Purses and shoes!!!

Purses and shoes seem to be my favorite things to buy! I recently purchased this Dooney & Bourke crossbody on CLEARANCE for $25! I'm very excited to find a cute small purse like this to take on our vacation to Orlando this spring. It will be perfect to fit the essentials in and it's not the typical tourist fanny-pack!

Also, we have several weddings, graduations, etc coming up this spring/summer/fall (yes it will be a busy year), so I have been wanting to find a nice pair of "comfortable" dressy shoes. Normally, I go for something flat because heels are so uncomfortable, but I found these cute ones by Vera Wang at Kohl's. They are kind of a heel, but more of a wedge so I don't feel like I'm going to fall when walking in them. We will find out how comfortable they actually are after wearing them for longer than 2 minutes!

New DVD stand done!

The new DVD stand that I bought is put together and all of the DVD's are in it! What we had in 2 different stands before, now fits into one and there's a little bit more room! Here's a pic of the finished product:

Getting in shape (trying to)

I've been wanting to join a gym for a while, but I couldn't decide on which one. I have been a member at Curves before and I liked the environment, but their hours suck. I was kind of leaning towards either Snap Fitness or Anytime Fitness (in the Lakewood Mall). The thing I didn't like about Snap is that it's right along 6th Avenue and at certain times of the day you can see in from outside.

One day, Ted and I were eating at Taco John's. On the counter there was a box where you could sign up to win a membership to Anytime Fitness. I thought "what the heck" and signed up. I didn't win the one-year membership, but they called me and offered me 2 weeks free. I setup my appointment to go in and get a tour of the place and I signed up that day. With my membership I even got a session with a personal trainer.

I had my session Monday and he went through and showed me all of the machines that he thinks would be good for me to use and wrote down how long I should spend on each machine and how many times per week, etc. I think that will be very helpful! I was also very impressed that the personal trainer told me that he used to be 430 lbs and has since lost over 200 pounds. So, it made me feel a little better having someone that used to be overweight giving me instructions. I would have probably felt a little more intimidated if it was some skinny little thing that has never had a weight problem before. Wish me luck on my quest to lose weight!

Sioux Falls trip

Last week my sister-in-law and I made a quick trip to Sioux Falls. She wanted to take a tour at Southeast Technical Institute and go shopping for a prom dress.

I bought quite a few things while we were there.

First of all, we were on a mission to find the prom dress. Here is a picture of the one that she decided on.
It is a beautiful dress and looks great on her. Good thing that she found this one almost right away and we didn't spend too much time finding the perfect dress!








We then went to Hobby Lobby. I have been working on getting caught up on scrapbooking, so I bought quite a few scrapbooking supplies. Also, Ted bought me a sewing machine for Christmas, so I got some material to play around with and a pattern for doll clothes. It will be interesting to see how those work out! I haven't really sewed before, even though I've watched my mom many times - and the sewing machine came with an instructional DVD, so wish me luck!

We have quite a large collection of DVD's, so for a while I have been trying to find a storage cabinet that will be able to hold all of them. I found one online at Best Buy that looks like it will work for what we need, so I purchased that also. It is still in the box needing to be assembled, so I will post a pic after it's all setup.

My splurge item for the trip was this AMAZING Coach purse:
I absolutely love it! It's the perfect size, has several pockets/pouches and I love the colors. I've noticed that I have been more careful with this one than the usual purses that I carry, making sure not to get it dirty or set it on the floor anywhere - that's what a purse hanger is for! :0)