Sunday shenanigans

For a lot of people, Sunday is usually considered a low-key day or a day of rest. Here at the McKarns household we take a different approach. For us, it's a day of rest AND a day of absolute excitement.

You see, usually we take a 2 to 3 hour nap after getting home from church at noon, but then (and I don't know if it's because of the nap) we end up so hyper that one of the following things usually ends up happening:

a. Adam decides to steal something of mine and hide it so I have to run around the apartment to try and find it

b. Adam himself decides to run around and hide from me and then jump out at me and scare me over and over and over - and every single time it works and I scream! You'd think there are only so many places to hide and I would catch on but this condo actually has a lot of doors I've realized, which opens up a lot of options.

OR (what happened today)

c. Adam decides to try and sneak some ginger ale after he tells me every day that he is on a "no pop" diet [sidenote: for those of you not from the greater Ohio, this means "no soda"; not to worry though, everyday "pop" comes out of his mouth I correct him by saying "you mean soda?" ... it's a common topic of conversation in our household] and as I'm catching him in the act he somehow manages to run away with the soda and he's so fast that he gets me in our hallway and is able to run back out into the
kitchen/living room area before I can and holds the door shut to that area while he "DRINKS WATER" .... but Mrs. McKarns is not stupid, and she knows that he is really drinking the ginger ale! He lets me out after a few minutes and I presume to find the hidden soda here at exhibit A:

His cute little face shown below acting so innocent after he has "drank his water" - PSHT!

Then just a few short hours later I make some popcorn (one of my most prized possessions since being married - don't ask me why, but it's like I got married to Adam and a switch went on in my brain that tells me everyday "Megan, you're addicted to popcorn! Go eat some!") and he steals it from me and runs around the house yet again and hides in every room while I'm chasing him laughing so hard as he pops out of every room in our house and gets away from me each time!


Welp, if I've learned one thing in the last three months of marriage (yep, Adam just notified me as I'm writing this that it's our 3 month anniversary today! how tender!) it's this:

Adam McKarns is a SNEAKY THIEF!

Birthday countdown for the thief: 3 days :)

Cheers!

Quote of the day

Adam is reading one of his textbooks and I'm sitting nearby him just on my computer looking at Facebook...

Adam: Do you know what enclave actually means? 

Me: E-N-C-L-A ....... oh wait *starts laughing*

Needless to say, he looked at me with the funniest face! He asks me how to spell stuff a lot and for some strange reason at first I thought he was asking me to spell it.... we both laughed for like 5 minutes!

So this one time, I got married, and now it's two months later...

K I am seriously the worst blogger lately. I have decided. And I really have no excuse because I don't work until 3pm everyday and most days I don't have a ton on my plate to get done before I go to work... but yet still, the blog gets neglected. On many days I think to myself, "I should blog", but then I don't. Weird.

I figured I might finally answer that question everyone always asks: "So how's married life?" 

When this is asked in person, the answer is always "oh it's good!" but really, they kinda want more than that but you're never going to say more than that in person. Here is where you can actually say some more. 

Since Adam and I have gotten married, some of our happenings include: 

1. Setting up our new place that was actually already set up pretty much - in the sense that we were lucky enough to move into my parents' condo that is fully furnished. It was very nice because I was already overwhelmed with feeling the need to decorate as a new wife - it was pretty much done for me though and we just added some of our own touches, like this beauty for instance:

We still need to put up all our wedding photos and such in the frames that we had at our reception, but other than that it's looking pretty good!
            a. Yeah, I really am including a 1a here, but I just wanted to add a little story here... since Adam and I didn't really have to buy furniture or anything we were able to focus (maybe too much) energy on the exact placement of our items in our new home. It makes me laugh now just thinking back to this, but one of the first things I learned about Adam that was different than me was that he can't stand a closet that seems cluttered. For me though, on the other hand, I see it as the closet is the only place I'm fine with clutter because we are the only ones that go in it and so it doesn't need to be as presentable as the rest of the house - so naturally I wanted both our laundry baskets to go in there making it a little tight after I put my one too many pairs of shoes in the closet. I didn't think it would be a big deal and didn't even know it was a big deal until a few days later. Little did I know Adam was stressing inside about how much stuff there was in our closet and how he felt like he couldn't walk around in it at all even though it's a walk in closet. I asked him how much time each day he would spend in the closet walking around in it (I mean seriously, it's not that much time right?!) and I don't even remember what he said but I don't think I bought his answer. It is seriously making me laugh so hard just thinking about our tiff over this - we finally realized neither of us was going to budge in opinion and that we needed to find a compromise, like all good married couples do, and what do you know, we came up with one that worked for both of us. All that sweating for nothing!

2. We have tried to get into a fairly good routine with cooking good meals (although some nights and weeks it's tough when I work pretty late = not able to fulfill my wife duties as the best cook ever, which really makes me want a new job) since we have been married. Adam brought his famous stir fry into the mix, while I brought my famous tilapia and spinach salad and since then we have expanded to include a few new delicacies - such as fish tacos, chicken salad, curry, hearty sandwiches, potstickers, hamburgers with pineapple and dr. pepper flavored bbq sauce on them (yes it does exist!) and this one time I tried this new balsamic honey cilantro chicken recipe. They have all been delightful except for the balsamic honey cilantro chicken ended up being a liiiitttle strong in flavor - but now we know to cut back on some of the ingredients and it will be better! Here are the fish tacos, they just looked so good I had to take a picture!

Oh and the time we made hamburgers with the pineapple and dr. pepper flavored bbq sauce, they tasted perfectly fine, but I laughed so hard because I think Adam forgot that hamburgers shrink in size as they cook and the hamburgers ended up being like half the size of the bun. I could not stop laughing! I felt so silly eating it, but really it just made the evening more exciting haha. Oh and I only ate like 2 potstickers when we made those because Adam expressed so much concern over the pork being cooked enough and he was never quite sure it was cooked enough - and if you know me, you know that I NEVER take a chance on food that could make me sick.... but thank goodness the next day Adam sent me an article on how pork can have some pink to it and still be cooked all the way to ease my worries! Love him.  Here's us with our potstickers:

Oh and then there was that one week that I am so proud of that we came up with 5 different meals that incorporated turkey into them so we could eat up the turkey that we made all on our own (thanks to NuSkin, where Adam works) right before Thanksgiving. Nothing like turkey sandwiches, turkey enchiladas, turkey tacos, turkey pasta, and...  I forget the last one... all in a row! And I'm sorry, but you have to watch this video of Adam with the turkey (please disregard the way that I say "and this is why I love my husband" in the video - I sound so retarded haha):

And that's why I married him! And here's me... I think turkeys look so weird before they are cooked! There's this part on the body that is super squishy and felt so weird. We seriously had way too much putting together this turkey and cooking it!

And last but not least, there's the time I made some brownies to be a nice wife, and as I'm cutting into the brownies with a knife Adam cringes and reminds me that that will ruin the pan! I ask him how else we would cut them if we didn't have a knife. I guess you're supposed to use a tough spatula or something to pierce them. I'm still processing the idea of cutting brownies without a knife, since "cut" and "knife" are basically synonymous to me. We can't forget the time that Adam made some popcorn and brought it into the living room and somehow dumped the whole bowl out by accident. I don't know why, but I laughed so hard! Poor Adam picking up his popcorn:

3. Since you're probably all bored to tears by now, I will just include one last thing: being married to Adam opened me up to a whole new world of free NuSkin products. He seriously has the best job ever. My face and hands have never been so soft! It's like I'm in moisturizing heaven, and it all smells so good too. I told him that even when he has a career he needs to still work like 5 hours a week at NuSkin so we can get these products forever! Probably a stretch, but a girl can dream!


PS. I just have to include these last two photos because they're so cute and funny. Here's Adam all cute after he voted (sort of an ordeal, I went with him to try and vote and then was almost late to work over it so I had to leave him there and make him run to work, which I felt HORRIBLE but he convinced me it was okay and then he didn't even get to vote after all that cause he didn't have something with his proof of new address on it... so he had to go back after work to vote. poor guy) and then there's us with the hot chocolate on a stick we got from Jordan and Dane's dinner party - this picture is absolutely hilarious because I was trying so hard to get a picture of both of us holding our sticks with our names on them, but then something happened with my name .. I think I ripped it or something, and then last minute as we are about to take the photo, Adam takes off his paper with his name on it and underneath he had written Megan just on the stick .... so mine doesn't say anything and his says Megan! After all that! And look at his mischievous little face. I could kill him!

Until next time!

A little blog makeover if you will

Well hey friends. 

So remember that boy I barely introduced you to in the last post? You do? Oh good, he's definitely one you'll want to remember. Because crazy or not, I just married him! I figured since he keeps me young by making me laugh so much and I love him just a LITTLE bit (make that a lot), this little blog of mine needed a makeover to include him in it. Don't worry though, the posts will get a lot more exciting with him in the picture. ;) I know there are about a million things to update you about on here... 

1. Our wedding day

2. Our honeymoon

3. Actually being married (I've heard it changes a lot of things?)

4. Thanksgiving

5. And soon enough we'll be to Christmas! 

And I know you'll want lots of pictures. Probably why I haven't done any of this yet since I don't really know where to start. But I suppose THIS is a start! Stay tuned and say what up to the new and improved Mr. and Mrs. McKarns... 

PS. There's a lot more where that came from... and some are even a little cuter ;) 

Disappeared, but found a little something.

It's been a while. I've been a little busy... and that busyness may or may not include a fine young man. Perhaps, this fine young man.

Meet Adam. 

Okay, fine here's a better one where you get to see his cute smile :) 

The man that I may or may not have fallen in love with in two weeks [ironically the amount of time it took for all the other guys/myself I've semi-dated in the past year to realize the spark just wasn't there anymore] and may or may not have gotten engaged to 3 months later. 

Turns out you can eliminate all the above may nots because it's true.

I left off in MAY which is when I really started getting to know Adam. My former roommate Kim invited me to go hot tubbing with her brother's roommates that she had been hanging out a lot with, Adam being one of them, and he hit on me pretty hardcore. The 2 funniest parts though are that A. we actually met for the first time back in February, where I found him in my living room with 2 other men. They all had their shirts off and I couldn't even tell you what he looked like (kind of a burn for him I think - sorry babe), but he did answer my apt door when a guy I was seeing at the time came over that night... with  his shirt still off. Which I think startled that other guy quite a bit but that's besides the point now. AND 2. Like probably 2 weeks after Adam hit on me in the hot tub (when nothing had happened since that incident and I still wasn't thinking much of it, though wondered if something would maybe come of it eventually) is when I wrote the blog post where I was feeling sorry for myself about being alone and wishing that I could just meet that someone and live happily ever after. Another two weeks later is when we went to Goblin Valley for a camping trip and he literally swept me off my feet when I learned that in a matter of two days he made me laugh so hard I nearly cried AND we had a legit meaningful conversation too. That hilarious/sincere and meaningful combo I had been looking for for the longest time. Heavenly Father was probably laughing at me when I wrote that post because little did I know I had actually already met my future husband and would start to realize that just a month later! Timing is everything I suppose and things work out in crazy ways when you least expect them to. 

I wish I had the time and energy to write tons about our dating through the summer months, because it was definitely fun-filled, but I don't. What I can say though is Adam added the spice in my life that I needed and seriously if anything I just had SO much fun with him over the summer. We're about to get a little cheesy here, so if that's not your style, then maybe skip this part. He isn't perfect, but I quickly learned that he is perfect for me. In just three months, I was laughing more than I ever thought possible and having some of the most tender conversations I've ever had in my life. The balance was perfect. Most importantly, Adam's happy and genuine disposition made me even happier. In a lot of important ways, I feel like we are twins, and in other ways, we are very different, but those differences are what allow us to learn and grow from each other and it has definitely been a growing experience for both of us! I am the luckiest girl in the world because Adam seriously treats me like a princess - I learned quickly that he would and does do anything for me. My happiness is one of his greatest concerns and it almost seems unreal to have it as good as I do. I hope through the years I can measure up to him and give him what he gives me everyday! I am very blessed. 

To hit some highlights of May through August together: 

--Goblin Valley


--Our first date where we went to a sushi restaurant and he so willingly paid for two meals for me when I learned that "smoked" sushi is in fact NOT the same as "cooked" sushi ... what a sweetheart!

--Looking at the moon with his telescope

--Countless nights of conversations and laughter at our park

--Fast food runs in the wee hours of the morning (perhaps multiple nights in a row....) - we actually became friends with one of the drive through workers at McDonalds - if you want to be entertained while going through a drive through go with Adam

--Discovering each other's hidden talents that we will not mention specifically (some pleasant, some not so pleasant) 

--Tickle fights

--Intense photoshoots where we both literally laughed until we cried!

--Going through Timp cave [trying to twice]

--Double dates with friends, siblings, and cousins

--Dragging him to The Lucky One which was probably the worst movie ever made (and eating a nice Japanese dinner and awesome dessert beforehand which we both made together!)

--Cooking for each other (we are sort of obsessed with stir fry with tons of vegetables and I'm almost better than him now at cooking chicken to perfection ;))

--Stabbing him to keep him alive [think about that one for a minute]

--Flying kites

--Painting each other's toe nails [you read that correctly]

--Doing face masks

--Seven Peaks fun

--Going on an Alaskan Cruise where he met my family

--Probably being the most ridiculous couple Trafalga has ever seen on their mini golf course

--Trying exotic restaurants together like Banana Leaf and a Thai one

--Popping the question on August 18th at our park (I almost made it impossible for him, but he still pulled it off cause he's that legit) ... you can read about the proposal story at mckarnswhitmore.ourwedding.com

And here we are as an engaged couple

Thanks for the fairytale ride Adam! I have loved every minute with you. 

Since then we have been pretty consumed with wedding plans but have still made some time for fun, like going to Lagoon this past Friday, thanks to Nuskin, his work and making a paper chain to count down the days until our wedding. Holla!

Well folks, keep October 27th open - yep, that's the day - so you can celebrate with us. We will keep you entertained for sure and you will not regret it! Until then, lets hope that Adam keeps more hair than he loses and that I can avoid turning into an emotional wreck while we finish planning this wedding in the 41 days (umm, make that 12 days now... apparently I suck at not only starting posts, but actually finishing them and posting them - unfortunately since then Adam has lost more hair and I have been an emotional wreck at times - don't hate us) we have left to do so. 

Wish us luck - we need it. I wouldn't expect another blog post from me before then. Who am I kidding, you weren't expecting it anyway!

Peace and blessings. 

It's all about April.

My boyfriend informed me that my last post ended very abruptly. Oops, sorry guys, forgot to do a wrap up. My bad. But now it's time to talk about APRIL!

Lets see....

April 2-6

During this time my poor roommate Laura was dying on me. I took her to the ER and other doctor's offices many times during this time and tried my best to nurse her back to health, but it ended up being a bit of a slippery slope for her.... :( THANKFULLY though, she is better now, after a good month and a half or so of being down and out and ended up getting her appendix out. What a champ!

April 7

This marks the day I said my goodbyes to the girls of my old house, House 31. This is when I got the new individual in my current house and we had enough float hours for me to be a manager full time there so I had to call it quits in House 31. It was totally bittersweet! Miss those girls and their funny facial expressions. 

April 8

I had a hardcore Easter shindig with my cousins Jenny Benny, Jillzy, and the Brynster. We really do know how to party guys. We started by doing dinner (which I unfortunately missed), then did an easter egg hunt, then had a crazy awesome photoshoot which you will witness some of those photos below, dyed eggs, and then decorated sugar cookies. What a party! Whew. I hardly celebrate Easter anymore since I've been in school, usually I just make it an excuse to buy more candy for myself than normal (ha), but it was fun to go all out for once with my girls! 

April 14

I was a bridesmaid in the lovely Rachelle's wedding. My first time! It was such a fun wedding and I loved all the dancing at her reception. They served these cake pops that I was seriously obsessing over... ohhh my. Death. Wish I could eat one of those everyday for the rest of my life! She looked beautiful and they are one of my favorite couples so it was the best to be their for their whole day! I also went to her bachelorette party and rehearsal dinner just before all that. Loved it.

April 18-24

My awesome family came to visit for mine and Josh's graduation ceremonies! Yep that's right, I officially peaced out of BYU. Super bittersweet. It was legit to see the fam for about a week, and especially nice because I was able to work it out so that I didn't have to work the whole time they were here. The ceremonies were great, except for the fact that I didn't hear the graduation song ONCE. In mine OR Josh's - missed it both times. What is graduating with that song???? I was highly upset. And still am. Boo on you BYU - now I will only sort of miss you. Ha, jk. I also had the privilege of buying an awesome cute new 2012 black hyundai accent during this visit. My dad was great enough to do all the shopping with me and I just love this new little car! What a great grad present. Thanks mom and dad and a special thanks to Grandma for coming to see us too! 

I got this cute BYU shirt for Tessie girl 

Said goodbye to this car and hello to my new one... which I can't find the picture of. Just use your imagination. 

April 27

Last but not least, this was the night of Tia's wedding reception! Definitely the season of weddings people. It's crazy cause all my best friends are just getting married one after the other. Can't get over it. Her reception was absolutely beautiful and she was beautiful! It was great as usual to have an excuse to visit with my other besties. Love my weddings!

And well, that's a wrap folks. Here's to May! 

I'm finally catching up.... bear with me.