year in review

  • December 21st, 2009

    hello readers…if there are any of you left! :) Sorry for the 7 month hiatus on my blog, it was a really busy year, but I am making it one of my goals in 2010 to be a better blogger…because it really is fun! So, here is a quick year in review…

    (please excuse the formatting of this post…I can’t figure out how to fix it!)

    Chris and I decided to adopt an amazing dog named Jack  and it was one of the best decisions we have made thus far  as a married couple! We have had so much fun with him  and he is absolutely SPOILED rotten. He is a great dog and  we love taking him to the dog park and talking about how  awesome he is.

    January also meant that Chris went on full time staff at our church, Cumberland Community Church. It has been a huge blessing to be part of that church and we LOVE calling it our church home!

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    Ok, now that I am writing this I realized I may not have something for every month. February was probably great…I did go to the Britney Spears concert with Casey in February…

    March was a fun a busy month! We went up to North Carolina for our 6 month anniversary and had such a fun and relaxing time! This was also the month that I decided to become a Beachbody Coach! Being a Beachbody Coach has been an adventure. I have an amazing team of coaches under me and it is so amazing to be able to help people find workouts that they love which means they are living healthier lives. More on this later!

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    Hmmm….April…I turned 25! That was weird and old feeling, but it was a great birthday celebrating with friends and family!!


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    May was FUN! We went to New York City with some of our  best friends, Casey and Dan for about 5 days. We stayed in  an AMAZING apartment near 5th Avenue and had so  much fun exploring the city, shopping, getting n scary  vans for the sake of fake designer bags, and lots of good  food. We also went to Il Bastardo which is a bar that they  frequent on MTV’s amazing show “The City” looking for  Whitney, but alas, we did not see her there. Still fun  though!


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    In June I went to the best concert of my life…New Kids on the Block. I am only kind of kidding. We had a blast and got to touch Donnie’s hand…yes, we were that close.

    In June I also got certified to teach Turbo Kick. It is an amazing, fun and crazy cardio kickboxing type of class. I am now teaching at a local Y and loving any time I get to teach. It’s nice to get paid to workout!!

    This was my first June in 3 years not being in Panama City for BigStuf. Weird change, but definitely the right decision. I did miss being down there and experiencing 12 weeks of camp with my incredible interns…

    I can’t remember anything about July…

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    My sister Jen and I flew out to the OC for Camp Turbo Kick in August. It is a 4 day camp created by Chalene Johnson for people who LOVE all things Turbo. We had an AWESOME time with lots of workouts and enjoying sunny California. This was also a really cool time for me to meet a lot of other Beachbody Coaches that I had met  through Facebook and Twitter. We had a great time!


    Chris and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary in September! He surprised me and took me up to a little mountain resort where we had massages, watched movies and ate a lot! We had such a fun time getting away and relaxing for a few days together. He did an amazing job planning a fun trip for us!
    In September we also went to Seaside, FL with my family for vacation and Kiawah, SC with Chris’s family for vacation. I never thought I would say this, but 3 vacations is too much for 1 month! We are hoping they are spread out a bit next year even though we had a great time with both of our families!
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    October was somewhat monumental for me! Myself and 6 other women from our church walked the Breast Cancer 3 Day. It is a 60 mile, 3 day walk to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer research. It was a powerful, powerful weekend. It was very demanding physically and emotionally but I was so humbled seeing women in the midst of their treatment walking alongside us or cheering for us…talk about perspective. I would never trade those 3 days, blisters and all. The relationships built in those 3 days are friendships I will cherish for many, many years to come! Love you Glo Girls!

    November was busy! On November 1 I resigned from Renewed Vision, which is where I have been working for the past year or so (since August 2008). I absolutely loved the people I worked with and learned SO much in my time working there, but just felt like it was time to move on to the next step and have freedom to spend more time with Chris. I started working for an amazing company, (once like a spark) photography as the client relations manager for the Southeast and California markets. Within the next year we will be expanding to 12 markets, 6 of which I will be managing. I am loving working for this company and am excited to see it grow! I will also be doing some contract work for a company called Brand Apart. I will be project managing the corporate communications department at ChickFilA. This is going to be an adventure and I am really looking forward to diving in over there!

    November also had our annual Disney trip with Chris’s family! We had so much fun and always look forward to that trip… unfortunately i have no pics of that trip…

    So far December has been great! We hosted our annual Christmas party with Casey and Dan a few weeks ago and enjoyed seeing so many of our close friends come by to celebrate.
    On Christmas day we are headed down to Miami to celebrate with Chris’s family and then up to North Carolina to RELAX and do NOTHING for a few days.
    So, all in all it has been a crazy and adventurous year! I hope you enjoyed my year in review…look forward to more posts soon!

3 Responses to “year in review”

  1. Gretchen Harter

    You are working with Brand apart? Zach and I have both worked with them through WinShape. We just hired a marketing person for homes and she will be working with you guys this coming year on stuff for winshape homes. hope its going well! :)

  2. Leah

    yeah! A good friend of the family owns the company, Garret, and I have come on board to help him out!

  3. Gretchen Harter

    Garret is a good friend of your family? oh no please tell him not to tell you bad things about me…I think I drove him crazy when they did our site. :) haha

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