The Krausz Hausz: July 2008

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

I feel like a new woman!

As my return to school draws closer and closer, I have been pondering how the new and improved "Mrs. Krausz" should be perceived. Since I walked onto the campus two years ago, I have constantly been confused for a student. I am 27 years old and now married. The days of being seen as "cool" by high-schoolers is so over in my opinion! Granted I cannot change the fact that I do look a lot younger than my age, but I have been searching for how to form the 'new me'. Since we got back from our honeymoon, I have made a conscious effort to only go in public fully put together without wearing a t-shirt and jeans with flip flops. Do not get me wrong, I LOVE wearing those items of clothing, but it leads to confusion because I get asked what grade I am in at the high school. For a while now I have contemplated really making a drastic change to my hair, but I have always had very long hair that has (mostly) been a shade of brownish blonde. Yesterday I got the wild hair to follow Nike's motto and, "Just Do It". So I went into JC Penneys, found a picture of the style that I wanted, and never looked back. For most people my transformation is not so drastic but, for me, I now feel like the grown up woman that I have always wanted to be. Mommy, Wow!

Monday, July 21, 2008

Wedding Week Blog

The entire week of our wedding was pretty jam-packed so I suppose I should include it all:

Thursday
Jacob's mom picked me up at 5:45 in the morning to head to Atlanta. I was a tad nervous about being in a car for four hours with the future mother-in-law, but I did not want her to ride alone. Actually we ended up having an awesome bonding experience. She told me stories about when she was little, when Jacob was little, and gave me tons of advice of the do's and do not's of marriage. In all of our conversation, we were in the far left lane when we needed to be exiting. So I said "Trust me and my Nascar skills Mom." I helped her drive across four lanes of traffic and we totally made the exit! She made me proud. We made it to the temple with just enough time for me to get a dress and get in there. Jacob and his dad were following and were late b/c they stopped to go to the potty twice. We girls did not stop at all. Hrrrm now who has smaller bladders?! Anywho the temple was amazing and I did not want to leave. After that we went to the hotel, ate dinner at The Cheesecake Factory, and went to see Hancock at the movies. After the movie my dad called to tell us he was there, so we picked him up and went BACK to TCF for desert. Without a doubt the Pumpkin Cheesecake is my fav, BUT the only offer it in October. I had to settle with a Tres Leches piece that was mighty delicious.

Friday
This is the day that I enacted what I like to call "Bride Law". That meant that I was going to do whatever I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. And that's exactly how it panned out. We all ate breakfast together at the hotel then went over to the mall for a little shopping extravaganza. Since I had packed in a frenzy for our trip and honeymoon, Jacob had to buy me a few items at American Eagle to add to my poorly packed suitcase. We went back to the hotel so that the "Bride" could take her royal nap, then headed over to the airport. After making 47 and a half U-Turns we made it there and picked up Jacob's mission buddies Wolley and Farmer and our Mazda 5 rental car. Unfortunately I had to go Bridezilla on the Budget people b/c they did not tell me the truth about the logistics of the car. By this time the entire Spencer clan had made it to Atl, so we met them for my final dinner as a single gal at my favorite restaurant: Macaroni Grill (I told you Bride Law was in effect). I was really drained after stuffing my face, so I did not want to stay up all night just b/c it was the 4th of July. Jacob and his crew went downtown to watch fireworks and I went back to the hotel to take a warm bath and hang out with my Daddy.