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Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Oh Six. And Oh Seven. Two Oh One Seven.

This time I am REALLY behind! The last two months were crazy busy!

At the beginning of June, we celebrated my brother-in-law's birthday! They had a fun gathering with friends at their house and then we celebrated with my parents later that weekend.

We also went blueberry picking with some friends and had a yummy brunch together after.




We also celebrated Father's Day with my parents! We had a fun day spent with family.

Josh went to San Antonio for a conference for work and I had a lot of fun LuLaRoe events!

I barely took any pics in June!

Some other things that happened:

My BCBs and I read a book called The Confessions of X. It was a really interesting read about Augustine and his concubine. I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a great read for the end of summer!

My appointments and Pilates classes have been going really well! I have more movement and feel stronger every day!

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Since I've really behind and didn't take many pictures in June, I'm just going to do July in this post as well!

We started off July helping our friends C.B. and L.B. throw a surprise party for C.B.'s mom. It was a lot of fun!

We also spent a lot of time with family. Josh's brother and his family were in town so we celebrated our nephew's birthday, as well as Josh's grandparents's birthdays.





We had a really fun 4th of July party with some friends. I'm such a fan of fireworks and we had a lot of fun putting on our own (very legal, I promise) show!



Later in the month, we went to the d23 Expo and spent some time in our happy place! We got to attend a panel about the upcoming Disney and Pixar animated movies and it was so awesome! We got to see a lot of celebrities present at the panel, including Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Gad, Kristen Bell, Paige O'Hara and many others!






We also got to walk through an exhibit about the 50 years of Pirates of the Caribbean.






There was a LuLaRoe booth at the Expo, highlighting some of the soon-to-come LuLaRoe Collection for Disney prints. It was so fun to see!




Our time at Disneyland was really fun too! The lines were so short for most of our trip! We also got to see the very first perfomance of the newly enhanced Fantasmic! We also met Zachary Levi and took a picture with him, which was amazing! We have both really loved him since he was on Chuck! Overall, it was an amazing trip and I'm so glad we were able to go on it.


 We got to sit next to each other on Radiator Springs Racers!

 Zachary Levi!!



Josh went on Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout! I just walked through the line with him. This is my "I'm not going any further" face

Later in the month, I attended the LuLaRoe Convention! It was SO much fun! I got to meet some of the amazing women on my team (most of whom live on the other side of the country from me). We had a fun kickoff party on the beach that Ziggy Marley performed at! We had two awesome days of training and learning and growing. And our finale party was a private concert with Katy Perry! It was an amazing couple of days!

 Beach party!











I also got to go on a warehouse tour at the LuLaRoe warehouse, which was really cool! It was so fun to see where they sort and package up all of our orders!




I also went to Disneyland with a fun group of retailers before the convention started. My housemates and I did the Skyline Lounge dessert package, which was so much fun! We got to sit in the second level of the former Innoventions building with an amazing dessert platter and unlimited hot cocoa, coffee, soda and water! Mickey and Minnie came out to take pictures with us and we had an amazing view of the fireworks! It was such a fun time!






July was jam packed with so much good stuff. I had some really amazing LuLaRoe events, we had some fun times with friends and family and we ate far too much ice cream (but when it's over 100 degrees for days on end, there's not much else you can do).

This summer has been so great but I am definitely looking forward to fall and cooler weather. On to August!

Monday, March 20, 2017

Oh Two. Two Oh One Seven

It's nearing the end of March and I'm just now getting to February! Life has been crazy busy but I wouldn't have it any other way!

February was jam-packed with lots of LuLaRoe goodness! I had multiple in-home pop-ups, I went to an amazing training (and met the founder of LuLaRoe!) and fell more in love with this small business of mine. It has required a lot of hard work and sacrifice but it has all been so worth it!

Me and the beautiful founder of LuLaRoe!

I'm learning more and more about being a safe person and how important it is to have safe people. I really think our pastor bringing this topic up when he did was such perfect timing, as I've been wanting to spend more time with people one-on-one.

We also celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary! It's so crazy to think that we've been married for 9 years! Even harder to believe how close we are to 10 years! Time really does fly by when you're having fun!

We totally forgot to take a picture when we went out to dinner so we had to snap a quick selfie in our pj's instead!

We also took our anniversary trip to our happy place! I'm planning to write a separate post all about that.


Two down, ten to go!

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Wrapping It Up

It's so funny to me that I felt the urge to write a blog post today.

I looked back on when I did this same post last year...and it was one day earlier last year! I think it has something to do with Christmas getting closer and with me realizing that the year is almost over.

I've been writing a post the last few years about what my hopes and dreams for the new year are. I will share mine for 2017 in a few weeks, but I wanted to go over the ones I had for 2016 to see how things measured up this year.

My first one was to figure out where I should be serving at church. After praying about it a lot, I was approached to be a part of women's ministry at my church. It's been such a huge blessing so far and I'm excited to continue diving into my role this next year.

My second one was to figure out a way to encourage women more. And that has been two-fold this year. Obviously, my new position in women's ministry is a huge part of that. The other has been selling LuLaRoe. I love being able to help women find clothing that makes them feel beautiful and confident, and I love encouraging them to step out and try new things.

I'm still working on balance and letting go of fears. Having two jobs has definitely been something I've had to learn (and am still learning) how to balance. I'm definitely having to learn how to carve out time for the things that I need to do, as well as things that I want to do.

And now a little recap of 2016 (so far):

We started off 2016 with a little New Year's Eve gathering at our house with a few friends.



I went out dancing with some friends to celebrate three January birthdays, and my friend S.W. and I had a combined Harry Potter birthday party!



We went to Disney on Ice with our niece, and I attended a baby shower for a dear friend.



We went to Disneyland again for our anniversary!



We went to a MuteMath concert, and I saw Wicked with two friends!



We did an escape room, and celebrated Easter with family.



We went on a weekend trip with some friends



We celebrated my sister's birthday, and did a wine stroll with a couple of friends



Josh and I had a spontaneous date day that involved wine tasting, a fun lunch, and a trip to a candy factory



We went dancing (and found out a friend was pregnant), and attended a gender reveal party for another set of friends



We attended a little girl's kindergarten graduation, and went blueberry picking



We went to a couple of graduation parties, and attended our niece's ballet recital



Our friends from CO were in town!



We went to a 4th of July party with some friends, and celebrated our nephew's birthday



We had a fun day out with some friends, and Josh took me on a special surprise date



I went wine tasting to celebrate a friend's birthday, and we attended a gender reveal party for some friends



We went indoor go-carting with some friends, and I went on a planning weekend with the women's ministry team



I went to karaoke for a friend's birthday, and we went to a Labor Day BBQ with some friends



We went on a cruise with some friends!



We celebrated our niece's birthday



We went on a fun trip to Disneyland and Universal Studios




We went on a train ride with my family, and we attended a co-ed baby shower for some friends



We went to a corn maze with some friends, and went to our friend's annual Halloween party



We went to a friend's birthday party, and had our 3rd annual Friendsgiving



We went to CO to see our friends



We took our niece to see Moana, and we went to our friends' baby dedication



I did a craft night with some of the females in Josh's family, and we had a little Christmas get together at our house



We have some other fun planned for this month! I'm excited for what the rest of 2016 holds.