Challenges and Giveaways

With the New Year, I’ve joined a few challenges and am loving the giveaways from some of my favorite photography sites. The first challenge is a photography related one from a group of ladies on Clickin Moms. Every month we have a theme, and then have to blog our photos of that theme by the 2nd of the month. Then we link to each other’s posts, and there are 12 of us in each group. The first theme is “The way I view beginnings”. Still brainstorming on this one, but excited to see what everyone comes up with :) Check back on February 2nd for my ideas!

Now that it’s been over a year since we moved into our house, I’m also brainstorming on how to kick things up with our home organization and designing. We still have stuff in boxes in the basement, and I’m determined to finally clean out both the attic and our basement this year. I’ve joined another group over at Clickin Moms, but instead of photography, we’re helping each other with the “Fly Lady” method for cleaning and organization. I haven’t scoped out the details yet, but here’s hoping I can whip our place into shape!

The other challenge is of course, back to Weight Watchers. I spent all of 2011 maintaining my weight, and I managed to stay within the same 5 lbs ALL year. I’m ready to kick it up a notch and finally shake it up to lose the final pounds. Weight Watchers is new and improved, and I’m already planning my first week of the year to start off on the right foot :)

The last thing is a giveaway from one of my favorite sites: Crave Photography. Check out her blog post at Crave Photography to win an 85mm lens (Nikon or Canon, you choose). SO AWESOME!

Planning on taking 2012 by storm! :)

(Ben is 3 years 2 weeks 3 days old)