Puerto Rico | Groggs Video

I finally was able to put together my favorite clips from our time in Puerto Rico to share and for us to look back on!! Puerto Rico was a real blast and we can't wait to visit again! These photos are from our last day there - video at the end of this page!

February ER Order | Young Living

Our February Essential Rewards (ER) order has come in and with it brought some goodies!

I was really excited about this months because I was trying a lot of new things and I also was trying their ART Skin Care line!

The promo this month was hard to pass up,  so I had to take the amazing offer!

Okay so in my order was ...

ER Order:

Copaiba Vanilla Shampoo

ART Skin Care System

Lemon EO

Peppermint EO

Ocotea EO

Cinnamon Bark EO

Melrose EO

Gentle Baby EO (Not for me!)

Mineral Essence

Slique gum

The February Promo (Free stuff!) included :

Wintergreen EO

Patchouli EO

Copaiba EO

20 Essential Rewards points

Joy EO

Ylang Ylang EO

Grapefruit Vitality EO


Here is our short video! Enjoy! And be sure to come back here next month to check out our next ER order.... (Hint* There will be a lot of things in it for Cain!)

Life is meant to be enjoyed....

This summer was busy for me. I nannied for two different families, kept a very steady flow of pictures/videos and spent almost every weekend with my parents. And of course Cain and I had lots of relaxing evenings staying at home watching a couple seasons of Scrubs!

Once I looked at the calendar I realized how soon school would be starting for Cain and my busiest season for pictures would be here before I knew it! I wanted to plan a very quick get away for the two of us to just spend some time together. 

I went to our calendar and looked for the next day that we both had off work.... Hmmm. Few and far! But I did move things around enough to get us one day alone! I'm so thankful we made it work! 

I'm really happy we made this trip happen. Although I could have spent the day working I am happy I was away to soak up some quality time with my hubby. Even when we ran low on gas and needed to walk 1 mile to a gas station to get gas and bring it back... I was still enjoying my day with Cain!

This lady stopped to help Cain with the picture ... Haha I couldn't stop laughing!

Cain loves the GoPro

We like to listen to music on the bike, so we each have our headphones hooked up to our phones. Well while we were at a gas station on the way to South Haven we were about to get on the motorcycle and I had my helmet on already with music going.

 I was dancing very silly next to Cain trying to embarrass him (I enjoy to do that sometimes!) and then he started dancing along side with me. Then a older man pulled up next to us in a truck. Cain kind of stopped and then gave me the "okay we should probably stop now" Look ... I continued on to make him blush a little haha I'm sure it looked very silly me dancing with a helmet on with no music going outside my headphones haha. 

The man got out of his car and said something to Cain, I couldn't hear with my music going. I saw Cain laugh and nod at the man. Cain then smiled at me :) Later I asked what the man said. 

Older man - "Life is meant to be enjoyed"

I couldn't agree more! I never want to stop having fun with Cain, doing silly things just to make each other laugh and to take time out of our busy lives to travel and explore! 

P.S ... These photos were taken in 2013 on the same beach as the one above! We weren't even engaged yet! Time is flying by ...

I can't wait to do that again...

Phew, weekends wear me out.....

In the best way possible.

I love getting to spend the weekends with my parents. I load up my car almost every weekend that I can with clothes, food that I don't want to go bad, tupperware that I borrowed from the week before, my bike and computer and of course Nova. (bike and computer don't come with me every time) ha

Cain joins me any weekend that he can but with working weekends and the Army he doesn't always get to come with me. We miss him so stinking much when he is away.

I enjoy every minute at my parents home. It's so familiar to me like the back of my hand. I love my home in Fort Wayne so very much, but nothing is quite like the house that built you.

This weekend we spent time with my pawpaw and had Graci over to spend the night. We played with kitties, we jumped, baked with chocolate and stayed up way to late gigging. Graci brings so much joy to my heart and I know how much my parents adore having her around.

By the end of every weekend I load up everything I brought and then double that with what my parents give us. I drive home (This time alone) and just think of how wonderful life is and how blessed I am.

After unloading the car, bringing everything in, putting every last thing into place where it belongs... I say with a joyful heart .... "I can't wait to do that again"

A short video of my Saturday.

May | 2015

Sometime in April I decided to take on a project for May.  I first did this project last October. (2014)



That project is to take a short clip everyday for a whole month. I don't know why I choose the busiest months to do this but just like in October, I was able to keep to my plan and take a video each day! (Sometimes nights!)

I love to look back now and think just how wonderful this last month was. It was busy with work, yes. But also personal time too, which is so needed for me!


So sit back and take a look into what our May looked like  :) LINK - May Video


Oh and here is the link to October's video! - October 2014

October

We survived October!

Someone this past week said I looked really tired. I said "I worked everyday this month!" They asked why I was working so much in October? That's a easy answer... Tree color! Everyone wants pictures with that perfect cool weather and pretty leaf colors for the background in pictures. I don't blame them! It's true, it is beautiful and I would want the same thing! 

So with pictures a couple times through out the week plus double that on weekends and editing all those pictures everyday..... I am always a little tired at the end of October. And of course I have to have a little personal life too! So trying to do it all and stay healthy at the same time can put me in for the drawing of the extra stress cruise! 

So what do I decide to do at the beginning of the month? Give myself a project? Yup! Ha just what I needed! Something else to do! I wanted something fun I could do while I was in this busy month. I decided to capture a video for each day of October. Not knowing if I would stick it out, I told myself it could be a short film each day, nothing grand. And that's just what I did! 

I spent a lot of time in my car driving from Fort Wayne to Bluffton for pictures. Then back to Fort Wayne to sleep and then do it again the next day, so sometimes I had to take a video in the car! But oh well, that was my life this month. 

After putting this video together I was happy looking back on the busy, busy month. I was happy to see it wasn't all that bad and I had the video to prove it!

Cain also seemed to have had a busy month too. He has been working hard on getting good grades (which is working!)  and with work and drill he is gone almost every weekend.

Someone yesterday saw Cain and I together and said "nice seeing you two together, normally one of you is always working!" it's so true. I hadn't thought of it until then. 

I would like to say that is going to change but that's where we are right now in life. We do see each other, don't get me wrong. But we are probably not out and about when we do have days off together. We are cuddled up on the couch watching a TV show we both enjoy or preparing a meal to eat!

You know I can't write a blog post without saying something about food! I would just like to make a note that I stayed sugar free all this month even through the stress of work. I ate a lot of healthy fats to keep me full and my mind clear!

This whole no sugar thing has become eye opening to me. I can think so much more clear and I no longer crave sweets. Weird right? I can stop sugar cravings by NOT having sugar.

Something worth trying ;)

Here is October :)

Mrs. Grogg

A evening at the park..

Park with Graci from Lanette's Photography on Vimeo.