Sunday, January 28, 2007

A girl and chocolate

I know most of you who read my blog are female so you can relate to the love of Chocolate. No matter what day, or time - chocolate could be had and enjoyed. I would say this is just part of who we are-- how God made us. Well here is proof.

Yesterday we were with my side of the family to celebrate K first birthday. I can't believe it's been a year!!! Anyway, my mom made a whole seperae cake for K to "devour", "dismantle", "distroy". Here are some pictures to tell the story.


e was a great big sister and helped us celebrate. We all had party hats and were definatly being silly with them at one point. :)Here are one of the festive family:


We used the "family" cake (the white one seen above) to try and intise her to get in her chair.... it worked-- but then she wanted to devour that one. Candles were quickly blown out and the cake replaced with the "K cake". My mom thought it would be more fun to have the messy chocolate cake and man did K agree!!!


And most of all the best part was that she was enjoying celebrating with Chocolate and would just get this HUGE toothless grin on her face and start laughing. This was the best moment with the hands in the air-- clearly proclaiming-- this is great it's my birthday!!

Happy birthday girl! You are a treasure and a gift to all of us. WE LOVE YOU!!

Ryan, Heidi and the girls took off from there (after a bath to get this mess off) to go to their new home in Wisconson. We look forward to hopefully getting to on the fairy and go see them this summer.

I have much more to say - but I will post again later with some deep thoughts and ah-ha's from my life!

posted by Christy at 1:12 PM 4 comments

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Delinquent again!

Ok- sorry for not blogging. Lot's going on. Lot's I'm thinking about. Not sure how to put it into words and there have been lots of things I have wanted to post about but not the energy to post them.

I started doing a new devotional study about balancing life. I really like it and already it's reminded me how far I have gotten from God. And the sad thing is I am so much closer now than I was a year ago. So I am searching to discover, what's real, what's purpose, what's God's will and where/ how does it merge with my passions and dreams.

Church was great on Sunday. I think that's about all I can articulate of that. It was a nudge at my heartstrings and a motivator for me to serve in some way (but not as a job- I don't have any desire) and so I am working through that too.

I guess I am just trying to get grounded and not carried away in life but in the glory of something bigger.

So- this is me being real and telling you that I don't know when I will blog again. Ryan and I are off to Rochester this weekend to celebrate Kara's 1 yr birthday and say goodbye to them as they take off to Wisconson!!

I am sure I will have pictures. I don't have pictures from my "daily" (or not so daily) shots- they are on my computer but have to be resized to fit on here.... so they will come later.

Love you all.
ck

posted by Christy at 5:54 PM 2 comments

Monday, January 15, 2007

Warm delights!


Yesterday (David Crowder) was awesome. However I failed to get out my camera. Which in my opinion, in this situation was ok. We were caught in the moment of living and experiencing and it's better documented in words than in photo.

Today, yep it's a day off! Which considering the storm we got last night I am thankful. Although I was up at 6am anyway making sure Ryan knew what to expect on the roads. Yep, you got it about 3/4 inch of ice!!! There was a little snow on top, but not enought to help with driving conditions. But he got to school safe and that's what matters!

I've been getting some things done around the house, working on wedding invitations for a bride who has hired me to do that. And well my least favorite homeowner activity... SHOVELING. I know some of you would say "your hubby should do that". Well my theory is he is at school til 7:30 tonight. I am home alllll day. I can do it. So I do.

Just a few minutes ago after shoveling I came in and made myself a nice hot cup of sweet apple tea. MMMMM! So that's my pic of the day. Warm delights after a shoveling chore.

posted by Christy at 1:40 PM 4 comments

Saturday, January 13, 2007

David Crowder, Friends, pictures and more

I am pretty pumped. David Crowder (one of Ryan and my favorate worship bands) is coming to lead worship at church tomorrow. I guess Dave and Rob (our pastor) were talking and he offered to come out and lead worship one sunday! Well ever since it was first mentioned Ry and I had it marked on our calendars. We are anxious to see/ hear/ experience what him and his band bring to worship. The coolest thing is it's going to be a "normal" service - I put normal in quotes cause the is no "normal" at our church. Every week is something different, meaningful, and intense with fiath and the presence of Christ.... it rocks my world.

Jonathan is coming in to visit tomorrow to. He was our best man in our wedding and we haven't seen him since we moved in August. So we are excited to hang out with him tomorrow too.
I will try and get some pictures.

Speaking of pictures I have been really lacking in those lately and well mostly cause I was just kinda blah with life. But I'm pickin up again and I think, even though I am late, I am going to jump on the project 365 band wagon. What's project 365? Well it's a picture a day for a year. I am already 13 days behind... so it's really 352. But, look for more on that to come. I am hoping it will force me to practice with my camera and my picture taking skills.

Other than that... not much else is new. I am getting ready to finish up making samples of the requested wedding invitation so I can fialize that deal!

Oh yea!!! I forgot to mention that I love bankers hours... not so much Bankers holidays!!! We don't work on Monday cause is MJK day!! Ugh.... if I got paid for it that would be great, but otherwise, not so much!

Have a great Sunday!
ck

posted by Christy at 10:40 PM 2 comments

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

stains, opportunities, and more

I know what an odd title! But that's just me--- odd!

I don't have tons of time to post. I just thought that I would share with your some news. Maybe that's a little bit of a big title for it, but here goes.

I just got an email from a girl I met back in September who mentioned in casual conversation that she might want me to make her wedding invites. I didn't think much of it as it was the first time I had met here, we were at a craft show where I was selling my cards and scrapbooks, and so I gave her my card and have since moved on. Well I just got this email, and what perfect timing-- I offered my services as well as my photography!! Great. I can't wait to hear back!

And I sometimes forget that my mom had these secret ways of getting stains out that had been dried in to clothing several times. Erin emailed me and told me she had an ink pen that she washed and dried with her clothes and so her clothes have it all over them, but also the dryer-- If you have suggestions for fixing the dryer- PLEASE COMMENT!! But I have a cure for dried in stains. It's this bar of soap called phels napha (*spelling disclaimer). It's like 2 buck s at meijer, or other multi purpose shoping places (walmart. not sure about target). Anyway, it's in the detergent aisle. I guess it's good for bathing in when you have poison Ivy. BUt it works great on getting stains out. You might have to use it twice if it's a really bad stain... but better than losing the favorite shirt!

Those are my tidbits of the day. Hope everyone is doing well!
Love you guys!
ck

posted by Christy at 8:31 PM 1 comments

Friday, January 05, 2007

life


I still kind of feel like life is passing me by. Here is the best and worst of the last week. Sorry I am not updating more frequently-- I will be hopefully when I get my groove back.

Ryan and I are looking forward to a weekend of no plans- finally! We are both running ragged still after the holidays and haveing trouble getting in the swing of things.

A few things I have discovered I dont' like.
- incomplete paychecks- yes I know I didn't work over the holiday, but I don't like the results in my check!

- Vacation-- not that I don't like vacation- and this is by far the best. Far less pre-vacation stress than I have had in several years (mostly cause my job isn't insain and I haven't taken vacation in a long time). But it wasn't stressfull leading up to it, but coming back is proving to be a challenge. I am struggling to sleep at night and stuggling even harder to get out of bed at 6:30am. I am just reminded over and over again that I am a routine person and if it changes I ALWAYS have a difficult time getting back in the swing of things.

- The fact that Ryan and my schedule's are so different. I know it's good training for the next four years and unlike some family members (as we learned over Christmas) we love spending time together. I hate that he doesn't get home til 9pm then I want to go to bed around 10 cause we are trying to get up early and workout. He will eventually work his system to this process, and with school starting again for him on Monday it will be a challenge for him to get his homework done and get to bed at a decent hour.

How did we do it when we were in College? I worked 30 hours a week (which Ryan works 32) & took 18 credit hours my senior year. I am a person who HAS TO study--- LOTS!! But somehow being married makes it different. 1) we aren't doing the same thing (like all my roomies in college were going to school too) 2) There are different "stereo types" about what college students should have, pay for-- and somehow when you are 30 and married you should have somehow "arrived" and be able to pay for everything. SOOOO NOT TRUE!

- Last and the biggest pain of all-- the fact that I have been getting headaches everyday. Between 2 and 4 is when they start. It had been so long since I had a migrane and well I was enjoying forgetting what they were like. I think we figured it out though-- Ryan suggested I eat more protein at lunch. I have NEVER been a big protein fan--- cheese maybe, but I just can't eat a lot of meat. And with my allergies I am limited as to how I have have that meat-- as in I used to be able to put a ton of lunch meat on a sandwich- but when I eat it by itself it makes me gag to eat very much. So the challenge once agian is finding ballance.

Anyway, to give equal treatment-
Some things I am loving lately:
- That Ryan made me dinner last night on his day off :)
- That we are able to spend time together while he is on brake and life is a little slower - even though he's working more.
- That we are back at church for the second sunday in a row--- man we love that place!
- That we have nothing to do this weekend!! :) Ok, well nothing besides clean and get orginized and actually start to think about some goals for the year.
- That I am lucky enough to have a job, one that's not stressful (besides not knowing when it will end) and one that I am still enjoying.
- That I am blessed and everyday I am challenging myself to think about what I did yesterday, what can I do today, and what will I do tomorrow to make this year the best, God glorifying year of my life!!
- The fact that I am on day 3 without an afternoon headache!
- The fact that I have committed to doing a race in September. Race for the cure. I am pretty excited and I am looking forward to having that deadline push me to get in shape.

What about you? What are your resolutions? Do you do that? Do you have anti-resolutions?

oh, and here is Ryan's new (well not so new anymore) hair - This is "his" dog Casey on Christmas eve.



Have a great day!
ck

posted by Christy at 7:18 PM 1 comments

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