A picture is worth a 1,000 words

 

                                         I believe that one photograph,

one moment, captured, 

can tell your entire story.

Since starting a family of my own,

I've realized how important it is to "capture" these precious moments,

each and every stage along the way. 

I recently had the privilege to work with a local photographer, 

for my family portraits.
 I first met Morgan, in high school. After seeing her portfolio of natural light photography, I knew I had to have her beautiful camera photograph my little family.

Memories by Morgan Photography,

My Top Five Healthy living Standards

My Top Five Healthy living Standards

 

1. Take good quality supplements everyday including.....

a. Whey Protein, to build lean muscle and it's calcium rich.

b. A Whole Food Multi-nutrient, all the vitamins and minerals you need in a non synthietic form.    

c. Fish oil, this is where you get your much needed Omega 3 to nourish the brain, heart, and hormones.

d. Liquid Greens, green formulas make it easy to eat nutrient rich sources of leafy greens.

 

2. Drink 75-96 oz of Filtered water everyday

a. I add fresh juiced lemon to my water every morning.

b. Make sure you filter your water up to 7 million Americans become sick from dirty tap water and 40% of bottled water is actually tap water.

 

3. Eat Organic whenever you can this assures you that your food is free of pesticides, antibiotics and growth hormone plus it is better for the environment. I can't always afford organic but I just do the best I can to at least eat all natural.

 

4. Get good Nutrition, First of all go to your pantry and throw out all the unnatural disease causing garbage in there! (You kow what that is!) The more diverse your diet is the healthier you will be. Next time you are at the grocery store pick up new things you never have before.  This in turn will add new vitamins and minerals that your body is craving. Now as far as what to get. Every natural thing that God has put on this beautiful planet. (I can go into this much more another time)

 

5. Exercise!

a. Workout at least 3-5 times per week.

b. Incorperate weight training and of course cardio.

c. find something you love that is active!

 

Good luck!

KELLY

Keep Calm and Love on

After a weekend of chaos,

it is nice to know that "this too shall pass".

Thank you ALL for your encouraging words and advice.

 I read EVERY ONE of your comments, 

and your words meant so much to me. 

It's friends like YOU, that make this mommy thing a little easier. 

So, THANK YOU!

10 things I'd LOVE to do Every.Single.Day...

10 things I'd LOVE to do Every.Single.Day...

1. Have time in prayer

2. Sit down and finish a meal

3. Have a date night with my hubby

4. Read at least one chapter of a great novel

5. Have a play date with my sweet babies.

6. Take an evening bubble bath

7. Get dressed up (including hair and makeup) 

8. Hear my best friends voice
9. Make a stranger smile
10. Laugh so hard my tummy hurts

A girl can wish right?

What would you LOVE to do every.single.day?

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Precious Moments Should Be Set In Stone...

Or even better...imprinted on a beautiful sand casted Fleur-de-lis & Scroll tile and adorning your nursery like this one from Sadie Ryan.
I've saved all my birth annoucements (one of my favorite things to order after the baby is born) by gluing them into the baby book. But since the baby books are often scavenged by eager little hands, it's not the safest form of a keepsake in my house.

Sadie Ryan Keepsake Tiles are created using a process called sand casting. You upload your birth announcement, invitation or photo and they create your tile right here in the USA. It can be hung or you can add the leaf-accented easel during checkout. Tiles start at $49.95 @ SadieRyanTiles.Com

A mossy vignette

I found this amazing idea.... Please see below for step-by-step directions.

I wanted to spring bling out our foyer and the first project was an easy one. The inspiration came from Pottery Barn:

Are you surprised??
Their mossy letters are about 20 inches tall and run about $80 each.

SHUT. UP.

You can get these cardboard letters in various sizes at Joann’s – I got mine years ago with a coupon so it was only $5.
For this project, I got a huge sheet of mossy stuff:

I got this at Joann’s as well – it was $15 but I had a 40 percent off coupon, and then another 25 percent off my whole purchase. Saawheet.
I used hot glue to adhere the moss to the letter, and kind of cut out the moss as I went. On the curves I cut it so it would fit against the sides flush:

I cut out little triangle shapes to make it lay flat, so I used those to fill it all in later. (You can’t even tell where I glued them on.) Then I trimmed it up and it was done!
Two things if you try this – the hot glue will bleed through the moss sheet, so watch your fingers! For reals. Yikes. And wow – just. WOW. This project is messy:

Thank you Mr. Dyson.
The mess was worth it though -- it turned out just as I had hoped!:

I hung it over the mirror, (with hot glue again) but it would also look fantastic on a front door! Because I was too lazy didn’t want to do the back, you could see it was unfinished when I hung it. I used some of that sticky gummy stuff (that you use to hang posters) to hold it to the mirror:

Ahh yes, much better.
I finished off the buffet by working (mostly) with items I already had. My friend Missy was so sweet and sent me some mossy rocks from the Dollar Tree: