End of 2011>>>

Hey,
I'm coping my friend S by posting pictures of things that have happened this year! :] one because this year has been INSANE!

JANUARY>>>

We got little scratch. danng she was so small!

FEB>>>>

Clayton Had his brithday  and I bought him this cooool bowling ball! he's only used it twice sense haha.

MARCH>>>

Me and my dear Clay-Clay got married :D best day of my life!

APRIL&MAY>>>>>>

I"m not sure if anything MAJOR happened. I know I worked at Forever21 during this time and found out I needed to get foot surgery. Other than that I was enjoying being married and worrying about getting foot surgery.

I also made this AWESOME sims house sometime around here.

JUNE>>>

I had Foot surgery and my birthday!

JULY>>>

I was finally in the Boot by the End of July walking around and moving furniture the first day.

AUGUST-SEPTEMBER>>>

Claay-clay had some friends come up and stay with us for a few weeks! and I started walking without the boot!

I started babysitting this adorable kids the first week I was out of the boot! I miss them so much! 

OCTOBER>>>

I got my Tech support job at Teleperformance working for Verizon Fios.

We adopted Pawz From my friend S! :] Now scratch has a sister!

I became an AUNT! Which makes me the first Aunt in my family!

NOVEMBER>>>

Clayton Applied to Graduate School!!!! O.O

DECEMBER>>>

I hit my Six month mark !!!

And Me and Clayton had our First christmas as a married couple! :D

                                            HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!

Happy Holidays

Greetings,

So Fun filled weeks! I'm really enjoying my holidays so far! Yesterday I had a Family Christmas Party at my Aunt Kelly's and Tonight my dad took us kids and step-kids out for a fun night! I really can't complain about any of it. I just enjoy being around family a friends to be honest.

AARON CRANFORD came home yesterday! I got to chit chat with him a little and I just love that kid to death! It's crazy how fast two years really go by. Two years ago I thought it'd be a life time until I saw any of my friends again! I'm stoked to go bowling with him and one day make him a scarf :[ i'm so bad at this scarf game. hah He supposedly bought me one ON his mission. psh. I don't believe it it. we'll see! :]

THEN as most of you probably know the BIG DAY for my Left Foot is JANUARY 9TH. Yeah super stoked for that. In fact in a way I really am looking forward to getting it over and not having to dread it anymore! It really did sneak up on me. I'm sad to leave some of my friends at work but I hope to keep in touch with a few of them because we've gotten along real well! This job was a crazy experience. A good one though. I'm really grateful for the opportunity and the ability to have a job. I don't really like the 25 min. drive but the job itself really isn't too bad and honestly I do get some angry customers but I seem to always handle them very well. I've only had ONE supervisor call and the lady hung up on him so it doesn't really count. I really do love customer service even at it's worst levels (on the phone).

I know I already made a Facebook status about this. But I just couldn't help but laugh so hard when the guy was trying to describe the "remote" to me. "it's a held hand keyboard.. arg I dont know what you guys call it." too great in my opinion. It can make the job hard though when people don't understand what a remote is and that the TV isn't where they get all their channels from. hah. I've learned so much though.

I'm really grateful for everyone in my life. I'm excited for these next few weeks. I finish my job on the 31st so I can have some "me and clayton" time before we start dealing with surgery garbage. I'm hoping some opportunities open up for me again once I can walk like my babysitting job and the brief Salon receptionist job I did. I"m so blessed and I"m so excited for life.

Clayton Applied to grad schools about two weeks ago!! So Happy for him and for us. He applied to Berkeley,   University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, Cornell. So That shows you where I could possibly be living next august! I'm really stoked to move! Don't get me wrong I LOVE utah because I grew up here but I really enjoy living other places too! I like moving around and meeting new people and learning different things. and to do that with clayton is something I haven't experienced yet. I'll miss my family and friends but I am always here for all of you.

Well those are most of the things going on as of now. Holiday wise me and clayton got each other phonoes for your christmas gifts because we needed them baaaad and we also got a real tree! Love you all I really do and I really hope to see more of you this time around with the surgery It gets really lonely.. and when it's hard to get around and you are alone most days every day it makes it rough. So please as a friend come visit. I promise to show you the same kindness. Love you all.

Happy Holidays!

Mrs. Edgerton.

6 Months Sense Foot Surgery..

Here you all go a Before and After Foot surgery picture. I finally hit my 6 month mark! crazy to think it has been that long sense I got my first surgery. 6 months is when it is supposed be alll good. Of course it's not perfect and  it can take up to a year to be back to normal if all turns out well. The last couple weeks leading up to this point  has gotten so much better! I'm not in nearly as much pain as I have been. yes, i still have a limp and can't walk too fast but it's improving and I tested out the crutches using that foot and I can use them on my right foot now.

SOOOOO what does that mean? well One I need to get the surgery done SOON to.. Get it over with.. and also so we can be able to go to the doctors for 6 months after the surgery for all the check ups and progress stuff. As some of you know calyton is going to grad school next year. He officially applied to all the schools about a week ago and that's why I'd need to get it done NOW... it snuck up on us with how busy i've been with work and him with school/work. So Kind of freaking out about getting my left foot done but also excited to get it DONE and OVER with. We are HOPING to get a surgery date of the 4th of January or the 11th of January. However, because we didn't really realize how soon it needed to get done we wont be able to schedule the date until the 27th of this month when we go in for the consultation. 

Soooo I'll update about that later. Just wanted to speak a little about the surgery and show a before and after. also keep in mind that my foot is still swollen some days so that's what the bump is on the right of the foot. ANYWAY. Have fun and Happy Holidays :].

always,

        Claiming Mrs. Edgerton

Mistakes.Friendship.Love

Someone you love,

Someone You've held.

Someone You've danced with.

Someone Who's held you.

a friend.

This post Is me Writing to someone I Miss.

Someone I've hurt.

And to someone I'm so very sorry to.

Her Name is H.

Background: We met because we had mutual friends and she lived near me and offered to drive me home. She met me during one of the toughest moments in my life. We did nearly everything together that year.

I'm sorry.

I was hurt. I'm not saying that gave me any reason to do or say anything I said to you those couple weeks after my wedding. I don't know if I wish I could take what I said back but I do wish I had said it better. And I also wish I would have said some of it to your face instead of threw texting. That was childish of me. I was scared of losing you. Because I knew the feelings I was having would never come out right so I did it the only way I felt comfortable. I shouldn't have though.

You mean a lot to me. I look back and I laugh and smile and nearly cry because I miss you. I know you've blocked me from certain websites. cough. cough. Facebook. And I don't blame you. I was harsh and cold. I'm not going to to sit here and make excuses for myself. But I will admit. I hope one day we can talk threw what we were both feeling during that time. Because I know I wasn't the only one hurt. I'm grateful after the fight we had you still came to my wedding. I'll never forget you. You've made a dent in my life that will always be there.

We've had a fall out before.. We semi recovered. I hope soon we can at least mend our wounds. I miss you. And I hope you are doing well... Because I always want the best for you.

love always,
Kristy..

A family that PLAYS together STAYS together.

Why hello fellow bloggers and friends.

I know my post have become few and far apart but I am now a working woman! phew. I decide just to make this post a short update for my family and friends sense I've been so busy to communicate to them in person or however it be done.

I started training 6 weeks ago for Tech Support on an Internet/Phone/TV service called Verizon Fios. Utah doesn't have this AMAZING service yet. It's pretty great. Fastest way to get internet and so on. Training was hard and tedious and more stressful then I expected. We had three test for each service and it was on coding, troubleshooting and things like useful/not useful questions. Not only that but we could only take the test Two times for each test. If we failed the second time we no longer worked for Verizon.

So I can proudly say I passed EACH test the 1st time! Even if there were people in our class that were betting against me. Which is rude. However, I'm smart and I ask a lot of questions. That doesn't mean I'm dumb. Moving on. This last week was our first week on the Phones helping customers. The first day I was really excited and also hipped up on mountain dew. haha It was an alright first day everyone was really nice to me even though I had no clue what I was doing. But by the end of this week it got better and better. I'm still nervous about Sunday when I start my normal hours and also don't have our little "helpers." I think I'll do fine though and catch on to the flow of things.

Us eating Custard To celebrate me having
a job!!! sense I passed all my tests :D

I'd say so far the hardest part for me is the poor old ladies that have no one to help them and or their husbands just died and all they want is for their TV to work because it's their life support. This is the hardest part because Troubleshooting a Cable issue is very hands on and if they aren't capable of moving the box and unplugging it there isn't much for me to do for them. It's rough when they start crying. I don't ever want to become "used" to this but I know some part of me will have to for this job sense all my calls yesterday were mostly old woman.

On to happier less work related topics. It's been great FINALLY having some kind of Income. Me and Clayton have literally been scrapping away at money sense we got Engaged Last year. And when I say it's been "great" I mean it's nice to FINALLY pay off BILLS and Bank debt... haha No fun toys or clothes for us in the near future. the last 5 months any money we've got has honestly gone to food almost 100% of the time. Bills and overdrafts haven't been our main concern and it's been rough. Luckily we have some great family members in our life helping us tug along. I have NO idea what'd I do without Claytons Grandparents and the help my dads given us. We'd be in a world of hurt.

This is an Update on Pawz and Scratch!
they are best-est of friends now. more to come.

Now let me get to the topic of this post. cough cough. A Family that PLAYS together STAYS together. I know I posted on Face(tothe)book and said Clayton got me playing Minecraft a week ago. I can proudly admit I've played it nearly EVERYDAY sense I started. I haven't played a game this much sense the Sims came out when I was 12! I'm not saying it's fulfilling or any of that nonsense but it's fun to bring my creative side out after a loooong day of hearing old woman cry.

Here is my Minecraft Character
you can see in her hair she has a feather :D.
Also that's my house it's built into a mountain. 

Not only that but thanksgiving was great and we've had a lot of activity going on. Claytons Friend James who visited about 3 or 4 months ago is here again and we've been enjoying his company. My brother came and stayed a night too which is always fun! On Thanksgiving for my dad. which was Wed. We got some family photos taken and it was really sweet and Clayton kept saying "i can't wait to have more photos of us" which just makes me tingle because it's just so precious. We also got to hang out with his family on Thanksgiving day and play with my little niece Aly she's so tiny but so cute!! and his mom and her boyfriend were there. then Yesterday we had Claytons BFF come over because he just got home from his Mission last week and we all partied it up! So this week has been crazy and so much fun! I love being surrounded by  people and I hope that every one of you knows our home is always open!

This is James. He is wearing the sticker
I picked out for him at the doctors.

sorry this post was so crazy long. but I needed to post an update for all the people I loves.

Always,

      Claiming Mrs. Edgerton

Marriage.

ooooh.. Marriage.

So I got a new job about three weeks ago and everyone is mostly older than me. 24 years old-higher. And they all like to tell me how young I am to get married on a daily basis. Most of them have accepted my views on marriage and think that even though I'm young  I have a pretty level head about me.

Today.. One of my friends said to me "I know what's going to break up your marriage." I didn't really want to ask why but I ended up doing it anyway for whatever reasons.  He gave me this as an answer "When you talk about having kids." So I told him we had already talked about it and he just gave me some "facts" that show that you take what a guy says and subtract it by 3. So this went on for a while because I said clayton wanted up to 3 kids like myself and he said that means he wants 0.

Well the whole point in telling this is just to say my two cents to whoever wants to hear it. Yes, I agree I am young for being married. I'll also admit I openly told most people there was no chance I'd be married by now. I said it daily for a couple years! Yes I know "don't all girls say that?" Maybe. I do not know but I know for a fact I had some pretty good reasons. No, they weren't because of boys I'd dated.

Sorry Mom and Dad but I'll have to bring you guys into this. As almost all of you know, or at least you should, my parents got divorced when I was 18 years old. For some of you this came as a shock. For me and my siblings however, it did not. In fact parts of us hoped one day they would. I'll be the first to admit that I don't think I saw much love in our home. I'm not pointing fingers at anyone. I don't think there was one person to blame for this. But it really effected me growing up and it really influenced my relationships and the types of people I was drawn to.

I knew from my parents relationship I didn't want that. EVER. and I wasn't really dating anyone after they got divorced I had small relationships but nothing serious. Me and clayton became friends during the hardest part of my parents breakup. The period of time RIGHT before it happens. Which was around September 2008. We stayed friends during that time and became bestfriends before we started dating. Honestly, I had no idea I'd find someone as amazing as him. That he would show me how to love someone and take the time to let me realize that a relationship didn't have to be a crazy one.

I also strongly believe in spending a few years married without kids. Build a great relationship together before bringing such a huge and important life into the world. I know that my relationship is really healthy and happy and even though yes, I'm young, I strongly believe that there are exceptions to the rule. And that I did not go into this marriage blinded by love.


my two cents,
Claiming Mrs. Edgerton.

Treasures.

So every once in a while I check this little widget I have on here called Feedjit Live. Pretty much it shows you Who's looking on your blog/ when/ and how they found it. well here is a couple from recently:

Click above to see larger image:

So if that didn't make sense to you. 1 of those people searched in google "Meerkat on Crutches" and Two other searched "how to shower after foot surgery"/"Showering after foot surgery."

One the meerkat on crutches is HILARIOUS. Two I'm really happy someone found my blog for a good purpose. I specifically named that blog post "showering after foot surgery" so People could find it! Because when I was in that situation I couldn't find ANYTHING useful and I REALLY wanted to shower. hahaha. So I feel accomplished that they may have found my blog post useful! yippie!

also here are the great treasures of clayton:

he is so cute!!!!! <3 

Claiming Mrs. Edgerton

Pawz with a Z.

So my friend S has this beautiful cat right? well the situation at their home made it so they couldn't keep her anymore. Of course that tugged at my heart strings and a week later i got the guts to bring it up to clayton! Guess what he said? He said he wanted to take her! YIPPIE!

So on Friday night we went down and Picked up this beautiful kitty:

Isn't she just the cutiest thing ever! Well other than Scratch! of course! Well so the day that clayton said he would take her that night we sat down and looked up cat names. If you guys haven't noticed yet I have a sort of theme with my cat names. My first cat back when I was four was named Meow Meow. Yes I know I was for but growing up she was the best cat ever! She lived until I was 19 Years old. So when me and Clayton got our next cat I decided I loved the "cat related" names. So we named our first kitty together Scratch! [yes the exclamation mark is apart of her name!] So naturally when we picked this pretty kitty up we already had a name for her! which is the title of this post Pawz with a Z :].

I love my kitties and I'm perfectly okay with the fact that some people think I'm a freak for doing so. But my cat meowmeow lived for so long and loved me the entire time so I think I'm doing something right!

So the night we brought her she was a scared little kitty. She is about 5-6 months old I believe and she has been with her mom the whole time. So she hid a lot that night. Then the next morning she was out on the couch. Scratch! has only ever hissed once the whole time we've had her and so she seemed scared of Pawz for the first day because she has been hissing at her. As cats do when they meet new cats!

Yesterday though she was really warming up to me and clayton and today! amazing she has been out and about wandering around. Still hissing at Scratch! but I'll show you a little video showing that both of them are way more curious and playful then scared or hateful! I don't care if I just made a long post about my cats. I love them and i'm okay with that. :]

Oh and we also got Pawz to eat and drink today! You know what kitties are like in a new place. I'm surprised it only took really one day to get her to eat and drink and wander :]. Not only that but she is also very lovey too me and clayton already! :] 

This is clayton with both kitties. Scratch! in the window and Pawz jumping on him after calling her new name :D! 

Wellll i'm done,

Kristy E. E.

Beautiful

Today I had my second interview! WOOOOEEE. So nervous and just praying i'd get this job. I know most people are probably like "why are you making such a big deal out of a calling center job." Because I'd probably be thinking that if someone else was.

But With my situation this job is going to be perfect and it's something I'm interested in doing. I'm not saying that I have the highest hopes that this job is going to be AMAZING but, It's a good job. It's a sit down job, good pay, great hours, possibly good job opportunities in the future. I enjoyed the people who interviewed me.

I know what I'm getting into I know it's a calling job. But for where I am right now in my life it's perfect. So i'm happy! My family is also very glad I got this job which just supports me and I appreciate that so much.

God works in mysterious ways and I truely believe everything happens for a reason.


Always,

Kristy E. E.

L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.

Hey,

It's me again.

I really never know how to start my blog post. Just like I don't know how to start my Journal entries. Oh well, I never plan on being a writer.

So, The last 4 weeks I've been job hunting like a mad [wo]man! It's been rough because I know I'm a hard worker and any company I work for I'll always do my very best. Well things seem to be looking up. I had an interview at Journeys in the mall last Thursday and the store manager seemed to really like me. Then I had the weekend to talk to Clayton about it because they were going to call on Monday. We talked and decide that maybe the best job for me right now is a sitting job. Bank, Calling center, etc. So I started yesterday applying to come sit down positions and well one called back and I got an interview today! woohoo. It's always amazing when you get an interview right away. However, They do two interviews so tomorrow i'm going in at 10 am and doing my second interview.

I'm so nervous it's insane. I feel less nervous after researching the product and some other tech like things. So I'm really hopeful! I also heard that they have a option of working from home after you train! Which for my soon to be situation (next foot surgery) that would be amazing! Luckily though sense it's my left foot I should be driving a lot soon and even if I had to I could try to get a couple weeks off.

Now that I'm done blabbing. I really enjoyed the interview today the lady was incredibly nice and she complemented me a lot. She also said something that stuck out to me.. we were chatting up our old retail jobs and she said "oh well things happen for a reason." I don't know if you remember but a month ago I mentioned how I strongly believe things happen for a reason. Most people don't talk about it like that and honestly i've never really had a conversation about it. So it was just something that kind of felt like a sign. However weird that may be.

L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N
You've got more than money and sense, my friend,You've got heart and you go in your own way
...On my last night on earth,I'll pay a high price,
To have no regrets, and be done with my life

I love this song so much. You've got heart and you go in your own way. Have no regrets. Such big things. Two big things I'd love to live life with. I work hard at being a good friend and person. I feel I have a full heart.

I'm going to go to that interview with No regrets. With everything I am. I know that sounds drastic but the last interviews I've had haven't been my finest moments. I don't have very much belief in myself but why not? I"m honest, hard working, motivated.

Always,

Kristy E. E.

Ps. Journeys called me today and Told me they want me on their team. So it's kind of a nice feeling to know I might be wanted by two companys.

Oh yes,

This is the long awaited HONEYMOON post. I finally spent a good 3 hours scanning in the "good photos" from the honey moon. As most of you know we had a Polaroid camera at our wedding so we used that for most the honey moon :]. Why? because they are awesome! yes.

sooo here we go. lets START :D

This is me leaving the Mansion. :] haha not a great photo but i'm happy.

Alright these are the pictures of the Night of. This is the Themed hotel room we paid for the first night! It's a Train combost! wooot it was beautiful and then as you see that's the breakfast they brought us in the morning! It was fantastic! I highly recommend doing it for "getaway" they have amazing rooms and they look so much better in person then online! :]

Next Up: ADVENTURE TO SAN DIEGO!

Now these pictures are 1: i was having trouble figuring out the camera settings. and 2: These are showing how ANNOYED i was that I had Glitter EVERYWHERE in my car so We had to VACUUM it PRONTO. Which we did as soon as we left the Hotel :D. PS. i still have glitter coming out my air vents! love you lauren.

And this is the Cheese Stake place we ate at after vacuuming the car :D. DELI SH and our first real meal as a married couple :D.

And these photos are depicting our journey to San Diego. First up the Code Red mountain dew to get me threw the drive! then the Magazine we bought because it was ALL about justin bieber For me to read :D. Then oh no... The Traffic was stopped FOREVER getting to California because of the fruit law... so thats the car break lights and me and clayton very bored... luckily we had books on tape from Borders :Dwoooot.

And now after our looong awaited journey we finally got to our HONEY MOON SPOT :D this is us the next day going for a walk along the not very impressive boardwalk. hahaha but still fun.

Naturally our many pictures in the hotel room :]. Enjoying california? lol. We did leave more often then most i'm sure. but i just like how happy we are!

Then this is our second day to the Beach were we actually put our swim suites on. However it was march so the water was FREEZING if you care to see those pictures let me know. but I'm not a fan of them i look fat. hahah (i took us going into the water on my digital camera).

We went to the San Diego ZOO. Fun stuff! i have a lot of photos from there but zoo pictures are slightly boring. hahah Also We only went threw half the zoo... because I kristy was retarded and thought that because it was california it would be humid... So i didn't bring my allergic meds.. so i had problems at the zoo. I'm allergic to moss and mold btw.

This is us when we got home haha.. at like 6 am because I didn't want to stay any longer.. i missed our kitty and our bed! so we hoped in the car at 5pm and drove threw the night.. well calyton drove .

So that is the end of our Honey moon. Those are all the presents we received subtract the money gifts. We are very grateful for the gifts! thanks to everyone who came! I'm also scanning in my guestbook for everyone and posting it on facebook :] coming soon. also that red thing is a quesadilla maker fantastic gift! so was everyone elses!

cute note huh? goodbye let me know what you think of my post below in the comments or the like buttons :D

Kristy E.E.