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Help me pray for little Emma!

A co-worker of mine has asked me to reach out to my family and friends (and ward) for help in praying for a friend of her's baby.

Baby Emma (who is 14 months old) has had 4 brain surgeries in the last 4 weeks and they don’t know what or who she will be when and if she gets out of this. Her parents are nearly 100% positive that their daughter was violently shaken at her daycare causing severe brain damage. She needs all the prayers she can get. Emma has already risen above many odds thusfar so I know that she is being watched over.

So if you can just remember to keep her in your thoughts and prayers, I would truly appreciate it as would her family.

Here is a blog that her family and friends are keeping up:
http://hopeandloveforthecrewfamily.blogspot.com/

I beat Matt :)

Oh and I beat Matt last week in our Fantasy Football league. A huge win thanks to the help of my oldest bro, Ryan. In fact - my only win this season.

Matt took it like a champ but tries to say he let me win. Geesh! Men!

KerMatt Weekly Email - Pizza & Washington

Life in our household is just flying along! We spent a wonderful weekend with Matt's parents and his nephew Cayden as they visited from San Diego. We had a great time playing with Cayden and the three crazy nieces :). We all played Wii Mario Kart together, they made Keri run around the playground as their "monster" chasing them for a good hour, spent plenty of time giggling at Tio Matt who they love to call "Pizzaface" due to his love for pizza. (Side note: Matt managed to eat pizza every day this last week and most of it for free which he is very proud of but now has no desire to eat pizza for awhile). Our sister-in-law, Johanna, also showed us how to make cute little rice krispy ghouls and monsters.

Matt & I tested out our vocabulary with a fun game of scrabble with Lane and Kathy Friday night and somehow Matt got away with using the word pwont although we are still not sure how.
Matt is still busy applying for jobs after graduation and we are just so wishing we didn't have to wait until May 15th to find out if he makes it into the Master's program. But he will start a GMAT prep course this Saturday morning which will take up more of his time so that he can take the GMAT soon. Keri has even been able to get Matt a few job prospects as she is out meeting with companies for work and mentions that Matt is going to be graduating soon with an ISYS degree. Apparently that man is WANTED for his skillz :) Or maybe they are just impressed with Keri :)

We missed writing last week because we were in Seattle for Matt's 10-Year High School Reunion. We spent 3 days in Seattle area with Matt's best friend, Matt Fairbanks, and his wife, Kim, and family. We had a blast remembering Matt's high school days with his old friends and Keri loved seeing all of Matt's old hangouts in Redmond. We also spent a day in Seattle while Matt and Kim were busy. I enjoyed visiting H&M and then even got Matt to buy a few new clothes. Then we headed to Pike's Place Fish Market and loved checking out the scene there. But the smell was a little much.

The reunion turned out better than we had expected with a good turnout, awesome people, and plenty of awkward moments. I'm glad Kim was there as she and I hit it off and we were able to keep each other company while the Matt's ran around trying to talking to all of their old friends. We were just sad that neither Matt were brave enough to show up in their letterman jackets And we spent most of the night monopolizing the dance floor - always a good time.

Before we flew out, Matt & Kim took us to Snoqualmie Falls - similar to a random waterfall Keri had found in Northern Australia.

While Matt flew back to Utah in time for school, Keri hopped over to Spokane and spent some much-needed time with our good friends, Brad & Sharee. We spent most of our days shopping to add a little "sass" to Sharee's wardrobe which Keri is pretty much an expert at, Brad & Sharee both kept trying to spoil her with amazing food, especially these amazing chocolate chip cookies, and they pretty much laughed the whole vacation.

Keri & Sharee also spent a day in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho where Keri remembered one of her seminary teacher's had moved and bought a bed and breakfast. So she was able to look them up and go visit her which was great. If anyone is heading out there you should go stay at The Roosevelt Inn http://www.therooseveltinn.com/.

Although Keri had a fabulous time away, she was also glad to come home to Matt and she is enjoying the normal routine again.

We are looking forward to Keri's Dad visiting us this next weekend for the BYU Vs. TCU football game.

October and cold are here...

After months of talking about doing a blog together, we are finally ready to kick it off! Since we already put together a weekly email for our families each Sunday, we figure this really won't be to hard to keep up. And stay tuned for pics and details from our past honeymoon, wedding and our new lives together (which are long overdue). Thanks for joining and for being a part of our lives!

This week has been a better week for KerMatt - Keri feels rested finally from her heart walks and Matt's throat is more fully improved and he has been able to speak again. After much coaxing from Keri to finally go to the health center - he discovered that the cause of his throat pain was a GIANT CANKER SORE on the back of his throat. Keri takes no credit for it - even though she had a canker sore on her tongue about 2 weeks ago. :) So the communication in our home is back on and the week of Charades is over.

We finally setup our family blog and will start including our weekly updates in there as well. You can find it at kermatt.blogspot.com We'd love for you to follow it and check out as we are hoping to get our honeymoon pics and other fun stuff on there this week.

And for our big news this week - Matt got 3 second interviews out of the 4 Big 5 accounting firms that he interviewed with last week. We are so happy for him and proud of his success thus far. He has an interview with the LA office of Deloitte, San Jose office of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and the Irvine office of Ernst & Young. We can't wait to see what happens now (although hopefully not ending up in LA). These next round of interviews will be in-house interviews, which means they will be flying him out to their offices to meet him and conduct the interviews.

We spent Tuesday night at a bowling and dinner social with a company located in Portland called Stockamp Huron. They are an ISYS consulting firm that works with hospitals nationwide. After learning about the company, we are actually very impressed with them - although probably not enough to live in Portland. If we are going to live in the NW, Keri would rather be in Spokane near our dear friends, Brad & Sharee. But Keri did win an awesome fleece hoodie for getting the lowest bowling score - a whopping 47!!! Matt won a T-shirt for getting the highest combined score from both games.

We enjoyed a wonderful weekend of Conference and spending time at home doing more projects. Our favorite talk was Elder Holland's very direct and honest testimony of the Book of Mormon. What a profound and passionate talk it was!

While Keri spent time in between sessions painting more walls (giving Matt much anxiety) and finally putting up her pictures on the walls, Matt put together his surround sound system. He even had a couple friends come over and help him yesterday - and they just couldn't stop laughing about him hooking up the system to our janky little 19" inch TV donated to us by Keri's Uncle Larry. We are in the market for a bigger and more modern TV in case anybody knows of any deals. Keri put together a cool wall art project she found on DIY.com and has been dying to do (see attached pic). It may be a little too funky for Matt but Keri loves it and feels it adds a little something to our home.

This week is looking to be a better week for football, with BYU winning and the Chargers almost making a huge comeback against the defending SuperBowl Champion Steelers. In Fantasy Football it's looking like Matt is going to get a big win over Ryan & Dylan's (and Paige's trash talking) undefeated team (who

currently hold the #1 spot) and Keri's going down to the wire tomorrow night against Skyler. She's down 11 points and it's her kicker against Skyler's kicker. That might be exciting!

We are looking forward to our big trip to Seattle this weekend for Matt's 10-Year High School Reunion. Keri is going to fly over and stay a few days with Brad & Sharee in Spokane.

We love you all and love hearing about your lives! Have a great week!