We Have Arrived

We safely made it to Arizona yesterday. We are staying with our in laws till we move into our own place. Today we took some time to find a place. We were blessed to find something right away. It is a two story town house, with two bedrooms and two baths. We will be moving in on Friday and are very excited!! The two of us and so excited to be here with family!! We miss our friends / family in Iowa already though.

ARIZONA HERE WE COME!!

Kraig and I are very excited to be moving to Arizona at end of December. We both can't wait! Since living in Iowa we both have started to miss being around family. Kraig's parents, grandparents, brohter and wife, sister, and our adorable neice and nephew live there and have been itching to join then for a long time now. I am ready to get out of the cold and snow here. I am not a very good cold weather person. I would rather bake in the heat!! What I am not looking forward to the actual moving of our stuff. But it will all be very worth it in the end to be with family.

CHRISTMAS MUSIC

Last night Kraig and I were on our way up to Cedar Rapids (about an hour away) and we decided to listen to Christmas music. Kraig LOVES Christmas music and insists that after Thanksgiving we can ONLY listen to Christmas music until the New Year. Thanksgiving is next week and my collection of Christmas music is ... lets just say I wouldn't call it a collection. So, I guess I need a collection! Any one have any ideas about which CDs I should be purchasing??

I GOT TAGGED!

My SIL Jenny tagged my to do 6 habits/facts about myself that you may not know. Enjoy!!

1) I play the trumpet and have been playing for about 11-10 years... I haven't played in a year!!

2) I am addicted to reading... once I start a book everything else goes out the window until I finish.

3) I am in LOVE with cosmetology... you don't ever want to go into a beauty supply store with me... you may never get out! :)

4) I am addicted to Michael Buble's voice

5) My new addiction is cooking... Tuesday are my baking day with Rochelle

6) Lastly... Kraig and I have just recently become addicted to Naked Juice! If you haven't tried it ... you MUST!!!

I tag Rochelle, Erica and Jamie

MY NEW CHALLENGE

You would think working at a gym would cause one to actually work out!? Since moving to Iowa I have had the hardest time making time to actually work out. And I LOVE to work out and have always prided myself on being in pretty good shape. We have lived in Iowa for about 6 months now and I have still not fallen into a routine. So... I have had it!! My good friend Mallory, who is also a personal trainer at my work is making me her special project. Last week I started an eight week program with her. 3 days a week she will train me to death and then 2 days a week I will hit the cardio hard. My own personal boot camp! I am very excited and can't wait to see the results in 7 more weeks. We took before pictures... but I only want to see the after pictures. So, every muscle in my body hurts, but I keep telling my self "HOT BODY, HOT BODY" as I am lifting my little heart out. Mallory is amazing at what she does and I am so happy that she is giving me a body make over!

4 YEARS SINCE THE MAGIC BEGAN...

As I writing the date today on a piece of paper at work, I was quickly drawn back to high school. I had total flash backs of when I frist started dating Kraig. We started dating 4 years ago and I can't believe it. It feels like just yeasterday we were holding hands for the first time and I got thoes butterflies which made a 17 year old feel like they were on top of the word. Then I thought back to how when you went to bed a night you couldn't wait to go to school to see your boyfriend. All of the memories and girly giggles came rushing back to me. The cafe free days of high school when all you had to worry about was home work and what you were going to do that weekend. All of the wrestling matchs, football and basketball games. Rushing home to make curfew, speding countless hours on the phone in which your mother had to ask you over and over to get off. Sleepovers with all the girlfriends, in which you stayed up talking for hours and hours about boys and make up. Speding hours getting ready for school dances with 5 other girlfreinds all cramed into my room so I could do their hair. The excitement in the school halls when there was a pep assembly that afternoon. Rushing from one class to another while tring to get caught up on the latest gossip from last period. Oh how so much had changed in the last 4 years. I am so grateful that I met Kraig!! He is my best friend, love of my life, and someone who I can't live with out. And right now as I am writing this my husband has just walked in with a dozen roses!! What an amazing guy. I have a winner!!

RELAXATION

Yesterday afternoon I had my first massage! Let me tell you it was AMAZING!!! In march I got Kraig a massage for his birthday and he loved it. He kept telling me that I would love it and should go and get one myself. I must admit I was a little nervous about it. You know the stripping down to have a total stranger who was going to be touching your bare skin thing. Not so comfortable for me. Well, I took him up on it and I am so glad that I did. I had a sweetish 1 1/2 relaxing massage. I felt so good afterwords and best of all a lot less stressed. As many know my job and life right now is very stressful and sometimes it feels like I am in a downward spiral as Alice in Alice and Wonderland. But, yesterday as I sank into the heated, pillow soft bed I decided to just let it all go. To not think about anything and just let my mind be free was way over do. As I sank deeper in the bed with soft music playing and candles lit, I let my self breath in the calming aroma and exhale the stress. I am so grateful to have had this experience. For anyone who has not had a massage before... trust me on this, it is way worth it!!!