It's the most wonderful time of the year and what better way to celebrate with family and friends than to make peppermint trays and bowls to put your favorite cookies or candy on. This is a so simple to create and takes very little time make. What you need is a bag of peppermints and parchment paper,  I purchased mine at the Dollar Store. One of the cheapest projects to create. You can use spearmints, peppermints, even the colored candies that are yellow, orange, purple....the possibilities are endless. I used the peppermints because that is all the Dollar Store had..haha. Anyway, turn on the oven to 350 degrees. Arrange the mints in the shape you want. Spacing them about a 1/2 inch apart. I made my candy tray in the shape of a circle.  I kept my mints in the oven for about 9 minutes. Make sure to take out the pan once the mints are melted together, because you do not want them to burn. I then picked up the parchment paper and placed it on the cooling rack for about 2 ...

Ladies....I really enjoy working out, but sometimes my favorite TV show is on when I am ready to workout. Since I wanted to kill two birds with one stone, I googled and found this fantastic workout called the "5-4-3-2-1 At-Home Circuit Workout found here: http://www.fitsugar.com/Easy-15-Minute-Workout-21588220 . This is a 15 minute workout, but don't let the small amount of time fool you that it will be easy. It kicked my butt! As many of you know I love challenges and I thought, hey this will be a breeze. It got my heart pounding and breathing heavy right in the beginning of the workout. Here is the workout...it is broken down into 5 minutes, 4 minutes, 3 minutes...etc. Again from www.fitsugar.com   ______________________________________________________ 5 minutes:  Cardio You can do anything: walk, run, jump rope, elliptical, If you’re at home 1 min high knees 1 min jumping jacks 1 min front kicks 1 min jumping jacks 1 min run in place 4 minutes: ...

Well it's been awhile since my last post. I have been still accomplishing many goals, which I will post in the days to come. My little 9 year old nephew passed away unexpectedly and that kind of threw off my goals for a bit, but I am back at them. It was about a month and a half ago today that my nephew passed away. I also needed to rethink why I even wrote this blog and wondered did anyone even care that I make goals and do them. That was until today. I had an opportunity to talk to a wonderful girl named Jessica. I started describing all the goals that I do, whether baking a cake for the first time, attempt to do 100 pushups (which I am still trying to do), or choosing a career path. By talking to her I was revived again as to why I write my blog. And she was inspired to start working out again. My blog is to share my goals which in turn will help and inspire other girls to accomplish their goals. You may think to yourself, I have tried and tried to do _________________ (fill in ...

I did Insanity for the first time on June 23, 2011. It was tough, but at the end, I am really happy I did it and how my endurance was out the roof. Now, what possessed me to do this again, I don't know. I needed another challenge and so I just pulled out the Insanity fit test yesterday and wrote down my results. Not bad after two years: Switch kicks: 39 (2 kicks =1) Power Jacks: 50 Power Knees: 116 Power Jumps: 26 Globe Jumps: 8 (still kicks my butt) Suicide Jumps: 18 Push-up Jacks: 15 Low Plank Oblique: 48 I did Plyometric Cardio Circuit today and it felt great. Still a challenge too! The cool thing about doing Insanity now is that my body remembers alot of the moves. I am not as fatigued either. Now, it is still a tough workout, but my endurance is still pretty good. Throughout the last two years I would pull out an Insanity video here and there and mix into my regular workout videos. But now, I am ready to do it for the full 63 program. I also want to do Insanity for...

My assignment...find a picture frame. Sounds simple,  right? But on the contrary. It was an all day adventure that the Lord ended up teaching me a lesson on how this applied to my life. So it all began one beautiful Saturday afternoon.  I went into Hobby Lobby to get a picture frame for a project I was working on. I go to the back of the store and there they were...the wall of frames. Now I had come a previous day and took pictures of the frames so I figured I should be in and out of the store. But no.......here I go. I go up and down the aisles as if something is going to be different from a couple of days before. I scrutinized every frame....down to the detail, paint, wood...you name it...I saw it. And if I found a framed a liked....I looked through every frame to make sure I had the best one out of the design. But nope, not good enough. A lady walks up after I stood there for at least 30 minutes at this point looking at one of the frames. She picks up two of the frames I w...

Alright....so it's been awhile that I have gone after my 100 push up goal challenge. Let me be honest, I got discouraged because it seemed like I may not obtain the goal. But a couple of my friends thought it would be a good idea to let people know that I had run into a brick wall with my goal. The idea of the push up challenge seemed like an impossible feat once I reached 42 push ups. It was so hard just to make it to that, I couldn't imagine trying to make it to 100. But I realized just because it gets difficult does not mean you give up. I revamped my strategy. I looked at a video of a girl that has accomplished 100 push ups. This chick is awesome: She actually boosted my vision to want to accomplish my goal and I went to a website that helps you accomplish the 100 push ups in seven weeks. Check it out: http://www.hundredpushups.com. The strategy on this site is have you do a fit test to see how many you can do initially, then they give you a plan in order to accomplish...

Ladies...I have been working towards my 100 consecutive man push-ups for several months now. I am still moving towards to it! I had been kind of discouraged, because I had only made it to 40 push-ups. My friends still said that was a great accomplishment. But then it happened last week. I made it to 42 push-ups!!! Woohoo!! :) Much closer to 100! I believe I broke the plateau because I stopped putting so much pressure on myself to break the 40 mark. So now, I am on to 45 push-ups. Hopefully, I will make it this week...but no pressure. :) Your "goal girl", [e].