Working Out at Home and Some Fun! Wedding Crafts!

This weekend was absolutely fabulous because I feel like we made some real progress on wedding planning. We decided where we wanted to go for the honeymoon ( I will share when we actually have something booked) and made some decisions about the songs we would like for the ceremony. I shared them with my bridal party and I was told that one of them made my mom cry listening to it so I guess we have a winner!

My friend Kat and I also spent our Sunday evening crafting! I am not so good at crafting but with some good ideas from Kat and the use of her hot glue gun, I was able to turn my supplies into a flower girl basket for my niece Sydney.
So with a little bit of help I turned this stuff...





 

 

Into this lovely flower girl basket!

 

So, let's put this all together folks. That would be the cutest, little flower girl basket for the cutest little girl ever!

Seriously...

I also managed to make it to the Farmer's Market on Sunday and pick up a whole new batch of produce. I am so happy that Fall is coming bringing plenty of squash and sweet potatoes with it!

 

I also used the fresh local peaches to make some Peach Cafloutis for dessert. MMM....

On Saturday I didn't feel like going to the gym, it was just one of those days where it was very hot outside, the gym seemed really far away and honestly I didn't want to get in the car to go. I ended up seeing if I could find something to do online in my living room. I stumbled upon what seems like a really awesome site that has catered workouts that you can do with no equipment.

The site is called FitnessBlender.com and I was able to find a 40 minutes workout to do in my living room that included burpees, jumping jacks, jumping lunges, mountain climbers. This was awesome because normally I do not like working out at home because I feel like I am not afforded the space to move around enough.

It was a pretty good workout and my arms are ever sore afterwards so I know I got some real work in. Starting in a few weeks, Dwayne will be getting up earlier than me to start his new job! (CONGRATS!) and so I will have a wake up call around 6am. I am thinking of using these videos to start getting exercise in the mornings before work.

This week I will be writing an educational post on Protein! I am 'crafting' it now but I want to make sure that all the information I present is relevant and correct so keep your eyes pealed!

Custom Wedding Band and Childhood Obesity is Down as I travel to Texas. Irony anyone?

Sorry I have been MIA from my blog for the past 2 weeks. I was traveling for work and went all the way into the lovely state of Texas! I was in Houston for about 6 days last week and was working quite a bit so I didn't have time to sit behind my computer. It was worth it though because the event we were a part of went extremely well and I got to see some coworkers that I don't see very often. Lovely!

The stress was quite a bit to handle during the week and being in Texas, it became pretty difficult to eat a healthy array of food. Pretty consistently the food choices were meat, red meat or ya know - more meat.  I enjoyed my time, relaxed when I could and was very happy to come home on Friday! I was ecstatic because the last day I did get to go to an authentic Mexican restaurant and try some of their delicious food.

While on my trip, I received two awesome phone calls. The first phone call was from the store in Charlotte that was custom making my wedding band to tell me that it was done! I asked them to do some embellishments to make it look more like a wedding band that fits my engagement ring.

 

 

The second call was to tell me that I had won a free massage! I am so excited because I rarely get this treat but I am happy to say that Wednesday after work, I will be going to get a massage. I am scared to hear how bad the knots in my back are -eek!

 

I also have two awesome updates! Number is a huge congratulations to our friends Nicole and Sean Phaler who welcomed a little bundle of joy right before my trip. I found out how adorable my fiance looks holding a baby. Don't get excited, that's a long ways down the road.

Welcome little SJ!



The 2nd awesome update is that I saw an article saying that the newest report on childhood obesity states that childhood obesity rates are down in 18 states! Hopefully this is a trend that continues until it's no longer an issue in the United States.