Success!

Success is a wonderful word!! I think I like it! My success recently has been finally losing my wedding weight! I'm incredibly stoked to be back down to my small sizes and finally feeling healthy again! It took a lot of work and self control but I am BACK! WOOT! Now to tone, gotta hit the gym and really see what I can do! Still working with the Jillian Michaels workouts, heard they work awesome for women and I'm super excited for more results! Now to stick with it.. hard when you like any and all food haha! There IS such a thing as self control.. hmm... gonna have to remember that.. So worth it tho..
Well, hubby is gone right now.. Off in Arkansas helping a friend out for a few days.. Weird being home alone! Kinda lonely.. I decided I'm not a person who could live all by myself! I like company.. :)

School is going good, can't believe how fast it is going! But the more time I spend in school the more I'm ready to just get out there and get my career started! Sooo nervous about those first couple months... Once you are there and in the field, I feel like you really don't know what you're doing.. But I just want it to be here so I can get the awkwardness out of the way haha!

So Chris has been looking into the schooling he'll need for the State Patrol out here.. Kind of daunting, but I know he can do whatever he puts his mind too.. I'm so nervous of those six months he'll be at the academy.. If the prospect of being alone for the next couple days is sad and lonely, what will it be like to have him gone for 5 out of 7 days a week for 6 months?? I know we'll cross that bridge when we come to it tho. I'm hoping I'll have a job by then to keep me mostly occupied so it doesn't seem so lonely. At least I'll know he's safe, unlike so many wives who's husbands are overseas in the military. I am thankful for that!

Things have been so wonderful lately. I have the most amazing husband and I'm so blessed to have him. He came home with flowers for me the other day, out of the blue, no prompts or anything! Makes me feel so special to know he was thinking of me during his day!
Love him.. :)

On the creative side, got my table runner back after a little while at the quilters... Needless to say.. It's super cute! Albeit a little crooked, but who's looking that close?? Creative I am not haha! I may be a bit of a perfectionist in other areas, but definitely not when it comes to quilting! ;) Thanks to my wonderful mother in law and sis in law for all the help, I would seriously be lost otherwise haha!

Well, I am off! Not sure of my plans for the evening.... Kinda weird not hanging out with Chris! Miss him!!
Hope everyone's week is going fantastic!!
Beth

Things...

I always seem to let blogging get away from me.. I just forget about it! I need to do better. It's almost like journaling for me! Helps me to go back and remember moments in life!
Things have been different lately. I'm getting worn out. School is going good, and quickly, but I am so tired all the time that it's getting old. School + work for five days a week is getting tiring, but it's what you do! And I can't complain about my job, it really is the ideal thing for me right now! God is good. I just need to push through and look for the good instead of being down about the situation. Thing are never as bad as they seem. Haha! I can't complain, we are in good hands and I live in a great house with my wonderful little family. Chris is really the brightest part of my days, he is so wonderful. We just celebrated our first year together!! He surprised me with a trip to Branson for the weekend at this great little resort where we stayed in a fully stocked condo! It was amazing. I seriously love him more every day. He makes me laugh like no one else!
So things are kind of weird right now. The unknown is so great and weighing on me and I'm trying not to stress out about it. Work is slow for Chris so he has really been looking into the State Patrol more seriously. Things are just so up and down with it, hopes getting up, then down and all over the place that it is just hard not knowing what to do. Be praying we know what the next step is. I do NOT do good with the unkown. I'm terrible with it! I stress and worry and that's never good. I'm trying to just not think about it haha!
Sooooo yeah....
Other than this strange period in our lives things are good! Had a great 4th of July at I love America with a bunch of friends and family!! Chris' leg was feeling good enough for him to play volleyball! Praise God! So glad that stage of his life is pretty much over, that was a hard time to go through! He is definitely excited to move on from that! I am so glad he is almost back to fully functioning, I know it was hard for him.
I'm super excited for the 16th-18th, our first float trip! Can't wait! I've never been and I looove camping so I'm very excited to add canoeing to that. The only thing I'm nervous for: BUGS. BUGS. BUGS. YUCK. lol! I am such a wuss! We have Japanese beatles literally EATING all of our plants right now. Can't get rid of them.. So gross... They are making all our foliage look skeletal. I'm considering bringing my tea rose bush inside to rescue it! I've been watching it closely to make sure they haven't moved on to it yet.. I would be so sad! It's literally the little rose bush that could! Immediately after planting it Bailey decided to dig around in the pot and eat the blooms off of it... SO YEAH.. Somehow it lived!! So I'm ultra protective now haha!
Anyways, I think that's it for tonight.. I gotta go look at my vocab for school tomorrow... *sigh*... lol.. Think positive thoughts! Haha!!
Love,
Beth