i want to go....

here: hawaii beach
here: italy (Becky you with me??)

here: ireland

here: australia

here: paris

here: rio

here: new york

i just might take up world traveler as my professional career....anyone is welcome to travel with me :)

my sister's married....

...yes that's right! i could not be happier for my sister and i'm so happy to have been able to share in her special day. i am super duper excited to have another brother (we may just call each other 'brother' and 'sister' and i love it) i may also have bawled like a baby through the ceremony (big surpsrise right?) my dad married them and let me tell ya, i saw the look in his eye and the squeak of his voice as he began and struggled a bit to get through and i was a goner. seeing the "can't eat, can't sleep, reach for the stars and over the moon" smile on my sister and her husband's face as they looked at each other just made my heart melt.

it was such a great day and I honestly was very sad when i got home because it was over....i danced till the music stopped and til my feet were about to fall off and let me tell ya, my body sure hated me the next few days.

well i will let the pictures speak for themselves....starting with the shower in May...enjoy!

this was just too good not to share.....this my sisters and i just being ourselves and i wouln't have it any other way!
bachlorette party...after the bellin run that morning and also after i worked 6 hours waitressing (please don't judge me in this pic, i went for jill even though i looked awful)
bridesmaids minus the MOH jeana....and i totally bet you coudn't spoon standing up like X and i haha we laughed pretty darn hard about this and i promise it really was not planned at all

best part of this is the 'twinkle' in my and jill's eyes hehe
SURPRISE!!!! we skipped the traditional recessional and danced out to dynamite! what can i say...we sure know how to have a good time.

beautiful wedding indeed and i loved every single minute of it and i'm super excited and happy for my sister! congrats jill and joe!! so happy for you guys and thank you so much for allowing me to be part of your day!!

Bellin Run 2011

june 11th was the Bellin Run and i again ran it with my sisters Jill and Jeana and friends Cassie, Lisa, Beth, and Michelle. i did do better than last year's time which was my main goal this year...1:16. hopefully i can continue to improve. it was again challenging and rewarding, i wanted to quit around mile 4 and 5 (my most challenging miles) but i pushed myself and i couldn't help but smile when i crossed the finish line. it was record breaking year for the Bellin that over 18,000 people were entered, such a sea of people...i felt like an ant almost. what was really cool was this year marked the 35 year of the Bellin and to celebrate that, every runner recieved a metal (it may have boosted my self-esteem a huge bit) all the girls post race..very proud of ourselves
the sisters...jasmine was once again in utah at EFY (POO) hopefully one of these years she will run it with us

a vague memory, but a goodie... add in BLISS

i have a rooster alarm clock that is just about the only thing that actually wakes me up (long story but someone gave it to me as a joke, but jokes on them cause i love it!) well i put it away from my bed so i actually have to get up to shut it off....last night i slept in jill's old room thanks to my room being freakishly hot. out of my comfort zone to begin with and this morning after sleeping so comfortably my alarm goes off, still on the verge of sleep walking i rolled off the bed only to realize too late that my entire right leg is asleep. you guessed it...i collapsed! and it gets better i couldn't get up. i remember fumbling around trying to grasp the night stand to get up to shut the dang rooster off and get back in bed which is a high bed so extra hard. i honestly don't know how i even remember this much considering how out of it i was...i just remember waking up for good finally (i tend to hit snooze alot) and thinking "gosh i wish that was on tape, i would have loved to see what the heck i looked like" ....i'm thinking flopping fish on dry land meet sleep walker. get the picture? i'm sure you do and its ok if you're laughing cause when i told two of my sisters about it they couldn't stop laughing. i even get a forward text from jeana from jill "r u rolling on the floors with jens text? lol im crying. can you just see her floppin around. hahahaha I didn't stop...man we should have a camera on her. we would b rich" ...i charge commission is all i said.










happy thursday.
hope i gave you a laugh.

on an extremely BLISSFUL note.....i got a facial today. it really is heaven sent and i love them. (i may be a bit high maintenance, but i just don't care) big thanks to my aunt ann who gives the best facial! she's a rockstar!

Dance Recital!!!

Oh how I love Dance Recital!! Every year I leave missing it more and more. This year was no different as I watched Jasmine, Kenzie, Kennedy and Ivy Lynn. It was so good and I have admit, I did tear up a few times (No surprise right?) I was just so stinkin proud of all the girls, they did amazing!! I was one proud Sister and Auntie yesterday!!!

All my girls all pretty!!! It was a good day :)

"I don't need easy..."

A must-see by far is Soul Surfer! I had off work tonight so Jasmine, Taylor, Kenzie and I went to Green Bay for a little girls night and saw Sould Surfer. By far such an inspirational movie that is just amazing! It's based on a true story, which I think makes it so awesome! Of course I cried like a baby throughout the movie but that's no surprise to anyone.

"I don't need easy...I just need possible"

Now what an amazing thing to say and live by! Seriously I sat watching the movie in such amazment that someone could be that motivated and positive and determined to succeed! LOVE LOVE LOVE

The new me...

So for the past 5 months, we have been receiving the fitness magazine (To be technical it comes in my Mom's name, but I consider it mine) Now I LOVE it whole-heartedly although we have a good laugh everytime because we have no idea why we keep getting them. I've been on this kick lately to get fit and all healthy (must be the season) ...just getting done with a long winter and thinking about the runs I have coming up this summer and of course swim suit season... I'm sick of feeling tired, unhealthy, unfit, etc... Today at work I re-read all the magazines that we received and I am determined to change myself! I even had enough down time at work to go on the website (which is my new fav!!!) and searched some good receipes and good workouts and I had a "a HA" moment. So I've been super tired lately, I blame it to lack of sleep and not eating the best....well while surfing the website I came across some tips on how what you eat can help you sleep at night or cause you to lay awake at night! I must admit I was so intrigued....studies show that if you eat healthy you sleep better at night...now I don't doubt this, but I am going to try it and see what happens.

Now let's be real, this is me and I will more than likely stumble quite a bit (let's face it I love my sweets) I guess this is more to start working out regularly and hopefully feeling better about myself, but I do want to try to eat a little better..... it should be interesting and see how this goes.

The root of this whole thing...Oh I'm so excited for the Bellin Run this year...to be honest I probably wouldn't enjoy it as much if I didn't have my awesome sisters there by my side (Except Jas who will again be in Utah at the time of the race) June 2011!!!Packer 5K to kick off the Packers training season...July 2011!!!! (didn't have the new ad up yet for this year)

Hopefully there will be more and I'm so excited!!! I may not enjoy running yet, but I sure do love the feeling I get before and after the runs!!