A perfect day!

I really have the greatest husband ever! I am so grateful he is my best friend its just a bonus that I get to keep him forever! I loved every minute of my day! He woke me up with breakfast from Panera, which was so very yummy! Then I got a huge surprise that he was off work for the WHOLE DAY! We hung out for a few for a fun lazy morning. Then off we were and not to return until the morning! Otto had planned for us to go to the local Art Museum to go see the Pharaoh display, which I was excited to see. But the luck we have the musuem is closed on Mondays! We just laughed! Who would have thought?! Since we were right down town we decided to be tourist for the day! Oh what a fun day we had! We went to lunch down at the river market took a trolly all over Little Rock and North Little Rock. By the way the trolly was amazingly grorgous! Walked by the Clinton Libary (No we did not do in) Just walked up and down the River Market and It was a perfect day! We went and tried to tour the Heffer Project but were to late for the tour but we looked around and enjoyed the time there! We learned so much, that place is way cool. Then from there we just went to target and had a little get away at a local hotel. It was perfect. But any time I get to spend the day with Otto is the best day ever! Thanks Otto for the laughs and the fun times. You really make everything better! I love you!

MY Birthday Breakfast!

Our lunch, we have had better but it was a fun place!


Us walking and playing downtown at the River Market

Our Trolly is here!

Speechless.

A perfect Day!

Graces Wedding

This is our friends little sister getting married. It was a beatiful night! We are so happy for Grace and Jason. I was enjoying playing with my camera so here are a few highlights from the night....

♥ Grace and Jason ♥

This is PRINCESS MEGAN and I loved looking at the view she was looking at. Now you have to know Megan (Graces niece) she honestly believes that she is a princess. As Grace and Jason were having there first dance Megan started BOLTING out Disney Princess songs and dancing away! Then she screamed at Grace... Grace you really are a princess! It was priceless.

This is Hazel who also loves princesses and was taking away with all the pretty lights and the glitz and glamore of Graces dress and the cake. Well her face says it all!
I loves theses girls and I love Grace and she looked amazing and looked perfectly happy, but it was super fun to watch these little girls. To see the sparkles in there eyes and how Grace let them be apart of her special night.

This made us laugh! As we were on special assignment on behalf of the family we ran to walgreens and this is what we saw in the parking lot! Yes someone rode a golf cart to The Walgreens! Some people are so cool!

Yeppers we love the Toblers and we got to be apart of the family joke! We were the delivers of the special package to the Honeymoon suite! It was perfect!

Book Signing

So I may not be good at keeping up with my blog I still love to read others. There is one blog that I have learned from a bunch of friends called The Pioneer Woman. She is funny and has some really good recipes! Well she went from having just a blog just like this to having her own cook book all with in a pretty short amount of time. She was doing a book tour (back in Oct.) for her new cookbook and of all places she came to Little Rock! So me a 4 other friends showed up and got in line with hundreds! Who knew so many knew about her.... But we were hanging out at the Walmart. ( which I thought was a funny place for a book singing but what do I know) The line was wrapped from the jewelry counter past the towels around the corner past the music all the way into the automotive!!!! (IF you have ever been to a Super Walmart you know how far that is, and if you have been blessed never to step into a walmart then its a long way.) We have made some good meals thanks to the Pioneer Woman! It was a fun night hanging out with friends and catching up!

This and that...

We are alive!

I have been a slacker on writing the blog so I am sorry for that!

But to be honest we have not had that cool of lives lately.

Otto is back in school and I am seeing him less and less which makes me sad.

I am only ok with this because I know there is an end in sight...

I am still at the gym.

But I did go to Boston at the begining of Oct.

Well I say Boston but really a town called Worcester.

Which is pronounced nothing like it sounds!

I went for my Certified Pediatric Massage Licences.

It was a fun adventure one I wish Otto could have came on

but his classes wouldnt let him fit it in!

I will say Northerns are much more blunt and to the point then us southerners

I was trying to blend in but ended up sticking out like a sore thumb,

all because I said hello to the bus driver, then told him to have a nice day.

It was fun I took public transportation to get form place to place.

Wow I loved it made everything so easy and so cheap.

But those dang taxi driver are blood sucking vampires, incase you were wondering!

I was very glad to be back and I am very excited for the beinging

year hopefully I will be working less and less and the

gym and more with the kids!

So that is us in nut shell nothing to exciting but we are loving life and each other!

Teaser...

This is just a tease... we have been pretty busy this summer not traveling as much as last year but we have had a good time. So this blog is about my niece Kylie, and how we have spent most of our summer. we do love to go to the pool every chance we get so here is a fun day in the lives of Aunt Kristin and Kylie... special guest apperance Otto!

(with a sneak peak of where we live)

Kylie all excited about going to the POOL! or not.... she hated it the first few mintues (like 20) we were in there but then I had bought a little floatie that was a lady bug, huge hit. made swim time a lot more fun!
HAPPY KYLIE!

Trike --- check!

Bubbles --- check!

Soccer ball --- check!

Sippy Cup --- check!

Wrapper from popsicle --- check!

side walk chalk --- check!

I just thought this picture was way cute!

Ps that is the "trophy house" and part of the back yard!

Kylie thinking that maybe skipping nap wasnt the best idea we had!

Kylie coloring her "rainbows" with the side walk chalk.

Gotta love that HAT, she refused to take it off!

Kylie was done with the pool. Sorry I did get any pictures of us in the pool.. next time!

But all I have to say is Kylie LOVES her U. Otto! here is Otto about to blow bubbles for her.

Had enough of the pool but not Otto and I so here is Kylie dressed and just enjoying some sun!

Here is Kylie playing on the blanket watching U. Otto and Iin the pool!

us going in to make dinner!

Nothing better than hanging out with her U. Otto!

Fishin' around

Otto got to go dep sea fishing with dad. Otto LOVED it! Here are just some quick pictures from the trip. I am so greatful for my dad and Otto and the relationship that they have!

Otto cant wait to go back!

here is Otto with a Bite!

Fighting with the fish..... whos gonna win!?!?

Almost......

Otto won, but it wasnt easy!

No not a Yedi but a Neti.....

so have you ever seen these?

If you don't know what theses are you were just like me until earlier this morning. Last night, I went out for a night on the town! (or just hanging out with my sister in law buying clothes for my niece. ) But we did ride with the windows rolled down and the music up high. I came home, realizing that ummm yep I still have allergies! GO me! Here in Arkansas it is death by pollen season. I should take pictures. Everything is yellow. So I woke up many times in the night due to stuffiness. Then this morning woke up to a sore throat and major stuffiness. Went on to see one of my clients, of course warning her that I sound like Darth Vader's sister. But i sounded much worse than I felt. (which was a lie) When i got there she kept on saying have you tried this, have you tried that. i am thinking to myself dang I must sound pretty bad. Then she ask the question... Have you ever used a Neti Pot? I said no I have never even heard of it. She said her son loves it and she had a friend over that said she used it everyday! Well i was desperate!!! So I went to whole foods and got one. Came home thinking it was going to solve everything including world peace. i take it out of the box and think to myself what was i thinking they want me to do what with this thing? Lets just say after about 20 mins if trying I am ready to take it back. Then Otto comes in and gets it to works the first time. Then continues to rave about how good it feels and how well he can breath and that he has not felt that clear in a really long time. go figure. Its been a week now since we have gotten our little neti pot and i have kinda have gotten it to work right. Otto still loves it! So that is just my luck. But as long as Otto feels better it was money well spent. Actually the littlebit i have gotten it to work for me it does really help.

Where has the time gone?

*** late post due to computer issues for the past few weeks***

So its been a year and a couple of weeks now since Otto and I got hitched! So much has happened this past year and we have loved almost every minute of it. wink. wink. We had a super anniversary. Otto planned a wonderful night. He made us a steak dinner. Then he surprised me with a scavenger hunt around the property with memories of this past year and flowers at each place. I KNOW! I am a lucky girl. Then he had a little fire set up outside and we just hung out underneath the stars and just talked. It was a perfect night! I love my husband so much. I know so many people have asked our first year has gone and it really has gone really good. I have heard some horror stories of peoples first couple years of marriage. I laugh because i have had people ask me... how are you guys doing? I will say we are doing great. Then they reply with really, you can tell me the truth. I know how hard it is! So i honestly am so grateful for my husband and what a wonderful year we have had. I cant imagine my life with out Otto in it. We finished our anniversary with a trip down to Dallas. We got a super nice hotel room for dirt cheap. Which we love a good deal. So Friday night we went to the temple and did a session. It was fun to be in the temple and think about a year ago when we were there with our families. So we went from the temple to go play downtown. but it was COLD COLD COLD so it made us change our plans so we went out to eat then just headed back to the hotel. The next morning we went to the farmers market and then off to IKEA. Ok I have to say that I heart IKEA. Otto even enjoyed himself. So to say the least we have had an awesome first year and an amazing anniversary! I cant wait for the years to come.

Otto I love you.

pictures to come... i have misplaced my camera for the moment

A bunch of nothing....

So what have we been up to you might be asking?

I mean it has been a month since I have posted. For that I am sorry, but this past month has been just the same ol' same ol'. Work, School, and homework for Otto. Work, Watching Kylie, and Primary for me. We are excited for our coming up anniversary. This time last year Otto was tying up loose ends at work and finishing test at school. I was on my way to Nauvoo with my family. WOW time really does fly.

Quote for one of my sumbeams this past Sunday:

She was trying to pass off her first Article of Faith as she recited it like this:

We believe in God the Eternal Father and in his on Jesus Christ.... AMEN

I do love being in primary!

i {heart} u

We had a really awesome weekend. It started Thursday night with a GNO which we went and watched -He's not that into you- OK funny funny movie. It was fun to hang out with the girls, Otto was glad that i had them to go with so i did not drag him to go see it!

Friday night was a ward activity night. It was a 50's theme. It was fun to get ready for and to see how far Otto lets me fuss over him. By the way.... not very much. So we went and had a fun time visiting and hanging out.

So then Saturday morning, I decided to get creative and make Otto some fun Valentine pancakes... as you see the first time was a bust.I burnt them! Which I kinda ruined me surprising him, but we got a really good laugh out of my goof!

these are the burnt ones that stuck to the cookie cutters!

attempt two yeah for pam cooking spray!

ta-da i even topped them with strawberry syrup!

Otto said they were pretty yummy! It was a fun morning for us just goofing off and hanging out. We went over to his parents for a little bit and had lunch which was fun! Went to the store for a few things we needed for dinner and Otto cooked up some steaks and grilled some veggies and it was so yummy! Sorry there is not a picture of dinner we were outside and well we were to hungry to come up to get it. So we ate dinner outside, Otto started a fire and we just chilled by the fire and star gazed and talked! It was perfect!!! After we were nice and cold we came in played a game of skip-bo,watched the movie -Fools Gold-, and then ate some Cheesecake!

I found these cute little spring form pans at Target and well I have never made Cheesecake before so i thought this would be the perfect time to try! Well if I say so myself it was pretty yummy! Otto was pretty impressed. So if I say so myself it was perfect! i love you Otto!

the 411

Things we have been up to...



Otto is back into school full swing, but at least with this schedule i get to see him more. So that is very nice for us. We have not been doing to much since the year began, we are not complaining because the end of last year was so crazy that we are enjoying figuring out what to do for date night.

We have been watching our niece Kylie. (Otto's sisters little girl) She is a cutie. She is 21 months and really starting to show her personality. She is a very calm and laid back kid which makes it super easy to watcher her 3 to 4 times a week. so that is the little cutie whos picture is the above photo... so I am not so savy with picasa and getting the pic i want for the blog i want! Oh well what can you do. Right?

So besides me working at the gym which is picking up nicely, watching Kylie, and I just have been working on my calling which is non stop lately. I am the 1st counslor in primary which is so much fun! i love it, watching the kids is also so entertaining! Right now I am working on our first quarterly activity that is the 28 th this month. So lets hope that runs smooth.... fingers crossed!

Tonight i am going to a GNO which I am excited for, we are going to see He's not that into you. A radio station is giving tickets away for 5 bucks with a free popcorn! You cant beat that! i hope everyone has a fun and happy valentines day!

Remember That Time.....

So remember that time I blogged about my friend of a friends FREE Toffee. Well some of you have asked if I have received my toffee, all I can say is What Toffee? (as I wipe the crumbs from my lips!) I must say that was some stinking good toffee. I just want my mom and my g'ma to know that I still LOVE there toffee but I know as much as they love chocolate that they would have agreed with me, if only I would have shared. But it was that good that I really did not want to waste it on my husband who likes anything. So to those who asked here is your answer. It was the Bomb!

Highlights of 2008

snow days

planning a wedding

married my best friend for eternity

pawleys island, sc

kylie's first birthday

trips 2 st. louis

making our very own bed

our first professional baseball game

4th of july in st. louis

many road trips

our first camping trip

first state fair

race for the cure

bonfire

our first christmas morning

our first new years

so many first & wonderful things happened this year. so many fun times otto and i have had being married. otto is very excited that he is finally getting called bro. beaumont and not bro. burdett any more! most people are now calling me

s. beaumont instead of "bur"mont. i am so amazed how fast this year has passed and how great it was. 2008 was a year i will never forget & i cant wait to see what 2009 has in store for us!