The wedding my father always wanted!

I know what happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas, but a wedding is a wedding, even if it’s really only a vow renewal, and wedding pictures should always be shared, right?  I also know that I’m a little late in fulfilling my father’s wishes on this point.  More than 13 years late, to be exact, but I’m thinking better late than never.  Again, am I right?  I mean really — we even had Elvis perform the ceremony!  And paid for everything ourselves!  Dad didn’t have to pay a dime!  And just like our *first* wedding, I cried this time, too.  I’m such a sissy.  😉

 *I only wish I’d been wearing better shoes here.  My feet really just hurt too much to wear anything else.

**I also have about 50 pictures that the professional photographer took.  If you’d like to see those, let me know.

Shoeper Challenge 6 of 58 (Montego Bay Club/Payless)

Another Payless shoe challenge post.  Hey, I love shoes.  I never said I loved buying EXPENSIVE shoes.  A lot of times the Payless ones are more comfortable, or allow me to indulge trends that I might not otherwise be able to justify for the cost.  I packed these low-wedge heeled silver flip-flops to wear with a dress that I didn’t end up wearing, but I did end up wearing the flip-flops almost the whole time we were in Vegas.

So for this Shoeper Challenge, I’m not limiting myself to a single outfit, but rather a few of the pictures Jim took of me in Vegas, having a FANTASTIC time.  🙂

Oh, and I was so happy to see expensive (and gorgeous!) shoes, that I fainted @ the Christian Louboutin shop in The Venetian.  I’ll leave it to you to decide if I was pretending or not…

Shoeper Challenge 5 of 58 (American Eagle by Payless)

I have to (and hate to) admit, but Shoeper Challenge #4 was tougher on my feet than I expected.  The red Madeline sandal heels are one of my favorite pairs of shoes in warm weather, so I thought they’d be OK, but they were no match for all the walking that we did in Vegas.  So, for planned Shoeper Challenge #5, I brought these gorgeous shoes that I got for Christmas with this outfit planned specifically around them.  Unfortunately, my feet wouldn’t let me wear them all day, but I think getting into them for the head-to-toe photo counts anyway, and I’ll be sure to wear them again when my feet recover from their trip to Sin City.

Without keeping you in suspense, here I am, all fancy for broad daylight on a Wednesday (in Vegas):

Found it!

Found it!

The plate says it all.

The plate says it all.

Shoeper challenge 4 of 58 (Madeline)

– Jim

We’re here!

We’re here!

Half?

Am I half-way to my weight goal?  Am I half-insane?  Was I half insane before, and now I’ve gone the other half?

No, none of these things are why I’m writing (although, I might be half insane — most days it would be a fair assessment of my mental state).

I’m writing because it’s time for my weekly WI, and I’ve lost half a pound.  I even exercised 3 times this week.  2 of those were fairly intense.  The third was light, but I still expected a little better result at the scale.  I’ll take it, but the slow-ness is incredibly frustrating.

New total:  18.5 lb. lost, 35.5 lb. to go.

Going to Vegas next week probably won’t help either.  I’m debating whether to bring my sneakers and try to sneak (no pun intended, I promise!) in a few workouts or not.  I’m hoping to be too busy gambling to overeat, and who knows, maybe I’ll win enough money to hire a personal chef & trainer when I come home.

Hey – a girl can dream, right?

Shoeper Challenge #3 of 58 (Forever 21 flats)

Today’s picture is not the best picture ever, but it was taken @ night, indoors, on Jim’s iPhone, which surprisingly doesn’t have a flash, despite the glare on the (awesome) wall of cupcake tins behind me.

This was taken @ Treat in Needham, MA, which is a restaurant devoted exclusively to…  you guessed it… cupcakes!  We had dinner @ Stone Hearth Pizza (also in Needham), but when we saw Treat on the way there, we knew we HAD to go there for dessert.  Even if the picture is slightly less than awesome (and I’m grateful that Jim took it at all, obviously), the cupcakes were totally awesome.  Both girls were beside themselves with excitement, even if they were both too tired to actually finish their cupcake(s).

Also, since you can’t really see the shoes that well here, here’s a picture of them on my fireplace @ home:

Masterpiece!

Marterpiece!