Throwback Thursday... June Edition

One of the great things about a blog is that I can look back and see where we were in this crazy journey that is life.... So here is a little (actually big) Throwback Thursday from the month of June over the last few years!

June 2009... June was actually the month of my very first blog post! the blog started as a cooking experiment but has grown to so much more.

June 2010...
Emma was in Kindergarten had just finished her first full year of soccer... I'm so happy to report that here in 2015 she is finishing 5th grade and still playing with many of these same girls (all in the photo below). They are great friends and as her mom I couldn't ask for a better group of girls and their amazing parents!

We were also just embarking on our journey to purchase a home... we even had a contract in for this short sale house... man am I glad that the contract didn't go through because I love the house that we have now.

June 2011...
Didn't do any blogging this month but I was a newlywed (married Jan 2011) and we actually went on our HONEYMOON in June 2011. We had a blast in Mexico!

June 2012...
We were preggers with Hunter... Just entering the third trimester (photo below is from Father's Day)

We were getting Hunter's room ready

AND had committed to getting our Sophie ...here she is at 3 Weeks old

June 2013...
Hunter Celebrated his Daddy and had a cute photo shoot for his first Father's Day, outside of my belly.

and I ran my first 5K with Emma. we did Run or Dye

June 2014...
Gibson was 3 months old

and I was just returning back to work from Maternity leave! BUT before heading back completely we had to make a trip to Great- Grandma's house so that she could meet Gibson

At this time I was working in Joint Staff protocol...

And now we are here in 2015!!!! So crazy and fun to look back at the last few years. So much change and growth for the Park Family! Maybe I will need to do this every month for the next year!

Birthday Wish List

Hint hint hubby... my birthday is coming up in a few weeks and here are a few things that I'm drooling over.

Cast Iron Skillet... and a promise that you will be the one to clean it for life... Maybe this brush will help out

and who doesn't need some gold pig bookends???

Some resistance Bands to take on travel so I can keep up with my workouts

A date night and a chance to eat at 2941... I've wanted to eat here for years and my parents went recently and loved it!

 

And well because I have an addiction to lighting... I would LOVE this Lattice light, from Shades of Light, for our entry way. It is also large enough for when we finally get around to our addition. The weathered wood look is gorgeous! I know that Matt would NEVER buy this for me... In fact, I hinted at a different entry light about a year ago.... a girl has to try!

India & Germany- 2015

Here are photos from India and a few from my "brief" stop in Germany

INDIA

Gandhi Smriti

Humayun's Tomb

 

GERMANY... we were here under 24 hours.

 

And incase you didn't catch them here are the photos from SINGAPORE and VIETNAM

Vietnam- 2015

Here are some photos from my time in Vietnam last week!

Honor Guard Ceremony for Secretary Carter

We took a great drive around the Old Quarter

We went to the Senator McCain POW Memorial and the Hỏa Lò Prison where he was held. The propaganda at the prison was infuriating and there were many outright lies in reference to the time when American POWs were there.

Temple of Literature



We had these AMAZING cold coconut coffees! It is blended coconut, ice, and condensed milk poured over a shot of express...SOOOO good... probably not great for you but worth it!

Okay Back to the Temple...

 

 

There were beautiful Lotus Flowers everywhere! (stole these photos from Mrs. Carter)

Yummy food!

May Re-Cap & June Goals- 2015

I'm back from my work trip and so happy to be back with the family! I took the weekend to just really spend quality time together!

But now it is Monday and I took the day off to catch up on laundry and  get things done around the house.... Back to reality! It is also time for me to turn my focus on what I accomplished last month and my goals for this month...

Here is how I did on my goals for the month of May:

• Update upstairs Gallery Wall and Share on the blog
• FINISH the boys room!
• Bed skirt
• Closet Organization System
• New photos on the wall
• Record height on the wall
• Deep clean Rug
• Touch-up paint where needed
• Hang Gibson's new guitar
• Join a workout program & actually WORK OUT!
• Blog 15 Times-- only made it to 13..BOOOO
• Emma's Craft of the Month
• Start home office update
• Finish De-Clutter 2000 -- UPDATE I'm already at 1600!
• Find a new sofa
• Get Sewing Machine Fixed
• Clean out car... ehhh no fun

 No too shabby for being gone for part of the month!

Here are my goals for the month of June:

Tomorrow I will be back with the photos from the rest of my trip... Cannot wait to share them!

21 Day Fix - workouts

The more I do the 21 Day Fix workouts the more I LOVE them!

I've found it so easy to devote 30 minutes a day to my are super achievable. I mean you do each exercise for 60 seconds and just need to have the mindset that you can do anything for 30 seconds.

 

In the first week I had to modify I number of exercises but I've found in the second and third week that I'm getting stronger and able to work harder! I even think that on a few exercises that I'm going to up my weights to push even more... once I'm back from this work trip that is.

AND speaking of work trips... I've been on international travel for 10 days now and I've worked out EVERY SINGLE MORNING... Thanks to my work out partner Stephanie for all the motivation! It has been so easy to follow the program from my zoom (like an iPad). I've really felt great this trip with zero Jet lag... I'm giving all the credit to the fact that I'm working out and making healthier decisions

With the 21 Day Fix program you focus on a different area every day of the week:

DAY ONE: Total Body Cardio
DAY TWO: Upper Body Fix
DAY THREE: Lower Body Fix
DAY FOUR: Palates - An Active recovery day but I felt challenged
DAY FIVE: Cardio
DAY SIX: Dirty 30
DAY SEVEN: Yoga - Active recovery

There is also a 10 minute abs program... which is pretty hard core... you give it your all for 10 minutes and NO breaks... I only did the 10 minute abs on my yoga day and one of the other days when we were on the airplane for over 12 hours.

Each day I'm looking forward to working out and seeing how much more I can push myself. I haven't set foot on a scale in the last 10 days but I've found that some of the NEW clothes that I bought for this trip are a little big in the waist area!

Please know that all of these thoughts are truly my own... I'm not a beachbody coach and I'm not getting any type of kick back from the company... if you are interested in learning more though I would be happy to connect you with my bestie Holly who introduced me to the program.