Happy Birthday FurBabie!

(It was supposed to be published on Friday but Blogger decided to be a butt!!)

Happy birthday, baby girl! Today, you turn ONE!
You have grown right in front of my eyes.

I love that you are so playful.

And you are so curious.

You take direction so well.

You are such a daddy's girl. He loves you so much, you know...

People who don't have FurBabies don't understand sometimes,

how much a FurBabie like you means to me.

It was really love at first sight, darling...

You made me your Momma and I am so lucky!

When we got you, you were only 9 weeks.

So little!

But as soon as we saw you, 

both your Daddy and I were SO excited to take you home!

Now you're a little smaller than a normal Sheltie,

but I'd say you're even more gorgeous!

I love cuddling with you in the morning after your daddy leaves for work.

I love watching you play in the yard....

or just sunbathe.

You're always so full of energy and life!

I love you so much little Lexi.

Here's to many many more years of fun and love.

xoxo,

Momma

Wedding Dress Blues...

If you were a little girl that dreamed of your wedding day, what was the center of that dream? Was it the decorations? the guests? Your groom? For many girls, it was probably the white flowy dress.  I sure as heck didn't know what colors, how many guests or what my groom looked like (sorry Bean, I do now!!) but I knew my dress would be pretty, white and make me feel like a gorgeous woman.

When I got engaged, one of the most common questions was when I was going to go shopping for my dress.  For some reason, I got secretive.  I didn't want ANYBODY to know what my dress was going to look like... not just my groom.  I know that my mom (living an ocean and a continent away) won't see me in my dress until the day of the wedding.  I don't think I'm necessarily bummed about that as you might think... this is why.

I thought she might want to see the styles I was thinking of so I sent her a few links to dresses I had my eye on (I'm ooogling over a few, but have ONE that I'd just love to have...) and she sort of shot all of them down. I think she would be happy if I wore a dress like one my sister wore (think big lacy and princessy).  She was gorgeous in it!  But her wedding was inside a chapel, and it was super fancy smancy...  My mom doesn't get weddings that are less formal than what my sister had.  So, a less FLOUFFY, less princessy, non-ballgown isn't acceptable... It just isn't me, mom! I also don't want to wear 20 lbs of dress or get stepped on!

(All together now, say hi to my gorgeous baby sister!)

So, I'm scared of going shopping with anybody else, for fear that my ideal dress is going to be something that they just pass on.  Or that my crowd wouldn't love it as much as I would.  If I put a dress on and think "this is the ONE!" and the people I bring with me say "ok let's try the next one, I don't think this is it." do I keep going? Or do I trust my gut about this one? Because in the end, it's what I want (obv with consideration of other people's feelings... but I'll be the one wearing the dress!) right?

le sigh...

Button Button Button, grab one!

WHEEE!!! Happy Hump Day!

I am so excited because Karissa made me a button! Don't you just LOVE it? It screams ME! I am so excited.

I haven't grabbed ANYBODY's button because, if you look on my blog's column, it chops everything off so you can't even see it.  (Yes, I know I need a new blog... Maybe my future husband would pay for me to get a new blog layout for my wedding gift?? haha!).





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For those of you who have awesome functioning blogs that don't eat up pretty buttons, please take one of mine! I'll be sure to do the same once I fix my button-eating blog problems!!  If you do take one, please comment so that I can come back to this so I can come back and grab your button later on!

Thank you so much Karissa!!!

Summer 2010 Fitness Tracker

SUMMER 2010 FITNESS TRACKER

I'm going to use this link to track my progress though out the summer!

I'm coloring in my progress. It's really little baby steps!

100 Mile Run Resolution

15 miles in! 85 Miles to go!

6/8/2010 - 1.5 miles (It was hard. I walked a bit so I went until I hit 2 miles...Man, running is hard work!)
6/10/2010 - 1 mile (Yeah yeah I know! But I also did an ab work out AND a kettle bell work out!)
6/14/2010 - 1.5 miles (I split it up. Half before yoga, half after yoga)
6/16/2010 - 1.5 miles (I think it's getting easier to run a bit farther at a time, I only have to walk every .7 miles... It used to be about every .25 miles.  It still is the most BORING sport in my mind)
6/21/2010 - 1 mile (I thought I was doing SO well.  I guess taking the weekend off was a BAD idea!)
6/30/2010 - 2 miles (I didn't die! But I alternated between longer bits of faster running and jogging)
7/5/2010 - 2 miles (I ran outdoors!! I alternated between jogging, running and walking but it felt pretty nice to run outside. Still need to build my stamina at the gym where I can keep track of my pace!)]
7/7/2010 - 2.5 miles (I was a fat-ass and ate fried food last night so I was guilted into running!! It was a longer run/jog!)
7/9/2010 - 1 mile (I did Jillian Michaels' 30 day shred 20 minute work out and that kicked my butt that I could only do 1 mile, I did do strength afterwards though...)
7/10/2010 - 1 mile (I went to a wedding and still ran at the gym. Yep motivated!)

Turbo Jam and Workout Classes

6/7/2010 - 45 minute CARDIO PARTY! (This kicked my butt...)
6/8/2010 - 20 minute AB JAM (Oh feel the burn!)
6/9/2010 - 20 minute WORKOUT (Sweaty but could have gone longer)
                 20 minute AB JAM (feeling the burn from yesterday)
6/10/2010 - 20 minute AB JAM (not as bad as the past 2 days! maybe it's getting easier??)
                   20 minute KETTLE BELL WORK OUT -not turbo jam (kicked my butt...)
6/14/2010 - 45 minute POWER YOGA (who knew yoga could be so darn hard!?)
6/17/2010 - 20 minute TURBO CARDIO (Maybe I wasn't doing it as intensely as before but it wasn't hard...)
                   20 minute TURBO SCULPT (A little resistance training.  5lb weights, squats, arm sculpt)
6/21/2010 - 60 minute POWER YOGA (Seriously kicked my little butt! Who knew I had muscles there!)
6/26/2010 - 20 minute WORKOUT (Sweaty but good!)
                   10 minute AB JAM (Ran out of time, but got a work out in!)
7/9/2010 - 20 minute 30 DAY SHRED (Level 1) (Jillian Michaels is NO joke! I am SWEATY!)
                  30 minutes STRENGTH TRAIN: LIFT WEIGHTS
7/12/2010 - 20 minute 30 DAY SHRED (Level 1) (Still breathless... panting...)

Summer Resolutions

I never do New Year's Resolutions because I KNOW I can't keep them.  I also have never set a Summer Resolution for myself.  But I'm feeling inspired.  My friend, Tiffanie, over at My Domestic Niche is currently doing a Push Up Challenge where she is doing 200 push ups a DAY! (I can't even do ONE good push up).  So clearly that isn't my resolution.

While I was writing my Summer to do list (that list is for another day), I thought of my fitness goals.  I want to try Yoga.  But that seemed too easy so I wrote "run 100 miles."  If you know me, or read my posts around the Run for the Warrior, you know that running is not my forte.  I quite suck at land sports.  I'm a fishie!  Anyway, I'm challenging myself to run 100 miles this summer!

We'll see how I do, but I have an old-school tracking device (that looks like a chart that they used to use in kindergarten where the teacher puts stickers on your paper for every nice thing you do...). 

 I'm also doing Turbo Jam.

 If you have never heard of it, it's by the BeachBody company that does the famous PX90 system.  Turbo Jam is fun though.  It's really my kind of work out.  It combines aerobic exercise with capoeira moves, kick boxing moves and dance! FUN!

This is Charlene Johnson who started it.  She is in her 40's and she is fit! What do you think??

I think Turbo Jam is SUPER fun but it's also exhausting. 

So I'm pumped. I'll be doing my Turbo Jam workout and running a few miles today!

 Do you have any summer resolutions that you want to conquer?