Weekly Up-Date 5/13-5/19 and In other news!

This is at the park where we will have our pictures taken! Cool!

Hey all!
Here's a quick recap of my week!

The most I've spent this past week was on: PRODUCE! I am loving all this delicious fruit in season! I'm trying to eat mainly fruits and veggies and so far I've done really well!

Today I'm thankful for: Our Savior, my husband and our family, and great friends!

Money can't buy happiness. One free thing I did this week that made me happy was: walk my pup around our little neighborhood and see all the beautiful flowers and trees in bloom

I will consider this week a success if I: continue to learn the song I'm learning on the piano and get everything ready for this vow renewal!



In other news:
I'm learning this beautiful song and it has always been my favorite song since I was about 11.  Check out this girl playing it here : To Zanarkand 

So far I've walked 20 miles with my pup this month. I think we can manage another 10miles to reach our goal! 

My spray tan went well except for I had one hand EXTREMELY darker than the rest of my body! hahaha thank goodness that was just a test run! I know next time to use more baby wipes on my hands afterwards.  

My brother deployed again not too long ago, so please keep him in your prayers.


 Hope everyone had a great week! I will post more once it's June. I've been just too busy this month!
Ciao!

T-Minus 1 week!

Hey all!
This week and this coming week are going to be crazy! Our Vow Renewal is next Saturday and it's going to be a blast! There's just a few things left to do!

Today I'm going to look for a pair of shoes and getting my hair done. After the spray tan I got this past week (will have a post on this too), I decided to keep my light hair. Finishing the place cards and wedding album today. Whew! Today is going to be busy!

My mom flies in on Tuesday! I'm very excited to see how it will go. I really hope the past is truly behind us.

Well, I better get back to running errands! Ciao!

This week has been a blast! (Weekly-Update)

Hey all! Things are going well here in Northeastern PA.

The weather is being a bit odd, hot, cold, rain, sunshine, thunderstorm, snow? Mother earth is having some mood swings.

Tuesday was Teacher's appreciation day and our sweet preschoolers have been bringing us flowers all week! How sweet is that? I love my job :)

They truly are the sweetest things :)




Here's my update for the week:

Yummy!

1) The most I've spent this last week was on:  clothes! I hardly ever go clothes shopping, so I don't feel bad about this. I went with one of my cousins to help her shop for her trip to Mexico at the end of this month, and decided to pick up a few things for myself too. American Eagle has a lot of adorable clothes and if you download their app (free) you get 20% off your entire purchase! Every time if you spend $75 or more. But wait! They let you use other discounts too! Military discount: 10% or any other discounts they have going on. AWESOME!

and...

Victoria's Secret is also having a great sale and I had to stock up. Their bath and body products and 5/$30! Now, if they're $10 a piece...yes! I'm going to just buy 5 for $30! Their mango scent is incredible!



2) Today I am thankful for:    Our Savior, my husband, my job, family, warm coats, giggles and laughs, creativity, my co-workers, and the ribs our family gave us to cook up for dinner tonight! Yee-haw!

3) Money can't buy happiness. One thing that was free that made me happy was: watch the sunset over the mountains :) B-E-A-utiful! God is so good!

4) I will consider this week a success if I: finishing painting my dining room (I'm still slacking on that...lol) finish all the favors, sign up a different gym to save some $$$, and I'm getting tired of the highlights I got a while back, I'm ready to have darker hair again!  :) Plus...I'm going to try a spray tan! Wish me luck!!!

5)One very funny thing I saw this week was: Have you ever tried painting little kids feet? TOO FUNNY! Molly saw this great idea for mothers day on Pinterest to make hearts out of two footprints with this poem:

How adorable is this?!

Painting their feet was too funny! They had a blast! It was a great time and we know their Moms will love these!



How about you? What's your up-date this week? What's new?

May Goals

 Hey everyone! I've hopped on here to pop up a post real quick. I've started out May pretty well! Today I knocked out a two mile walk and an hour of ZUMBA! Let's hope my motivation stays to kick it into high fitness gear this month, just in time for summer (and the bathing suits!)

Fitness: 
- walk at least 30 miles this month. Pup will be one happy boy! * So will I once I start seeing a change in my physique ;) 
- Zumba! Zumba! Zumba!

Financial: 
-save another $200 into the emergency fund
-have $300 set aside by the end of this month for when my sis comes to visit because we have some fun road trips planned! (NYC and Niagara Falls!)

Faith:
-finish reading the book of Exodus
-Wake up earlier to start the day off with some Bible reading and prayer

Fun:
- read 3 more books this month!
-blog at least weekly (I have been slacking)
-go shooting more often with the hubbs
-have a great time at our Vow Renewal at the latter part of the month
-soak up as much fun as I can with my mom and sister when they come to visit!


Woo-Whee! What a list!!! Wish me luck this month!

 What are some of your goals? I would love to hear about them!

April Wrap-Up

Hey everyone! Here is my wrap-up of my April goals. Lets see how I did!

FITNESS:

-Start getting into shape for summer by walking the pup more Check! The weather is becoming beautiful here and the pup and I are getting into a walking schedule

-Yoga 3 times per week Fail. I did yoga randomly throughout the month. Probably less that 5 times in all. Oh well.

FINANCIAL:

-Save at least $200 more into emergency fund Success!

FAITH:

-Start a regular prayer time daily I'm going to call this one a tie. I have started praying more often daily, but I haven't picked a time where I set aside 20+ minutes of alone in prayer or Bible reading everyday. 

-Find a home church SUCCESS!

-Finish reading the book of Genesis Check! I'm on my way through Exodus now!

FUN:

-Read a whole book *Great Success* 3 whole books!

I read Fireproof, I had seen the movie and the book was great too.

 I read the Christian Atheist, which talks about how we need to stop claiming "Christian" (Christ LIKE), but live a separate way. The author is witty and down-to-earth. He hits on the hard issues and calls us to stand up and truly live out our faith, bringing honor to God! 

Last night I finished reading one of the best books I've ever read and I highly recommend to everyone: "Heaven is for Real". AWESOME, AWESOME book! True story of the Burpo family and their journey of almost losing their son, Colton, to a sudden illness that required emergency surgery. Then, in time, Colton starts to speak of his trip to Heaven and all the things he had seen and experienced. This book is for everyone to read. It is so incredible, it's very hard to put the book down and it's truly encouraging! Our God is SO AMAZING!

-Learn at least one new song on the piano Fail. I ALMOST learned all of Fur Elise, but I didn't complete it. Maybe this month! :)

This month went pretty well! How did you do on all your goals for April?

Guest List, Favors, and Cake! Oh, My!

Next month my husband and I will be celebrating with friends and family in a vow renewal ceremony!  We were married on Atlantic Beach along the North Carolinian coast in August 2010. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining, a soft, salty breeze blew through the air, and I stood bare-foot in velvet sand with the love of my life, joining our lives together before God, each other, and some of our dear friends. It was such a memorable and wonderful day, I will never forget it!

The Best Day of my life!

Our family, though, was unable to come down to North Carolina. Now that we have moved back to my husband's home town, we are going to have a vow renewal ceremony and our family gets to enjoy this day with us too!

Everything is coming together fairly well.There is only a few things left to do. The favors are almost done, they just need the bows I need to get the crinoline for underneath my gown, then the final fitting. We're waiting on the last few of the response cards then we can start the seating arrangement. That is the only thing I'm a little stressed over lol.

Today I am going with my mother-in-law to select a bouquet and figure out what to do with my hair. The gown I'm wearing is strapless, so I'm thinking simple jewelry and a simple, elegant up-do, I don't want a lot of curls or anything just because my hair is so short still.

All of this is so exciting!

After that the only thing I will need to do is get some shoes! 

I'm really excited for all of this. I never really had the whole huge fairy-tale wedding dream thing, but this is still very fun and exciting! My dream wedding was bare-foot on the beach with the love of my life and a small group of people! I was very grateful God blessed me with that and now I get to do this too! I feel like a princess.

One of the things I am really looking forward to is my mother is coming. Like, actually coming! Sent her flight information to me and everything. My mother and I have never really gotten along and we have a very turbulent past and within the last six months we have been talking and decided to bury the ugly hatchet deep, deep underground. I was still weary when we sent her an invitation, because we doubted she would come, but to our surprise, she is coming! I'm hoping all the good-will and pleasant talks are sincere. They were from my end, so I'm hoping for an enjoyable visit.

My sister is coming too and that is going to be awesome! I haven't seen her in almost a year, so this is going to be great!

The list is around 90-ish people, and it's dressy, but we want it to be most of all FUN!!! It's going to be just a huge party and that's what we're looking forward to!

Weekly Update: Lemonade and Office Space

Hey everyone!

The weather has been heating up around here, so it's time to break out the patio chairs and fill up our glasses with some good ol' homemade lemonade. Yum, yum!

I haven't gone to the gym in the last few days because I pulled a muscle, so I have been nursing that. I'm feeling pretty good today, so tomorrow I will start back up at the gym. Yoga still is my go to for my home workouts.

Here's my weekly check-up:

1) The most I've spent this last week was on bills and groceries! They sure add up sometimes. Meal planning has really helped cut down our grocery bill since we know what we will eat during the week, so we're not having food go to waste.

2) Today I am thankful for: my husband, our family, good friends, and most of all, our Loving Savior.

3) Money can't buy happiness. One free thing I did this this week that made me happy was: Read a really great book and I learned to play Fur Elise on the piano! Well..a good bit of it. Not done yet!

4) I will consider this week a success if I sell my wii and games; I never play it anymore and I'm building up our emergency fund again, so it would help. And, if I finish painting my dining room and kitchen!

5) One super funny thing I saw this week was: watching Office Space. I haven't seen this movie in years, and it still makes me laugh!

"Dang it feels good to be a gansta"