Aren't we a little too old for that?

Tattling.

It's a thing small children do.

NOT GROWN ADULTS.

I'm sorry but it's getting a little ridiculous!

I'm not saying names, and I'm not saying where the tattling took place.

Just know that I know who you are.

And it's not working.

You're trying to get me in trouble for something petty and completely out of my control.

You are TWICE my age.

It's immature, stupid, rude, inconsiderate, and just down right mean.

Get over yourself.

Quit worrying about other people.

Get a life.

Life Has Changed

I am a bad person.

I know this.

I haven't posted in almost SEVEN months!

Soooooooooooooooooooooo

much has changed!

I've kept up with all of my favorites

but I've continued to make excuses for why I couldn't post any new blog updates.

Until now.

Since the start of the year I ended things with "Mr. (not so) Wonderful"

He turned out to be a complete jerk.

Not sure what changed except his attitude.

The sunday before Valentine's Day,

God laid it on my heart that I needed him and I needed to get back into church.

So I did.

Right before church let out, I looked to my left and laid eyes on the most beautiful man I had ever seen.

Everything in me was saying "you don't need this right now" but my heart told me "get your butt over there!"

And I'm sure glad I did :)

Since that lovely day we have been inseperable!

He is truly the one God put on this planet for me!

It has been a whirlwind romance to say the least!

On April 29th he got down on one knee and proposed!

Now I know most people think "shot gun wedding!"

But it's not like that at all.

We just felt like it was what God was calling us to do!

So we listened :)

We are now getting married on August 25th and I could not be more excited!

We wanted to wait until next year but we weren't sure when his sister would be in town from Texas

so we decided to go ahead and get married in August when she is going to be here.

Wedding planning is well under way and I have gotten a lot done!

Pictures soon to follow I promise!

Also in these last few months I have made a HUGE career change.

I went from working at the bank to working for the local phone/cable company.

It was a huge blessing to say the least!

I got a very nice pay raise and now I have the opportunity to go back to school!

I love my new job and my new coworkers and I know I'm here for the long haul.

But I do miss my bank  people!

Anyways, as far as my living situation goes,

I had to rid myself of the roommate.

I'm not going to bad mouth anyone here so we will just say it wasn't working out and it's for the best that she is gone.

That lovely man I mentioned earlier?

His name is Josh :)

Well Josh and I are in the works of (hopefully) purchasing our first home!

We have found our dream house with a decent amount of land in a great location.

And the best part?

It's perfectly in our price range!

Now all we need is to make sure the bank will give us the loan for what we need,

and hopefully the owners of the home will negotiate with us on the price so we will have enough to buy appliances!

Please, please, please pray for us!

We desperately need it!

Okay, I really do promise this time to get back to posting regularly.

I will have wedding updates and home buying updates!

And everything in between!

So be prepared!

This Beautiful Life is about to get even more Crazy :)

I AM SO SLACK

I never ever ever have time anymore to update yall on my crazy little thing called life!

I try to at least read all of my favorite bloggies in my spare time but I'm super slack when it comes to writing my own here lately!

So I'm going to do a quick update and I promise come January when life slows down and I get back into the groove of things at my own branch I will write more frequently.

Work is still fantastic. I've been at a different branch helping out for a while.

The house is awesome! Me and Alex are doing great!

My family is doing well. My little brother and sister are finishing up their first semester and stressing out about exams. Other than that everyone is fantastic!

And as far as the love life goes....

D R U M R O L L P L E A S E

Mr. Wonderful turned out to be super wonderful :)

I'm soooooooooooooo happy!

He's beyond all explination

So here's all about him.

We met through a friend who thought it would be good if we met each other.

Smart people :)

He's 24 and he lives in Lexington.

He graduated from Charleston Southern University with a bacherlors in Criminal Justice.

He has been in the Army for seven years

He also work for Lexington County Sheriff Department.

He's SUCH a sweetheart and a cutie pie too :)

We spend literally all of our free time on the phone or on skype.

And he constantly makes trips to see me or vice versa whenever we can!

I'm pretty excited about him so I'll keep yall posted !

S L A C K

Wowwwwww I have been so super slack lately!

Sorry about the NON updates on here!

Anyways, down to business.

First and foremost....

 HOW ABOUT THOSE CHAMPIONS :)

ohhhhhhhhhhh yeah.

Clemson dominated Virginia Tech

This past weekend

38-10

WHAT I'VE BEEN UP TO:

Annnnnnyways,

Since we came back from Hilton Head

Alex and I have been super busy around the house and with other things.

She now has a new man in her life and I am so freakin ecstatic for her!

He's such a sweet guy and he's so good to her!

They've been spending so much time together but it's great!

I have been super busy seeing as how I just recently got a new gym membership

at Omni Health And Fitness

IT'S FANTASTIC

Let me just tell you.

The new owner was so helpful working with me to figure out exactly what I needed.

And the trainers are wonderful!

They broke down the basics of excersize and fat and why you need lean muscle

and the importance of strength training and yadda yadda yadda.

It made so much sense to me!

And it motivated me even more.

They even showed me how to correctly do different excersizes and ways to mix it up and do "muscle confusion"

But I'm only meeting with them once a month.

My friend J who you all may remember from this post

and I meet once a week.

And let me just tell you home girl kicks my little booty!

WORK LIFE:

Work has been somewhat different here lately

I temporarily moved over to a branch on the other side of town to help out due to them

being short handed until January.

It's been fine but "There's no place like home"

I miss my home branch!

I love my little ladies I work with and I definitely miss my customers!

Plus all the officers that come in everyday!

Buuuuuuut we wound up getting some extra help over at the other branch

and my home branch had a short in workers so they sent me back home for two days!

OH MY WORD

It feels so good to be back!

And not to mention how happy my coworkers were to have me back.. they missed me :)

And my customers missed me too!

It always makes you feel good for your customers faces to light up when they see  you!

LOVE LIFE:

Well ladies, let's just say love life is getting better :)

(for those that have followed along)

"Guy I'm interested in"

is no longer so interesting.

Nothing happened really we just kind of faded off and realized we're better off friends.

Well it's been a few weeks now since this happened and I haven't really been looking.

And that's when "Mr. hopefully Wonderful" happened :)

I don't want to post names or any background info just yet because I want to see where it goes

But girls, he took me out on a date to one of my favorite restaurants

and I literally have never connected so much with someone I just met!

He lives a little over an hour away from me so we can only spend time together on the weekends he has off

But we've been on the phone for hours every night and on skype every night before we go to bed.

So far so good :)

And we're hanging out ALL DAY

this saturday!

I'll keep yall updated on how this goes... but keep your fingers crossed!

HOME LIFE

Home life has been fantastic!

I seriously could not ask for a better roommate!

She's wonderful and she puts up with me and my OCD which is terrific!

We have a blast together.

Her mom is in town this week

(love that woman)

And she is helping us decorate for Christmas which I love!

She bought our Christmas tree for us!

It was adorable!

We all went together like a little family

Alex, Madre, D (her bf) and me.

to the Farmer's Market and got our little 7 ft. tree.

LOVE IT

We're going to finish decorating everything tonight when I get home from the gym :)

I'll definitely post pictures later!

I think that's all for the updates for now.

I'll post more later if I think of any.

Happy Hump Day Pretties :)

"Happy Girls Are The Prettiest Girls"

Just a somewhat quick update :)

via Stilettos And A Fishing Pole

 

Date: November 9, 2011

My Initials: KES

Age: 21

Size: Medium/Average lol

 

Friday Nights: Cooking with the roomie and lots of lovely friends over :)

 

Hair Style: Medium (yay!!) and blonde!

Favorite place to dine out: Chilis (haha) or Nishie G's

Favorite Outfit: Skinny jeans, heels, and a super cute top :)

Love Life: Non existent as of right now lol. But I'm perfectly okay with it. I've made the decision that dating just to be dating is not what I want. I don't want a relationship unless its someone I can be serious with. Been on a few dates here and there but nothing serious....yet :)

Home Life: It's really great! Finally moved into my own place about two weeks ago with my absolute best friend. We've been super close since 7th grade and we've always talked about moving in together one day. I'm so glad we finally did it! I love our little house :) It definitely suits us. 

TV shows: Weirdly enough I'm loving DWTS haha. Other than that I don't really watch too much tv.

Extra time: Lately I've been spending most of my extra time organizing the new house and getting settled in. We've been having some friends over too so that's been great :)

What excites me: What's exciting right now is the fact that it's fall! I'm also loving the football season :) I'm really enjoying the fact that I'm learning how to cook! I'm really loving it :). I'm pretty excited about the holiday season coming up especially since I've got my own place to decorate! I'm excited that my church is getting a new Music Minister and apparently he's absolutely amazing! Now, I LOVE to sing. And I've always felt called to sing in the choir at church. But I wanted to wait until I found "the one". The church is go to is definitely where God wants me right now so who knows, maybe with this new Music Minister the choir thing will work out too! I'm also so happy that I can finally get back involved with the youth at my church. I quit helping for a little while just because I was gonig through some stuff. But the other sunday the new leader walked up to me and asked for my help. And it just felt like that was God's way of saying "GO BACK".

 A moment I never want to forget: The day I sat in Alex's living room and signed my lease :) I cannot imagine the overwhelming joy I felt when It hit me that I had my OWN place! A place that I made the rules. I was responsible for. I paid for. I've worked my whole life to get to this point. I finally have everything I want :) This year I became completely independent of my parents and became a full fledged adult and you cannot even believe how proud that makes me of myself! I'll never forget that moment that I signed that dotted line :)

Twenty Somethings

So lately I've been having the "twenty something blues"
Ever heard of them?

It's that akward stage in your life where you and all of your friends seem to be on completely different pages.
Some are in college, others joing the workforce. Some move away. Some run off to get married and others have babies. Some join the military and others stay stagnant.

It's just a weird age. But it's supposed to be some of the most fun of your life. You learn so much and experience so much during these years. You completely change.

During your twenties, the moment you enter them, you're entire life changes.
Now some may not see it to be that drastic, but I DEFINITELY did.
The moment I turned 20, I could feel myself change. I just thought differently and saw things differently.
I shifted from being a carefree kid/teen and into what would become adulthood. I realized I could no longer just float through life, I had to do something. I had to become something and make someone of myself. I couldn't rely on my parents anymore to make my choices. I had to be a "big girl". From that moment on, I set goals for myself. I decided what I wanted, short term at least, and I did what it took to get there. And once I reached a goal, I formed another one.

Then all of a sudden, life shifted again. My mind set towards people changed too. All of the friends I had who were older than me, that I couldn't relate to, I suddenly found common ground with. And all of my younger friends I ended up drifting from a little bit. My lifestyle changed. I went from conversations about what was going on friday night and who dated who, to suddenly talking about furniture, work, and recipes.
Instead of going out all the time to parties, I have vino and movie nights, and go out to dinner. I don't stay up until odd hours of the morning and sleep all day. I have a BEDTIME. I haven't had one of those since I was a kid!

The more time goes on, the more life shifts around. More and more of my friends are getting engaged and married. Some are on the verge of having kids. Others are buying houses and moving out on their own. Many of my guy friends went off to the military. We're making the shift from restaurants and clothing stores, and moving into the corporate world. Real jobs. Bills are due. It's craziness.

Now I know I haven't been a "20 something" for very long but I feel like It's hitting me full swing. It's the transition years of my life. It's scary and exciting at the same time. I know the deeper I get into it the more it's going to change. And I'm ready for it. I'm ready to see what life has to throw at me. I somewhat have the "peter pan" syndrome because growing up is scary. The carefree life I was living before, where the hardest thing to deal with were the tests on fridays, the most drama I had was my high school bf showed up to the pep rally with another girl, and my parents paid all my bills, is gone. But this new "adult" thing is going to be a grand adventure.