Still Catching Up..Turkey/Graduation/Memorial Day weekend

A few weeks ago for sunday dinner I decided to make a turkey breast. I had never made any sort of turkey before so I was pretty nervous that I was going to burn it or something like that. But I was happy when It turned out just perfect. We had Frank, Kathy, Tyler and Ali over to help us eat the whole thing. I was pretty proud of my self, I am not much of a cooker but I am learning. Jeff insisted to take a picture to remember the day. I should have got more but by the time I had cooked potatoes, green beans, and rolls pictures was the last thing on my mind. But hey we at least have one!

Then to Start off our memorial day weekend My Cute little brother Alec Graduated from Mountain View High School. He is Number six in our family to do so. I am so proud of him! Congrats Alec I love ya!

Every one in our family is getting so old! But we do have a lot of fun when we all get together.

After Graduation Jeff and I went right up to the cabin. We have a lot fun there. But it was sure cold this year. So we just hung out, I did a few puzzles, went fishing and ate good food. On saturday we all went for a walk down to the lake. On our way there Jeff was teaching McKailey how the throw a frisbee. By the end of walk she got pretty good at it. Here are few pics at the lake!

Later that night the girls were watching Anne of Green gables. You can imagine how thrilled the boys were about it, so they went upstairs to play the wii. The best part of the story was Jeff was giving McKailey a hard time about staying downstairs with the girls and said the boys were going to have a party upstairs with popcorn, soda and candy. Well... Jeff had to eat his words when McKailey took him seriously. She was so cute, she got them all a soda, and a cup, popped popcorn and then got some candy and they had their own little party upstairs.

So the weekend was a success! We always have fun with our families and are so grateful to have each and everyone of them!

Playing Catch up

So much to catch up on but that is the story of my life... Always behind haha. Well it has been busy april and May. April 1st was a big day in our family because Jeff and I got a nephew! It is so fun to have a baby around and he is as cute as ever! His name is Carter. Congrats to Tyler and Ali on being new parents! We love you guys! Here are few pics.

Then later that month Jeff and I got some babies of our own, Well... Baby chicks that is. 16 hens and 2 roosters. Our 6 chickens we have now are getting old so we decided it was time to buy more. Jeff loves to take care of them. We have a chicken coop in our backyard so its nice. I have not bought eggs in 9 months. So when these chicks get big enough we will have eggs coming out our ears!

We also did some painting in our house. We painted our bathrooms and kitchen. The kitchen was not my favorite. I had this great idea to paint it yellow... well after it was all done I hated the way it looked. It was like the biggest eye sore. So they very next day after spending hours on it, Jeff helped me repaint it. We did it the same color as the rest of the house, Nothing exciting but It looks good. Maybe one day I will go crazy again and want to paint it a different color, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. I have some before and after pictures but I will have to post those later.

Anyway, april and may was full of baseball games and lots of working. My little brother Alec was a senior so I tried to go to a lot of his games. Its hard when you work because their games are right when your working but I was lucky and got to see a few games.

Jeff finished up school at the end of april and got Straight A's in his classes. I was so proud of him. He works so hard so I was so I am glad the long hours studying paid off. He totally deserves it. Now he is enjoying the time off of school until fall and working landscaping. He loves it. I picked up a half day at work for a few week in may and june so that has been cool. I started assisting again for 1 and a half days. I have missed doing that. Oh How could I forget april is the busiest month for birthdays in our families.

April 1st- Baby Carter

April 10th- My Brother Christopher

April 19th- McKailey (niece)

April 23rd- Jeff's Birthday

April 22th- Grandpa Murray

April 26th- My Brother Alec

April 28th- Jeff's Brother Tyler.

Wow I hope I got everyone.

So we have had a lot of fun stuff going on and are excited for the summer. I can't take the cold anymore so it better stay warm. Anyway that is all for now until next time!

Las Vegas 2010

So the second weekend in march, Me, Jeff and his family went and spent a few days in Las Vegas. The main reason for going down was because Jeff's favorite band was having a show. 311 concert on 311 day.(March 11 for those who like me, did know what 311 days was ha ha) So we decided to make a trip of it, and the boys would go the concert and the girls would shop, then the other days we would go to a few shows. It was a 5 hour concert and jeff loved the whole thing! The amount of people there for the concert was insane! The line just to get a t-shirt was 2 hours long. But the boys had fun and that is all that matters. The other days we were there we went and saw Terry Fator and Lion King. Terry Fator was awesome! He is the guy that won America's got talent, for the singing ventriloquist. Then on saturday night we saw the lion king and that was awesome as well. We had awesome seats, only 7 rows from the stage! It was a nice little get away and it was fun to be with family. Here are a few pictures from out trip.

Frank and Kathy when we are at the Lion King

Ha ha Jeff and I have to wear glasses to see the stage, its sad we are getting old!

Me, Ali, and Kathy. Ali was such a trooper, practically 9 mo. pregnant and still did all the walking around required when visiting las Vegas.

The Terry Fator show

The hotel gave us a little money to gamble with and I won 50 dollars!

The boys sporting their 311 shirts in front of the events center at mandalay bay.

Well thats all for now until next time!

100 Years of Scouting

On Feb. 3 Jeff's home ward celebrated the 100 years of scouting and we were invited to the dinner and court of honor. It was really cool because they had invited everyone in the ward that got their eagle scout and who help at anytime in the scouting program. I was so proud of my husband for working so hard to get his eagle and want to thank his parents for helping him reach such an amazing goal. It was fun to see them all dressed up in uniform. And I would have to say he looks pretty cute in his uniform as well. So Thanks babe for making me so proud to be your wife!

Frank, Kathy, and Jeff. Cute right?

Church Callings

So a couple months ago Jeff and I got new callings in our ward and we have had a lot of fun doing them. Jeff does so well with the boys and I have a lot of fun teaching my girls.

In January Jeff took the scouts up to the cabin where they cross country skied and made snow forts. They had a lot of fun and jeff enjoys any excuse to go out and have a little fun with just the boys.

I have been teaching the 8-11 year old girls in primary and also doing activity days. A couple weeks ago we had them over to our house and had a pizza party. We played Disney's scene it and had root beer floats. It was a fun way to get to know each other.

Here are the cute girls I get to teach!

And here are the boys Jeff teaches!

We are so grateful for the church and all it does for our little family. I am also so grateful I have a husband that is always pushing me to be a little better, and what good example he has been in his calling so I can be better in mine.

5k In St George

So this last weekend we went to St. George so I could run my first race. I was pretty excited and little nervous. My Goal was to not stop and have to walk and also to run in about 30 min or so. When I was training I was running about 10 to 11 minutes a mile so I figured that was a pretty reasonable goal. So we drove down on Friday to St. George and then went and got our T-Shirts, numbers and chip(this is so they know what time you started and ended). Then as a tradition, we had to go Carb load ha ha. Not that we really needed it for a 5k but it was in the spirit of things. We to Brick oven and had their awesome pasta bar. Then according to my dad, we need to pin our numbers on our shirts the night before, so after dinner that is what we did. The next morning we got up about 8 got ready then, to the race we went.

All in all in my experience I had good parts and bad parts. The good parts were that I finished with out stopping and my time we 31:31. Yay! The bad part was that I got the worst side ache after mile 2 and I could not get it to go away. I felt like I was going to die! This was probably due to the fact that the first mile and a half I was running 8.5 min a mile, and like I said before i I was training at about 10 to 11 min a mile. But being the competitive, suborn person I am I was not going to let my side ache stop me. So needless to say I was about to pass out once I passed that finish line. But it did feel awesome after I could breath again ha ha. I am so grateful I had my dad there with me while I ran and to my husband, mom and sister Kirsten there cheering us on at the finish line. I did finished 11th place in my age group and 243 in the whole race of about 500 hundred, so not too bad for my first race. It was a lot of fun and I look forward to my next race in july.

Here are a few pictures from this weekend...

Me and my dad before the race

Me and my Dad after the race.. as you see i am about to pass out ha ha. But I finished!

My uncle Kenny was running the half marathon so we watched him finish when we were done! Good job kenny!

These were some of my dad's friends that ran the half, but because my dad is awesome he ran with me instead.

Britney lives in St. George so we hung out while we were down there and played some fun games with her and her really funny roommates.

Thanks babe for coming down and supporting me! I love you lots!

These were the shirts that we got for running the race. We didn't wear those because if you wore your it meant you were a rookie and I did not want people to think that. So we had to take our Victory shirts picture.

Thanks mom and Dad for all the fun!

Starting Over...

So for those of you who still check to see if I even update my blog, can tell that I have not been good at it. I have not been good at it since I started the thing. I think part of that is because I don't really know how to use it, make it look cute, or feel like i have anything worth writing about that anyone would want to read. So I decided that my attitude was not the best and that I needed this blog for me and for no one else. Why the new attitude you ask?

Well My Grandpa Herbert died last monday January 11, 2010. And he loved to write a journal, and he did it on his computer. So I decided that I have put off journal writing for so long that its time to get my butt into gear and write a few things down. So if anyone is reading this or not here are a few things that have been going on in the life of Jeff and Kimberlyn Allen:

Jeff is going to school at UVU and is taking physics, and two chemistry classes. He got a scholarship from UVU which paid for school last semester and this semester (That was a total Blessing!) He is not working too much right now because it is the off season for landscaping. He is so excited to start it back up in the spring. But school has been keeping him pretty busy so I am sure he is not too sad for work being slow.

As for Me, I am still work for Dr. Barry. Back in October I started running with my Dad. We are going to run a 5K in St. George this weekend and I'm so excited. I haven't really caught the running bug yet but I enjoy the extra one on one time I get to spend with my dad running so it makes it worth it. After this race I am going to start training for a 1oK and then who knows where I will be then.

In August we moved into a house in provo. We have 6 chickens in our backyard and I have not bought eggs since I moved in. Its been a lot of fun being on our own again and we are enjoying our new ward.

Jeff got called to serve in the young mens. He teaches the deacons and helps out with scouts. Other then the boys being a little loud I think he enjoys it. I am serving in the Primary teaching the girls from ages 8-11. I love my calling one because primary is fun and two because we also do activity days, which is a blast.

So that is pretty much the low down so far... until next time!