*Our first christmas*

It is about time i post our christmas pics! haha Well this was our very first christmas together... so fun! Here i am with all my girls from work at our christmas party, i love the girls i get to work with! :)

This year we decided to spend our first christmas in AZ. We were able to go down for an entire week, and like always it flew by! But oh my goodness was i so grateful to be out of the snow and in 70 degree weather!

Here we are at the Klepinger family christmas party. These are all the cousins that could make it!

Love the Payne family :)

Christmas morning..

We drew names this year for our gift exchange and Becca got Cory. She was so clever and got him a mini model of his Mustang... poor baby!

With the fam at the temple lights... notice Cory's shorts! That is all he wore that week haha! We had such a fun week with everyone and it is always hard leaving!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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In 3 days we will have been married 7 months... 7 months can you believe that!!?? It has flown by but let me tell you, we have had so much fun! Seriously has been the best 7 months ever! Well i think it has been for Cory also, up until he sold his car at least.. but hey, now he knows how i feel!!!

We are now the proud owners of Lucy the Lexus and Maxeem the Maxima. They are nothin' like the mazda and mustang but it is nice not having car payments and being able to drive in the snow! Oh the sacrifices you make for love :)

But on the bright side, went on a little shopping spree and now have cute matching Nike Free shoes :)

Cory's dad has some 5th row seats to the Jazz games and we have had the opportunity to go to a couple :). It is so cute watching cory when we are at these, he is so star struck being so close to the players!! It is way fun being that close, i can practically feel Deron Williams sweat!

Had to get a D Will jersey!

So if you get to the game 2 hours early you can get autographs from some of the players, so of course we didn't pass this up and went!!! :) Seriously, so cute seeing Cory so excited to meet the players :)

This Thanksgiving was my first thanksgiving away from my family, but his family never fails to make me feel welcomed! We went down to the Wennerholm grandparents house in St. George, and look how pretty it was down there! Maybe i liked it so much because it kinda looks like parts of AZ doesn't it??

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

*Family Portraits*

*October 2010*

Last weekend my parents came up to Utah to visit :). Not just because they miss us but they had to come see my primary program in my ward. haha I love the support of the fam! :) But yes... for those of you that don't know, i am the primary chorister in my ward. My reaction to this when they first called me was tears, and fear and the thought of 'why would they call me, i don't sing!'. But after praying and much thought and reading about how important this calling is (no pressure) and realizing you don't need an amazing voice to conduct a primary, i have to admit it is actually a lot of fun! So it was so much fun showing my kids off to my family!!

But while my parents were here for a few days, we had fun being together! Oh how i hate living so far away from them!!

After a temple session, our first one all together :)

At dinner..

Mom and dad enjoying the season of fall which AZ never experiences..

...And Happy Halloween!!!!

Can you believe that this time a year ago was when Cory and I started dating!?? And can you believe we have been hitched for 6 months!?? This has been the best year of my life and i can't wait for the rest of it!

This summer our family went on a Mexican Cruise!! It was a blast and i wish we could do it again! It was so much fun getting to spend an entire week with my family who live so far away :(... what is better then family, sun, all you can eat ice cream and beach!?? Pictures say it all so i won't say too much more :)

Doesn't it look so warm??? haha first couple days were a little chilly but we didn't let that ruin anything!!

Puerto Vallarta

Mazatlan

So as we were playing in the water we saw this dead fish out in the distance.. yuck.. so somehow we got logan and becca to go and scoop it up. haha I wonder how long that thing had been dead?

Cabo San Lucas

Look how gorgeous the water is!!