Online shopping

I'm at a point that I want to do more online shopping.  What are some of the sites that you all like to go to for... well, just about anything!?  I want sites that aren't ridiculously expensive.  The only one I can think of right now is ideeli!  I need some suggestions!

Lady Bird Lake

One of the best things about Austin is Lady Bird Lake.  We LOVE to walk or run around it every chance we get.  Yesterday was even better because I got to walk around it with a few of my favorite people.  I've never really walked with a little girl before, but it was hilarious.  She would RUN really fast to a set point and then tell us she was tired.  We gave her jobs to do like counting the turtles she saw or the dogs she saw.  That kept her pretty happy until she fell.  Poor thing nearly died!  Really it was just a scratch, but to a five year old, that's pretty traumatic.  She got to ride in the stroller on the way back, so all was good.  

When we got to the end of the walk, we decided to do some lunges.  I've gotten obsessed with lunges and try to do them at least every other day.  I'm at about 110 lunges on each leg.  Next week I think I'll bump it up a bit.  

Once we finished the walk, we had to wait on our super athletic friend that went around it twice in the time it took us to do 2 miles.  While we waited we played a game of Fitness Simon Says.  We did jumping jacks, stair steps, squats, prison squats and knee ups.  That really kicked our work out to a different level.  

After we got our fitness on, we went to one of my favorite places:  PLUCKERS!!!  I'm pretty sure all the hard work we did was negated by the few hours we spent enjoying ourselves! 

 The dogs love to chase balls in to the water at Lady Bird Lake!

 RUN!!!! 

 Running buddies!

Head of the Class

Cooper FINALLY started his first day of puppy school!!   After having lots of issues with the Petco training class, the manager at PetSmart invited us to try out their training classes.  I'm pretty sure this could be one of the luckiest breaks Cooper could have gotten!!  Their trainer is amazing!!  She kept the class informative in an engaging way!

We got there a little early, so we walked around the store. Since they had a scale there, we decided Cooper needed to be weighed!  Our boy has really grown! He is now 29 lbs!!!  When we finally got in to the classroom area, Cooper proceeded to pee twice.  We're so proud!  lol! He just gets really excited.  

 Cooper started out very shy.  He had to be near Mike, I'm not sure if he thought he was protecting Mike, but I think that could have been running through his mind.

There are three dogs in the class.  Cooper and two dogs named Charlie.  Black Charlie looks a lot like Cooper, but with shorter hair.  That was his best friend during socialization time.  Brown Charlie really was kind of nervous with the other two. 

 The trainer seemed to like Charlie and used him as an example a couple of times.  She said that he is an English Lab, so Mike and I will have to start speaking to him in a British accent! 

By the end of class, Cooper was beat!! He had a great time and we learned a lot. I can't wait to do some of the things that the trainer taught us!!

Screw You, Father Time!

I am not one of those people that wants to grow old gracefully.  If there is a way to stay young, I want to find it. For years, I've used skin moisturizers that claim to reduce wrinkles.  I think it's been pretty successful because I don't think I really look 45.  I'm kind of cheap, so I've stuck with brands that can be found at the grocery store.

The morning my beautiful niece was born, we were watching the Cindy Crawford Meaningful Beauty infomercial and they mentioned that it helped with Rosacea.  My husband has that pretty bad, so I thought I'd order it for him.  I figured I could try it too, but it was mostly for him.

Since there is more than one step involved in this beauty system, my husband bailed on it, but I have kept with it.  I am happy to report that one of my biggest lines is barely noticeable anymore.  I've been using Meaningful Beauty for almost a year now, and I really like it. As an added bonus, it's really not very expensive. They'll try to up-sell you, but you can tell them no. I did. Every once in a while they send you a free gift, too. I would recommend Meaningful Beauty to anyone!