Snowboarding in Brighton

My brother, Tony, came to visit us last weekend to go snowboarding. So, we invited our friends in Las Vegas to join us, Abell and Brit. We had a blast! It was the first time I've gone in about 10 years and Brit has never snowboarded. So, Brit and I were falling all over the place. We woke up really sore the next day. It's kind of a bummer that the season for skiing is pretty much over. I would love to go more often!

Kemp, me, Tony, Abell, Brit

Birthday in January

I'm a little behind on stuff but we celebrated my 22 birthday in January and we went and played Whirlyball. It is a ton of fun! You can look it up on google to see some videos, but it's basically a mix of basketball, lacrosse, and bumper cars. Sounds crazy huh?

My Sweet Kemp

I keep looking through blogs and everyone keeps bragging about their husbands. Well...I think it's my turn :)

Kemp and I were having an off day last week, but the following day he showed up at my work with these:

I love it when he does stuff like this. I always wondered how it would feel to have someone bring me flowers at work....it was awesome!

Present Made by Whitney

Here's how it works: the first 5 people to respond to this post (I LOVE comments) will get something made by me personally. What I make is my choice, but it will be made JUST FOR YOU!

However, like all things that sound too good to be true :), this offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1- There is no guarantee that you will like what I make!

2- What I create will be just for you personally.

3- It will be completed sometime this year. :)

4- You will receive no clues as to what it's going to be.

5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange if I so desire... it may blow your mind!

Or it may not. It may be very simple and predictable... but hopefully you will benefit from it! And like most things that sound too good to be true, there is a catch. You must re-post this on your blog and offer the same deal to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. Not too bad, huh? In fact, I think it'll be a lot of fun!! Email me your address if you are one of the first 5 to respond so I can send you my gift. whitneylgoodwin@gmail.com

I am really excited about this! It is almost like "Pay it Forward"

New Entertainment Center

We decided it was time for an upgrade in our living room. We live near an Ikea so we decided to stop by and see if we could find anything. We saw this:

It was love at first sight. We checked around at a few other places but nothing really caught our eyes like this one did. We got everything and started putting it together. It is important to know that there are three sections to this setup. There's the middle where the TV goes and two shelves on either side. We set up the middle part this past Sunday and decided that the two shelves were going to be way too much. It was going to pretty much take up our whole wall in our living room, which wouldn't look good. So, we stuck with the middle part and got this:

Maybe one day when we have a house to ourselves we can add to it because we do still love the setup with the shelves.

Our New Home

We made it to Utah on a Sunday after 3 days of driving from Texas. We have some friends in Lehi who let us stay with them a few days while we looked for a place to live (Thanks again Brandon & Kristen).

That Monday we drove around Midvale, Murray, Sandy, and Draper looking at apartments and townhomes. We thought that we found an apartment we liked in Draper, but when we came back to Brandon and Kristen's house we saw a for rent sign hanging on a house right across the street. We called and sure enough after our long search we ended up back where we started. That Wednesday we moved in! It has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a little back yard with a fence. It's the perfect size for the three of us (Whit, Kemp, dog). Tori loves her little backyard. She's never had one to play in before...besides my parents'. She loves to bury her face in the snow and run crazy all over the yard.

I started work this past Monday. I still have a lot to learn but it sure beats sitting at home doing nothing. I like the new things I'm leanring there and can't wait to get to know more about the company. Kemp is still job searching but there are a few positions that look very promising. We are excited to finally be settled somewhere so nice for a little while. We have a lot more friends around us and we're glad to be around them again once again (except Marc- from Kemp).