Memorial Day Weekend 2013

Saturday
Dave and I woke up earlier than normal to go relax by the pool in our apartment complex for the first time. We layed out for a few hours and then we left to get ready for our friends Hope and Jordan to come over and grill out on our new grill!

This is Hope and Jordan

Ok, ok so that's not really them. I have been addicted to the app Face Swap and this is actually Hope's face on Jordan's body and vice versa. Ha! Jordan doesn't make a very attractive girl-I think it's the mustache ;)

and this is actually them :)

We had a fun night together. Grilling out and laughing our faces off and watching The Hot Chick.

Sunday

I absolutely love Sundays. Dave and myself spent the majority of the day lounging around and snuggling on the couch. We had to rest up for our 10k the next day even though Sunday usually is our lazy day of the week anyways. We did go for a short bike ride and that was nice. 

Sunday night we went to babysit Payton and Grant. They are the cutest. Payton is so smart and cute and she loves Dave. We played hide and seek and that's always entertaining with a 3 year old. Grant was just in the best mood ever. He was just smiling and playing the whole time before bed.

Dave and Grant

so stinkin cute!-both of them :)

Dave and Payton

Monday-Memorial Day

We woke up early and headed to Boulder for the Bolder Boulder 10k(6.2 miles). We met Erika and she rode with us. It was a gorgeous day. This was mine and Erika's 2nd year doing it. It's such a fun run. There are sooo many people, but it's so well organized that you can park and get to the start line with no problem and traffic isn't bad getting there or leaving which is awesome for so many people running.

Us at the Start Line

and us after we finished

so proud of Dave for finishing his first 10k!

all of us at CU stadium after we finished

After the race we went over to Erika's and relaxed in the pool. And man did it feel amazing. We just floated around and didn't want to move for a few hours. Then we had grilled out hamburgers for dinner and it was delicious. 

 Dave jumping off the diving board

laying on the trampoline

After Dave and me left Erika's we went to Good Times to get a frozen custard spoonbender. I mean we deserved it after our run, right? It was delicious.

Such a good long weekend with my love. I wish we could spend even more time together than we already do. I can never see him enough, but I am so thankful for all the time we do get to spend together because it is a whole lot more than a lot of couples out there. 

Friday my nephew Connor is coming to visit from Alabama. He just graduated high school. Yes! High school! I now have a college aged nephew. Man that makes me feel old! haha I can't wait for him to get here. Lots of adventures to be had.

<3

Hiking, Rockies game, and a Lazy Sunday

This past weekend was full of fun. Friday night Dave and me went to his Mom's chorale show. They sang songs from movies and tv shows. My favorite was the Friends theme song(duh!) and the songs from Grease.

Saturday Dave and me woke up early-which is super rare for Dave considering he would sleep til 3PM if I would let him. We headed down south of Denver to hike at Castlewood Canyon State Park. It was a great day for it. The weather was warm but not too hot since it was cloudy that morning. We hiked about 9 miles and then headed home.

Saturday night we went to the Rockies game. Dave, Erika and me met Jordan, Hope and her son Kyler and headed down to the game.

This is little Kyler. He is precious.

This was taken last year around the same time at the Braves vs. Rockies game.

 He has grown up so much!

The view of downtown Denver from Coors Field.

I love the view of the mountains from the field. So beautiful.

After we got bored of the game Dave, Erika and me decided to walk down to The Cheesecake Factory and get some cheesecake. It was a hilarious time. I was hyper and laughing so hard I cried. haha. Ian met us there and after cheesecake we headed home. Ian and his date came over and we all sat at the table and had some beer and it was fun.

We were up really late so Sunday was a nice relaxing day. We enjoyed cuddling on our new sectional and playing Super Mario World on Super Nintendo-yea it was awesome :)

This next weekend is a 3 day weekend for Memorial Day! Dave, Erika and me are all running in the Bolder Boulder on Monday. Looking forward to another great weekend! 

Hello Summer!

It's been a long time since I've updated this thing but I've been busy. I went back to school this past semester to take a couple classes I need for Nursing school out here in Colorado. And when I wasn't studying I was working my new job watching 2 of the cutest kids in the world...

meet Payton(3)

and Grant(1)

But what I was doing majority of the time was spending time with the man of my dreams. 

My amazing boyfriend David or as I call him Dave :)

I have never been so happy in my entire life. My previous relationships do not even compare to this one. He is the one. He makes me laugh like no one else. He is the sweetest man and he takes such good care of me. I honestly have no idea where I would be without him and I am beyond happy knowing that I will never have to find that out. I am keeping him forever. Sorry ladies. You missed out.

I decided this Summer I will be updating this a lot more. I am officially starting Nursing School this Fall and I intend on having the best summer of my life so far. I want to remember it so I'm going to try to update the blog a good bit. 

Another precious face that will probably be on the blog a lot is 

Finneas aka Finn

The family that Erika works for adopted him back in March. He is so attached to Erika and is basically hers now. He is an Australian labradoodle and is so cute and fluffy you just can't help but say "Aww!" when you see him. He will be joining us a lot this summer on hikes and stuff for sure.

That's all for today but more will be coming soon.

-Krista

Easter 2012

Erika and me went up to Breckenridge for Easter. They have an Easter egg hunt with 10,000 Easter eggs. But apparently there wasn't much "hunting" of the eggs. Because they were just scattered in plain site on the mountain. We didn't get over to the runs where they were in time to get but 1 egg. Stupid kids got them all :) But we know where to go for next year so we can get lots of eggs.

I made a video of us from that day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ACwcOJZe09s

Can't wait for next season!

1 year

"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 

I can do everything through him who gives me strength."

Philippians 4:12-13

I've been a resident of Colorado for a year now. AWESOME. Man how things can change in a year. Ask me a year ago where I thought I'd be in a year and it would've been completely not where I am now and you know what?? thats ok. I moved here SO excited to finally be out of boring Alabama and no longer be long distance with my boyfriend. I moved in with a great family to become there nanny and was just excited for a new chapter in my life. Things with the relationship quickly changed from good to bad to terrible. I put up with a heck of a lot more than I should have but in the end I did what was best for me and got out of it and away from the constant emotional abuse I was being put through. Oh the things we do for love. Crazy, stupid love...it really turns us into complete idiots. I can only think of 1 relationship from my past that after it ended I wasn't like "wow why did I put up with all his crap" Where are all the good guys at? Anyways, I could go on about how dumb boys are for hours. haha.

Since February, in addition to nannying, I have been working Friday-Sunday at Lifetime Fitness--which is like the gym of all gyms. Its ridiculous! People definitely take their fitness serious out here. Its HUGE. I work in childcare and watch kids while the parents work out. At the YMCA when I had the same job our max was like 45 kids and we never reached it well here we get to over a 100 kids on most days when I work. So we have a lot of workers. And they are all pretty awesome. Back in February I met a girl who immediately asked me where I was from(cuz of my accent) and when I said Alabama she asked "So are you and Alabama or Auburn fan?" I said "Alabama!" and I knew her answer to that same question would probably determine our friendship. I mean just the fact that she even asked me that I knew that she knew something about college football. She says "me too!" and needless to say we were instantly BFFs.

Meet Hope

I seriously don't know what I would do without her. She just gets me...like a lot of people don't understand my sarcasm and she does and throws it right back at me. I love it. I am so thankful to have her as my best friend. I love you Hope! :)

She is the one who brought me to Merge for the first time. Which is just the name of the service for college students at Flatirons Community Church. It is the best thing to ever happen to me. It's how I know I am where I'm supposed to be and that God is watching over me. I have never looked forward to going to church until now. I love being there. It's a great church with awesome music and always a great message. I know God brought me to Colorado and put Hope in my life for a reason. And I know that whatever happens with other relationships in my life He will always be there. I know that even though I may not always understand why I am put through the tough things that he won't put me through anything I can't handle. And with Him who gives me strength I can do all things :)

Jeez, I gotta go watch Teen Mom guys. I just realized it came on last night...this Labor day thing has me all messed up.

PEACE!

13.1

13.1 miles. Do you know how far that is? Sure when you're driving it's not that far at all...but RUNNING...oh my gosh. When Erika came to visit back in July we did our first Half Marathon together. That's right. We ran 13.1 miles!

We arrived at the packet pickup location and got in line to be shuttled approx 13 miles up the road. It was pretty cold since it was up in the mountains. Oh and I was wearing one of my Alabama shirts and got 2 "Roll Tides!" before the race even started. And then another "Nice shirt!" during the race. It was so cool to hear that being that I'm in Colorado and still in the presence of Bama fans. hah.

So we had been hydrating like crazy with water and powerade and both of us had to pee before the race. Well we weren't the only ones. There were like 20+ port-o-potties and a line of like hundreds of people...literally. Well we only had about 20ish minutes before the 8am start. We couldn't get out of line. And of course we had picked the slowest one. I thought Erika was gonna die cuz she had to pee so bad but she was surrounded by other ladies doing the "pee dance" as well lol. There were just a few people in front of us and we heard the gun go off and the race started. It was ok though because by the time we made it to the start line people were still crossing the start line.

And we're off....it had warmed up nicely and was prob upper 60s if not warmer. I remember the sign for mile 3 and being like omg I have 10 more miles to go....each mile after that seemed to come faster than those first 3 though. The scenery was amazingggg. It was a beautiful day and the mountains looked so pretty. I couldn't wait to see the Mile 12 sign. But after I did I wanted to die. It was the worst mile of the entire race. You had to just keep turning around corner after corner and praying that this corner you would run around it and see the finish line...but no it went on FOREVER. I kinda wanted to cry. Then FINALLY I saw my sister :) I've never been happier to see her in my entire life. She was waiting at the Finish Line for me. I crossed the finish line and they gave me one of those cheap frozen popsicles and it was seriously the best thing I'd ever tasted. lol. After that I drank water like crazy and we passed out in the grass. We both felt like death. It took about 3 days for us to be like "ok that was fun I wanna do another one"

Pre-race :)

the start line. 

Me crossing the Finish Line! WOOHOO! Oh and my actual time was 3:07 NOT 3:17 :)

laying on the grass...resting/trying not to die

Half Marathon Finisher!!! Roll Tide!

Erika and me after the race! 

Oh the laughs that this picture has brought us...lol

And this is what I get to put on my car for finishing. A 13.1 sticker

13.1 MILES BABYYY!!!

Yea it was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. But I'm glad I did it. I'll do a few more halfs before I try a full marathon of 26.2 miles...jeez it'll be a while before that happens.

Birthday fun

Kash's 2nd birthday party at the Railroad Museum

Kash doesn't have a shirt on cuz he threw up all over his...oh and me. Mostly on my pants and in my flip flop. It was disgusting. 

and this is the cutest picture ever walking around with his conductors hat, red balloon and cake all over his face :)

he got lots and lots of trains for his birthday 

Kash's birthday at Red Robin...they sung to him and he loved it. When he heard them start clapping he immediately turned around and starting clapping with them. So cute :)

he didn't wanna wait for a spoon. It just looked too yummy.

my Colorado work family :)