Oh My! Winter is coming and I am soooooo NOT ready for it. Yes, that would be a sheet of ICE on the top part of the pond there. It's gotten too cold, too quickly this year. I'm worried it's going to be a hard winter. Florida here I come? I wish! 

Tomorrow we are heading down to Madison to pick up half a cow! Not sure what we're going to do with half a cow? But it's grassfed, and free range. We are actually buying from the In-Laws of our nephew. We're making a weekend of it. BIL and SIL (parents of the nephew) are coming with us. They are buying the other half.....We'll tour the farm, and then we'll be hitting a few Wineries! YES!! It's all good, if wine's involved! 

Gotta Love Happy Mail Days

So excited! I got the final shipment from my first Campaign in today! LOVE all of it. The Sabrina Bag on the left will be my new go to bag for running around and that Make-up kit on the right is a Christmas gift for one of my girls.

This is one of the Eye-Shadow quads - in Stone Taupe. I wore this today and was quite pleased with it. 

Beyond Color Plumping Lip Color SPF 15 in Uptown Pink. This is a really nice Bold Pink!

 I also needed a good Night Cream. This is from their new Vitale line of Anew products. I received a day cream in my start-up kit and received a Cleanser in an earlier shipment from this campaign. So now I have a full set. 

 Also needed some Nail Products. Starting with Base Coat, Top Coat, and two Nailcolors. Barefoot Beige and Pastel Pink. I also received two other colors in my initial kit. Real Red and Berry Smooth. 

 In here we have a cute little Christmas Bundle of minis. Lotions, Bubble Bath and Chapsticks. I think I may offer a few of these in a giveaway soon. There's also a Nail Art kit in there for my daughter in Let it Snow. Snowmen and snowflakes. Should be fun for the Holidays!

 And who knew Avon carried a line of 3 wick Candles??! They even sell a couple of sleeves for them(which I didn't choose to purchase) I ordered two scents but unfortunately they were out of one of them. I hoping to order it again. This order was thru my Webstore which should have a different distribution center than where my regular orders come from, so I'm hoping I can get it with my Campaign 24 order. This one is Holiday Spice and smells divine..Like cinnamon rolls! The one I didn't get was Peppermint Cocoa.

Long Time No Maggii!

Yes..I've fallen off the face of the earth, yet again! Who knows how long I'll be back THIS time! But I have so much I want to share. So much is going on these days!

First! I can't believe I never posted about this but Drama Teen-Not a Teen Anymore got engaged this past summer!! How could I have not posted about that?!

We are all super excited! Looks like they are planning for a Spring 2016 Wedding! Gives me a little time to plan!  

2. I never did share more of our England and Paris Trip. Will have to get on that!

3. Back in February I signed up as a Beach Body Coach. Yes ME. I'm working on finally losing that weight! I'll be 50 next April and my goal is to be in the best shape of my life by then. Only 5 months left. Need to get my butt in gear! I have just started another round of 21 Day Fix. It's one of the awesome workouts they promote. 7 different workouts. One for each day of the week. So you don't get bored. They are only 30 minutes. But they kick your butt. I'll be sharing progress pics soon. I'm also using Shakeology, which is their Nutritional Meal Replacement Shake. I'm actually thinking of doing a 3 Day cleanse with it. If so , I'll definitely share my results. You can buy the programs and/or shakeology thru me at these links:

My BeachBody Page

My Shakeology Page

4. I think I may have shared that Hubby and I have started our own vineyard and making wines! We bottled our first batches last fall and it has been a great success! Everyone loves it. We bottled a TON more this fall, so we will see how it all goes this time. Hubby is still interested in buying more land to expand the vineyard and make this a commercial adventure. Not sure how I feel about taking so much on. For now it's a nice hobby. 

5. And finally, I've also signed up to be an Avon Representative. I did mark. for so long, but recently they fazed it out as it's own company and I had been toying with the idea of switching up to Avon and finally decided to go for it. They have some really awesome products and so many fun and exciting things coming for Christmas! You can shop my store here:

My Avon Store

I also have Facebook Pages for each of my New businesses:

Maggiibleu Fitstyles

A Beautiful Life With Avon-Maggii

I'll be updating more often. I'll be sharing my weightloss progress. That will be a big one for me as it's my main goal for the next 5 or 6 months. I'll also be sharing all the great Avon products, especially with the Holidays right around the corner. But I'll still be sharing just my everyday life as a wife, mom, and friend. I'm hoping to start a youtube channel and sharing vlogs as well. 

Our second day in England brought us to the neighboring village of Knaresborough, where we toured out first Castle Ruins and Mother Shipton's Cave.

 The veiws from the Castle Grounds were spectacular! Here we can see a good portion of Knaresborough....

 I especially liked Mother Shipton's Cave. You can read more about it here: Mother Shipton

 The petrifying well was very interesting. The water from this well basically turns anything into stone within a few months. 

 Here you can see various objects in different states of petrification.

 In the museum are more items that have been petrified with the well...

The story is, that she was born here in this cave and that her and her mother lived here alone for about 2 years...

You can make a wish in the well by placing your hand in the water and letting it dry naturally...

After touring Mother Shipton's Cave we had lunch at The World's End. Again,there is an interesting story connected to this pub. 

The World's End stands at the end of the bridge pictured below. The story is: that one of Mother Shipton's predictions was that the 'end of the world' would come once the bridge as collapsed three times. It's already collapsed twice.....so the owners named their restaurant The World's End.

 We ate outside on the back balcony where we had this wonderful view of the bridge. The food was really good. I had the BBQ Chicken with bacon and cheese and a side of 'chips'(fries), with a lemon ade(which is really just Sprite or something like it)

 Another interesting site in many of the  villages we visited were these, mostly yellow, bicycles all over the place. The Tour de France passed thru this section of the UK and these were everywhere. 

 This was our favorite!! LOL

 (Oh shit, turn left)

Cheerio!!

I know it's been quite a while since my last post. So much to catch up on, but the most exciting is that we just came back from a two week European Vacation! We spent most of our time in England visiting our son Nate who is stationed there in the Air Force. Most of our time was touring North Yorkshire. We did travel down to London for a day, and then drove down to Paris for a day! We had such a great time, explored many Castles and Abbeys. England such a beautiful country, so different from the U.S. We made so many new friends, Brits are very friendly and very welcoming. At least the ones WE met were. Granted, most of them were friends of our son. We also spent a LOT of time at The Blues Bar Cafe in Harrogate(where our son lives) It's our son's favorite place to hang out and they had internet!! LOL

We flew from Chicago to London Heathrow and then took a connection to Leeds. We then took the bus from Leeds to Harrogate, where our son lives. We spent that first afternoon in Harrogate, walking around, having dinner at a great restaurant for Fish and Chips and then went on the The Blues Bar Cafe to meet Nate's friends, and listen to some music(and use some internet...LOL)

Our son has a flat on the first floor of this house....

 Starting our walk around town. We walked this hill EVERY day...

 This beautiful park is just around the corner from Nate's flat. 

 More Harrogate...

Finally we end up at The Blues Bar Cafe... We were also very excited to meet our son's girlfriend, Rachel, for the first time. 

I have so much more to share, so I will try to be diligent in posting more updates about our trip over the course of the next few days. 

May BEstowed Box

My May box arrived today, and wow, is it jammed packed! 

1. 479 Sea Salt Caramel popcorn...Non-GMO, gluten free, and low in calories-pretty sure I'll like this. Will probably have it for a snack tonight.

2. Earnest Eats-granola planks? Looks like a granola bar-vegan and wheat free.

3. Eat Cleaner Wipes-to clean produce. Neat idea to keep in the car or in your purse.

4. Litehouse Instantly Fresh Basil-this is a pretty large jar! I use basil a lot in my cooking, so I'm excited to get this!

5. MoveMeFit.com-3 months of free workouts online...

6. Nature's Earthly Choice Farrotto with Zucchini and Peas-hmmn looks interesting. Should make a nice side dish with dinner this week!

7.Rootology-Rootology is a blend of 13 concentrated herbal extracts that work to immediately relieve sneezing, conjesion,sinus pressure, runny nose, itchy watery eyes, and headache.

8. Sneakz Organic Chocolate Milkshake-doesn't really sound that appealing to me, but I'll try it...who knows? It might surprise me!

9.Ziggy Marley's Coco'mon Coconut Oil-I already us coconut oil quite a bit, so this will get used!

10. Ziggy Marley's Organic Hemp Rules-snack seeds? I'll try them...

If you'd like your own BEstowed Box, go here: BEstowed