A fresh Start

A fresh start!

Okay, so I have let time get away from me these last few weeks but while doing that I took time out to refocus on my goals for this year. This is my year. I've been saying that for the first 4 months of this year and I still really believe it. I want this year to be my year to focus on myself and to get really healthy. I'm sick of being overweight and I'm REALLY sick over not being able to do yoga better than I am because I have this big ole belly in the way. My struggle is with food! It just tastes so good and with a few other bad habits I have, my year has been stalled with losing weight. Now, I guess I have to be positive in the fact that I have been losing inches but damnit the scale should be showing some results too and it hasn't been. I've only lost like 5lbs in 4 months which is better than nothing but overall a failure in my eyes. I know why. I know how to change it and I've just recently made up mind to go ahead and do it. I'm so excited to really stop my bad habits and focus on all of my good ones. I enjoy working out and I'm going to start running again trying to build up to the elusive half marathon. I'll be honest and say that in my life when I lost the most weight was when I was running. It's just so easy for me to get burnt out with running but I know that once I really start back again and I start seeing those results it will get addictive. At the peek of my running success I ran 5 miles straight. I remember that day... I remember that feeling and I want that damn feeling again. So, it's time to go get it. As of today I'm kicking my bad habits out of the door and embracing the good ones. Life isn't about how good chocolate tastes or how many pizza slices I can eat it's about how quickly I can move and how good I can feel. Even though I'm never going to fully give up pizza and chocolate... I mean really what kind of life would that even be!?

If you're wondering what my plan is it's really simple: Cut out the bad habits (binging, booze, etc.) and embrace the good ones (running, veggies, water, portion control, etc.) I have a lot of things I want to accomplish this year but this is my main focus and I know I can do it. I just had to finally make up my mind and start.

8 months left... lets see what I can do...
Ready GO!

ByeBye Mississippi.

I'm not going to keep you guys waiting any longer and from the title of this blog post I think you can guess what our Big announcement is! No, I'm not preggo like tons of people were thinking (guess I'm looking extra large lately) This is something that we have been wanting to do for the last 4 years and after planning, saving, and making sure that all our eggs were in a row it is Done and the apartment is rented! We are moving out of Mississippi into the great unknown 2,700 miles away...

to the beautiful city of Seattle, Washington!

Right after we got the Stamp of approval from our new apartment complex!

The main reason for this gigantic move is for Chad's music (CHECK HIM OUT HERE AND LIKE HIS PAGE ON FACEBOOK) and the second reason is for adventure. We both want something new and exciting in our lives and I want him to chase his dreams. He really is a fantastic musician and a wonderful person (I told him he may need to stop being so wonderful because most people that make it in music aren't always so nice) and if anyone deserves their dreams to come true it is him. When we were getting our marriage counseling by our preacher he asked us a question about how we knew we were supposed to be with each other. I immediately knew my answer and I still feel the exact same way and I think I will forever... I really believe that God put me on the planet to find Chad, to love him, and to support him completely. He has a wonderful network of family in friends but honestly the support was lacking. You see a small town musician and think he is good and go to a few shows and buy some CD's but the bigger picture is that he has that drive and that talent to go further in life. In my opinion he has just simply outgrew Mississippi. I want him to go for it in life; to never look back and wonder "What if I would have gone for it?" This is his go for it moment, our time to start our lives together, and his time to shine like I know he will. Every second since I met him I felt like God was pushing me in the right direction and that I was doing exactly what I was supposed to do. I'm not sure what success or failures are waiting for us out there but we are going to face it head on and together.  (forever & always)

A beautiful little park in our new city of Kirkland, WA

There are so many emotions running around right now and Chad is basically doing cartwheels in the living room as I type. We secured the apartment on Tuesday and I booked our movers on Friday. We turned in our notices to our jobs, (HIS is the one that held me up on letting out this massive news until this morning!) let our landlord know we are leaving, and let both of our families know the date we are leaving Laurel, MS: October 6th 2011. (Happy birthday Marley! She is very pissed at me that we are leaving on her birthday lol) On the 6th we will head up to Jackson, MS to spend the next 3-4 days with my family and friends. Chad is also busy booking up his last Mississippi shows that some of you have been questioning us about what the "Last show" means, now you know. I think the last one is going to be in Clinton, MS October 7th so I expect to see everyone there and bring money to get your Tshirts and Cds (We are both jobless now! Yay!)

This blog is going to be really fun for the next little while. I plan on detailing our move, our road trip across the country, and our ups & downs of finding our way around a new city with limited friends (BUT WE DO HAVE SOME GOOD ONES WAITING UP THERE FOR US!) This is the life I've always wanted and it is scary as all get out to leave everything you have known behind, but that's what Change is for and how dreams are accomplished.

If you live in Seattle or around the area and read my blog let me know! I need new friends and your advice on conquering a new city.

Now, enjoy some random pictures from our trip:

Apartment searching day 1!

He did so good driving a rental car for the first time!

Our sign that we should live in Kirkland, WA in our Kent hotel room haha

Just doing a little shopping a few miles away from our New apartment!

We are actually doing it!

Flying back to Mississippi excited about what we just did.

I can't wait to blog more about this, any questions you have for me let me know and I'll try to answer as best I can. I'm so excited I could just burst!