Arbonne GTC

Well last Thursday, I woke up BRIGHT and EARLY and headed to LAS VEGAS!! I was there for Arbonne's annual Global Training Conference. This was the first time I had attended GTC and man was it an amazing weekend! I always knew Arbonne made great products and was a wonderful company, but this weekend it became further proof! I'm so excited where this company is headed and I'm glad I am apart of it.

Few cool highlights of things they announced:

1) Arbonne trying to become even MORE greener. The boxes that the products are shipped in are even better for the environment. We are certified with UPS and CARBON NEUTRAL! Pretty cool! I believe we are the first company to get that designation! AND on several of our product lines they have updated the containers the products come in to make them more earth friendly. They are now 90-100% recyclable!
Check out this video:

2) Several NEW products

 Nutrion Bars: In Chocolate & Fruit!

 Our best selling fragrance now comes in a gift set with a body creme!

 A NEW EXTRA Moisture Day Creme! Beat the best department store brands and other MLM brands in areas of It was #1 in MOISTURE, FIRMNESS, OVERALL COMPLEXION, and FINE LINES & WRINKLES! Amazing Results!!

 Now instead of the Fizz Tabs, we have Fizz Stick All natural energy drinks! (quick dissolving)

 New Muscle Massage Pain Relieving Gel!

And for a limited time this AMAZING Rainforest Gift Set! Isn't that clutch soo cute!

There are several other new things they told us about that are coming out this summer and I can't wait to share!!

3) It was just an amazing time to hear from AMAZING Women & Men in this company that are at the top. It has changed their lives. They now have choices in life and have made a difference other people's lives!

4) AND our NEW catalogue now features Arbonne Consultants and their families, NO MORE MODELS!! My upline, Tarrah Brandsma and her daughters are featured in it! So cool!

Ready for Baby Harwood

We are so excited for Baby Harwood to be here! Thank you all for your sweet calls, comments, and messages over the last week!

I feel like there is so much I want to go ahead and start doing and planning and such, but I feel like I need to wait until we know if we are having a little girl or boy!

Last week at our doctor's appointment, the sonogram technician told us she's 80% sure of what we are having! Crazy at 12 weeks they can tell that! I won't spill the beans yet on what she said. We want to wait and make sure its true before telling everyone!

We already have a girl and boy name picked out and once we know for sure what we are having, then we'll share!

I'm ready to start planning a nursery and registering!! It can't come soon enough! I'm such a planner, so I'm ready to jump into all that, but right now we have to sit back and wait!

Kevin and I have been doing somewhat of a "spring cleaning" around the house! Its actually kind of a disaster zone right now! We are going through everything and getting rid of just a bunch of crap! And trying to rearrange and move stuff out of the bedroom that will be the baby's. So I'm ready for that to be done!

But Kevin and I are enjoying these last few months of it just being us! Yesterday after church and lunch, we came home and napped and then just laid in bed the rest of the day and watched TV. It was WONDERFUL! I know we don't have many of those days left, so we are taking advantage of them while we can!

Feel free to check out our latest sonogram of Baby Harwood!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6125244/12weeks.mp4

We're having a BABY!!

I'm soo excited to finally announce that I'm

PREGNANT

and we're having a

BABY!!!


Its definitely been hard to hold it in for awhile, but Kevin and I will be bringing a little one into the world in October 2012! I'm not the most creative person in the world, so I didn't come up with any cute way to tell everyone. Just thought I'd come out and say it!

We went to the doctor today for my 12 week appointment and decided that it was time to tell the world!

Kevin and I found out in February and were so excited; we had been waiting for that day!! We wanted to tell our family in person (if we could, sorry Alabama peeps!) So it was hard not to call everyone immediately and let them know! So we had to wait a couple of weeks until we saw my parents and our siblings. And I didn't want to get ahead of myself and tell a bunch of people in case something happened. But we are to 12 1/2 weeks and everything is looking really good so far!

Honestly I have had a pretty easy pregnancy up to date! Only one day of getting sick! Mostly I've just gotten bad headaches and many times food just in general sounds bad and nothing tastes good. On those days, Jamba Juice has gotten me through the day!!

Today seeing our little one made me tear up a bit. It actually looks like a baby now! It was more of a blob before at our 6 week and 8 week appointments. And we got to hear the heart beat today for the first time which was really cool! The baby was just chillin', moving around and such. It even looked like it was sucking its thumb some!

It is just so crazy to think I have a little life growing inside of me. Most of the time I don't feel much different, other than my growing waist. But every time I see the baby, it just amazes me. God is so incredible in how he makes us all. And it truly makes me even more in awe of Him.

We are so thankful God has blessed us with this little miracle and we couldn't be happier!!

He Is RISEN!!!

Sunday was an amazing Easter celebrating Christ's conquer of death! Our church gathered for the 2nd year at the Frank Erwin Center (UT's basketball arena) and we have around 13,000 people come and celebrate Christ and what he did for us!

Check out the service!

Christ Is Our Example

"For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps. Who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in his mouth; and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously; and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls." 1 Peter 2: 21-25

Weekend

This past weekend was WONDERFUL!

On Friday night Kevin, Sarah, and I went and saw Hunger Games at Alamo Drafthouse. So a little background. I'm not into Twilight, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc. Honestly I don't want to read them or see the movies because of the obnoxious hype they've gotten over the years. So I was starting to feel that way about Hunger Games. Didn't want to read it. Well somehow Kevin decided he wanted to read and he LOVED it! He kept bugging me to read it and I kept saying no. I told him I'd go see the movie with him though. But he told me I wasn't allowed to see the movie if I hadn't read the books. So finally one weekend  I started reading them and honestly they were pretty good. Although Kevin and I both didn't like the ending for many reasons; even though we seem to be in the minority on that. (At least we both feel the same though!) So Kevin has been counting down the days til he got to see Hunger Games! Friday night came and we had a great time. We arrived about 2 hours early and of course got stuck in a line that was outside. BOO it was hot! Once inside though Kevin decide he wanted to try their "HUNGER GAMES" special and get the Katniss Lamb & Plum Stew! He LOVED it! Ate every bit of it. Great time!

 Sarah and i outside waiting to go in!

 Kevin & I inside the theater.

Katniss Lamb & Plum Stew

On Saturday I had an Arbonne Training in the morning and then Kevin and I went on a wild goose chase to find us a new headboard for out new king size bed!!

I was really wanting some sort of fabric upholstered head board, but couldn't find anywhere that really carried them. And Kevin was super nervous to order one online. But alas, our last stop was Basset Furniture and once inside we saw they have and entire fabric section where you can pick out your own fabric for pretty much any furniture piece you want. AND they were having a 30% off sale! We took a couple of samples home and decided on one and went back Sunday and purchased it! It'll be ready in about 30 days.

After that Kevin and I went home and napped as we both had headaches! Then we  spent the rest of the evening just laying around. It was wonderful.

On Sunday got up and worked at church til about 1pm. Went and bought our headboard and then had lunch at McAlisters. 

Then we went home and I napped while Kevin did some work. We watched a little TV, had some dinner, went for a walk, and finished the night watching some TV in bed!!

GREAT weekend!!

Whats been going on...

Feel like I haven't blogged in forever! There hasn't been much to blog about, so I guess thats why I havent!

Kevin's been busy with work, which he LOVES!! Every day he talks about how it isn't fair he gets to do what he does everyday! Good thing, huh?

Works been good with me too!  Real estate has picked up quick a bit since the holidays!

Last weekend, we even went up to Dallas and helped Kevin's sister, Heather find a house to buy! We have 1 agent up in Dallas under our company, so she got us into the houses and into their MLS system. Then I took over once we found a house and dealt with all the negotiations! And we finally can do an agreement this week on the one she was interested in!! WOOHOO!! So that was exciting!

Yesterday, one of my besties, KATIE, came into town! She's in town for SXSW for work! She works for TOUT, its an app where you can film short videos and post them! Pretty cool! Anyways, she's staying with us for the week and I'm sooo excited! She now lives in San Francisco so I don't get to see her very often! So I'm really glad to get to spend some time with her this week!

This week is spring break for pretty much all my family as they are all educators! My parents are on a 7 day cruise (SO JEALOUS) so its been weird not talking to them all week! Any one of my besties Sarah is in Italy this week with her family (SO JEALOUS), so its sucked she's been gone as well!!

Man, I wish I still had a spring break!