Monday, July 5, 2010

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

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Life is wonderful

Wow,
These last couple weeks have been pretty awesome! So hard to believe that we are almost done with a month of school! Only about 6 months left! Our teacher resigned.. which was really sad.. She was pretty awesome, so we'll see how I feel about school in the next couple weeks haha! God is good and He placed me here so He has a plan!
I was able to see my wonderful mom last week... It was so nice. The weekend went crazy fast, which I knew it would, but it was better than not getting to see her at all! We are hoping in September possibly to make a trip out to Colorado! Chris hasn't seen our Colorado friends in almost a year! It will be another super short trip, but I'm so lucky to be able to see them as much as I do already. I have a lady in my class who just saw her mother for the first time in 7 years this weekend!! CRAZY!! I couldn't imagine going that long!
Today my lovely husband is taking me for a much needed date and scrub shopping outing!! We're trying a couple different places to see if I can find some cute scrubs for cheap. We are required to wear them to school so it's kinda important to have decent ones lol! I've been wearing the school issued ones and wow... I look like a boxy bag.. haha! I am liking it so far! It's so crazy how much we are learning.
SO yeah, excited for my date. He's so awesome, I <3 him.. :)
Other than that, not too much so far. It's been a great last week/s and I'm looking forward to summer! Jenny and I are planning on going to the pool after school once it gets nice! Can't wait!
Had our first "real" tornado threat the other day! I was up early working and the sirens went off and I didn't think much of it until I looked outside and WOW.. PITCH black skies!! I was kinda freaking out since it was the first time this had happened... I'm kinda a wuss... So I grabbed Chris and we watched as the sky just POURED and the tv was saying.. get yourself to shelter! haha! Turns out it was nothing and that was the end! Kind of a funny day tho lol.
Well I'm off! Gotta go get pretty for my husband lol! Right now it's not lookin' so hot.. ;)
<3 Beth

Sunday, May 2, 2010

If I was a flower growing wild and free all I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee...

Had that song in my head.. :) It's so cute and wistful and makes me think of my wedding lol.
Can't believe we are almost to one year!! It doesn't seem like it's been that long already. I'm so hoping we can take a trip up to Big Cedar for that weekend but I'm also hoping my husband is planning something special, so we'll see.. :) Our first year has been awesome! I think being together for so "long" before we got married really did help. I really feel like we adjusted pretty easy! He's so easy going most of the time so that helps too huh? He evens me out.
So far school has been awesome! One week down! Crazy we'll be done in only 7 months! I am so praying God provides a job soon after school because I'm ready to have a job that will help me and Chris save for a house, save for our Mexico vacation we want to go on someday with all our friends and save for our future! Someday we do want kids and I want to have a few years of working down before we do that so that I can take time off to stay home! Weird to think of someday having kids, I think they will be exact clones of us.. We already look so similar lol! Our kids are going to be little blonde/brown blued eyed kids haha!
Back on the school subject! It's awesome! I'm a little bummed tho, our teacher just resigned and so we only have her for another 2 weeks... and then we get another teacher to finish up our time there! *sigh* kinda sad.. She was SO awesome.. Oh well, God knows and will provide someone awesome for us one way or the other... :) So it's going good! Learning a LOT and very fast, but it's great! I already feel smarter!
Let me tell ya what tho.. Changing my schedule, getting up earlier... I'm such an old lady!! I so hope my body adjusts to this SOON because goodness, being sleepy at 3 in the afternoon is hilarious! Hopefully not too much longer for the internal clock to re-set!
My mom comes this weekend!!! CAN'T WAIT!! Haven't seen her in a couple months, and I miss her! It's gonna be a good weekend! Hopefully I won't have too much homework to try and get done, because it's going to be a short weekend as it is... :(
Well, I'm off! School starts bright and early!
<3 Beth

Thursday, April 22, 2010

New Beginnings

Oh my word! SCHOOL STARTS TOMORROW!!! The nervousness has eased a bit and I'm getting excited! I don't like the unknown, but I can't keep doing what I've been doing! I am going to just trust God to show me His will for my life! And to provide for us regarding re-paying student loans! UGH! I really think things are going to be changing like crazy in the next year or so. Once school is finished I'll be working (crosses fingers!!) and Chris is looking into doing police work!!
I used to have this list, called the MAN list. On it was all the things I wanted in a man. Well when Chris came along he just fit that list! On it was this tho: Doesn't want to be a police officer, or go into the military.
To be honest, yes, it was selfish, but at the time I didn't want that. I didn't want to deal with the stress, the high rate of divorce (not that that would be an option!!) and the risk... It scared me to death. When I first met Chris he wasn't a police officer (which I believe was God's hand in the matter, because if he had been, we wouldn't have courted) which he COULD have been, he had had job offers from around the country after he was out of ALERT.
But I think God wanted him to wait, because we wouldn't have been a couple!
So after being married oh lets see... I think it was over six months, God just told me this: TRUST ME. Chris had been talking about looking back into it but knew I was deathly afraid of it and therefore, didn't really do anything about it. But I was laying in bed one Saturday morning, and just thinking about it.. And God was telling me.. You have to trust me, he is mine, not yours and I will take care of him and take him when his time is.
And I remember crying thinking of what life would be like without him if something were to ever happen, and what the sleepless nights would be like with me worrying that he was in danger. But God just gave me a peace and told me to let go and let Him work in Chris' life. So I rolled over to Chris, and told him: if you want to be a police officer, you SHOULD be. I think you would be amazing at it. And I truly believe he would be! He is SO good at so many things, but his passion is to be a police officer! It's his dream job! And I was holding him back, keeping him from his potential life calling! And that is NOT what a wife should be! So in the following months God has continued to tell me to trust Him and He has given me such peace about that next chapter. If Chris does decide to do this, YES, it's going to be hard no matter what. But I do know this: God will guide us through this! So the next year and more will be quite interesting!! So much could change and probably will, crazy to think about! God is so good. He always provides!!
I can't believe summer is almost here!! I'm excited! I wish school wasn't over summer, but hey, it'll be done in 8 months or so so I can't complain! I'll be done by Christmas!

UGH, this morning, I found a black widow in our bathroom.... YUCK! That freaks me out lol.

This next month is going to be a good one. I'm going to KC to see my mom May 7th! I can't wait, I've really been having homesickness lately. I wish I could see everyone I miss, but seeing my mom will be so wonderful.
I think that the longer I'm away from my Colorado the more and more I miss it. It's really the little things:
*The outdoor mall used to screen movies outside and had free popcorn and cotton candy. Me and Brooke would meet up and just hang out in the warm summer air. I miss her so much. *Boating days with my cousins. Miss those guys like crazy. Just bumming around, laying on the outdoor tramp trying to tan, which they were successful at, me... Not so much.
*Sitting outside with my dad in the evenings, watching the sun set.. No bugs..

*Working out with my mom. She is such an inspiration to me.

*Evening runs with my brothers. Hate running, but loved chatting with them!
*"Tanning" with the little girls outside.. They are so cute with their towels and sunglasses lol.
*My "models" always available for a photo shoot!

*Drive in's with my best friends. Laughing till our sides hurt!! There are things I love and am learning to love about MO. But Colorado will always hold that special place in my heart. It's my favorite home.. Well, I'm off.. Sorry for the short novel! Props to you if you finished it! Just had a lot on my mind that I wanted to get out a bit.. haha!
Beth
My Chris took me took our first drive in of the Spring/Summer! The drive in is seriously one of my favorite things ever!! What a sweet husband I have.. :)

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Sigh..

I'm so frustrated. I just need a little vent and a little motivation. I would think I have enough motivation, I'm sick and tired of certain things in my life and yet I won't make the effort to change them. I mean honestly..
There are so many things I want but they take time and I seem to be incapable of achieving them! I've not only been frustrated with that but stressed with the whole school thing. I hate that it is so much to go and that is the only thing holding me back. And what if I don't like it?? I'll have spent so much to go through school only to not like what I do for the rest of my career?? I am just confused. I want to KNOW what I'm supposed to do. I want to be told, to be honest. I hate having to choose for myself lol. I'm bad at being an adult haha! So I have been feeling so stressed. I can't get it out of my mind and I can't seem to make UP my mind! I just need to give it over to Jesus and wait on Him. I just want a clearcut decision. Maybe that's too much to ask. I don't know.
I hate feeling down. I just want to have it figured out and to do what I'm supposed to!
This is my decleration: I CAN do this. I CAN be an adult and I will figure this out and do what I need to do to make my life better.
Here is my to do list for the next month:
1. Run three miles. And also, run three times a week.
2. Finish my Jillian Michaels diet with a BANG and to stick to it for the whole 30 days!
3. Decide on/start school or get a job before then.
4. TRUST GOD.
5. Start church hunting more seriously.
6. Work harder on my photography.
7. Be a better wife to my sweetest husband.

Oh in other news besides all that depressing stuff.. (sorry about that btw, it just helps me feel better to get it off my chest)..
I FRIED yesterday! Went walking/running with Jenny and our dogs yesterday and oh my gosh I am red like a lobster! Wow it hurts. And not only after that, I decided to make mashed potatoes for dinner and proceeded to chop part of my finger off with a potato peeler! lol! Ok not funny it looks so horrible, but the story with it does sound pretty funny. Dancing around my kitchen, wrapping toilet paper and electrical tape around my hand (don't laugh, I was trying to make a big bandaid... Didn't work) and calling both of my mothers trying to find out what to do when you chop you finger up. lol! Wow.. My husband has been SO sweet to me!! He insisted on my sitting down and doing nothing while he proceeded to make dinner for us! And he was so cute bandaging my finger up. :( On top of that, he's been taking care of my sunburn too haha! I am just a mess this week! God is good tho, all the time. :D
I love:
1. The chinese restaraunt down the road from us.. YUM.
2. My wonderful hubby!!
3. Breakfast in bed..
4. Coffee
5. The way running makes me feel when I'm done.
6. Popcorn
7. The way eating healthy makes me feel.
8. My family.. And extended family. I'm so lucky.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

30 days

30 Days from now... I'm gonna be RIPPED. At least, that's what Jill says! I sure hope she knows what she's talking about... ha! lol. Today was the first day on the new diet. I desperately need to go shopping!! Otherwise this is gonna kick my butt because I'll have nothing to eat! haha! So shopping day Friday! Big list of all healthy things... weird! I can't wait till day 30!!
So this week is going to fly by, already is as a matter of fact! Yesterday we went and saw Alice in Wonderland with Steve and Jenny. Didn't think I wanted to see that movie, but it was actually pretty good! Tomorrow we head up to the in-laws to see Josh and Anna! :D We'll be staying the night up there and getting in some good family time! We've been going to a Dave Ramsey financial peace course and let me tell you, it's awesome! So many good insights into saving money, etc. I told Chris we'll be millionaires when we're old and all the things we'll be able to do with our millions.. haha!! Let's all hope shall we?? On Friday I might be selling my camera!! I'm so nervous! lol.. I know I know.... I'll get another one, but I'm all nervous it will be a while since I have to save up quite a bit to get the next one. But I cannot WAIT to get the other one!! Ah, my D90.... Sigh.... :) Super stoked...



7 random, wonderful, weird things about my week so far:
1. I made a choice to better myself!
2. I went to the library for the first time in about a year.
3. I got to hang out with my awesome sister in law.. :) (don't worry Jenny, that's not one of the weird things about my week haha!)
4. Went and saw another 3D movie, which I haven't decided I like or not... hmmm... I think it makes my eyes hurt haha! But the movie was good!
5. Got to sleep in, ah.. That's always nice.
6. Might have found someone to buy my camera! Woot! Now for God to provide the rest!
7. Decided I like Sour Skittles more than I thought.. They just make my tongue hurt and my eyes water a bit... lol!

Ok, that's about it... ;)
Beth

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Ah Jillian


Wow, I pretty much love Jillian Michaels... I've been doing her No More Trouble Zones, 30 Day Shred and every now and then the killer cardio workout Banish Fat, Boost Metabolism. WOW, it's awesome! I've noticed little changes already. I just ordered her 30 day diet book and cannot wait to get started!
I want to get healthy and fit and be in better shape than I was at my wedding! I think I underestimate myself and man, it feels good to start seeing change and to see muscle coming back and to be making a difference in my health. We've been adding so many more veggies to our diet and working on eating more frequently and healthier portions. I am still working on the running thing... Ugh, I wish I loved it! I just need to force myself to get into the habit of it, once I get into the habit of it, like working out, I'll want to do it and need to do it to feel good! I can't wait to reach my goals and to feel good.
So things haven't been to busy lately, just the norm. We've been battling a cold between the both of us, Chris is worse off than I am. I have just the nose thing and he's been feeling way ickier, tired, stuffy... Poor guy. I hope he get's better soon, I know its getting old for him. Tomorrow we go to the Drs. office to get xrays to see how his leg is doing. I'm SO hoping the Dr. gives the okay for him to take the boot off and start rehabilitating his leg. It's going to be a long haul for him, he's lost so much mobility already and it's only been six weeks. It will be so hard the first couple of weeks trying to get back into even walking, much less all the calf exercises he'll need to do in order to get the flexibility back. I'm excited for him to be back to normal tho, these past couple of weeks have been hard on him. You never realize how much you use something until you can't anymore! God has been soo good to us through this whole process and Chris has handled everything so well. We are so blessed.
School starts in about a month and a half! I'm getting excited for the change! Before everything gets 100% finalized I'm going to see about shadowing a dental assistant at a nearby office to see what all I would be doing and if I would like it! I'm excited.
I booked a wedding!! Well, almost haha! She is still working it all out with the parents, who are footing the bill, which I understand! Wow, I'm super stoked! And I'm hoping before the big day I'll have my new camera!! As of now I'm selling my Nikon D70 in hopes of being able to upgrade to the D90!! I'll die of happiness!!

Not too much else at this point, working on another table runner, this time for my kitchen table! I <3 it... :)
Well, I'm off, today is Jillians 30 day shred and then a spinning session! Wish me luck!

Bethany