Hut Life

After I had fallen asleep the other night I was woken up by Jord saying, "Get up!!!! I have something to show you!"

As tired as I was I crawled out of bed and followed him out into the family room. Waiting for me was a massive fort! Made be the amazing Mr. McKee.

I was very pleased because this also meant I got to go back to bed. :)

We have slept in the fort for the last 3 days. And we may or may not sleep in it again tonight.

Its just really fun. Plus-- Jord has a mattress in it too, so its super comfy!

Anyway, I keep calling it our "hut." And every time I say "hut" Jord corrects me and tells me its a fort.

Whatever. Our hut rocks and we like feeling like little kids. :) he he he.

The Carribean

For Christmas this year my parents brought all of us kids on a Carribean cruise! Talk about spoiled. We had the time of our lives.

Unfortunately, I was having so much fun that I too often left my camera behind in our stateroom. So there will be more words than pictures in this post. :)

Day One: Great Stirrup Bay, Bahamas

I know, he's hot.

We spent the day on the beach! The water was amazingly blue and we rented a humongus tube on which we floated out into the ocean and looked at pretty little fish. I saw Dora! Oh, and we played a fantastic game of sand volleyball!

Day Two: At Sea

I basically ate 6 soft serve ice cream cones on this day. We played lots of games, went to Zumba, watched "Jurassic Park" and enjoyed each others company.

Oh, and I got all fancified for dinner.

 That hand thing must have passed on a generation. ;)

 Isn't she pretty!?

 Okay, okay. I looked real tan next to my mom. Now next to Jordo I look all white again.

 SELFIE!!

I loved every second spent with that sweet little boy. He is so kind and loving. I could just eat him all up!

Day Three: Ocho Rios, Jamaica

We spent the day at all an inclusive with the best water slides I've ever been on. I also got like three virgin pina coladas. We spent most of the day playing volleyball in the pool. My dad may or may not have beat ALL of us (jord, chels, jord, me, skyler, lauren, and matthew) with him and 6 other nine year olds. Whatever.

 That's our cruise ship behind us! Don't judge my arms. I don't know when they started looking all sad and flat like that.

I probably should not have drawn attention to that. ANYWAYS...

Cutie.

Day Four: Georgetown, Grand Cayman

This was my most favorite day, BY FAR! We took a small boat out to the Stingray City! Basically, its in the middle of the bay where the sand is raised and you can stand with the water to your waist. Orginally, it was where fisherman would clean their catch for the day. Over time, stingrays started going there to eat the droppings from the fisherman. Now, the stingrays go there to get food from all of the visitors. They let you pick them up and hold them!

A guy told us he would take pictures for us, so we didn't worry about it. Only to find out that he was going to charge us an absurd amount for them! Whatever. I still got to kiss a stingray. Just no picture to prove it.

Afterwards we went snorkeling. So so so so fun!

 LOOK AT THAT WATER!!

 Okay, my mom and matthew are the only ones that looks cute in this picture. Sorry, guys.

 Ooo la la.

Can you see the camouflage animal!?

Day Five: Cozumel, Mexico

Today we went to Tulum and saw amazing ruins!

 My camera even felt hot and humid!

On our way back a MASSIVE storm came in. We had to take a ferry back to the boat and it was the scariest experience of my life.

We took this picture only to make ourselves laugh for a few seconds. It was terrifying. But we made it back safely without tipping over and dying. Thankfully.

Day Six: At Sea.

When we got back in port we spent the day playing in Miami! We honestly had such a blast.

Our trip was so full of love and family.

Thanks mom and dad!!

Christmas

The week leading up to Christmas break was INSANE; to say the least. I cannot describe how good it felt to board a plane to California and leave every worry and stress behind as we did.

Quick shout out to the Provo Airport-- best experience ever. We arrived, there was no line to check in, we walked 4 steps to get to security, again, no line. Then we walked 15 more steps to our gate.

It rocked. Not to mention that flying out of Provo to California saved us hundreds of dollars!

Jord and I have only driven to California together, so it was such a treat to fly! We were picked up by Dad and Grandpa. The best welcome ever. :)

Our week in California was exactly what both Jord and I needed. We had so so much fun.

Can I tell you how lucky am I to have the in-laws that I do? I just love them. And I feel so at home in the McKee home. I'm a happy girl when I am there. :)

I loved getting to experience Christmas with Jords family this year. I have never had a Christmas away from home (don't judge... I'm kind of a home body, okay?) so I had no idea what to expect as far as tradition goes. But I had a perfectly wonderful time.

 This picture had to be taken to document my first experience at Jimboy's taco's. Jordan's favorite place to eat while growing up!

 I love Jord's moms face in this. :)

 The Sacramento Zoo is free on Christmas eve! We had so much fun!

 Shameless selfie.

We ended our perfect week by going to the BYU bowl game. My family flew in so it was one big party. Shhh. We will pretend like it wasn't a terrible game.

Post about our cruise to the Caribbean to come soon!

Graduated.

Hey guess what? This girl is a college grad!

I took my last test Wednesday. And things have been so insanely busy I didn't get to blog about it until now.

I am now celebrating by partying it up with the McKee's.

This guy and I are pretty happy about it.

12/12/2013

Happy birthday to this handsome guy!

24 looks so dang good on him.

So here is a compiled list of 24 reasons why I love that boy.

-He scratches my back even though I hardly ever do it in return.
-He smiles at everyone.
-Whenever I come home he says, "Hi honey!"
-He is a really good kisser.
-He always turns the light off before we go to bed so I don't have to get up in the cold.
-He lets me put my cold feet on him at night.
-He holds my hand in the car.
-He kisses my eyes.
-He smells good.
-He wants to kiss me when I have just woken up and have bad breath.
-He doesn't have stinky feet.
-He snuggles with me even when he's dying from heat
-He had a hot tub filled up for me before I got home, just because I told him I wasn't feeling well.
-He cuddles me when I have bad dreams.
-He works hard so that I can live a comfortable life.
-He makes me treats to eat late at night, just because I think it is fun to eat treats at night.
-He eats my whole grain pastas even though I know he hates it.
-He sings like Michael Buble.
-He dances like Justin Timberlake (you think I'm kidding... ask his sister Heather).
-He is grateful for everything.
-He is so wise. I know if I ever have a question about ANYTHING, he will know the answer.
-He tells me how much he loves me every single day. And tells me I'm pretty.
-He has big, beautiful eyes.
-He always talk to people in line and at the register wherever we are.
-He calls me "fruit fly" and "chicken nugget"

Don't count how many there are. Because there are actually 25. But when I read them all to delete one, I couldn't bring myself to do it. And then about a-kagilian more came into my mind that I could write down. I guess I'll just have to save them next year.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. MCKEE!

Thoughts

Sometimes I feel like I'm a little bit of a one tracked mind. Whatever it is I am doing or thinking-- all of my energy is focused on that one thing. I pretend like I can check my email during class and pay attention to both. False. Even though I feel like I am multitasking... I'm really not. All of my brain power is focused on one thing at a time.

This is why I often get called "Media Maddie" by my husband.

Because if I am texting someone back-- then I am focused on texting that person back! I try to pretend that I can multi task. But I really can't.

The past few months my mind has been focused on an idea. It's a beautiful idea. An idea worth my thoughts and focus.

It seems that everything in my life revolves around my idea. It revolves around what the future has in store for me and my idea.

But today I read this.

And I just cried.

Am I even looking around at how blessed I am?

I am married to a boy who will do anything and everything just to make me smile. And yet I break his heart by crying to him about all the things I want and don't have-- instead of thanking him for everything he has done for me.

My ideas about what I want for my future will pan out how they are supposed to. I have no doubt that I will look back in a few years and see the hand of God involved in every part of my small life.

So today, tomorrow, and the next days, I am going to try and remember all that I have.

Because I really have never been so happy. And why should I focus all of my energy on my future? Life is so good right now.

That's all.

News

Ummm... we kind of have some big news.

JORDAN IS OFFICIALLY SELF EMPLOYED! Baam.

For those that don't know-- for the last few months Jord has been working on a marketing company he started up. They do social media management, web development, online marketing, and a bunch of other stuff I don't know anything about.

He is basically amazing and I am so proud of him.

It was a little scary having him put his 2 weeks notice in, but we are  both confident with the decision. The business is doing really well, and he wants to put his all into it.

And I'm slightly high maintenance and I'm sick of sharing my Jordan time. The last few months he has been going to work all day and then coming home to work all night. He's basically had no extra time to do anything. Busy, busy boy.

We are so so happy and are excited to move on to new and better things!

Oh, P.s. we are re-doing one of the rooms in our house to make an office for him. That means new carpet, new paint, new baseboards, etc. It's exciting. Before and after pictures to come soon!