update on our lives:

Kevin :)

lovely butt shot!

LOVELY!!! :)

We've had a very fun succesful type weekend:

I did my normal saturday morning hike with a friend, came down the mountain picked mike up and we met Casey at the Farmers Market, I happily chowed down a Nutella Crepe, some joe, and picked up fresh tomates, nectorines, and pickling cucumbers, I'm going to try and make my own pickles!

Then came home and made lunch for Mike and I. Casey text and asked if I'd like to come to her Grandma's house where they're living, and pick raspberries, I was overjoyed, grabbed a container and headed over: photos to follow. Her Grandma has an amazing back yard full of beautiful plants and fruits and herbs, I got a small mint root to transplant into a pot, so i could grow my own!

Casey helped me and together we must have gotten about 6-7lbs of raspberries! :) I went to rite aid on my way home and grabbed ice cream so we can delight in raspberries over ice cream. Then came home, packed my heart out for about 4 hours, we're pretty much done packing. Then showered, got all pretty and went out with Mike for a Date!

We ate an AMAZING dinner at Max's Bistro, then saw UP! WOW.... what a GREAT movie... such a good family/ date movie. And bring tissues! Even my husband cried, he rarley cries in movies, this one got him to shed a few tears. It's just a fantastic story of keeping your word, when it counts, being faithful to those you love, and it was just an all around feel good movie, with a TON of laughs :) I give this one two big thumbs up!

Sunday went to church, enjoyed the fellowship of my friends at lunch afterward at Dog House Grill :) Ate a YUMMY tri tip sandwich, the best in town in my oppinon, and onion rings, and my favorite Diet Dr. Pepper. Went Geo Caching with Shak and Andrew, found nothing :(

Then came home and went through all the JUNK and other things in the guest room, made a HUGE trip to the thrift store, many more to come. Then returned a very expensive Swamp Cooler to Home Depot got all the money back for it! YAY!

We then had a meeting at Andy and Sondra's for youth group, which ALWAYS are a blast and another great time of fellowship with believers, and a group of people I feel BEYOND blessed to have in my life. I love you guys so much, and CANNOT imagine working with anyone else as amazing as you all are. You ROCK. God has blessed me so much with you all!

THEN! Went swimming at Josh's house!! And found a tiny frog :) Named it Kevin, saved it from the crazies who wanted to put it on Anna's head. Then crashed in bed, and slept till ten this morning, only to wake up from a sweet text from my husband wishing me a good morning. I then went up and met him at 1130 for jamba juice and a visit to the dog park with our babies. and now I'm here enjoying some lovely worship music, a quiet house, and more boxes to fill NINE DAYS till we move... I cannot explain how insanly excited I am!!!!

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Today :)

Here's a photo document of our Saturday!

SO...I HAD to redo my LAME yellow lined legal pad 30 days of fitness list becuase Talia, who mind you, has THREE GIRLS,one a new born. had to go and get all cute on us... Let me show you what I've come up with! Of course utalizing my new scrapbooking treasures!

my encouragment!

view of my desk

first day of my fitness journey, hiked 1.5 hrs! YAY ME! I'm starting off great!!!!

On the way back from the hike... Luc was excausted!

falling asleep :) Can't get enough of these boys!

view from the road- Millerton Lake

ugh. the cuteness!

my girl and I! The dogs hiked the whole thing with us! they did GREAT! :)

I am SO happy after a good hike! :)

Well hope your weekends are off to a great start! Take Care! God bless you!

Rachel

that's right! 30 days of flippin fitness!

Well then! Let me tell you! I am SO stinking motivated to loose weight and eat better! It really helps to have motivation and someone to keep you accountable to those goals. I saw this 30 flippin' Days of Fitness on ThoseCorwins and made my own! But... not only am I keeping track of fitness, I have also, for the last two days, been tracking every bite I take and drink I sip through out the whole day. It REALLY helps, just simply doing that, becuase you're accountable to yourself, and I'm REALLY good at guilting myself into doing the right thing, so counting my calories really motivates me!

I'm going to keep you all updated, it won't be daily, I have a life...

but it will be more like weekly. So I hope this motivates you all! :)

Take Care!

Rachel

Let me update you!

Our lives are so blessed! And thankfully I've photo documented a lot of it on my phone... uploading them on here is the part I rarley take time to do. So enjoy these many photos of our lives here in the last week or two. God is good.


Every so often I babysit for a handful of Kids at our friend Darryn and Katie's church in Clovis. Mike and I decided that whenever I chose to babysit, that the money I made, could go to buying paper goods for my new hobbie, scrapbooking. It's a good enough chunk of change to go and buy lovely things at Pocketfull of Treasures in clovis. Let me show you my most recent buys! I'm very excited about them all! And once I finish our wedding scrapbook I will try and get it on my blog!
Enjoy:
i love these swirly adorable stickers!
if you know me, you know I adore nature, God's creation causes such wonder and thankfulness in me, and I love birds, fresh produce, and leaves... you'll see a theme here :)

got this " Home sweet Home" paper, it's going to be filled with photos of Mike and I, it will be at the end of the album, and I'll write how I feel home when I'm in his arms. :)

birds... leaves.... AH I love it!

i think this is a peach tree paper.... no matter, i adore it.

i loved this paper the minute i saw it, and it's practically the same pattern as our couch cover! same colors too! :)

And some photos of life:

buddy and the bunny chloe, at work

cinco de mayo! Tuesday night at youth group, we had a cinco de mayo nacho libre party, it was a blast, and guess who dresses up as nacho!? My man! That's right ladies, hands off, that's my luchador!

Girls in the youth group, Dani, Tiana and I, tuesday night. Celebrating with Tiana! She's now %100 cancer free!!!!!!!!!! God is so faithful!

my boy :)

new ironing board cover from Ross! $5!

monkeying around at the Zoo friday for Ben's 5th birthday!

my wonderful husband and his lily girl... she rarely leaves his side.

my men :)

Mike and I went on a date at the park right around the corner, university park, my new favorite spot! We had tacos and artichokes and the dogs were off their leashes and did pretty well!

the tea party and and I hosted and my home a few saturdays ago. it was so wonderful... all sorts of lovely ladies in hats and dresses, formal tea treats and a beautiful setting :)

NEW HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We FINALLY put down a deposit on an apartment today! YAY I cannot even tell you how happy and excited I am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Talking to Karie

my silly sister :)

matchie matchie!

line dancing!

snow in oregon,

beach photos with nate franklin, gift for our parents

brian and karie in cambodia last week

my dear sister who lives in cambodia currently, teaching children

the girls! my kitty and my sissy

Karie and I sharing photos from my trip to Fiji

dinner with Jackie,

saying goodbye to karie in the air port.

SF for my birthday 2004

the week I got back from Fiji

Mom's wedding 2005

My dear sister, one of my very best friends, we've shared so much together and I cannot imagine someone more enjoyable, hilarious, kind, selfless, and genunie to spend my life with! All the memories we've shared, the good the bad, we've gone through it all together. I love you so much Sister. Bless you on this day as we celebrate your wonderful joyus birth!

your little sister!

Rachel

Happy birthday my dear sister!