30 Day Photo Challenge: Day 13

"A good habit"

I'm going to do a little switching around in my theme for today, because I have fresh blueberries! From my yard! When we moved here, there were two dinky blueberry bushes in my back yard, but they didn't yield more than a couple stray berries for the first couple of years. Then, last year they exploded with fruit! I picked this years' first crop earlier this morning. 

I LOVE fruit! I keep my freezer stocked with frozen organic berries and mango year round, along with lots of fresh bananas and apples. Most of it I blend up in my daily protein shakes/smoothies, and I love it! It's a really easy way to sneak in a ton of nutrients and get several servings of your daily fruit and veg requirements in one go. If you need a good protein shake try this one - it's amazing! I like the vanilla because it goes with every mix in (I like to get creative - coffee, pumpkin, whatever I have on hand!), but the chocolate is stellar, too. 

Speaking of fresh fruit and veg...

30 Day Photo Challenge: Day 12

"Sunset"

I really should be calling this "post 12" instead of "day 12" since I'm spreading this out over June and July now. You get the idea though. 

Yesterday we boated and played until sundown as we conducted some very important Arbonne "business" on our upline's boat - SO fun! It was a great day to be out on the water, and such a fun way to plan and strategize for the coming weeks! I'm thinking we might need to make those "meetings" a regular occurrence. Love it!

30 Day Photo Challenge: Day 11

"Something Blue" 

As much as I love my Arbonne, I try not to brag about products too much on here. ;) That said, this is the perfect "something blue" summertime post! I used to think I was just doomed to an oily, shiny face all day during our sweltering southern summers. This little blue bottle has totally changed that! It's oil-absorbing lotion with SPF 20, so it keeps me from looking shiny all day while protecting my albino-like skin from sunburn. 

I'm sure we all have products we swear by over the summer - what are your favorites? Do you slather down with sunscreen in the summer or do you go au natural?

30 Day Photo Challenge: Day 10

"Childhood memory"

Funny story. I went to America's Thrift the other day to look for a skirt, and left with a skirt, eight Barbies, and a Barbie car, for a grand total of $13. (I can't tell you how excited I got when I realized I could buy really nice Barbies dirt cheap there - have you seen how much they want for them these days?) I'm not exactly sure what came over me, but I'm building a small collection of toys for all my friends' kids to play with when they come over, and let's be honest - Barbies have always been my favorite toys. 

Since the dolls came in their birthday suits, I pulled out my box of childhood Barbie supplies so they could go shopping to scrounge up some clothing. 

It's amazing how it's been 20 years but I can still look at each doll even now and remember their name, who gave them to me, and the lives I had made up for them. I got rid of a bunch of Barbies when I decided I was old enough to pack them all away, but I kept several of my favorites. 

This was "Polly Darton" (yep). She has a button in her stomach and if you push it she says "nice outfit" "you look great" and "see you later" (these phrases are now deeply entrenched in my family's lexicon). You can still hear it faintly - impressive batteries! Polly owned a boutique in my Barbie neighborhood filled with tiny plastic shoes and purses. The outfit she's wearing was given to me by my cousin Jennie. She gave me my first Barbie house and accessories; I still remember playing Barbies with Jennie on a blanket under the tree in front of my grandmothers' apartment building. Her hand-me-down Barbie house was an amazingly large 70s model with orange and yellow molded plastic rooms, and I thought it was the Taj Mahal. 

What were your favorite childhood toys? Did you save any of them? 

30 Day Photo Challenge: Day 9

"Someone you love"

It's a little ridiculous, but it's taken me over a week to get a picture of my husband (and I hate to say it, but you guys probably don't want to see another picture of my dog). He's a hard-working man (everyone go check out his cloth diaper service!), so he leaves before the sun is up and if I have a busy week of parties some nights I don't get home until he's fast asleep. That said, we've settled into a routine and the entrepreneurship lifestyle has become a lot easier! You learn to schedule time with each other in advance, and I wouldn't trade what we get to do for anything.

I also wouldn't trade him for anything! I love him even more than I did when we got married 5 years ago, and we are so very blessed! 

(And the funny faces are nothing new...this was us when we first started dating 6-ish years ago.)

30 Day Photo Challenge: Day 8

"Routine"

This is pretty much what my "working from home" looks like. Me, at the dining room table, with the iPad, scribbling notes and math all over scrap paper while entering orders. Usually with Scout curled up at my feet.

Have I mentioned I love my job? I love the flexibility of working an hour or two at home during the day, and spending a few evenings a week out doing spa parties. Everything I do is portable, which means I can pack up and head to a coffee shop for the day (or bring it all to Florida to visit my dear friend Jessica for a week, which I'm doing next month! woo hoo!). 

Here's to doing a job you love! What has been your favorite job - and what has been your least favorite? (My least favorite was putting pieces of paper into file folders for eight. hours. a. day. At least it was a temp job!)

30 Day Photo Challenge: Day 7

"Changes to come."

I could go really deep with this blog, but I won't. We never really know what changes are around the corner. So I'm going to keep it superficial. 

Really superficial. 

I need a haircut. And probably a root touch up. 

I change my hair a lot. For the first 20+ years of my life, it was varying shades of blond, but then it started to get darker. Most of my life my hair has been well past my shoulders, and because my body seems to like playing tricks on me, anywhere from slightly wavy to kinky curls. 

Just this past year, it's changed pretty drastically. 

Started out long and in it's natural color. 

Chopped to the chin. 

Went asymmetrical. 

Pixie cut. 

Then, growing out the pixie and back to my "native" blond. 

I'm not sure I'll ever be ready to go back to long hair, but I still like playing with different styles!

Have you had the same haircut your whole life or do you change it up? Why or why not?