Updates...or something

Well, I know. It's been FAR too long since I have updated this thing. For someone who doesn't have a 9-5 I have NO time! Maybe it's all those Forensic Files I am watching. I am OBSESSED! Seriously. Thinking therapy is in order. Anywho, Drew and I went to Nashville for 8 days and had a great time. Did lot's of shopping! Woo-hoo! Mama got some new shoes! Yes. It's bad. I was at the mall a couple days back with a friend and she was looking at some new shoes and said to me .. "Krysie, are you going to get anything?" My response ... "Um, if I come home with any more shoes I think Andrew will file for divorce!"  No joke. 

Drew bought me some running shoes this last weekend. I have been running for over a month now and needed some good shoes to keep from getting injured. We bought me some fancy Asics and they feel so good on my feet. I was antsy to go run in them. I am around the 1 mile mark. I used to be able to run so much further, but the heat gets me and I REFUSE to run before 7:00 am. Yeah, right! But I hope to eventually work up to a 5k. So we'll see!

I have started my crafty blog. I need some sort of creative outlet to feel accomplished. So I am adding recipes, crafts and other things to it. You can visit it at Krafty Krysie Check it out! 

Drew is still working his butt off and I love him for it. God blesses our socks off everyday. Kari amazes me still. She is AWESOME! I would clone her if I think I could handle cleaning up after two of them. I have to vacuum/clean/mop my floors several times a week. Gah! Whoopin'! 

Oh and if you are wondering how to get rid of ants in your house ... bust out the vacuum attachment and suck them up! The Dyson just killed a small colony of ants. Victory! Dyson 42 - Ants - 0. Yes! 

I will hopefully have more to update later - but for now that's all I have. 

Faith, Hope & Love!

More updates....

So yesterday I went in for my EGD (upper Gi/endoscopy). I'll be a little honest...I was a little nervous about the sedation part. Specifically not waking up. I know everything is in God's hands...and I really should stop the worrying. I need to let Him have it. But the human part of me tends to take over sometimes.

The procedure went very well and very quick. I was awake for part of it....I remember choking on the scope. Haha! But that's about it. The nurses seemed impressed that I was 'awake' so quick. Although I was pretty droosy! Haha. Doc said he didn't see any ulcers, but took some tissue samples of my small intestine to test for celiac's disease and something else. I was half dead when he was talking to me.

Should get results in 3-4 days....no news is good news. So just waiting to see what comes of that. Neither seem very serious but could provide some much needed answers as to why my stomach hates me so much! Haha.

Started back jogging this week. I missed several days last week due to rain. Boo! But back in the swing of things. Also cutting down the calories and watching what I eat. Since Monday of last week I am down 6 lbs....overall since the beggining of the year I am down 12 lbs. So pretty excited about that. It's been a gradual loss....but still a loss. :) Working out and eating right! That's my trick.

Well that's all I have for now....I will keep everyone updated as I get results. :)

Tata!

Running updates and health updates...

Well I have been running for a week. I really mean jogging. For the first week, I rotated running and walking while I was out. It's the best way to start back into jogging with little injury. I am proud to say the knees are doing awesome! My ankles seem to be a little sore, which makes sense since I am slamming all my weight on them and running on concrete. I don't have a track near me and too cheap to buy a gym membership just yet. :) But I am glad that I haven't given up, and I am taking it SUPER slow to keep the injuries at bay!

On the health front, I got my CT results back. Gall bladder is fine, but there is a small cyst on my right kidney. So now that makes cysts on my ovaries, thyroid, in my arm and now on my kidney. So I think I am going to get my name changed to Cystie. Haha. Good news about cysts is they come and go, or rupture and they (doc's) aren't worried about them. They just come up in some people and I am one of those people. So we will repeat the CT in 6 months to keep an eye on it, just to make sure it doesn't get in the way of things.

So that's all the updates for now. I know there wasn't anything really funny, witty or entertaining to read, but wanted to keep everyone updated on what's going on in my little slice of heaven.

Food for thought (from my church): God uses imperfect people to accomplish his perfect plan. Ponder on that! ;)

New goal

So one of my goals this year is to actually run a 5k. I participated in 2 5k's last year however, I walked. This year my goal is to run a 5k. I have to slowly build up to that because I have bad knees. I have been jogging the past few days and recently started my training. So stay tuned as I post updates on my training and when I actually participate in the event. I will probably walk a few to help get the endurance up and work on getting up to that 3 mile run!

Family Updates....

I live in a family of civil servants, my grandfather was in the Navy. My cousin served 4 years in the Army and just recently graduated from the Irving Police Academy and my other cousin is starting the Fire Academy in March this year. I guess I missed the boat on the servant career although, some may argue that a Stay-at-home Mom is a life of servitude....so maybe I didn't miss out after all. : )

Here's some photo's from Jeremy's graduation. The whole family is SO proud of him! 

Enjoy....

Jeremy's Graduation

Happy Hump Day...

Hola everyone. I am writing to let everyone know that I have a final interview with a staffing company today. The position I am interviewing for is IT Recruiter. :) It's a great company. Good base pay and the potential to make awesome bonuses. Woot! I am super excited about this opportunity. It's between me and another guy.....so I am praying that I get it and it works out. God has truly blessed me up to this point and I don't expect it to be any different.

Over the last weekend and this week I bought a bunch of cool stuff for the casa, so I will take pics and post up. Found some amazing deals at Estate Sales and other clearance sales at stores. I heart decorating my house! Its' so much fun. I also am fixing to plant my vegetable garden, I will make sure to post up updates of that as well. :)

Welp, I better go get started primping for my interview. Gotta look good and kill it! Yay.

Love all of you!

Check this out....

This is for all the stay-at-home Mom's, frugal-penny pinchers out there. My awesome Mother-in-law told me to check out this site and I am LOVIN' it. Kinda like McDonalds...ha.

www.becentsable.com - This website RULES! They have TONS of free coupons for things you buy everyday at the grocery store, food, drinks, health stuff, cleaning items.....EVERYTHING! You can manuever your way through the site and other partnering sites to download and print tons of coupons. It's not like those sites where you have to sign up for give-a-ways or anything like that. This is truly free coupons. Apparently some SAHM's get their groceries for next to nothing by using this site. There is also tips and tricks on other ways to save money.

Enjoy! You can thank me later. :)

Faith, Hope and Love! <3

Updates....

I know, I know...it's been a while since I have updated and SO many things have happened. I promise I will get to those things, but to provide something for my e-peeps to chew on I am attaching my link for our Wedding Album. Just figured you would enjoy that. I PROMISE I will get the house and other update blogs up this week with pics. That is my goal! Haha....but for now, here you go!

Our Wedding Album

A sigh of relief....sortof

Well after all that griping just a few days ago, it looks like sunnier days are on our way. Long and short, Drew and I found a couple other houses we liked, placed an offer on one that totally trumped the 1st house, they countered, it was an AWESOME counter (these people want to sell their house) and we accepted! So we have a contract on a house and our officially in our option (10 day) period. YAY! So first step towards owning a home, check. Whew. Now the inspection is Thursday, so I am crossing my fingers that everything works out and there is nothing majorly wrong with the house. It is a fairly new property, so I am confident it will all work out. :)

As for everything else, we have a busy few weeks ahead of us. This weekend we have two Christmas parties to attend, I have Ritz-Carlton training to go to for work, and start packing/organizing for our upcoming trip to Nashville. We leave next Wednesday and stay a week in Nashville, then come back....my work Christmas party, then it's Christmas and then New Years, then we close on January 8th. UM, WOW! I barely left time to breathe in there. That's just how things go sometimes, and I am ready. Very excited, too!!

Alright peeps, that's all I have for now, but I am really trying to make an effort to keep everyone updated. Look how good I am!!!

G'night everyone.

Approximately a month between blogs....

Argh! I am just seriously way too tired and beat down to keep up with this thing, but I started it for everyone else, not myself....so time to stop being selfish and lazy and update this dang thing!

Okay, well we are in full-swing in the hunt for the house of our dreams. Let me just preface with this, house-hunting/making offers on houses SUCKS! Hah. Well, okay....it doesn't suck...but it's SO stressful and such an emotional roller coaster. So we looked at lots of houses and one of them stuck out to us. When I was inside the first time...I got the ding! You guys know what the ding is, right?! It's that warm feeling in your tummy when your body and God says...this is IT! I don't always get the ding on things, sometimes...I learn to get the ding...or get it later, but I totally got the ding when I was in this house. It's gorgeous. Beautiful updates, awesome floor plan....AMAZING! To sum it up in one word. So Wednesday....Thanksgiving Eve we placed and offer. During the next 4 days we went back and forth with the buyers and now they aren't budging...and we are still too high. So yeah, I am totally frustrated and hate playing 'the game', but you have to do it. GAH! So we have decided to let them sit and stew in their own juices for a bit and hopefully they will come to their senses....doubtful! And the kicker is I don't even think at this juncture I can give up here and go do this all over again with another house. ARGH! However, I may have to.


Good news, we went looking at more houses and actually found a couple that total trump the first house. Now, I didn't get the ding on any of these houses, but I think my dinger isn't speaking to me right now because it's bitter and heart broken. Aww. But doing our research we actually found some really beautiful homes with less cons then the 1st house. So I pray that it all works out and becomes less stressful, although I don't anticipate the stress part getting any easier. House buying is a pain.

Everything else is great. I am excited and nervous about the holidays. Excited because I LOVE spending time with the family and we have a trip to Nashville planned. Nervous because I am hoping at that point we will be over the bumpier parts of the home-buying/offer/inspection/appraisal part of the process and able to sit back, relax and enjoy my holiday as Jesus intended....over-eating and celebrating with family. We shall see.

Funny story, Isis decided to become possessed or something and went totally exorcist kitty on us the other night. Actually this whole ordeal went on for days. I really thought she was trying to kill Drew and I. We took her to the vet, they had to gas her just to draw blood. :O But at least she wasn't making a liar out of me, right?! Blood results came back and they were normal. Vet said that I could take her to a animal behaviorist and there is meds she can take. My response was, "So basically, you want me to take her to a cat therapist and put her on kitty prozac?!" Um, no thanks! I am cutting back. But I guess it all works out in the end, she is back to normal - well I don't know that she has ever been normal...but normal for her. YAY!

Well that's all I have time for now, hopefully you all enjoyed the update. I will try to keep them coming more frequently, but I am lazy. Heck, at least I admit it!

Toodles,
KW

Long time, no blog!

It's been well over a month since I have blogged. I know....BAD KRYSIE! Work consumes me and by the time I get home I am in NO mood to be on the computer. But I do owe everyone an update. :) So here goes.....

Work is good....trying and busy! Drew is doing well. Work is good for him, too. We found out that he had a bent push rod in the race car motor, so that means no racin' for awhile. Sad.

We have officially begun the house hunt! This is exciting and kinda nerve racking at the same time. As most of you know Drew is highly analytical and he's doing his research and needs every question answered. I really feel sorry for the realtor that works for us. Haha! He will be a tough one to please.....but I am convinced that his over-thinking, super analytical, worse-case scenario thinking will save us lot's of money one day, so I don't mind. It can be a jurassic beat down at times....but hey, I married him.

I am getting excited about the upcoming holidays and ready to eat stuff I shouldn't, exchange gifts with my loved ones and spend some time with family! :) I heart the fall season. I am enjoying the cooler weather and I am crossing my fingers for at least one snow!!! That would be awesome.

I went to the doctor this last week and I have been having terrible headaches, dizzy spells and bouts of nausea. Found out I am hypoglycemic and the migraines are getting worse. So I have to go get a CT scan sometime soon. After doing a little research on the internet and webmd....it looks like all these new and worsening symptoms I am experiencing can be tied back to the thyroid. So I am bumping up my follow-up appointment with the endocrinologist and I am not leaving until she listens to me! I will be a plant in the office. I am convinced that something needs to be done.

Well, I think that's all that's really happening in Weil land. Nothing earth shattering obviously....but figured I needed to update the old blog. I wish I had the desire to update with photos and all that jazz...but I am being lazy right now! :)

Enjoy!