Ready or not....

So about a month after we were married some weird things started happening.

I got sick at the smell of these... and anything fried for that matter...

I couldn't get enough of these little guys....

And especially LOVED these.... Rootbeer is my FAVORITE flavor!

 The most annoying thing that started happening though was nothing being able to find my car in the parking lot. It's like I can't remember anything anymore.

I also started get VERY sleepy and taking lots of naps and going to bed early.

SOOo.....

We bought one of these...

And it said PREGNANT! 
(I tried to upload the picture for an hour and then gave up)

So we have been waiting, waiting, waiting, to go to our first dr's appointment on November 10th. I am soo excited to finally hear a heartbeat and know there is really something in there swimming around. Alex is pretty excited to. I don't quite think he understands that the baby has to go through the newborn stage to get to the fun walking talking stage but he will learn quick. We are sooo excited and feel soo blessed. This year has been full of many good changes!!!

New life....

About a week before my trip to Oklahoma my world changed upside down. Although I did not know it at the time, I was falling in love with a funny, charming, handsome man named Alex Klc. After dating 2 months Alex proposed to me on my lunch break at Gardner Village on May 27th, 2010 and we were married in the Salt Lake city Temple On August 13th, 2010.

I can't imagine my life without this man, and am soo happy to be his wife. So here we are one month later in our cute basement apartment trying to figure out the ups and downs of life and the amazing blessings we have experienced in a short amount of time.

Currently I work at the Corporate Office of Miche Bag in the Customer Service department , while Alex works at America's Incredible Pizza Company as an busing supervisor. We both have been hard at work and it seems to be paying off because we have received promotions this month! I am moving over to an Account Executive position while Alex has moved to being the Assistant director over Customer Service. We plan on registering him for school in January and filling up all of out extra time with fun side projects!!

I am committing to be back on the blogging wagon. I hope to have wedding pictures up within the next week so stay tuned!!

Oklahoma Trip. Day ONE

I am a single 24 year old women who has zero dependents and a full time job. My daily routine pretty much stays the same and my biggest choices during the week is what to wear, what to eat, and when to go to the gym. I love sleeping in my big queen bed and taking up the whole thing, and my alone time is something I cherish. I would say I am very close to my family. I talk to my parents every week. My mom every day sometimes 3 times a day. my brother Scott is my therapist, motivational coach mixed in with a good dose of sibling rivalry.I go to church every Sunday to a singles ward where I sit peacefully, and depending on the speaker I contemplate the meaning of life, or Sunday dinner.

So in February my mom flew out to Oklahoma to take care of the cutest kids on the face of the earth. --Yep. No exaggeration. -- Scott, and Janna went to Arizona and Nana got the kids all to her self. This is something that is prized in our family. In fact she was the first to get this opportunity. And she loved to rub it in my face every chance she got because Scott and Janna never went away without there kids before and this was a unique opportunity. So the person who got to stay with the kids was the whos who of family members. Scott told me that I was in a closed 2nd or 3rd on the list. But I knew I would never get to opportunity.( Last summer I made a few driving errors he got to witness) But I was happy. Although I lost, at least I was in the running.

So it was quite a shock when he called a couple weeks ago and said that Janna's mom couldn't make it to watch the kids while they went to Florida and was wondering if I could take off the time from work and fly down. I, of course, said yes and before I knew it I was on a plane.

Destination: Oklahoma.
Mission: To take care of 4 kids ages 2, 5, 7, and 9 and make sure the house and the kids are in one piece by the end of the weekend.

Wednesday April 7th Arrive at Tulsa airport at 10:30 pm
Scott is waiting to pick me up. He did something to his back and is walking a little crooked. By little I mean a lot. I couldn't help but laugh..which only made things worse.

Thursday April 8th
7:00 am
I wake up to two cute boys jumping on me. They leave for school and Scott takes 2 Lortab for his back. I drive him out to his work to finish up a couple things. He was soo excited to get the drugs he forgets to eat and gets a bit sick which makes me laugh more. So now he is not only in pain but nauseous AND in pain. Me and Janna start plotting a way to have me pose as him so we can sit on the beach while Scott stays home and recovers. Sadly the drugs finally kick and and Scott and Janna leave for the airport. We say our goodbyes and now its me, Caden, and Abby.
The rest of that first day went rather well. I tried to get Abby down for a nap but the only one who got a nap was Coco. I woke up to Abby's face right next to mine saying "Coco wake up!" The older boys got home around 4 and I took them to McDonald's to make them love me more and I hoped the Fun house would wear them out so I could sleep good. I got this brilliant idea to go through the drive through and order all the kids meals and then take the food in and play.I am still pretty proud of this idea and it went flawlessly. Although Taylor reminded me, as he did the whole weekend, that this was not the way his mom did it. I just smiled and said, " I know. I'm not as cool." We rented Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakquel after dinner and had a movie party and then went to bed. Apparently Abby is potty trained, but I woke to a wet child and lots of laundry to do I was thinking they lied.

St. Patty's 5k

Beat my PR by 12 minutes but still no a fast runner... Its okay its the end that matters.

And so it begins....

Soo I took some before pictures quite a while ago. When I am brave I will post them. They are motivating, and slightly disgusting. Its hard to imagine that I had really let myself go that much. But to be honest I was always that way. So letting myself go might not be the appropriate term. Maybe I should say it is hard to imagine how much I didn't like myself. However that is a story for another day. Today's topic is the issue of I only have 4 months until the SPUDMAN! I'm trying not to freak but honestly I have some work to do. So I upped my program to twice a day workouts. And all the Junk is out. Its do or die time and I'll be damned if I don't rock that Spudman like I own the place. It's a mental game from here on out.

I swim, bike, and run because I'M WORTH IT.

2/25/2010

This is an IM conversation I had with my co-worker about my morning that day......



11:13 AM Corinne Smith

This is a good story
Lets just say I got into a fight with a GIANT spider and I won
Killed it with a frying pan
CORINNE -1
SPIDER - 0

11:13 AM Co-worker

really ?
how big ?

11:14 AM Corinne Smith
silver dollar size. I swear
I mean silver

11:14 AM Co-Worker

k tell the story

11:14 AM Corinne Smith

alright
So I have like 10 minutes until I have to be to work so I grab my jacket from my bed and go to put it on and this HUGE spider crawls out of it and under my covers.
Naturally I am screaming
and thinking Oh crap. I cant just leave it there because there is no way in heck I am ever sleeping here again if I know there is a giant creature lose in my bed.
Im not a good sharer
okay pause the story

11:16 AM Co-Worker
k

11:31 AM Corinne Smith

So now I have like 5 minutes to get to work and so Im pretty sure I am going to be late because I still need to find this thing and muster up some sorta courage. No kidding... I would MUCH rather go through child birth then have to see and kill a spider.

Dont judge me.
So I call Danny because Blair isnt in yet and I was like alright you are going to think I am completely nuts
I know.... but, I just had a huge A spider crawl into my bed and I have to kill it now and so I am going to to be late.
He's like umm... okay i guess. I could tell by his voice he was not amused.

11:33 AM Co-Worker

yeah Danny doesn't get amused easily

11:33 AM Corinne Smith

So I hang up the phone and now I have to get ready for war.
I got a frying pan in one hand. Windex in the other and my mom on the phone for moral support. I look like an idiot and I was bawling my eyes out but I knew I had to do.
PAUSE

11:37 AM Co-Worker
are you serious ?

11:43 AM Corinne Smith

So i slowly start pulling off all the pillows and am on edge watching for any movement. And my mom is like counting down for me to pull the covers back real quick. haha
I finally did it and the sucker fell off the bed and I screamed soo loud im sure my neighbors think I am dead.
And I hit it with the frying pan and then stood on the frying pan for like 5 minutes while I recovered.
haha then I grabbed a cup and put some Cotton balls with nail polish remover on them and stuck it on the monster

11:44 AM Co-Worker

why ?
to sedate him ?

11:44 AM Corinne Smith

That was insurance just in case he decided to
be reincarnated while I was at work.
I have the biggest headache right now. Man it was intense. Oh and I made it to work only 15 minutes late. I was pretty impressed. I escaped death and was only 15 minutes
late!

11:45 AM Co-worker

thats not too bad
so you still have its dead body under a cup at home ?

11:46 AM Corinne Smith

yes
and I will vacuum it up when I get home
I have goosebumps telling you about it

In a world with billions of people I am alone

Alright it is time to get back on the blogging wagon. Its hard for me because I don't have Internet in my apartment so I have to schedule Internet time. It's times like these that I wonder how we ever survived without things like the Internet.
Speaking of my apartment. I have discovered that there are many pros and cons to live by yourself. Like it is amazing how long it takes to use up a roll of paper towels or toilet paper when it is just you. and it is nice that the whole house is your personal space. So If I want to walk around naked I do. Not a big deal. Or if I want to have a dance party in my living room by myself. I am not ashamed. Its nice to know that the dishes in the sink are mine. And my favorite part is when I clean it it stays clean until I mess it up. The down side is I have no one to blame when it is messy. Also sometimes too much "Me Time" is a little overwhelming and a lot more lonely. That is probably the one thing I thought I would be good at is hanging out with me, myself, and I. Because I've done it since I was little. But living on my own I think I have realized that although silence does not bother me, being alone everyday and every night does. Because of my job I can go days without face to face talking to anyone and there have been times that I haven't been able to remember the last time I was hugged. I'm not saying that every person that lives by themselves experiences this, but for me I have just noticed that because I choose to have a small social circle in Utah and the rest of my friends and family live in other states. It is not a good idea to live alone and be secluded from civilization. I am actually quite proud that I have made this break through as to why I have been feeling so lonely. I use to just think it was because I was 24 and single, but I am really happy with myself and so when I actually did some soul searching it kind of makes sense. I think as humans we need to interact and have contact with one another. There are certain things I think we need to survive. And just like water and food we also need love and friendship. I have spent so many years of my life never looking people in the eye because of the way I looked physically I didn't think I was worth friendship. I beat myself up and treated myself soo unkind. It was hard because the reflection in the mirror did not match the beautiful person inside. It has been a process. and I know I have written about this before. But just kind of realizing today that I do need to let people in my life and peel back those layers. There comes a point where you cant do things alone.

.....

"I feel to invite every woman everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass."
Gordon B. Hinkley

My Bucket List

* Wear a Bikini and look hot in it
* Do a Triathlon
* Run half Marathon
* Run Marathon
* Wear shorty shorts the the GYM
* Buy Jeans at the Buckle
* Find a Husband
* Pay off all my debt
* Go back to School
* Have Children
* Learn to drive a stick shift
* Be at least a decent snowboarder
* Travel to Greece, Egypt, and Jerusalem
* Sing in front of a crowd of 1000 or more
* Put my lyrics to music
* Ride in a hot air balloon
* Swim with Dolphins
* Hike the Grand Canyon

* Be in Times Square on New Years
* Take an Art class- Learn to draw
* Volunteer at a homeless shelter
* Keep motivating myself and others
* Go to The Oprah Show
* Go skinny dipping
* Go on a spontaneous foreign vacation
* Sit on a Jury
* Grow a garden
* Pet a Tiger
* Adopt a child
* Learn to be a good cook
* Stay a night a an expensive hotel

* Mountain Bike in Moab

* Go rock climbing

More to come later I am positive....