How to Eat Clean: Do I or Don't I?

Clean Eating vs Not Clean Eating

Adapting a clean diet has always been the bane of my existence. I LOVED my fatty, not so great for you food. I used to spend HOURS at the gym and then run through the drive thru on the way home, which completely killed all that work I had just put in. So I finally sat down with myself and I said "self, you gotta get this clean eating stuff under control". So I sat off to do just that. I did a little research on top of doing my 21 Day Fix teaching me all about clean food and portion control. The results I have gotten since then speak for themselves. I am currently down to 115 which had been my goal since junior year of highschool and I had almost just accepted the fact that it was never going to happen. Cleaning y'all, is where its at! So here are a few tips I've picked up along the way I wanted to share!!

One of my FAV clean snacks

Things you SHOULD be doing:

• Eating 5-6 small meals a day
• Portion Control
• Eat breakfast (this one is so hard for most people) within an hour of waking
• Eat healthy fats like hummus or avocado
• Combine your complex carbs with a protein 
• Always keep in mind you should be eating a TON of veggies

Things you SHOULD NOT be doing:

• Eating artificial sugars (I use stevia)
• Drinking sugar loaded drinks, try to stick with water or infused water
• Drinking a ton of beer and fruity girly cocktails, if you must vodka and tonic is the best option
• Eating processed foods, especially white flour
• Eating foods with preservatives
• Snacking off your kid's teddy grams

Word of the wise, shop the OUTSIDE of the grocery store. The isles are FILLED with over processed, artificial CRAP. Does it taste good? Heck yes, but it will also make you feel crummy afterwards. Obviously I don't beat myself up over doing this every single second of every single day. I am a firm believer in the 80/20 rule. I still allow myself to have my treats every so often because I don't want to be miserable. But that's what they are, treats, not my lifestyle. Try adopting some of these tips and see what crazy wonderful things start happening!

Eating Clean: Healthy General Tso's Chicken

Get In My Belly!

I LOVE Chinese food. It's one of my biggest guilty pleasures. Of course will go ahead and cancel out that entire Insanity Max 30 workout I did for the past month in one plate full. So when I came across a healthy version of General Tso's Chicken I had to try it out. Um, it was pretty much amazeballs. You have GOT to try it! I paired it with the Lime Quinoa that I made a few weeks ago and it was pretty fantastic.

Healthy General Tso's Chicken

Ingredients:

*1 lb. raw chicken breast, boneless, skinless, cut into 2-inch pieces
*2 Tbsp. + 1 tsp. cornstarch, divided use
*¼ tsp. sea salt
*1 tsp. sesame oil
*2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
*1 thin slice fresh ginger, peeled, finely chopped
*2 Tbsp. reduced-sodium soy sauce
*½ cup low sodium chicken broth
*1 Tbsp. rice wine vinegar
*2 Tbsp. tomato paste, no added sugar
*2 tsp. hoisin sauce
*1 tsp. pure maple syrup (or raw honey)
*2 Tbsp. cold water
*2 green onions, sliced
*1 Tbsp. toasted sesame seeds

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375° F.
2. Line baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside.
3. Place chicken, 2 Tbsp. cornstarch, and salt in a medium bowl; toss until well coated.
4. Place chicken in a single layer on prepared baking sheet; bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until cooked through.
5. While chicken is baking, heat oil, garlic, and ginger in large skillet over medium heat; cook for 1 to 2 minutes.
6. Add soy sauce, broth, vinegar, tomato paste, hoisin sauce, and maple syrup. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low; cook for 4 to 5 minutes.
7. Dissolve remaining 1 tsp. cornstarch in cold water; add to soy sauce mixture. Gently boil, stirring frequently, for another 3 to 4 minutes, or until sauce begins to thicken.
8. Add cooked chicken to sauce, coating thoroughly.
9. Serve chicken sprinkled with sesame seeds and green onions

New Year, New Opportunities!

Make this Year the BEST!

I sat here earlier in just a bit of shock that its already 2 weeks into 2015. I mean Valentine's Day is literally a month from today. Why does it seem like the time is just FLYING by?! I have some really big goals for myself this year and I am so excited to get them set in action.

It's now been 6 months since I took the plunge and decided to become a Beachbody coach. I started this journey not having ANY idea what I was going to do with it. All I knew was I wanted to be able to have my discount and drink my Shakeology I was so desperately missing. It was in the back of my mind that I could possibly make this an awesome career for myself, but I didn't want to get too invested in that idea because I didn't want to become upset if it didn't happen but I did want to try at the same time. So I signed up got my PiYo and joined my little Fit Fighters family not really knowing what to expect.  Little did I know that in those six months of staying dedicated and not allowing myself to give up I have managed to help people gain their self confidence back, pay my own bills, stay at home with Ryken, and get into the best shape of my life, oh and the free swag isn't all that bad either! So let's break down those little tid bits, point by point. Hold on to your hats ladies and gents, your mind is about to be blown!

1. I get to help people.

Raise your hand if you have ever stared at yourself in the mirror and wanted to cry (insert little girl with her hand raised emoji here). I had bottomed out at ZERO self confidence after struggling with it pretty much my entire life. I just kind of accepted this is just how life was going to be. WRONG! Oh how wrong I so was. I learned that with a hard work, determination, support, and motivation it is possible to have your self confidence back. That is what I believe I was put here to do, to show people, to help them overcome their bad outlooks of themselves. Since I've started I have been helping people each and every month with my coaching and challenge groups. The messages, texts, phone calls, that I get of people thanking me and telling me their progress and how others are starting to notice their progress. It seriously makes my heart burst. Even if I quit right this second (which hello why would I?!) I would be so proud of the people's lives I had changed up to this point.

2. I get to stay home with Ryken and pay my own bills.

This one was actually a nice surprise. I did not expect this to become something big enough that I could sit here and proudly proclaim I am being independent (well to an extent). When I got pregnant I was not interested in putting my baby in daycare. No offense to ANYONE that has their babies in daycare I understand that sometimes you have to do what you have to do. But for me I didn't make enough money at the job I had to afford anything else after I would be paying for daycare. I literally would have been working to pay for daycare and to me that just didn't make any sense. Even more so, when Ryken was born almost 3 month premature I DEFINITELY did not want him to go to daycare and end up getting sick or something (I mean the poor child was only 4.5lbs when he came home from the NICU so no, no thank you to the daycare thing). So for about 9 months I was living off the money I had to cleverly been saving out of each paycheck from when I was working but it was running low so Adam and I started trying to figure out how to budget in my car payment, insurance, credit card, etc into the bills he was already playing. Things were going to be tight but we were going to be able to do it. But low and behold, a few months into this Beachbody game I actually started making some decent money, enough that Adam never once has had to pay for any of the above mentioned bills and I still get to stay home with my baby toddler (seriously, when did he get big?!)

3. My job is to be in the best shape of my life.

As you can read on my very first post, I was NOT living a healthy lifestyle before I got pregnant and it DEFINITELY showed. So when I found out I was pregnant I was already tipping the scale at my heaviest at around 130 and over the course of my pregnancy and preeclampsia and all the extra weight I gained in the hospital I broke my record weighing in at 177. Of course about 20-30lbs of that was water weight that fell off over a few weeks but after that I was left having to figure out how to get the rest off. Um, brutal. So needless to say when I signed up I had gotten down to around 125ish just with breast feeding and 1 round of the 21 Day Fix a few months prior, but I was NOT eating healthy by any stretch of the imagination. I signed up got my PiYo and joined a challenge group with my coach. I started changing my eating habits, drinking my Shakeology, working out every single day; changing my lifestyle. Obviously if I was going to be talking to other people about changing their lifestyles and leading these challenge groups I needed to be practicing what I preached!! Plus I was surrounded by all these AMAZING people that are the team with me who were up doing their workouts, posting pictures of their healthy snacks all day, and just being crazy uplifting in our team group of Facebook so it made me want to do it too! Our little team group page is pretty much, in my mind, a coach challenge group. It keeps the motivation alive! Then, low and behold, six months later I'm down to 112 (which I'm pretty sure is less than my HIGH SCHOOL DRILL TEAM WEIGHT) and I feel SO much better because of the food choices I make and because I'm drinking my beloved Shakeology. I can actually keep up with my CRAZY 16 month old wild child and still get my Insanity Max workout in! If it wasn't for me stumbling across this opportunity I wouldn't be where I am today and I'm so proud of my accomplishments.

Last but not least....

4. I get free swag!

Okay, so while I don't have to pay for ANY of it, most of it I have earned by working hard and just being awesome haha but more by just working hard. Here are a list of the things I've received as a "job well done"

• 4 workout tanks/tshirts
• workout equipment like stability ball and agility ladder
• personal development book
• FREE ticket to Summit this year in Nashville
• workout headband
• potentially a FREE cruise next year for Adam and I if I keep up the good work

I mean obviously its not all about the free stuff you can get but just knowing that you are a part of a company who really truly cares for your success is remarkable. I have had plenty of jobs over the years and I have never felt more appreciated than I do with Beachbody.

What does it take to make you happy?!

So, with that said, I wanted to let you all know that YOU can be in on this too! Best news is you can put in AS MUCH TIME AS YOU WANT! You want to be a part time coach thats cool, you want to go all in and MAKE THIS YOUR CAREER perfect! Below is a little video that will explain a little bit of the options when it comes to signing up to be a part of my team!

I will be opening a new coach training group NEXT MONDAY JANUARY 19th, I have 5 spots available so if you think this is something you could do fill out the application below and we can get to chatting about how to make serious changes in your life! 

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Eating Clean: Chipotle Chicken & Lime Quinoa

And its my favorite!

Um, YUM!! This is probably one of my favorite meals to date! I made a ton of the quinoa so I have been eating it all week long and the flavor has been ON POINT!! So lets get down to business! ((Please note the chicken breasts need to sit in the marinade for a while, preferably overnight, I didn't realize the first time I went try and make it))

Chipotle Chicken:

Ingredients:
*1.25 lbs of Chicken Breast Tenders
*2-3 tsp Chipotle Powder (So I didn't have chipotle powder so I used chili powder and it worked great)

*1 tbsp Olive Oil
*1 tbsp White Wine Vinegar
*2 tbsp Dijon Mustard
*2 tbsp Chopped Cilantro
*2 Garlic Cloves, Minced
*1/4 tsp Black Pepper
*1/2 Tbsp Stevia

Directions:

1. Combine all of the above ingredients into a sealed container or ziploc bag and marinate the chicken in the refrigerator for several hours.2. Heat a large, non-stick skillet over medium heat.
3. Pour the chicken and the marinade into the skillet and cook until browned on both sides and the chicken is cooked through. About 4 minutes per side. (my breasts were a bit larger so I cooked them about 6 or 7 minutes on each side just to make sure they were all the way done)

Lime Quinoa:

Ingredients:*1 cup Quinoa*2 cups Water*1/4 tsp salt*1/2 tsp Black Pepper*2 tsp Coconut Oil*Zest and Juice from 2 Limes

Directions:
1. Rinse quinoa in a fine sieve and then transfer to a medium pot.
2. Add all of the ingredients except for the lime zest and juice and bring to a boil. 
3. Reduce the heat to low and simmer 15-20 minutes, covered, until the water is absorbed.
4. Add the lime juice and zest and fluff with a fork.

Eating Clean: Quinoa Cheese Bread

Who needs garlic bread!?

Y'all...this picture does NOT do these justice! Let's just put it this way, my dad liked it and he doesn't like ANYTHING he's basically the most pickiest eat in the entire world. So hats off to me! I made this to go along with the cauliflower crusted pizza I made the other night (recipe found here)! I used the clean marinara sauce I made a dipping sauce! 21 day fix approved!!!

Quinoa Cheese Bread

Ingredients:

*½ cup quinoa
*3 tsp. olive oil, divided
*1 cup water
*2 large eggs
*1 ½ tsp. garlic powder

*1 tsp. Sea salt
*½ tsp. dried oregano leaves
*½ tsp. dried basil leaves
*½ tsp baking powder
*¼ cup shredded mozzarella 

Directions:

1. The quinoa I found at the store was already pre-rinsed so I did have to worry about doing that. But if you don't have the pre-rinsed kind you need to place your quinoa in a fine strainer and rinse it under cool water until it runs clear.
2. Now you need to add the quinoa and 2 tsp of olive oil to a medium sauce pot with the heat on medium for about 6 minutes stirring occasionally to allow the quinoa to toast.
3. Next add the water to the toasted quinoa and cover bringing to to a boil and then reducing the heat to a simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. 
4. After that, remove the lid and turn the heat to low and cook for 5 more minutes and then pour the quinoa into a large bowl to cool for about 10 mintues.
5. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spray with cooking spray.
6. In a smaller bowl add the eggs, 1 tsp of olive oil, garlic powder, sea salt, oregano, basil, and baking powder and cheese and whisk until thoroughly combined. Slowly add the egg mixture to the quinoa and combine well.
7. Spread the dough into about a 1/4 inch layer on the parchment paper and bake for 18-20 minutes until the edges are brown.
8. Top with more shredded cheese and return to the oven for 5 mins
9. Let cool and enjoy!

Eating Clean: Cauliflower Crust Pizza & Clean Sauce from Scratch

Healthy Pizza, can it be!?

So I love trying out new healthy recipes I actually rarely repeat them because I like experimenting with new ideas and trying to teach myself to cook in the process!! So last night I tackled a big task. I not only made Cauliflower Crust Pizza but I also made the sauce from scratch AND I made Quinoa Cheese Bread (which will be another post here shortly). Will I say this is my favorite? Not exactly, but it wasn't bad either. I just prefer my real pizza because I'm a fat kid at heart :) And of course its all 21 Day Fix approved!

Cauliflower Crust Pizza

Ingredients:

*Head of cauliflower

*3 egg whites

*3 TBSP of whole wheat flour (the recipe I used actually called for oat flower but I made due with what I already had in the cabinet)

*1/2 tsp of garlic powder

*Salt and Pepper

*Few dashes of oregano

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

2. Break up the cauliflower into chunks and put them in the food processor (I used my NEW ninja) and blend until its a grainy consistency. This might take a few steps depending on how big your food processor or ninja is.

3. Place the cauliflower in the microwave for about 8 minutes to make it soft. Remove and let it cool completely (I stuck mine in the freezer for a few minutes)

4. After its cooled, take a handful at a time in a paper towel and SQUEEZE!!! Make sure you get AS MUCH water out as you can so that it will hold together better in the oven.

5. After its all squeezed add your egg whites, flour, garlic powder, salt and pepper, and oregano and mix it all really good!

6. Roll mixture into balls and flatten out on the cookie sheet I made personal pizzas for everyone. (even a baby one for Ryken!)

7. Place in the oven for 15 minutes. Then remove and carefully use a spatula to flip the crusts over and place back in the oven for 7-10 minutes.

8. Take back out and add your sauce and whatever toppings you'd like (I cooked up some turkey bacon and crumbled it on top with pieces of basil). Place back into the oven for 5-10 minutes.

9. Let cool and enjoy!

Clean Sauce from Scratch

Ingredients:

*1 small onion cut into cubes

*3-4 garlic cloves, minced

*1 tsp olive oil

*1/2 c of roasted red peppers (I found the jarred ones and used those)

*4 tomatoes, cubed

*3 TBSP of red wine vinegar

*1 tsp of red pepper flakes

*1 tsp of honey

*A bit of hot sauce

*Salt and pepper

Directions:

1. In a sauce pan on medium heat add in your onions, garlic and tsp of olive oil; cook until onions are tender.

2. Add the tomatoes and red pepper and simmer until all the juices are released.

3. Add the red wine vinegar and pepper flakes and cook for 3-4 minutes

4. Transfer it all into a food processor (again I used my ninja) and blend until its all a liquid consistency.

5. Add in the honey, hot sauce, and salt and pepper and blend again until its all mixed in.

6. Enjoy

This sauce recipe made a TON so I'm storing it to make some spaghetti out of it later on this week!

Eating Clean: Sweet Potato Bacon Turkey Burger & Balsamic Vinegar Roasted Brussels Sprouts

21 Day Fix Approved Dinner!

So now that the holidays have come to an end it is time to get this family back on track!!! I was so proud of myself for how I handled Thanksgiving but when Christmas rolled around I got a little off the beaten track. Don't get me wrong I could have been A LOT worse than I was. I did get up early Christmas morning and get my Insanity Max on but the following days I slacked a bit and I did drink my Shakeology thank goodness but the rest of my eating habits I'm not too proud of. But hey (shocker alert) I'm human!! You have to enjoy life a little bit! I did only gain back 2lbs but I just felt sluggish!

Anyway, getting back into it! Yesterday I made a plan and trekked off to the grocery store in the rainy, cold, miserable weather! Yay! So last night I whipped up these bad boys you see on the plate up there! Oh.My.Goodness. Guys, they were so good! So let's get to the recipes! ((AND THEY ARE 21 DAY FIX APPROVED))

Sweet Potato Bacon Turkey Burger

Ingredients:

*6 slices of turkey bacon

*1 cup of shredded sweet potato

*1 cup of lean ground turkey

*Salt and pepper

*Any other seasonings you want to throw in there

Directions:

1. I cooked the turkey bacon on the stove but you can do it in the microwave if you are short on time. Chop into small pieces.

2. Shred the sweet potato and throw in the microwave for about 15-20 seconds to soften it a bit.

3. Use your hands to mix the ground turkey with the shredded sweet potato and bacon bits and form small patties.

4. To cook you can either throw them in the skillet like I did or you can cook them on the grill.

Balsamic Vinegar Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Ingredients:

*Brussels sprouts

*3 TBSP of olive oil

*2 TBSP of balsamic vinegar

*2 tsp all natural honey

*Salt and pepper

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

2. Trim the ends and half your brussels sprouts and put in a bowl drizzle 2 TBSP of the olive oil and mix in the salt and pepper.

3. Place brussels sprouts on foil lined baking sheet and place in oven for about 20-25 minutes.

4. After they are done take out of the oven and place them back in the bowl and drizzle the remaining TBSP of olive oil, balsamic vinegar and honey and toss. Add more salt and pepper if needed and enjoy!

2014 Was Pretty Sweet (Part 2)

So in hindsight, that last post was a little lengthy with all the pictures so I'm going to go another route with this one and make collages out of all the pictures that are corresponding to the month! This is will help a lot I think because this last part of the year gets crazy!!! So lets finish up!

July 2014

This was a BIG month! BIGGER than my birthday month! SO starting on the 2nd I decided I was going to be take the plunge and become a BEACHBODY COACH!! I have a whole video on my YouTube channel dedicated to WHY I made this decision so check it out here! But seriously one of the best decisions of my life. Am I a millionaire? No yet! HA! But I am making enough money to say its completely worth it, I can help support my family and pay my own bills all while I get to stay home with my kiddo; how cool is that?! Um, and plus I'm in THE best shape of my entire life. Anyway, moving on Ryken turned 10 months and celebrated his first 4th of July. We decided it was probably best not to scare the beegus out of him and take him out to watch the fireworks later with us but we had a nice little family brunch and hung out. On the 7th Adam and I celebrated 2 years since he decided I was worthy enough to be called his girlfriend :) Or was it that I decided I could put up with him? haha Either way 2 years is a big deal! Later on in the month Adam was in one of his best friend's wedding up in Minnesota so we flew up there for the weekend and I got to see my bestest friend in the entire world and go to one of the most beautiful weddings I had ever been to with a simply stunning couple. OH! Also, we closed on our house!! We wouldn't move in until the second weekend in August but the paper work was signed in July!

August 2014

Moving month!!! So like I said above we signed the papers on our house in July but we moved in the second weekend of August. So lots of unpacking BUT most fun of all was the pool in our back yard! Ryken got to go swimming all the time! Ryken also got to have his first zoo experience this month and was only slightly bored the entire time haha we will try again when he gets older! August was also the month of my first SELF RUN challenge group!! I started gaining a lot of speed with my business and starting taking control of it and building it up! Adam also started his the job he works out now, Romark Logistics, this month and he LOVES it. He started training this month so he was working days, we wouldn't get hit with the night hours for another month or two. Ryken also turned 11 months! EEK! August 26th was also National Dog Day so I had to give a shout out to my first baby, Tazer!

September 2014

Oh my goodness September, my baby turned ONE in September! He weighed in on his birthday 17.2 lbs and by his birthday party the next week he was 18.3lbs! On his actual birthday Adam and I took him to the aquarium at fair park where he got to see all the fish! Later on we went over to my mom's house and let him do his first smash cake experience which was so funny! Green icing everywhere! For his birthday party some of the best friends around drove in all the way from Minnesota to hang out with us and the little guy! Adam's dad came and stayed a few nights and my brother came in for the party We took them to the stockyards to experience a little southern class. Ryken's birthday party theme was of course the Dallas Cowboys so I had a little jersey smash cake made for him and a little cowboy jersey onesie made with 01 and his name on the back. (Both the ladies that I used to make these things were AMAZING if any of y'all need someone to do any embroidering or need cakes let me know and I will give you their contact info!!) SUPER CUTE!!! But it the party was a GREAT turn out, Ryken is incredibly spoiled and LOVED by so many of y'all! I also decided this month that it was time to stop staring  at these horrible peach walls and I painted Ryken's room all by myself! I also started back to school this month for the first time in 3 years! I am officially a online UTA student!

October 2014

Oh Ocotober, this month I not only went up to Minnesota ONCE for a wedding of one of my absolute favorite friends but TWICE so that I could spend my best friend's birthday with her! Lindsey and Chad's wedding was beautiful and she looked gorgeous as always! My second trip was very spur of the moment but I just missed Amanda so bad! I also celebrated one of my other favorite friend, Nikki's, birthday! A group of us all went to Painting With a Twist and guzzled some wine while we pretended we knew what we were doing (Oh, that was just me? Moving on!) This was also a HUGE month for my business I not only got my first "promotion" to EMERALD but I also earned my FREE ticket to Summit next July. Summit is a really awesome trip that beachbody puts on that is packed full of training, and celebrity workouts and just getting to meet everyone you spend so much time talking with and getting to know in person! I am SO excited!!! And of course there's Halloween, Adam got off training this month which meant his shifts started becoming night shifts so we were on our own for Halloween. I decided to dress Ryken up like Ace Ventura and he was pretty much the coolest things since sliced bread. I finally had an excuse to put him in a tutu without his father killing me!! 

November 2014

I feel like November was seriously like two seconds ago! Yet another jam packed month! First off we had Ryken was invited to his first birthday party and they had a petting zoo and he just fell in love with the donkey! And yes, that is a chicken hanging out on that donkey's back. I also decided to try out the 3 Day Refresh this month and was VERY pleasantly surprised with my results! 3.5 lbs gone in THREE DAYS! If you want the full scoop on this go here! Thanks to Beachbody and my business I was able to go crazy on buying all kinds of Christmas decorations for our new house! November 19th was also National Prematurity Day so of course I had to give my little miracle Ninja a shout out! We celebrated our first Thanksgiving in Texas with the family and I actually cooked so much for the first time ever and people actually ate it! November 25th was not only Tazer's 2nd birthday but also the 5th year anniversary of my sweet Parli going up to puppy heaven. And finally on November 29th that stud down there on the left turned the big 2-7!!! He had to work on his birthday but we went out for lunch as his favorite place, Spring Creek. 

December 2014

AND FINALLY FOLKS, we have December!!! First things first, I kicked school's (specifically Statistics) BOOTY!!!! All A's baby!! Adam and I also (finally) found our wedding venue and picked our date! April 23, 2016!! We got to take a little family outing to the Mansfield Hometown Christmas Parade which Ryken was in complete awe the entire time! We also had pasta night, Ryken loves him some pasta and Mama does NOT enjoy cleaning him. If it wasn't so cold I would have just dipped him in the pool! For an early Christmas present my mom got Me and Corey ***COWBOYS TICKETS*** for the game they played the colts so I brought Adam along and Corey brought his friend Kirk. We dominated and Corey wanted to crawl in a corner after watching his Colts get stomped on! But I loved every single second of it! My best friend in the whole entire world came home for Christmas so I got to see her and it just made my little heart smile SO big!!! And finally Christmas...where my child was spoiled beyond belief. Funny thing is he did not seem to care in the least about all the presents he got but instead was completely enthralled with the tissue and wrapping paper, looks like I'll be saving a lot of money next year!! Adam had to work Christmas Eve so Ryken and I stayed at my mom's house for the night and Adam met us there in the morning when he got off. So we did presents there and then went over to my aunts for the family dinner and then came back to the house to have another family adventure with Adam's mom, step dad, and brother. JAMMED PACKED DAY! As much as I love the holidays I'm kind of glad to see them go so we have a bit of room to breathe again!! 

All in all 2014 was pretty much an awesome, amazing year full of twists and turns and smiles and tears! We moved across the country, Adam went through a few jobs, we moved into our new home (with a pool!), I started my own business, I went back to school, I got to see my brother after years of not seeing him, I got to see my best friend a lot more than I expected. 2014, you were good to us, so 2015 BRING IT!!