2013 Wrap up

Posted on January 2, 2014January 2, 2014 by kelliwarren

I love to look back over the past year at New Years and see all the blessings that have unfolded during that year. I can never just pick one highlight of each month so sorry there are multiple pictures for some months!

January- we started 2013 at the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl. It was so much fun and something we will always remember! We also went to Kauai with the Warrens!

February-we added sweet little Leo to our family! He makes us smile and laugh every day.

March- Rachel got her Mission call to Spain! Mark and I celebrated our 24th birthdays and lots of other family birthdays.

April- we got to go to the temple with Rachel, it was a great experience. I love my family 🙂

May- we got to meet our newest niece Coraline! Taylor turned sweet 16!

June- our family said goodbye to middle school and went to Courtney’s promotion.

July- this was a busy month for our family. My mom, Rachel and me went to southern California for my cousin Natasha’s wedding. While we were there we hit up Disneyland. It was a blast! We then said goodbye to Rachel for 18 months and our family headed to Utah for a Barker family reunion. It was great to be with family and especially my 99 year old great-grandfather! While there I got to catch up with my favorite roommates and their husbands! It was definitely a highlight of the year.

August- Mark and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary with a getaway to beautiful Jenner, CA. Mark is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I’m so blessed to share my life with this cute boy.

September- I went shooting with my little sister Courtney.

October- We were very fortunate to get to go to Hawaii for a 2nd time this year! This time we went to Oahu. I got to check paddle boarding off my bucket list, I loved it! We also threw a Murder Mystery Halloween party.

November- we celebrated my wonderful dad’s 50th birthday!

December- it has been a very busy month for us, per usual. We started the month off by going down to southern California for our niece Belle’s baptism. We obviously couldn’t pass up an opportunity to go Disneyland and see the Christmas Decorations. It was the BEST!

We also got to spend LOTS of time with family.

My dad took us to the Fight Hunger Bowl at AT&T Park to watch BYU & Washington State. We love going and especially love the perks of my dad’s job! Thanks Dad!

December was a tough month for our little kitty. He turned 1 this month! We had to take him to the vet a couple of times and also thought we were going to have to put him down a couple of time. It was emotionally exhausting but we are happy we get to have him longer. Hopefully 2014 is a little easier on him.

2013 was a good year, we were so blessed to have the opportunity to go to Hawaii twice, adopt Leo, send off the cutest little missionary, and spend lots of time with family and friends. I’m so grateful for everyone in my life. I’m excited to see what 2014 holds! Happy New Year!

Murder Mystery Party

Posted on October 28, 2013 by kelliwarren

I fulfilled “seal with a wax stamp” off my bucket list and am now looking for any excuse to wax seal everything, bills, letters, etc.

This weekend we threw our first annual Halloween party! I absolutely love Halloween and the fall and everything t at comes with it. The past few years I have been really disappointed because we have had no reason to dress up (I would dress up every day if I could, that was probably my favorite part of high school. I love not having to wear real clothes.) It seems like we are in the in-between stage where holidays aren’t as fun as when we were single and where they will be really fun when we have babies to dress up.

So I decided to take matters into my own hands this year and throw a party. We did a murder mystery party. I’ve done it once before when I was 16 and I remember it being fun but can’t remember any of the specifics about it or how it worked. So I was a little nervous to host one because it could be cheesy and it may not make sense. But it sounded fun in my head, so I decided to do it. I think it turned out great! It seemed like everyone had a good time, and I hope they did! I was rushed getting the party set up and making sure I read all the prompts I was supposed to and completely forgot to take a picture of everyone! A huge shout-out to our amazing guests who got into character and made it fun! You are all good sports, you will all be getting an invite again next year!

We went as Caesar Flickerman and Effie Trinket from the Hunger games

My cute parents went to a halloween party as Flo from Progressive insurance Mayham from Allstate insurance! Best costumes I’ve ever seen!

On second thought…

Posted on October 9, 2013October 9, 2013 by kelliwarren

This past weekend was General Conference, more on that later, but we also had the pleasure of watching the kids I used to stay with for a week during the summers when I came home from college. I love these 4 kids. The youngest one, Ali, wore her baptism dress to our wedding, before she even wore it to her own baptism because she wanted to match me, so cute! Anyways, it’s been a few years since I’ve watched them and I pictured them still being the little kids they were. But they are all grown up now, the oldest is a senior in high school and Ali is 10! We had a good time, it was funny to watch Mark and then hear him say, “How did you do this by yourself?” These kids have A LOT of energy and at the conclusion of the weekend I couldn’t help but think, “on second thought, maybe I do want to wait longer to have kids…” Granted, I know your kids don’t come out 4 at a time (usually) and 12 years old, but I couldn’t help but think about how good life is right now. It’s quiet and just the two of us (plus Leo, who is great because we can leave him by himself all weekend with a bunch of food left out, you can’t do that with a kid!) and we can pack up and go somewhere whenever we feel like it, aka freedom.

I’ll be thrilled when that day comes but for right now I’m enjoying this stage. I guess Mark’s going to get his way a little longer.

Now for some un-related pictures! Picture 1: Mark is the scout leader for the 11 year olds. He’s loving it… ha! 😉 #2: This is Mark’s favorite thing to do to Leo right now, he thinks this face is hilarious! It drives me nuts! #3: We are hosting our first annual Halloween party! (Annual is contingent upon this one being a hit…we will see) I’ve always wanted an excuse to use a wax sealer and thought Halloween party invites were the perfect one! It was so much fun and now I’m looking for any excuse to wax seal everything, bills, mortgage payment, etc…