Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Sorry it's been a while since we have posted anything on here but its been kinda crazy! We have to get internet access whenever we can. Well our first Christmas in the apartment was pretty good. We got us a Christmas tree and a Wii for Christmas. We also went over to our friend's house for Christmas eve and that was fun...we were there until almost midnight.
On Christmas day we went down to Brandon's family down close to Topsail Beach and that was fun too. We ate way too much but it was worth it!
We also made a decision. Our original wedding date was set for June 18 2011. Well we have been debating whether to move it up to be sooner or not. The reason why is because we orginally wanted it to be in 2011 was that way I would be out of school before we got married...well since I won't be out by then anymore we wanted to move it closer. So we wanted to move it to June 2010. Now we are moving it to our official date...September 25, 2010.
This is a good date we feel because it gives us plenty of time to plan. We don't want anything big and extravagant just us and a couple of bridesmaids and groomsmen and a small inexpensive reception. So there its official September 25, 2010...SAVE THE DATE~~~~!

It's November!

It's been a while since I last updated this blog...sorry. I haven't had time and neither has Brandon to be honest. We have had a busy past month or so.
Brandon and I were out helping out on a family friend's farm called Lazy-O-Farm which is an educational farm where kids get to learn all about the animals and pick a pumpkin out of the pumpkin patch, and go in a maze. They always seem to have a blast. We had fun but now that their busy season is over with there isn't much need for too much help out there.
During the process of working on the farm Brandon was job hunting and......HE FOUND A JOB!!! So he is no longer unemployed...yay!!!! As for me, I am still in classes and I am still unemployed....oh well.
I also had the chance in mid October to go wedding dress looking with my little, bethany. I found the perfect dress but I still have a year and 7 months or so before the wedding at least as far as I know right now so hopefully I will find one that I love just as much in this time. Right now we still are not able to save any money for a wedding but we will...I have faith.....you got to right?

As soon as I get new pics of me and Brandon I will be sure to post them but for now I must say bye because I need to go to class.

It's almost been a year...~Still loving it~

So let me say that this whole month has been crazy! Moving back from working down at Caswell, moving into a new apartment, starting a new college, and trying to stay sane....that's a job in it's self. But anyways I bet you all are wondering what my title for this blog is all about. Well today is September 18,2009.....in ten days it will be September 28, 2009 that means that it has been a year since me and Brandon became official. That doesn't really seem like a big deal to a lot of people but it is to us.
It's weird to think that just over a year ago was the first date that I went on with Brandon bowling. And I am not going to lie I wasn't really sure at that point if anything was really going to happen between us but it did. I can't imagine life without him in it now which I still can't believe. And knowing that in a year and 8 months or so we will be getting married...of all things.Who would have ever thought that? certainly not me.lol.
But anyways this has been a good year with many more to come. We are still in the process of organizing and moving stuff into the apartment but its still really nice to be able to kick back in our own place whether its messy or not or sparsely furnished but hey what more do I need I got my man to keep me laughing...which believe me he does.
It's been a year...wow!!!

Ours!

So I have been meaning to update this for a while now but now I finally got around to it. I am finally home and spending every moment that I possibly can with the most amazing man in the world. It's about time!
When I got back in town the thursday after Brandon picked me up from Caswell we moved into our apartment.....that's right our apartment. Just the two of us. We have been there for 2.5 weeks now and we love every minute of it. Given we barely have anything unpacked because we don't have my dressers for clothes or anything yet but hey who cares. We have our own place...finally.
We live in the same county as we did before because I have to go to school at the community college but we get to start making our place our home. Some people think that we should get married before we move in together but we are doing things our way and we know that in the end our lives will be better for it.

"Home is where the heart is"

Only 2.5 days until I am homeward bound!!!

Okay so I said in my last blog that the countdown has started and I meant it. I haven't been able to stop thinking about going home. It feels the like the closer I get to going home the further it seems to be.
As much as I love being here working at Caswell and serving God I am ready to be home with my wonderful fiance and back in the real world where I actually have to make my choices of where I need to go and what I need to do instead of having the luxury of having everything planned out in segments like it is while I am in what is lovingly called "the Caswell Bubble".
Me and Brandon are ready to be where we can see each other more than once in a blue moon. That will be a really good thing. We both know about the tension that happens when we are talking on the phone because we know the other person is missing them terribly and all they really want to do is hug them. I know that is how I feel about being away from Brandon and I am pretty sure that is the way he feels about me. However don't take my word for it...afterall we are getting married in less than two years so I think it is safe to say that neither one of us can imagine life without the other anymore.
So yes I am on countdown mode so that it can be me and brandon again facing the world with no regrets and anxious to start our lives together. This is going to be good.

Countdown Mode!!! Coming home!!!

So I find myself counting down the days now until I get to be home with Brandon and friends.....gosh it gives me butterflies! I realize that I have only been away for like 2.5 months but 2.5 months is a really really really long time when you actually have a reason to be at home. Don't get me wrong last summer I worked down here at the same place and it was amazing and I was a little homesick but not this much.
I guess that's when you know you are really and truely in love with someone is when you can't stand being away from them. My focus this summer has been on God and the camps theme this year was iLove talking about loving God and people. This has only made me see how precious a relationship is and that you should always cherish it as long as its there. That't why I am on countdown not including today I have 9.5 days until I get to be back home. And I love that it is getting closer and closer.

God didn't bring us this far just to let us down..

SO its me (Krysti) again. I just thought that I would make an entry because it has been a while and we haven't had very much time to think nevertheless sit and type what we are thinking. So me and Brandon have now been without actually having anymore than a couple of hours to see each other for about a month and half and it is really hard. We have had wuite a few break downs over the phone because of this. I think that this is very funny because neither of us ever pictured ourselves ever being this way over anybody which I just think shows us that you will never know how you will feel until you are in that situation. I remember I use to mae fun of people who were always mushy about there boyfriend and such however I am now understanding it more and more everyday.
We have kinda hit one of life's pot holes though. After Five and a half years working with one company Brandon got layed off about 1.5 weeks ago or so. This has been very stressful as those of you have faced this sort of thing know because he isn't sure when he is going to find another job. The good news is though is that he has had a couple of possibilities and today he is actually going to interview for a job. So keep him in your prayers as he tries to find another job as the rest of the nation is trying to find jobs too.
Although this has been a difficult time and it seems that we always go through something after another we always have to keep telling ourselves that God didn't bring us this far to dissapoint us now.

Brandon Gets to Say Something!

Hi everybody! This is the other half of the inseparable duo who has been separated for the past 2 weeks. To anybody who does not know much about me, I am ... At best, I can say that I am many things. I am a machinist by trade, (for those of you underendowed, I work with metal and I form it and cut it and make parts and parts for machines that make parts to make the world go 'round) a amateur radio operator for fun (long live HAM RADIO!), an RC car enthusiast, a carer, a philanthropist, a missionary, a THINKER, an OBSERVER, a LOVER. Just to stop myself for a moment, I also need to say that I have acute ADD and like to ramble off into tangent or tranquil subjects at any moment. You've been warned! I am many things, but to one person, I guess I am her everything else that God is not in her physical life. I don't know how my Pookaru (my nickname for Krysti) can feel that way, but she does. It's all so weird how we met and became friends. It seems to be the one thing that everyone asks us and we always seem to look at each other with that "oh no, here we go again" look as we are embarassed to tell people how we met through our friends, but we really met online! Yes, we both spent some time on dating sites looking for that one person in our life that we needed. But we can both attest to one thing: it does not make a difference how two people meet when God is the driving force. So we chatted a little online. At the time, I wasn't so sure about Krysti and I actually went out on a date with somebody else who was closer and the timing for a relationship really wasn't right for me at the time. The seeds for a friendship were planted though. Time went by and through weird circumstances, our best friends started dating and we met each other for the first time at a Christmas cantata at her best friend's church. More time went by for the both of us but Krysti was always persistent to keep in contact with me through e-mails and one day I finally asked her out. Well, if you ask her, she'll probably tell you something different, but I asked her to go bowling, and she said yes. After we set up a time to go, storms came through and our first date got delayed for 2 weekends and I felt awful, feeling that Krysti might think that I was giving her a cold shoulder. We went bowling on a Friday night, September 12, 2008. She wore her "good butt" jeans and I bowled. I'm a good bowler. I have a plaque that says I bowled a 275! Anyways, we had fun getting to know each other and the bowling ended with a freshly refilled mountain dew falling out of my hands as we walked out of the alley. HAHA. LOL ROFL CAT! We ended our first date with me being introduced to just about all the sisters of the Kappa Zeta chapter of the Phi Mu sorority. To top it all off, as I left to go to my truck, I extended my hand offering a handshake when she wanted a hug! Can you believe that she fell in love with me?!? Well, what can we say? She is my first and only girlfriend, and I am her first and only boyfriend. We both waited over 20 years to meet each other, and things are working out. I've rambled on for quite too long, but I will be posting more memories of Krysti and me as I get the time!

"A happy man marries the woman he loves. A happier man loves the woman he marries."

Life Goes On

So there has been many things that have happened in my life and plenty that have happened to Brandon as well.  This past couple of days have been a trial because I found out that a girl who I have known for a while  just passed away on June 30th from her long battle with Cystic Fibrosis.  In a way its good that she is no longer having to battle to just Breathe every second of every day but its sad because I don't know if anybody can ever be prepared for the loss of somebody they know.  And then Today is July 2nd and it would be my mom's birthday today if she had not passed away in 2005.  She would have been 59 today...I know some of you are thinking she is too old to be my mom but she is.  This is stupid but here are the lyrics to the first song she taught all of us when we were little:  It's such a pretty world today. Look at the sun shine.  Today and every day since I met you.  It's such a pretty world today knowing that your mine and happiness is being close to you and though the rain may fall the sky will all be blue if you look close enough the sun will coming shining through.  Its such a pretty world today knowing that your mine today and every day since I met you.   

I love this song.  It reminds me of my mom and all those who I love and tells me that no matter what happens there will always be a reason to smile.

I love you Brandon Seals!

So this is Life.

So yeah this is Krysti updating this because somehow I think brandon forgets about this...lol. Okay sothis is life....I am working 2.5 hrs away from where Brandon is so it stinks a little. He has been able to come down the past few weekends however we are going to miss this one....which this weekend makes 9 months that we have been together....and I must say they have beensome of the best months of my life so far...I love him so much it amazes that somebody can be everything that you wanted and yet everything you never knew that you wanted and that is exactly what Brandon is to me. Other than God he is my rock. He is one thing that I know I can keep and will never leave or do anything hurtful to me. Isn't that so awesome to have sombody like that? I never ever thought that I would have that but I am glad that I have found it.
So now back to life....I work down at Fort Caswell in Oak Island, NC. It is a Jesus Camp...lol. I love it. However I do miss Brandon..so babe if you read this you know its the truth. This job amazes me however I can't wait to be home where I can see him more often.


"I can do all things through Christ who strenghens me."

Our First Blog....a little background.

Well let's just start this blog off by saying that I am absolutely thrilled that me and Brandon are going to be blogging about our lives together starting now before we even get married. I just think that this will be a great way to keep people updated with what is going on in our lives since we don't see a lot of people on a regular basis...plus this is a good way to keep people involved with our wedding up to date on the details that way everybody can stay organized because I know that it can get crazy....lol.

Me and Brandon have been together for 8 months as of May 28. We have been engaged since New Year's Eve. So yes....we dated for only 3 months before we got engaged....hey when you know their the one why wait. The proposal was kinda funny. A few days prior to New Year's we had made plans with our friend's Heather and Justin ( who also are engaged to each other) to go over to Justin's house to ring in the New Year together. Then just a couple of days before New Year's Brandon texted me and said "I can't wait to see you Wednesday"....I told him I couldn't wait either and then he said there was something that he needed to tell me. Being the curious person I can be I tried to pry out of him what it was and he just proceeded to tell me that it needed to wait until wednesday. Eventually I was able to pry a couple of clues out of him....they came in texts..."always and forever...I guess you'll have to figure that out before wednesday"....and "it will make you go OMG". I kinda thought that it might be a proposal but I didn't think so because I mean after all we had been dating for three months. New Years comes around and I had asked a couple of friends what they thought his clues meant and they all concluded what I thought too. The four of us just hang out and watch Supernatural until he finally decides that we need to talk....keep in mind he kept pushing back the time that he was going to talk to me...he said I was bugging him about it too much...lol. It was 11:30 pm and he decides to take me downstairs into Justin's room to talk to me in private....(btw he is sweating bullets by now and his heart was beating so fast I think that I could almost see it beating out of his chest). He continued to stall for like 15 minutes and then he sit next to me and he started to say "you know I love you right?" and of course I say yeah and he then was like that was what I wanted to tell you....then he kinda just stared at me and started talking again " What would you say...." then Justin came in to see what was going on and Brandon signals to him to get out of his own room...lol. Justin leaves and Brandon says "What would you say if I were to ask you to marry me?" I just kind of looked at him with a weird grin and said " Ummm....are you asking me?" then of course he says yes but see he just kinda starts nodding his head and going uh huh.....he was tearing up....and I just looked at him and said " Yes!" and then I grabbed him and hugged him. After that we proceeded upstairs where we left Heather and Justin and I snuck down on the floor where Heather was and whispered.." Looks like we both are going into 2009 engaged!".