Grillin'

Last night we had a great dinner. Grilled chicken, grilled asparagus and sauteed onions and bell peppers seasoned with our favorite cavenders seasoning.












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Random daily pics

This post is just of random daily fun photos! I'm in the process of getting pictures and taking pictures for posts this week: ice-cream cakeballs and the beach ball scrapbook album(this may be up in a couple weeks have to gather a few more supplies )

Picture below of Lana and her coffee while sitting on the back porch one morning. She had to have her coffee like momma.


Me and Sofie. She was pooped after spending 4 hours at the groomers.



When we went to drop off my 4 wheeler to get fixed Lana found one she likes.


Lanas pretty princess nails



Banana pudding shake from chic fil a. It's soo good. It's probably a good thing that they are changing the flavor next month. I've had one the past 3 days. Lol.


My friend texted me this sign she saw while at a cupcake shop. I love the saying.



My cute "sparkly" bow I found at Sam moons.





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Scrapbook Convention 2011 Haul!

Thursday was the 2011 annual scrapbook convention I look forward to each year. It comes at the perfect time each year because normally 1 or 2 months later is Mary's and I's big scrapbook retreat! This year its the first week in August, 4 whole days of scrapbooking YAY!! (at Hobby House Hill in Bowie, TX). I apoligize in advance for the random pics and the ton of other pics ( haha).


Me at the convention.





Random pic. I was sitting in line waiting for the doors to open. Had an hour to kill. Thought my shoes were cute ( an awesome score at Kohls).




Another totally random pic. I borrowed Mary's lip gloss and she said oh thats pretty and pink. So I took a picture. The picture below is of the lip gloss.









Picture of our bracelets to get into the convention 1 hour early (only an extra $3, and worth it!) You can even see Mary's bracelet in the background.










The 2 pictures above were of a flower make and take we took. They are simple to make and look so darn cute.



These rings were a score at one of the booths. I use these all the time when I am making chipboard books or other mini books. They were 40 for only $4.00 a great price, so I stocked up and got $12 worth. (that should last me awhile). the picture below is a book I plan on making with them for Lana and maybe some of her friends.

Beach ball book. This beach ball book was adorable and I plan on making one for Lana's pool pictures. the inside is really cool too, we weren't supposed to take pictures of some items  (like this book) but my sneaky pix app came in really handy! :) hehe. I took more pics (but they are not that good because i had to take pictures fast and on the fly), so I am going to make my book then post better pictures. (check back in a few weeks for a full blog tutorial on how to make this book).

The pictures below are the pics of my Haul (stuff I got at the convention).




The picture above is for some really neat glue that you can make all sorts of stuff with. you let it dry overnight on wax paper then you can make flower rossets for pins, hairbows, or scrapbook layouts (see picture below). When I make some of these I'll post a blog on how to make those too so stay tuned.






The picture below is a chipboard mini book that was only $1




The stickers below were also $1 a pack.




the paper pack has over 100 sheets of paper in it and was only $10, I got this school pack because it had great papers in it and Lana will be starting Kindergarten this year!

Stickers below were all $1

The picture below is of a neat little caddy i got for all my stickles! you can store them upside down so they are ready to use when you need them.

 

I had a great time at the scrapbook convention and scored some great stuff. I can't wait to make some new projects and layouts. Stay tuned for later blogs on some tutorials with stuff I got at convention.

Happy Crafting!

 
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Before & After: My weight loss story

On November 1st, 2009 I finally bought a membership to 24 hour fitness in order to obtain a healthier lifestyle and my overall goal to lose weight. I tried to at home but it was easy to find excuses the machine broke or the most common one, I can't get a good workout with Lana at home and "trying" to work out with me. So I joined the gym who had free child care and began my  journey. I started this journey while working full-time, taking care of a child, and completing graduate school. If I can do it you can to! just take the time to put yourself first.

The pictures below are my before nad after photos. Went from 184lbs down 134lbs. From a 14/16 size in clothes to a size 6.

I now go to the gym 4-5 days a week. Or at least at try to. It took me from November 2009 to July of 2010 to lose the weight. I have kept it off for about a year now. I have increased my intensity of my cardio by now doing 2-4 spin classes a week in order to try and lose those last 10-15 lbs. I started spin classes back in January and have since become addicted to them. I absolutely love the feeling of a good sweat after a hard spin class. Along my initial weight loss journey I hired a personal trainer at 24 hour fitness who has since become a good friend, Shana Savitz. The picture below is of the two of us.

To stay motivated I love watching the biggest loser (one of my favorite tv shows) this helps me to keep motivated to go to the gym and to stay on track with eating. Shana also has a page on facebook called Chai Fitness where she posts challenges, pictures of clients training, healthy lifestyle tips, among other things, so be sure to check it out and like it on facebook.

Princess In Progress

After swimming for a little while yesterday afternoon. Lana came in and wanted to take a bath with a new bath set she picked up with Grandma, when Grandma had come down to watch her after her birthday. They ended up having to take back about 5 duplicate gifts and this is one of the items she came back with.

Its a little mermaid bath set. Including:: mirror that attaches to the tub, bath foam, a headband for her hair, and a door tag that says: do not disturb: princess in progress.

First things first Lana put on the headband.

Then she put the door knocker on the door

Got out the bath foam.

And, of course wouldnt be final until she got out her Little Mermaid boat and her 3 little mermaids to play with in the bath tub. She then got in and told me to close the door. When I came back in a few minutes later she said in her "princess" voice. "leave the princess in progress, I am not ready yet!" LOL.

 

Mint Tea and Bedazzled Wine Glasses

Before I begin my post I apoligize for the numerous pictures in this post there were simply too many not to share and I still had about 20 I didn't post on here. I can get a little picture crazy sometimes.

Thursday after work I headed to pick up Lana from daycare then head over to Linda's house where I met my sister Mary and her daughter Summer. We decided to have an evening of crafting. This evening we decided to try making bedazzled wine glasses that were inspired from Linda's other daughters Amber's Blog.

First, to find some wine glasses. Linda found her some at the local goodwill while Mary got both of us some glasses at Ikea (6 for $4.99) and some larger ones for $1.99 that worked out perfectly.

Before getting started we  had dinner, Linda made a simple but wonderful garden salad that was especially delicious with the garlic cheese i brought over that I had picked up at a little german grocery store in Muenster and froze.(FYI-cheese does freeze but will not be creamy to slice for crackers after frozen, however the frozen cheesse crumbled great for our salad). I left the remaining log of cheese at Linda's where I think Linda and Summer may had to fight over for the leftovers, haha.

Linda also made some wonderful mint tea. (see picture below).







The picture above of the 4 of us turned out pretty good. We wanted to take a picture of all of us but Louis Dean was out and about so the only person left  to take our picture was Lana. She did a pretty good job. I was laughing so hard in the picture because right before the Lana took the picture Linda said I don't know how this will turn out with a 5 year old taking the picture and I started laughing because I knew she was a pretty  good little photographer.

In this picture Summer was getting her glue out ready to start her glass.

Here Linda was working on her wine glass.




This is the before picture of one of my glasses where I put liquid nails on the bottom and spread it out with a gloved finger.


Here Mary is posing with her 1st glass she made where the rest of us then started cheering because the rest of us had completed 2 glasses to her one! LOL! Nice job Mary!




This glass turned out to be my personal favorite. I just decided to use random colored jewels in all different sizes.

Here are some of our completed wine glasses. I think they turned out great! We had a great evening full of fun and many, many laughs!

 

Cheers, or as Summer would say in her british accent Cherrio! (not sure if that is spelled correctly).