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Last week my poor lap top finally died. It's died a few times before but this time there was no chance of bringing it back to life. So sad. BUT this was also the kickstart I needed to finally get a new laptop. I was supposed to get a new one back in September, but never got around to it- but after spending one day without a computer,
 I pretty much rushed/ran/sprinted to the nearest Mac store and got me one of these:

Never had a mac before- but my last laptop had so many viruses and had so many melt downs that I just couldn't handle it anymore so I told my dad

 I was selling out and he told me he was jealous. 

My brother told me I had sold my soul....and I told him it was worth it. 

Awww

Isn't he adorable? This is my youngest brother Matt and he's coming to visit me next week!



*disclaimer* he is actually 17,

this is just his adorable baby picture.

This is more recent- and I think he is still pretty adorable.

Remember That Time.....

.....that my hair was black and all my clothes were black and jeff had a hitler mustache and was addicted to wearing his hi-lighter shirt????????? ugh. well for some reason i didn't until i came across this beauty of a pic taken on top of the new bridge that goes across hoover dam. and while i find this picture pretty hilarious, it was taken only a few months ago. i think i'll keep this picture posted as a little reminder to maybe not wear all black all the time with black hair- and also a reminder to try harder to persuade jeff from growing nasty mustaches around the holidays. that's all.

Stress Relief

so these past few weeks i've been working 70+ hours and until april 19th,

 it looks like my hours will just increase

- i'm seriously considering putting a little bed under my desk.

 to counter the stress i've been feeling i've been relying a lot on these three things:

light this baby up the moment i walk through the door at the end of the day

use this literally 10 times a day

 
 


i know this watch doesn't say "stress relief" anywhere like the other two things, but really, does it have to? i probably look down at my hands 100 times a day while i'm working and seeing something so pretty staring back at me is maybe the best stress relief ever. really. everyone should get a big gold watch- you'll feel like a sophisticated pirate.

  
 

TGIF

it's finally Friday! wootwoot! and that means the

 #2 BYU Men's Volleyball team is taking on the #1 USC Trojans

right. now.

it's in game five right now people, lets hope this ends well- and if not-

they'll still play again tomorrow night!

game plan for future kiley

alright, so i love traveling. and right now there is nothing i'd rather do than pack a bag and head to the airport
- throw my phone out the car window and just get all nomadic. i'd then wander the earth and come back in a year or so- sound good?  yeah i wish but it's not gonna happen.....

when i spent a summer in london for study abroad we spent a week traveling through scotland and stayed in hostels- i absolutly loved staying in different places everynight and setting out to explore new cities every day. during that trip i remember overhearing some of the girls saying they hated all of the traveling and living out of a suitcase,
i thought they were nuts!
i was in heaven......

jeff told me i need to get more hobbies and i told him my hobby was traveling, to which he replied that i needed to adopt poor people hobbies....so instead, i looked up pictures of all the places i would like to travel when we aren't so poor :) hopefully future kiley gets to enjoy all of these amazing places!

and this was just too weird- everytime i typed in a country from africa into google images this was like the first picture to pop up....lol

well okay!

Late V-Day Love

Alright, so Jeff and I have been pretty busy lately with school and work, but we did manage to celebrate Valentine's Day.

* yeah....so like I mention below....Jeff and I were in baggy sweat pants for our little v-day "date" hence the no pictures of us on the actual day- instead I like these ones from when we were engaged*

We both left for the day at 7:00 in the morning vowing to try as hard as we could to make it home by 7 that night so we could have dinner together (we usually aren't home to eat dinner at the same time)
 and watch...wait for it....The Bachelor.

The Bachelor has kind of become our favorite show/guilty pleasure. Anyways, by 6:30 I was still at the office and Jeff was still at campus so I was kind of thinking that even the little plans that we did make weren't going to work out, but somehow things did and I was running through our front door at 659 with takeout from two different places (we never agree on where to get food) and Jeff was running through the door with flowers, chocolates, candy, and sweet love notes :)

We changed into sweats, jumped into bed and, using two trays Mary and I stole from the Cougar Eat a few years ago, ate out delicious take-out and watched that crazy girl Michelle get SENT HOME. I loved my Valentine so much this year that I ordered him TWO drinks- a nasty horchata and a dp to wash it all down. 

And even though most days I only get to see him for a few minutes and some days not at all, I love every moment of being married to him - and, if there's one thing I can say about Jeff as a husband, it's that he always, always, always, lets me know how much he loves me and makes me feel very loved.

Happy late Valentine's Day everyone!!!

P.S.

I've always thought that my dad is the coolest dad there is and here's some more proof: at 9am at my office I had some beautiful flowers delivered right to my desk from him- ever since I left home he's always sent me my own special flowers, even my first year in the dorms he had them delivered- and, since that year I was literally the only girl in my hall that didn't have a date that day, it made me feel so loved!  I'm a very lucky girl to have him as a dad.