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!