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Entries from December 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008
Move it Monday.
makeover.
So...I thought I'd show you some of the images the girls took of me at Love Affair.
They totally made my day when I walked out of the airport and they made a huge deal about how skinny I looked and how they could tell that I had lost a lot of weight. When I got there I was down 15 pounds from the last time that I had seen them.
Before I had arrived Kelly had said that we would have to go clothes shopping because we had both lost weight. (Kelly has lost more than I have at being down over 20 pounds! She's also the one that inspired me to get with the program....I'm getting old and I'd like to be around a while.)
Kelly and Brandi talked me into a total makeover. We went and got my hair cut...short...really short in the back and a tiny bit longer in the front. I love how easy it is.
Then we went shopping for something cute (not just comfortable). When I arrived in San Diego the girls said I was wearing jeans that were way too big for me. Now I'm wearing a size that I had no idea that I'd fit into! Kelly and Brandi made me swear that I wouldn't wear my lumberjack jeans and shoes ever again. I did promise but I had planned to keep my comfortable 'lumberjack' shoes because they are perfectly wonderful to wear! But, I think I accidentally left them in the new shoes box...that I threw away at the W....bummer.
When I got home and had a chance to look at these pictures I was surprised at how thin I look. I'm so excited. I'm hoping to go down another 20 pounds but we'll see as I go. My mom keeps telling me that when you get older (like me) you can't be too skinny or you look even older. So...I'll be keeping that in mine. :)
How are you doing? We need to get our monthly contests started again....hmmm...what should the next prize be?
good. LIFE.
Gracie.


the many faces of Gracie.
I found these images of Gracie enjoying the last of a bowl of vanilla yogurt and fresh strawberries (one of my fave healthy treats) and just had to post her antics.
Gracie is so much fun. She loves to laugh, pretend, hug, play, run, ride her bike, bake cookies, get out more than one game at a time, cuddle, be read to, cuddle up with the softest blanket she gave me, sing any Faith Hill or Carrie Underwood song at the top of her lungs complete with deep emotion and performance, say the sweetest things, draw pictures of her and I together, and work it for the camera.
Gracie is silly, she totally can take and give a joke (even though she's only four), she loves to pray and she totally gets that Jesus loves her and everyone else in the world, and she can be pretty patient.
She loves to have fun and and has what seems like endless energy. She feels close to people and misses them deeply when they are away.
I love her...deeply.
She's wonderful.
love. LIFE.
Love Affair and Butterflies.
blessed.
I am exteremely blessed to have these ladies in my life. They are some of my dearest friends...we laugh, talk about fun things, scary things, business decisions, life decisions, intimate and personal details about our lives. I must say I've not really been a person who has a lot of girlfriends. I'd usually have just one or I'd have a bunch of guys I hang out with.
I always hoped for a bunch of girls to get together with...and I got my wish.
It's wonderful the way I get to talk to these girls, email them, and hang out with them. They tell it like it is and we sincerely love to be together (even though we know some crazy stuff about each other).
...AND we get to do the awesome Love Affair workshop together. Never did I dream that Love Affair would be as amazing as it is or that I would end up with friends of a lifetime. It's all a gift that I don't deserve. I'm in awe that I get this awesome present. So often, I wonder if I need to pinch myself because of the amazing way my life is going...my sweet family, wonderful friends, an opportunity to be creative, and to give what I've been given.
It's crazy good...and I know it.
Every time we do Love Affair we meet ladies that I feel so connected to and this Love Affair was the same way. My life has greater depth and beauty because of the women that come to these Love Affair workshops. They come to us desperate for help, full of talent, and just wanting to be able to somehow do what they love and have the time to love the people in their lives.
Getting to see the metamorphosis these women go through is astounding. It takes no time at all to see them emerge from a cocoon of fear, spread their wings, and fly away as the beautiful butterfiles that they were all along...but just couldn't find because of the burdens they were carrying.
So...here's to all of you Beautiful Butterflies that I've met in the last year:
You take my breath away when I go to your sites, see your gorgeous work, and hear about the way you're reclaiming your life and loving again. You move me, inspire me, and make me so proud. As I sit here writing this I see your faces and I'm seriously overcome with emotion thinking about you, your lives, your family, your business, your images. You are changing your lives...and you've changed mine. Thank you.
real. LOVE.
Move it Monday.
how did this happen?
I gained weight over the holiday. I thought that I had been pretty careful about how much I was eating. I also walked everyday. I ate and exercised but I obviously ate too much and didn't exercise enough! I've got to get back to the basics tomorrow morning!
How about you? It's not too late! We can lose weight through the holidays...I just know it!
real. LIFE.