Hey everyone! One of my favorite things to do is travel. I always tell my husband that as soon as the kids are out of the nest we can just live out of suitcases and travel! Ha! We have traveled a lot this year. And we love to stay in Marriott hotels whenever we can. It is our first choice. And usually our events are at Marriott hotels. So they MUST be the BEST! haha I had the BEST year ever and we were so fortunate to travel and stay at great hotels, meet AMAZING people and grow our business more than we could have imagined this year.
Blissdom-Grapevine, Texas
I was sad to learn that there won’t be any more Blissdom blog conferences. I had a great time going this year! This was my first Gaylord experience. It was AMAZING. I am not even kidding. The staff was exceptionally nice, the grounds and rooms were spotless, and you just felt spoiled staying there! I loved just walking around taking pictures of everything. Beautiful! They have a water park too. I would love to go back and take our family.
Here were my posts on Blissdom:
Packing for Blissdom, and Blissdom Re-cap.
Shaklee Headquarters in Pleasanton, California
We earned a free trip to California to see our Shaklee headquarters. I seriously LOVE my Shaklee family! We had never been to the San Francisco area so this was so fun!
We had the best time touring Shaklee headquarters, meeting all of the Shaklee corporate family and resting. The hotel there was amazing!
I felt at home here. Dusty and I both agree that the best decision we ever made was starting a business with Shaklee 3 years ago. It has changed our family so much. It has given us the ability to travel, for me to be at home working, and the gift of better health!
I can’t believe this is the ONLY post I wrote on this. I could have written SEVEN. Ugh! This week was PHENOMENAL! We made lifelong friends here and it was just incredible!
Menu Matters Monday- Cali Edition
Colorado Springs, Colorado
We took our first family vacation. It was SO much fun! I can’t wait to go again!
I would go back again tomorrow if I could. Loved Colorado! Garden of the Gods was my absolute favorite!
Colorado Posts:
Family Vacay 2013
How to Organize your family vacation
How we prepared and saved for Colorado
We even house crashed a fellow blogger! So much fun!
Shaklee Global Confernece-Nashville, Tennessee
We had our global conference in Nashville this year. At the Gaylord Opryland. To say that it was amazing would be an understatement. I am still trying to decide if the Gaylord Texan or Gaylord Opryland is my favorite. That’s a tough one since they are both pretty incredible!
Our team was even featured on the Shaklee site for the Nashville trip! ha!
See what I mean by the beautiful hotel? It was ALL like this. So pretty! Flowers everywhere! It was just relaxing to walk around looking at everything. Every morning I put my walking shoes and headphones on and just walked the beautiful grounds for exercise!
Nashville Posts:
Nashville 2013
Rogers, Arkansas
In August, Audrey and I went to Rogers, Arkansas to visit my good friend Mary from Mary Organizes. Mary and I have been good friends for a few years now. She is also a Shaklee director and has exploded in Arkansas. I adore working with her! She is so passionate about helping other Momma’s work from home and she’s good at it too! She is an incredible leader. She also founded an incredible Organizing Group on Facebook. I love reading through the posts and getting inspired!
Our kiddos had a great time playing too! She has such a beautiful family! Mary was an incredible host. She gave us a great tour of her town and we had so much fun!
Here is Mary with Leah from her team. Mary is a great leader!
We even got to meet another blogger while we were there. Miss Lenette Sparacino from The Sparacino Chronicles. Loved meeting her and her sweet kiddos!
Girl Trip to Arkansas
Stanleytown, Virginia
Another one of my Shaklee Business leaders is Julia Kendrick from JuliaKendrick.com. I adore Julia and her sweet family! You know when you meet people and they are just GOOD PEOPLE? That is Julia and her family! Julia has a BIG heart for helping other family’s who have special needs children. She has a facebook group dedicated to this and it has been an incredible resource for families of special needs.
These are her two oldest boys Zach and Ryan! They are some of the best kiddos ever! I really enjoyed spending time with them!
Remember when I wrote this post on how Julia and her sweet family finally got their wheelchair van for Ryan? I wanted to update you that the van is AWESOME!! I saw it in person and got to ride in it! Their family is SO very grateful for this van and they take incredible care of it! They are still accepting donations and are so incredible grateful for any help!
This is a HUGE expense and necessity for Julia and her sweet family. The family is taking donations to help pay down the van. Payments can be made to this address or to Julia’s paypal is: jnjkendrick@embarqmail.com
Collinsville Church of Christ, P.O. Box 158, Collinsville, VA 24078, earmarked “Ryan’s Van.”
Minister is Tom Duff church # is 276-647-8454
Girl’s Weekend in Virginia
Party in Virginia-Shaklee Style
Shaklee Regionals-Chicago, Illinois
We had a fun sleepover at Bonnie Donahue’s house in Chicago. She is the founder of Project Dream International, our organization in Shaklee. We stayed at her house one night, and then we stayed at the Marriott where Shaklee Regional event was held in Chicago. We had a great hotel room and had a fun time there! We decided that we love Marriott’s even more when they have Starbucks in them! haha
A major highlight of my trip was this gal. Dani Schnakenberg is one of my closest best friends! I seriously love that girl! She has become like a sister to me. She used to live in Wichita with me but she moved to Detroit this year and I took it VERY hard. I love her and her family so much!
I loved seeing my amazing Shaklee sisters! Claire Leighton from Claire’s Healthy Home, Dani Schnakenberg from DaniSchnakenberg.com, and Bonnie Donahue from BonnieDonahue.com. All business leaders with Shaklee!
Claire, Dani and I roomed together at the Chicago Marriott. I love that you can find a Marriott in just about every city. And Shaklee usually books events with Marriott’s because they are awesome hotels to stay at!
Dani is doing amazing things with her business! She has created some AWESOME printable’s that you can use in binders, arc systems, or however you like. I LOVE mine! She has a few colors to choose from. She is a woman of multiple talents. She has a thriving Shaklee business, a printable business and also does coaching. Love her!
Fun memories and lots of fun times!
Chicago Posts:
Shaklee Chicago Weekend
Ahhh, what a year! I love traveling and am so grateful to be able to work from home and travel and meet amazing people and some of that travel is even for FREE! YAY!
What is your favorite place to vacation?
We are currently planning our next family vacation. To Washington D.C.! We are so excited! We can’t wait to show our kids all of the history there! We are planning our trip here. I love that it’s so easy to plan and we even started a binder!
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