We got some "grown up" pots from Gerten's finally (not the cheapy plastic ones that we've always had) and I'm really loving how the front of the house is coming along!  And it's all painted too, I love the color.

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I've also decided since every person in our neighborhood seems to be a size 2, that it's time for me to crack down and lose this darn baby weight that's been hanging around.  It's embarassing once you have a one year old and still look like you just gave birth a few weeks ago.

I've attempted many different approaches to doing this, but I know that I like food to much to really do some crazy sort of diet.  So, I'm attempting a combination of excercise and just making better choices when I eat.  This means less buying breakfast and lunches at work and more of brining leftovers and other things to eat for lunch.

Like many other busy moms, I have NO time to get to the gym during the week.  A friend of mine from ScrapGirls has been doing some of the BeachBody workouts for the last few months and she looks AMAZING!!!  So, I decided to give one of their programs a shot.  She recommended the ChaLEAN Extreme to start out with.  I'm only on Day 5, but I LOVE it so far and it's the longest I've ever stuck with a "workout program".  It's definitely more strength training focused than just doing a 40 min DVD of pure cardio, which really doesn't do much for me these days.

The awesome thing about ChaLEAN is that it comes with all the DVD's that you need for the entire program, as well as the resistance band and the leg band, a nutirtion book and a complete guide and journal to track your progress.  But, I really wanted to get a set of adjustable weights to use to maximize my workout, so I'm going to give these a try.  I'll let you know how I like them.

They also want you to take before pics, so I need to get around to doing that one of these days...I promise I won't share them here. 

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I must give my mom a MAJOR thanks for helping me get this desk.  It is a DREAM and makes me feel so productive when I'm packaing up client orders and having all of my biz stuff in one place!  Thanks mom!

The damask decals are from Uppercase Living.  I'm an UL freak!  I think I am going to add some more though as I want it to be a bit busier on that wall.  I also need to get some more photos and what not hung in there and swap out the red boxes for white ones from Ikea.  But all in all, I'm in LOVE with it!!

This is my little packaging station where I work on my clients' orders and make them all pretty!

This is the corner part of the desk, I love the little drawers for my various piles and such. On top are frame samples.

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Tyson was AWESOME at decorating the tree this year.  As you may recall last year, he concentrated the majority of the bulbs in ONE spot on the tree.  But this year, he was a decorating rock star and even wanted to put the star on the top on (which I tried to let him help with, but it's Swarovski, man!)

Here's Tyson hard at work and VERy focused

And since his Daddy was making weird faces and poses for the camera, guess who else had to do it??!

And I'm SO proud of myself for taking all of these without any flash (yay, me!)

More focus and concentration...

That smile...and my attempt at getting some Xmas tree bokeh!

What the Princess thinks of our Xmas tree...let's pray she doesn't start crawling until after it's all down because then I think she'll LOVE it!

And I'm in LOVE with our new stockings that I splurged on this year.  And it was awesome to finally be able to use the 5th stocking holder that I've had for the last 5 years

Had SO much fun taking this pic, I've always wanted to get one with the "glow" of the Christmas Tree.  It took my tripod and lots of test shots, but I LOVE it!

It's been so awesome getting these annual ornaments, someday I'll have a whole tree full I hope!

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