Might Should Play the Lottery...

...so I never win anything. ever.

Never win raffles...never won the lottery...never won pools...just never win.

Until Now =)

I have entered many-a-giveaways since embarking upon the blog world to no avail. No problem if I don't win...I just move on. But low and behold yall I WON A giveaway!!! And I won big!!!


Ms. Sweet Tea was hosting a plethora of giveaways and I was so desperately hoping to win!!! So much so, that the comment I left her as my entry read something along "Please oh please I hope I win this! Just want to win one!!!" LOL.

She has given away some super cute stuff!!! So heading my direction I have:

One of these...LOVE Totes, and LOVE things with m new monogram =)



A Pair of these, which I can't wait to flip flop around in this summer!



And an Adorable Custom Made sign from My Flip Flopz!!! I am planning on having my sign have the same pattern and colors as the one below, but I would like it to read "Home is where your story begins"



Not to Shabby if I may say so myself!!!! Thanks again Angela!!!!!

What a......

weekend.

Holy Moly...I think I am more exhausted right now than I was after my own wedding!!! Hmmm, well I'm sure the fact that at this time and date on our wedding weekend we were enjoying a lovely dinner along the ocean and beaches of Mexico- but anyway.....I'm exhausted.

Great weekend with family....My Brother-in-Law got married so Rob and I now have a new Sister-in-Law...and it was just an interesting but fantastic weekend.

2 Things I have to post about this week:
1) The fantastic giveaway I won
2) Another post regarding the wedding.

for now my friends....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..................

Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes..and an "I Do"

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes...Knees and Toes....Eyes and Ears (and abs and glutes and quads and hamstrings and biceps and chest and delts and latissmus dorsii's and ankles and wrists) and mouth and nooooosseeee....yep. Do you know what these previously mentioned body part mean??? Do ya??? Huh Huh...do ya????

Here let me help.

It's the parts of my body that are so sore that I don't know what to do with myself. Just now, as I sit here and me fingers move along the keyboard and pointer fingers have to stretch to meet some of the keys, its traveling up my arm and causing my shoulder/chest to sting me with a shock of soreness!!!!

And I whining once more??? YUP. Yes-Siree.......I am. Because I HURT!!!!! LOL!!!

Jillian kicked my butt again today...and will again tomorrow, and the next day and the next. But in all honesty..if you guys are looking for a seriously good workout video that is a quick one to do when you don't have a whole lot of time- check it out. It was around $11 from Amazon with shipping included.

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And in other news, I just wanted to go ahead and post this now, because our weekend is just about to get pretty busy!!!! Rob's brother is getting married this weekend and family begins to arrive tomorrow!!! It's been pretty much exactly 6 months since these family members were here last, and when they were...it was for our wedding, and as most of you know- you get about 10 seconds with each person when you are getting married!!!

Sooo...family begins to arrive tomorrow and I imagine we will be spending time with them tomorrow evening, and definitely on Friday as we have the Rehearsal Dinner (Texas de Brazil here I come!!!!!) and on Saturday as they say "I Do".

I'll have a post after the wedding with pictures and what not :) I have an idea of what we are wearing...and well- Rob just looks so dang handsome in a suit!!!!!!!!

J-E-L-L-O!!!!!

Seriously. When like everyone and their dog says that something is "so-and-so" you would think you would believe it, right???? For instance....if everyone, hypothetically, were to say "Jillian Michaels kicked my butt!! I was sweating, shaking, and my legs were like Jell-O." You might believe them, right??

So why do I think I'm an exception?!? Yall, my Jillian Make me sick Michaels DVD came in the mail yesterday. So today was the day.

Ready.Set.Go.

I got all geared up ready to make fun of her video when it was all said and done...so I trotted my happy self downstairs, fought with the big screen in the gameroom, asked Hubby to fight with it also, and after enough of a battle with the darn thing, I huffed off into the guest bedroom to see "what this was all about".

Ahem.

It's 1:54 PM here. Approximately 5 hours AFTER I finished the mere, 20 minute, workout and my legs are still weak.

I kid you not.

She kicked my butt. But I'm determined people, I'm determined!!!!!!

10 days at Level 1, 10 days at Level 2 and 10 days at Level 3.

Rob asked me my gameplan with this said video because well, I guess he has started to see a trend in me ordering/saying I'm going to "do this activity or that" and then I never do it. I politely informed him that I plan to die exercise with Jillian Michaels every day of the week. Yup. {insert me biting off more than I can chew right about here} and then, I plan on heading over to the workout facility in the neighborhood on the weekends for some intense(er) cardio. However as it stands today, I could barely make it down the stairs when I had to leave this morning.

I'm not giving up!!!!!!
(at least not today)!!!!!!!!

Who else is still shaking from their workout a week ago????????

Happy Birthday To You....

...happy birthday to you...happy birrrttthhhdayyyy dear, Megan...
Happy Birthday To You!!!

This Sweet Sister of Mine:

has somehow managed to go from Baby to Big Girl, and Big Girl to Grown Woman

Megan sang at our wedding during the Unity Sand

And well...can still be as crazy as they come :)

And I love her for all that she is, and all that she is going to continue to become. Megan and I are 5 years apart, so for much of our lives, we were just in different spots, and didn't have a whole lot in common. We both love each other so much, but were in such different parts of life. Now that we are both "grown" and more mature apt to act our age we really becoming close and understand each other so much more. There really is no love like that from sister to sister. Hard to explain, but so rewarding to know.

Megan- I love you so very much and am SO glad to call you my sister!