Another Snowy Day

Today was another snowy day here in NC!!! Christian had to go to work again today and I spent the day cleaning. My house needed some major attention and I needed to do a lot of laundry. My parents came by a for a little bit to visit us, I guess they were wanting to get out of the house too. Once Christian came home from work he drove me to my office to get something I need to work from home tomorrow and then went to an early dinner at Outback! I was happy to get out of the house for a little bit. It looks like I will be spending another day in the house again tomorrow also. My office always follow the school schedule when we have bad weather and my county is close. Which is a good thing because I do not like to drive in this weather. The main roads are not too bad, but the side roads and neighborhoods are still covered. I'm sure everything will be frozen in the morning anyways! I am looking forward to having the day off and catching up on some daytime TV! I hope you all have had a nice weekend.

Snowed In

We got so much snow here for NC!!! We ended up getting probably around 7 inches and that is a lot for us. We have not had this much snow in a while!!! I love the snow but not when I've been stuck in the house all day by myself. Since Christian has a huge project going on at work, he had to go in today...ugh! So I spent the day doing absolutely nothing. Once Christian left for work around 9, I ate a bowl of cereal and took a nap until 1. I had every intention of cleaning the house today but I ended up watching TV.  Once Christian got home from work he had tickets to go the motorcross at the coliseum and it wasn't cancelled, so I am by myself again...boo! Here are a few pictures I took this morning when we first went outside!

Here is right outside our front door!

Look how deep it was when Christian stepped in it!

This is our street but you can't really tell where it is!

Here is my sweet Buddy watching us from the front porch! He usually loves the snow but not today! I guess it is too deep this time and he doesn't like it on his belly!

Looks like we'll have another snow day tomorrow too!!!

I won, I won, I won!!!!

I've won my first blog giveaway and I am just so excited!!! Abby at Sugar and Spice did a cute ring giveaway and I was the lucky winner! I just love ready her blog and you should so check out her blog!

Thanks Abby for doing such a cute giveaway!!! I love the big cocktail rings, I can't wait to wear it!

Thank Goodness Tomorrow Is Friday!!!!

This has been a long and busy week I at work and I'm ready for some relaxation! They are calling for snow tomorrow night and Saturday and if we get what they are for I will probably be spending the weekend at home!

I received my jewelry today from the jewelry party that I hosted a couple of weeks ago and I must say it is all too cute! I will take pictures this weekend and do a post with them.

Have a great Friday!

Dreaming

It was so pretty here last week, it was sunny and 60 degrees!!! I loved it while it lasted and enjoyed every minute of it for January!!!! Sunday and Monday was cold and rainy and today was just cold.  They are calling for a wintry mix on Friday and Saturday and it is suppose to be really cold. I'm ready to pack my bags and go somewhere warm for a week or two. Today I've dreaming of ...

The beach and sunshine!!!!

Some where warm with palm trees!!! This was from when we were in Key West and I loved this neighborhood!!!!

On a cruise on our way to somewhere warm!!!

Cute summer sundresses!!!

And fun summer shoes!!!!

COWGIRL BOOTS

I have been really wanting a pair of Cowgirl Boots this year! I've always thought they were cute and wanted a pair but I've never looked at them in the stores, but I got a dress a while back that would look so cute with cowgirl boots! Then one of my girlfriends got a pair for Christmas and I love them, so of course I've been dying for a a pair! So today Christian and I went to the mall on a search for boots! Christian was sucha good help and was such a trooper! I think I tried every boot that Belk's had on and went into every other store with shoes! I was about to pay a pair of boots at Belks for $100, but then I wanted to run into Rack Room Shoes just to look and I found these cute ones for less than half the the price of the others!

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I didn't want to spend a lot of money on them b/c I've never had a pair and I'm not sure how often I will wear them. I am very happy with my purchase and glad  didn't spend a lot of money on them! I can't wait to wear them to work tomorrow!

Here is a close up picture of them! I orginally went to look for a tan colored pair that had a taller heel and not so western looking but I ended up with these!!!

Yesterday was my Dad's birthday and my family went out to Outback for dinner! It is always fun to get together for dinner!

We had them sing Happy Birthday to him and they brought a delicious little ice cream dessert!!!!

Here are my two sweet nephews at dinner! If you can tell my youngest nephwe Jacob (on the left), lost his front tooth, too cute!!!

My friend Amanda and her baby also came in town this weekend from Wilmington, so I spent a lot of time with them! Friday night Christian and I went to dinner with them and I went to her parents house afterwards to love on her sweet baby boy, Walker!!!

He is just so sweet and little! Her mom watched him yesterday for her while we ran to the mall for lunch and a little shopping!

We've had a great weekend and I'm sad to see it end :(

Bridesmaid Dresses

Tonight I went with my friend Sarah to try on bridesmaid dresses for her wedding! January is not a good month to try on dresses.  The month right after the holidays and man am I ghostly white, I need to lose about 20 pounds and get a tan! Luckily her wedding isn't until July, so I have some time to work on those two issues. She is getting married on the beach, so she didn't pick a real fancy dress or anythng but I like them!

Here is the dress she picked out, but this isn't the color she picked (see next picture for color). Since she is getting married on the beach we are just going to where flip flops or go barefoot! If you know me I love my heels b/c I am only 5'0" and dresses look better on me with heels, so I told her I was wearing heels with dress after the ceremony and pictures! She isn't really the heel typ of person, so I knew we wouldn't wear heels in her wedding and plus it is on the beach!

This is the color she picked out! It looks pretty on and I know it will look even better this summer when I have a tan!
Other than bridesmaid dress shopping, we haven't really been up to much of anything this week. Today has been cold and rainy, so I picked up Chick-Fil-A on my home. I am so proud of myself the I order the grilled chicken sandwich with fruit, usually I get the number 1 (my favorite)! I did close my jewelry party today finally from last Thursday and I got $308 in free jewelry! I can't wait until it comes in, I will have to share pictures of all the fun stuff I got! I am so happy tomorrow is Friday and the weekend is here again! Have a great night!

The Bachelor

I just finished watching The Bachelor that I DVR'd last night and all I can say is DRAMA, DRAMA!!!!!! These girls are filled with drama this season, but I guess they are every season. I'm not really sure who I like this time, usually there are couple of girls that I like from the beginning until end.
I was happy to see Michelle leave last night!!!!

That girl was a handful and obviously had some things to work out! I'm glad Jake made that decision to send her home!
I actually liked Elizabeth at first but yes she did start to play mind games with Jake, so it was probably best that she gone also!

I thought his one on one with Ella was sweet! I loved that he brought her son out to see her, even though it might be soon for him to be the son! I think in this situation it is ok...

Ella is starting to grow on me and she seems to be a mature one in the group! I haven't really seen her get caught up in the drama!
Last but not least...Ali.

I have mixed emotions about her. I really like her last week on her one on one with Jake, she seemed sweet and innocent...BUT...this week she kind of mean to Vienna and to me it seem like she was trying to start drama! So I am not sure what I think of her now!  Who are your favorites on the show?

I Heart Weekends!

I just realized I haven't posted since last Wednesday! Ooops, but I've been a little busy! We had a wonderful weekend and sad it is over but at least Monday is pretty much over too! Last Thursday I hosted a Premier Jewelry Party last Thursday and had about 12 girls over! It was a lot of fun to eat, talk, and shop! Friday night Christian enjoyed the night together we went shopping and to dinner! I bought a humidifier for our bedroom b/c I wake up every morning really stuffy, but I don't feel like it made much of a difference. Do you guys use one? If so, what kind? Saturday Christian had to go into work for a while so I cleaned the house and then went with my friend Mimi to get a pedicure! Oh my it was so relaxing, I haven't had one since October at my wedding.  I ran by this New York and Company that is going out of business and I racked up! Everything in the whole store was $3.99! Christian and I went to out to dinner for Mexican and then we went back to NY&Co. b/c we just couldn't get over all the deals. I got so many sweaters, work pants, shirts, and sweater dresses! I think I only spent $60 or so! Sunday was a very relaxing day for me! We went to breakfast with some friends and I came home and napped all day! We went to dinner with our friends Matt and Laura at this little Irish place and the Sheppards Pie was delicious!!!! So there is our weekend re-cap! I am so ashamed of myself b/c I didn't take one picture this whole weekend...I'll have to do better next! I am so excited to watch the Bachelor tonight, even though I've read that spoiler website. Anyways, I hope you all had a great weekend!

Guest Bathroom

Christian and I finally finished painting the guest bathroom last night and tongiht we put everything back. I wish I would have thought of taking before and after pictures, but I only have after...Sorry!

I am standing in the hallway taking this picture, we painted the bathroom a tan color to match my shower curtain that I adore!

The color is a little darker than it looks on here and I don't really like the picture above the toilet. Do you guys have any suggestions what would look good?

Here is one more picture from the doorway. I just love it so much and it is so much better than the white walls we did have.

I wanted to share and up close picture of the shower curtain b/c I just love it! I think it looks much better in person than on here!
Have a great night!

American Idol

Tonight Christian and I (mostly Christian) have been working on painting our guest bathroom and also watching American Idol of course! I always love watching the try outs and we always laugh so hard, we are DVRing it, so we can watch all of it tomorrow! Do you guys watch AI? I am so sad that Simon is leaving next season, I just heart him! The show will not be the same without him...

Ok well I need to go check on Christian and see if he needs any help! I hope you all have a great night!

Meeting Walker

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and a Happy Monday! Thank goodness Monday is over, I am not a fan of them. Christian and I had a great weekend! We got to go to Wilmington this weekend to visit my friend Amanda and meet her new baby boy Walker!

Walker is such a sweet baby and I couldn't get enough of him! I just loved holding him and loving on him! We went out to dinner Saturday night and we were there for a good while and he didn't make one peep at all!

Sunday we just hung around their house and visited with them! Here is Amanda and I and yes I look so short without my heels on..HA!! I wish they lived closer to us. Amanda and I have been friends since 6th grade but they moved to Wilmington (3hrs away) about four years ago.

Here I am with the sweet baby! I really think I  held him from the moment I walked in the door until I left! I was so sad to leave him yesterday.

Here is Amanda and I with our husband's, Christian and Adam! The guys are in their coats b/c we were about to walk out the door to lunch. We had such a good time hanging out with them!

I have to leave you with this sweet little face...is he not just the cutest!?!?! And yes being around this sweet baby all weekend has definitely given me the "fever"!!!!!

Waiting

So I wanted to go to Wilmington today, which is about 3 hours away. I wanted to go see my friend Amanda and her husband and new baby! Of course, Christian had to work this Saturday :( Christian called me at 11:45 and said he would be leaving within the hour, well it is now 1:35 and he still at work. I have got everything together and ready to go and now just waiting for him. Now I am trying to decided whether we should even go and if it will worth our time, since we have to come back home tomorrow. I can't stand waiting when I have something I want to do. I should probably work on being more patient, but seriously it's Saturday he should be home not at work! I hope you all have a great Saturday!

Show Us How You Live - New Year's Resolutions/ Goals

I am so excited to start the "Show Us How You Live 2010"!!! I look forward to every Friday to see what all y'all have to share!

I have already done a post about this at the beginning of the month, so some of you might have already read them!

Here are my main 4 resolutions:

1) I know this is on everyone's list...Losing Weight! Starting tomorrow or Monday I am going to start back to the gym. I want to lose around 15-20 pounds by summer. I'm not going to follow a strict diet b/c they do NOT work for me b/c I love food way too much but I am going to try and cut back and watch what I eat.

2) I want to work on being a better wife not that I think I am a bad wife, but you can always be better! I want to make it a point to do special things for my husband and to make him smile. I want to have more him and I time with no TV, computers and so on...just quality time together! I have a wonderful husband and I want to make sure a day doesn't go by that I don't let him know I am aware of how blessed I am to have him!

3) We have recently found a church we both really like and I want to get more involved with the church! I want to grow in my relationship with GOD. I want to make sure I put God first, then others, and then myself. I want to strive to let God lead my marriage, my relationships, my life and not second guess him. All in all, I want to be a better Christian!

4) Pay off debt!!!!! We have worked really hard at getting out of debt and we have one more credit card and we will be debt free besides our house and one of our cars! I am in hurry to get it paid off b/c then we can start having babies! That was our goal before we have kids to get out of debt!

Here are some of my New Year's Resolutions! I don't think any of them are that unrealistic! The first one I will have to work hard for it but will be worth it. The 2nd and 3rd I should do this every day no matter what! The 4th one is already in progress!!!!

Blog Design Giveaway

Jamie over at The Kubeczka Family is doing a blog design giveaway! She has such a cute blog and I just love reading it! You should check out her blog and enter for the giveaway. All you have to do is become a follower, do a post about it, and leave a comment! I hope you all have a great weekend! I think we might be going out of town tomorrow night to visit my friend and her husband and baby, so I probably won't get to do a blog until Sunday! I hope everyone stays warm, I know it is freezing everywhere right now!

Twitter!

I don't really have much to blog about tonight. After work I went with my best friend to look at her wedding dress and then came home and ate dinner. Now I am on the couch watching my DVR'd shows, trying to catch up!

So I thought I would let you guys know that I've been on twitter for a while now and if you want to follow me you can click on my side bar to the right or my username is CrystalsLife!

I am super excited that tomorrow is Friday and they are calling for snow tonight! It is suppose to be really cold this weekend, so we will probably hang out around the house. I am trying to talk Christian into going to Wilmington to see my friend Amand and her husband, who just had a sweet baby boy 3 weeks ago!

I thought I would leave you with a picture of this sweet boy getting spoiled in the bed!

I hope you all have a Happy Friday!

Wishful Wednesday - Hair/ Hairstyle

I thought I would play along in Wishful Wednesday and you can join in too over at The Seattle Smith's

 'I wish' I had...Jessica Simpson Hair/ Hairstyle!

As you probably have heard me mention before I love Jessica Simpson and I also love her hair and would love to have it! I also would not mind having her body and hair stylist either!

I love her long hair!

I love her shot hair!

And I love it when she has it pulled up too!

This was hard finding pictures on the internet of her hair b/c I like all of them!

Dieting Is No Fun

One of my New Year's resolutions was to start going back to the gym and eating better and to lose weight. Man oh man is it hard for me to diet, especially at my office! This morning someone brought us Panera Bagels and of course it was my favorite, Cinnamon Crunch, but I was good and controlled myself! I was watching everyone eat a yummy bagel while I ate my granola bar. For lunch I had 1 can of tuna with nothing but hot sauce and relish, but this wasn't too hard b/c I love tuna. Then this afternoon we had birthday cake at work for one of our salemen and it had to have my favorite icing, but once again I controlled myself. After work today I went to the gym and worked out! I am so out of shape but I am working on it. I wish it wasn't freezing outside, so I could take Buddy walking! Christian and I went grocery shopping since we haven't been in forever and our pantry was starting to look bare! We got all healthy food, so hopefully it will start being a little easier. Tonight I had a salad with no dressing for dinner, the only reason I didn't have dressing was b/c I didn't like what the restaurant had. So needless to say I am very proud of myself today! I am determined to lose some weight and soon! I feel bad for Christian b/c I have been a little on the grumpy side but I have been starving and wanting to give in all day! What kind of diet tips do you have?

I have really been craving one of these today..HA!!!!!! I'm heading to bed now to dream about this!

The Bachelor

Thank goodness Monday is over! It is always so hard to make after long weekend but I made it..HA!! Today has been just a normal day, nothing too exciting. After work Christian and I went to the gym and I've attempted to eat healthy, in order to try and achieve my new year's resolution. I will be posting weekly on here to help myself keep track of how I am doing. It has been freezing here lately so I am cuddled up on the couch watching the The Bachelor!

I am so excited about this season, I always love this show. I think that Jake seems to be such a great guy, I remember liking him from the Bachelorette last year! Well the commercial is over so I am going to watch!  Do any of y'all like this show?

A New Year's Day Wedding & Our Sunday

On Friday we attended one of my co-workers wedding! They have been engaged for over a year and finally tied the knot on New Year's Day! They had such a beautiful evening wedding and we had good time with my co-workers at the wedding!

Here is Christian and I at the reception waiting for the Bride and Groom to arrive!

Here is me with my boss Doyle and Cindy another lady in the office!

Here we are with Patrick one of our salesmen. First I got married and then Kenny, so now we pick on Patrick telling him he is the last one that is single and to get married!

Here are Cindy and I with Phil the Vice President of the company! I feel so lucky to have such a good group of people to work with. We all get along and have a good time together!

This is the only picture I got of the Bride and Groom and it isn't really that good. I didn't want to take any durring the ceremony and then during the reception I was too busy talking, eating, and dancing!

Today we have done a bunch of nothing! We slept in this morning and skipped church, I know thats bad. Today is my aunts birthday so we all went out to lunch.

I think we both look tired in this picture! And don't you just love my bright pink Happy New Year shirt!?!? I meant to get a picture with my aunt but there were so many people there I didn't get a chance. Now I've been laying on the couch watching TV and I think a nap is in the near future!

New Year's Resolutions & Today

I realize I am a day behind with my New Year's Resolutions but I guess it better late than never!

1) I know this is on everyone's list...Losing Weight! Starting tomorrow or Monday I am going to start back to the gym. I want to lose around 15-20 pounds by summer. I'm not going to follow a strict diet b/c they do NOT work for me b/c I love food way too much but I am going to try and cut back and watch what I eat.

2) I want to work on being a better wife not that I think I am a bad wife, but you can always be better! I want to make it a point to do special things for my husband and to make him smile. I want to have more him and I time with no TV, computers and so on...just quality time together! I have a wonderful husband and I want to make sure a day doesn't go by that I don't let him know I am aware of how blessed I am to have him!

3) We have recently found a church we both really like and I want to get more involved with the church! I want to grow in my relationship with GOD. I want to make sure I put God first, then others, and then myself. I want to strive to let God lead my marriage, my relationships, my life and not second guess him.

4) Pay off debt!!!!! We have worked really hard at getting out of debt and we have one more credit card and we will be debt free besides our house and one of our cars! I am in hurry to get it paid off b/c then we can start having babies! That was our goal before we have kids to get out of debt!

Here are some of my New Year's Resolutions! I don't think any of them are that unrealistic! The first one I will have to work hard for it but will be worth it. The 2nd and 3rd I should do this every day no matter what! The 4th one is already in progress!!!!

Christian and I have had a wonderful day together! We went to the mall this morning so I could return a dress and check out Victoria Secrets Semi-Annual sale! Then we had lunch together at Chipolte and headed home. My parents came by to vist for a few minutes and we all ran to Target together. Christian and I went to Chili's for dinner and I had the Quesadilla Explosion Salad (yum)!!!! I've been cleaning up around the house tonight, while Christian works out in the garage. I thought I would share a picture of Buddy and his new treat! Christians Dad and family brought him this huge treat! IHe would not take his eyes off of it and wanted it so bad. I had to take it away from him b/c he kept trying to eat the whole thing instead of chew on it. We will try another day!

I have some cute pictures to share tomorrrow from the wedding we went to last night! I hope you have a wonderful Sunday!

Recap of 2009

Happy New Year to you all! I hope 2010 brings wonderful things to you and your family! 2009 was a great year for me and I can't wait to see what 2010 will bring!

I thought I would do a recap of this past year!

In January I went to the Rascal Flatt and Jessica Simpson concert. I like Rascal Flatts but I really went for Jessica Simpson. Yes I like her and everyone who knows me knows how much I adore her! We had great seats and were so close!

In February Christian finished our salt water tank! This is Christian's baby but he very proud of it and I am proud of him! He built the stand and everything! (as I am doing this he is telling me there are better pictures but this is all I have on this computer) I will share more another day.

Christian and I got engaged in March! This isn't a picture of when we got engaged, but it is from March at my nephews birthday party!

April  we celebrated Easter at my sisters house with my family!

In May we bought our first boat!

Then in June we traded in Christian's truck and got our 4-Runner, which I love!

In July we spent almost every weekend at the lake on the boat!

August we went on vacation with my family and went to Disney!

September I celebrated my 25th birthday!

October we were married! The best month out of the whole year!

In November we went to Indianapolis and Chicago! Such a fun trip!

We celebrated our first Christmas as a married couple in December!

God was very good to us this year and we are blessed!