New Years Prep

This whole week I've been blessed to have off work, which I needed a few days to sleep in without an alarm set and no plans to just relax & have time to work out.

Now, its Saturday and I am enjoying more time to make my house pretty. Last night @ 12am- it was discovered this pretty face had peed on our bed & we had to do emergency laundry with our sheets/blankets.

Don't be fooled by her big brown eyes

But I wanted to take a moment to recap on 2012 since celebrating New Years is in 3 days! 

Celebrated 1 year at my job & moved into our first house on 1/1/12.

Celebrated my mom's 50th birthday by throwing her a surprise party with family/friends.  

She doesn't look a day over 28.

With my momma & the homemade birthday cake I made her.

With my sister in law & my beautiful mama.

Celebrated my husband's bday. His gift: Ron Swanson (Parks & Rec) bobblehead in Mar.

Happy Birthday! Loves 4Rivers BBQ to celebrate with.

Spent time with my in-laws over their spring break/enjoyed Disney Vacation club villa. 

Celebrated one of my good friends birthdays.

Helped my husband when he had his wisdom teeth surgery done. 

Celebrated first year of marriage, yay us! 

6.18.11 

Celebrated 4th of July by flying out to Missouri to spend time w/ my husband's family for the holiday. Got to reminisce with him about his childhood, go to fave places of his that he grew up at and spend time with family.

Another celebration by then was that I had lost 30 lbs by this time!  YAY :)

Celebrated my dad's birthday.

Celebrated my birthday on our first cruise to the Bahamas! I also signed on as a Pampered Chef consultant on Halloween.

First night of dinner.

Elegant night for dinner.

Celebrated our first Thanksgiving in our house. Stayed behind and enjoyed a dinner at Boston Market.

Celebrated our first Christmas in our house. Put our tree up and enjoyed the day with my fam.

Our Christmas Tree

Work Christmas party 12.16.12.

W/ my mom at our Christmas party. 12.16.12

Now we're about to bring in 2013 & I couldn't be more excited. Here's a list of things I'm determined to do: 

1) Will be running 2 races w/ family: Winter Park 10k & OUC Half Marathon. :)

2) Will be working hard to lose my Biggest Loser weight. 

3)  Spending more time being active.

4) Taking more time to keep our house looking great.

5) Giving my Pampered Chef biz my full focus.

Have a very Happy New Year! See you in 2013 :) -Jessica

Fab Friday

                                        Today I want to talk about these fab things...

-Yesterday my husband & I took down Christmas, putting our ornaments, tree back in the boxes, and it made me a little sad. I love Christmas, and decorating my house. But now I can focus making my wreaths for different seasons to come- new traditions- like Valentine's Day, Easter, 4th of July, Fall & Christmas. Pinterest really gave me some good ideas about these, so excited to try them out.

-Only a few more weeks left in my current class, spent this week off work getting as far ahead as possible. Then starting in Feb '13, one LAST class to do (& its a snooze) but then I will have my Master's at the end of April '13! YAY, finally!

- I've been back on track with losing weight for over a week now & I really love it. Back to working out like a beast (especially since my husband got me Zumba for Christmas! That will be kicking my butt in a good way.) & drinking only water during the week.

-I am all about remembering special dates for my family. I know when my dogs' birthdays are, first milestones and on 12/30- is 1 year since we bought our first home. That will be a much easier/relaxing day than when it happened! I love my house and making it look good. 

- My Pampered Chef business has really taken off, I have 3 parties scheduled for January and praying for more bookings. (If anyone is interested, feel free to contact me: jessica.pchef@hotmail.com) 

This was my first FAB Friday post & I'm gonna make sure its an every week post now. 

Your turn! What's FAB in your world lately? 

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Update.

So, for some odd reason, I love the word 'update.' I think it's so refreshing when used in a good way with close friends like tonight. I just got back from having coffee & time with two good gals. It was nice to catch up after Christmas & having a fairly productive day myself.  These two girls can easily get my spirits up and vice versa. Plus, my friend got me Christmas gifts that I wasn't planning on getting-- and I gave them some homemade cookies.

But like anyone knows, I LOVE Target. Like love, and according to my MIL- I remind her of that crazy, fanatic shopper from last year's Black Friday commercials with the over the top outfits, as seen below.

I mean to be fair, if I could-- I would LOVE to run through Target in a classy red tracksuit. That is how much I absolutely LOVE TARGET. I mean, I get excited when I shop there with my RedCard to save my 5%, errm, yeah. Moving on.

My Christmas was amazing and I feel like this year in light of all that happened @ Sandy Hook, I really appreciated it even more. I kissed my cute nephew as much as possible and just hugged my family members all day long. I cannot imagine how hard waking up to ppen presents were for the families who lost their family because of that monster. My heart was praying and keeping them close in my heart.

So- another part of my year was that I became a Pampered Chef consultant on Halloween. I'm off to a grrreat start and have 4 shows booked for January. Hopefully I will get a few more from each and be on my way as I am still prayerfully wondering how long that will be a part of my life. So, we'll see in 2013.

Another few things I am looking forward to in 2013 is losing all my weight. I'm down to 90 lbs to go and I am dedicating '13 to losing the weight.  I also will have my Master's in April so I am really psyched to have that done.

I really also want to get back into blogging daily or more than I have. But tomorrow is my last day off before going back to work for 4 hrs Monday. At least its a short week ahead :)  Happy Friday'/weekend!! :)