Fall!

Holy cow,
It's FALL!!! Where did summer go?! Totally felt like I wasn't able to truly enjoy summer because of school.. oh well, it was worth it and hopefully next summer I'll be working and able to enjoy it even more! ha! Next year is going to be so different!
Only a month and a half left folks! 5 1/2 months went entirely too fast. Good and bad really. Can't believe it! Things are going really good still, finally feeling like I'm starting to know my stuff a bit more. Still have a looot to learn and it will be hard first starting out in a real office environment! Please be praying for me to be placed in a good office with a dentist that is patient and willing to teach me and doesn't freak out over little things. I keep hearing scary stories of other people in extern getting a scary dentist/office manager and that just terrifies me! I know that it isn't permanent and if I keep a positive and teachable attitude it will help but yeah.. mean dentists are just scary! So I'm pretty nervous about that.. And also pray for confidence and for me to not be insanely nervous haha! It's going to be here before I know it!
Life has been good lately! Work is really slow for Chris so that has been hard, but God sustains us and has been so good. We are not lacking in anything! :) He is still working towards getting his GRE in Pyschology. He's been studying like crazy! If he does good on this test it would cut down his school time a LOT and that would be a good thing since we are down to about 9 months till he would hopefully be starting academy! So pray for him on October 9th if you think about it!
I'm also preparing for a big test on the 8th. My Missouri Basic Skills test is that day! If I can pass that it opens the door for me to continue my education and have a chance to improve my skills in other areas called expanded functions. Basically that means depending on the classes I choose I can do more than just an average DA. Which would be awesome! Still getting straight A's at school, it's exciting!! Looks good on a resume too.. ;)
So coming up here soon we are going up to KC for a Chiefs vs. Bronco's game with some friends! It's going to be CRAZY cold, but I can't wait! GO Broncos!!
Well, I'm off to the gym!
Love,
Beth

Almost there!

Almost there!! In more ways than one! Only one more day till Chris is home again, can't wait!! It's been hard having him away... :( I definitely love living with him!! So he'll be home tomorrow night and I'm stoked.. :) I have a great husband!
The other thing that I'm getting really close to, is finishing school!!! I am down to 3 1/2 months! I cannot believe it.. The time is literally flying by and it's so hard to believe that in less than 4 months I'll be working in a dental office! Not sure yet what the plan is for after extern, but I'm really trying to trust God to work something out!! I want Him to show me what He has in store!! I just want it now.. I don't like waiting and not knowing... But, there is nothing I can do about it so the only thing I CAN do is trust Him!! I'm excited and nervous all at the same time! Ready to get out there and get er' done!
Very much looking forward to this weekend! We're going camping with the family Friday night and then Chris and I are going for our date night to the drive in!! Loooove the drive in!! I literally HAVE to go every summer or it's just not summer!
Last weekend was really fun! Went up to the fam's house for the night and got to see everybody! Had family pictures taken and Crystal took some pics of me and Chris as well! I love getting new pics, plus, she takes amazing ones so it's even better!!

Well, just wanted to give a quick update.. :)
Beth

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

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

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

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.. :)