happy love day!

hello new friends!!

 

if you're stopping by from the giveaway happening over at mustache diaries good luck!! i'd love to win a $110 gift card to vickie's today!! if you're a friend that's been around for a while and have no idea what i'm talking about head on over to visit marcy and get entered to win some goods for yourself. but go quick- the giveaway is only live today!!

 

in honor of valentine's day i'm going to share some of my fav pictures of me and the mr from the past year :)

our "we've been married for 6 months" smiles

at a demo derby this summer

at the vikings game for his bday

i swear he has other hats...

date night for my bday

finally printed off our first wedding picture in time for our first anniversary

christmas at his grandparents

 

i love this man so much and i am so blessed to get to call him husband.

forever and ever. amen.

 

love, mrs. k

that one time i went ombre

i tend to jump on the bandwagon for fashion trends. i just jump a little late.

 

not this time! i love the ombre hair look. and i'm not really sure why because i hate it when people's roots are super visable. but there's something about the ombre. it's a littly funky & a little different without making a big committment.

 

so mid december i went to visit my stylist. i showed her a bunch of pinterest pictures (you can check them out here) and asked if she could make my hair look like them. she said "... sure? i'll have to wing it cuz i haven't really done it before tho." normally that would have sent me running for the hills. i love my hair, it's long and healthy and beautiful. no taking chances here. not kidding, 3 summers ago when i cut 8 inches to donate to locks of love i cried. more than once.

 

but something in me said go for it. so we scheduled an appointment (a 4 hour appointment) for a few days later.

 

we had to dye it twice. the first time didn't have the effect we were looking for. ugh...

 

then she curled it up and gave me some sweet 'beach-y' waves. i had to know how to get those waves. it couldn't just be a secret that salons were keeping from me and it couldn't be a difficult as pinterest made it seem. actually pinterest makes it seem easy- actually achieving said look is the hard part.

 

anyway- my stylist told me how to do it. hallelujah chorus!!

 

this is the one sweet little tool that you need:

a cone curling iron! $25 at your local wal*mart. your welcome. for loose beach-y waves you need to take bigger sections of hair and wrap them around the barrel. start at the base where the barrel is biggest and wrap towards the bottom or the skinniest part. then you alternate directions that you wrap so that your curls/waves aren't all going the same way. this takes a little finnesing (sp?) but you get used to it, you have to hold the iron upside down. so for me, being right handed, i hold the red part in my right hand and wrap my hair with my left hand. i usually look like monkey while doing this because i have my arm up over my head. whateves.

and this is what you get:

i usually grab medium sized pieces of hair. my hair has a hard time holding curls so then as the day goes it gets looser & beach-ier.

 

y'all i get so many compliments on this! i've had people ask if i got a perm, i've had people stop and ask my how to do their hair like this, i've had people tell me they aren't fans of the ombre look but that i can really pull it off. i don't know how i feel about that last one.

 

then there are days that i'm to lazy/i like sleeping to much to get up in time to do this to my hair and this is what it looks like:

this is my hair naturally- all i did was put a little volume mousse in and blow dried it. no straightener no nothing. seriously- does not hold a curl well at all.

 



i was worried when i first had it died that i wouldn't be able to wear it straight. i thought i would have to curl it so that you wouldn't be able to see 'the line' between the light and dark. but no worries- there isn't a line! i love it! thanks stylist amanda!!

love, mrs. k



newlywed blog hop

linking up with kelly from today was a fairy tale for her newlywed blog hop!

today's topic:

how the mr proposed.

 

the mr and i started dating on dec. 15, 2007.

on friday february 12, 2010 the mr got down on one knee.

 

kind of...

 

i lived here, in our nothern town then & the mr still lived in hometown, mn. so he came to visit on the weekends. we had decided that we weren't going to do valentine's gifts because we both had spent a little more that we planned on for christmas. he sent me flowers at work. aww...

then when he got to my house this is the conversation we had:

mr: do you want your present now or later?

me: what?! we said we weren't doing gifts!
mr: well i got you something anyway. do you want it now or later?

me: umm... now?

then the mr started to get down on one knee

and i started to cry.

his knee was almost to the floor of my living room when he stood back up and said,

just kidding!! why are you crying?

 

are. you. kidding. me?

did he really just do that?!

 

he thinks he's hilarious.

 

fast foward to friday february 11, 2011.

same situation. me in our northern town, the mr in hometown, mn.

he comes up to visit for the weekend.

i was making spaghetti and getting ready to bake muffins but i was out of eggs. so i called him and asked him to stop & get eggs on his way into town.

he showed up with the eggs & flowers for me.

(this makes it sound like he buys me flowers all the time- he does not.)

he asked if i could take a quick break from cooking and come into the living room because he had something to show me.

this is the conversation that followed:

mr: i love you

me: i love you too

mr: forever

me: oh, that's nice

mr starts to get down on one knee

i stop him

me: if you are not serious this is not funny

mr: no, i'm for real this time

mr: and you're the only girl i'll ever love

pulls out a ring box

mr: sarah, will you marry me?

me: yes!!!!

and i cried again. for real this time.

 

i called my parents and i said "mom, do you want to go wedding dress shopping?" she was so excited. then she put my dad on the phone. he already knew :) the mr had gone to ask him on monday. my dad said that was really my decision but he'd be happy to have the mr in his family. then they had a drink to seal the deal. my mom was so mad that my dad had kept the secret from her.

 

my engagement ring and wedding band.

why is it so hard to get a good picture of those darn things?!

 

here's the post that i wrote about getting engaged right after it happened- bonus! you get to see how cute my mr looked when he propsed :)

 

next week we'll be chatting about my favorite part of wedding planning.

 

love, mrs. k

 

 

 

 

it's everyone's favorite time of week again!!

so what wednesday with shannon!

 

here's what i'm saying so what to this week:

 

*if i always park in the same general area at the grocery store? that way i always know where my car is when i come out :)

 

*if i prefer letterman to leno?

 

*if i try to hit my snooze button when the mr's alarm goes off?

 

*if i like me feet? i think they're cute! even if the mr thinks i have 'chunker toes'...

 

*if i was more excited than some 4 year olds to meet cinderella & snow white?

 

*if i feel like i need to be involved in all conversations that are going on around me? it's bad when i sit in the middle of the table when we're out with a large group of friends.

 

what are you saying so what to this week?

head on over to life after i dew to link up and see what everyone

else is so what-ing this week!

 

love, mrs. k

 

moving!

hi friends-
i'm so so so sorry that i have been a space case lately and haven't been around these parts much. but i've been a little pre-occupied with other things. the main one being that the mr and i are moving!! we are leaving our northern town and heading south. kinda. just two hours :) i've accepted a new youth director position at a church in the fargo/moorhead area. we are super excited about this move. we're excited to be closer to friends and family, we're excited to be in a larger/growing community, we're excited for a new adventure that will be ours together (when i moved here we were just boyfriend girlfriend so it was kind of just my adventure). but we i'm sad too. i'm sad to say goodbye to my first big girl job, and my first grown up house. i hurts my heart and tears spring to my eyes everytime i think about saying goodbye to my kids here. i'm scared that we won't like the new place as much as we think we will. hopefully those are all normal feelings...

a few other things were keeping me busy that i never told you about too!
#1- girls weekend!! i got together with some of my girlfriends from high school in the twin cities. oh- what a good weekend, my soul needed that. it was so nice to laugh with them, share good wine & good food, shop, play our music to loud & dance around, watch magic mike :).
and my friends are beautiful so that helps too:

 

#2- california! every winter, late jan/early feb i get to go to this fun thing called the youth ministry network extravaganza! this year's event just happened to be in anaheim, ca. home of the happiest place on earth :) (the extravaganza and disney did my soul good too!) my friend ashley and i flew from fargo to santa ana on thur jan 24. our flight was delayed by a solid 8 hours because it was to cold to get the plane started. ugh. we eventually made it to cali & the hotel (after almost an hour in an airport super shuttle cab- a litle scary). fri the 25th was disneyland day!!

this is what i wore to disney:

 a set of sparkly minnie mouse ears, a tutu, and micky & minnie bobs :) the man working the ticket gate at disney welcomed us to tutu heaven :)

and this is my friends and i with minnie mouse

yup, 3 tutus. best day ever!! in frontier land they had a man playing the guitar with woody from toy story and he sang us a song, "and a tu tu tu that's six!" disney is hands down the happiest place on earth.

we also went to disney's california adventure on monday night where i got to kiss lightening mcqueen:

ca-chow!!

also while in cali i experienced some firsts:

my first 7-11 slurpee. tasted just like an icee to me. not sure what all the hype is about. we got these on our way to check out the crystal cathedral- i wish we could've gone inside! that place was amazing!

my first meal at an in-n-out burger. it was good & cheap. but still just a burger. nothing to write home about. but, man, that place was busy!! we got these on our way to see chelsea lately. yup, we were in the live studio audience :) and if i'm being honest, i prefer to watch shows on my tv instead of live. you wait in line a long time then you wait in the studio for a long time, then the show isn't very long, then you're done. but i'm glad that i can say i've been to a live taping now.

overall the second half of january was awesome. now i'm trying to find my new sense of reality as i finish things up in this northern town and prepare to move to another one. hopefully i can find the valve that shuts off these water works for a while!

love, mrs. k

 

 



newlywed blog hop

linking up with my girl kelly from today was a fairytale for her newlywed blog hop. sounds like fun!

 

today's topic is: how did you meet your mr?

 

cute (short) version:
we met in high school. back then he was my friend lindsay's older brother. we never really paid much attention to each other but both knew who the other one was. a few years after high school we ran into each other and hit it off.

 

real (long) version:

my mom manages a bar and resturant. it just happens to be the place that mr. k and his buddies like to hang out. i worked for my mom one summer while in college, and served the mr and his buddies drinks all summer. i developed a little crush on him.

then on my 21st bday (nov. 2007, since kelly added all of her dates!) the boys came out to meet my friends (and parents) and i for a drink. we tried to talk them all into bar hopping with us. they were not interested in the least. you see, my birthday happens to be the first week of november which is deer opener here in northern mn (for rifle season, bow season opens earlier).

so, my crew headed out the door and i gave the mr a high five. he kind of grabbed my hand/the high five lasted longer than normal.

two nights later i went out for a drink with my mom and her best friend. i made the owner of the bar that my mom works for give me the mr's phone number and i texted him telling him to come meet us. i know, i'm pretty take charge. he did :)

we hung out a few times in nov/dec. i came home for thanksgiving, we went out for dinner. my college does an awesome christmas concert, he went with me.

then on dec. 15th we were at my mom's bar and we ran into someone that the mr is related to. i don't know how they're related (srsly- he is related to so many people!). and she asked if i was his girlfriend. we both looked at each other kind of weird. and she said, 'uh-oh. you haven't had that conversation yet have you?' so that night when he dropped me off at my parents house he said, 'so, when people ask if you're my girlfriend is it ok if i say yes?' he's cute.

 

we did break up for part of the following semester (spring of my junior year) but we got back together, obvi.

 

come back next week to hear about what he did two years later :)

 

love, mrs. k

So What Wednesday

hi friends! i'm linking up with shannon again for another round of so what wednesday!
here's what i'm saying so what to this week:

 

*if i haven't been around for the past 2 weeks? i feel like this happens to me every so often, i just run out of stuff to talk about, or i get to busy to blog.

 

*if you're only getting a few bullet points this week becasue i just got back into my office and i'm trying to get back on track? more on that tomorrow :)

 

what are you saying so what to this week?

head on over to life after i 'dew' to link up and

see what everyone else is so what-ing!

 

love, mrs. k