High five for FRIDAY!!

Linking up with Lauren from my grey desk blog for HIGH FIVE FOR FRIDAY!!


1. For Valentine's day my hubby bought us tickets to see Wicked!! It is my all time favorite musical and I'm always listening to the soundtrack!!

2. Jon made mickey mouse pancakes for breakfast last Sunday! :) He is so talented :)

3. Went to Happy Hour with some new friends from work.

4. Made some yummy Red Velvet cupcakes for Valentine's Day!

5. I have been at my job for a month and one week and I feel so blessed! I love what I do!!

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I hope everyone had a great week! Thanks for stopping by! :)
Kristen

Day of L.O.V.E.

Happy Valentine's Day Friends! 

I hope you all have a great day and it is full of LOVE :) 

I did a little DIY craft this year I found on pinterest (of course) ! The tree is made up of  lyrics from the song Jon chose for our first dance at our wedding, "Someone like you" by Van Morrison. I'm working on a gallery wall in our hallway of wedding pictures, honeymoon pictures and some of our engagement pictures and I think this will be a perfect addition. 

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 Frame: 60% 8x10 from Joann Fabrics (there was nothing wrong with it!!)

Scrapbook paper (already had)

Red /White bakers twine (already had)

I LOVE IT!! :)

Did you make a valentine's day craft?

And guess what??!! Jon got us tickets to see my favorite musical, WICKED!! He hasn't seen it yet, but he is in for a real treat!! He pretty much knows all the songs already because I'm always listening to it when I get ready in the morning. Is it April 23rd yet?!

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Working Girl

Whew! What a busy month! Some of you may know I started my job January 7th and I love it! I am not taking anything for granted after the year I have had and I feel truly blessed where God has lead me. I believe this job was waiting for me!

4:30AM sure does come early! The adjustment hasn't been too bad, well considering I'm in bed by 8:30 and the two cups of coffee in the morning aren't a bad idea. I catch the train at 6AM to get to work by 7:15 and I'm off at 4, but it takes me about an hour and a half to get home. I am known to fall asleep on the train. Yep, I am that girl whose head is bobbing up and down.

Now I need to figure out how to fit working out, cooking dinner and continue doing the things I love with this new schedule! How do people do it, especially those with kids?! It might take some time to get used to, but I couldn't be happier!

As you can see I have taken a break from blogging, but it's because I feel as if my life has taken a turn since I first started. I started blogging in hopes of finding some inspirational bloggers and I have surly succeeded and also to provide me an outlet as I was going through a really tough time this past year. You can read more about it here if you are new to my blog. :) I will continue to share my thrifty finds, recipes, inspirational quotes and some exciting adventures, but I may not get to blog every day like I would hope to do. I have missed many of the wonderful girls I have met through this blogging journey and I appreciate all the emails and texts I have received from my new friends. I can't wait to see what God has in store for me!

Hope y'all have a wonderful week!

 

Let's Help Motivate Each Other

OK, so I have slacked off quit a bit the last several months as far as eating healthy and working out and the end result has led to not sleeping well and simply not feeling good. One of my goals for 2013 is to eat more healthy including eating out less, taking cokes completely out of my diet and working out! Sounds simple right?!

Eating healthy is not hard since my husband is such a clean eater, it's working out that gets me and the snacking between meals. You know, the processed yummy goodness of chips?!  I know, it is as simple as "do not buy it"!! Now I'm buying more raw fruits and vegetables and nuts for my snacking moments. One of my favorite snacks is apple with a little peanut butter. :) As far as working out goes, I start out doing really good the first 2 or 3 months! I then start to dwindle down and before you know it, I am not a regular at the gym anymore!!

Within the last few months I have started following some inspirational women on Instagram whom have changed their life completely by eating right and working out! They post great workout circuits and pictures of their meals which has helped me get more ideas for lunch and dinner. They also share their personal journey by posting before and after pictures of themselves. That takes a lot of courage! They are all beautiful women and I love some of the inspirational quotes many of them share in addition to the other pictures.

Some of you may know Amanda from For Love of a Cupcake. I follow her on Instagram (forloveofacupcake) and she has started a challenge of eating clean for 30 days. That is the whole month of January!! To log your progress, you are to take pictures of your meals and use #forloveofacupcakejan   I think it's great motivation knowing people are doing it with you!!

I started today so here are pictures I took of breakfast and lunch...

Follow me if you would like to join in on the fun and start motivating each other!! Follow @kris10_favoritethingsblog  

You will find Amanda on my instagram account and the other girls who have inspired me!

I will also continue to log my journey on my blog as far as what I'm doing to get in shape and what I'm cooking. :) If you have any helpful tips, please share them with me!!

Hope you have a wonderful day!!

Kristen :)

It's InstaTuesday!!

 I have been a little MIA lately and I have missed participating in one of my favorite linkups!! This is what I have been up to lately through pictures!! You can find me at Kris10_favoritethingsblog on instagram if you would like to follow along!

The weather has been beautiful here in Texas! We were all just hanging out on the back patio!

Every Sunday for the last month and a half we have gone to McDonald's around 530 AM to have breakfast together before he goes into work for a few hours before church! I love their apple cinnamon oatmeal!

Making Thanksgiving centerpieces! 

Jon and I on Thanksgiving!

My sister in law, Caity!! We were totally wearing the same shirt!!

My family and I went to Dickens of a Christmas in Downtown McKinney!

It's beginning to look like Christmas at the McKee's!!

Went to see the Radio City Rocketts with Jon's family!!

The beautiful sunrise on the way to Canton with my mother in law and sister in law and the day I found out I passed my exam!!

Blog post from Monday! It was an exciting one to write!

This picture is going on our Christmas Card this year!!

My interview outfit yesterday!!

Hope everyone has a great day!! -Kristen

InstaTuesday! {Better late than never}

Sorry for the late post. It has been crazy around here and I'm counting down the days til Friday! I believe things will be better around here after that! Hope everyone is having a good week! :)

On my way to church to sing with the praise team!

I love trolly rides and seeing them go through our neighborhood, but I seem to always get stuck behind it when I am in a hurry :/

My Fall Mantel! I can't wait to start decorating for Christmas! You can see a better picture of it at The Fall Mantel reveal!

First red cup of the season! Enjoying a Soy PSL :)

I love the voice!! Who are you voting for and what was he wearing??

Ummm yes! This spider was in our bed!!!!!!

I hate folding socks....so I just leave them for Jon :)

Found the kitchen towel and spoon rest at Kroger! I just couldn't pass them up!!

Alright! That is all the pictures I have from this past week!! :) If you aren't following me on Instagram you can find me at Kris10_favoritethings

InstaTuesday with Jane!

Happy Tuesday! Hope everyone is having a great week! I'm liking up with Jane at Taingamala 
for....

 If you missed my Thrifty Treasures post, you should check it out to see what treasures I have found for our bedroom.

Jon brought home flowers for me!! :)

Don't you HATE it when this happens!? I love this palate but I don't want to buy another one for just the one color.

What do you think about our new flower bed in the backyard?! Come spring we are hoping to plant some peppers, tomatoes and maybe some peas :)

Made this yummy treat the other night! Perfect for a little salty and sweet evening snack!

These are all the pics I had from this last week! It's your turn to link up with Jane and share what you captured this week! 

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InstaTuesday

I hope everyone has had a great start to the week!! Here are a few things that have gone on in the past week through my instagram pictures!! Follow me if you aren't already!!

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 Jon and I went to Starbucks on the way to Wednesday night bible study! Can you guess what I got? ;)

After going to dinner with my in laws and Jon's grandfather on Friday night we decided to head over to his parents house where I enjoyed a nice glass of wine on the back patio as the sun was going down.

This reading from New Day New You by Joyce Meyer really touched me! I even wrote a post about it called Thought of the day: Confident Heart. 

 Jon and I went on the Ghost Tour. Honestly, it was ok, but not what I had expected after hearing about other tours. We made up for it though going to Denny's for a late dinner :)

We went to the local candy store downtown! Mmmm I love me some runts, sprees, and sour cherries!!

Yay! Now go link up with Jane and share your pics from instagram! :)

Thrifty Treasures

Happy Thursday everyone! Hope ya'll are making some plans for the weekend!! We are going on a ghost walk here in town and I'm so excited! Have you ever been on one before?

This will be my second Thrifty Treasure post! You can find the first one here where I post all of my treasures for our coffee/tea bar! Anyway, if you follow me on Instagram I have already shared this picture :)

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 I found this giant key for our home office at Goodwill here in McKinney. Before I spay painted it black it was more of a dark grey, but someone had written on it and I didn't want that hanging up.

The Revamped Lamp you see in the picture is also a Goodwill find! The crazy thing is, I found the same exact lamp at another Goodwill and it's waiting for a face lift too! I will now have matching lamps in the office!

Hope ya'll are having a great day!!
-Kris

InstaTuesday

I almost forgot!!!! It's InstagTuesday!!! Oh well, I have two posts today then! You can read about My Green Thumb.

Here are some pictures from the past week!!

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 I really need to learn how to put my pictures in a grid format so you don't have to keep scrolling! I'm on it and hopefully I can do it next week :)