back to reality

wow!

what a crazy, fun-filled, busy last 2 weeks it has been!

thanks for all the comments lately and well wishes on our cruise, very thoughtful of everyone!

our cruise was an absolute blast and wonderful,

except for the fact that the 2 parents and a sister had to leave the cruise 2 days into it bc of sickness :(

and all of us who were left on the cruise were sick in someway for at least 1 day :(

but we made the best of it and had fun christmas together still.

i'll be blogging all about the cruise with pics over the next few days.

we have been here in az the past few days with my famlia having lots of fun together, celebrating christmas late along with new years and a motorcycle trip to the dunes!

on another note...
i was also able to get together with some close friends from {mesa} high school one night.
we haven't had a get together since high school so this was so fun for all of us!
thanks again girls for those of you who made it!
the mix of us girls fall into the categories of either single, dating, married, mommies, or missionaries-to-be.
we even have miss janell now in nyc nannying!
to be honest, high school years were so fun and i loved those friends so so much :)

busy busy busy bodies!

well folks, we made it to cali!

we had such a fun time last week in arizona visiting my side of the family 

we played much too much with little miss annalee

and the adorable new phoebe!

here are some of our activities!

played with annalee... a lot and we loved it!!!!
i was "biber" or "K! biber"
and casey was "asey" or "C! asey"
we trued teaching her the "k" part of our names and she couldn't put the "k" and the word she already knew together, so cute!
but she's learning so much!
it's so fun to teach her knew things and hear her parrot us!
i love this age!

she's hilarious when you say smile!!!

 pretty much our day often evolved around
when can we play with annalee?
when is her nap?
when can we pick her up?
you know :)

casey taught her how to sword fight...in the store
we also taught her the "okey pokey!"
and we loved hearing "no! annalee (very mumbled) do it!" 

we learned she loved getting her nails painted!
what a girl!
we did them blue and changed to pink after a few days
whenever she wasn't in the talking mood, i just asked her about her nails and she got all super happy and then played with me :) loved it

i've never heard the ABC's so much as i did when we were with her
we also sang like a bajillion songs to entertain her in the car haha

went to bahama bucks and loved it!
casey loved it so much we went 3 times in a week, goodness

we also met this cute little girl!
miss phoebe!

you just got to love holding a newborn!

proud mommy and sister

proud aunt and uncle too!
we're so lucky to have 3 cute little nieces on my side!

climbed kamleback mountain in phoenix with my mom!

i haven't done that hike in awhile and goodness there are BOULDERS!
it's not a hike, it's like a boulder climb!
haha, but fun memories still

went to the Gila Valley Temple walk through!

it's smaller than it appears!
but it's so pretty inside!!!!!!!

we were so lucky to have blair, annalee, and phoebe come with us at the last minute!
to say the least, annalee was quite entertaining through the "reverent" temple :)

but we did all enjoy the plentiful amount of cookies at the end

everyone minus mom

had to go motorcycle riding!
i don't know why but i still say motorcycle riding even though i was the only one on one, everyone else was on quads etc!

casey had a little/big oopsie daysie and has some new battle wounds
you gotta learn somehow huh? :)

everyone minus mom again, poor mommy

i think the arizona desert is soooo pretty :)

and it was wonderful, everything was blooming!

oh yes and casey did his first balloon job with us,
this was his new hairstyle :)

funny the day my mom needed help, it was 3 jobs...that turned into nightmares!
ha!
you may like balloon drops, but we do not :)
a first in my mom's balloon career, it was triggered early!
luckily i saw it and ran up the ladder to save it before all the balloons came out! goodness!
to see how one of the proms turned out, visit here

 we had a wonderful time in arizona and were sad to leave!
we're safe in sacramento with lots of bug guts on our car to prove it,
getting into the gist of our jobs,
our apt is awesome and we love it,
someday we'll go shopping for food too :)

Goodbye 2009

ha we are in this picture! play i spy kimber and casey!

I can't believe this year is already over! here's a little tribute to the year 2009!

things to be missed

1. the excitement of being engaged
   
2. freshman year
   
3. aspen grove times
   
4. michael jackson (long live the king of pop;)
   
5.  making wedding plans
6. my maiden name (although it is now my middle name!)
   

things not to be missed:

1. security systems
   
2. being engaged for forever
   
3. the slowest summer ever of separation from each other
   
4. making wedding plans
   

things that happened

1. met my best friend
   
2. got married to my best friend for forever
3. changed my name to cutler (it's funto write in cursive, it has lots of loops:)
   
4. moved into our first married apartment
   
5. spent the longest time making pumpkins for halloween
   
6. the official birth of kimberobics
   
7. went to disneyland for grandpa woodruff's 80th birthday with casey
   
8. finished my 3rd official semester of college
   
9. changed my major 10 times in one year
   
10. went to mexico for the 1st time with casey!
    
11. casey learned how to ride a motorcycle
    
12. kirk came home from  his mission finally!
    
13. became an aunt and uncle for the 6th official time and we love it!
    
14. reached 100,000 miles on our car
    
15. learned lots of nursery rhymes/songs for Annalee
    
16. casey became a security guard
    
17. made the ballroom dance team
    
18. had season passes to sundance and went skiing lots (*casey's b-day fun of both of us literally being stuck in the snow) but we did get really good this season
    
19. went through the draper, mesa, and st george temples together
    
20. provo movie night in the park
    
21. sledding together and peed our pants laughing while doing it
    
22. went to both apr/oct conference
    
23. first christmas together!
    
24. had a pizza on the beach in cancun for thanksgiving dinner
    
25. put on over 30,000 miles on the car of taking trips
    

Hello 2010!

things we will do this year that aren't technically goals:

1. sell pest control in sacremento
   
2. finish our 5^th semester of college
   
3. kimber will turn 20
   
4. casey will turn 23
   
5. go to family reunions!

casey and i created some of our own goal stuff and have it hanging in a cupboard of our kitchen that we open a lot, hopefully we'll do them!

ps- it's always way weird to start writing the new year's number to date everything

i've messed it up so many times already!