Merry Christmas

Wow! It has been such a fun Holiday Season so far! I've got to talk Austin into getting a "real" tree, which has been awesome (and it hasn't died yet either!) It's been so much fun to Christmas shop this year, and I think it all has to do with us having our first Christmas together in our own place which is fun too. Christmas is just a fun time of year. Tomorrow we're going to see David Archuletta Christmas concert and that will be awesome, yay! (Thanks Grandma for the tickets) Austin's the best, I love him tons!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wow, I surely am good at updating the blog...but were just married with no kids..so who really wants to hear about that..but if you do, here you go :) Thanksgiving was yesterday and we spent it with Austin's family and cousins, wayyyyyy fun! Then tonight we had a dinner and birthday party for my Grandma, at my dad's house (we found out after driving all the way to my grandma's house first, better read my texts more thoroughly next time). Good times!!

Ok, I have been mean and ungrateful so it's time I write some things I am grateful for: Mom and Dad, so much, they are amazing; Austin and how he loves me; Austin and his goodness; Austin and his logic; Austin and how he deals with money; Austin and how he makes me laugh; my family and brothers and sisters including my amazing in-laws that my brother and sister married, and that I married into, they've made me feel like such a part of their family and I am so grateful for that; my amazing friends and that I got to see Haley and Candice (who live far away) just in the last week; my friends that I've made in middle school and I'm still best friends with, well of my friends; my cute apartment that we found; my job it's perfect right now; the fact that I haven't killed my husband with my cooking yet, and the fact that I am learning to cook; that I did Acclamation (believe me, I wanted to quit a lot of times) so I could meet Austin; that my car still works; that I got to meet Jeffrey R. Holland today and shake hands with him and get a picture. He was so friendly and soooo nice; I am grateful for divine positioning; sooooo grateful I went on a mission and met the people I did, they are some of my best friends that I hold dear to my heart; the fact that Heavenly Father looks out for me; for the gospel and tender mercies of my wonderful savior; and so on and so on.

Sometimes I just forget to be grateful, yet there are more blessings than I can really count. I love Austin and am so grateful for my family. I am grateful for the atonement too. Since it's been over a year and half since I've written in a journal, I knew the most likely way for me to really get this out of my mind would actually be to type instead of write it. Thanks for reading if you're still reading. I am happy I could at least for a moment see the tender mercies and blessings that we are so overwhelmed with. Have a good night Krissi! I usually sign off to myself in a journal too.

Lovin'

I have learned a few things in this 10 months of marriage.....As long as you give your husband a lot of 1. food 2.sex and 3. compliments, they are pretty much the happiest people on earth, and willing to help out :) The end.

Hey there

So my friend Katie gave me this great Idea for my video editing. She said I should film short events and put it to a song. Like a mom playing with her kids, etc. I have kind-of had that idea for a long time, but never really put it to use, so I am going to now, and it will be lots of fun. I started a new blog www.capturenowvideography.blogspot.com to show little videos of what I'll make. I am really excited to hopefully do a couple of these a month. Also I thought I am going to start adding in an "engagement shoot" of couples so at reception the slide shows that people have been doing for years now can be a little bit spicier, by having a cute video of their engagements as well. I can't wait to get it going. I am looking for web templates right now for my video website www.motionpointevideography.com as well. I have a lot of work to do, but it's fun. I really like the family event idea, just because I think it means a lot to people. Anyway, better jet. Life is good. I have a wonderful husband, who makes me feel so happy.

Home Again

Some people asked if it felt good to be home, and to tell you the truth...Nope, I still wanted to be on vacation. That's cool though. Austin and I went back to his mission and it was awesome. I had a great time getting to know the people he worked with, and seeing some awesome shows in Branson. We came home to work, a wedding video, and plastered with new videos to edit for Utah.com. I like being busy, and I am so in love with Austin I can hardly stand it....To think I got so lucky to feel so in love just makes me so happy. Courtney's reception is coming up next month, so she's planning all that. It will be fun and a lot of work is coming our way. I just want to play, I hate sitting here at work when it's so wonderful and sunny outside, it's ridiculous, but I can't wait to go boating, or hiking, or biking or something! Jake and Nicole just went to Costa Rica and had an AMAZING trip it sounds like, we'll have to go sometime in the future. Right now we're just trying to recover from the wonderful last week of vacation. Oh I love summer I can hardly stand it. Yay!! Bye now!

Teaching Spanish

So this week we are going back to Austin's mission in Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. He is really happy to go back, and I am happy for him. I got to thinking it would be so fun to go back to Honduras with him too, and so I started teaching him phrases like "Que es?" (What is?) "Sabes que es" (Do you know what that is?) "Tengo Frio" I am cold....and other phrases that would probably be inappropriate to write on a public blog, hahha!!

Lost

What is it with Lost that you can't stop watching no matter how much you want to go to bed. Ok, I take it back, it makes you not want to go to bed. Such an addicting show, that's quite entertaining as well. I'm a fan. That's what Austin and I have been doing the last little bit, and it's been fun!

I am looking for some really yummy recipes. Please email them to me at krissicook@gmail.com

Thanks so much!

Love, Me

Oh no, I can already see this becoming addicting...not good, not good.

Hi, today we were going to go to the canyon and roast something. Weather is bad now, so we'll probably just stay home, and cook something...We are Cooks ya know. Anyway, I am just learning how to put up cool things....yay, do people really read just married people's blogs though? Isn't it a once you have a kid thing? I am told otherwise. Anywho, off to work I go again...Today's been an interesting day....It's weird how life is up and down, how you can be so confident about work and yourself, and the moment that one little stress comes in it seems like all the hard work just isn't worth it....Computer equipment is just too expensive...oh well, it will all be fine...I'm afraid if I start a blog all my feelings will come out...Maybe I should just write in a journal....haha. As said before, oh well. I'm off for the day.

So I really don't know what to say on a blog other than we are almost done with finals and can't wait. I Krissi will be graduating on Friday, and it is so exciting. I applied for an ultrasound technician program and that would be another two years of school, so a couple of days ago when I found out I didn't make the program it was bittersweet. I think it was a lot more sweet though. I am DONE with school, FINALLY!! I should have been a doctor by now. Austin has a couple years and is going into audio and sound recording which he'll do fabulous, because he has a really good ear, and loves that type of stuff. Summer will be exciting, Winter was so great too. We are almost 8 months married. Our new apt. is still not decorated fully, and probably never will be.....oh well. I'm queen of starting projects, and also queen of not finishing them. Courtney just got a scooter and we wish we had one too. I guess that's all for now folks, and I should say folk since Kateka is the only person who has my blog address at the moment. Haha. Bye Bye for now.

Cookin It Up

Hi. We are the Cooks.

And this is about as much blogging as we've ever done.