Hello Lovely!

After much researching and playing with different models, I finally decided to put some of the money I've earned from my etsy shop to good use and invest in a nice camera. I've been wanting to upgrade to an SLR for a couple of years now, and finally made the leap. And the model I chose was......

The canon rebel T3i :) I got it on Friday night, and by the time the battery was all charged up, I was sound asleep. I did however get to play with it a bit on a trip we took to Sacramento this past sat.

Train tracks in downtown sac next to the Old Spaghetti Factory

A building downtown

Colorful sunset sky through the trees

I haven't had a chance to go through the manual and learn all the ins an outs of the camera yet, but I sure have had fun doing some playing around with it on my own. It's a great beginner camera and I can't wait to use it more!

Disneyland!

So, we made our first trip of the new year to Disneyland! My cousin and his wife, along with her sister and husband joined us on this trip, and we had a blast! Since I've been trying to shed some lbs, we made sure to bring our own breakfast food to start the morning off right each day:

I made sure to get some shots of the beautiful spring flowers around the park. Tulips are one of my absolute favs!

My fav shot of the entire trip. I wish I hadn't been too lazy to drag out my real camera! 

Aaaaaaand, we are all now annual pass holders! Notice anything strange? The best part is that within this circle of friends, they joke around by calling us the Dewsters. This just fueled the fire, lol.

Whoops! Didn't stick to the diet for every meal! We made reservations for the World of Color dining package at Ariel's Grotto in DCA. It was a bit pricey but the food was really tasty, and following the meal we had a killer preferred spot for the World of Color show.

Brian and I got to introduce them to the awesomeness that is Toy Story Mania. When we were in Disney World for our honeymoon, the line for this ride was consistently 2 hours plus. Not only that, but if you wanted fast passes you had to get them before 9:30 am or else they ran out for the rest of the day! Unfortunately, DCA doesn't offer the fast pass option for this ride and it was almost always a 45 minute wait. On our last day there, the 6 of us got to DCA early enough for rope drop making us among the first in the park. We made a beeline for this ride and the line was STILL over 20 minutes long!

I also got to do the Anamation Academy attraction in DCA for the first time. It's basically a class that runs every 30 minutes, and the animators show you how to sketch a Disney character step by step. I am TERRIBLE at drawing, but they make it so easy! I had so much fun, I did it 3 times!

All in all, we had a great trip. Now that we are annual pass holders, I foresee many trips in our future!

Weight Rundown #7

So as you can see, I'm posting a day late once again this week. We took a 3 day trip to Disneyland this Sat-Mon so needless to say no weight loss for me this week. It's all good though, I'm still pretty happy with the 6.4 lb weight loss.

I currently only own 2 pairs of jeans (and noticed I had a hard time getting them to stay up this weekend) so just for fun today I went to my fav jean store to see how close I was to the next size down. I was pleasantly surprised to see that I was closer than I thought! Still a bit too snug to make the jump down without looking like a muffin, but I'd say another 5-7 lbs and I'm there!

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Tackle it Tuesday # 11

I was pretty busy with tackles this past weekend. I.....

Rolled $640 dollars in quarters from the laundry room. I flipped them around for privacy, but what you can't see is that all 64 are labeled with the full account number as the bank won't accept them without it. Ack.

All of this was done with some help from Layla, of course. This is what you get when you let them all accumulate for 3-4 months. Carrying them to the bank was quite a task as well.

I finally got my light switch changed out from this:

To this:

Of course, I had to shut the power off to do this. Since the switches were not labeled, I ended up shutting off power to everything BUT the bathroom before I got to the right one. I then had to go around resetting all the clocks once I'd finished...solved that problem with a little help from my label maker:

I also completed 2 more orders. Only 20 & 25 this time.

I did quite a bit more, but these were just the things I got photos of. What did everyone else tackle this week?

Weight Rundown #6

So I'm actually weighing in a day late today. My scale was out of batteries and giving me different readings every time I stepped on, lol. As of today I'm at 6.4 lbs lost! That's 26% of my 25 lb goal.

I've got to admit that motivation has been difficult at times. I went almost 2 weeks without a drop at all, which was frustrating seeing as I was only a month into my diet. I even gained a random pound during that 2 week stretch for no apparent reason.

In any case, it was quite a relief to finally see a drop on the scale, even if it wasn't quite a full pound. I'm still working towards my next goal of 10lbs lost and hope to see it happen within the next couple of weeks. :)

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