Why hellllo there! I feel like I need to be introducing myself but I guarantee I don’t have any new readers.  I’m going to just assume if you are reading this you have been with me long and faithful and were as shocked as I am to see a blog post on this lousy Monday.

So let’s see, my last post was on December 5. That’s almost four months since my last blog post… I haven’t gone that long without blogging since? Well, probably since I actually started blogging.  I’m kind of disappointed actually. Disappointed I didn’t stick with it or at least jump back into it much sooner.  You blog for a few years, building a relationship with your readers and with other bloggers, and then you just stop.  I know when I had the time to read all of my favorite blogs I would get so disappointed or curious when a blogger would just fall off the face of the planet.  Don’t they care about us readers?!  You know there is always something going on in their life that is due to the change in blogging and I think I have some what of a valid excuse.

In early December, Brad and I started researching on our latest business idea – we wanted to start a Photo Booth rental company.  They were becoming more and more popular it seemed and after another wedding with a photo booth we realized that was something we thought we would love to do.  We started researching building our own booth, where to purchase a booth, developing a business plan, and a few days before Christmas we had a loan in our pockets and a photo booth being sent to us within the week.

It was a lot of praying that we made the right decisions and scared of not knowing what to do next.  It was like a sudden heavy, stressful feeling with a “what now?!”  I instantly started developing our website and advertising our new business to all of our friends on Facebook and to anyone who wanted to listen. Brad and I were officially business owners.  My dream my whole life was now a reality. I was getting to start something from the ground up, and with my husband. I majored in Entrepreneurship and I was actually getting to put so many things I learned into practice!

Photopia Photo Lounge was born, and within our first week we had our first wedding booked. It was so exciting! Since then, the time I would usually put into blogging now was me responding to emails and advertising anywhere I could! Things were happening so fast and I was loving it! During that time in December, January, and even most of February my new “lifestyle changes” kind of got put on the back burner.  My frequent gym visits after work were not spent at my computer with Brad working on stuff for the new business and trying to eat healthy meals was now being replaced by quick fast food runs or going out to dinner so we could sit at the table only to work some more in the middle of restaurants.

As things finally started to develop a system I finally was able to start managing my time again with this new full time job on top of my already full time job and I realized I needed to get back into my weight loss journey.  I had only lost around 13 lbs before the holidays and I had so far to go, I couldn’t stop now.  In late February I started trying to get in a cooking habit again (which I’ve been doing great at) and I started doing workouts at home for when I can’t make it to the gym.  As of last week I finally hit my first 20 lb lost and I’m back on track and it feels good.  I’m starting to have a little bit more energy that has got me through all of this craziness we have committed too lately, I HAD to start making time for me.

Setting up at our first Bridal Expo

Business has been going really good and we are loving what we’re doing! We’ve met some great people and are having a great time at the weddings and parties we have done so far, we can only hope our success we’ve experience so far in such a short amount of time can only continue to grow.  We feel so blessed and have had so much support from our friends and family!

{Source: Photopia Photo Lounge}

I would like to thank some of you who I do stay in contact with and I get constant support and encouragement from your through Facebook, Twitter, and emails! It means so much to me! So there ya have it, that’s what my life has been committed to for the past couple of months and I’d love to say I will try to pop in much more frequently… I promise I will really try!