Married Life!!!

We have been married over two months now. It has been so crazy. We got into our house later than we wanted. We wanted to have our house ready as possible. That didn't work out. We currently are living in the basement while we remodel upstairs. We have made alot of progress though. I am excited to be able to live upstairs one day.
Our wedding day was absolutely perfect and I loved every minute of it. I don't think I stopped smiling once during the day. I am just glad the planning is over with. I love being married. It is nice to not have to leave Ben at night. Even though we are remodeling life feels less crazy than when we were engaged.
Thats just a little update on our life. I am contemplating making us a blog.

Just thinking about my life

I feel so crazy busy right now. I am working over 40 hours a week. Trying to plan a wedding, get into a house and lots of other things. Right now I should be in bed or putting addresses together. But here I am on the computer typing this blog.
Tonight Ben and I sat outside. It it a nice night. Just the right temperature. I love summer. But I was looking up at the stars and I thought wow my life is going to change in 44 days. I am excited, nervous and scared for the change. I am nervous because i have never lived away from home. I have lived in Farmington for most of my life. I am scared because I don't know how to cook. But luckily Ben is good at cooking. I am excited because I won't have to leave Ben at night or vis versa. But tonight I thought about how my life will consist of coming home from work to Ben. I am excited to spend my life and eternity with Ben. I love you Benjamin!

Proposal pictures

WE'RE ENGAGED!!!!!!!!

Ben and I got engaged a little over two weeks ago on June 23rd. It was a Thursday and I usually get off earlier on Thursday. We planned on going on a bike ride and having a picnic. I was kind of tipped off when he had the idea of the picnic two days before and then the day before he said he would take care of the food. I was also tipped off because when he got to my house he already had my water bottle filled and came down asking where my camelback was. We decided to do legacy trail. We going along biking and looking for a pavilion along the way. About 8 miles on the trail we find one and stop to eat. He got Wingars to-go (which is where we went for our first date) For dessert he brought these chocolate eggs that he brought back from Portugal. These chocolate eggs also have a plastic egg inside with a little toy. So he took one of eggs and broke it apart carefully and put the ring inside the plastic egg. So when I opened it there was my ring. He got down one knee and said "Kayla Lynn Spears" I looked at him with a funny look on my face. It took him a minute to say Simmons. It was hilarious. One the ride back I just started laughing out loud. He did such a good job with how he proposed and all. I loved it. He is so great. We are getting married September 29th. The last two weeks have been crazy with planning and such. Luckily I found my wedding dress today. That was a huge stress relief. We also put an offer on a house. Woot Woot!!! hopefully they accept it. Pictures to come soon!

All good things sometimes come to an end!

I love babies. Anyone who knows me well, knows that I love babies. I was the girl in church who took people's babies. My favorite people to babysit were those who had little babies. As a little girl I never liked barbies. I always asked for baby dolls.

I was very excited to start this job at a daycare, one because I love kids and two I got to work in the two babies room. I felt inspired to apply at this daycare. I pretty much even had a job at another daycare, but gave it up because I felt better about apply at this one. At the time of my hire they made me sign a one year contract with them. If I quit before this one year contract I would have to owe them 500 dollars. This freaked me because I didn't know what was going to happen in 6 months from then let alone a year. But I also felt calm because I knew this was where I was supposed to be.

The first two days of work I loved it. I loved the teacher I worked with and things were great. I didn't even mind the 10 hour days. The third day however was different. There was a different teacher I hadn't worked with yet. From the moment I walked in the room she was so rude to me. By the end of the day I thought I was going to cry. I went from loving my job to hating it. The next day she was still being rude. She said something to me and I called her out on being rude to me. From there things got better. We worked so well together and I love my job again. Well that changed once again. She started being rude to me again. One day at work I started crying and told her she was being rude and mean.

Long story short my boss called and gave me some options. One option was to continue working in my position as is. Two option would be for me to find another classroom in the daycare, and three I could walk away without paying the contract fee. I told her another option of us switching position. (Apparently she was forced into the this position and I took her position) So I decided to walk away and find another job.

In the midst of trying to find another job I feel very blessed. I was already feeling stressed about how Ben and I could make together. I was only making minimum wage. That very week they cut our hours from 40 to 35 or even less. So I would be making alot less without those five hours a week. I just feel blessed I was able to get out of the contract and not worry so much about the fewer hours.

So here's to me and job search again. WOOT WOOT!!!!! Life is good!

Valentines, Week 2, and Elder Kyle Update

Well I wrote this post like a month ago which was already late...but here it is anyway!
Valentines was so fun because I got to share it with Ben. He wouldn't tell me what we were doing. It was a complete surprize. He came and got me and told me we were going to get take out from outback steak house. We ordered our food and had an hour before it would be ready. We decided to go to 2 of our favorite stores. Downeast Outlet and Ross. At Downeast we found Ben sherman shirts. Of course I had to get it. He he. Then we went to ross. We had gone to another Ross another day and I tried on a shirt I loved but didn't get it. We saw it at this other Ross. Ben decided to get it for me. I love it. Its a nice black shirt with white polka dots. He also bought me a Ben Sherman belt. After Ross we went and picked up our food. Found a place to park and eat it. He had brought a Martinellis with clear plastic cups. We ate our food and drank the Martinelli. It was so good. We decided we should make this a Valentines tradition to have take out in the car. (Next year he said he was going to kick it up a notch with candles on the dashboard) What a cutie he is? I love him. We then exchanged gifts. He made me a cute card, a box of whitmans chocolates, and a stuff animal dog. I have been telling him I want a dog one day. I think this dog will do for now. Less maintanence. I got him a picture of Christ and made him a card. Back in december we to temple square to see the lights. There happen to be a art gallary going on and we decided to take a look. We fell in love with this painting of christ. I kinda forgot about it until January. I had the brillant idea to get him a copy of the picture for valentines day. I got ahold of the publisher and they said they could get me a copy before valentines. I kept calling to make sure. They kept telling me it was going to happen. Well a week before I called again to make the order and they told me they couldnt do it. I was really bummed and didnt know what to do. So I then went to deseret book and found another painting of christ I liked and bought that. Then after gift exchange we went to game stop (Ben's choice) and then we made fried banna splits.
Week 2 of my job got alot better except for one aspect. The same lady that gave me trouble the first week started to give another set of troubles. Apparently she had my position as the floater before I did. She wanted my positon back. My boss came and talked to me about trading positions. She is one of the main teachers for the toddlers. I told her I loved being the floater and working with both babies and todders. I was so stressed because I loved the babies too. The next it finally work out. Turns out she was really stressed with her position. Now they are going to alliviate some of her duties and dellegate them out so it's more even and give her more preparation time.
This job has been so goood for me thus far. I feel very acomplished at the end of the day. I feel like I can give them the love they need that they are missing while their parents are at work. Even though its only minimum wage it is very rewarding. I love holding and caring for the babies. I love teaching and playing with the toddlers. I felt very acomplished when I able to connect with one of the parents and help them feel better about their child being in daycare. WOOT!!!!
Kyle is officially out in North Carolina. He has been there for about 2 weeks now. He has been out just over a month. Crazy only 23 months to go. I am so proud of him. I miss him alot. I actually miss him taking up the tv to play xbox and the mess he leaves in the basement. He seems to be doing well.

My New Job

I started my new job officially on Tuesday. It was a long 10+ hour work day. I am not used to working full time and getting up early. I am sure as time goes on and I get used to going to be earlier it will get better. Man those 10 hour days are long though. I came home really sore and very tired. I must say it went well for a first day. My second day was a little more tough. I had another teacher that I work with who was rude and treated me like I didn't know anything about kids and babies. I get really mad when people tell me I don't know anything about kids. I feel like I am very competent. I am not perfect but I do have experience. Needless to say I called her out on her rudeness. I think and hope things will be better. She was really to fix things between us. After all I will be working with her 1 full day a week with her. I love the other 3 girls I work with. They are great and easy to get along with. I love the babies and toddlers too. They are all so fun in their own ways. Kids bring me lots of happiness.

I feel like with these 10 hour days there is not enough time to get anything done. I come home exhausted and onry. I am sure that will get better too. I am excited that my day off it Friday. Woot! 3 day weekend. Although I will still be working at the reception center and nannying on some fridays.

Well bedtime for me. I need to write about Kyle and Valentines day.

Good Night!

Tonight was a fun night with my Benjamin. I cherish these nights because they are fun. We didn't do anything special or spectacular but it was fun. I can't describe why it was fun and what it was that made it fun. I just love the nights or days where we talk about random and deep things and laugh alot. Tonight we went to "Five Guys" A place we had never been before. It was really good and I would recomend it. Then we decided to to go to Ross. Ross is a our new favorite place to shop. When/if we get married I think it will be a place we will shop alot at. We also talked about Baby names. We have talked about baby names we really like before. For some reason the subject came up again. We have lots of girl names we both like but for some reason we can't think of boy names. He said tonight he thinks we will have girls. I guess a feeling he gets. For some reason I think we will have girls too. I hope we get some boys too though. Back to Ross. I think we looked at almost everything at Ross. We spent two plus hours there. My favorite part was looking at baby and kid clothes. I think I made a few comments like "Wouldn't our baby girl or boy look cute in this?" He would just laugh at me.

I decided I have a really good guy. A guy who likes to go shopping. In the 10 months we have dated I can only think of a few times where he didn't want to go shopping. It was because he was tired. Understandable, I don't like to shop when I'm tired. Tonight he even helped pick out some of my shirts I tried on. He would say things like "This is super cute" or "You should try this on" lastly he said "Are you going to come out and model the shirts?" I had to laugh because 1 he seriously wanted to see them and two he found a chair in Ross that was for sale and sat outside the dressing room. I would come out and get his opinion. It was awesome! It was like having a girl to shop with. I love my boy!
Second he likes doing crafy things. Which is nice because I love arts and crafts. Yes we go to craft stores together and do crafty things.
Third he came to a scentsy party with me. What kind of guy comes to a scentsy party? Thats right Benjamin Sherman.
Before you think further that he is femy or something he not. He is also pure boy. He loves his tools, building things, cars, trucks, sports etc. I just have a well rounded guy. Not to mention he thinks farting and burping is hilarious. He is a kid at heart and gets excited over toys.
I also love that he is good with kids. He will be a good dad one day.

Anywyas I love my Benjamin Sherman. Thats all!

Just a little update!

It's has been a while since I updated this blog. I have a day off of work and some free time. I thought I would update you on my life. Right now this is my only journal I really write one. So enjoy!

Last Wednesday my family and I dropped my brother off at the MTC. It was a bittersweet thing. We first went to lunch at Maceroni Grill. Good place to eat! We then took pictures at the Provo Temple. I have never been on the grounds of that temple. How I love the feeling on the temple grounds. Then it time we had to drop him off the the curb. I am not sure I liked this too much. We gave him one last hug. There was tears in our eyes. It was a long and quiet ride home. How we miss him? Its been a week. I am sure it will go faster in time. Who knew I would miss a messy basement and the annoying sounds of him playing his xbox. I feel like my protection in the basement is gone. It's really quiet at our house. Collette lives in Ogden. It just my sister and I at home. She gets really excited everytime I come home. I think we will be spending alot of sister time together. Luckily she Ben to play her as big brother for now. I think that helps. I think Ben enjoys it too.

Two weenkends ago we celebrated my grandpa's 80 birthday party and Kyle leaving. Most of my family was there. It was fun to be with them all. Then the next we had Kyle's Farewell. We had our family and friends over at our house for that. It was a very exhausting but fun.

A couple of weeks ago Ben and I went to a Jazz game. It was alot fun even though they lost. I brought my camera but the battery was dead. Too bad I don't have pictures. We also went ice skating at the Gallivan Center. It was so fun to ice skate outside. We have been dating 10 months now. I can't believe its almost been a year. Crazy! I have never dated anyone this long.

My bestest friend got home about a month and half ago. I have missed her dearly. I love having her home. We are still catching up on life. It is nice to have my other half brain back. We used to joke that each of us had half a brain and together we made a whole brain. I can think so much better with my other half.

I also got a full time job at the educational daycare. I am going to love it. I will miss my nanny kids dearly. It has been fun to watch them grow in the last 3 1/2 years. I love them all. This is just be a new chapter in my life. I will be work with kids 6 weeks to 23 months old. I am way excited.

I will post pictures later!