Our weekend in Vegas!

This is KJ writing on here for the first time! I thought I'd give this blogging thing a try, since Liz has been so good at it! So...where to start...Liz and I enjoyed an awesome weekend in Las Vegas. We left on Friday morning and after 5 fun-filled hours of listening to Enrique Iglesias (his songs are still stuck in my head--yikes!), we arrived in "Sin City" itself. (Turns out that out the only sin that happened over the weekend was BYU losing its final tournament game against SDSU!)

We had been planning the getaway for a few weeks as part of Liz's birthday celebration, and a couple weeks ago, we realized that the Mountain West Conference tournament for men's basketball was happening the same weekend we were there! Unfortunately for us, tickets were all sold out by the time we were able to get them...but we still managed to cheer on our Cougars by watching the game at some random casino. They shocked everyone (including us) by beating New Mexico, after having suffered a 4- or 5-game losing streak against them. As I mentioned before, though, they ended up losing to SDSU in the finals.

The rest of our Friday night was mostly spent sightseeing, walking around the Strip, and enjoying the time we had off from our regular schedules. We spent the next morning at a prominent shopping mall in North Las Vegas--imagine Gateway mall, about twice as big and twice as nice. That's how awesome that outdoor shopping mall was! I'll also throw it out there that the weather over the weekend was perrrfect. It definitely made us anxious for summer!

After a delicious lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings (which we definitely took advantage of, since none of its locations are in Utah), we went back to the Strip and watched a riveting comedy magic show, starring none other than Nathan Burton! The words "comedy" and "magic" in the same title threw us off, but the show ended up being just that--magical and hilarious. We were pretty impressed by the illusions that we saw. I probably spent most of the time trying to figure out how he performed them!

Saturday night was spent with some of our Utah friends that happened to be there for the weekend as well. All in all, it was a great weekend! We also went to the Jazz-Sixers game on Monday, which was exciting as always. Our perfect record of the Jazz winning when we go to their games continued! We're 4/4. :)

That's all for now!

Weekend Plans

This weekend is going to be a much needed getaway... but FIRST

Thursday night Kurtis will be opening his mission call. I can't even tell you all how excited I am for him AND how proud I am for making the decision to serve the Lord. My guess is somewhere foreign speaking, but I seriously can't decide where! A part of me wants to say Japan just because well, seems like thats where our family is meant to be, but so many of his high school friends have been called elsewhere so I'm having a hard time! I'm just so anxious to find out...

Friday we will arrive in this lovely city: Las Vegas

We will explore the strip and the city...

My poor husband... I will be dragging him to this wonderful store

Last but not least... HELLO! Mountain West Tournament!! We will be going to the game on Friday and if they make it past, we'll go to the one on Saturday as well.

GO COUGS!!

Pedersen's Kitchen Diary

If you don't already know, I absolutely love cooking and trying new things. I have started a new blog to put up all the delicious recipes that are tried and enjoyed in the Pedersen kitchen.

ENJOY! :)

CLICK HERE

Viva Las Vegas

Kjarom and I decided that we are due for a break from life for a weekend. We've both been working so hard in school/work and we believe we deserve to treat ourselves. Since we will be in this wonderful city for HIS birthday:

Tokyo, Japan

We decided to go here for the weekend after my birthday since I don't think I've ever been there and if I have, it was when I was TINY and going to my brothers soccer tournaments...:

Las Vegas, Nevada

2011 ... Dreams Really Do Come True

It sure has been a while and it has become more and more clear that I am no good at blogging. Kjarom and I feel like we never have anything super interesting to post, but how about a little catch up?

It is 2011 . . . so much will happen this year and it will take us to a new step in life. I can't believe I can now say that I will be graduating from college this year. School has been super difficult and so stressful at times that I just want to pull all my hair out, but my wonderful husband said something to me on January 31st that helped me get through a super stressful week. He said, "just think hun...today is the last day you will ever be in school in January." He always knows exactly what to say to make me smile and bring my spirits up. I know I wouldn't be able to make it though these stressful days of school without him.

Kjarom is such a hard worker. He works everyday and goes to school ... he sure is a trooper! I keep telling him to give me a year and then he can start to relax a little more. I'm so grateful to have someone as determined and hard working as him.

Cheers to another year of happiness and dreams coming true.

Basketball Gods

Boy have the basketball gods been with the Jazz! Those of you that really know me, know that I'm a true, hardcore Jazz fan. If I'm at home watching the game I'll be yelling at the screen. If I'm at the game, I'll be booing Kobe Bryant and Derek Fisher.... and occasionally the officials. Kjarom and I were able to attend the Jazz/Laker game and lets just say we must be good luck charms. They never lose when we are there! We also were able to go to the historic Jazz/Cavs game last year when they won at the buzzer.

Here we are at the Jazz/Cavs game when we first started dating

Here we are 11 months later and happily married at the Jazz/Lakers game

Tis the season

Christmas music started playing in our home on November 1st. We don't wait until after Thanksgiving. Next goal: set up a tree!