What's Your Rap Name?

Oh goodness, I am laughing my head off. So we found this website My Rap Name that will take your given name and tell you what your rap name would be. So dang funny. It came up with names like K Muffin, KK Spunky Silk, and K Kimmy Jewel (and some others that I won't share) for me. For Nate they came up with NN Menace, NS Flash, and my personal favorite Methodical Frosty Natty Tank a.k.a. Outlaw Chill. So if everyone could please call us by our rap names, that would be great!

Peace Out,
K Kimmy Jewel

The Happenings

Everybody knows that I LOVE watching BYU games (please read the sarcasm). It is the highlight of my weekends!! Fortunately Amanda feels the same way I do, so we try to other activities while our husbands watch the game. We've gone shopping, played with Keith, and baked all to try and endure the games. These pictures are from the first game of the season, notice how I failed to take a picture of anyone but Keith, oh well, he's cuter than us anyway. Thanks for entertaining us Keith! You're welcome over anytime!




Nate and I try to make it up to visit my mom every couple of weeks. This time we went up for Sunday dinner and games. Just in case you're wondering, I did win. :)




Justin and Whitney blessed their cute baby Beckham earlier this month. Here are a few pictures I took that day. I am not totally happy with this double page, I'll probably re-do it. Just click on the picture to enlarge.




We went to Sam's farewell and luncheon. It was fun to celebrate a missionary and to see all the family.


Happy Birthday Jake! Congrats on reaching double digits!

Durfee Family Calendar

Nate's cute cousin Alisha is in charge of the annual family calendar. She asked me to help this year and I though I'd show you what I have done so far. These are obviously the top half, the bottom will have the calendar and a section for notes. I don't have pictures yet, I can't wait to add them. Enjoy!

Scrapbooking

We've been so busy lately, birthdays, farewells, baby blessings, family, etc. It has been crazy! I'm slowly but surely catching up on everything. I am making a dent into all the scrapbooking I need to do. I don't really go in order, I just work on whatever sounds fun at the time. Here is a double page I made of our engagement. I am working on finishing a book, they can hold up to 100 pages, and I have 85 thus far, just a few more to go then I can order it!

Happy Birthday Benji!

This is a few days late, but Happy Birthday Benji! The Smith's had a family dinner to celebrate and Amanda made the cutest cake. It looked so good, I'm a little jealous. You can see a picture of the cake below. Nate and I had a double date with Benji and Amanda this past Saturday. We went to Brick Oven and then to Golden Spoon, and I didn't even take one picture, dang! I love spending time with Keith (and his parents) he makes things so fun. However it was Benji that threw a crayon into Nate's water. Goodness, we always have a fun time with them. Thanks for coming guys and thanks for giving us a reason to celebrate! We hope this year is a great one for you Benji!

Update on Nathan

Nate is now home (I brought him home yesterday) and feeling a lot better. His surgery was successful and he will make a full recovery. No more hernia! Thank you all so much for all the prayers and text messages and emails on our behalf. Now I just need to think of some things to keep Nate entertained while he is at home! I did tell him that if he was well behaved today he could have a sno-cone. :)

Worst End to Date Night Thus Far

Guess where Nate and I are? In the hospital! So long story short, Nate has a hernia and is having surgery this afternoon. That is how date night went last night, dinner, shopping, ER visit. Not exactly how it was supposed to go. Nate is a little nervous, and so am I, so keep us in your prayers today.


P.S. Question, am I the worst wife ever for taking pictures so I can scrapbook this?

Happy Wedding!

Today was Brandon and Julianna's wedding and we just wanted to take a second to say congratulations! Here is a quick page so you can see the happy couple.

Banana Crumb Muffin Recipe

This morning we spent a few hours dipping chocolate strawberries for the wedding tomorrow. I have to admit, we were really quick. I thought it was going to take all day! Thankfully Amanda knows where to get the chocolate for dipping, and thanks to Lori for hosting, she has a great nice long island that we used. Anyway I brought these muffins to share and everybody loved them and wanted the recipe so I thought I would share.



Disclaimer: I do not like bananas so I did not try these, but they smelled amazing!

I Might Be Crazy

Just before our first Christmas together Nate's mom gave us a huge box of all his mission letters, photos, and souvenirs and informed me that it was now my job to scrapbook and preserve his mission memories. So I hurried and rushed to make a 15 or so page scrapbook for Nate (this was back before I started digital scrapbooking) in time for Christmas. It turned out okay, definitely nothing amazing. I told myself that one day I would make something better. Since I got Photoshop I have really wanted to go through all of his pictures (2000+)and really make something nice.

So two weeks ago I lost my mind. I was looking at a cute scrapbooking site and saw this darling book this girl had made. It was a full fledged book, with an engraved cover and everything, so so cute. She had it made by Winkflash. I went to their site (winkflash.com)and they were having a sale! Their custom books are 60% off through the end of August. So, my 100 page 12x12 leather cover engraved book would be just a little more than $40. Sold! I have everything all picked out now I just have to scrapbook 100 pages! I am officially crazy. Did I mention that Nate's brother is getting married this week too and I have been busy helping with that? It would seem that I like to keep busy. I do have to admit that I am off to a pretty good start. I have a little more than 50 pages ready to go. My goal is to be all done by the 25th so then all I will have to do is organize them in the book and place my order! I am going to do it!!! Just a few more weeks of no sleep and I'll be done. Wish me luck!

Here are a few of my favorite pages thus far. I'm trying to keep everything similar without being to matchy-matchy so each page has this dark blue paper on it somewhere to keep the theme going. Also I've tried to make the pages seem somewhat masculine, as masculine as scrapbooking can be. I worry that they look too boring but I don't want to add more if it is going to make it too girly. Tell me what you think.








P.S. Please excuse any grammar and spelling errors, as previously mentioned I've had very little sleep.