Anyone need/want some pictures done?
For free?
Kids? Family? Baby? Pets?
I need and want some practice
and YOU need Christmas pictures.
or birthday pictures.
engagement pictures?
baby pictures.
pregnant belly pictures?
boudoir pictures!
too much?
Email me if you’re interested (link on the left sidebar).
You can see Avery’s pictures here.
Addison here.
With the busy Christmas season, let’s say I’ll do 3 free shoots…thanks in advance for the practice!
happy friday
This weekend
I get to cross something off of my list
which totally excites me
however
it must be done outdoors
and Houston is expecting snow.
Yes.
HOUSTON TEXAS
is expecting snow on the one day I need the weather to be decent.
Wasn’t it 80 degrees last week?
But, I’m still gonna do the thing on my list
because I have been working on it for weeks…months…
and I have never ever done it
and never in my life thought I would ever ever do it
And it’s gonna be cold.
Burr.
My Birkman Analysis that I took at work says that I hate planning things…not like parties…I think I like planning parties. Not that I have ever planned a party. But Birkman is right. I hate planning out my week or day or the next 2 hours or what I will take for lunch tomorrow or my workout or what I will wear the next day. Hate it. Because, like, what if I want to change my mind, and I just spent all of that time and effort planning it out? That would be very annoying. And wasteful. I’m just trying to be a good steward of my time. I’m just trying to live my life.
The inevitable is that God will use his hilarious humor and pair you with someone who, for example, loves to have everything planned out and will ask four thousand five hundred fifty two questions to know all of the facts regarding said plan. And, as a result, you will find out that trying not to plan when the other one wants to plan will cause you all sorts of stress that you never knew you could experience. This is just for example.
But here’s the thing. I like to eat healthy and it can be pricey. Whoa total change of subject!! In fact, this all relates and this may be the most nauseatingly (I don’t know if that’s a word, but spell check isn’t flagging it, so I’m going with it) boring and grammatically incorrect blog post you have ever read in your entire lifespan. Eating healthy requires planning and preparation. Cringe.
But a lot of my friends and family have asked me how DC and I find time and are able to budget to eat healthy. When we first got married, we would go and spend all of this money on produce, put it in the half-working drawer in our apartment fridge, and pull it out conveniently a day after it had gone bad.
So here’s our thing. On Sunday (usually because it is big sample day and we really don’t have to eat lunch when we get home) after church, we go to the store and get all of our goods. Here is our fruit basket (wedding gift courtesy of Haven Bowers. Go give money to her run for Lymphoma or else).
Will Dietz says that everyone needs a 2 tiered wire fruit basket.
So there’s that.
So, after we lug everything out of the super busy HEB on Buffalo Speedway that we love, we go home and prep everything. And this little wonder makes it so easy!
The Rachel Ray garbage bowl which is also considered a perfect gift because I love this thing so much. Seriously, while I am prepping, I throw ALL scraps in here and I am not going back and forth to the garbage. Genius. Who would have thought…a bowl…
Anyway, so we peel it, cut it, prep it and put it in Pyrexes and it is ready for the entire week to throw into dinners, to throw into our lunches, and for easy healthy snacks. Plus! It keeps for much, much longer, HENCE, we don’t have to buy produce once a week anymore.
And if DC helps me, he usually makes something fun like Mango Salsa
Freaking. Yum.
Preparation really is whatcha gotta do to eat healthier- an hour per week of preparing like this, planning your meals for the week (especially around the holidays!) will save you tons and tons of time and effort (and calories) during the week. It’s a must if you want to control what you’re eating. So it is the only thing I will agree to plan in my life. That and when I am going to run.
And if you read this far, go beg God to give you the last 5 minutes of your life back because you just read the most humdrum blog post in the history of the world.
A little known fact about me: I was supposed to be born in the 60s. But, there was a slight hiccup in timing, and I came out in the 80s amidst the worst musical decade in the history of the world. Why, God, why!? Luckily, my father loved me and fed me with the music of the 50s, 60s, and 70s (if you were at our wedding, you know of our superb taste in music), so I am not completely musically hopeless like my husband. I’m kidding. Sort of. We’re working on him.
Last week, our Bible study group played Beatles Rock Band.
Best night of my life (other than the aforementioned wedding).
It was twenty years ago today, that
Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play
They've been going in and out of style
But they're guaranteed to raise a smile.
So may I introduce to you
The act you've known for all these years,
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
We hope you will enjoy the show,
We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,
Sit back and let the evening go.
Sgt. Pepper's lonely, Sgt. Pepper's lonely,
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
It's wonderful to be here,
It's certainly a thrill.
You're such a lovely audience,
We'd like to take you home with us,
We'd love to take you home.
I don't really want to stop the show,
But I thought you might like to know,
That the singer's going to sing a song,
And he wants you all to sing along.
So may I introduce to you
The one only Billy Shears
And Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Hotelscombined.com contacted me this past weekend. They like to give money to charities and saw my posts about Compassion International. So, with this post, they will give $20 to them…or any charity I select.
You can become a Facebook fan and earn $5 to any charity you want
You can Twitter about them and earn $10 to any charity you want
Or if you have a blog, you can blog it and earn $20 to any charity you want.
This time, though, I am going to have this $20 go toward my friend, Haven, and her marathon in January. She is running for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society which means a lot to us since her sister, Jinna (my super dear friend and matron of honor), battled Lymphoma 3 years ago. We are happy it’s gone, and we want to raise money for blood cancer research so that we can get rid of it for good. For everyone.
Facebook, Twitter, Blog it for a charity…spend their money…it’s too easy!
