This video was produced by Acro Yoga by Equinox.
This beautiful couple is Yoga Instructor, Briohny Smyth, with her husband, Dice lida-Klein.
Watch and be in awe of their sheer strength, grace, and hotness!
After watching this video with my husby one evening,
we broke down into fits of soulful laughter imagining us trying to pull this off!
Ok….maybe something to work towards!
Perhaps Jason and I will post our own rendition on YouTube in the future!
{xo, sara}
I am lucky today because it is a gloomy morning.
The perfect time to stay snuggled up in bed until, of course, soccer later today.
But with that being said, my husband is home so I should motivate and go workout!
I am drinking a cup or two of coffee to help with that.
Over the past week I found this depiction on Pinterest.
I keep referring back to it my mind.
I am trying to keep on track like all of us with watching what I am eating.
Not only for the weight gain but because overall I feel better.
I know some of us Mommies
(okay well me)
have a problem with sampling what we made for the kids as well as our own food.
So this week I am trying to keep in mind to put down that spoonful of mac and cheese
and to remember what I put in my mouth throughout the day.
Now to motivate…..yoga here I come.
“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.
I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.
I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.
I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”
~ Audrey Hepburn
I am not new to the feelings of mommy guilt.
The feeling usually strikes at least once a day.
There is always something that I imagine I could be doing differently or better.
Sometimes I get frustrated with the monotonous nature of
picking up toys, folding clothes, and organizing clutter all day long,
while preparing what seems to be – – endless meals and snacks.
Not to mention the runaround of school drop-offs, volunteering, errands, and extra-curricular activities.
I tend to hit a wall, usually when my Husby has been working at the fire station for several days on end.
I realize in that moment, that I must let go of all the expectations that I have for myself and be…
humbled, present, and still.
Through my stillness the love, laughter, and silliness of the day seeps into my head.
I am able to focus on what’s truly important in life…..
my family, and taking care of my sweets.
Although I whole-heartedly try to be the very best mother, wife, daughter, and friend….
I do fall short, and that’s okay.
There are many days that I don’t live up to my own expectations.
I am hard on myself….
as I know most mothers truly are.
We try to be supermoms and juggle everything, with strength and grace, that life throws at us.
At the end of the day, when my children are all snuggled up in their beds and sleeping soundly….
I finally relax, and let go.
Humbled, present, and still…..
I accept the day for what it was, and myself for who I am.
I sit and pray that tomorrow brings the freshness of hope, happiness, and the makings of cherished memories
with the four little ones that I love most in this world.
{xo, sara}
We have been in our house for almost two years.
Not long by any means, but from the moment we moved into our bank owned home,
I knew the light fixture in the kitchen had to go.
After move in costs, water damage in the summer that year,
a light fixture became the last on the to do or need list.
This past September my husband and I celebrated our 9th anniversary.
Like most anniversary’s my husband says “lets go away Nicole”, but for us that is nearly impossible.
I am very traditional in many ways
and I do look up each year the meaning of what the annual anniversary is.
The 9th year is pottery and a willow tree.
Wow!
Just my luck….the light fixture I love at “Pottery Barn” is considered pottery right?
So here is my 9th anniversary love.
It glows in the morning and the evening, and I have loved every crystal on it.
I will post later about the willow, it lost in a battle with my husband but we did purchase 4 trees…..
Pumpkin Tres Leches Cake | Cookmee.
We love the Fall.
Here in Southern California we are thankful and praying for this weekend cool down.
Our favorite thing to do is bake.
We love baking and we love baking items that are Pumpkin related.
For now this post will show you what we have in store to create this weekend.
Sara and I are very hopeful that one of us will be able to create this recipe to perfection.
I myself have baked the Pioneer Woman’s Tres Leches cake over the summer,
but I hope this one can step up to the plate.
It should because it has the added edition of pumpkin!