Anniversary Trip

So our anniversary was super fun! We went to Brian Regan up in Salt Lake at Abravinal Hall. We drove up to Salt Lake and checked into our hotel which was AMAZING! Scott got us a killer good deal at the Grand America Hotel.

This is one of the best gifts that Scott got me, an Edible Arrangements. Here is a little photo of our delicious feast!!!

The chocolate peanut butter bananas were absolutly TO DIE FOR!!! I couldnt help but eat and eat and eat some more. Seriously any special occasion that you may have coming up! You have got to try it!

We also went to the Red Iguana in downtown Salt Lake for dinner. It was good Mexican food, but the tables were seriously like right next to each other. I felt like I was eating with the people next to me. And the salsa was really SPICY!

We then went and saw Brian Regan, and all I have to say is that he is hilarious! I think that I laughed the whole time! It was great!

After we went back to the hotel and slept in the next morning and went to one of our favorite Bagel shop for breakfast, Rich's Bagels.

We drove back home to Provo, packed our bags, and drove down to St George to see my family! I will talk about that in my next blog post...

The Butlers

In honor of Scott and mines 2 year anniversary I decided to do something a little fun. I had seen this on other blogs, and thought it was a cute idea, so here it is...

100 Things About Scott and Kenzie

1. We have been married for 2 years TODAY!
2. We have been together for 5 years, 3 Months, and 15 Days.
3. We first meet in 7th Grade. He was in the smart people class with all of my friends, but not me.
4. We hated each other in 7th grade.
5. Scott made fun of my hair in 7th grade, and if you saw my hair in 7th grade you would understand why.
6. I shut Scott down like 6 or 7 times before I would agree to go on a date with him
7. Scott was late, ran a red light and took me for a walk on the busiest road in St. George for our first date.
8. Scott’s best friends in high school were my best friends growing up.
9. Scott and I wrote for the whole two years he was on his mission.
10. “Our” song is “To Make You Feel My Love” any version…
11. I had our wedding basically planned by the time he got home from his mission.
12. Scott is truly like a lost son to my dad. They have so much in common, it is sometime scary!
13. I would go and hang out with Scott's family while he was on his mission.
14. Scott is colorblind
15. I am almost blind…okay not really, but I have really bad eyesight…while Scott has better than 20/10 vision.
16. Both Scott and I have a hard time sleeping without each other.
17. Scott and I already have our children’s names picked out, and our dog’s names picked out.
18. We both love watching anything on HGTV.
19. Scott loves to come up with crazy chocolate dessert recipes.
20. Scott has this weird obsession with anything Adidas.
21. We both are, as our family calls it, “Car Snobs”
22. We both love Mexican food and Chinese food.
23. We both cant wait to be parents, when the timing is right for us.
24. We are both planners.
25. Scott loves playing video games, it relieves stress
26. Both of us love Modern Family
27. Scott recently gained an obsession with electronics.
28. Both of us want to move somewhere new and exciting, preferably where the church is small.
29. Scott and I cant wait to be able to serve a mission together
30. Scott told me when we first meet that he hated music, come to find out he hated my music. Not all music.
31. We have a list of places we want to visit sometime in our lives. A very long list
32. Scott is the second oldest and I am the youngest and as such we had a very different childhood.
33. Scott likes to sing to me in his vibrato voice. It is cute, but kind of annoying.
34. We are anal about getting our car washed.
35. Scott drives a 1990 Civic and absolutely loves it and wants to keep it forever.
36. Scott is a much better sewer than me. When I have problems, I go to him.
37. Scott usually drives because if something happens, he wants to be blamed not me.
38. We both hate scary movies.
39. When Scott first kissed me, I had just told him that I needed to throw up!
40. Our first 2 month of marriage, I had to have 2 root canals and 2 crowns done. Scott was not very happy about that bill.
41. One of my favorite memories of our first couple of months of marriage was dancing in the kitchen in the dark, while Scott was singing to me.
42. I love black people music! Scott cant stand it
43. Scott and I had our first camping trip in Yellowstone where we forgot toothbrushes and toothpaste, we also had a disintegrating tent so when we woke up in the morning we had black pieces of tarp all over us. We put the tent in the trash right then and there.
44. When Scott negotiated our first car purchase, Scott was called a cheapskate about 4 or 5 times in that conversation by the dealer.
45. Scott loves to read, he feels that it stimulates his brain so he won’t get Alzheimer’s when he gets old.
46. Because Scott’s mom was adopted, everyone blames her for everything that’s wrong with them.
47. I lip-sync to everything, particularly in the shower.
48. The first time I meet Scott’s family he had just had his wisdom teeth out and was kind of loopy. That lead to a really interesting meeting.
49. The first time that Scott meet my family he came over for dinner and games. Scott forgot that he was suppose to come over and ate right before he came, but still ate a full meal as to not offend my mother!
50. That same night, my mother called Scott a pig for having too many wilds while playing rummy.
51. During our first year of marriage, we spend almost every Sunday with my parents to do our laundry, eat dinner and play games. Good times!!!
52. Scott loves our nieces! He took a week off of work to go and babysit the girls while their parents were in Hawaii and my mom was at work!
53. Our favorite restaurant hands down in Panda Garden in St. George. AMAZING!
54. I got my wisdom teeth out the day after Scott left for his mission, thus I had a built in excuse to lay on the couch and skulk
55. Scott and I were engaged on a secluded beach in Hawaii on Christmas Eve.
56. Scott's parents planned the trip to Hawaii before Scott got home, including buying me a ticket. That is what you call FAITH!!!
57. Scott is a born salesman.
58. Scott loves the Coca Cola that you get in Mexico because it is made from real cane sugar!
59. Scott's mom is an AMAZING story teller, our kids will love that!
60. Scott had one of the best Christmases last year when he got an remote control helicopter.
61. I told Scott before we had even started dating that I would kiss him before he went on his mission.
62. I had a boyfriend although high school. Scott dated A LOT of girls, but none steadily.
63. I moved the day of my senior prom. I thought my date was going to have to pick me up at a hotel, but a family friend was kind enough to let us stay at their house.
64. My parents moved to St. George the day after my high school graduation, I followed three months later.
65. Those three months were some of the hardest. I learned a lot about being an adult.
66. I am NOT a morning person, Scott however can wake up and be so alert that he could shot an intruder right between the eyes if needed. (PS Don’t even try it…it wont turn out pretty)
67. Scott's Dad and my mom were in high school at the same time.
68. Scott's aunt was married to my dads business partners wife’s brother for a while.
69. Scott's grandpa was my mothers principal in elementary school, and she was terrified of him. How that is possible…I still done know…he is the sweetest man ever!!!
70. The above three show how small the world truly is! (Not to mention #8!)
71. When Scott and I got married I had 2 living grandparents, Scott had all 4. Since the we both have lost one grandmother.
72. Grandma Butlers funeral was one of three times I have ever seen Scott cry.
73. I will cry at a commercial for OnStar…I know I get it from my father!
74. When Scott was called to the bishopric, I was in Phoenix visiting my sister. The Stake Presidency member called and issued the calling while I was standing in the pillow isle at a TJMaxx.
75. Since I was in Phoenix I missed the sustaining vote, what kind of a wife am I?
76. We have meet some of our best friends while here in Provo.
77. I am convinced that my parents moved to Mesa, so that they would then move to St. George which is where both my brother and myself meet our future spouses.
78. I introduced my brother to his now wife. Both of them were visiting their sisters single ward, I asked if he thought she was cute, he said yes and that was the end of that!
79. My family is all over the united states. I have a brother in Salem, OR in law school. Another brother and his wife and son in Philadelphia, PA going to dental school. A sister brother in law, and three nieces in Phoenix AZ and my parents live in St. George UT.
80. Scotts family are all here in Salt Lake except his brothers serving missions in Costa Rica and San Diego.
81. When Catie, Scott’s sister found out that we were dating she fell off the bed laughing.
82. Before Scott went on his mission I went to Lake Powell with his family and passed the test. That was how the butlers saw if the person they were dating were going to work out with the family.
83. The thought of not working scares me and makes me think, what am I going to do all day?
84. I love having family pictures up. If you were to ever come into our house, you would immediately understand
85. If I could have one job it would be to do photography, Scott would be retired.
86. Scott and I are always talking about what kind of cars we want to eventually own someday.
87. Scott wants a big garage in our dream house, I want a big kitchen/family room.
88. Both Scott and I took piano lessons growing up, but neither of us play very well. Because of this all of our kids will take piano lessons, and cannot stop until they can play every song in the hymn book including transitions.
89. We are probably going to be the meanest parents in the world, but we do that because we care.
90. Scott has the pretties blue eyes, but mine are just a ugly brown. Hopefully our kids will get Scott's not mine
91. Dentists love us, I have horrible teeth due to genetics and Scott has missing teeth.
92. Our kids are screwed when it comes to what we are going to be passing down to them!
93. When Scott and I go shopping for furniture, without fail we pick the most expensive item in the store.
94. Scott and I always share a drink when we go out to eat; we probably shouldn’t so we just make sure the waiter isn’t watching when we take a drink!
95. We are planning on always taking some kind of a trip, even if it is just one night, for our anniversary. It makes it that much more special!
96. We love to play games. We regularly have game night with our friends!
97. We never make our bed.
98. Not only do we celebrate out wedding anniversary, but we also celebrate the day we started dating. My choice, not his.
99. The Old Spaghetti Factory is “our” restaurant. It was our first date after he got home, and where we went every time we went up to Salt Lake when we were first dating.
100. Most of all, I love Scott and Scott loves me. Always have Always will.

I know this is kinda long, but hopefully fun for some people to read, and eventually fun for our posterity! But in all seriousness, I am so happy to be married to my best friend and to be "stuck" with him forever. I couldn't ask for a better man, husband, and friend! Scott, I love you forever for always no matter what!!! Loves

What to do...

So does anyone else find yourself going through the list of things that you need to do, and trying to figure out what to do? What do you have to do, what should you do, what shouldn't you do, what is it that you really want to do?

Well that was me today. As my work day was coming to an end, I thought to myself...okay I have 2 hours until Scott gets home from work, what to do? Here is the list that I made in my head

1. workout

2. clean the kitchen

3. pick up the house

4. Beautify myself for our night out

5. update the blog

6. take a nap

Now if you notice the top ones are things that I really should do, and have to do eventually.

Working out...I have been trying really hard recently to go to the gym. I can totally feel the difference since I have started, and I had kinda been a slacker this week and really needed to go!

Cleaning the kitchen... About three nights ago we had chef salads and as I was cutting the tomatoes I sliced my finger, nothing bad, but I have had to wear a band aid on my pointer finger. Thus I didn't want to get it wet, thus I hadn't done the dishes since. I know I should not be admitting this to the world, but lets face it...I am not perfect and you all have been know to do it as well! Right???

Picking up the house...I really hope that others have the same problem where you pick up the house and then about 4 hours later it is messy again! It drives me bonkers!!! So of course I needed to pick up!

Beautify Myself for our night out...Date Night is something that is really fun for me. I feel all loved when I get to go out, so naturally I want to look my best.

Update the blog...I am such a slacker when it comes to our blog. My excuse is that I don't have any kids to blog about, but then I see others that don't have any kids either and they are still blogging! They just don't have very many pictures up...so that excuse is really not an kind of an excuse!

Take a nap...Who in the world doesn't love to sleep, especially on a Friday afternoon after a long work week!

So what did I do???

I cleaned my kitchen, picked up, took a 30 minute nap, and am now updating the blog while listening to my new purchase on iTunes...GLEE!!!

Really when it came down to what I needed to do...I knew the second I walked into my house...it stunk...yes, the dishes were trying to tell me...DO ME!!! I STINK!!!

Then I was on a cleaning kick so why not pick up right? Well after I had picked up the front room I sat down, and accidentally top a short nap...oops!

So hopefully next week I will be able to get to the gym more, and that my dishes will be done every night, and my house will stay picked up...although now that I am thinking of all that is going on next week, see previous post, well have to see about that!

Scott is going to be home soon, so I better at least put on some makeup for our night out!!!

Loves~

How can one person be so lucky!

Hello all! I know I know I am so bad with this whole blogging thing, but I dont have a whole lot to say, and most of what I do have to say is just me complaining, or just too much information that I maybe shouldn't share with the whole world But for what it is worth, here is a little update on Scott and myself.

So January was kind of a dud for us. We did get some good news though about Scotts work. We decided that working full time and going to school full time was not the best idea we ever had, but at the time, that is what we had to do. So when we got back from vacation to Phoenix, Scott put in his two weeks notice. To make a really long back and forth story short, Scott's district manager went out of her way to basically get Scott a job at the traditional branch here in Provo. The benefit of this is that he will be able to cut his hours back significantly. So he got the job, and his hours went from 38 hours a week to about 20-25 hours a week. It is also nice because he wont have to work til 7 every night, and he doesnt have to work on Saturdays anymore!

As long as I am talking about Scott and his work, I also have some other good news! Scott was an ANNUAL STAR OF EXCELLENCE!!! I know that most of you have no idea what that is, so I will explain. Scott was in the top 5% of all the US Bank Bankers nationwide for 2009!!! I know I know, my husband is amazing! But because of his awesomness, USBank is taking him and myself on a trip to VEGAS! We are going March 16 through the 19th. Yes, we will have a couple of meetings we have to attend, but the majority of time will be for us to spend walking down the strip...I know, not the best thing...but it will be fun to spend the time together. They are FLYING us down, which Scott is SOOOOOO excited about!, and we are staying at the Four Seasons! It should be so much fun!!!

Other than that, the only other fun thing that is on our plate is our 2 year anniversary coming up on March 8th! We are going to Brian Regan in Salt Lake and staying the night at the Grand America Hotel! Just something fun to celebrate our anniversary! I will for sure post some pictures when that does happen.

Well, that is all from the pretty boring Butlers!

Loves!

Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010

So 2010 is officially here, and I am SUPER excited for it! 2009 was a big year for us Butlers! Scott got accepted to BYU, Scott graduated with his Associates. we moved to Provo, I started an awesome job!, Scott made it through his first semester at BYU, and lots of other small things! 2010 will not be as big as 2009, but I am hoping to make lots of changes for the better. Here is a small list of them...

1. Lose weight...I never knew how much weight one person could gain in 2 years of marriage! Both Scott and I am using this new year to make this change, Scott is only doing it because he is such a GREAT husband that is SUPER supportive, but it is chalenging to do, but I also know that it is totally worth it!

2. Go to the temple more regularly. The past couple of months have been crazy ones for us, and we have had a difficult time getting to the temple. But last night we went and I remember why I love it! I cant believe that it was only two years ago that I went through for the first time. That was one of the best decisions that I ever made!

3. Get to work on time... For those of you who know me, you know that I am not a morning person in the least bit! But I am truly honestly going to try and be there at 7:30 every morning. Not only will that be the best for work, but it will also be nice when I can get off at 3:30 and get some things done at home!

4. Start and Finish making my quilt. So for Christmas, my parents got me my very own sewing machine! Something that I always wanted and sewing is something that I always wanted to learn how to do! So I am chalenging myself to making a king size quilt...we will see how it goes!

5. Be better at housework, cooking healthy meals, and being a better wife. I know that there are many woman who want this, but I truly do! I want my husband to be able to brag about all of the things that his WONDERFUL wife does for him!

Those are the main things that I want to try and do this new year, and I hope to truly succeed all of them! I am so grateful for everything that I have to start out this new year. I am grateful for a wonderful HUSBAND! A great FAMILY, a wonderful JOB, a nice APARTMENT, awesome FRIENDS, and a great WARD! I truly feel so blessed!!!

Happy New Beginnings to you all!!!

My thoughts...

So, I am sure that many of you already have heard of this blog, nieniedialoges.blogspot.com, but I have been so amazed by it! NieNie was recently featured in an article in the Arizona Republic. As I was reading it I was so inspired! Also as I was reading it I had some thoughts on being a mother.

No I am not pregnant, and just to answer the question, it is not going to be for a while. I hope that this is not too much information, but it is just not the right time for Scott and I. Both of us want to be parents, but if I know one thing about my life. The Lord's timing and my wants are never in sync. But another thing that I know are the things that I wait for mean so much more to me when they actually come. For example, when I first meet Scott I wanted to marry him right then and there. But the Lord needed him to go out on a mission and teach the people of Brazil. I also needed to have my own spiritual growth and when Scott did get home, the love that we had was so much more intense and we were so much more ready to take the marriage step. When we were moving up here to Provo, I wanted, and tried very hard mind you, to get a job starting in February but it was not until May and a huge leap of faith on our part that the Lord blessed me with my AMAZING job.

I know that the same thing will apply with having children. I want to be a mother so bad, I want to have that responsibility, I want to fell that connection with my own son or daughter. Even though it is not the right time for us to have kids, I know that when the time does come that Scott and I get to be parents, it will mean that much more to us. It will truly be an amazing gift that we will cherish. I know all of you out there are saying that it is not the easiest thing being parents, but can anyone honestly tell me that they wouldn't trade having a child for anything!

I am so grateful though for everything that I have been blessed with. I am so grateful for an amazing husband, who loves me unconditionally and only wants what is best for me and is willing to sacrifice so that I am happy! I am grateful for all of my family. I am grateful for wonderful inlaws that are more like my own family than "inlaws". I am grateful for my job and for all of the blessings that I get from it. I am grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ and the peace and comfort I get from that knowledge. But mostly I am grateful for a Heavenly father who loves me, and knows what is best for me and for a Savior that has felt what I have felt and is there for me no matter what.

I hope that this post wasn't too much rambling from me. I don't know how many people will read this, but I do know that I feel better saying it.

New Family Pictures

My whole family was here for Thanksgiving and we got new family pictures taken. I will post more once I have shared them with the rest of the family...but for right now one of my favorites is the new main picture for my blog! Also the photographer was awesome! Here is a link to her blog and there are more pictures of us on her blog. Check it out! And stay tune for more pictures!