I-I-I I Work Out.

So yeah. The title says it all. I'm working out. I like it. I like that "Runner's High" afterwards. Hooray for endorphins right? Anyways, I want a smokin' hot bod. Which in all reality, probably will never be as good as a I want it, or just when it does, I'll get pregnant. Its my luck. But having a gym that I can use for free in our neighborhood has been really nice :) 

The good part is I have started to notice little changes in the way my clothes fit. And at least I feel like I look good in what I'm wearing. My motivation is simple, much like myself. I want to play soccer again, not like I did in high school. Better. Faster, stronger, and harder than I ever have before. And just the not being so round part would be nice too. But soccer is my main motivation. 

I'm biking, running, a little bit of weight training, and swimming. Only in Arizona can you swim in January. Hopefully, it pays off before I stop doing it. If I ever stop. I'll post pictures if I ever feel like I've mad a big enough improvement to show the world. But for now, I'll just stay behind the screen :)

Current Goings On....

Well World, I think it finally happened. I grew up. Not completely, but a little bit. I've slowly started to notice all the little "grown up" things I'm doing. Its weird. I guess that's what happens when you get married. You slowly, but surely, become an adult. And I've begun my descent into adulthood. And I may not seem like much of an adult to some, but I've definitely noticed I've changed a bit. For starters:

1. I carry a purse now. 

I hate purses, they're an excuse to carry around a ton of crap that you don't need. 

  

2. I don't just wear V-Neck t shirts all the time. 

Partially because of work, but its increasingly becoming something I like to do. 

3. I paint my finger nails.

Not "adulty" but more "girly" and I fix them when they mess up. 

4. I have a "real" wallet. 

That's right folks, no more duct tape for this girl. 

5. And I just feel more mature. 

Not something that I thought was possible. At all. 

It just seems weird, in about the span of a year, it seems like I'm such a different person, but at the same time, I'm totally the same. Personality anyways. 

On a different note, we finally got some pictures hung up in our room using some of the lovely frames we got from our wedding!!! I'm so happy :) its starting to feel like home. 

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Well y'all, its that time of year again. Everyone posting on Facebook how much they love the holidays, and random little tidbits about it. So instead of bombarding people's news feeds with how much I love eggnog and the smell of Christmas Trees, and how excited I am to have Thanksgiving with both of my families this year, I will post a little something here, so people have the option of reading it or not :) 

I'm thankful for my loving husband. 

I'm thankful for my family, old and new. 

I'm thankful for my friends, and especially my best friend, she's done more for me than she'll ever realize.

I'm thankful for the Gospel in my life, and the support it brings in my life. 

I'm thankful for a place to sleep and a roof over my head. 

I'm thankful for all the people that had a hand in putting together our wedding reception. 

I'm thankful for my job, not only to have something to keep me occupied, but to be able to support my husband and I. 

I'm thankful for music. 

I'm thankful for my temple recommend. (and the Temple of course)

I'm thankful for my dreams, goals and ambitions, for helping make me who I am. 

I'm thankful for eggnog, because its delicious. 

I'm thankful for modern conveniences, for making life, more convenient. 

I'm thankful for Pinterest, for keeping me from being bored all the time. 

I'm thankful for cuddling. 

I'm thankful for my talents. 

and last but not least......

I'm thankful for all the people that have changed my life, in good ways or bad.  Because you've made me who I am. And I like who I am. :)

I love this time of the year. Not so much the weather, but all the love that gets passed around. Not only to those we know personally, but all the love that people give to complete strangers who need a little help. 

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!! 

Finally MARRIED :) and Loving It!

So I'm now officially Courtney K.... Not quite legally yet, but I'm working on it as fast as the people doing the paperwork will let me :) 

For the one week of marriage that I've experienced, its awesome :) Unfortunately, my new hubby likes to go to sleep much much later than I'm accustomed to, and I don't really like going to bed before him (for the time being) So he comes to bed earlier for me :) Which is weird for him, and me a little bit, cause I'm sorta staying up later than I'm used to, but I'm sure our sleeping patterns/preferences will line up at some point :)

The Honeymoon was AWESOME!!! Hawaii was beautiful :) We had a wonderful time in the warm weather and beautiful atmosphere. Lots of time spent in the water, some areas were easier on us than others, but overall we had a really good time :)

I have a feeling that being married to him is going to be so awesome, very fun and playful :) 

In other news, I completed my first day of training at Picture Me. It seemed very long, watching videos and taking little "tests" at the end of each one, but hopefully I will actually start working fairly soon :)

Well all, life is good :) So happy to finally be married to the man of my dreams, and for life to start moving somewhere :)

Exactly TWO WEEKS!!!!

So excited, the countdown has been on since the day we decided our day, and we are finally in the home stretch!!! I've started to put the centerpieces together, just to sorta fiddle around with some ideas, and here's what I've come up with:

The colors look a little off because the camera on my phone isn't very good, but this is what I've got so far, and one more but we don't have the flowers to put in them yet :)

In other news: I finally got a job, well another job, because I'm still "technically" employed by a different company, but I don't get any hours from them.

I'm going to be a kiddie photographer!! Haha I'm so excited though!! It'll be nice to be able to bring in a little money for my man and I :) I'm excited to start working doing two things I love, well I'm not doing the children (because that's illegal, and disgusting) But I sure do love taking pictures, hopefully this doesn't ruin it for me!! :)

Twenty Four Days and Counting!!

I can't believe how close it's getting to the happiest day of my life!!! I am so very blessed that this wonderful man came into my life :) He is so very sweet to me, constantly telling me how beautiful and amazing he thinks I am, despite how many times I roll my eyes at him. I can tell just by the way he looks at me that he just wants to give me the world, and all the love and happiness he possibly can. I love that he puts up with me, not that I'm super hard to please or needy or anything like that; I just happen to be extremely indecisive and I have always been such a closed off person, which a lot of times he respects, but sometimes he doesn't, and I need that!! He understands me more than I understand myself sometimes.

But what I love most, is that we're friends too. We can just hang out, and be sarcastic and weird with each other. Like last night, we had a Nerf gun war, and ran all over the house hiding, dodging bullets and sneaking up on each other. Which was so much fun, and I felt like I actually pseudo-accomplished something I had pinned on Pinterest  :)  Then, we went outside planning on just shooting air-soft guns in the backyard. We ended up going scorpion hunting with his brother, using the guns and a pool stick :) Which was super fun.

I can't wait for the rest of my life with him, we're gonna have so much fun I can feel it :) He truly is one of my best friends, and way more than I deserve sometimes. I've been so blessed to have such a wonderful model for an amazing marriage, thanks to to my parents. They have what they call a "Disneyland Marriage." Which loosely translates to being perpetually in the "honeymoon phase" and I hope and pray for that every day.

I'm so very grateful for all the people in my life, especially for the one who got James and I together :) I never would have imagined I would have fallen so madly in love at this young age. But I can't wait for the rest to come!

More and More Wedding Stuff!!

Well we finally did our engagement photos a couple weeks ago, and ordered the invites. Now I'm in the process of addressing them all, and putting them all in the mail. What a time consuming task! I mean, I've done invites and stuff before, but I never had to get it done asap. But I got a referral from a recently married friend for a "Design Your Own Announcement" website. I was really impressed with the quality. 123print.com! It works very well. Besides me being extremely particular about them, (from doing graphic design for a few years) and having a tad bit of trouble with wording, (since the MIL wanted to have both sets of parent's names on it) it was really easy to do! And I've had several people tell me how cute they are :) Turned out  much better than I expected!!

Now I've got to work on the centerpieces for the tables, and picking out leis. Which is proving to be a little more stressful than I want it to be. But I'll live. And I've gotta do cake. Which I have no clue about. Awesome haha :) I've just gotta remember its only 35 days away!! I'm definitely ready to be done planning, but I can't wait to be able to spend the rest of my life with my husband to be :) which makes this all worth it. Also knowing that we will be in Hawaii the next day helps a lot too :) Wish me luck!! I hope I don't lose my mind in this crazy process.

Finally Got It!!!

Well y'all, I finally got my wedding dress!!! I'm so excited, the biggest weight has been lifted off of my shoulders :) To be honest, I thought that the whole dress shopping experience was gonna be super hard and very stressful. But it was anything but that! I tried on a total of five dresses. And decided that I had fallen in love with the second one :) after seriously considering the very last one of course. I could not stop smiling once I had it on!! It is so simple and, just me. The other contender was very blingy, (which was so very fun to play with) but it just wasn't me. I'm so happy that its over with, because I knew, that if any part of the wedding planning process was going to "break" me.... it was gonna be that. So glad that it didn't though :) the rest of the planning should be downhill from here, hopefully going to do our engagement shoot soon :) which will be fun, I hope :)

Plans and Payson

So, Saturday James and I went with my family to a family reunion in Payson, AZ. And I gotta say, it was pretty fun. I actually went out on the field and played softball for the first time in like forever, and I didn't do too bad. I got a piece of it all three times I was up, and actually got on base once. But enough about my amazing softball skillage.

It was a good day, James was super worn out after and slept most of the way home :)

Anyways, we're still working on all the wedding plans, half way done registering, booked the temple and the chapel, and the honeymoon plane tickets and room, started Temple Prep classes a few weeks ago, booked a photographer, and going wedding dress shopping this Saturday. Goodness, I'm gonna be busy for a while :)

Since We Last Spoke....

Something huge happened since I last updated the blogging world, I traded in my boyfriend for a fiancé!!!

(The ring was his mother's, passed on to which ever kid got married first.... Don't worry, she is alive and well and his folks are still together, the just upgraded rings :] )

We are getting married on 11/11/11....at 3 P.M.   11 A.M. was already taken, oh well :)

I've been looking at wedding stuff all the time, and I still am not 100% sure of what I want, I'm almost there though... I've been thinking about stealing this idea for an announcement...

At least it could be on one side of it anyways :)

So anyways, there is lots and lots to do, and I couldn't be any happier to marry that sweet man of mine :)

San Diego and He is We!!

So, Tuesday morning, my boyfriend texts me and asks me if I would want to go to San Diego with him and his Dad to visit his Grandparents, and I say, "Sure that could be really fun to go on a road trip for a couple days!!" And he says, "Cool , we're leaving tomorrow morning and we will be home sometime Saturday night." Hot dang, I thought.... Well, we got home at 4am on Sunday morning and I absolutely had a blast!!

 We went to Sea World on Thursday and Saturday, and I got a wicked sunburn from Thursday. Which I then proceeded to be made fun of by his Dad and Grandparents for being white and getting sunburned to the point of looking like a cooked lobster.... But who cares, it was fun right? Right. Friday we slept in and hung out around the apartment until we went to the Padres Game that night, which was really cold, and the Padres lost, which I wasn't torn up about or anything, but its what happened. Saturday we went to a flea market in the morning, and I picked up yet even more pairs of sunglasses, which are pretty sweet looking if I do say so myself. Then in the afternoon we went to Sea World again, and did all the stuff we didn't get to do the day before, and saw some of the night shows. They  were really good :) Then the long trek home, which I slept a lot of the way, because we didn't really even leave until like 10:30 that night, but it was still a fantastical trip, and I wouldn't have wanted to do it differently at all :)

When my family had dinner Sunday night, my mom looks at me from across the table and asks," You still like him right??"

I have a bit of a puzzled look on my face as I answer, "Yes?..."

She says,"Okay. Just wondering, because sometimes, when you spend a lot of time like that with one person, they start to sort of, push your buttons....."

"Yeah Mom, I still like him." Hahaha

And now last night, he let me drag him to a concert, for this band I'm a little obsessed with.... They call themselves He is We, and I like 'em, I like 'em a lot... :)

During said concert, they played my favorite song of theirs titled "I Wouldn't Mind" which I was super excited about and he totally noticed... since it's kinda my song for he and I <3 

But they played an awesome set :) and I got a t-shirt signed by the lead guitarist and a picture with the vocalist :) which was awesome 

So overall, a pretty awesome week, if I do say so myself :)

Well Isn't That Funny.....

So today, I went with my boyfriend and his family to Amazing Jakes for his Mom's birthday. He and I were a little bit later than everyone else... so our wristbands were waiting up at the front desk when we got there. It wasn't until I had gotten home and took off the wristband to see that this was written on the inside...

I don't know about anyone else, but I thought it was kinda funny. We aren't married, or engaged... So when I sent a picture of it to him he just laughed, and said his Mom was getting ahead of herself. But at least I thought it was cute :)

Woo Hoo!!

So I've finished all of my respite/habilitation classes and orientations!! It's been forever it seems like since my aunt first told me I should apply, and I can finally, proudly say that I HAVE A JOB!!! I'm so excited and I can't wait to start doing something that I know I will love and challenge me at the same time. It's been a much longer road than I ever wanted it to be, but I'm glad that I can finally have something to spend my days doing :] I could not be happier with how my life is going :) Had a fun little "Date Night" with my boy last night. We spent the night hanging out in my backyard with a fire in the firepit and smores and stargazing. I don't think I could have thought of a better way to spend the night :)I sure do love my life, and I wouldn't want to change it for anything!!!

I Am One Happy Girl!!

So, right now, life is absolutely wonderful!! I'm dating a super sweet guy (Courtesy of my amazing best friend) Who will probably never believe me when I say I hate being set up.... But hopefully she won't need to try to set me up again ;) I should have a job soon (fingers crossed) The interview went very smoothly, and she seemed like she liked me. I have been waiting for this job since the middle of March!! So hopefully she will shoot me that email by Friday that has everything that I need to be officially Respite certified! That would be wonderful :) Still deciding whether I want to or can take any classes for next semester, maybe soon though?!? Even if I don't life will still be coming together and it will still be wonderful <3

So It's Been A While.....

Since I last posted, well.... I don't think a whole lot has changed. I went to Vegas for Spring Break, (and I haven't posted pictures from that yet). Still don't have an official job yet, but I'm getting there. I babysit my youngest cousin twice a week. And I'm working on getting Respite Certified so I can work with some of my other cousins and one of my Mom's sunbeams. So hopefully that will get going here soon..

There's about two Institute classes left for the semester, which is kinda sad, but I'm glad I'll have two extra days a week to sleep in :)

I have a bit of a countdown going..... See my Dad is going back to school to be an Airplane Mechanic(or something similar, I can't quite remember) and he gets a week off from school... And the beginning of that week, we're going to Disneyland!! So there's 11 days 'til that. :) and I can't wait!! Don't worry, I'm sure I will post plenty of pictures, if I remember.

Learning New Things...

Who says you need to be in college(or even be enrolled in school for that matter) to learn something new?? I sure don't!!

I learned something at the car wash today.... Make sure your window is rolled up before you even start to worry about making sure you pull in to the dumb thing right... Because your window will seem like it is going up slower than it ever has before, and like it says on water rides at Disneyland, you will get wet!!

So there you have it, my idiot moment of the day, but hey, I learned something.... That's what's important here right?? :)

Update Time!!

I don't know if it feels like this for anyone else, but it feels like I haven't updated the Internet on my "status". 

Well World, not too much has changed for me. Still jobless, and still not going to school. But.... I am going to Institute at CGCC  twice a week.
I've had a few more job interviews since I last posted, but it basically didn't get me anywhere. I went in and chit-chatted for a few minutes then left. So when the call back date was dead and gone, I quickly realized, that it wasn't gonna happen.
Is finding a job frustrating, yes; but impossible, I don't think so.

On a less pathetic note..... I had fun last night getting to see the Best Friend for her 20th birthday :) Getting there took a lot longer than I had expected, I got so turned around in the dark, but eventually I got it all figured out.  We watched Biggest Loser with her parents, which made it soo much funnier. Talking about the male contestant's moobies is a lot funnier with other people :P

The WEIRDEST Dreams Ever!!!

So last night, I had two of the most random dreams that I have ever had. I would understand the weirdness if I had taken a dose of Nyquil or Tylenol PM, but this was completely unmedicated dream weirdness...

So dream #1..... I was crawling through Walmart on my hands and knees with a striped clutch purse in my mouth, which happened to be filled to the brim with straws.  And I was hiding from the employees. Then I decided it was time to get out of there. So I spit out the purse, nonchalantly stood up, and made my way toward the exit. I get outside, and its snowing. My mom is waiting with my little brother in the "getaway car" and as I'm sprinting through the snow, I see an old friend's mother in her car. I wave and we say hello, then I jump in my mom's car. As we are pulling out of this parking lot, we hardcore curb-check the Tahoe, and slightly land on this mini van, and it leaves this huge scratch on the hood, and my mom just drives away like it didn't even happen. Then I woke up.

Dream #2 was a little bit more frustrating.... I actually woke up and was a little mad, until I realized it was a dream.

So I was getting out of church right, and for some odd reason the Best Friend's ward was at my building and switching classes. But we both happened to be in family wards.... which is odd, but anyways, she came out of her class and I came out of mine and I got to see her for like five seconds before we both had to leave, she tells me that she will see me soon and we go our seperate ways. I get home and my dad was getting ready to leave to go to a ward choir practice, but it wasn't our ward, it was her's. So I tell him that I want to go, and he says," Why would you wanna go? It's not like it's even our ward?" Then he gets my mother involved and it doesn't get any better for me. My mom says," Give me one good reason why you would want to go to this." I proceed to tell her that I want to go because it's Cate's ward and I would like to see her. I was then told by my mother that I didn't have a good enough reason to go. I was livid. And anyone who knows me knows it takes a lot to make me mad. So I argued for a moment, stil didn't get to go. So I woke up angry. Then I realized the whole thing was a dream, and went back to sleep.

So there you have it, Internet. There was my crazy dreams from last night. Hope you are happy.

Day #30!!!

My favorite song this time last year....

Hmmm, it would probably have to be Here In Your Arms by Hellogoodbye :) just a fun song!!

I can't believe that the 30 day challenge is over! I honestly thought that I wouldn't be consistantly posting every day, but I did it and I'm so glad that it's over lol.... Now to get back to posting "important" stuff!! Lol

Day #29

A song from my childhood...

Growing up my mom would play Dixie Chicks in the car. And other assorted country music, or what ever happened to be playing on Radio Disney :) lol those were the days!!