Happy New Year!!

Happy New yr to y'all!! May this new yr be full of amazing memories and resolutions fulfilled!! :)
Happy New yr!



Merry Christmas!!

I hope everyone has a VERY Merry Christmas! May your day be filled with fun, laughter, food, cocoa, snow, (more for us than for you wisconsinites:) and hopefully a relaxing time with family and friends!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS! :D

Contest Deadline and Prize!

My contest deadline is January 1st. If you havent already read about it I will explain omce more:) If you click to follow my blog you will entered to win the prize which is a box full of chocolates which will be given to the winner. Again the Deadline is January 1st! Thanks for Following!

Christmas Party!

 We had our church Chritmas party last night and it was a riot! We had amazing ham (thanks Mr. Dallas:) and all the stuff on the side, plus desserts! We then had a white elephant gift exchange and sang Christmas carols! It was a lot of fun!!! Here are a few pictures!

Alrighty ladies... gotta fix the hair... ahhh :) lol

Very Nice Essie and Emmy! :D

Me and Sarah!

Jenna and Nathan! 

The Sophisticated side of the table!

And then the not so sophisticated! Lol Luv ya Dad! :D

Mr. and Mrs. Lucek!

Apparently RuthAnn didn't want her picture taken! too busy eating:D

Me and Rachie Boo!!

Our amazing youth pastor and his wife!!! Mr. Nate and Miss. Jessica! We love y'all! :)

I cannot take the credit for theis picture! Abby Crain took this awesome shot and I think it turned out gr8!

The best of the white elephant I could get! It got crazy and the camera got set down, go figure...

Thx for reading!!!!   @bbey

12-12-12!!

Happy 12-12-12!!! Do something special for someone today!!! I know I will :D

Charlotte trip!

Today we went to pick up Lisa at the airport and then went shopping downtown before eating at Golden Corral in Gastonia to wrap up a gr8 day!!! Enjoy the Pictures!

The Airport

Downtown Charlotte, NC

Lisa and Rachel right after we picked her up! :)

Some of the huge skyscrapers that looked sooo cool up close!

The Fountain that Rachel kept trying to push Lisa into! lol

The big Chritmas tree that was i n "Times Square" (we call it that cause downtown is so big and since were all from the country we likened it to New York! It was awesome!

Walking down the long streets of Charlotte!

I thought this building was soo funny... apparently this guy cuts hair and then sells chicken and fish to the people on there way out.... convenient! lol

Huge Bells that were sooo amazing!

Big Sis aka the Panthers mascot was downtown and I decided to get a picture with him even though I strongly dislike the Panthers!

We had a really fun time and were glad she is able to stay with us for the weekend! Thx for the fun afternoon Y'all! :D

Contest!!!!!

Ive decided to do a contest on my blog:) If your already a follower of my blog youve already qualified for the prize which I will be announcing in the nxt few days! If you come on my blog and follow it your name will be placed in a drawing for a special prize! Thanks for following followers and may the best man (or girl:) win!! :D

Tree Decorating and Cocoa

Anna putting up decorations (I don't know why she kid-of looks petrified in this picture but oh well:)

Mom stringing tinsel (with mom... it has to be just perfect... which I like:)

This year it was Anna's turn to hang up the star... wait I think every year Anna does it.. hmmmm not fair! lol

Afterwards we decided to have some hot cocoa

Please take notice to the amazing price of the these marshmallows... drumroll plz..... 49 cents!!!

Our Tree!

We had a really great night and we still have one more tree left!!

 Thx for reading!!

@bbey :D

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! Dont forget throughout your busy day full of football, parade watching and stuffing yourself full of food:) to remember everything that you have and to thank those that have done so much for each one of us! 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! 

2 Small Tips for a Healthier You!

    Exercise, exercise, every single morning you get up and do your workout for a solid hour and do it with heart and vigor. Then you get around for your day which also entails eating breakfast. You slurp down maybe a couple bowls of cocoa puffs and then grab a cereal bar on your way out the door. You then stop at your favorite fast food restaurant on your way to work and order more than just a few things from off the value menu. Of course what would you do without your favorite soda, so you stop at the quick mart and grab a couple 20ozs! Then you stop at the coffee shop to order your regular latte and then…

 I’ll stop before it can get any worse. You get the point. Many people feel like they workout out and exercise to the like of their new gym or DVD program that came thru the mail, but to no avail, the weight just simply won’t come off!! I know you pain and can relate! For months I worked out and every week the scale stayed the same if not worse. Why? Because like the person I illustrated earlier, my eating habits weren’t living up to my exercise regimen. At most meals I would have 2-3 portions of food and at least 4-5 desserts each week. No wonder the scale was never in my favor! I was getting very discouraged. Until I had a talk with my dad and he offered me a few tips for weight loss that are so simple and don’t require food manuals or packages sent to your door!! The 1^st tip is limiting your portions at meal time to one portion per dish. We would have spaghetti some nights and having only one serving of spaghetti and one breadstick really killed me, but as I did it more and more it got a lot easier! The 2^nd tip is only one dessert a week. You might be thinking, One dessert a week!! Sounds impossible! It’s not, because not only have I done that tip many times but I’ve had 4 weeks throughout my weight loss where I haven’t had any desserts or sweets at all. It was brutal! The more you do it though it does get easier! Get the idea! J I can promise that! When I instituted these two health tips into my life, I slowly started to see the weight come off. I was so motivated to keep going that some weeks I would not have any soda and would eat veggies for a snack! Shock! J

I do also have to say that for a good solid two months I did a shake diet called Slim-Fast. It was a huge help in my weight loss and really make me realize that you don’t need certain foods every day to survive. Even though it helped me lose quite a bit of weight, I didn’t use it the whole time. In my opinion, if someone tries to lose weight and stays on programs like that the whole diet, once you get off of it, you don’t know what’s good and bad to eat. It was a huge benefit in pushing me to lose, but I wouldn’t recommend staying on it the whole diet.

 As I instituted these tips into my life as well as the short time that I was on Slim-Fast, I consistently every week saw 2-3 pounds come off, but some weeks I stayed the same, which by the way got very frustrating at times. Since March 20^th 2012, I have seen 45 pounds come off and am working toward my goal weight to lose 15 more by January to lose, in total, 60 pounds. It’s been quite a journey but it’s paid off in more ways than one. I’ve been able to run faster and not have to stop as much, and doing pushups is a lot easier! J

Who would have imagined that these 2 simple tips could revolutionize the way you look at food?! It does! I’ve taught myself live to eat to live not live to eat and now I don’t crave certain foods I used too and look in the fridge 24/7 for something to slide down!  This is a total dream come true of mine and it can be for you as well, if you purpose in your heart to do it and never look back.

It was a lazy afternoon today and I decided to take some pics of Zak and Anna!! Enjoy:D

@bbey

Weight Loss= 45 pounds!!

I'm sorry if this post might seem a bit vain, but since March I have somehow managed thru limiting my portion in take and dieting to lose 45 pounds! My "amount to lose" goal is 60 pounds, so only 15 more :D Here are just a couple before and after pics! (Hopefully your not scarred:)

Christmas 2011 at my highest weight.

Halfway thru and doing it the dieting way by taking a hike! :D Aug 2012

Our last Sunday at falls June 2012

With Anna @ the corn maze Oct 2012