Today I thought I would kinda review and tell you guys about something different. I have been looking for new workouts and ways to spice up my routine (or the routine I am trying to get into). In looking for that I found a balance board, now I knew about these from watching surfing movies and I really wanted one of the cool ones they used, BUT those are really expensive, so I found this one which was much cheaper from Walmart. This is actually really fun, it has a decent weight limit and me and my husband have both individually used it just fine. It is somewhat challenging but not overly so as far as just balancing goes. It really can add something to different yoga and weight lifting routines, although you need to be super careful. I have been looking up tutorials on how to do different things with it. I would totally recommend this to help balance and spice up your normal routine if it has gotten too easy.

Hey guys!! So as I was getting ready this morning I was thinking about a conversation Andrew and I were having last night, it was about how some Christians act and respond when they don't like something someone does and I feel like someone somewhere needs to hear this on either side of the spectrum.... So you see someone doing something you don't like or hear about it? Well a lot of Christians (Here I will be using the term as "people who have accepted Jesus into there hearts") will respond very poorly, and I have been on the receiving end of this even being a Christian myself (yeah it happens between Christians of the exact same denomination too!!), I have had people judging me for my outfits, my music, you name it and you guys have seen my outfits in some posts, nothing at all bad, pretty modest by today's standards actually, but I have still had people go so far as to tell me I am clearly not a Christian because of it. Reasons like we aren't suppos...

Hey everyone! So this will be one of those rambley post with no exact clear point other than updating you about my anxiety, so if you are interested in that read on, if not, I'll try and get back to makeup on the next post... So as any long time readers may know, I don't talk about this much, but I do have a couple blog post addressing it and in those I like to try and be real with you guys about how I feel at the moment and what's been going on. My last one was about a year ago, it is  Anxiety: 2 steps forward, 1 step back  , and the first from almost 2 years ago is simply,  Anxiety Sucks  . I haven't felt the need to update these recently probably because nothing was really all that new. Nothing is per say new now, except I am trying to phase out most of my caffeine because it is making my anxiety worse at the moment. I would say overall I am on a upswing and things are going ok, I have a new job, which funny enough involves me driving alot and if you read...

Having the word obey in my vows was never something I really thought about until recently while trying to pick our wedding vows. Andrew mentioned he wanted obey in them and at first I wasn't too into the idea. A little back story for that, as a teen, the LAST thing I wanted to do was to have to obey any guy I was with, that sounded like TORTURE. Growing up in a very traditional Christian family and church though, that was taught (although not super heavily enforced in my house, both my parents worked together). I watched a lot of families who did enforce it and I didn't like how it looked from the way they did it in their households, it looked to me as if the women was basically a slave and I didn't see much love in it. The guy just did whatever he wanted and that was that, she went along. It in the Bible talks about women being a helpmeet for her husband and things like that and submitting to him and I really didn't like that idea as a teen, I ...

My Grandma, Parents and Us. Us with Andrew's Parents. Us with my parents. A really pretty cross-stitch my Aunt Betsy made us. Yay COOKIES!!! Lots of cleaning stuff!! Towels!! So excited to cook with this!! LOVE this photo! This reminded me of cinderella. Puppy's!! He sat punch on my shoulder and I didn't like it! My grandma hand made us lots of stuff! My mom's mom who I never remember meeting made this. Cheers! Catching blueberry's. Overall an awesome day and can't wait for the big day coming up FAST!!

Hey guys!!  Rambley post about my new adventure tonight!! So as you might know (or not) I am getting married VERY soon and moving out. My fiance and I have never lived together or by ourselves, we both live with our parents. Other than house sitting we've never stayed away from home much. I am super excited to be doing this because he is my best friend in the world, but I am also absolutely terrified. We still have to find a place to live and then manage to pay bills and not starve. I am very worried about that last part, although I know we'll be fine. I am looking for as many couponing apps as possible and trying to find recipes I can stretch. It is so exciting but so scary getting ready to move out on our own, I feel like we are just kids and have absolutely no idea what we are even doing. Which is really true, we have no idea. Just trying to figure out how to get everything together for the wedding is stressing me out, much less trying to figure out loan...

Hey guys!! So for todays post I thought I would try and do more of an advice/encouragement post. Now as most of you know, or if you are new you may not, I am a Christian so this is going to very much be based off that, however even if you aren't I am hoping it could still be helpful. So recently someone I know had been praying about something they wanted for months, a very specific thing, and they recently found out, it isn't going to happen, at least not right now. So that got me thinking about all the times I did that and how I felt. Over the last few years really I have been learning to pray about things, but not just pray for what I want, to pray for what GOD wants. Now this person knew that and was doing that, but the hard part about that is being able to accept God's decision isn't always what YOU wanted. It is very hard to trust his decisions when you wanted something so much and he says no or wait. Even recently I myself am really w...

Let me start off by saying by no means do you HAVE to be friends first to have an amazing relationship,  however this is from my personal experience and I wouldn't have it any other way in my case. I love that I began as friends with my fiance when we were younger because I feel like being friends first creates a really strong base for your relationship,  my fiance knows things about me that make a world of difference in how he responds to me. In various situations if we hadn't been friends before he wouldn't understand how I was reacting to things. With my anxiety for example,  he's learned much more through our 4.5 years together but he knew a good amount beforehand as well. One example is how I used to eat in the kitchen at our church because all the people stressed me out. Sometimes he'd even bring me food so I wouldn't have to go get it. Because of seeing that and experiencing that in our friendship he knew recently exactly what w...

Hey guys!! With the new year this is when a lot of people decide to start working out or to restart working out. I need to do this as well so I thought I would share workouts I enjoy with you. As you may be able to tell I like variety, I get bored super easy and am always looking for a new dvd, game, or activity to keep me interested, the longest I have stayed interested in one workout is probably a little under 3 months, then I tend to quit if I don't find a new one 1. Island Girl DVD'S These are a favorite of mine. It is basically really fast paced hula and it is super fun. It involves lots of hips motion and is super quick. The workout itself it like an hour long, but it is fun enough it isn't too bad. It is good for weight loss and toning, and will definitely make you sore using these new muscles if you don't usually do these motions. 2. Leslie Sansone Walking DVD'S Now I know what you are thinking, these are for old people, yeah kinda, b...