Kirk Family vacation to Yellow Stone! We had a blast! This is at Yellowstone falls.

We went to Matt's friend Justin's wedding at the Logan temple. It was our first time every going there, and it was soo beautiful!

Brittney's birthday surprise! We surprised her with dinner, and Poppa K made her a pic nic table!

Johansen Family Camp out! We had so much fun at Elevator Lake!

Matt and the kids

First time every mini golfing together. Matt schooled me.

Banana boat party with Jess and Callie

Hello Blogging World!

After much peer pressure from Jen, I have decided to create a blog about the life of Matt and I. We are very exciting and entertaining people, so you will never be bored! Unless you find the mundane things of life unexciting like doing laundry, washing dishes, cleaning the house and going to work. Then you may possibly get bored by our blog.

Anyway, here are the happenings of our life right now.

We are MOVING! Hooray! We found a nice basement apartment in north Orem that will be perfect for us. It is almost double the size of our apartment now, it has 2 bedrooms, big sized living room, HUGE walk in closet in the master bedroom. And we are so excited about it! We won't be moving until October 1st, so that will give us plenty of time to pack and get things in order. Plus we need to buy a washer and dryer.

After almost a year and a half, I am returning to school. Hooray? Matt and I are both taking 2 classes. We are taking an English class together and he is taking an interpersonal communication class and I am taking a marriage class, and hopefully we will be taking institute together as well. We aren't exactly super excited to be attending school, but we know that spending our savings to go to school to earn a degree we will never use is the right thing to do. ha ha. I guess it's just hard to go to school since we aren't sure what we want to do for a career.

Also my dear Twinsistafriend Callie headed off to Ukraine yesterday!

In case anyone is wondering where Ukraine is, I posted a handy little map. She will be teaching English to the Ukrainian kids until the middle of December. She will come back a foot taller, a year wiser, and learned to love Santa Buddies. She will be missed!

Also RIP tent. It was a good tent, it lasted us most of the summer. The tent will surely be missed, and maybe someday he will find his way back home. Here is the tent on our first camping adventure in the Kirk's back yard.

Here is the tent enjoying some time alone up Provo Canyon while Matt hacks away with his machete.

Here is the tent up Payson Canyon enjoying some quality time with the car.