A Much Brighter Monday!

Happy Monday Ladies!! I hope you all had an amazing Easter weekend! Mine was filled with fun times with friends and family so I have no complaints here! It definitely left me tired this morning! I didnt roll out of bed til 7:45 which made me a little late but I guess every now then you need one of those mornings!!

My week is jammed packed with people to see and places to be so Im hoping it flies by because this weekend Ill be in New Orleans for Jazz Fest!! Its going to be so much fun!!



With OTC (Offshore Technology Conference) being in Houston next week Im crazy busy at work. We have our annual client appreciation/business development golf tournament at work this Friday. Im in charge of all of our events so I have been running around here like a crazy woman all day making sure everyone is getting their stuff in line for it. Im sure this is what the rest of the week will be like as well!



On a random note... Ive been chatting with Mrs. Carol about getting a credit card. My car will be paid off in a few months... THANK THE HEAVENS... and when that happens I wont have any sort of revolving credit so she thinks it would be a good idea for me to get a CC. They scare me half to death cause I dont think Im disciplined enough to not make impulse purchases in other words I would buy the Louis Vuitton store. So Ive decided to go another route for the time being and that route is a Victorias Secret CC. I mean who doesnt need bras, panties and swimsuits?? and I dont think Ill do too much damage!! Of course knowing theres a card on the way means Ive already picked out my first purchase.

Im loving these swimsuits!!

{Loves it}


{not a big fan of string bottoms but I love the white and pink)


Well Ive got to get back to work!

and thanks for yesterdays sweet comments! They always cheer me up!!

The Sunday Blues

I have a super heavy feeling weighing on my heart and it makes me so unhappy with myself. Especially today on this beautiful Easter Sunday. A day where all I should be is thankful for all my blessings. It really makes me SO upset with myself.

I have a serious case of the Sunday Blues. Every week I get SO excited for Friday. I pop out of bed dancing and singing, instantly in an amazing mood because I know Ill get to spend 3 amazing days with my love but come Sunday Im super sad/annoyed. It upsets me because I know this isnt something thats going to change. I knew from the beginning what I was getting myself into and still I am feeling like this EVERY Sunday. I HATE IT. Worst part... It makes me a total B. Im annoyed that he has to leave. Annoyed that it'll be this way for a long time. Annoyed that Im feeling sad and annoyed. ANNOYED in general and I find myself taking it out on everyone around me. What a B!

Im really hoping in time that this gets better because I cant feel like this every Sunday. Im a really happy person and Sundays use to be one of my favorite days of the week.

Please tell me this is going to get better.

I just want to be this happy with this love!!

Dear Chris's Company,

I hate you for stealing my boyfriend.

His Very Annoyed Girlfriend,

He is Risen

I hope you all are having the most AMAZING Easter Sunday!!

We all have so much to be thankful for!

Thank YOU for this blessed life!

Lets Set Things Straight

This afternoon I got a phone call from Mrs. Carol to let me know that my blog was really not helping my new love's reputation what-so-ever. It kinda caught me off guard cause I havent even thought twice about the assumption in which could be made from my last two posts.

SO ladies its time to set the record straight...

My boyfriend is absolutely AMAZING!!

He's everything I never knew I always wanted.

I could not be happier with my relationship with the exception of him living in Houston 5 minutes away like he use nor would I change anything about it except move him tomorrow if I could so I apologize if Ive given anyone the wrong impression. Anyone who can keep my attention and break the enormous guard I have around my heart has to be pretty incredible and that he is! He's amazing and I really couldnt ask for more!

In reference to the first post, I started the "3 month test" conversation I just didnt have name for it. Nothing he said made me feel like he was directing any of the comments to me. He was simply giving a guys point of view and who are we kidding we all know guys are just as guilty as pulling the same shit, hints the convo. I simply shared the "rules" post because I think all girls should do exactly what I did. THROW THEM OUT THE WINDOW. It was never because I was upset or defensive and I thought that was pretty clear.

In reference to my last post, this does not even pertain to him so theres no need to even discuss it!

And just to be a little bragger here's what I came home to yesterday. And with it was the sweetest note anyones ever sent me.



So for the record Im loving everything about this new beginning and liking him a little more every day!!

And Mother I know youre gonna love him!!

XO,

I Dont Know What It Is But I Just DONT Like Her...

As if I didnt rant enough in yesterdays post... Im about to follow it up with this one.



Have you ever met a girl that you just dont like? You cant really put your finger on it, but something about her just rubs you the wrong way? You can see through the fake smile and rehearsed laugh therefore you just dont buy the BS she's selling?? Well this is happening to me and I hate it.

Im pretty receptive to new friends/aquaintences/collegues. I remember in college when Id attend events or go to a frat house and Id be the only Zeta there and other sorority girls would purposely ignore me so I that I would feel awkward. It sucked and after about the third time it happened I promised myself to NEVER treat anyone that way no matter what. I try to be really inviting and welcoming to my guy friend's new ladies or any girl who comes out with our group of friends or starts working in my office because I completely understand that it can be intimidating and awkward to hang out with a bunch of girls you dont know or entering an office where all the cliques are already formed. I truly get it! I honestly think if all girls treated newcomers with compassion and friendliness the world would be an incredibly less bitchy place. So its not that Im not trying to be nice or to like this individual. Its that something, and I really cant tell what it is yet, bothers me about her.

Normally I would just avoid this person and refrain from having to speak to them but that really isnt an option. So ladies Im in a pickle! I really dont know what to do. Im way too nice to be a bitch and to be honest she hasnt directly done anything to me yet so I feel mean disliking her. I just have that gut wrenching feeling that she's one of those "pretend to be your bestfriend just so she can steal your boyfriend" types of girls and I dont play like that! Im sure Ill put a smile on my pretty little face and pretend everythings just peechy but Id really like to just avoid her at all cost.

What would you do??

The Mid Twenties Relationship Beginnings...

{this photo has nothing to do with this post!!)



I love new beginnings. Ive said it time and again. The whole getting to know someone, stay up talking all night long cause youre so interested in knowing everything about them, beginning of a new relationship phase. Its fun.... Im a talker and now a listener because I genuninely care and want to know everything about the beau well almost everything ;) Some things are better left unknown!! LOVES IT!!

But lately Ive realized there are so many taboo rules in dating when youre in your mid twenties. I havent really been in a REAL beginning of a relationship since I was 18 and who are we kidding, there are no rules when youre 18. Its all about having fun, acting crazy drunk and spending as much time as you can with that person because youre totally going to marry him!!! So lately Ive been subjected to many of these new rules which I will NEVER follow because I dont have rules I dont make up myself and Im absolutely baffled by them. Ive never been one to play by rules anyways, just ask Mrs.Carol, she'll vouche for me!

The roomie stated yesterday that her new beau was "freaked out" because she invited him over mulitple days in a row. Chris also informed me that the fact that he spent every day with me prior to his moving to New Orleans was "completely unheard of". Ummm did I miss the rules on "Excepted Amount of Time Spent Together in a Week" cause Ive always just kinda done whatever I felt like doing. This is a new one for me. Dont get me wrong... Miss Kris isnt a clinger. I have way too much to do in a day to be with a guy all the time, but I just thought that was considered balance. If a girls has to work, see her fam, friends and pups, work out, keep the house clean, find time for dinner and make it to happy hour a couple nights a week. How on Earth can she spend too much time with a new love? There would literally not be enough hours in the day so whats need for a RULE?!

Next, how many of you have heard of this 3 month test? I jokingly very seriously, as in meaning EVERY SINGLE WORD told Chris the other day that I really hoped he didnt pull the "we've been dating for a while now so Im gonna stop being on my best behavior aka turn into a complete dick" move anytime soon. With that he responded with "oh you mean the 3 month test". Very confused I asked him to elaborate and he so nicely explained to me that its a proven fact that "ALL" women go crazy after 3 months of dating. WTF?? Yes ladies. Then he explained that ladies are so fun and sweet and willing to do whatever their guy wants to do until they hit the 3 month mark. After this we are EXPECTED to stop being fun, begin bitching, become whiny and clingy, start trying to "steal" all of our beau's free time, become insanely jealous after claiming not to be a jealous person and "dive off the deep end". And God forbid you put a toothbrush in his bathroom so you can free yourself of bad breath in the AM!! That's CRAZY!!!! TRUE story. This is what he told me. I literally laughed out loud. Then he followed it up with "I really hope this doesnt happen with you!!!" ahahah! If he wasnt so damn cute I might have been a little offended.

I can honestly say Ive seen this happen to guys. I lived in a sorority house in college and Ive seen some CRAZY things but I definitely did not think guys expected it from us. And definitely not ALL of us.

When I was 15 Mrs. Carol taught me the single most important lesson of my LIFE: I will never forget her telling me "Men will treat you the way YOU LET THEM TREAT YOU." Something about that stuck in my mind and though I didnt apply it straight away to my high school relationship, I did in college and no words have ever held more truth. I believe this is why I always pass the "3 month test". If I have a problem with something... You WILL know when it bothers me regardless if it happens on day 10 of dating or on day 90. If I dont want to do something I wont do it. The person I am when I start dating someone is the person Im going to be. I dont understand why anyone would waste 3 months pretending to be someone they are not. It only waste the person your dating's time and more importantly YOUR OWN.

So here's to throwing the rules out the window! Kristen only lives by her own rules and thats because every girl needs to give herself boundaries and ways to protect her heart. At the end of the day youre the only person in the world who has the power to make YOU happy, to take care of YOU and to put YOU first. Yes many of us pray to God that we have found the most amazing boyfriend to do this for us, but at the end of the day until you have a ring on your finger and have exchanged vows of forever you have no promise of that. So until then these are the ONLY rules Im living by:

I am completely aware that these are my PERSONAL rules. They work for me and I have decided to live be them due to some event that has occurred in my past. Some of these rules may not pertain to you and you may have had an amazing experience embracing the oppostion. They just have proven to work for me!

1. Dont move in with him until you have a ring on your finger.

2. Dont buy love dogs. The dog is either yours or his and that should be clear from day one.

3. Dont go to sleep upset.

4. Never say I love you first, even if you mean it.


Ladies rock your freakin socks off! A guy should like you for YOU! and now Im over this! Peace!

Honeymooners

As you all know my BFF got married this weekend!! Im so excited to share photos of her big day but that will have to wait til she returnes home from Paradise because she took the Nikon with her! Proves how much I trust loves her!!



Her sweet hubby planned a destination unkown surprise honeymoon for her!! She literally didnt know where they were going til they got off the planeand headed to the resort! Lucky little me got an email from her yesterday revealing her location so I guest posted for her readers HERE so go check out her surprise destination!! Its gorgeous!!

Have a great Tuesday!! XO

Pretty Girl Rock

After a little lovin' from my hairstylist and a killer spray tan I am

FINALLY

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SO Excited and Ready for this Weekend

{warning: Get ready for a photo OVERLOAD!!!}

Im so freakin excited for this weekend that it hurts!! My college best friend, love of my life, only person on the planet EXACTLY like ME, angel baby bear from Heaven, Steph is getting hitched to the LOVER BEAR of her life!!

{My LOVES her SO much}
These two are the sweetest, most fun-loving, goofy, most of the time absolutely ridiculous, best people in the world and theyre about to promise to love eachother forever ever and I get to be right next to my ladybug while she makes her vows!

{how presh} {sillies}
Beau and Steph have been through some of the hardest times of my life with me and have been part of the happiest. They are genuinely such great friends to me and are always there when I need them and I couldnt ask for more! Ive watched them grow as individuals and as a couple so drastically in the last 5 years and couldnt imagine them being any happier than they are today!

{just bitty babies}

Im so honored to be part of their big day and Im so excited for this weekends festivities to FINALLY be here. I mean Ive been waiting for 14 freakin months! ;)

Steph,

Thank you for being the best best friend and being there for me every time I call to talk your ear off! Thanks for being just as crazy as I am 90% of the time and doing things that constanty make me laugh. Thanks for texting me the hitchhiking river pic, it makes me laugh every time!! Youre the sweetest of hearts and I cant think of anyone who deserves your happy ending as much as you! I know you will have a long happy ever after with your lover bear and that there will be lots of baby bears VERY soon! :)

I loves you SO much,
Kris

{where it all began} {babies} {why I dyed my hair brown} {21st bithdays} {Aunt Stephy took Lilly took the beach for the first time} {Mexico} {More Mexico} {i loves you} {getting over heartbreak} {23rd Birthdays} {Rodeo} {Swim Days} {Cookoff} {River Trips} {Bachelorette Celebrations}

And that ladies is a BEST friendship I could not live without!!!

Saturday is also real special because not only is my ladybug getting married but my lover is turning another year older!! SO happy early birthday Boo!! I cant wait to see you!

Bring on the Weekend ALREADY!!!

Its The Simple Things in Life...

...that seem to make me smile the most!

I cant even explain how my heart smiles....

When I see puppies!! And extra big if they are baby bullies!

{Melt my freakin heart!}

Like looking out the window to my balcony and seeing Lucy and her baby!

{Isnt her baby big!! They grow up so fast!!}

When Im able to enjoy a tasty red popsicle on a hot summer day

with the four loves of my life!

{i loves them}

{my main men}

Like receiving sweet notes and packages in the mail!! Dont you just LOVES that!?!

{my bestie is the best at this! loves you Allie}

Like seeing an adorable little bathing suit butt on a toddler.

{Its too freakin precious!!!}

Like smiling at a random while Im waiting in the grocery line just to brighten their day. In a weird way it just seems to make me feel like Im doing something to help peace in the world!

Like finding my favorite Strawberry ChapStick in the bottom of my purse!

Like hearing my favorite old school song on the radio and then singing ever word with a smile on my face!!

Like seeing a rainbow on a day where nothing seems to be going right.

Like kissing the one Im with after days of not seeing him!

{Babe, Thank you for making me SO happy every day!!}

XOXO,