100th Post! And a Wonderful Announcement!

I can't belive I have posted 100 times! Time is flying! My little hobby of finding, using and reviewing products has been so fun and I love writing this blog! Thank you so much to those of you who read/follow it!
Sooooo I am so happy and excited to announce that my business partner and I will be opening our very own exercise studio in February 2011!! It is called The Dailey Method and it is the best workout Ive ever done (and we all know Ive tried every single workout out there!). It is a barre based class (which are all the rage right now) and it is fabulous! I have wanted to open my own studio for the past couple of years and now that we are doing it and it is official, it all seems so surreal. It is located in Calabasas, CA (Home of a ton of celebs! Hopefully we will get some fab clients-I would love to train Jessica Simpson!) Please become a fan on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Calabasas-CA/The-Dailey-Method-Calabasas/160499737321359
So I know life is going to be crazy: I will be opening my own business with a 10 week old, but I think that with the support of my wonderful hubby, business partner and friends, that it will all work out! I will post more in the future about exactly what The Dailey Method is and why it is so unique! Alright-Im a crazy person trying to get ready for my sweet little boy (coming tuesday!). I just had my pre-baby bikini wax and everything is clean and organized (except my office) so Im really just doing last minute errands. Have a wonderful weekend!!

Oh Yum

Bloggers these are the type of thing I simply can not keep in my house! I don't have the willpower for it!!! To most of you this is a great little treat/snack that should be easy to not over-indulge in, but I apparently have lost all personal restraint :) They are Trader Joe's Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls and they are sooooo delish!! I love the chocolate/mint combo! They are about the size of a Reece's Peanut Butter Cup (the big ones, not the mini ones). 2 of these has 120 calories-which isn't bad at all!! My problem-yesterday I ate 7 of them. Yes 7 of them, so that makes them 420 calories which isn't quite so good. So I'm deciding that I love them too much to have in my freezer, but for those of you with self control, these are a great little portioned out treat! Enjoy!

Darling, Comfy Sleepwear

While doing my daily trip to Target I found this supercute nightshirt/nightgown type thing and I had to share!! It is Gilligan & O'Malley and it is wonderful!!! Only $17.99 and made of jersey. I need some nightgowns that I can wear post c-section and I wanted some that were modest enough that it wouldn't be too weird if guests saw me in them and this one fits the bill! The lace part up top is not scratchy at all and the material is so nice and soft! Once again Target-you never let me down :) Oh yeah-and it comes in a great deep red color (perfect for the holidays) too!

My New Fav!!

Hi Bloggers!!! I have missed you! This past week has been crazy but now we are back home, house looks amazing and I am ready for this baby!! I think I probably did 20 loads of laundry on Saturday and Sunday-but it was all baby stuff and folding cute, soft baby blankets and darling little onsies is so much fun!!! While we were "hotel living" for the past week I stumbled upon some FANTASTIC new products that I am in love with!! I cant wait to share them and see if you guys love them too!
Okay-I think I may have a new favorite!! It is Origins VitaZing SPF 15 Energy-boosting Moisturizer with Mangosteen. Ha try saying that 5 times! It is a mouthful-but it is fabulous!!! It is this wonderful, yummy smelling moisturizer that changes its tone to match your skin...it is sheer coverage but the little kick of color it gives is awesome! I bought it on Thursday and wore it Friday-Sunday and every single day got compliments on my "glowing" skin. It is this VitaZing! My only gripe (because alas nothing is perfect!) is that SPF 15 is not high enough for daily use. So I still use my La Roche Posay SPF 60 underneath...I wish the VitaZing had at least a SPF 30, but oh well. Here is what Origins says about this brilliant product:
'This energising multi-tasking moisturizer gives skin instant vitality and vibrance with the zing of vitamin-rich Mangosteen energy Complex. Magically transforms to create even, flawless skin.'

-designed to release colour pigments which adapts to your skin tone
-paraben, PABA, mineral oil, petroleum, paraffin, synthetic fragrance free

I think this will be a great addition to my "daily use" products, especially once this baby is here and I'm looking and feeling pretty tired!

I'll be back next week

Hope you all had a fab Halloween!!! I'll be on blogging vacay since we won't be living at home for the week. My plans for the week are to read, read and read! I never made it through my gigantic summer reading list-so a week in a hotel sounds like the perfect place to catch up :) We didn't dress up for Halloween but here are a couple of pics from a past year just to be festive :) My handome Larry Bird and me being a pumpikn :)

My Pup is going to be fine!!!!!!!

Just a quick update on my sweet Romeo. The vet called and his tumor was benign!!! The vet said that he was positive it was a sarcoma and he is shocked that the pathology report came back and said it wasn't!! I'm so happy and feel so much relief. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers!! I posted some pics of Romy's favorite thing-going on our boat! These were taken in Sept (I was about 32 weeks-so excuse my largeness!) when we were up visiting my parents in Lake Tahoe. The top pic is w/ my mom, then under that it's Romy and Bella w/ their uncle Adam, then Romy by himself and lastly our little family: Me, Kevin Romy and Bella. I have never seen our pups smile as much as they did on the boat-it was the cutest thing :)

The Nail Polish We Should All Own

Happy Friday Bloggers! I have no fancy/fun plans for this weekend, I'm just going to try to get my house ready for the upcoming week of demo/construction that I hope and pray only takes the promised 5 days to complete!! Kevin knows I'm stressed and sheepishly asked if I would mind if he goes golfing and I say golf now sweetie!! Life is about to get very busy(w/ Baby and other things!). So today's product is a oldie but a goodie. It is a must have nail color that works on everyone: Essie Ballet Slippers. It is the perfect pinky-nude that is so subtle and I love it on my fingers or toes (it looks better on tan toes though fyi). Every celeb always lists this as their fav nail color and it is for good reason-it just is easy to wear and looks, well, it looks polished!

Perfect Timing

Hello! I was at Bath & Body Works buying my holiday hand soaps(yum!), and they had some promo deal where if you buy a certain amount of stuff you get one item for free (I think it had to be less than $15). So I searched the store and one of the sales girls suggested trying the Sudsing Scrub. I love me a good scrub so I got it. She didn't ask me what flavor-but I guess I looked high stress bc she gave me the Eucalyptus Spearmint Stress Relief Aromatherapy one. So I hadn't used it until yesturday when I got bad news after bad news. Most of the new involves my sweet baby boy Romeo (who isn't really a baby anymore-he is 10) who had surgery and the vet suspects that he has cancer :( That thought devastates me more than I can explain-but I'm hoping and praying that the vet will be wrong (we are now waiting until the pathology report comes in). Other bad news is more annoying than anything-we have to move out of our house for a week starting Monday bc a pipe burst in our kitchen and long story short we are doing major demo/construction and cant live at home during it. Normally Id say-no biggie lets go stay w/ Kevin's mom in San Diego-but I'm 37 weeks preggo and cant travel. So its a dog friendly hotel for us. Which is fine-but I need to do some nesting and get ready for this baby (I haven't washed any of his stuff, haven't set everything up, etc)! Okay-back to the sudsing scrub. So yesterday-would have been a great day for either a stiff martini or a large glass of wine-but I'm not into drinking while preggo (I know some say its safe-but for me, its a no go). So I turned to this stress relief scrub and I have to say it was pretty nice! Its got a herb-y smell that I wouldn't want to use daily-but it did seem to calm be down a bit. AND a scrub that gets sudsy is fantastic in my book :) Above is a picture of Romeo and me 2 Halloweens ago as matching pumpkins :)

Meet My New BFF

Bloggers I am such an alarmist! I mean it is ridiculous! I was getting into the shower about 2 weeks ago and peeked in the mirror and there it was. Staring at me. Right on my tummy: A large red stretch mark. I was sooooooooooooo sad. After I showered, I called some of my usual suspects to try and calm myself down. Then I went straight for the computer to search for cute one piece bathing suits bc that was what I was sad about: if I have stretchmarks then I wont want to wear bikinis anymore and I tend to think bikinis are the cutest swimwear and I am going to Hawaii this June and Cabo next Fall and we live in Southern CA so we are at the beach all of the time and I got myself in such a panicked state about this damn stretch mark. After coming to terms w/ one pieces (there are some cute ones: Trina Turk once again never lets me down as far as swimwear is concerned!) I did the next rational thing: went to target to buy every anti-stretch mark product ever made. I came home-raced up to my bathroom, stripped so I could lube my growing body up and looked in the mirror...where had that stretch mark gone? I searched and couldn't find it. It wasn't a stretch mark-it was an indent on my swollen tummy from the seam of my workout pants. I am officially an idiot. Not just an idiot-but an alarmist idiot!
So that brings me to this new product that I decided to use daily to keep real stretchmarks away: Bio Oil. I really like it! I use it every time I get out of the shower and it is nice and not too oily. I just use it on my stomach and use regular lotion for everywhere else. It does take a few minutes to absorb into the body-so don't make the rookie mistake of getting dressed too quickly after applying it! It is a tad expensive bc I use quite a bit of it-but oh well, I'm almost at the finish line and if it allows me to wear my beloved bikinis-then it is worth every penny ;)

Yuck!

Happy Monday Product Junkies!! I hope you all had fantastic weekends. Ours was mellow, but productive! We cleaned, shopped, ate, watched movies and snuggled (it was nice and chilly here!). Kevin also golfed and I think he is going to try to get out as much as possible since he won't have as many free weekends for long :) 3 weekends left people! This is crazy!!!!!!! So I normally don't like to bash products on here(if you don't have something nice to say...) but this one recently made it onto a magazine's best of list and I couldn't disagree more! By now you all know that I am fiber obsessed and I also really believe in the health/diet rule of combining fiber and protein at every meal (when possible). Needless to say when I saw that Fiber One was making cottage cheese with added fiber in it, I was super excited!! I had about 2 bites before I realized that this was disgusting and tasted chemical-y. Blech. Gross. Yuck. So I'm back to my old cottage cheese (Knudson brand the l/f one) and I just make sure I get fiber w/ it back adding either strawberries, raspberries or blueberries-yum!