All Things Loved ....

… The November Edition

1. POPCORNERS.

These things are amazing. I especially love the White Cheddar flavor. I really want to try the butter flavor but can’t seem to find them. I can eat an entire bag of these with out even realizing it. Good thing they aren’t all that bad for you!

2. DILLY BABY.

I first saw this company at the Essex Craft fair with my mom. I didn’t buy anything at the craft fair but ended up purchasing a couple bags online and love them. They are the perfect size to put in your purse, in your car or anywhere you want. They have some great designs and a few different products and styles.

    3. NO MORE TROUBLE ZONES.

You can either do the whole video (40 minutes) or you can do the circuits. There are seven 5 minute circuits that target different areas (biceps & butts, upper body & core ect). Five minutes doesn’t sound like a long time (I haven’t been brave enough to do the whole video yet) but Jillian Michael’s workouts are no joke. After one circuit I’m sweating and whatever muscles I worked, are already shaking!

    4. OUR HOUSE.

This goes with out saying that I love that we became home owners this month. 11/12/11 was our first night in the new house and it was so exciting. It still hasn’t fully sunk in that the house is ours, but I know it will. (Once we get the internet at our house and I don’t have to write posts on my phone or at D’s office, I’ll update house pictures).

L-O-V-E

Oh the things I love this week.

1. The unseasonably warm weather we’re having.
2. My dad helping us hang up frames and pictures this weekend.
3. The book I’m reading – “Running The Edge” by Adam Goucher & Tim Catalano.
4. Time with family this weekend.
5. That we finally got DVR J
6. My husband.

2 week & 17 months

1. Saturday (11/26/11) was 2 weeks since we’d moved into our house and 17 months (1 year 5 months) since we got married.
2. I was a machine on Sunday. Got up, worked out, did some house keeping stuff, ran errands and then crashed on the couch. I spent the rest of the day reading and watching TV. Great way to end the long weekend.
3. I do believe I am going to take a nice hot bath tonight. It will be the first time our ‘soaking tub’ will be used. And on my errand spree yesterday, I picked up some bubble bath I can’t wait to try out.

Motivation Monday

Friday Motivation

Thanksgiving Edition

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 

Thankful Thursday –

• I’m thankful for time with family.
• I’m thankful for the food on our table.
• I’m thankful for the warm roof over my head.
• I’m thankful for all the memories we’re making today.
• I’m thankful for my friends.
• I’m thankful for my family.
• I’m thankful for my husband. I couldn’t ask for a better person to go through life with.

2 Consonants & 2 Vowels

What I love this Wednesday:

1. Today is the last day of the work week for me.
2. My favorite holiday is tomorrow.
3. Time with family tomorrow.
4. A four day 'weekend'.
5. Being caught up on the blogs I read (we've been without internet for a week and a half so far).

Triple Tangent

I'm to lazy to think of a creative name for today's post. And lets be honest, even if I wasn't to lazy, the title still wouldn't be that great.

1. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of all time. I just love everything about it.

2. I have been slacking hard core in the eating healthy, exercising, drinking enough water department. I need to step it up big time!

3. I don't know what's gotten into me (and I hope this doesn't jinx me) but I've been getting up after only hitting snooze twice the last two days. I'm sure D loves it.

Motivation Monday

Friday Motivation

Thanks be to God

This week I'm thankful for:

1. All the workout clothes and yoga pants I have. They have become wardrobe staples this week.
2. This week off from work. Even though I've been cleaning and unpacking, the break from work is nice.
3. Never having to move again! haha
4. The warm November weather

What's love got to do with it?

What I'm loving Wednesday is here already! This is what I'm loving for this week:

1. How much progress we're making with unpacking and settling into the house.
2. All the friends and family that helped us move this weekend. We couldn't have done it without them. THANK YOU!
3. That our October 209 reunion that had to be rescheduled is this weekend! So excited to spend a weekend with my BFF's <3
4. That I was able to take this whole week off of work to move.
5. That Thanksgiving - my favorite holiday - is next week. My grandparents and aunt, uncle and their three kids from SC will be here.

Brace face

This week's three totally random, useless facts about moi:

1. I still wear my retainers. Not every night, but after 3+ years with braces, I'm not going to risk going through that again!

2. I can't wear my rings to workout or sleep. My fingers swell and its almost impossible to get my rings off until it does down. Panic attack trying to get them off doesn't begin to cover it! haha.

3. My favorite gum is Big Red

Motivation Monday

Do 2 reps of the following (if your arms feel alright at the end, make it 3 reps): 20 Bicep Curl to Presses, with 10 pound dumbells 15 Burbees 12 Pushups Back Forearm Extensions, with 10 pound dumbell: 12 Elbows- In Pushups 12 Chair Dips 12 Wide Armed Pushups                   

Friday Motivation

Thankful Thursday

• I’m thankful our family and friends are helping us move this weekend.
• I’m thankful I have next week off, giving me 10 full days to pack, unpack, settle in and clean.
• I’m thankful for my Mom who’s spending another weekend helping us with all the ‘un fun’ stuff that comes along with moving. She’s been a huge help.
• I'm thankful for my FIL who called the phone/internet company and answered questions and got everything set up for the instal.
• I'm thankful for everyone who's worked on our house. Especially when the move in date went from "Thanksgiving" to the beginning of November. They worked long house and really hard to make that happen.

Hump Day

This week I love the following:

1. Tomorrow is the last day of the work week.
2. I have next week off, to move but still, I have it off from work!
3. That my mom brought carrot cookies with her last weekend. I’ve been trying to ration them so I can enjoy them for as long as possible.
4. That its so light out in the mornings when I drive to work. There was something always a little depressing about driving to work in the pitch black.
5. The community we live in. So many people came together on Saturday to raise over $20,000 for M & H. (The brothers were injured in a bad car accident this summer. D played basketball and went to high school with them.)

Triple Tangent Tuesday

This weeks random facts:

1. My favorite cookies are carrot cookies. Don’t knock them till you try them. My mom makes the best!
2. I have moved approximately 12 times. And I hate it every single time. I’m so glad this will be our last time moving (knock on wood).
3. I love pictures. I need to get better about taking them / more.

House Progress, Part XI

Here are a few pictures from this weekend. I didn't take as many as I should - we were cleaning and I just wanted to get out of there after were done! (11/5/11)

Kitchen Cabinets

Kitchen (view from living room)

Kitchen (view from dining room)

Mudroom Cabinets

Spare room carpet

Spare room carpet

Motivation Monday

To go along with my inspiration Fridays, I thought I'd post a few workouts from Pinterest on Mondays.

Friday Motivation



Thursday

As we are now in November and closer to Thanksgiving (my favorite holiday ever), I'm starting to think about the things I am thankful for even more. Just some of the things I'm thankful for this week are:

- My amazing family. The one I was born into and the ones I married into. I couldn't ask for better families. I am truly blessed.

- All the luxuries in my life. Being able to take a shower every day, clean and safe drinking water, TV, internet and the like. Things you don't always realizes aren't givens.

- My Mom. She's coming down tomorrow and next weekend to help us clean the new house, pack the old one and move into the new one. Having her is going to be such a big help and we appreciate her giving up her weekends (or at least part of them) to help us.

Amore

* I love that I had lunch with B, K and baby GQ yesterday. It was the first time I met GQ and that I'd see B & K. It was so much fun.

* I love that my husband doesn't get mada t me for snoozing it 3 or 4 times. I know he doesn't like it when I do it (duh) but at least he's nice about it.

* I love that at this time two weeks from now, we'll (probably) be moving into our NEW HOUSE!

* I love the card I got on Monday. I'm so excited!
* I love all the time I got to spend with my mom this weekend. It was unexpected but we had so much fun.

Three T's of Tuesday

This week's triple tangents is brought to you by my pre-generated list:

1. I hated high school. I couldn't wait to graduate and get out of there.

2. At one point in my life, I have been self concious about: my teeth, my eyebrows, my height, my weight and more.

3. I have a broad taste in music. My ipod is on shuffle and these are the 1st five artists: Nelly, Black Eyed Peas, Rascal Flatts, Ashlee Simpson, Bryan Adams.