March 30, 2015

Weekend in Review 4 | March 2015

Last weekend of March! Where the heck does the time go and why must it go so fast?

I took care of the Friday recap already, which you can find here.

Saturday started off with a killer Insanity workout at 24 Hour Fitness. I had a couple newbies and they said they LOVED class, so here’s hoping they come back next time! Afterwards I came home to madness in the backyard!

Clint, Kyle, Gary, J and Ryan worked hard getting our new sidewalk and part of our patio down. We fell a little short on the concrete so will have to finish the rest of the patio later, but so far it looks great! This area of the backyard never received sunlight so it was a constant mud hole. It will be nice to bypass that mess!

I fed lunch to the boys, complete with fresh out of the oven chocolate chip cookies…

And then Jessica and I ran a few errands and followed it up with some driveway beers to soak up the warm sun.

Then it was time for Ashley’s Bachelorette party. Ashley is one of my biker b!tches and is CUTE as a button.

Ashley and I

Ashley and Tyree

We did the bar scene downtown Old Market until about 11:30 and decided it was time to bounce. Let’s just say the scene is NOT for me anymore. I will take a small dive bar off the beaten path any day over that scene.

The pickup lines were quite priceless though. Cue the guy who walked by Tyree’s friend Ashley (not the bachelorette) and without saying a word pointed to his eye, his heart and then pointed right at her.

Really, bud?

Find a new one because that didn’t get you sh!t with us.

Sunday

Sunday started off super lazy for me. Little sleep thanks to the mix of vodka, late night, dogs who have to pee and an internal alarm clock that fails me on the weekends. But, my day lightened up at noon as I was able to help celebrate Briton’s 5th Birthday!

How CUTE is this little guy!?

And his mama. ❤

Briton is going to be tearing up his neighborhood in no time!

The rest of Sunday has consisted of a little cleaning, yard work for Clint, meal prep (Sweet potato cubes baked with coconut oil and cinnamon made my house smell so darn delicous) and now iHeart Radio Music Awards. ❤

Cheers to a fabulous week!

January 2, 2015

Be Present

In The Moment

❤

I used to live my life in every other moment but the present. I found myself wishing moments away. Wishing for moments better. Wishing for moments past.

I didn’t fully appreciate the moment that was happening right in front of me.

Life is about living in the now, the moment, the here, the present.

This moment right now will never happen again.

Don’t miss the beauty of it. Don’t wish it away.

The way I live my life has changed over the years. I make a conscious effort to soak up every moment. I want to live a full life. A full existence.

My life is happy and full of love, energy, focus, dedication, enjoyment, appreciation.

Living for today is my happy.

I am happy.

LIFE is happy

❤

My new tattoo symbolizes my effort to be in the moment, every single day, in every single moment.

2015 is here… what are you going to do with it?

Choose to be present. Choose to be in the moment. Choose happy.

November 28, 2014

Thanksgiving Festivities

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family, friends, co-workers, your TV… whatever you ended up doing. 🙂

I started my day with the YMCA’s 5K Turkey Trot. I convinced Jessica to run it with me. It was great to have a partner out there in the FREEZING cold weather. My top layer consisted of not only Under Armour but also Nike and Target and I was still frozen solid!

Soon after Clint and I headed to Clarinda for a couple family dinners. We started the day at my Gr’pa and Gr’ma Goecker’s house for lunch and conversation and then ended our day/evening at Clint’s mom and step-dads.

Let’s just say I started off with really good intentions and ate more veggies than anything at Grandpa’s. Alcohol, little smokies and m&m’s won at the Swanson’s.

Good thing I am starting a 21 Day Challenge with 20 other women on Monday. Hot for the Holiday’s is our slogan. 😉

Anyway, back to Thanksgiving. The kids had a good time competing against each other in the Bean Bag toss.

And the adults had a lot of good conversation and some serious belly laughs. Grandma Drakes cookie catastrophe story had a few of us in tears. Hilarious that lady.

I even was able to wrangle the boys into a quick family photo:

Poor Kyle will never be an adult in his dad’s eyes when it comes to hugs:

We wrapped up the evening on the farm around 7:30 to make our way back to the city life.

Once home I got the stare down from Champ, so after 15 minutes of that ridiculous game, I let him up on my lap.

#iamasucker

#spoiled

Cheers to a wonderful weekend, whatever it is you are doing! If you are one of the crazies out there battling the black Friday shopping crowds – bless you hearts.

No. Stinking. Way.

October 31, 2014

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween from Us!

Last Saturday, Clint and I attended a Halloween Party hosted by a couple of friends. Since neither of us had dressed up for the Holiday in over 7 years, we decided to go all out and have our faces professionally painted by Omaha Masquerade. So glad we did! She did a great job of transforming our faces, I’d say!

My favorite part of the night definitely was walking into Target trying to find black lipstick AFTER my face was painted. I got a lot of double takes, laughs, a few hi-fives and some kids who yelled “MOM LOOK AT THAT”. hahaha.

A few photos from the evening: