Elizabeth visits Lynch-Vegas!

My sister, Elizabeth, came to visit us this weekend! We had so much fun! Yesterday we slept in (which is a rarity in both our lives) and then we went to school where we finished writing her routine for color guard try outs in a few weeks. She is such a beautiful dancer! I'm so impressed because she has never been in a marching band before and she is picking up on the spinning like a pro! We also had an impromptu photo shoot kind of in honor of our favorite you tube/make-up guru Miss Kandee Johnson :) She had her 4th baby today and we are so excited for her!

Kandee's new baby girl :)

Isn't she the cutest?! I'm pretty sure that there's no way she could've been anything but adorable though :) Maybe I'll post some of mine and Liz's pictures on here tomorrow but after running for almost 3 miles tonight I am exhausted. I hope you all have had a super amazing weekend and are ready to start the week rested and refreshed! :)

Babies & photo shoots,

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...because I neglect you

I found this incredibly awesome day by day photo posting tag that I am so incredibly excited to do for you guys! I think it's supposed to be a facebook thing but I feel like I don't really use facebook as that type of outlet so this will be much better for me. On your mark, get ready, get to know me! :) 

Day 1 - A picture of yourself with 10 facts.

1. I am married to the most amazing guy in the world :)

2. I am a HUGE Disney fan!

3. I am the oldest of 5 kiddos

4. I am graduating with my bachelors in may :)

5. I love Jesus mucho much :)

6. I love indian food/culture/people... (hehe Shara)

7. My hubby and I are moving to Orlando next January

8. I used to be one of the Drum Major's for my school's 200 member marching band :)

9. I play the french horn and trumpet

10. I'm getting braces for the 2nd time in 2 weeks!

Hotels, Skype, & Music City!

I am laying in our hotel room in Nashville, TN waiting for my Dad to skype me and may I just say that putting 'sleep number' beds in a hotel room is a simply fabulous idea. Luke and I must have played with these things for at least 20 minutes, ha ha ha. At one point I was so sunk into the bed I couldn't even roll over! Then we went down to the lobby for a yummy bedtime snack. I had a delicious 3 cheese grilled cheese and it was soooo good! Luke had a cheeseburger... big surprise, ha ha! And now he is watching tv while I type away and wait for my dear ol' Daddy to figure out how to make a skype ha ha. We're trying to figure out some bills that got crossed and we need to have a screen share, but my sister is asleep and my phone is dead so he's been figuring this out on his own for ohhhhh 30 minutes now ha ha.

Tomorrow we're going the wedding of 2 of our friends (the groom was one of Luke's groomsmen :) ). It should be lots of fun and then... the 8 hour drive back home. Ugh. Not looking forward to that one, but luckily I married one very fun dude and he makes those long drives a lot better :)  I hope you are all having a super fun weekend with lots of yummy foods and fun things to do!

Yummy hotel food & technologically slow Daddy's...
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money-money-monaaay ...monnnnaaaaay!

Because one of the most popular new year resolutions is to be more financially "wise"... I'm sharing my favorite budgeting website!

1.   www.creditkarma.com -- you can check your credit score without affecting it negatively, also you can enter in different scenarios like paying off debt, opening new credit cards/mortgages/car loans/etc. and see what effect it would have on your credit score, as well as see where your credit score ranks against the national  average and those your age.

2.   www.learnvest.com -- this one is the one “meant” for women, but it is awesome. You just sign up for their e-mail list and they send you the most amazing articles and you can also choose which kind of emails you want to get (get out of debt bootcamp/ personal finance/ cut your costs bootcamp/ investing bootcamp). And they have a budgeting program too but I haven’t tried it out yet.

3.   www.mint.com -- This one is all about keeping up with the different accounts and budgeting. It also has goal setting which has proved really helpful for us and weekly e-mails telling us how we’re doing on our goals.

Hope these help!

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Ebay? Shmee-bay!

I am an official ebay seller. Today I realized (well "re"-realized) that I have SO much that I simply do not use. So in the name of organization and living a "simpler" life I decided to begin my "stuff condensing project" (ha ha ha) I tinkered with ebay until I figured out how to sell one of my purses. I seriously have a problem, I love to buy purses and shoes, and not even because I want to use them but sometimes I just can't pass them up because they are so beautiful! This purse was one of those cases. It's a beautiful patent embossed PINK Hello Kitty bag and I LOVE Hello Kitty (mostly thanks to my role model Kandee Johnson) but I just never carry it. It has been sitting underneath our nightstand for way too long. A bag this beautiful deserves to be shown off! We'll see if I make enough to buy the real Hello Kitty bag I've been eye-ing that would get a lot more use :)

P.S. Here's the link to my ebay ad! Click HERE for Beautiful Bags!

The Bag I'm Selling

the bag I'm hoping to buy :)

Beautiful purses,
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Why helloooooooo!

Oh hi blogger world! I've been pretty slack about updating lately but don't worry, I didn't forget you! Since it is now January 2nd and I have had 2 whole days to think about what I am resolving to complete/change this year here is my list of 2011 resolutions!!!
1. Lose 20 pounds. (but for real, like I already bought expensive running shoes which will force me to do it! ...right? haha)
2. Run a 5K with my sister and husband in July! :)
3. Be the best house wife ever :)
4. Take care of my childhood puppy Sable Anne (She's 12 years old but she'll always be my puppy :) )
5. Become a better photographer and accomplish 2 collections this year.
6. Forgive & Forget (in 2010 I mostly accomplished the "forgive" part but for 2011 I'm working on the "forget" part)
and finally...
7. Meet Kandee Johnson. (a girl can dream!)

I hope your hearts are full of lofty aspirations and lots of goals to reach those dreams!
Happy 2011!
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