STOP AND ENJOY

sometimes God paints a beautiful picture that is worth pulling over for. 
a few weeks ago on the way to my mans birthday dinner it was one of those times. we were driving down a backroad in oklahoma to enjoy the scenery before heading to his favorite steakhouse for dinner and the sunset was unreal...  
i still can't believe i took these pictures on my iphone and without any kind of filter! 
needless to say, the skies were amazing and so was the  birthday dinner that night - surrounded by good friends and good food! 

**sp: heres to many more birthdays and sunsets together!

SHE SAID YES.. in italy!

since i have known my sweet friend sb, she has said 'i will grow up when i turn 25'.  

little did she know, she would get engaged and married at 25! i could not be happier for these two, they are the perfect match for one another! 

over the christmas holidays her family and at the time boyfriend headed to italy to visit family for the holidays (insert jealousy!!). there, on the streets of a small town in italy, 'kar' had planned a very romantic engagement ... street covered in petals, candles, the works... 

and of course she said yes!

to top it all off (only to make us all a little more envious) they had their engagement pictures taken while in venice...

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STANDING OUT

i know, i know... i posted mustang pictures yesterday already, but i just had to share one more with you today! 

normally i like sharing pictures from the ranch in their raw beauty (no filter, like the ones in yesterdays post) but this picture turned out better  then i thought it would... and it was an unplanned iphone picture at that! 

 it just so happened, that one white mustang stopped to give me the stare down for feed while surrounded buy black and brown mustangs... it's like he was waiting for a photo op!

and i love that you can see the snow flakes falling up against the dark background of the horses...  yes, there's a filter on this picture, but i still love everything about it! 

SNOW AND STANGS

over new years i packed up for a week at the ranch. no computers, no work and a lot of time with my man, sp! i took a ton of pics and wanted to share a few of my favorites with you! we got lucky with fog snow flurries on new years eve, which made for great pics while we were out feeding wild mustangs!

we cooked dinner and enjoyed NYE with good friends. just before midnight while looking for enough glasses for us all to toast with champagne, guess what i found?! new years hats! yes, we all wore one and made the best of what we had to work with! 

thank goodness for an old school camera with a self timer.. we took several pictures to capture the moment and memorie, but this one cracks me up:) 

my christmas gift from my man was a really cool camo/hunting coat. so we had to put it to good use! we loaded up for an evening/sunset hunt and watched more than 20 deer walk past our blind (hence the 'blind date'!) and a beautiful sunset behind us on the hill. 

no kills this time around, but watching the deer come back to the same spot year after year and seeing how much they grow and mature is really cool!

i hope your new year is off to a good start.

here's to keeping the resolutions you set for yourself and loving/living life to its fullest every day!

LOCALLY JUICED

HAPPY NEW YEAR! and welcome back to the blog... i took a few days off from life, work and obviously the blog but im back to reality today. monday- ugh. 
with the new year upon us, many of us have set a few (hopefully attainable) resolutions! if one of yours is to shed a few pounds, why not kick start your new meal plan with a juice cleanse?! start the new year and new you off with a clean system is a good idea!
i did the 3-day juice challenge by ROOTS JUICES to start off my new year and wanted to share with you how it works and what you can expect! bottoms up!


so here's the skinny (pun intended!) on drinking juices for three days:
1- start gettin' it on your mind a few days before.. it takes a lot to wrap your head around no solid foods for 3 days 
2- know that each time you juice your body may react differently. 
(i've never had flu-like-symptoms before, but i did this time around)
3- and finally, it's easier to have a friend to do this with at the same time. encouraging one another will make it go by much faster!

the cleanse i did the past 3 days was from Roots Juices,  a cool local juicing company in dallas . i chose to do the the 6-pack cleanse that includes a protein pack once a day. (due to the fact that i was in yoga teacher training during the first two days of the cleanse, i wanted to be sure i was getting enough protein with all the excising). 
there are 8 juices/waters to get your through the day, and to be completely honest, i never got really hungry. i got snaky, but that was most likely due to that fact that i was missing the feeling of chewing instead of drinking a meal. the liquids keep you full. 

now here's the real skinny: i would do without the Chlorophyll H2P next time around,but the Healthy Nut Almond Milk is my absolute favorite.. its' literally like 'candy milk'! 

the great thing about Roots Juices is you can customize your cleanse with any of the juices you like best- so when you place your order be sure to get the juices you want!