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Summer is here! We had fun taking the boys out for a bike ride and snow cones today! Pretty soon, 88 degrees is going to be 108 degrees, and we will want to be inside all the time. What's on your agenda today to takes you doing something fun and uplifting?

After a full day of projects, we had a quick and easy dinner of sandwiches! Before heading back to my office to finish up my work projects, I made to sure make some time watching "shows" with Andrew. We watched 911 and Mom, some serious and some laughs. It's always great to be able just to watch the boob tube and not feel guilty about it or feel like I could be doing something else. Sometimes you have to do that to get recharged. I hope everyone else had a great night!

Leaders are readers. I have never been interested in reading until I became an entrepreneur. Since there is so much to learn, I found that reading books is the fastest way to learn. People spend years and thousands of dollars researching the best practices that go into these books. I have read more books this last year than I have read in my entire lifetime! Today, I spent over an hour catching up on this book that my sweet friend Abby sent to me. It inspired her, and because she's so thoughtful, she decided to send me a copy along with this super fun Tamborine! If my industry takes a while to come back, I know I have a shot at being in a band for sure!!! Sorry neighbors!

Yet another porch party! I sure have been spending a lot of time outside. We remodeled our porch over a year ago and kept talking about having a porch party, COVID-19 finally made me have a party! However, it was only four close friends, and we all were 6 ft apart. Their names and pictures are being withheld to protect the innocent from judgment. Love you, girls!

If you know me at all, I love to have people over for happy hours. I always have too much food and too many drinks, but today I did good! I made small little individual bowls of chips and salsa for everyone with their own bottle waters and told everyone BYOB, and that was it! We had some much-needed girl time!! I hope you have spent some time laughing today and bringing your spirits up!

Saturdays at our house usually are pretty laid back and chill. If we don't have anything going on, you'll find us hanging in our jammies all day! Today was one of those Saturdays. I dove into some work projects, but because it's the weekend, there isn't that time crunch pressure, so it pretty much lasted the entire day.

I got Allie a face mask for her Birthday, and she sent me a pic with it on, so I instantly knew what I was going to do for my #30for30together!

I love taking baths! It's the hot water, and it's quiet, it's the bubbles, it's the alone time, it's the mask for my face and my hair, it's the essential oils, dry brushing, and Epsom salts, it's pretty much everything about it!!! Relaxing this evening in a bath and then going to bed early! Have a great night!

A super fun morning celebrating Allie's 12th Birthday. We went to her backyard so we could bring her present over. It's SO HARD not hugging and staying 6 ft away, but we did it! I did my first ever Tik Tok dance video(from 6 ft apart), and now I'm tick-tock famous!

Then we had a fun car parade with Allie's besties.

Super fun day.

Now I have a book club zoom lunch and, at some point, still have to record my youtube video! Busy, busy FUN day!!!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Flowers and friends make me happy!!

My friend Heidi knows how much I love flowers. Not only has she already gotten me flowers during this whole quarantine, but she just dropped off another beautiful bouquet.  I was having a hard time getting going this morning, but now my spirits are up.

Do you have a friend that you can you reach out to today? What are you going to do to get an extra pep in your step?

Keep going! We are in the home stretch! 

Wow. We are halfway through!!!

It's been 15 days since I have been trying to be intentional about what I was doing each day to add a little joy. I'm not going to lie, it hasn't been as easy as I thought it would be each day. I'm a super positive person, but right not during these times when we have so much going on, it's hard to find the joy and positivity in each day even when you are intentional about it.

My beautiful friend Abby is getting outside and playing with her dogs, and Katey is getting out on walks in nature, Michelle is working on her at journals and Sarah is exercising and all these great healthy things.

Well, today, my 30for30together is sitting on the front porch just complaining to a friend and that makes me super happy. We had conversations about the crazy new world we are living in and discussions about the insane world the future could hold. But we decided that whatever the future holds, it won't change us as people. We still have to have that human connection an...

Today is Global Meetings Industry Day(GMID). While our industry is down, we are certainly not out! The presence today on LinkedIn was amazing. I loved seeing people share what they were doing today. I spent time on some webinars organized by the Events Industry Council as well as MPI and the hopefully we broke the record for the largest virtual meeting! 

There is a lot of sadness right now but also a lot of hope and positivity going around. A roller coaster of emotions was a popular theme on the calls today. It was so great to reach out and connect with others even if it was over the computer. I liked more comments on LinkedIn than I have ever done and it was nice to see so many great things going on in the newsfeeds.

What did you do today to try and stay positive?

Abby posted pics of her beautiful Texas Bluebonnets in bloom, so glad she shared those. When we lived in Austin that was always such a nice treat to see them bloom. I sure do miss Texas sometimes! Anyway, I hope that you ...

So for Anderson's Birthday, I gave him a "day off of school pass" he decided to use it today because he was having a case of the Mondays. The boys have really done a great job of playing and keeping themselves occupied while I could get some work done.

I had planned on doing a family walk tonight after dinner for today's 30for30, but instead, I decided to have a water balloon fight in the backyard with the kids. It kind of came out of nowhere as I was only helping them load the balloons on the hose. It so so much fun, and I laughed a lot as I was throwing water balloons at my children. Add it to your Target pick up list, it's a nice way to get out some frustrations, and everyone can still laugh and have a great time! LOL

I know Abby is getting outside and doing walks and kayaking for her 30for30, what's everyone else doing?

I hope you didn't have a case of the Mondays today, but if you do make a water balloon and chuck it at someone!!