The party starts monday! That is how I think of it, an 8 week party to improve your life. It is a lost and found party. Lose those extra pounds you have found and Find more time for yourself and your family! Have you joined the party? There is a cover charge, it is $20, but it will be well spent. How often do you spend $20 on a meal, and not even think about it? I truly believe that money can be a motivation factor here. If it was all free, would you see any value in the program. I personally think that this program is worth more then $20, but it is affordable, so just about everybody can participate. I hope to see you on the team that starts Monday! Space is limited, so get to the website and sign up now!
One thing I struggle with is meal planning. I know I need to do it, but it isn't my favorite thing to do. A few months ago, I started making a list of meals that our family likes to eat for dinner. I have compiled almost 30 meals. The other day I put them all on a paper calendar. Today I put them all into icalendar. I am printing it out, and I will put it on the fridge for the whole family to see. I also added all of my family members that have phones to the calendar program. I will be sharing these meals with you as we eat them, so be on the look out for some recipes.
Engagement Photo Story
This photo is the one we sent out with our wedding announcements. There is a story behind this photo. My sister-in-law was taking our engagement pictures. We decided to go to a park with a small waterfall. It was very picturesque. We took a bunch of nicely posed pictures there. When we were leaving we drove passed and decided to stop at The Flower Fields, in Carlsbad. I wanted to see the flowers up close. The flowers that they plant are called Ranuculas. The plant rows and rows of the flowers on the hill, and they plant them by color. If you ever have the chance, you should go visit. It is very beautiful.
While we were there my sister-in-law said squat down by the flowers and I will take some pictures, so we did. I had taken off my shoes, because heals don't work to well in loose dirt. I was squatting with my dress hiked up to my mid thigh. Brian squatted down behind me, we smiled and Vicki snapped a few pictures; then we left.
This was in the days before instant digital photography. We had to wait a few hours for the picture to be developed so we would know if they had turned out. As we looked thru them, I was kind of disappointed. The pictures didn't seem very flattering to Brian or me. I was thinking, we are going to have to take more pictures, not very fun. Then we came to the pictures from the flower fields. They were great! We were very relieved that we had pictures we could use to send out with our announcements. We both looked great in the pictures.
This picture has always been a reminder that things aren't always as they seem. It wasn't very comfortable getting this picture taken. If you could see our legs you would laugh at how we were squatting. That is just how life is sometimes, we can't always see the big picture. Sometimes things are hard and uncomfortable, but they are going to turn out beautiful in the end. Sometimes we look at others and their lives seem perfect from the outside looking in. We can't always see the trials they are going thru. Brian and I have been married almost 20 years and there have been trials and hardships, but our lives are beautiful.
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