A little bit of everything!

Well today has been nothing short of RELAXING, so I thought I'd share a few random pictures, and talk about what's happening in our life lately.

Last weekend Adolfo and I spent all Sunday together, so just when I thought we were going to call it a night, and get ready for Monday, he surprised me with a nice dinner and our first 3D movie experience.

The Castros getting ready!

I've been reading Eat, Pray, Love for awhile now here and there, and I thought that I'd get through it before the movie, but here we are.....Saturday, and the movie has been out for a day, and I'm not even through India, and Tay's DONE! So, I am going to move on, and watch the movie tomorrow with my Mom and sister, hopefully, I LOVE JULIA ROBERTS!

Adolfo has been encouraging me to take some type of vitamin for awhile now, so he's been researching, and we finally went last weekend and made a purchase. I LOVE them, I was nervous because sites were saying they taste bad, but I eat them with my breakfast, and I haven't had a problem with them. I must say it's a powerful little package.

I have started the C25K program, and successfully finished my week, only eight more to go, lol! I am really feeling so much better, and I don't know if it's the running/working out or my new vitamins. Whatever it is, it's working, and I look forward to my evening routine. I hope to finish the program and complete my first 5K at the end of October :)!

Adolfo spent the morning with his Mom, so I enjoyed a nice deluxe pedicure, and reading time (remember, I am only in India, lol!). I thought I'd be productive, and I bought groceries for our short week, and now we are both home, doing nothing, and just relaxing!

Thought I'd share my happy, "Ready to layout on the beach", nicely pedicured feet!

Hope you all are enjoying your weekend, and are all caught up with the Castros, this is it, nothing exciting, and new, just a little bit of everything :)!

C.

BE INSPIRED :)!

As I sat here tonight, will all the business of life running through my head, I felt it appropriate to slow down, relax, and be inspired!

Enjoy the little words of wisdom that are motivating my heart during this precious season of my life....

"Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity: be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be success; don't try to do pictures for others to look at - just please yourself" - Ralph Steiner

"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections" - Unknown

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude." - Oprah Winfrey

"Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little." - Marguerite Gardiner

"The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away." - Joy J Golliver

"Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way" - Yogi Desai

"There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible." - Tony Robbins

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank you", that would suffice" - Meister Eckhart

"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take that away from you" - BB King

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible" - The 13th Dalai Lama

"When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The more praise and celebration in your life, the more there is in life to celebrate" - Oprah Winfrey

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world" - George Washington Carver

**** Alright, this one below made me stop, think, and I laughed out load, lol.....

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it" - Ellen Goodman

Hope you all enjoy your week, C.

Thankful Heart!

This past week I have been a little MIA. I had EIC Training in Illinios for a week, so I knew I'd be adding a couple of days to catch up with my sweet college friend JJ, and FINALLY get to meet Baby B.

I am always so appreciative when my work provides these opportunities for me. I mean I never in my wildest dreams expected to be an Auditor, have my college friend live in Illinios, and the ONLY place they offer my annual trainings are less than an hour away from JJ. Really, God is good!

So pardon, my gross "Been on an airplane all morning look, lol" but here we are enjoying lunch, at Jimmy Johns! My friends name is JJ, so after we'd come in, ate, talked alot, and were getting ready to head out, my internal light came on! Jimmy Johns-JJ-my friend JJ-PICTURE! I know I got really excited, but what better way to document my trip! So I am so grateful the staff at JJ's played along, by the time we left and completed our photo op, everyone was saying by to JJ, lol! Here's the shot....

What type of weekend would it be if we didn't wind up at Starbucks! My first starbucks experience was with JJ. See both her and I met Freshman year at ACU, we both were in long distance relationships, and we understood what each other was going through! So, every Friday, we'd meet for coffee, catch up, spend a little time on the phones talking to our "Boyfriends" and then catching up some more! Who'd ever know, these wonderful boyfriends would turn into our wonderful husbands!!!!

So as our lives change, stories change, and families grow....these moment's just grow more and more special! Thank you Carmel Machiatos and White Chocolate Mochas, lol! I LOVE being Auntie C! Baby B is AMAZINGLY great! She never cried the whole time I was there! She let us eat, shop, hall her all around the world, and enjoy late night coffee talk. She's a trooper! I LOVED getting to just watch her, and experience the joy she is bringing into JJ and Currey's life.....Funny how God works, and my heart is so happy for her because she doesn't even know how much she is loved, and what a WONDERFUL family she's been born into!

I mean, look at that sweet, yet serious and grown up pose!

Not lieing, this is how she was most of the time, except when she was drunk off milk and passed out, lol! What a cutie!
And what trip would be complete without a picture of Baby B and Auntie C.

Yes, training went well, and I met alot of wonderfully friendly people who were so sweet in letting me hang out for lunch, dinners, and happy hours.....but the best part of the whole trip definitely had to be my 2 extra days with the Blandfords!

I am never let down by the greatness of God! Just thinking about how He gives us all such precious gifts (My friendship with JJ, incase you didn't know), and after you graduate and move apart you think it will be impossible to get together, living in cities that feel a millions of miles apart....but He knows what He is doing, like putting little things like training in our lives, to bring us together, not once but twice!

C.