Category Archives: purely thoughts

weekly sparks

weekly sparks

From us: (Lori) Love it when Jax crosses his paws. Love spending quality time with this little guy after being away from home for so long. (Lori) Getting a new fan and one with lights to help brighten up our living room. Now just need the wood ceiling to be painted white… next house projectContinue Reading

sparks: beauty

sparks: beauty

From us: Enjoying beautiful yellow roses. Look at this beauty – Chocolate chip chocolate cream cake. Beauty in making our first pound cake (family recipe) Finding the beauty in our first attempt in making a gluten-free pound cake. Seeing beautiful flowers all around the house just makes you smile. Breathtaking. Beauty in making our low-sugarContinue Reading

sparked interest: enjoy… family memories

sparked interest: enjoy… family memories

Hello friends, thank you so much for the sweet words about our grandmother, June.  She passed away last night.  Losing a loved one is never easy.  Even though we knew this day was coming it is still difficult to experience (not a day goes by where we don’t think about our grandpa’s death ) This morningContinue Reading

Sparks from the past week: Resting

Sparks from the past week: Resting

From us: Enjoyed new things…loving cider now. Celebrated our birthday early with cupcakes. sooo good Jax enjoyed all the company. We had a great weekend with our parents. We enjoyed these past few days just relaxing, getting wined and dined, and resting.  It is so good to have days like this, away from everything likeContinue Reading

new things we got to try out

new things we got to try out

Taking Vitamin D again (as we know our levels are low) plus getting in more magnesium. Hopefully this time we do a better job of taking our vita-D. We decided we wanted to take maca again, it has been many many months.   We are taking maca again to help with hormones and stress. We areContinue Reading

something worth watching

something worth watching

From Lori: Sitting outside on the one semi warm day with Jax as he plays with our broken hose. Enjoying lunch outside on the one warm day we had.Continue Reading

sparked our interest this week

sparked our interest this week

6 interest from us: Enjoying starbucks coffee while running errands. Seeing Jax curl up on the chair to sleep… silly dog.Continue Reading

4 tips to getting started to get FIT

4 tips to getting started to get FIT

  4 tips to getting started to get FIT. Here are some of our starting tips to get you started on your journey to reach your fitness goals.  1) Define your goals —> You need to have some kind of fitness goals or dreams to work towards.  Have big and small goals. Short and longContinue Reading

sparked our interest this week

sparked our interest this week

From us: Love our morning coffee talks. Love waking up and seeing this little face. Enjoyed an old favorite of ours… coconut water. Spending more time with crazy Jax Can never get enough hugs! Enjoying desserts. From our friends: Katy discussed how to accept feedback from blog critics Lindsay explains what is crossfit Melissa sharedContinue Reading

a little humor

a little humor

          Just wanted to share a little humor this afternoon. Just think tomorrow is Friday!! And we have a new recipe for you guys We hope everyone is having a great day. Have you found anything funny on pinterest lately? till next time, xoxo purelytwins  Continue Reading

11 things that sparked our interest this week

11 things that sparked our interest this week

11 things that sparked our interest this week. a few things from usContinue Reading

food bloggers and taking responsibility

food bloggers and taking responsibility

Last week was NEDA  and we were unsure if we wanted to discuss our thoughts or not. We have talked many times about our ED and how we overcame it. After reading this beautiful, well written post from Gena we were inspired to share some of our thoughts. Everything Gena said is exactly how weContinue Reading

what do I plan to do with my NASM personal trainer certificate

what do I plan to do with my NASM personal trainer certificate

Thanks again for everyone’s sweet words and congrats! It really means so much to me (and to Michelle) when we hear from our readers and friends. So… What do I  plan to do with my NASM personal trainer certificate? A very good question. One of the main reasons why I wanted to become a personalContinue Reading