Day 2 Birthday Celebration

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Celebration 

Day 2
Thanks for all of the birthday wishes! I had a great 29th Birthday and the husband surprised me by taking our 2 year old to a friend while we went out to a nice dinner. Very nice! Now, enjoy the rest of our Birthday Celebration! -Big Sis

We are so excited to continue to bring you these awesome Giveaways. As we have said, we are OHHH, so thankful for these businesses that have so graciously chose to be part of our celebration. We hope you continue to be excited about this giveaway as we are... Be sure to SHARE, SHARE, SHARE!

Today we are so excited to tell you about Susan over at Havasu Decals! We are so excited to have her giving away a product to you. Susan has been working with us for over a month now on decals we are looking for, creating a shirt for a Mud Run team, and is getting ready to complete out shirts. We love looking at her fun running decals and all the ideas that she has and brings to life through it.

Susan has her work on a few different websites and is a wonderful person to work with. I can tell you now that we highly recommend using her if you are wanting to work with someone that is going to be patient (because you have SO many questions like us), generous (because she has that sweet heart), and confident in her work. I love working with people that know what they are doing and do it the best they can and Susan does just that.

Check Her Out at These Places:

Facebook

Website

We are so excited to tell you that ONE of you will WIN a PERSONALIZED TUMBLER that she has created to giveaway and she can even put your name on it! Isn't that so exciting? So go on over and take a look at these amazing shirts and come back and comment to us WHICH design you will get on the tumbler when you win!

Winner will receive this Tumbler:

*All Giveaways will run for ONE week. ALL winners will be announced on Sunday, October 14th*


Good Luck in our Happy Birthday Celebration!  

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We are so excited to be able to bring you these awesome Giveaways. As we have said, we are OHHH, so thankful for these businesses that have so graciously chose to be part of our celebration. We hope you continue to be as excited about this giveaway as we are... Be sure to SHARE, SHARE, SHARE!

Today we are so excited to tell you about Vanessa over at Ruffles with Love! We are sure many of you have seen her products already and we personally know people that own several of her shirts! We asked Vanessa to tell you a little bit about herself so you could get to know her:

"Hello, my name is Vanessa and I live in California. I have always loved bows, ribbons, anything pink and anything that says girly! I enjoy being athletic and wanted to incorporate all of my likes into something great! I enjoy making workout tank tops that have all of my likes and sayings that will motivate not only you but others around you. No workout tank is complete without a bow, at least in my eyes! I enjoy making them and coming up with fun color combinations. I hope you love my shirts as I much as I love making them!"

Vanessa has a great Etsy Shop with all of her cutesy, motivational shirts on show for you. We hope you will take a look around and tell us what you think. If you are a man- YOU are in luck. She has some men shirts as well. But if you aren’t into these kinds of shirts, I guarantee you there is a woman you know that would LOVE for you to win her one! :)  Part of the entry submission is to tell us which shirt you would chose for yourself or someone else!

Check Her Out at These Places:

Etsy

Facebook

Twitter

Pinterest

We are so excited to tell you that ONE of you will WIN a SHIRT OF YOUR CHOICE from her Etsy shop!! Isn't that so exciting? Seriously, WE want to enter! :) So go on over and take a look at these amazing shirts and come back and comment to us WHICH shirt you will choose if you win. 

Good Luck in our Happy Birthday Celebration!  

*All Giveaways will run for ONE week. ALL winners will be announced on Saturday, October 13th*

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15 Day Birthday Celebration

We are SO excited to bring you guys our 15 Day Birthday Celebration Giveaway.

What is that, you ask??

Well tomorrow, September 20, Big Sis turns the ripe old age of 29 and on October 5, Little Sis turns 25. WE ARE GETTING OLD!

So.. the thing is.. we have some AMAZING businesses that have stepped up to help us celebrate our days by giving YOU gifts. We are so excited about this. This has been a couple of months in the making. You will want to come back to either blog, Naturally Fit Sisters or Natural Nesters, each day to enter the Giveaway. Each Giveaway will run for 1 week. The winners of ALL Giveaways will not be announced until Saturday, October 13th. So you will want to come back on the 13th to see if you were a lucky winner.

I am telling you guys.. we have some pretty amazing giveaways in the next 15 days! You do NOT want to miss it! So make sure you stop back in and share the news with your friends and family.

Also-- AFTER the birthday celebration Giveaway.. we have MORE giveaways already lined up through the end of the year.

AND.. when Natural-NesterS Facebook reaches 1000 we will have another GREAT Giveaway from an awesome crafting website that many of you know as Pick Your Plum! So be sure to LIKE our facebook pages! 

So many exciting Giveaways! 
We can't wait to start celebrating with you all! 

-Big & Little Sis

Oh and let's not forget.. we have a RooSport winner today!!

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International students in a mud run

So here's a fun fact about Little Sis: 

Over a year ago my husband and I got the opportunity to invite 3 Asian boys into our home as host students.  These boys are in high school and a part of a non-profit organization that brings international students into Christian homes, where they live life while getting an American education.  The goal of this company is to place students into Christian homes where they get life on life discipleship and learn about God.  Then they go on to get a degree at an American University and they are launched out into marketplaces in their country where they can lead as Christ believing business men and women.  It has been an amazing experience and we have had the boys for one full year, and just started our second year with them.  Anyways, I wanted to share their first experience at a mud run this past weekend! 

This past weekend, we did a really fun activity with some of the boys in the Leadership International Program.  

In the days leading up to the event we showed our boys many videos of what we wanted them to do, and we told them great stories.  Either way we told them they would have to get up at 8a.m. on a Saturday morning to either come watch us participate, or they could be a part of it themselves.  Finally we persuaded them to have some fun with us.   This was no ordinary fun though, and since last semester they freaked out about carving pumpkins, and having to stick their hand in the pumpkin goo to gut it out, this was definitely a stretch for them.

On the morning of September 8^th, we loaded the car with friends and family and headed to Abilene’s Seabee Park to participate in the Big Country Mudslinger Fun Run together.  This event was put on as a fundraiser for the local non-profit organization Abilene Youth Sports Authority.

We went out there and started the race at 9:30am.  We took Evans Choi, our senior student that has been a part of our family since August 2012, Steven Qin, our junior student, with us since August 2011, and Juno Wong, a senior student who has spent a lot of time with us, but is a host son to another family.  (Our other host son had to take the ACT).  We started the race each going at our own pace and we had a blast.  If you are wondering why I said that this would be challenging for our students, it was not just that they had committed to running a 3.1 mile run, but that throughout the 3 miles we were trudging, sliding, swimming, and falling through West Texas mud.

We all had a blast!  Throughout the run there were walls to climb over, logs hanging above mud puddles that you had to balance on, there was a huge slip-n-slide down a hill, and other fun and challenging obstacles that you had to achieve to finish the race.  The best obstacle was the 25 foot long mud pit that you had to crawl through to get to the finish line! It was great seeing the surprised looks on the boys’ faces as they were covered in red mud, taking photos as a family. 

It was a wonderful experience for our whole family, and I am so thankful that the boys participated with us.  I know that it was a new and challenging opportunity for them, but they did have fun.  Plus I love being able to instill fun and healthy-living into them as they live life with our family.  Needless to say, after that weekend I had double the laundry to do, and we had to get the car cleaned inside and out from all the mud! 

Also another fun fact about this weekend is that I got to do this race with my mom! It was just a fun thing to get to experience with her! It was only her second ever 5K, and it was great! Also, my 6 year old nephew joined in at the last minute! It was so fun to do this with them, and I know this will be a memory that he will have forever! He had a blast and did awesome! 

Love my mom!! 

-Little Sis

Weekly Chase #7

Big Sis here.. I really LOVE the idea behind the Weekly Chase.. but I am surely struggling to keep to my goals each week. This week a couple of wrenches were thrown my way... but I can't keep using excuses about not reaching my goals. TRYING so hard to reach my goals this week!

If you haven't heard about the Weekly Chase that our friend over at Live, Love, Run does each week- you should really go over and read about it. Even if you don't blog, it is an awesome way to keep weekly goals and try and reach them! If you want to know more about the Weekly Chase go HERE.

  BIG SIS:  My Goals from Last Week: 1. To run 15 miles Monday-Friday. I have a race on Saturday so I do not want that to count toward   my 15 miles. ---I ran a total of 2 miles this week. Something has been going on with me and messing with my desire to run.. I figured it out this week.. but I MUST get with it. 2. To get at least 5 more Birthday Celebration Posts completed. --Using blogger on my laptop is not working and has not been all week. IT is just a gray screen. Has anyone ever had that. I did not think to use my computer upstairs until last night. 3. To complete 2 Guests Posts on our blogs. --Nope.

4. Log what I eat daily.-- I started it.. but did not finish.

5. Water, Water, Water! -DONE

My Goals for THIS Week:

1. Run 15 miles total for the week.

2. To get Birthday Celebration Posts finished.

3. To get Bondi Bands shipped.

4. To get October Guests Posts ready.

5. Water, Water, Water

Little SIS:

My Goals for Last Week: 1. To run 20 miles this week-Not quite....I lost a lot of motivation this past week! I did hit my longest run yet, at 8 miles though! So it was somewhat successful!  2. To stay on track with my family weekly menu-YES!!! I have done awesome at this! and if you don't have a family menu, you should try it! It is amazing! It keeps me on top of things and accountable to myself to always cook or prepare meals.  Plus it makes me feel good b/c I am being organized and taking care of my family!  3. To be at home and continue to evaluate my schedule and talk to my husband before making plans outside of the home-Doing pretty well at this! Continuing to find new ways to be more organized with my schedule! It's going great though!  4. To stay on top of blogging and get posts done ahead of time-Doing pretty good at this one too, but needing to get some Birthday Bash Celebration posts done! ASAP 5. To get estimated prices done for all of my cushion/pillow sales that I have gotten messages on from my Etsy store! -Getting a lot of this done, still having steady sales, and making progress with some custom made cushions for some customers! 

My Goals for THIS Week:

1. Run 5 days this week, and one of those be a long run

2. Make running more of a priority than other workouts 

3. Eat well----take time to think about each thing that I eat and saying no to sweats or sugar filled drinks

4. Get Birthday Bash Celebrations done

5. Take a day off from work to relax! 

Don't forget about our ROOSPORT Giveaway.. Only 1 day left. YOU Want to win this!!

Team Bleach Shirts

Last weekend I, Little Sis ran in a Mud Run called the Mudslinger 5K with my friends and family.  (I will be writing about the run this weekend, but for now I want to tell you about the fun shirts that we made :-) 

For our race we signed up as a team called the "Mud Missiles!" The team name credit goes to my 6 year old nephew....who actually ended up running with us! 

Anyways, us girls, (my friend, mom, and me) were planning to make matching shirts.  We already had the same shorts, and headbands that matched, so I was going to make us shirts.  Then, we ended up making the guys shirts too! They turned out great!

Here's what we did.  

First we cut the shirts into razor back tanks! 

Here's a pic of my dog wearing the shirt sleeves as a turtle neck collar lol. 

We also cut out cardboard letters for our names.  

We then laid the letters down on the shirt and sprayed bleach over it.  (We put bleach in a random spray bottle) 

I learned that you really don't need to spray a lot of bleach, we could have done way less and it still would've worked. 

Anyways, we also cut out a cardboard running man.  :-) I loved this little guy lol We didn't put the missile on the shirt, but I thought this was cute enough to share. 

Anyways, we bleached the running man onto the back of our shirts.  

Right here you can see the color difference once the shirt was all dry.  I loved it and thought they turned out great! Especially since we were just going to get them all muddy anyways! 

Keep an eye out this weekend for the Mud Run Post!! 

Don't forget to stop by and enter the GIVEAWAY for the RooSport!! You so want to Win this! 

RooSport Review & Giveaway

Have you heard of the RooSport before? 

Well we are here to tell you all about this great product....and

one of our Lucky Readers will WIN a RooSport of their own! 

So let me first explain what a RooSport is: 

I have been using my RooSport for several weeks now and have really loved it.  

From the running/working out side of things, the product is great. It connects to the belt of your shorts/pants by a powerful magnet.  (AND IT WORKS!) and then it has a nice velcro pouch (you can see that below), and also a small zipper pouch on the outside.  So essentially you could hold a phone, money, keys, and maybe more in it.  It is great for running because I do not have to hold my phone while I run.  I keep it in the pouch. And the velcro pocket is very easy to fit my phone into, so I am not forcing it in, even with a case on it. 

(phone in pouch)

Another great thing about the RooSport is that it is made from great materials.  I don't know the official material types, but they are perfect for working out and sweating. 

I also used my RooSport when I went bike riding the other day too.  This is a perfect way to use a distance tracking app or listen to music, or have your phone for safety reasons, and still be able to ride your bike without the phone being in the way. It was great!  

Along with working out, the RooSport is also handy for other things too.  You could use this in every day life as a way to hold a few things with you as you go about your busy life.  I know I recently used mine during work when I was always running around doing things, and wanted my phone with me.  It was perfect for that, and it never gets in the way.  It is also good for when you take your dogs for a walk, or you are playing at the park with your kids.  Think of anything that you do with your hands, but you also want to be holding your phone, keys, or money, and this is the perfect solution.  

Good Luck to all of you! We love our RooSports and will continue using them to run, and do other daily  activities.  

-Big & Little Sis

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